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GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY. FEBRUARY (9, t917.
IHE WAR"S cSiTICAL POINT
,, ,„.■ iiKKBV COUNSELS THE
„'.insn TO SPARK XUHHOI
Mi:\ NOR MONEY.
!••,!». !T.—Tlie Earl of
•:v:ar> of suite for war,
;; i:,il:on today, expressed
;:;a: t'.ie critical period
., mUl occur in the next
.■ ; in- ,i false friend." lie
n.it warn the country
. ., ..;• - going to be Ions ton-
•'••■ struggle even more
. past. It can only
- \ i-rj >'!!.• doing his ut-
• :■■•,' things most vital
■ en ami munitions.
■.j : :■■ being supplied in
Men we want, and
■ nation will have to
■ -iai-rifices in the way
iKU-'.lO id to light its
:i!i lent as anyone as to
. :•-;:!:. but do no: be
..-■ mo great optini-
•:-■ tiie end is near. I
lli-mian nation is suffer-
-'.".. has an enormous re-
••.•••• and will make a .area'.
■ .• effort to gain the mas-
\- we are going to see the
.-:•..•.! >f ilie »ar in the nex1
We inusi face it with
! ri>:i!i.lently predict it
- '.'■■ • ssi'ul six months for
. : -same time I ilo iu>t
' •' ii'. ! ■ • a walk-over.
-■ r.-.-eive bad news equal-
: -* i.i i lu-ivs. wi'h the same
•• sameness and the
•: in. There is but
■;• man and «onian
iiameiy. i.i "siick it
<■( - . a: whatever
• siick '.' o:r ' i the bitter end
>:' "••■" f-a ! - ■■'■ mean for you
- priva'i >n inn (or those who
freedom from the
• .i.i ■-•■ have experienced
■ i- (wo and a half
•:. .
■ ■ ia:»-
■I UMW1 NOT PRESSED
ri>i; Miuti-: SOLDIERS.
i-'. m. All Amsterdam
'" '.le T lues quotes an
i • arrived from Frank-
- .■'■■- 'iiai the Germans
■•• ^'.:il surprising number
■pal -ays that every Ger-
■arj age who Is not en-
-• muiikion industry has
into the army and Ger-are
now more numerous
" h 'sinning of the war.
i an said that the age
certainly be increased if
and ;iiat it would be very
feat Germany except by
He did not believe that
HIS would be defeated in
bin that if the war lasted
years the allies would
■ - lo the informal;: the
I'K'stlon was beginning to
•''- and while the next war
-■•' succeed ii would prob-
. •-■ successful one.
10 tiie submarine
• American said that the
■ Holland about tiie im-
"-r of German subma-
'ierman bluff as he claim-
■•• information that there
■ iuindred of themnder-
• ■ liable.
•■ii Proposes m Create New
Siate.
W. V:,.. Vi-b. 16.—A
as introduced in the
inin !u.use of delegates to-
'■■ai<i a new state from the
'■ Ohio, Brooke, Hancock
mil. with a view of there-liiiR
sufficient revenue to
-inia debt judgment. The
• iiiies have an area of 539
• *■ The resolution pro-the
four counties known
I'aniiandle counties, pay the
"' """ debl judgment by a
'"■ in consideration for sepa-
' ship.
A.,.
""" >-(),„. Mwiwuw Arc Turned
Over (<■ United States.
a.s'i.m. Feb. 16.—General
'■- reported today that 21
gleans captured by him while in
,lc" and held in connection with
i r;,;'l on Columbus last year Will
'"rnci over t0 the departoient of
Jiitite.
THREE TAKEX INTO
MEXICO AXI> SLAIN".
Hachita. N. M.. Feb. 16.—Three
bodies later identified as those of
Andrew P. Peterson. Hugh Accord
and Burton Jensen late today were
found by Lem Spillsbury. the Penn-ing
scout, one mile west of Interna-tional
monument number 53, situ-ated
three miles west of the Corner
Ranch.
The bodies of the three Ameri-cans
were found about 50 feet apart,
according to Spillsbury. Each vic-tim
iiad been shot many times in the
head. The spot where they were
found is on the Mexican side of the
border.
Hugh Accord's head was mutilat-ed
with a machete, according to
.Spillsbury. All of the bodies were
stripped of clothing, hale and shoes',
Spillsbury said.
Spillsbury found the raiders'
trails early this morning and follow-ed
them during the day. coming up-on
the abandoned bodies late this af-ternoon.
From what be could learn,
the Mormon scout said he was con-vinced
that the three murdered men
had been taken into Mexico from*
American soil and then killed.
A government agent, after an in-vestigation
of the raid, reported to
Washington that the Mexicans under
Prudencio Miranda were eating din-ner
at a ranch house on the Ameri-can
side when Peterson. Jeuson and
Accord rode up unarmed. The
Americans were made prisoners.
His report also confirmed previous
reports of the Corner Ranch raid.
From later advices to military of-ficers
tiie reported raid on Lang's
Ranch and liie killing of two Ameri-can
ranchmen, was believed to be
baseless.
HUGE LOCOMOTIVE
.fl'ST I'll' INTO SERVICE.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 17.—Fifteen
new passenger locomotives of the
powerful "Mountain" type have just
been received by the Southern (tail-way
system and will be placed in
service between Washington and At-lanta,
handling the heavy limited
trains X:>s. 37 and 38. the "New
York and New Orleans limited."
These locomotives are heavier and
more powerful than any previously
in service on the Southern. The en-gines
alone weigh 31C.000 pounds
and- with their tenders measure 74
feet, being seven feet longer than
the Mikado type freight locomotives.
They have eight driving wheels 69
inches in diameter and are of high
steaming capacity, the boilers having
a diameter of 76 1-2 inches and be-ing
equipped with superheaters. The
cylinders are L'7 inches in diameter
with a piston strike of 28 inches,
the "Southern valve gear" which
was invented by Engineer \V. S.
Drown, of the Southern's Knoxville
division, being used.
For the present they are being op-erated
in freight service but after
■they have been "broken in" they
will be placed in their regular runs.
They were built by the Baldwin Lo-comotive
Works. Eight others of
the same type were ordered by the
Southern in November.
Undelivered Telegram Was Costly to
Company.
Fayetteville, Feb. 16.—Mrs. Lot-tie
Humphrey, of. Greensboro, want-ed
$1,500 from the Western Union
Telegraph Company because she was
compelled to spend an hour around
tiie Atlantic Coast Line depot in
Fayetteville. her home town, when
her father here failed to receive a
telegram infocming him of her ' ap-proaching
visit. The jury gave her
$250. returning the verdict this
morning. The plaintiff contended
that she was put to great inconveni-ence
in having to'stick around the
depot while anxiously waiting for
her father to show up, at length hav-ing
to call a back and ride out to her
paternal home on Holt's Hill, and
that the experience reduced her to
a nervous state, - necessitating the
services of a doctor. The case was
given to the jury in the Superior
court late yesterday afternoon.
Orders Ransom Paid.
Chicago, Feb. 16.—E. K. Warren,
of Chicago, owner of the ranch near
j Hachita, N. M., from which "Bunk''
Spencer, a negro, and his Mexican
1 wife were kidnapped by Mexicans to-day,
confirmed the report that he
! had ordered the $6,000 ransom de-manded
to be paid.
VOL. 96—NO. 16
DOESN'T WANT THE MONEY
THE OFFER OF XEAV YORK
WORM) "TOO EASY" SAYS
CALLOWAY.
Washington, Feb. 17.—The offer
of the New York World to pay to
Representative Calloway. .of Texas.
$1,000 in cash for the names of the
twenty-five newspapers of the United
States which he charged have been
subsidized by J. p. Morgan interests,
the steel, shipbuilding and powder
interests, In . order to control their
policy on preparedness and militar-ism
attracted much attention in Con-gress
today.
When asked about the offer toj-day.
Mr. Calloway said: "I would
not take the money: it is loo easy.
1 will go before a congressional com-mittee
and give the source of my in-fcrmation.
and tell all that I know.
I will not give tiie facts to any news-paper."'
Mr. Calloway could not be induced
to take the offer of the World seri-ously.
He laughed and shook his
head when urged to accept the offer
and name the papers. At noon he.
left Washington for Chicago, where
lie has an engagement made for him
by Miss Jane Adams. He will speak
tomorrow before a parly of pacifists.
Representative J. Hampton Moore,
of Pennsylvania, who dug the Callo-way
charge out of the Record, where
it was plased by the author on leave
to print, introduced a resolution ask-ing
lor a congressional investigation
of the Calloway charges.
Mr. Moore said that he is acting in
the interest of honest journalism.
"I will say to the house," said Mr.
Moore, "that certain important and
responsible newspapers have de-manded
an investigation of this qnes-
'tion. and it seems important that in
the interests of honest journalism in
the United States, the charges made
by the gentleman from Texas, should
be investigated."
"Docs not the gentleman believe
that this bouse has already wasted
enough of the people's money in
making investigations of- charges
that have no foundation whatever?"
asked Representative Adair, of Indi-ana.
"That may be." replied Mr. Moore,
""but this is an important matter, af-fecting
not only the welfare of the
house, but liie welfare of the coun-try.
"I have the statement of the gen-tleman
from Texas that lie can prove
the statement made by him in the
record. I am asking for an investi-gation
of the charges made by the
gentleman from Texas."
It is understood that Mr. Calloway
is relying on a government em-ployee,
or an ex-government em-ployee,
who picked up the newspa-per
story in New York, to prove his
charges.
"If there were sufficient time,"
said Majority Leader Kitchin today.
"I would like to see an investigation
of this subject. Personally I know
of no case where a newspaper has
been subsidized by foreign interests,
as has been charged. I understand
that it was some government em-ployee
who informed Representative
Calloway. although I do not know-that
for certain."
PREVENT LEAK RECURRENCE
WHIPPLE SAYS "LEAK" HAS
BEEX BEFIXITEI.Y ESTAB-LISHED.
New York, Feb. 16.—Measures,
aimed to prevent a recurrence of the
president's peace note "leak" Inci-dent
were voluntarily taken here to-day
by the New York state exchange.
Resolutions were adopted at a spe-cial
meeting of the board of gover-nors
condemning the employment by-exchange
brokerage houses of news-paper
men to give them advance or
confidential information.
"The direct or indirect employ-ment
of representatives of the press.v)
the resolutions said, "by a member
of the New York stock exchange,- or
by his firm', for tiie purpose of ob-taining
advance or confidential in-formation
is an act detrimental to
the interest or welfare of the ex-change."
The resolutions pointed out that
the investigation of the house rules
committee into the "leak" brought
out that certain members of the ex-change
employed newspaper men for
that purpose. This referred to evi-dence
adduced at Washington that
E. F. Hutton & Co.. brokers, receiv-ed
advance information on the peace
note from a newspaper man employ-ed
by F. A. Connolly & Co.; the Hut-ton
linn's Washington correspond-ent,
enabling them and the custom-ers
to anticipate the break in the
market that resulted when the note
was made public.
The "J. L. L." mentioned in testi-mony
yesterday was definitely estab-lished
today as being Jesse L. Liver-more,
a well-known speculator. The
testimony showed that "J. L. L." was
carrying at the time of the "leak" a
$7,000,000 or $8,000,000 short in-terest.
Mr. Whipple today asserted that
the "atmosphere has been cleared,
if has been demonstrated to a nicety
Wtftre the advance information on
the peace note came from, and who
profited by it."
The stock brokerage firm of 10. F.
Hutton & Co.. be said, and its cus-tomers
were among tlie beneficiaries
of the "leak" which he declared has
been definitely fixed as coming from
tiie two Washington newspaper cor-respondents.
The question as to whether any ac-tion
would be taken against F. A.
Connolly, of F. A. Connolly & Co..
Washington correspondents of the
Hutton Company, for swearing that
it was he alone who had sent the ad-vance
information when it was later
proved to have been sent by J. Fred
Kssary, one of the newspaper men,
would be taken up by the house com-mittee
in executive session in Wash-ington.
Mr. Whipple said.
Mr. Whipple added that the inves-tigation
has developed there is deep
feeling by .the public in regard to
short selling, but that it was not a
subject the committee will deal with
in its report.
Ambassador Fletcher Reaches Mexi-co
City.
Mexico City. Feb. IS.—American
Ambassador Henry P. Fletched ar-rived
here late last night. He was
met by officials from the Mexican
foreign office, members of Gen. Car-ranza's
staff, and a big delegation of
government officials headed by a mil-itary
escort.
Ambassador Fletcher expressed
his appreciation of the courtesies
shown him on his journey through
Mexico. .
SAI.AZAR PROMISES TO
RAH) AMERICAN' TOWN.
Boy Scout-. Ready.
New York, Feb. 17.—There are
600,000 trained Boy Scouts in the
United States who could be called
upon for service in a national
emergency. Colon H. Livingstone,
president of the Boy Scouts of Amer-ica,
announced tonight. Of this num-ber,
it is stated, 250,000 are active
members of the organization and
350,000 are former members.
American Seamen Freed.
Berlin, Feb. 15, via London, Feb.
16.—The American seamen who
were brought prisoners to Germany
oa board the British steamer Yar-rowdaSe
have Veen liberated. aA,
Hachita. N. M., Feb. 16.—Jose
Ynez Salazar has threatened soon to
raid an American city or town and
kill all the American men, according
to "Bunk" Spencer, the American
negro, who with his Mexican wife
are being held for ransom by Sala-zar's
force at Ojitos.
Spencer reached the border yes-terday
to obtain a ransom for the
release of himself and his wife, re-turning
to Ojitos.
According to Spencer. Salazar
gave him the following message to
take to the border:
"Tell, the American people that
Jose Ynez Salazar is going to visit
them shortly and distribute a few
pounds of lead in their midst. Just
as soon as the forces I am expecting
reach me, I shall strike some Amer-ican
city or town and no American
force, or Carranza army will prevent
me from carrying out my plans.
Columbus will be as nothing com-pared
to my strike.
"During my stay I will make
every effort to protect American wo-men
and children, but the men of
'gringoland' will have to take can."
Contract For Ships.
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 17.—An-nouncement
was made today that the
Canard Line had let to the Seattle
Construction and Dry Dock Company
at Seattle the contract for six steel
freight steamships at a figure in ex-ce
§» of f«.000t00ts
SENATE ABANDON'S
POSTAGE INCREASE.
"Washington. Feb. 16—The amend-ments
proposing an increase in rates
on newspapers and magazines and
one cent postage for drop letter mail
were dropped from the senate post-office
appropriation" bill today on
points of order made by Senator
Lodge, of Massachusetts, that this
was general legislation on an appro-priation
bill. This ends the fight for
the session on these items. The sen-ate
retained the amendments to pre-vent
circulation by interstate com-merce
of newspapers, postal cards,
or any publication or solicitation of
orders, for alcoholic liquors in states
where legislation has been enacted
to secure prohibition.
The senate once had adopted the
Increased newspaper rates and one
cent letter postage. Because several
senators had not been present when
the amendment embodying these
provisions was accepted. Senator
Smoot. who offered them, asked for
a reconsideration. The senate voted
to reconsider, and it was after a de-bate
of two hours that the contro-versy
was ended by Senator Lodge.
During the wrangle. Senators Nor-ris
and Bankhead proposed the adop-tion
of a zone system for second
class mail. Senator Hoke Smith pre-sented
a similar proposition. These
were shut out on points of order.
The Reed amendment, preventing
alcoholic liquors from being adver-tised
in prohibition states, will make
"bone dry" such states, it is contend-ed
by tiie prohibitionists. The suc-cess
with these amendments is point-ed
out as a good indication that na-tional
prohibition will be approved
in the senate.
SEVEN' FIREMEN' HURT IN"
ACCIDENT IX CHARLOTTE.
Charlotte. Feb. 16.—Fireman W.
F. Simpson, of the central fire sta-tion,
and Fireman George W. Spittle
were U.
probably fatally, and five other- fire-men
were more or less injured here
today when the automobile fire truck
in which they were speeding to an-swer
an alarm ran into a street car
at the intersection of South Boule-vard
and Park avenue, in Dilworth.
Fireman Spittle suffered concus-sion
at.the base of the brain and
Other injuries of a lighter nature,
while Captain Simpson suffered sev-eral
broken ribs and a severe cut on
the head, with perhaps internal in-juries.
The six other firemen on the
truck.. Wade Phillips. J. Van Duncan,
James Morris, Calvin Grier, Henry
llarkley and Bob Barnes, all suffered
bruises and scratches, some of them
being painful. Phillips, Duncan and
llarnes went to the hospital but
later were able to go home. Barnes,
who was driving the machine, suf-fered
the least injuries of all.
Strange to say, none of the four
passengers in the street car were
hurt, though all were badly shaken
up. The conductor and motornian
likewise escaped without hurt. Not
a pane of glass was broken in the
street car. The automobile coming
out of a side street as the street car
was passing, hit it squarely on the
side making a big dent in the lower
part of the body but otherwise doing
little damage.
A difference of opinion exists as to
whether the firemen or the street car
employes were responsible for the
accident. The firemen say the street
car was in motion after they sig-nalled
it to stop and that the fire
truck was at low speed for the rea-son
that it had not recovered speed
after crossing a railroad track a
block away.
NORTH CAROLINA PROTECTED
SENATOR REED'S BILL WOULD
MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO ORDER
LIQUOR.
MAY USE WOMEN" IN
MIXITIOXS PLANTS.
Washington, Feb. 16.—The war
department tonight announced that
women workers would be acceptable
for work in Upited States arsenals.
The department's announcement
came rn the heels of a hurry-call for
one thousand more workers to aug-ment
the ranks of skilled ar'.isans
now emploved in plants in different
j»arts of the country. Secretary of
War Baker was led to invite Amer-ican
women to plav their par! in
preparation for war because of the
proficiency displayed by women in
England munitions factories. Ameri-can
women who are recruP».1 for the
work in arsenals will be put to work
in machine shops. The employm it
agency of the department of labor
has been directed to secure 'ne re-quired
number of workers.
Washington, Feb. 16.—Senator
Reed, of Missouri, today said North
Carolina would be assisted by his
liquor amendment offered to the
postoffice bill. It would protect the"
citizens from violations of ihe state
prohibition laws. It would impose
a fine of $1,000 or six months im-prisonment,
or both, oh "whoever
shall order, purchase or cause intox-icating
liquors to be transported in
interstate commerce except for
scientific, sacramental, mechanical
and medicinal purposes into any
state or territory, the laws of which
state or territory prohibit the manu-facture
or sale therein of intoxicat-ing
liquors for beverage purposes."
Senator Reed said such a law
would throw a cloak of protection
around states that have prohibition
laws.
"The state of North Carolina is
distinguished by such a law. Under
tiie laws of that state they have sol-emnly
provided that each inhabitant
of the great commonwealth can ob-tain
in interstate commerce two
quarts a month, which of course is a
moderate allowance for a North Car-olinian.
It embraces every member
of his family; so that the proud pa-rent
of a Rooseveltian brood of
twelve could easily have 24 quarts
sent in every 30 daysland this would
average about a quart a day for the
head of the family to consume. I
am speaking now with all resipect to
(forth Carolina. I simply single it
out, not because it is worse than
other states, but because it is a type
—so that the state of North Carolina
having prohibited the manufacture
of liquor within the state has direct-ly
conspired by law to employ inter-state
commerce fpr the purpose of
destroying the soula and bodte* of
HsowtfcMKjnte, ami: ia by its aeaaf^ . , -——" ' "- --isrW^
engage in the nefarious business of
manufacturing this deadly poison.
"I propose in this amendment to
aid the good people of the state of
North Carolina and of all other pro-hibiting
sitates—Virginia is now in
that class—to make themselves also
dry—at least I propose to protect
them against any violation which
may come from interstate commerce.
I propose that when a state shall
have passed a law prohibited the
manufacture and sale within its bor-ders
of liquors or intoxicating drinks
of any kind the government of the
United States shall throw its protec-tion
around that sitate and shall say
the liquor shall not be shipped in in-terstate
commerce.
"I was told, in a visit that I made
to the state of North Carolina where
I was mosit pleasantly entertained
by a splendid people, that the way
the two-quart law worked was this:
That when the train came in any-where
from a half dozen to fifty ne-groes
would be at the express office
to get their consignment of two
quarts, and that all any man had to
do in order to get an unlimited sup-ply
of liquor was simple to employ a
few colored boys around town who
would regularly every month order
two Quarts in their name and then
turn it over to him."
WALKS 2.-5 MILES TO
ANSWER .ll'HY CALL.
Leanvenworth. Kan.. Feb. 16.—
How would you like to take a little
Jaunt, say twenty-live or thirty
miles, at the present time? Sure, a
nice little walk. Well, Kirby Mc-
Crlll so sizes up a trip of that length.
Kirby was among those summon-ed
to sit on a jury. There happened
to be no trains coming to Leaver.-
worth when Kirby desired to start.
That didn't bother him, neither did
the high price of shoe leather. So
Kirby walked to Kansas City, about
twenty-seven miles.
"It was just a nice little stroll,"
said Kirby. "I take long walks often
and there is nothing like it to pre-serve
one's good health. At Kansas
Cfty I caught an interrurban car and
came to Leaven worth. I intend to
walk back when I get through with
the jury work."
Increase* Its Stock.
Trenton, N. J., Feb. 17.—The
Bethlehem Steel Corporation today
filed with the secretary of state a
certificate increasing its capital stock
from $30,000,000 to $75,000,000.
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