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ESTABLISHED 1821 GREENSBORO, N. C. THURS
SrARTLIHO FACTS REVEALED
M, AH'O AND JAPAN TO MAKE
\VXK JOINTLY OX THE
UNITED STATES.
THE LAG0H1A SUHK BK U-BOAT
TWENTY-SIX AMERICANS «KRK
ABOARD—GOES DOWS OX
THE IRISH COAST.
Washington. Feb. 28.—The Assc-
..-,.r* Press is enabled to reveal that
,;,.—.'.ui>. in planning unrestricted
tuHoarin* warfare and counting its
..,,- sequences, proposed an alliance
"..,•, Mexico and Japan to 'make war
,.. t!,. t'niied States, if this country
*'inald not remain neutral.
japan, through Mexican media-
;..-.. was to be urged to abandon her
I!!:H» and join in the attack on the
I- ••■) States.
Mexico, for her reward, was to re-
-:,i- ceneral financial support from
Germany, reconquer Texas. New
\i, s -,i and Arizona—lost provinces
_ ,nd share in the victorious peace
,-•:-- Germany contemplates.
rw-Uils were left to'German Min-a5;
er Von Kckhardt in Mexico. City,
„■ . by instructions signed by Ger-man
Foreign Minister Zimmerman.
.,• Berlin. January 19. 1917. was di-iv-
v": 10 propose the alliance with
Mexico 10 General Carranza, and
juiaest that Mexico seek to bring
Japan into the plot.
These instructions were transmit-i...;
to Von Eckhardt through Count
Von Uernstorff. former German am-
^a.-sador here, now on his way home
:,i Germany, under a safe conduct
obtained from his enemies by the
,-onntry against which he was plot-tine
war.
Germany pictured to Mexico, by
liroad intimation. England and the
^n: ente allies defeated: Germany
.!?• i her allies triumphant and in
ivor'.d domination by the instrument
.>:' in.restricted submarine warfare.
A ropy of Zimmerman's instruc-ii,
ns to Von Eckhardt, sent through
V.i- Uernstorff. is in possession of
M- United States government, and is
i:v>: below.
IKS A DOUBLE YIGTORY
HOUSE VOTES FOR DRY WASH-INGTON—"
BONE DRY" AMEND-MENT
AGREED ON.
<. I MM A X IS BMMMWM* -
TO MEXICO AND JAPAN.
Herlin. Jan. 19. 1917—On the first
x February we intend to begin sub-marne
warfare unrestricted. In spite
if this, it is our intention to endeav-
>'■ to keep neutral the I'nited States
of America.
.If this attempt is not successful,
•i.- propose an alliance on the follow-in*
basis with Mexico: That we shall
nick'- war together and together
nuke peace. We shall give general
financial support and it is under-stood
that Mexico is to reconquer
the lost territory in New Mexico,
Texas and Arizona. The details are
left m you for settlement.
Von are instructed to inform the
president of Mexico of the above in
■ t- greatest confidence as soon as it
s certain that there will be an out-break
of war with the Unit ites
•ind suggest that the president of
'VIexico. on his own initiative, should
•onimunicate with Japan suggesting
inherence at once to this plan; at
lie same time, offer to mediate be-ween
Germany and Japan.
Please call to the attention of the
president of Mexico that the employ-new
of ruthless submarine warfare
IOW promises to compel England to
'oake peace in a few months.
"Signed) ZIMMERMAN. '
'London. Feb. 27.—The Cunarder
Laconia carrying twenty-six Ameri-cans—
six passengers and twenty
among the crew—was sunk without
warning by a German submarine off
the Irish coast last night..
Two hundred and seventy-eight
persons are known to have been
picked up.
It is not yet known whether Amer-icans
are dead or missing. The La-conia,
an 18,099-ton vessel, is the
largest single victim of unrestricted
submarine warfare since its inaugu-aation
February 1.
She was enroute from New York
to Liverpool, having left New York.
February 18. She carried five thou-sand
sacks of United States mail.
Her cargo was of inestimable im-portance
to Great Britain just now.
It was entirely consigned to the
British government. Included in it
were forty thousand bushels of
wheat, two thousand cases of brass
rifle cartridges unloaded, 2,843 bales
of cotton. 1.408 cases of fruit. 1,000
bars of silver and 900 tons of staple
provisions.
The Laconia was equipped with
one gun aft the regulation 4.7 piece
mounted on all Cunard liners.
She was manned by British officers
and a British crew. Her captain is
W. R. D. Irvine.
The attack took place at 10 o'clock
last night.
The attack on the Laconia occur-
I red at the point where the Lusitania
i was Sunk nearly two years ago.
] Altogether the Laconia carried
' seventy-five passengers, six were
Americans. Tliore were twenty na-
I tive-born Americans among the crew
of 216. _
Late tonight thirteen persons were
reported missing.
■spm»j>t.th,q pur
sengers or sailors were wounded iq
the attack, was sent in a message
from American Consul Frost at
Queenstown .saying that fifteen sur-vivors
had been landed there and
adding:
"Others numbering 267, it is be-lieved
are to laud about midnight.
Preparations are being made to treat
hospital cases."
Consul Frost's first message, re-porting
the Laconia's destruction
read:
"Cunarder Laconia torpedoed
10.50 Sunday night. Two hundred
and seventy-eight survivors landed.
Details lacking but known some
missing. One dead."
The Laconia was valued at more
than $6,000,000 and her cargo which
included silver bullion at more than
$10,000,000. With the express and
mail matter which she carried, the
loss is estimtaed conservatively at
$20,000,000.
Washington, Feb. 28—Prohibition
won a double victory in Congress to-night
when the house passed by a
vote or 273 to 137 the senate bill to
make the national capital dry. and
senate and house conferees on the
postal appropriation bill unexpected-ly
announced an agreement under
which the Reed "bone dry" amend-ment
is virtually assured of enact-ment.
Hope of agreeing on the postal
supply measure had been abandon-ed
by the conferees, who last night
submitted a resolution to continue
existing postal appropriations for an-other
year. Tonight, however, they
got together on a report which in-cluded
the Reed amendment, prohib-iting
shipment of liquor into prohi-bition
states, and which they expect-ed
to present in both houses tomor-row
or Friday.
± MARCH I, 1817. VOL. 96-MO, |B
Um OF A SUICIDE PACT
MRS. ROBERTA RUSSELL FOUND
DBA >; MRS. R. C. KELLY DIES
FROM WOUNDS.
RKKX IX THE HANDS OF
THE PRESIDENT SOME TIME.
This document has been in the
'"ids of the government since Presf-
'-"' Wilson broke off diplomatic re-gions
wfth Germany; it has been
"P' secret'up to this time, while the
''"-ilent has been asking Congress
"r full authority to deal with Ger-
•uanj, and while Congress has been
•^sitating. It was in. the president'.*
■•"'Is while Chancellor von Beth-
Onr Delegation Voted Dry.
Washington, Feb. 28.—The North
Carolina congressmen helped to put
through the "dry" bill for the Dis-trict
of Columbia. On the final pas-sage
of the bill the following named
voted for the bill: Representatives
Small, Kitchin. Hood, Stedman.
Page, Godwin, Doughton, Webb and
Britt, and against it, Pou.
All of the members except
Messrs. Pou and Small voted against
the proposition for a referendum.
"I voted for the bill." said Mr.
Small. "Failing to get a referendum
I could not conscientiously oppose
the bill, for Congress has the right
to legislate for the District of Co-lumbia."
Mr. Pou took the position that
prohibition should not be put upon
the district without giving the peo-ple
a vote.
The bill passed today goes into ef-fect'
November T, and the next "CoVj
gress will be "bone dry.'*
WOMAN BURIED 1, THE YARD
JOSEPH ZEMAR, HER HUSBAND,
FLEES WHEN OFFICERS DIG
UP CORPSE.
Rich nond, Va., Feb. 27.—Mrs. R.
C. Kel r. twenty-seven years old,
wife lin Asheboro, N. C, attorney,
and sister of Dr. Alfred Mordecai
and George W. Mordecai, of Raleigh,
N. C.*led at a local hospital this af-ternoon
from a self-inflicted bullet
wound?: in her head. Mrs. Kelley,
with Ifrs. Roberta L. Rusell, forty-three,
it Wilmington, N. C, were pa-tients
jit Westbrook Sanitarium, and
yesterday evening they started for a
walk. J Failure to return caused a
search, to be made and they were lo-cated
late last night in an abandon-ed
rocft quarry, a mile distant from
the sanitarium. Mrs. Russell was
dead from a pistol wound and Mrs.
Kelly was found dangerously wound-ed.
A note found in the room of
Mrs. Russell revealed a suicide pact.
It wjas stated that both expected to
be discharged from the institution
at an 'early date. Mrs. Russell the
widow, of a Wilmington .physician
had ohfy recently visited her home,
and it is believed that she got the
pistol'while there. In a note ad-dressed
to Dr. Paul V. Anderson, su-perintendent
of the sanitarium, she
absolvjed the institution of all blame
in connection with the affair.
Mrs, Kelly was standing beside an
old shack, while the blood flowed
from a wound in her head. It is said
that they were in Richmond shop-ping
yesterday, and that both ap-peared
to be in exceedingly good
spirits. Mrs. Russell was the moth-er
of three children, two girls and a
boy. Coroner Bright, of Henrico
county, deemed an inquest unneces-sary
when he made official inquiry
into her death.
Washington, N. C, Feb. 27.—The
body of Mrs. Joe Zemar, a resident
of Pactolus, was found buried on her
husband's place by police officials
yesterday. Zemar has made his es-cape,
and it is generally believed
that he committed the murder.
Zemar is a Hungarian, and has
been a resident of Pactolus for only
a short time. On Saturday neigh-bors,
itiissing his wife, asked him
where she was. He replied in broken
English that site had gone off on a
train to visit relatives. His actions
were suspicious and, noting a fresh
pile of dirt near his home, the neigh-bors
notified the police.
The officersi arrived at the place
and queried Zemar further. He still
insisted that his wife had gone off
on the train. He started to move
away and they seized him and hand-cuffed
him. Then they secured shov-els
and started digging in the fresh
pile of dirt that had been observed.
They dug down about two feet and
then their shovels brought up a
piece of woman's clothing. They
kept on with their work and in a few
minutes t.iey lifted the DOdy of Mrs.
Zemar up saitte the ground.
At sight of their discovery Zemat
(led. The officer)! pursued him lor a
Short distance, but he was faster
than they an.l soon left them ben'.si.
He still wore the hand-cuffs.
MAD DOGS HAVE CAUSED
. MUCH LOSS IN CLEVELAND.
FBBIGHT HIT EXPRESS TRA1H
SIX CARS A MASS OF DEBRIS
PINNING DEAD AND 1WICKED
UNDER THEM.
PASSAGE OF THE CROP
HEN BILL IN SENATE.
Raleigh, Feb. 28—Governor Bick-ett's
most notable administration
triumph was written in the final pas-sage
of his crop lien bill tonight, 78
voting for him and against all
amendments and 34 in opposition to
the bill. It was a memorable debate
and day. It' happened to be the date
bf.-FeV 27-^-A m»d ~ao£ scarflL^ ^mo*. Bickett was born, but he
TEUTONS ANNOUNCE
SUBMARINE RESULTS.
nii-Hoiiwag
- i'nited States had placed an in-
' "iT'tation on-the submarine decla-ation
-never intended by Ger-many."
and that Germany had pro-moted
and honored friendly rela-iona
with the United States as "an
eirloom from Frederick the Great."
°f ''self, if there were no other, it
considered a sufficient answer to
:->e German chancellor's plaint that
<•• United States "brusquely" broke
•' relations without giving "authen-
•'"' reasons for its action.
The document supplies the miss-
>S link to many separate chains of
■•'tiiinsiances, which until now have
wsmed to lead to no definite point.
It sheds new light upon the fre-quently
reported, but indefinable
movements of the Mexican govern-ment
to couple Its situation with the
in«ioa between the United State*
and Japan. It adds another chapter
to the celebrated report of Jules
Canibon, French ambassador in Ber-lin
before the war. of Germany's
world-wide plans for stirring strife
on every continent where they might
aid her in the struggle for world
domination which she dreamed was
close at hand. It adds a climax to
the operations of Count von Bern-storff
and the German embassy in
this country, which have been col-ored
with passport frauds, charges of
dynamite plots andJhtrigue. the full
extent of which never has been pub-lished.
New Credence to Reports.
It gives new credence to 'persis-tent
reports of submarine-bases on
Mexican territory in the Gulf of Mex-ico;
it takes cognizance of a fact
long recognized by army chiefs, that
that if Japan ever undertook to invade
the United States, it probably would
be through Mexico, over the border
and into the Mississippi valley to
split the country in two. It recalls
that Count von Bernstorff, when
handed his passports, was very re-luctant
to return to Germany but ex-pressed
a preference for asylum in
Cuba. It gives a new explanation to
the repeated arrests on the border
of men charged by American mili-tary
authorities with being German
intelligence agents.
Last of all, it seems to show a con-nection
with General Carranza's re-cent
proposal to reutrals that ex-ports
of food and munition* to the
entente allies be cut ofT, and an in-timation
that he might stop the sup-ply
of oil. so vital to the British
navy, which is exported from the
Tamplco fields. .^. • ..—..«.. ■"--
Berlin. Feb. 27, via Sayvllle.—
Merchant shipping aggregating
4.998.500 tons, belonging to entente
and neutral nations, has been de-stroyed
or condemned as prizes by
the central powers since the begin-ning
of the war, it was officially an-nounced
today.
Apparently this total covers a pe-riod
up to the end of January, 1917.
only, as no figures for the present
month are given. The official state-ment
reads:
"During January last, 170 mer-chant
ships of hostile powers, with a
total of 336,000 gross tons, were de-stroyed
as a result of the war meas-ures
of the central powers. Of them,
91 vessels with an aggregate of 245,-
500 gross tons were British. Be-sides
these, 58 neutral merchant
ships, totalling 103.500 gross tons
were sunk on account of carrying
contraband for the enemy.
"The total loss in shipping for the
month was 228 vessels with a total
of 439,500 gross tons.
"Since the beginning of the war
4,357,500 gross tons of hostile mer-chant
shipping has been destroyed.
Of this, 3,314.500 was British.
"In addition, the sea forces of the
central powers have sunk or con-demned
as prizes, 459 neutral ves-sels,
of a total of 641,000 gross ton-nage."
English Try to Combat C-Boats.
Amsterdam, Feb. 27.—The most
energetic efforts are being made by
Great Britain to combat the U-boat
"warfare, according to British ship
crews arriving here. Large fleets
of British patrol ships, fishing boats
and aeroplanes are constantly en-gaged
in long distant patrol trips
and in escorting the few steamers
that are leaving British ports. The
number of ships sunk, the British
sailors assert, are kept strictly secret
by England.
has aroused the community to the
extent that letters are going to Rep-resentative
W. A. Mauney, at Ral-eigh,
asking him to strengthen his
dog tax law if it is not already strong
enough to protect the lives of people
and the loss of property. During
one night Hacket Wilson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. James A. Wilson, who lives
on the Cleveland Springs road, was
bitten on the hand by the Wilson
shepherd dog, a calf was attacked,
14 other dogs were bitten, in addi-tion
to a hog, several pigs and a
number of chickens. It is thought
several mad dogs are at large. Mr.
Wilson not being convinced that his
dog was mad. had it kiled as a
safeguard and sent its head to the
bureau of animal industry at Wash-ington
for analysis. Chief Jetton has
killed a number of suspicious look-ing
dogs today.
Dr. R. M. Gldney, farm demonstra-tor
says that over $500 worth of live-stock
has been killed as a result of
the mad dog rampage since the first
of the year. Three patients have
had to go to Raleigh to take the
Pasteur treatment, fearing infection
from hydrophobia, since the first of
January.
MUCH FOOD NOW
REACHING NEW YORK.
Fodder Destroyed; Mast Kill Cattle.
The Hague, Feb. 27.—Via Lon-don.—
A large amount of fodder was
on board of the merchantmen torpe-doed
on Thursday. In consequence,
it will be necessary to kill a large
part of Holland's cattle.
Detention at foreign ports of
Dutch vessels laden with Chilean
saltpeter and other fertilisers is
causing alarm, it being feared that
this year's harvest -will, be retarded
seriously, . . —-•' - • •
New York, Feh. 27.—Enormous
quantities of food staples reached
New York today by rail and water.
Prices broke sharply from the high
mark reached last week. The strong-est
effect was felt in the wholesale
markets. From the retail markets
throughout the city a lesser decline
was reported foreshadowing a more
rapid fall in prices tomorrow and
Wednesday.
At wholesale today, potatoes were
offered at $9 and 110 a barrel as
compared with prices ranging from
$9.50 to $11 five days ago. The
wholesale prices of onions too show-ed
a further drop, falling to $9 and
$11 for a 100-pound bag from the
high mark of $12 and $16 five days
ago.
Even at the lowered rates at
wholesale the sale of potatoes and
onions to dealers were small. Re-tailers
feared the effect of the boy-cott
on these two staples as well as
a further decline In price which
might wipe out all possibility of
profits.
George W. Perkins, chairman of
the food committee, today announc-ed
the purchase of a large consign-ment
of brown Brazilian beans to be
looked serious enough throughout
the day to have expected his death.
Immediately upon its triumphant
ratification by the house the gover-nor
received the news at the man-sion
and over the telephone mused
to Col. John Pearson. "Your voice
is sweeter than Caruso's."
The chief fight was made by Harry
Stubbs, of Martin, who admitted the
impossibility of stemming the tide
toward the governor. Stubbs made
a powerful speech and going down
on the second roll call, tried an
amendment which would have re-lieved
the clerks and merchants of
heavy duties by leaving their books
Tpen to inspection rather than forc-ing
them to keep the onerous cash
and credit prices. McCracken, of
Columbus, leading the fight, over-threw
all amendments and the bill
without trimming is now law.
Altoona, Pa., Feb. 27.—Twenty or
more persons were killed when east-bound
Mercantile express on the
Pennsylvania railway was hit short-ly
after midnight by a fast freight
at the station at the little mountain.
town of Mount Union, 43 miles east
of here in a heavy fog. Several
others were injured.
The express had stopped to dis-charge
passengers at Mount Union .
and members of the crew were test-ing
the air when the freight crashed
into it from the rear.
Alongside the express at the sta-tion
was an accommodation train car-rying
workmen from Mount Union
powder plant and this train had
barely moved away when the crash
came. There were three sleepers at- '
tached to the express, all of steel
construction.
As the freight engine, backed by a
heavy train, ploughed into the pas-senger
the rear coach of the latter
telescoped, the second coach, which
was split asunder. The freight en-gine
was literally welded to the pas-senger
car.
None of the passenger coaches left
the track, but six of the freight cars
loaded with coal were hurled down a
40-foot embankment.
Little headway could be made in
reaching the dead and injured owing
to the three sleeping coaches being
almost inextricably massed together.
The Bellwood, the third sleeper, had
split apart and the car ahead was
forced through it while the third car
from the rear had ploughed into the
second car.
Telescoping of the cars was of
such force that all occupants in them
were imprisoned.
The train crews and . uninjured
were unable to reach them to give
aid to any that might have escaped
death.
One official of the railway said
the list of dead may exceed twenty.'
This official places the blame on
the freight engineer, A. B. Cook, of
Harrisburg, who had a leg crushed.
It was the first time in three years
that a passenger had been killed In
a wreck on the road.
At noon today Pennsylvania rail-way
officials said the list of killed
stood at 20, of whom 17 have been
identified.
MEXICAN EXILES
MAY NOW RETURN.
Nogales, Ariz., Feb. 27.—Mexico
threw open her gates to 100,000 po-litical
exiles, residing in the United
States today. She also announced
that Americans forced to flee from
Mexico because they were considered
enemies of the first chief Carranza.
nay return without fear of molesta-tion.
The Carranza ban against Ro-man
Catholic priests and nuns how-ever,
still stands.
The announcement of Carranza's
new ruling was made here today by
Mexican Consul Jose Del Gado. He
said he had been directed by Candi-do
Aguilar, minister of foreign rela-tions
in the de facto cabinet to do all
}n his power to facilitate the grant-ing
of passports to exile Mexicans,
wlio desire to return to their native
land.
During the last six years of revo-lutions
in Mexico, it is estimated hy
prominent Mexicans here at least
100,000 fled to the United States to
escape the displeasure of Carranza
or the bullets of executioners.
FREIGHT STEAMER SUNK;
WOMAN LOSES HER LIFE.
Villa 111. Unable to Direct Campaign.
El Paso, Texas, Feb. 27.—Fran-cisco
Villa is ill in a mountain cabin
near San Andres, Chihuahua, and
unable to direct the campaign he had
planned against Chihuahua City and
Juarez, according to Americans who
arrived here late today from Madera
and Pearson, Chihuahua.
They say Villa's pld wound, which
was received at Guerrero, Chihua-hua,
during his pursuit by General
this, city J.-'' - ——;.. e*Mi** Ua ******* «»*«rtn*- .
Williamston, Feb. 28—The freight
steamer Hamilton, plying between
Edenton and points on Roanoke riv-er,
sank yesterday afternoon near
the town of Hamilton. A sunken
cypress tree was caught in the pro-peller
and was thrown upward,
crushing a hole through the steamer.
In a few minutes the boat sunk, and
the crew of 17 men did not have suf-ficient
time to launch the life boat
and get off.
The cook, a negro woman, was
brought out by Captain Overton, but
being anxious to save her clothes,
tried to rush, back into the cabin and
went down with the boat. The crew
finally got in a boat and came to
Williamston where the agents of the
Norfolk Southern, who owned the
steamer, aided the men and sent
them off on the nignt train to Eden-ton.
The steamer was loaded with fer-tilizer
and merchandise for points up
the river, and was valued at $35,000.
She was built about 25 years ago for
the trade on Roanoke river.
The only thing saved from the
steamer was a pet cat, which climb-ed
upon the shoulders of one of the
men, who brought the animal out
and carried it to Edenton with him.
German City. Braslau, Has "Female
PoBccmcn."
Braslau, Germany, Feb. 27.—
Braslau, in the face of the disap-proval
of most of the rest of Ger-many,
has adopted in modified form
the American "female policeman" or
inspector of pufclic morals. A num-er
of Braslau women have volunteer-ed
their services as supervisors of
the youth of the city, and hereafter
will patrol the public streets and
squares and keep a watch on the
boys and g'lrls that congregate there.
The women will have the powers of
policemen, and will in addition be
carefully watched themselves to see
that they come to no harm in their
unusnsl vocation.
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