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ESTABLISHED 1821 GREENSBORO, N. C. MONDAY.. MARCH 5, W17. VOL. 96-NO. 19
CEASAR CONE DIES SUDDENLY
\ l.KADKR IV INDUSTRIAL AND
I IV.WCIAI. CIRCLES—HKAI)
(>V GREAT MILLS.
Tiie sudden death of Mr. Ceasar
.-,,..-. ;ii his home in this city Thurs-l.
r. afternoon at 4 o'clock came as a
,..'.,; $hock to the community and
EXPIRES WITHOUT A YOTE
FILIBUSTER IN SENATE KILLS
THE ARMED NEUTRALITY
BILL IN SENATE.
Washington, March 4.—Twelve
senators. Jed by Senator LaFollette
and encouraged by Senator Stone,
Democratic chairman of the foreign
.jio state. Mr. Cone liad been under relations committee, in a filibuster
1 denounced by President Wilson's
spokesmen as the most reprehensible
in the history of any civilized na-tion,
defied the will of an over-whelming
majority in Congress up
to the last minute today and denied
to the president a law authorizing
him to arm American merchant
ships to meet the German submarine
menace
Unyielding throughout 26 hours
of continuous session to appeals that
their defiance of the president would
be humiliating to the country; un-compromising
in a crisis described to
them as the most serious to the na-tion
since the war between the
states. LaFollette and his group of
supporters refused a majority of
their colleagues an opportunity to
vote on the armed neutrality bill and
It died with the sixty-fourth Con-gress.
To fix responsibility before the
country, 76 senators, 30 Republicans
and 46 Democrats, signed a mani-festo
proclaiming to the world that
they favored passage of the meas-ure.
This declaration, embodied in the
record of the senate, referred to the
fact that the house Thursday night
had passed a similar bill by a vote
of 403 to .13. and also recited that
the senate rule permitting unlimited
debate gave a small minority oppor-tunity
to throttle the will of the ma-jority.
he care of a physician for about a
,..\. hut few of his friends knew
-! his indisposition, and beyond the
...;■.■;.• of his immediate family it was
:,, suspected that -he was in any
i . j,.;. It was announced that the
• : »,rdiaie cause of his death was an
----- ::-ii*I hemorrhage.
;>;- Sidney Cone, a brother of the
] .i-f-,1. and Dr. Louis Hamberger,
-,,,-;. eminent surgeons of Baltimore.
.v.- vi-.i i" the cit>' Friday morning
, visit the. *ick man and consult
,v '-.is attending physicians. It
,.,, decided to carry Mr. Cone to
V.a'.tjmore tor a special course of
reatnuai and a private car was en-
;a=«*l from the Southern to convey
.!•• party to that city Friday night.
$00:1 after their arrangements had
iteen completed Mr. Cone breathed
Mr. Cone was 58 years of age and
-ir.i- of ihe most successful manufac-
,urer< and financiers in the South,
ric and his brother, the late Moses
>l. Cone, established here at Greens-ioro
a great cotton manufacturing
adustry that gives employment to
'•..v.i-aiuls of people and has made
,i- name Cone known around the
•ivilized world.
Mr. ("one is survived by his wid-
•.-.. who was Miss Jeane;i\ Siegel. a
nember ot" a prominent New York"
I'aaiily. ami three sons—Herman.
FSt-njamin and Ceasar Cone. Jr. He
>.:— leaves six brothers and three
- fters, who are: Julius \V., Ber-narJ
M. and Clarence N. Cone, of
<;:■ •-.•nsboro; Sol X. Cone, of Greens-boro
and New York; Dr. Sidney and
Fred \V. (one, of Baltimore; Dr.
i'.a:-abelle and Miss Etta _£one- of
Baltimore, and Mrs. M. D. Long, of
As'neville.
T.m funeral took place at tiie fam-il;
residence on Summit avenue yes-ierda>
afternoon at 2 o'clock and
Was conducted by Rabbi Simon
Cohen, of the Jewish synagogue. The
.«.w:;fs were marked by simplicity.
.■or.-*isting of ;iie reading of three
rValm* and a short talk of Rabbi
• 'n'aen and a eulogy by Judge W. P.
Rynum. There was no music. The
body was interred in a grave on a
k.-.<v". between the White Oak school
ar..l Buffalo church and overlooking
■■■■ White Oak mill village, this spot
having been selected by Mr. Cone as
iU last resting place. Despite a
[trenching rain, a large crowd at-
.'.:.■:• i the services at the home and
followed tiie body to the grave. The
lora! offerings were numerous and
:>f rate beauty, six automobile trucks
•i- nt required to convey the flow-
"- to liie crave.
A Career of Success.
1 easar Cone was born in Jones-ii-'
ro. Tenn.. April 22. 1859. the son
Merman Cone, a Bavarian immi-tran:
who had come to the United
States 14 years before as a youth of
:' Wi:.,ont capital or tire prestige
'i influential connections, the father
('-- able in a few years to establish
• a the mercantile business.
"V'.l to Baltimore in 1870 and
n the wholesale grocery
'"• ■•■•. which, in 1S78. became the
Ml (one & Sons.
M'■-*!•!.. Moses II. and Ceasar Cone
• .1 (he firm as, traveling
in iltis section of the South,
-,:'.l in business in a nimi-
^ ':i! Carolina towns will cer-
■i" wholesale .house .had
''tiergetic or successful repre-
I'svi-s calling on the trade.
'irtn of II. Cone & Sons was
4"l in 1890. and it was then
«l'-srs. Moses and Ceasar Cone
(heir attention to the cotton
TAKES OATH SECOND TIME
PRESIDENT WILSON SWORN IN
BY CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE AT
12.03 SUNDAY.
T-urn..
■""lufacturinic business. They or-
"aatziii i|)e colle KXport anj Com-ii-
ssion Company to handle the pro-
"icts of a group of mills In North
'"folina and other Southern atate*.
■"* in the face of apparently insur-
'"WniaMe obstacle they carried Che
"""•rprise to success.
Having demonstrated their ability
: handling cotton goods, these two-
•':-"-inR and ambitious young men
■encliided to engage in the manufac-uri"
R business on their own ac-
''""' Without advertising their
■"'•"■pose, to the world, they- quietly
standard <MI .Hakes Over 100 Per
Cent.
Chicago. III.. March r.—Nt*/prof-its
of $30,043,614. equal to 100.15
per cent on its $30000.000 capital
stock were earned by the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana for the year
ending December 31, 1916, accord-ing
to its statement submitted to the
stockholders at their annual meet-ing
today at Whiting. Indiana. This
compared with net profits of $15,-
998.376 in 1915. equal to 53.32 per
cent oh the stock.
city of Greensboro, and almost be-fore
the people had realized what
had happened work had been begun
on the Proximity mill. This mill'
was built in 1895 and 1896 and has
been enlarged several times. Later
they were instrumental in building
the Revolution mill, and in less than
ten years after the Cones had come
to Greensboro they had built and put
into operation the mammoth White
Oak mill. These mills employ about
1.000 people, consume about 30,-
000,000 pounds of Cotton annually
and turn out about 60,000,000 yards
of cloth every year.
Upon the death of Mr. Moses Cone
some years ago Mr. Ceasar Cone as-sumed
the burden of the manage-ment
of the enterprises the two men
had conceived and directed to signal
success.
While one of the busiest ot men,
Ceasar Cone found time for things
other than money-making. He was
deeply interested in the welfare and
happiness of the people employed In
his plants. He saw to it that they
had comfortable and well arranged
houses to Jive in, churches to attend,
good schools for the education of
their children, 'and ample opportun-ity
for wholesome recreation. He
employed experts in domestic science
and home economics to spend fheir
time in the homes of the villages in-structing
the women in these useful
arts. Trained nurse6 were also em-ployed
to visit and look after the
sick and a model dairy was estab-lished
to provide the- people with
pure milk. Mr. Cone led the man-ufacturers
of the South in welfare
work, and under his directing gen-ius
his villages have come to be
known as the model mill villages of
the South.
Mr. Cone was not a selfish or self-centered
man, as the people of
Greensboro and Guilford county
have had abundant opportunity of
learning. He Interested himself in
Washington, March 4.—President
Wilson took the oath of office at
12.03 o'clock P. M. today in the
presence of the chief justice and
members of the cabinet. There was
no ceremony.
President Wilson took the oath of
office for his second term at noon to-day
in his room at the capitol and
will be formally inaugurated tomor-row
with public ceremonies reflect-ing
a great national expression of
Americanism.
Before a desk piled with executive
business laid before him in the clos-ing
hours of Congress, and surround-ed
by members of his official family
the president reaffirmed with uplift-ed
hand and grave features his
promise to uphold the constitution
in w'hatever crisis may confront the
nation in the momentous four years
before it.
After he had repeated the oath
taken first by Washington a century
and a quarter ago. he kissed the
Bible at the passage reading:
"The Lord is our Refuge; a very-present
help in time of trouble."
Chief Justice White administered
the oath and was the first to extend
his congratulations. Wringing the
president's hand, the chief justice
looked ferventenly into his face a
moment, and said brokenly:
"Mr. President, I am very, very
happy."
Members of the cabinet then
crowded up with expressions ot re-gard.
Mr. Wilson received them with
a smile, and then turned back to his
desk to complete his interrupted
task.
Tomorrow the president will take
the oath again on Uhe inaugural
stand before the capitol. He might
have ojnitteo. today's ceremony "a
der precedents established by other
presidents, but he decided to comply-literally
with the constitutional stip-ulation
that he take office at noon
on the fourth of March.
Vice President Marshall did not
take the oath today. He will be
sworn in for his second' term tomor-row
at the special session of the new
sente with the usual vice presiden-tial
inauguration ceremony.
WILLmmTHE EMBARGO
PREFl^T ARMS FROM BEING
, SHIPPED INTO MENICAN
TERRITORY.
Washington. March 2.-^-Vigorous
steps to tighten up the embargo on
the shipment of arms and munitions
into Mexico tonight loomed up as one
result ff the Gernian-Japanese-Mex-ican
ptyt revelations. Evidence in
the hands of the state department as
to eftorjs to evade the embargo and
to furnish munitions to various Mex-ican
factions by American firms will
be the fcasis for prompt and vigorous
prosecujtions by the department of
justice.; It was learned tonight that
state department investigations have
uncovered a wide spread plan by var-ious
makers to get their products
into Mexican hands.
Evidence in the hands of the state
department establishes beyond doubt
that a cartridge mill was recently es-tablished
in Mexico through Japa-nese
interests involved and is con-vinced
that the cartridge mill was
for the i use of the de facto govern-ment
in Mexico, in connection with
a general munition plant operated by
that goVemment. The Japanese mill
with Japanese experts to inaugurate
its operation was landed in Mexico
and set tip, according to the state de-partment
evidence.
Evidence in the hands of the state
department as to the efforts of
American manufacturers to get arms
and ammunition into Mexico despite
the emlfergo will be turned over to
the department of justice. Where
the funds came from that were to
pay for these shipments could not be
learned. The slate department today
refused to make any further state-ments
regarding the German plot
revelations "at this time." It was
stated that the sources of all infor-mation
must be protected, and it was
apparent that the department ex-
ALL READYJKURM SHIPS
SECRETARY OF NAVY DANIELS
REPORTS THAT HE IS
READY TO BEGIN.
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SENATE ACCEPTS
ROM-; DRY REPORT.
Washington, March 2.—Without
a roll call and with practically no
debate, the senate late today adopted
the conference report on the postal
appropriation bill, which carries the
"Reed bone dry" amendment, pro-hibitintg
the shipment of intoxicating
liquors into states which forbid its
sale and manufacture. The measure
now goes to the president, and pro-hibition
champions are prepared to
send petitions to the White House,
because of the belief expressed in
some quarters that the president
might veto the bill.
Although the appropriations car-ried
in the bill are for the fiscal year
beginning in July, the "bone dry"
amendment would become effective
immediately upon the attaching of
the president's signature.
Besides its prohibition against li-quor
shipments in interstate com-merce,
the Reed amendment bars
from the mails newspapers and other
publications containing liquor ad-vertisements
when such publications
are to be sent into states which pro-hibit
by law the publication or cir-culation
of advertisements.
ARMING .MERCHANT
SHIPS MEANS WAR.
Amsterdam, March 2.—"There is
no doubt that the arming of the
American merchantmen will mean a
fight between submarines and Amer-ican
vessels which would inevitably
become a state of war."
This statement is made by the
Koelnische Volkszeitung in an arti-cle
bitterly attacking the United
States' attitude toward Germany and
endorsing Chancellor von Bethman-
Hollweg's Reichstag speech.
"It is only a lucky accident,'' con-tinue*
the Colgone paper, "that
American ships have not been eent
the bottom. Unless American
Another cartridge mill for use in
Mexico was held up in the United
States, according to evidence before
the state department. An effort was
made to ship this mill from Brook-lyn,
but agents of the stale depart-ment
and the department of justice
intercepted the shipment, which is
now detained at the New York port.
Reports of the establishment of a
German submarine base in the gulf
of Darien. near Panama, were re-ceived
in Washington with little sur-prise.
Counsellor Polk, of the state
department, said that the depart-ment
had no "official" information
on the subject. It was known, how-ever,
that unofficial reports of Ger-man
naval activity in the Carribean
•have been received at the depart-ment,
and that these reports have
been under investigation.
The reported German submarine
base at Darien was accepted as high-ly
probable here t<iiight, largely be-cause
it was known that both the
state department and President Wil-son
have seen the evidence as to the
teutonic efforts to disturb American
relations with Colombia. It has been
an open secret in Washington for
weeks that the administration was
seeking by every possible means to
halt German activities in Colombia.
More than a week ago President Wil-son
addressed a letter to Senator
Stone, of the senate foreign relations
committee, urging action on the pro-posed
treaty giving Colombia $25,-
000,000 for her share in the Panama
canal zone. At that time he stated
the imperative need of this country
to maintain its friendship with Co-lombia.
State department officials
while declining to discuss the situa-tion
officially, made it clear that re-ports
of German activity in Colom-bia
were by no means nev to them.
AH plans for the safe-guarding of
the Panama canal, and the assurance
that Central American-harbors near
the canal will not be' used as bases
for German warships and subma-rines
in the event of war have been
worked out by the navy department.
These plans contemplate the seizure
of Central American ports, com-manding
the canal if that becomes
necessary.
matters of public concern and con-tributed
liberally of his Urns and j to
means to the promotion of many en- ■ ships avoid the danger zone, the act
"•"rchased several hundred acres of! terprisea. No worthy cause appeal- is bound to coma which President
►*• lying north and northeast <X the' ed to him in Tain. . , J^.fc-.^J Wilson thinks would lead to war,'?
A. & M. is Prom Now on the A. & E.
Raleigh. March 1.—The A. & M.
College will hereafter be the A. & E.
College, the general assembly having
tonight changed the name from the
North Carolina College of Agricul-ture
and .Mechanic Arts to the North _
Carolina Bute College of Agriculture | of Hammond
Washington, .March 2.—Complete
arrangements for arming merchant
vessels of the United States to defy
the German submarine zone were re-ported
to President Wilson today by-
Secretary of the Navy Daniels. The
president is prepared to order the
"next step" against Germany, as
soon as Congress lias finally acted on
his request for complete authority
to protect American rights at sea.
With the final action of Congress
in authority the matter only twen-ty-
four hours off. it was apparent to-night
that the presidential order
would be forthcoming before the for-mal
inauguration ceremonies on
Monday start President Wilson or.
his second term in the White House.
With American commerce once more
on the high seas, the next move in
the fateful German-American crisis
will be Germany's. No further action
by this government has yet been de-cided
on. The president is deter-mined
to relieve American commerce
of the blockade imposed by the Ger-man
submarine campaign whether
Congress grants him full authority
or not.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels in
his report to the president made it
dear that the passenger-carrying
vessels of the American line can be
furnished with guns and gunners
within twenty-four hours after the
presidential order is issued. These
ships would be the first to be armed
and the government expects him to
resume their regular sailings under
the protection of the naval arma-ment.
The naval secretary reported
that the guns ranging, three-inch to
six-inch naval rifles, are stored at
lona island, at the Brooklyn navy-yards,
at the Norfolk navy yards and
tary pointed out that the American
line ships were built to receive guns
and that mounting them would call
for little labor. He said that it
might take a longer time to arm
other vessels, as a three-inch gun.
exclusive~of the mount weighs 19.-
000 pounds and many ships would
require structural bracing before
they could mount such weapons.
So far the president was told only
two requests have come to the de-partment
for arms and gunners, out-side
of the oft-repeated request of P.
A. S. Franklin, head of the American
line. The navy department, it was
said, does not contemplate any em-barrassing
rush for naval guns,
when the president issues his order
to arm vessels.
Guns will be mounted and gunners
supplied, only after formal applica-tion
to the navy department.
President Wilson, it was learned
tonight, believes that the only reply
to the German government which
this country can now make is the
immediate resumption of American
trans-Atlantic commerce. Until that
step has been taken all collateral
and aggravating issues between the
United States and Germany will be
held in abeyance.
Official Washington will wait to
see what action Germany takes and
what treatment is accorded Ameri-can
vessels plying the war zone pro-tected
with United State.? navy guns.
The sinking of such a submarine
would, it is recognized, at once in-crease
the gravity of the situation
and the destruction of a submarine
by an American ship defending it-self
from attack would undoubtedly
be considered an act of war. These
matters, it was stated tonight, will
be considered by the administration
when they are reached, but for the
present the energies of the president
will be directed toward keeping
American commerce *afe in its
peaceful pursuits at sea.
As soon as the senate withdrew
the provision a meeting of the house
ways and means committee was call-ed
to frame a joint resolution carry-ing
the proposed bond issue.
CHINA MAY jNTER THE WAR
NEGOTIATIONS NOW IN PRO.
GRE8S AT PEKIN AND ALL
ENTENTE CATIT.VL8.
Washington, March 2.—Negotia-tions
looking to China's entrance in-to
the war against the central pow-ers
now are in progress at Peking
and in all the entente capitals, it was
learned here today, and their suc-cess
depends only upon the harmon-izing
of the rewards to be given
China with the amount of co-opera-tion
demanded of her.-
It is regarded as 'certain that
China will sever relations with Ger-many,
and a declaration of war prob-ably
will follow, if the entente will
guarantee satisfactory relaxation of
the restrictions imposed upon the
Eastern empire by the world-powers
after the boxer troubles.
OI»scuritj- Clearing lp.
Facts learned today from official
and diplomatic circles serve ot clear
up much of the obscurity which has
overhung events in the far East in
the past month. Occasional vague
dispatches from China and refer-ences
in the Reichstag to "China's
abandonment of neutrality," have
thrown only dim light upon Ger-many's
endeavor to keep China out
of the struggle, the entente's moves
to bring her in and China'* reluc-tance
to change her present state of
peace without adequate guarantees.
China desires to obtain the com-plete
remission of the boxer indem-nities,
which total over $30,000,000
a year, and continue until 1940. If
she enters the war the part which
otherwise would be paid to Austria
and Germany could be repudiated.
Offer to Postpone Payment*.
Information here indicates that
the entente already- has agreed to
postpone payments in case China be-gins
hostilities, but does not corrob-orate
Tientsin advices that France
and Belgium, in behalf of the pow-l
■■•!»..« ■■■,■„* comptM^reBrtsston.-
The sum invoivea Q Mtw an ap-preciable
part of China's total ex-penses
that a satisfactory agreement
might well remove the financial diffi-culties
or the government.
China also desires consent of the
powers to increase her import duties,
which under the existing treaties
not only cannot exceed five per cent
ad valorem, but are based on the
average prices of 1897. 1898 and
1899.
The United States lias long urged
(his on the other sixteen signatory
powers, but so far only Japan and-
Great Britain have given consent.
Others have consented under ex-treme
restrictions.
The entente powers on their part
are anxious to have China in the
war, not only as a reservoir of men
but as the biggest open trade market
after the war.
Strengthen Entente .Man Power.
Already under agreement with lo-cal
syndicates, headed by French and
British residents, more than 100,000
Chinese laborers and agriculturists
have gone to increase the entente's
man power, the great majority to
France.
It has been the drowning of many
of these laborers on their way to
France on such boats as the liner
Athol, for instance, that first made
China's protest to Germany against
submarine warfare an actual threat
of severance of relations.
There are about 3,000 Germans in
China who Will be placed in concen-tration
camps if war were declared.
Negro Woman is Hanged by Mob.
Hammond, Ind., March 1.—Emma
Hooper, a negro woman, aged 45,
charged with shooting and wounding
an officer here yesterday when he at-tempted
to arrest her for wounding
a negro boy was taken from the au-thorities
by a mob last night and
hanged to a tree about six miles mes£
The woman's uody
MEXICO IS PRO-ALXY.
SAYS WORKS GARCIA.
and Engineering. A I was found about midnight.
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El Paso. March 2.—"Mexico is
pro-ally in its smypathies and any
effort to spread German propaganda
there would meet with little encour-agement
among the Mexican peo-ple."
Andres Garcia,, inspector gen-eral
of Mexican consulates, said to-night
upon his return from Mexico
City, where he was in conference
with General Carranza, Minister
Candido Aguilar, of the department
of foreign relations, and Gen. Alvaro
Obregoni, minister of war.
"If there are any Germans or Mex-icans
with German sympathies try-ing
to influence public opinion in
Mexico through official or semi-offi-cial
positions they will be discharg-ed
as soon as discovered, I am sure,"
said Mr. Garcia.
"There are not more than six men
in the Mexican army with German
names and they hare been with die
constitutionalist movement from its
inception. .
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