The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, March 13, 1917, Image 1
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I VOL. 12, NO. 33,
MIN I DECIDES
TO ARM ALL:
DRASTIC ORDER \i
AT WHITE HOUSI
From Sick Red, President
Ordered That Merch
Ships Be Armed.
Washington, March 0.?f
Wilson, from a sick bed, tc
dered the arming of AmeHc
chant ships against Germans
less submarine warfare and
same time issued a proclamat
inr an extra session of con,
B
meet April 16.
The president's decision ca
denly late this afternoon, fi
the action of thr> ?onn?o vr>u?.
revising its rules to permit
action on important questio
the submission of formal opii
Secretary Lansing and Attorr
eral Gregory that lie has th
to arm merchantmen withou
by congress. Details of the
nient'B armed neutrality plani
fending the merchant marli
withheld to avoid endangerln
leans and their ships by pe
the Information to reach Ge
The only statement at th<
House and the navy departm
that the president had det
fully to protect American rig!
Only the Next Step.
The decision, coming at th
a period of tense waiting, v
erally hailed as the natural
avoidable next step in th
adopted by the president v
broke ofT diplomatic relatio
v- Germany, and gave warning
United States could not tok
tacks on American ships and
in violation of international
Fraught with the grave pr
of war with Germany, the aci
taken by President Wilson 01
he was convinced that Gem
tually was proceeding with 1
paign of ruthlessness and hf
efforts to plot with Mexico a i
against the territorial integrii
# United States.
Long before the order w;
from the White House, all 11
preparations for the arming
chantmen had been complete
navy department.
Thrill in Senate.
The president's decision
thrill through the senate, mc
special session, and in gov
departments. Still hoping t
with Germany will be avoit
rials declared that the issue 1
tirely with Germany.
Formal announcement of
ernment's policy was given in
lowing announcement issue
the White House.'
"Secretary Tumulty stated
nection with the president's
an extra session of congress
president is convinced that
the power to arm Americj
chant ships and he Is free to
It at one. Hut so much n
legislation Is pressing for en
tion that he is convinced tl
fof the best interests of the
A Kntfo *?1 -- 1 * **
ii' null mi mi iv ?i:n'.iiin or ir
fifth congress, whoso support
also need in all mntters colh
tho dofonso of our merchant i
The proclamation calling t
session read:
The president's proelnmati
Ing the extra session of cong
lows:
"Whereas public Interests
that the congress of the Unite
should be convened in extra
at 12 o'clock, noon, on the 1
of April, 1917, to receive su
r.uinlcatlonn as may be made
executive;
Now, therefore. I. Woodr
son, president or the Unitei
America, do hereby prod;
^ declare that an extraordlnar
Ion requires the congress
United States to convene
session at the capltol in the
Washington, cm the 16th
April, 1917, at 12 o'clock, i
which all persons who shall
time be entitled to act as r
thereof are hereby requested
notice.
"Given under my hand
seal of the United States of
thp 9th day of March In the
(Continued on Page Tw
.
"he l
REM T-WTETT/ITT V
"THE fclORIOUS CITY"
SHIPS CAPTURED BY BRITIE
5SUED BAGDAD IS SURRENDERI
3. BY THE TURKS.
Wilson Fall of Ancient Town Mea
ant End of Dream Cherished bj
the Germans.
r
Vesidint' Keeping up their strong offens
)clny or- ognlnst the Turks along the Tip
river, the British forces tinder (5
an merMaude
captured the important c
s ruth- of naK(iad, thereby bringing to
at the successful climax an operation
ion call- gun early in lit 15.
gross to Likewise in Persia the Turks i
receiving hard usage at the hm
me slid ?f ,,le Russians, according to Pet
grad. In northwest Persia the it
allowing 8jans have captured the town
erda"y in Sahna, and tiie Ottomans who w<
prompt driven out of Ilamadnn still are
ns and re^reat> 1? Asia Minor along i
aions bvlS,Vas ro:ul tl,f! Turks attempted to
,on the offensive but were repulse
iey^Gen-i
| No action of great importance 1
e P?wor,foeen repor^e(j from any Qf the otl
t notion theatres of war. The Germans n
govern-jNouvron. north of the Aisne, hj
* for de- been engaged in a violent artill
ne were duel with the French. Northwest
g Amor- Rheims and near Bezonvaux attai
rmittlng against French positions were
rmany. tempted but were repulsed. 1
e White Roeaoh on the other hand carr
ient was out successfully several surprise
ermined tacks on German trenches. Her
htH admits the retirement of the Germi
before the British near Irles on S
e end of urdflyras
gen- ?n tke Russian front there hi
and un- been only minor operations and
e policy tillery activity. There still is
rhen he npW8 concerning the situation
ns with Roumania.
that the | I-ocal artillery actions are in p
rate at- Kre8B along the entire Austro-Ital
citizens tront.
law. An unofficial dispatch reports
issibllity sinking ef the Danish steamer It
tion was borg. while on a voyage from Ba
rly after jmoro to Denmark. Six members
inny ac ;,no rrew were killed. The dispai
ier cam does not state whether the stean
ul made was sunk by a submarine or a mi
d Janno|
fy of (ho l/AHOK PMCIHiKS SI TI'OItT
is Riven'Offers Services to t'oiintry in <\
ecessnry! of War.
of mor- Washington, March 12.?Organ
*1 at the ed labor in America, through its
prewentatives in conference here
night, offered its services to I
sent a country in every of activity
eting in despite endeavorST and hopes, i
ernment States should be drawn ii
hat war war.
led offl-j The action was taken by una
rests en- |mous voto of more than 150 delega
from national and international trr
the g0v-|un,ons nfflUated with the Amerit
ihe foi- Federation of T.n' or and 0v. < d
from '''iat?d o-gauizations, including i
great railroad brotherhoods,
in eon- I *n a" about three million Arm
call for cnn workers were represented in t
that the ronferencet called to determine a
he has announce the part to be claimed
in mer-i'nl,or 'n national preparedn
exercise P'ans.
ecessar.v statement formally adopted a
insiders- ,as,|p,l aftpr the meeting set forth
int if Is addition to the offer, in case of w
country various demands which were held
te Sixty fundamentals in safeguarding I
he will r *thts of v.orks in war times as w
iteral to as ,n P??conarine."
Militarism was protested again
he extra '' was held that Industrial serv
should be deemed equally meri
Ion call- Hons as military service; that serv
r*ess foi- should conform to trade union stai
ards. and that organized labor shot
require have representation on all agenc
d States determining nnd administering pc
session c'e8 of national defense and c<
6th day trolling publicity,
ch com- The concluding paragraphs of 1
i by the statement, pledging labor's supp
to the nation, follow:
ow Wll-i "We. the officers of the natioi
1 States and international trade unions
?lm and America, in national conference
y occaa- sembled in the capital of our nati
of the hereby pled/pe ourselves In peace
In extra 'n w??". in stress or in storm,
i city of eland unreservedly by the standai
day of liberty and the safety and p
noon, of nervation of the Institutions a
at that ideals of our republic,
nembern, "In this solemn hour of our i
to take tlon's life, It Is our earnest hope tl
our republic may be safeguarded
and the it* unswerving desire for peace; tl
Afl'ierica People may be spared the horn
year of and the burdens of war; that tl
_ . may have the opportunity to cu
o.) vate and develop the arts of pea
AN CAS":
LANCASTER, S. C., Tnosda
"court of sessions escape
now underway here kl
2D JUDGE S. W. G. SHIPP IS JOE CUN1
PRESIDING OFFICER. M
ns Case Ageinst Evans Brothers Negro Mai
, and RingstafT Has Been Set Near H;
For Wednesday Week. Mor
ive! The March term. Court of General "As a resu
;ris Sessions for Lancaster county, con- inflicted wh(
en. vened yesterday morning with Judce the Lancai
Itv S. W. G. Shipp presiding and Solid- Monday aft
a tor J. K. Henry and Stenographer died In the
be- Harry I. McCaw at their posts of Haile Gold
duty. o'alork. Th
nre The charge made by the presiding am N%,ls '
",ds judge to the grand jury was brief but ^',irs ,ir
r?- thoroughly interesting. He touched "
tis- on the topics of good roads and edu- ^ 1,1,1
... .. ... . . . Details ni
o?;cation and the greater part of his ,
hut it appet
Br<?, charge was confined to these two
. a desperate
in topics. 1
the I U1S
i The first case called was that of s'farch -was
Tom Harnett, charged with house- 8ljit that IVi
' breaking and larceny. The defend- fdund tho (
1,18 ant entered a plea of guilty and sen- effect in tN
tier tence of two years on the public nd once bee
ear works was imposed. fatally won
tve 7 , ,
pry I.em Strain, charged with assault nlnde to get
of and battery of a high and aggravated *Tat medici
nature and carrying a pistol was ar- RPve his lib
aj. raigned and tried by jury. He was r|?nbl be a
pj,e'convicted and sentenced to serve 18 ne8r? was (
i_,i1 months on the chaingang. i Cunningh
the police i
at- John Moses entered a plea of ba(j been ar
din guilty to assault and battery of a (he Jast bei
ins high and aggravated nature and was g,jn house
at- sentenced to serve six months on the pjn in tbiH
public works or to pay a fine of $50. court Qf Ke
*\r The court this morning took up the and sentenc
case of William Anderson, charged Coroner (
^with enticing labor out of the State, this mornin
" ... , , , ,. It is under
A nolle prosse was entered in the
L ,, . taches to t
ro following cases: , ? .
I the affair.
'an Hen Hilton, charged with selling ?
(hp'and transporting whiskey. TElTT<?
os- \v. M. Montgomery, disposing of
lti- . , ,, Had Afinoii
1,1 property under lien.
or <
. h K. L. I-yles, obtaining goods under
false pretenses. Gent v a,
1or Tlie fall of
ne. John Adams, assault with intent ,.st surprise
to ravish. Recording to
The <|ueslion was taken up yester- those rapit;
day of whether Walter Evans, Walter Quite ret
"*'* Hingstatt and Ernest Evans.will be German pap
tried at the present term on the 'nR to *ho
''7" charge of murder. Attorneys appear- ments sent i
rp*|iug for the accused men said that Itagdad cou
1f>~ they were representing clients in ^ expe
"1P several other murder trials at the Mr'V result
ir-; present term and would therefore H&fcdad by I
"u> prefer that a postponement be *he recall o
lto granted and the case continued. It fighting at
j was tinally decided to set the case Ueyl
n'"jfor Wednesday of next week, but wr'lGa 'n ' h
there appears to be some doubt about "Unless i
u'e whether or not it will be tried at constituted
'an that time. against the
"lf ' city will d
the hands of th
HOUSEWIVES WILE SAVE I Kifaat Pa
iff- BY TAKING PURCHASES ambassador
the for Constan
md siders the s
j(V Chicago, March 10.?Under a plan
e8S which bus been tried in Austin, a sec- >|lt. |,E'
it ion on the west side of the city, and
which will be adopted by grocers
< ongressina
i? there next Monday, housewives who
tn spi
ar go to market, pay easn for their pur,n
chases and carry tlient home will Lexington
the paVe ? cents. The grocers have de- ninn A. F. I
pjj cided on a fixed charge of 5 cents for 'fp Miss Lev
delivery of purchases and 1 cent for here from
. 1 charging them. morning, an
tween now
Ice i , . Al
vening ot tl
to- HANK RKPORTW cm ei?
__ . press at tl
ire
. | North Main
1(1j
Washington. March 10.?The to rest up i
comptroller of the currency today ing the sho
i |'
issued a call for the condition of all always the
illnational
banks at the close of bur.i- is a very bus
in- !
, ness on Monday, March 5. work never
Lever's doe
^ busy at hoi
or' human brotherhood and a higher ten{jance up
civilization. ington.
na "Hut, despite all our endeavors and
hopes, should our country be drawn EST I MA
a I into the mealstrom of the European'
?n' conflict, we. with these ideals of lib- indications
? ;erty and Justice herein declared, as
. the indispensable basis for national . .
rds Washlngt
policies, offer our services to our
re- ..... ury reports
< country in every field of activity to jm>n( from (
defend, safeguard and preserve the sj m
|republic of the United States of
n a , , * . , government
in(; America against its enemies, whom- Q()0 jn Jqco
|nj soever they may be. rent nscal }
lat "We call upon our fellow workers half times
nrs;nnd fellow citizens in the holy name preceding t>
ley of justice, freedom and humanity to, internal rev
Itl- devotedly and patriotically give like ed to excee
ce, service." crease of n
fer Ne
v. Mn.ro.Vi 13 1D17
I COM IS RESUME OF WAR Ft
LLEO BV OFFICER THE LAST FEW!
XING HAM SHOT BY ONE DANISH STEAMEP
[R. HEGLAR. j- BEEN SUNK.
tie Break For Liberty In Persia the Turks Are F
tile Gold Mine Late ing Hard Usage at Hand
idav Afternoon. Russians.
|
lit of ;i gun shot wound. London. March 11.?Gen.
>n he tried to escape from crick Stanley Maude, in comn
ster county chaingang the entente forces in Meso]
prnoon. Joe Cunningham telegraphed today the welcoui
chaingang camp near the for the British of the occi
Mine last night about 11 early Sunday of the city of 1
e dead man was a negro the chief Turkish city in Me
rving a sentence of ten mia and formerly the capital
son. The fatal shot was empire of the caliphs,
nstable Heglar. a guard No details of the capture h
iigang. been received, Gen. Maude's s
r the/ killing are meagre, the operations carrying evenl
irs that Cunningham was up to Saturday morning \vh
character and when he British had driven iim Tn.b
: ot-s!*.vay an immediate to within thre< miles of Bitgd
instituted, with the ro- is evident, however, tliat the
r. Heglar fired when he have been unable to offer any
;?nvict. The bullet took resistance since the fall of
> negro's abdomen and it Amara.
ame evident that he was | Tho Turks were said to t
inded. An eflort was r|edly summoning reinforc
him to ( olumbia. hoping ,but the distances to be covers
il attention there mightjso great that additional force
e, but before this idea unable to arrive in time to k;
uccessfully executed the anoient city which, after Mec
-ea<^- leupied first place in the Mol
am had a bad record with dan mind.
and county officials. lie The faU Qf Hagdad besidp8
rested on several charges. Qerman hopRR of Nfiar ^
ng that he had burned a I . . . ? .
" i minion, based on a Berlin60
bales of cotton and a ; .. . . ,, ,
railway, it is believed, will mo
countv. He was tried at . ..... . T, ... .
rehabilitate British prestige
neral sessions in Octobei ? ? , . ? . , .,
I Far East, damaged by the
ed to serve 10 years. . , ..... . ,
loss of Kut-el-Amara.
^askey went to tli.j scene . . .
1 \ Perhaps no more welcom
g to hold an in?iuest, but . , . ..
could come at a time when tt
stood that no blame at- . . . ,. , ..
lish public for the first time, o
he chaingang guard for ,, . , . .
the submarine war. is hegini
feel the efTects of the ws
greatly reduced food supply
JS W hltK SI HPBISKI) being thrown into depression
revelations of the Dardane
iH'Ctl It.-igdad I'oiild Held port. Eater news must be i
Bit Indefinitely. before it is known whothci
via Pari.- March 12. ^Rude mado Important capt
Bagdad caused the greats T,l,kish or runs.
# in Berlin and Vienna. Apparently the occupation
news i'ppp ...I r footed without resistance .n>
i only slight 108868. EVI n if thf
:ently the Austrian and ?" extricating al
ters announced that, ow- force8- the 1,,sp of Bagdad is :
large Turkish reinforce- b!ov to ,hom- as the oi,>* ha
from Aleppo and Smvrna the base of al1 Turkish opera
Id hold nut Indefinitely ,>ftraia- "P to witbin a re'
eted here that one of the a*?' the Tu,ks occupied ah
8 of the occupation of'000 s''uare ilos of Persia*
he British troops will he ,or>'- but wi,h ,b" Russians p
f all Turkish contingents,,hem c,?8e,y fr?m Kirmnasl
the various fronts. wel1 as froni tho direction oi
er. the military critic. rum- indications point to a
e Journal des Geneve: junction of the British and 1
i new Ottoman army is foroes wbich wou,d soon rom
for a new campaign Turkish evacuation of Persia.
forces of Gen. Maude, the Befalls Gi\en.
efinitely remain i: t,. T1i? statement was issued
e English oeipt of a te'egrani from Gen.
isha. the former Turkish 8a>in* ,b? "Hfish fore s ha,
at Paris, left here today Bagdad early Sunday m
tinople. He says he con- details of the capture of t
ituation serious. contained.
During today the fol'ov 5ng
i'KIt \T I\GT< >\ report was rec-iv. d. ?v
tions up to Saturday morn'nj
n Trying to Get Brief He- :,,M Turks had been forced *
ite From Labor. within tlveo m'les w t an'
west of the citv.
i. March 12.?Congress- ?0up forros onEafed ,v
.ever, Mrs. Lever and lit Tnrks on (ho DiaH ,,no the n
er. arrived at their home (ho gfh suocppded d, th?
Washington on Friday moonl,Kht in pffertln., a s
d wll spend the time he- (>rossjnE of fhp nia,fl ind p,(
and the time of the con intr o l!trnn?
.. ^ .% ?r??rv| (Ml I II*" I mil
ie special session of con (hereof. Meanwhile on the
leir attractive home on ,pjf of ;ho 8fh tho TigrJs h?v!)
street. Mr. Lever expect* fogged nj some distance
is much as possible ?lur- n1roini a Rritish deta-hmc-.t
rt period, bet row. as * ^ l|p ?'pht hank and foti
case with Mr. Lever, he enerny holding a position ah>
ly man. A congressman s mjjp?, southwest of Ragdad.
ends at any rate MY. "The enemy was driven frc
b not for he is just as pnf,jfjnn f0 another position tw
ne as he is while n .a.- |n rpar During the night
on the sessions at V? ash ft paMage 0f the Diala wj
ed and our troops advancet
four miles towards Ragdad.
TK ON INCOMK TAX "During 'he n?h n'ir forcps
right hank (Tigris) drove the
Are (internment Will from his second position. 1
t $aoo.ono,o<M?. ing on the ground gained. T
on. March 12.?Prelimin- vantage, notwithstanding a t
to the treasury depirt- dust storm and a violent gr
>verv section of the court- pressed on the morning of th
arch 1. indicate that th-- the Turks being Torced back t
will collect $.200.ooo.- in three miles west and sot
me taxes during the cur- of Bagdad."
rear, or about two and a Bagdad's capture marks
oh much aa during the nex to one of the most dram*
velve months. In all. the picturesque phases of thf
'enue receipts are expect- war. The city which has ff
d $700,000,000, an in- British arms links the prese
early $200,000,000. past so distant that it is sen
ws
$1.50 A YEAR
in Irurnw nnnftimi mi
jk tvrm hjsibiliit
MVS THAI WAR IS COMING
t HAS ARMED NEUTRALITY SURE
TO CAUSE BREACH.
teceiv- President Hopes That He Will
Is of Have No Cause to Ask For
Declaration.
Fred- Washington. March !>.?Armed
land of neutrality will he the status of the
ptamia. United States the moment tlie first
c news merchant ship under the \iie-itan
upatlon flag puts to sea with cannon mountSagdad,
ed for defense.
President Wilson made this char
ot the jn |,js address to congress February
26 when he asked specific authority
ave yet to arm merchant shins for defense
tory of against submarines the steps he oris
only dercd today upon his own responslen
the Lility.
s hack Writers on international law li tre
ad- 11 j,eld tliat armed neutrality orsfsts
Turks jn pincing the country in a position
serious (p (j,.fen,i jtsolf and its i "'p-ality
. ^frainut ? 1 * ~ "1_
vtn cmcuru (IlltirKS ' F 111 ?
roads by belligerents.
>e hut- This staflo of preparedness may
einents ]ast an indefinite length of time,
d were through good fortune In avoiding
?s were contact with belligerent forces afloat
ive the or ashore, or through the design of
ca, oc- the heligerent to confine its declaralarame
tion of purpose to infringe the neutrality
of a country mere threatl
ending unsupported by action.
*rn do- On the other hand, the status o
Bagdad armed neutrality may change to on*
re than of actual hostility through a collisin
the ion?such as a submarine attack on
earlier an armed merchantman.
President Wilson has said that it
e news may not he necesssary to put armed
le Brit- forces anywhere into action. All will
wing t depend upon the future attitude of
tiing to Germany and the treatment of A merit
in a lean ships by German submarine
besides commanders.
by the In his address to congress the
lies re- president said: "I am not now proiwaited
posing or contemplating war or any I
r Gen. *tops that lead to it. I merely re- 1
uros i' nuest that you will accord -no by
your own vote ami definite bestowal1 '
was of- the m-ao and authority to safeguard. \
'1 with in prnct: e 'he right of a great pro
? T irk- pie who r. .?t peace and who are (
II th>'i- desirous of exercising none hut the '
l grave tights of peace to follow the pur- '
is been suit of peace in quietness and good*
lions in will.- |
iv days ??
lit JO,- ions. The hi?tory of Bagdad reaches.; '
i terri hack for 4.tH>0 years to the shadowy
ressing times of King Nebuchadnezzar of
tail, as Babylon, a quay built by the Scrip?
f Krze- tnral monarch still existing submerg?
speedy r,i the Tigris. Within its precinotB;
Russian also there still stand the tombs of
pel the the Jewish prophets Joshua. Ezra and *
Ezekiel and the well of Daniel. 3
Done after the Babylonian dynas- "
i'"' re- tv had ceased '<> t>? mo c than *
Mn'iil memory Bagdad rose to splendor as J
l oeru- tpp artistic, literary, scientific and *
ornine. religious capital of the world. The ^
he c>ty heart of the great Islamic empire o *
the caliphs for h tied reds of years, t *
offici i' was known throughout the world at ?
"the glorious city' and was thi *1
r when - one of the fmtastie e\n'oits of Ha- *
> \1 Rps"h: ' the vo*?ntate H
M'th >. e magnicavio i- m. 1 ;n ^
the Arabian Nights. ' 1
ith the Onee IxmI World I
i ht of \hont 800, A. I)., B? a *
ctt ilit.fi ith a population of :
urprlse 000 souls and war easily th- first,
aid s'-. ty of the world in wealth and com-'
t hank merce. With the fall of the caliphn*
morn- before the Turkish sultans, the de-.
ip hern cline of Bagdad commenced. It waftdown
successively the prey of Turks. Mon-'l
march- gols, Tartars and Persians, but lfd
ind the was not until 1 ^8 that the city he- L
out six came definitely a part of the Tur- '
kish empire. Its ancient importance r
>m this was largely due to the fact that 11'
0 m'les istood at the centre of the lines of
of the communication between India and'
es fore- Persia and the West, hut th<*openinjf
1 some of new routes by way of TrebizoneP
and through Armenia diverted iti
on the trade and was a vital factor In it#'
cnomv decline. i*
>lVouae-i The British campaign against Bar
his ad- dad was opened early in 1915 whef*
dinding an Anglo-Indian force under Ma;
?le wa-- Gen. Charles Vere Ferrers Towi?
e 10th shend was launched at the head <^:
o with the Persian gulf and moved rapidf*1
uthwesf up the Tigris. The primary obje <"
iof th-> expedition was to obtain
the cli valuable oil wells in the region '
itic and th?> mouth of the Tigris, hut the tT
s world timate and far greater object was t ^
illen to shattering of the great Germ r*
nt to a It
ui-rabu- (Continued on Page 9)
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