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THE CAROLINA WATCHMAf, SALISBURY, N, C. 300,000 IN GO TO TRAINING GAMPS GERMANY RUSSIAN REPUBLIC KORNILOFF REVOLT NOW PROCLAIMED APPARENTLY ENDED ARGENTINA HANDS NORTH STATE IBS REGRETSTOS WE LUXBURG T Brief Notes Covering Happenings in This States That Are of Interest to All the People. Kinston public schools will kave a brass band this year. The women of Kinston have gaa ized for national defense. Durham has awarded a contract for 50,000 yards of street paving. The freshman class at A. & B. Col lege is as large as ever this year. The community club of Hickory is making plans for a reception at the new high school building Friday even ing, September 21, when an address by Dr. J. Y. Joyner, state superintendent of public instruction, will be one of the features. The new building will be dedicated at that time. WHOLE NATION STIRS WITH MAS SIVE MOVEMENTS OF THE DRAFT FORCES. ALSO SENDS TO AGENTINA DIS APPROVAL OF EXPRESSIONS USED BY LUXBURG. GOVERNMENT DECLAREES IT IS NECESSARY TO STRENGTHEN THE ORGANIZATION. (BILLION . HEADQUARTERS 'HAVE BEEN SURRENDERED GERMAN GOVERNMENT IS ASK ED FOR EXPLANATION OF DISCLOSURES. TO KERENSKY. TOTAL 343,500 IN CAMP HiS TROOPS DESERT RANKS ARGENTINA IS NOT SATISFIED DANGER STILL THREATENING CLEAR STATEMENT IS WANTED Approximately 45 Per Cent of First Caff Tasfc of Obtaining Supplies Is Moving Satisfactorily Mobilized in 16 Cantonments. Washington. Marshalled for the last time as civilians, more than 300, 000 men of the national army assem bled at the local board offices and then went forward , to the 16 canton ments to be trained for the battle against " German autocracy. Their next more will be as fighting men to ward the battlefields of France. The whole nation will be astir with the movement of the selective forces. The men represent approximately 45 per cent of the total quota under the first call from each of nearly 5,000 lo cal boards. Already at the camps is the advance -guard of five per cent of the total, composed of experienced men, including cooks. Out of this has been created a skeleton organization into which the second increment will be absorbed- When the last men of this increment arrive the camps wlIV, house half of the first call forces, or 343,500 men, and the other half will follow as rapidly as quarters and equipment are made available. . In a statement the war department says the enormous task of obtaining equipment and supplies for the army is moving satisfactorily. Some of the men of the national army may be only partially equipped for some time after they are mobilized, nd no attempt will be made to furnish them with full war equipment until the eve of their departure for ' Europe. Some civilian clothing, such as overcoats, will have to be used for a , time, as the clothing industry has not as yet caught up with its work. Deficiency in Prospect. With the mobilization of one-half of the 687,000 men of the first call in progress, the question arises as to whether that number of men will be sufficient to fill all units of the na , tjonal guard and national army. There are indications that a deficiency in men will be disclosed when official re ports from all the 32 training camps are available, but no figure has be$n RUSSIANS TO MAKE A FIRMER STAND AGAINST ENEMY Leadership of the Armies Has Been Reorganized. Russia having recovered in a great measure from the effects of recent internal difficulties, is preparing to i make a firmer stand against the common enemy. It is announced that the leadership of the Russian armies has been reorganized and that the fruition of reformative plans in the armies themselves is expected shortly. Premier Kerensky and the war and marine ministers in his cabinet have gone to Mohilev. Russian great head quarters to confer with the military leaders. They also will see General Korniloff and his leading aides in the recent revolt. j Whether Kornilo, the leader of the j summer offensive in Galicia this year, ! is to suffer the supreme penalty for his act probably will depend upon the result of the conferences at Mohilev. The Russian northern army, which has made some progress toward driv ing the Germans back to the Dvina line in the Riga reeion, on Sunday oc cupied several German positions be tween Pskbff and Riga. On Monday they captured Teuton defenses north east of riedrichstadt. south of Riga. In lis official renort. Berlin makes 1 no mention of activity in this region. General Stcherbatcheff, command er of the Rumanian front, has car ried out successfully an offensive movement in the Suchitza valley, northwest of Fokshani. HOUSE PASSES UNANIMOUSLY BIG WAR DEFICIENCY BILL Washington. The seven billion dol lar deficiency bill, carrying huge ap propriations for the army, fortifica tions and shipping board, passed the house by a unanimous vote. The bill the largest supply measure in the country's history, how goes to the senate, where prompt action Is ex pected. It directly appropriates $4, 830,000.000 and authorizes contracts for $2,314,000,000 additional. PRESIDENT ASKS SCHOOL CHILDREN TO HELP IN WAR Washington. President Wilson isr sued a proclamation calling upon the school children of the nation to do their part in the war by joining the Junior Red Cross to assist in the mercy work of the senior orgnization. The President says the children's branch of the Red Cross will give an opportunity for relief work for the benefit of both the community and country; will teach how to save. No Spectacular Operation on Large Scale is Reported in the official Communications From the Belliger ent Capitals. Expressions of regret over the tele grams sent by Count von Luxburg, the German minister to Argentine, to Ber lin through the Swedish minister at Buenos Aires, have been made to both Sweden and Argentine by the Ger man government. The under-secretary of the Berlin foreign office has informed the Argen tine minister to Berlin that Gremany regrets the actions of Count von Lux burgand disapproves entirely of the expressions used by him in the tele grams made public recently by the state department at Washington. Ger many asks for a safe conduct for Count von Luxburg in order that he may return to Berlin to explain per sonally. . Argentina, it was announced by its foreign minister, declines to accept the verbal assurance of an under-secretary of the German foreign office and awaits the arrival of a formal note from Berlin beore taking additional steps. To Sweden, J Germany has sent a note .unofficial reports say, regretting highly the disagreeable issues raised by the Luxburg telegrams and thank ing the Swedish government for trans mitting the messages. No specatcular operation on a large scale is reported in the official com munications from the belligerent cap- MORATORIUM FOR SOLDIERS IS NOW A PROBABILITY Protect Civil and Property Rights and Save Them From Legal Injustice. Washington. Legislation to protect the . civil and property rights of sol diers in effect a moratorium for the duration of the war in behalf of men wiio are serving their country on the firing line, may be placed upon the administration's program for this ses sion of Congress as a necessary ele ment of the raising of a citizen army. The "soldiers and sailors civil rights bill," to carry out this purpose already has been introduced in both houses, having been framed in the office of Judge Advocate General Crowder. Secretary Baker, it was learned, has under consideration rec ommendations that the entire weight of administration influence be brought to bear to obtain early enactment of the measure. To Save soldiers and sailors from all kinds of legal injustice durn their absence from home, the meas ure would nejoin the carrying out of certain civil court ections until after the close of the war, and establish as legal excuse for fai.ure to carry cer tain contracts, the fact that a man is in the military service. It is proposed that creditors' suits against officers or men may be held up and judgment by default denied, the framers of the bill recognizing that a man in the army or navy would have no opportunity to make his defense in person- or arrange for its proper hearing through counsel. If such a judgment rested against a man at the time of his enlistment, the bill would prevent its execution through the sale of his property dur ing his absence. It would set aside the statute of limitations so that a debt owed to a soldier might not be outlawed in his absence it would pre vent the eviction of his family while he was away if they failed to pay the rent; it would protect him against the ordinary results of defaulted payments on business mortgages and keep him from being sold out in his absence; it would insure any rights he might have to public lands, although his service, at the front had prevented him from completing the legal acqui sition of the property. MEANS ENJOINED EtY ORDER SIGNED BY JUDGE BOYD Greensboro. Federal Judge James E. Boyd here granted the petition of Mrs. Anna Ls. Robinson, mother of Mrs. Maude A. Kir.g, who was killed near Concord, N. C, August 29, for a restraining order enjoining Gaston B. Means fromdisposifcg of the property of Mrs. King which he Is alleged to possess. Judge Boyd also signed a receivership order and named an Asheville trust company receiver for the property. GENERALLY GOOD HEALTH FOR THE NAVY REPORTED Washington. Generally good health for the navy, afloat and ashore, was reported by Sugeon General Braisted. Some cases of measless and mumps are reported from the Atlantic fleet with measles less prevailing than the mumps, averaging only 10 cases a week for the whols force afloat. Con ditions also are excellent at the shore stations, except ut San Frnaciaco where there are a number of cases of measles and mumpi. , A Cabinet of Five Members, Includ ing Premier Kerensky, Has Been Named to Take Care' of All Matters of State. A Russian republic has ben pro claimed. The provisional government under date of September 14 issued a proclamation, declaring that to strengthen the organization of the state a change to a republican form of government was necessary. Danger still threatens Russia, the proclamation says, although the re bellion of General Korniloff has fail ed. The plan of a Russian republic has been one of the chief aims of the radicals and the councils of sol diers' and workmen's delegates and wa s given approval by the recent Russian congress at Moscow. A cabinet of five members,- includ ing Premier Kerensky, has been named to take care of all matters' of state. The only, party men are Premier Kerensky and M. Nikitine, minister of posts- and telegraphs, both of. whom are social revolutionists. The others, including the ministers of war and marine, are the members of no party. Although the position of the Ke rensky government appears to be im proving, the action of the grand coun cil of the Don Cossacks in refusing to surrender General Kaledines, their hetman, is ominous. The leader of the Cossacks is accused of complicity., in the Korniloff revolt. The Cossacks protest their loyalty to the govern ment, while ignoring the govern ment's request for the giving up of General Kaledines. RAINS IN EASTERN N. C. CAUSE MANY WASHOUT Wrecking Train Is Wrecked, ana Railroad Service Demoralized. Wilmington. Reports from flood territory indicate subsidence of wa- j ter, revealing greater crop damaged than had been forecasted. Country j mads nil nvpr thft 1iatrirt Vinvo hoon ! severely damaged, bridges and cul verts washed away and traffic sus pended. The Atlantic Coast lane has no fewer than seven washouts between the thirty-fifth and sixtieth mile posts on the Wilmington-Goldsboro branch, and it is officially announced that traffic between these cities will be discontinued for several days, through traffic being routed via Chadbourn and Elrod for main line connections, while local trains will operate for a distance of 35 miles out of Wilmington toward Goldsboro. A wrecking train from Rocky Mount, attempting to reach scene, of a freight wreck. 45 miles from Wil mington, was itself wrecked and En gineer J. B. Ericsson and two ne groes, of this city, were slightly in jured. Wrecking trains from Way cross, Ga.. and Florence, S. C. to gether with available work train crews and much material are being rushed to the breaks in the line. REHABILITATING HOSPITALS GO TO NINETEEN CITIES Washington. Sites have been ctosen tentatively in 19 cities for the 'reat reconstruction" hospitals in which the United' States will begin the work of rehabilitating for private life its soldiers who return woundad from the front in Europe. The cities selected as the largest centers of population, were . announced by Ma jor General Gorgas. surgeon general of the army, as follows : Boston. New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore. Washington, Buffalo. Cin cinnati, Chicago. St. Paul, Seattle. San Francisco, Los Angeles; Benver, Kansas City, St. Louis. Memphis, Rlchmond, Atlanta and New Orleans. SENATE PASSES BIG WAR CREDITS BILL Washington. 'The war credits bill, authorizing new bonds and certifi cates aggregating 311,538,000,000 and the largest measure of its kind in world history, was passed by the sen ate without a roll call or dissenting vote. Few changes were made in the' bill by the senate, the bond and cer tificate authorizations, interest rates and provisions giving the secretary of the treasury broad powers remain ed unchanged. CHILD LABOR LAW TO APPLY AT CANTONMENTS Washington. Secretary Baker Or dered that employment of children at cantonments and other government reservations conform to the federal child labor act which forbids the em ployment of children under 14 year and restricts the nours of labor of those between 14 and 16. State age certificates for children between 14 and 16 must be obtained by employ ers In states issuing them, and in Jther states federal certificates. Ribel General Himself Offers to Sur render on Conditions Govern. -tfient Commands Korniloff's Abject . Capitulation. , -t general Korniloff's rebellion against Premier Kerensky ' apparently hasN bCsn quelled, like other attempts that hge been- made to overthrow the Russian provisional ' government. Hfficial reports from Petrograd say that Korniloff's headquarters has sur rendered and. that Korniloff himself dfires conditionally to place himself inthe hands of the authorities. The gernment' is demanding his abject capitulation. ftiieanwhile troops that had answer eqthe call of revolt issued by Korni loj continue to desert his ranks and return to the government fold, declar ing that they were misled by Korni- lcs professed aims. ST nsky has been confirmed by s cabinet as commander-in-chief of tlQ army and will have with him as c$ef of straff in his prosecution of thf- war against the Teutonic allies Gpieral Alexieff, former commander inphief and one of the most brilliant offcers in the Russian army. Added stffngth is' also expected to be given Ktlfensky's rule by the appointment off jiew . military officials for the dis trust and city of Petrograd. SoLDiERS' AND SAILORS' f! INSURANCE PASSES HOUSE s i -- " : Allowances fr Dependents of Officers H and Men Equalized. Washington. The administration's sojgiiers' and sailors' insurance bill, annded so as to equalize the allow ances of the dependents of enlisted mfr and officers, passed the house. Tip vote was 319 to 0, Representa tives Piatt, of New York, and Hersey, ofMaine, changing negative votes to ayjj before the result was announced, and thunderods applause. lits the bill went to the senate, pri vates and officers and their depend ents stand on exactly the same basis. Bpefits and allowances now provided foare slightly higher, than those originally proposed as the minimum fOK, privates by the committees and considerably lower than the maximum -anunts which officers and their de pendents would have received. president Wilson scored a personal victory in the adoption, 141 to 77, of anQamendirient raising from $5,000 to $1000 the maximum amount of op tiCnal insurance policies that the gov ernment would issue to all men in the serice. The original draft of the bily carried $10,000, but it was strick enbut in committee. Opposition Mild. Sf!he mildness of the attack of op ponents of the measure on the op tional in'surance section caused sur pre. It was passed over in a com paratively, short time after a formal motion to strike it out had been over wl&Jmingly defeated. : LAPSING REVEALS ANOTHER g CASE OF GERMAN PERFIDY Washington. Another chapter to thfaistory of German intrigue in neu tral countries and among neutral dip-loij-4ts was revealed by Secretary Lading in the form of a letter to the imrial chancellor from the notorious Vog Eckhardt, the German minister at lexico City, to whom the inter cented Zimmermann note was ad drsed. It disclosed that Folke Crofiholm, then .Swedish charge in MeTftHco, was depended upon by the Gevcnan diplomat to furnish informa tions from the "hostile camp" and to transmit communications to Berlin. antgSthat Von Eckhardt wanted him rewarded by a secret award from the kaUSr of the "order of the crown of the.' second-class." FOTY-SECOND. DIVISION 1 1 IS COMPLETE AT MfNEOLA 'c 4 Cjgmp Mills. Mineola. N. Y. With the3rrival here of the first ambulance conany from Michigan, ' the forty secid division is complete. The di vision, made up of former national guafd units from 27 states, comprises twcH infantry brigades, one artillery brigade, one engineer regiment, one headquarters troop, a signal train, fouiv ambulance and four hospital unH?v and a machine gun battalion. austria-hungary cannot Wold out through winter Geneva. The Freie Zeitung, of Ben$e, publishes an, article from a higsj Austrian, official who recently traveled through several sections of thi? country,' in which the writer states that Austria Hungary cannot hold" out the cominfc winter owing to .economic reasons, as both soldiers and;J civilians will be starved. He giv& several reasons, notably, the al mov, complete destruction of the, crops In tge richest regioi of Hungary. Break In Relations Is Certain Unless Germany Makes Satisfactory Con cessions Populace is Angry Over Expressions. Buenos Aires, Argentina government at noon sent to the German legation passports to be delivered to Count Luxburg, the German minister in j Buenos Aires. The whereabouts of Count Luxburg still is unknown to the Argentine government. The foreign office sent a communi cation to the German foreign minis- tery demanding an explanation of . Count Luxburg's action in sending the J secret code messages to Berlin thru the Swedish legation. The note sent by Foreign Minister Pueyrredon to Count von Luxburg, in ! which the German minister was ten dered his passports, reads: "Mr. Minister: You having ceased to be persona grata to the Argentine government, that government has de cided to deliver to you your passports j which I transmit herewith by order of his excellency, the president of the nation. "The introducer of embassies has instructions to assist you in your im mediate departure from the territory of the republic. God keep you'. (Signed) "H. fEYRREDON." "To Count Karl von Luxburg, en voy extraordinary and minister pleni potentiary of the German empire." The Argentine minister at Berlin has been instructed to inform the German foreign office that Count von Luxburg has been handed his pass ports and to ask for explanations re garding the telegram disclosures. If the German government disapproves of the text of the German minster's dispatches and especially of the word "ass," which term the count applied to the Argentine foreign minister, the situation may clear. If Berlin does not disavow the minister course, Ar gentina will recall her minister from Germany but may permit the legation to remain. ALLOWANCE OF $5 TO $50 A MONTH TO DEPENDENTS Scale of Rates Which Have Heen Ten tatively Approved. Washington. Provisions of the sol diers' and sailors' insurance bill for allowances of from $5 to $50 a month to dependents during the service of enlisted men were tentatively approv ed by the house. Strenuous efforts of Representative Keating of Colorado, speaking for va rious humanitarian organizations, o have the allowances raised, failed. He maintained that statistics proved that the proposed allowances would not permit families to live in ordinary comfort, but administration leaders re plied that higher payments would make the cost to the government prohibitory. These are the amounts, in addition to any sum taken from the pay, that dependents would receive monthly: Wife, no children, $15; one child, $25; two children, $32.50; and $5 ad ditional for each additional child. ' One motherless child, $5; two chil dren, $12.50; three children, $20; four children, $30 and $5 monthly ad ditional for each additional child. One parent, $10; both parents. $20; each dependent grandchild, brother or sister, $5. Speical povisions are made for the allowances of divorced wives. QUEEN ELEANORE DEAD AT BULGARIAN CAPITAL Sofia, Bulgaria. Queen Eleanore, of Bulgaria, is dead. She had been ill some time and recently King Ferdi nand and Crown Prince Boris and Prince Cyril were summoned to her bedside. KORNILOFF WITH FOUR GENERALS DECLARED REBELS Petrograd. Tke provisional gov ernment issued a decree handing over to the courts of justice as rebels Gen eral Korniloff, former commander-in-chief of the Russian armies; General Denikine. commanding the armies on the southwestern front; General Lo komsky, chief of the general staff; General Markoff, the chief of the headquarters staff on the southwest ern front, 'and M. Kisliakoff, assist ant to minister of roads. CAMP JACKSON PREPARES FOR 12,000 SEPTEMBER 19 Columbia, S. C Preparations are under way at Camp Jackson for re ceiving more than 12,000 soldiers of the national army from the states of North and South Carolina and Florida when the next increment of the first draft are ordered to camp, beginning September 19. Of this number about 6,200 will be North Carolinians, and 3,150 represent the draft districts in South Carolina. After their demand for an iucr.ease of six and one-half cents an hour in pay had been refused about 400 negro hslpers employed in machine shops of theAtlantic Coast Line railway at Rocky Mount went on strike. The road, it is understood, offered the men an increase of four cents an hour but this the workmen declined. Martin Dennis, who was arrested in Stanly three weeks ago upo a charge of having violated section 3 of the selective edraft, was given a pre liminary hearing before R. C. Hill. United States commissioner, and was bound over to the United States term of Federal court for the Western dis trict, at Salisbury, on October 3, 1917, As a result of an automobile acci dent 14 miles below Salisbury on the road to Badin. J. W. Zeigler, ageii 22, of Winston-Salem, is dead, and his brother, George L. Zeigler, is in Sal isbury hospital suffering with bruises. B. F. Southern, a passenger, was bruised and L. B. Hodgins and R. C. Shields, also passengers and all from Winston-Salem, escaped injury. t Athletics at Wake Forest College re ceived a. sever blow when it was an nounced that Mr. J. Richard Crozier, for 13 years director of the gymnastam and the pioneer basketball coach of the state, had resigned , to continue his studies in medicine at the Ameri can School of Osteopathy at Kirks ville, Mo. Mr. Crozier leaves on Sep tember 18 to assume his new duties. The city of Raleigh has planned to make itself a model for the cities and towns of North Carolina in the matter of gardens, having taken as a motto, "A garden for every home 12 months in the year." For the accomplish ment of its purpose, two trained women have been employed as garden supervisors, -and a course in elemen- j tary agriculture has been introduced in the city schools. Miss Nannie I. Kersey, who has been head nurse at the North Carolina State hospital at Morganton several years, has resigned, on account of failing health, to. take a much needed rest. The great responsibility of this position and the duties connected with it are very trying and few peo ple have been able to hold it more than a few years. Speaking of the Keating-Owens child labor law and the recent decis ion of Federal Judge Boyd in declar ing it unconstitutional, , United States District Attorney J. O. Carr declared that the person or persons who violat ed this statute are gambling with the supreme court, for if this tribunal re verses Judge Boyd's decision, those who have violated the statute will be ndictable, despite anything that Judge Boyd may have said relative to the constitutionality of the law. Lindsay Brittain, 12 years oM, of Rocky Mount, son of John BrittOB of that place, was drowned in the old rock quarry just east of Wilmington. He was out wadiLg with a number of other boys when he stepped into a hole over his head. Unable to swim he went down before assistance could reach him. The body was recovered. The lad was visiting relatives at Wil mington. J. Wesley Helms, young white man of Monroe, was given a hearing be fore United States Commissioner U. L. Flow a few days ago on the charge of having failed to register. His age was established at 21 and he was required to register in addition to be ing bound over to the federal court, which convenes in Charlotte the first Monday in October. At first young Helms denied having attained his ma jority, but the evidence presented by the government was so strong that he admitted he was in the wrong. At a recent meeting of the southern section of the American Association of Instructors and Investigators and Poultry Husbandry, at College Station, Texas, .Dr. B. F. Kaupp, poultryman of the Animal Industry Division of the Nwth Carolina Experiment station, was elected president; and Mr. Thomas J. Conway, of College Station, Texas, secretary. The meeting was called for the purpose of organizing the instructors, invesigators and poul try husbandry in the south, and Doc tor Kaupp attended in the interest ol the work in North Carolina.
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