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I WEATHER FORECAST I 'i V't :rfi: t VSi ;y - 1 tonight and Saturday; much cold-;. ' V 1 v V - i: TT TT TV n? 'll 1 li 'j' ! "J -V ' 1 V Saturday partly cloudy and much J r V Jl )l 1 A7: I 'V V TT, L JdjvV VOL. XXIII. INU. 360. - : - ' ,v .X. J , a 4Sk Hfc. H 1h " rsk RX fSa r-kSt i-T - - ' -fit 1 n i li "i "in mum xm bo - :mwn mum m Bil Hfe-tHNH HJR-V I- I H,J : : f I VUH 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 IH I IN n .1.1 u rnrrcanitiWi- . " s TO Efl04iF iffliAJf J SATlifiDAY KiBHT ?U IVIUAiL. UjflJlmi FULL LEADED WIRES SERVICE WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA; FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER J 9, 1 91 7. lillailRMlllf PAfflTIOI PRICE FIVE CENTS Treasury Officials Believe and hits were obtained by Russian tn Liberty L Be Reached City of Moscow to Again Be come Seat of Russian Government FORTIFIED CITY OF REVAL EVACUATED TRIED 1 ES cut . . .... - :' . GERMANS LAND ON DAGO. : ' ' - (By Associated Press);'- ' ; Petrograd, Oct 19. The- Ger- . man 5 on Wednesday ViMn - "r" land -trodps -.on Dagoisland iioutfi. of the entrance Ito the Qulf of ' In the naval "battle "of 'Wednes- day In which -thejRussianj battle- ship Slava was sunt,'two Geman ' trawlers were senr to the bottom, 5 EfiTIHE C km. i i . t wr.n battleshms on German, drpari- iTtoAuuuiii uucuy iudii win 4. noughts. The statement says : that not, less than 1(T enemy " dread- V noughts of the newest Kaiser and ! , - 1 pad rflnninir p- dUQHn iHm iL m IS THREATENING m QUKTRY TO 1TE PRESIDENT QS 1RNIG GOAL MINERS Wholesalers Supply Gut Off .and Refiners are Without - v : . Materials RALLYING CRY HEARD '!Sg1ypllart4n Ihis t NEW YORK FIRST IMRUUGriUUl LAND j Approximately $1,750,000,-1 A f r t v 1 i- .1 1 ' UUU Had tfeen Subscribed Today, and Success has Inspired the Workers 4 TO FEEL SHORTAGE iGl N'S NOOSE Anoroach of Germans and In ternal Troubles Cause )eJ Condemned Man Unsuccess- T" C . 1 i fill in AH.m cision to 1 ransrer capital w nuwapi iu vwni- I Baltic Fleet Eager to Meet Enemy. iHy Associated Press.) ?. 'pipi-ul. Oct 19. The govern ment has dehnitely determined to i.invo 1.0 Mui-cow in the very near fu ture, j Tl' newspapers publish an oil c' 1 .nniv.iii"' (MU',nt that the evacuation of( the foi Tiort of Reval, on the Bal- tir, ,ir Mi mit Suicide 'By Associated i-ress.) Baton Rouge, La., Oct. 19. Helaire (By Associated Tress.) Washington, Oct." 19. The Liberty ican campaign continued to gain to day and Treasury officials announced that many estimates placed the total so far subscribed at above $1,750,00, f90 and "witfi'n t iking distance" of the ?2,-GUO,000,000 hoped for by Sat urday night. Unofficial figures made public by the department show that a minimum cf $1,535,000,000 had been subscribe up to the close of business ! day night. Officials were that the $5,000,000,000 m attained bv the rlnsp nf ttapi r.amnniirn. The Tageblatt BERNSTORFE KNEW lOTHINiF BOLO 1 If Not Baclc at Work by Mon day Will Revoke Charter Carriere was hanged- in the State penitentiary at 12:10 p. m. today forQCtober 27 the murder in July, 1916, of Marion' "More than $2,000,000,000 in L. Swords, sheriff of St. Landry par ish. Carrier protested his innocence of entrance to the Gulf of the murder to thc last claiming the Finland, h.1 begun. - . j"Sbo which killed Sheriff Swords was Th po,n3 at Reval have been - cl b? one of the deputies in the rie- f! The inhabitants of the city I sherifTs posse which attempted to f-'T. -ent to the interior of Rus- capture Carriere in the Mallet woods via ('section, near Opelousas, La. Antv imcrment that the government The execution of Carriere ended will ni! v- to Moscow was made today "tnc career of one of the most desper Y.y M Kishkin, minister of public I ate characters with which the Stat welfare. ! has dealt, according to the State au- Ti... sailors of the main Baltic fleet j thorities. ai- r-ported to be keen to fight. The j He successfully eluded several nj n at Kronstadt are demanding that ' hundred armed searchers for a month fhn ships be sent out to meet the Ger-?and was captured only after being mm? but. the gQverjjjnejit is nndr- 'seriously wounded. He frequently siw! to h?.ve taken the position that -boasted he never -would die on the as the ener y forces are of sit- gallows. , Last Vp0nesday night in peimr ize, it would be disastrous to ' an attempt to esci,! from the New lave Petrograd undefended. Orieans parish prisVtt, he wrenched a Ipiece of pipe fromNhe plumbings; in After the eapture of Jiiga by the his cefTand fought jrybre than "hour Germans, preparations foiiisswo depues: to.-. the government to Moscow were be-; fere, being subdued, pnd last k night iri gun. The failure of the Germans to the death cell at f the , penitentiary develop the;.- offensive after taking, slashed his. rthroat 'from ear to ear Ripa. as weii as the approach of win-. with r- safety razor blade which he nakins open campaiga-,' had secreted in his scapular, in an mt'Ht b- n Th- ( . throat aapin eh. and iMa . ion t'i ; 1 cow, r ; 1 len: p: ! ; and t:;r 1 scriptions by Saturday night," today's announcement says, "is the rallying cry to Liberty loan workers being echoed from cdast to coast. . Revela tion that the combined totals of all districts are within striking distance of this work possibly up to $1,750, 000,000 have given new courage to local committees and renewed their determination to attain the maximum of $5,0.00,000,000 by the close of the campaign October 27. "Many estimates placed the total for the country today at above $1, 750,000,000. It may not have reached that point, but it certainly is well above $1,500,0'00,000. A carefully com piled total, based-on conservative es timates of sales officially and unoffi cially reported, shows that a mini mum of $1,535,000,000 has been estab lished. Here are the unofficial fig ures : ; New York, $560,000,000; Chicago, ' $31)00,000 ; Cleveland, $115,000,000; FhiladeiDbia. $11000.000; Boston. 'ittfo;Wfr'fr;Stf' Louts $8Wt Richmond, $75,000,000; Kansas City, $50,000,000; San Francisco, $50,000, 000; Minneapolis, $45,000,000; Atlan ta, $20,000,000; Dallas $15,000,000. "Total official returns from the 12 Federal Reserve banks stand at :$827,O00,000, but this figure probably will be greatly increased in next few days by additional reports from outr ride banks. Many reports, it has been ascertained, contain only the total of subscriptions actually filled with the Many States Have No Sugar and Others Limiting Sales j Chicago is Not so "Jneasy I Over its Supply ' - (By Associated Press.) New York, Oct 19. With whole sale .sources of supply , virtually shut off and refiners unable to get the ma- v t ' 1 tvi iai, "CTY x yJl A i) LIA1 Ucl tlltJU Willi it Lierman Newspaper Leclares sugar famine. Many stores have 'been That .Lansing's 1 elegrams without sugar for several tlays and Wr? those dealers who have a supply on ere rorgeries hand are limiting sales to a few r- pounds to each customer. Alarmed at Ar,e.J?m 'ffei!irer) , the scarcity, many housewives went Amsterdam, Oct. . 19.-1 -ount - vpn about- tW eity today buying a pound Qr Bernstorff, former German ambasa- two and carrying it home as fast as dor to the United States, did not they could find it. Prices have gone, settlement of the unauthorized strike 000 coal miners in Illi- out today by Frank Far- ringtpn, president of the Illinois Fed eration of Miners, who said the men are beginning to realize the futility STRIKE MAS ALREADY CREATED A SHORTAGE Over a Million Tons Behind Hope Expressed That the Strike, Which is Unautho rized, Will be Settled (By Associated Press.) Springfield, Ills., Oct. 19. In tele grams sent this morning to local min ers' unions in Illinois, now on strike, Frank Farrington, State president of the miners' organization, declared that in mines where the men are not back to work by Monday, October 22, local charters will" be revoked. Hope For a Settlement. Chicago, Oct. 19. Hope for the early HEAVY ARTILLERY FIKAHIWIifiSI MONOR ROLL PUBLISHED Active -Haig 5 Reports Lit-Jv tie or Activities : FRENCH AND GERMANS S EXCHANGING RAIDS aess Wpdnes- know Bolo Pashar ithe Frenchman up and some sales as high as 15 cents . nearlv 70 ;ro optimistic , , , . ; a pound have been reported. B IJ arr. would be hcId as a y m France. according, to Henry Mosltowitz; the newly ap- nis was held Discussing the Bold : pointed city commissioner of markets, nffhir thn rpwsiw.hfif.iavs' planned to meet with refiners -whnlfi- sub-1 in rnpotinn with' tho not. paRhVlsaIers and retailers today In an ef fort to arrive, at samp solution if th episode and the disclocures of Secre- problem, Meanwhile householders of trying -to force Dr. Harry A. Ga.r- tary Lansing concerning thc pari al- have been urged ty the commissioner ' neld' national fuel administrator, to leged to have been played by Ambas- to practice rigid economy in the sugar gr.ant increased prices of coal at the sador von Bernstorff and Foreign Sec- supply. Many jrestaurants already ,mmes' rotary von Jagow,! We are informed by have abolished 4he sugar bowls and ! .Mr- Harrington was to meet pit com a competent, source that the personal-! customers are served one lunvo ittecs of the miners m Springfield My of Bolo Pacha was not known to apiece. " tday and in a telegram to Dr. Garfie d von Bernstorff in Washington, inas-i The coal shortage is also causing u tn xiuP "u wuuiu much as the ambassador did not have ! concern. The real trouble, however, resources in the United States which I according to one of the largest coal uD uu pvm u!, ia tuut uieie au National Fuel Administrator on the re- official quarters there. It is also es- unequal distribution on the part of thequest of operators to raise the nrice tablished that the name of Bolo Pasha wholesalers and retailers, which has nf rnai nt tllp mnps, 11nn whinh Hp. was never made known to von tern- enabled some dealers and customers to ds an increase in the wages of tne Unually' active, flying far be- : banks in their districts them to the Treasury." ter w-fHtb""-' ine imriac.;caie, relieved the tears effort to cheat the gallows, for tl:" safety of Petrograd for the! Carriere was so weak from the loss near future. L.ist weeic announce-1 of blood from the wound in his neck m-ir was made that the preparations ! and from self starvation that it was lor irinsf-nin0: the seat of govern- necessary for prison guards to carry ,i hern stopped, as there was , him to the scaffold. Early today Car i'f.'T that such action would riere was visited by a priest, and two :':-, at least for some time, nuns and the last rites of the church i i fi iiIve operations by the vere administered. Shortly before resve banks. v .-uliins in the caDture of thP hai-Hn? the nriost. transmitted i '"The reserve banks have been ask " ',rn islanfi?? nnrl t!ip nTioro'! ronncat tn anvpmnr Plp.as-red to obtain the total from all i:n i nvasion of Esthonia, ant for a stay of execution, but the ii rhe situaiton, however, j Governor refused to interfere. : Tionsible for the decis-1 The execution was witnessed only the government to Mos-I by five official? of St. Landry and ! JHE BRITISH FLliET ':ent capital. The turbu- Calcasieu parishes and two attacnes ! conditions in Petrograd of the penitentiary. .' ni'f there in large nain-i Definite announcement was made bcis i i ( iie:;iiKts and agitators may) by the penitentiary "authorities at also h-;v inhufneed the cabinet. J 10:30 this morning that Carriere RfViil. a tr.wn of about 65,000 ihhab-. WOuld be hanged about 1 o'clock this -'' miles south of Petrograd, is1 afternoon. 'HT.ion and with Helsingfors Carrierc's attorney early today in en the northern coast of , formed Governor Pleasant of Car 'I i'inland, gf.irds the ap- Here's condition and asked for a re- The landing of nrjeve Qf his client, but the Governor refused to grant the request be back at work by next Monday. In. the meantime word was avaited from Washington for a decision by the French Infantrymen more Ac tive Than 'for Several ; Days Past Two German Boats Sunk by Mines f 5 -r-; On the western fighting : front the ; French have been engaged in some In tensive operations in the .Aisne '.'-iW '!. ,t gion, centering in the district 6outj(XH and " southwest of Laon. ..Extensive MJil J raids were carried out; after the guns ' . J had prepared the way and several ;4 iJ score of prisoners were brought .in.by;'-i;vi' j the French infantrymen who likewise - V . inflicted notable damage, while : they were within the German lines. The activity of the German infantry.: -'f along the French front was apparent ly confined last night' to the Wertomi$$sS region. Here another local attack;,; was made on the French lines . east' t :. of the Meuse, which the French' "re-1 , pulsed. Field Marshal Haig's report ftSjm . the Flanders front today gave . little idea of what is occuring in this im- . portant fighting area. Only the activ.- ' . ; ity of the German artillery at certain. . . points was mentioned. BerUnVst!ateJy vj' ment, however,- indicates that ane.; :;... tremely ' heavy bombardment is . . In progress in Flanders, the area where y the big gun fire is intensive takingin ,. the front occupied by the French, near Houtholst wood on the Brttish : ' -left flank, as well as the lines; to. the south held by the British themselves. Recent reports have made it an- ; parent that the British airmen have did not mention him. Consequently, jly needed. It was said by this com the passage in the Alleged telegram IPany that New York City's supply of published by Secretary Lansing in 'coal exceeds last year s by '223,000 which von Jagdw asked von Bern- tons. storif 'What is new about Bolo?' is j Chicago Will Suffer Little, false. This warrants obvious deduc- Chicago, Oct. 19 A natton-wide tion regarding the trustworthiness of 'shortage of sugar which threatens to other details in -this telegram." j curtail the supply of candy for tho The Taglische- ; Rundschau says Christmas holidays, will be less felt that the roentfoifjof Bolo's name -in j in Chicago than i elsewhere, according .44? rt v'S)r.iagcm? atcljsanother i to iiIerJt;f Tiy&$hcim$M atre forgei-y of Secretary Lansing's for transparent purposes." It adds that Bolo s name was not mentioned for! lief for Chicago, , it was stated today, is the result of a "gentleman's" agree ment between the Western Beet Sugar ers, as soon as present stores are ex hausted. - : a': , . COLD STORAGE MEN i CRYING FOR HELP Ne.w York, Oct. 19 The use of coldi Moon sound yesterday. storage eggs as army rations will be l miners. I tho ftorman Tinpa aiiH hnndltnBr I" During the four days the miners i roughiy the enemy formations that . have been on strike, a shortage of attempted to penetrate . behind the; ; nearly 1.20Q.00O. tons has-been created I British front tne; clear weather i pre which wiU be felt, according to deal-. ' ,157. fflitat.inev these., important Wc preliminary operations. ": ; ; Two additional .German fighting craft have met disaster in the area oC ' : the naval operations around the Ottlt.''s;1' of Riga. Petrograd reports today th . : sinking of twol German torpedo hoatl f? ; A, j '.'7...," v oil ux -o x ! Marmf-Wnrcrc nnrl whnlpsalprs that ou66colcu su.ciuuicul, h lVIWfVJC AViVlWlVJ ,H -" irusuu iu.ll VUll IDfl 1ISLUIU i . lourTlorl hero fnrlav Krr rcnroqontafiiroa I - this city shan be taken care of first. .. 1,- Cr:,' oZ SUHUUC CMlLXPKtJM Reports from various cities received U, , . " here M;cated that meaner -TOlle,? fnictan- did not know that- Bolo was the man who was negotiating for The Paris Journal. (By Associated Piess.) are held by retailers and that in many v.t a " " " 1 tn New York- ct- 19. Demonstrations" - caii New York. A committee plans to goi. ,-, ' h nr aaam : Among the telegrams given cut by j"av """ to Washington with the further - m'"0 s. v-w "'rr Secretary of State Lansing on Octo- more . an one nunarea pounas to a tion that the Federal foQd official insirucuon conunuea louay WW- ber 5 was the following: "Number 206, May 31. ! customer, ThP nprsnn! The sugar beet harvest is now un announced in telegram Number 692 of March 20 has not yet reported him- der way in the West and the' product will begin to be marketed about the 1 ri v-v -isv tTT rt. j-i It- i x t. t- xi wai Ul iicai wrcR. tuel - tut: ,rBai,uu at ucn . 1S mere t xQ haye i aiiv mm e upws iin viinr s np nr Kn n r ... Chicago dealers gestion that the Federal food official, fix a price which would be on usual: lice dispersed the disturbers quickly; and parents sided in inducing thelr' children not to congregate outside the basis of cost plus 10 per cent. n 'hirocn rmitoro arc com rn rnim t uii. buildings V ir, i t ii . xii xii uunij u ociciai uuiucu ouuiuv, - i T r nvo i c Ti r n Q y v inn hiioo 11 en tna annnnr 1 Ainitienta hf th,. ppw!"'"" ,u " c .uvfij ormprf with stnnPH fnrfP. thpll .WAV and forward aiy UI.C "c.wa.uu -v.Vul sluu UI oul r Rear within 10 da vs. but many? sec- """' ...C4V',!CUB' nmvu ""into a school in Brownsville, a Jewish- - . . - - lCion o t t no nmo Tho ntrcrc wroro rmt it SHOULD HAVE AIDED nan a navj'i and If . -i' the f;;:;f 'a-t n ar. Hit Mic gUlf. orcea cn the this Esthonian town from i w, ti -a' : :!,,-., "f'Fil. L rr- Hampered in Moscow. !n-r niiii nnniiTO 5 .mLSbUUIS ARE OUT TO 3f WIN w ; t j I,. '"' -ti-'i!. 0:f. 10. Russian offi-i- !'a( no dispatches today on. ' a I of thf Russian provision-j :'n-M-nt from Petrograd to j I'm said thp plan of moving j ' ;' government, conceived) :i?n. undoubtedly has been! i l y Hie German advance in : i'Ti'iory. -it " fninyal : i::,u;sd Russian officials '(it'M-.'itrd that the Keren- ' nir.rnt Telt it could work '' ' hampering influences in !iin in Pr trograd which is rr - . 1 ftl 1IULH Ul IUI) Jlji 1 ' 1 1 - 1 (Bv Associated Press.) London, Oct. 19. The Daily Mail condemns what it calls , the failure of the British fleet to prevent the Ger man fleet from becoming master of the Gulf of Riga and demands that "the admiralty make an explanation of this humiliating display in the Bal tic." After recalling the successes of the British submarines agains- "e Ger mans in the "Baltic in the summer and autumn of 1915 the newspaper adds: "The Germans have accomplished all they were prevented from achiev ing in 1915 and they have done so without a single blow being struck at them by any arm of the British navy, a navy tar stranger tnan it was two years ago. and recently reinforced by In i Vrs i-r.mi1T ? i 4 V. T1 J ..i-iiu xxx x; jt nnnr.ir -nri II irot nnnn n V -.r 1 1 XI . LlVTilD Ul' L 1 tuuuu J n 111 f-, V I. llUll V' X Tl7i I Hm0rning' il TS the new crop for 60 days or more, learned that Bolo had an accomplice in Switzerland through whom he had; stoPm Warnings Displayed. learned the terms on which Germany (By Associatea Press.) would conclude peace with France.; Washington, Oct. 19. Storm warn- Bolo Pasha is said to have received ings were displayed today on the At- roore tan $1,700,000 from von Bern-'lantic coast from Norfolk to Eastport, storff to aid in carrying out his plot 'Me FOR ROLL P T T UBLfSHED FT the capital ' Challenge Any City in United the addition of the American flest." btates m Dond Celling Contest. cr,7 Associated Press.) St. Paul," Minn., Oct. 19. The Boy dv.'mce, Russirn ur.f!.,iihtedlv liar, strength . r,.i:i ; will start a A' '.-11K- IlnUI'-rtin in i"".. , XT , to tomorrow in which mcj -set a record 'for every city in the country a: id endeavor to win the championship banner offered by Pres ident Wilson. 7 It is planned to issue a challenge . to Scouts in any city in tne unstea Associated Press.) 'states to raise as large a subscription "I'villo, Fla., Oct. 19. Forty- .to the Liberty loan as the St. Paul i in ployed in offices of the Scouts The challenge will be partic ast Line railway nere, .,l!riv ajTripd at the Scouts m iNew . i cago, San Francisco ami can0;, it tne cnanensc io "- i out several days ago in accepted, Louis W. Hill, president of he clerks are aemanu- iVlo rj-t Northern Railway, a mem ber of the Loan committee, said he would personally send challenges to Mayor Mitchel, of New York, and Mayor Thompson,-'Of Chicago. "Wp'H back our boys to the limit," ir.immons Seriously III. ' ( Mr Hill. The Great Northern ' Oct. 19. There was no SUDgCrlDe for $1,000,000 worth of 110 condition ot rtooeiL . n,i that will give tne neavy- ance of the St. Paul Loan committee, start a Liberty loan campaign Soldiers' and Workmen's JACKSONVILLE CLERKS STRIKE IN SYMPATHY Ja fk. 'i. unic , i.... j ' . iiariy ajxin .ike this morning in sym- york, Chic . cl"rka of the samp lfn" 1 New Qrlcar 'Tiitien of their union and ailment of one of their " yf-sterday lost his posi- Miss Sallie Garrell Leads Entire Field, Closely Followed by Misses Nettie Lewis, Beatrice Brown, Mattie Britt,Tau line Underwood, Bertha Al lsbrook, Eula McCarley, and Mrs. Sessoms oiA rrv, c.;j i u 10 o "CLUUU, niivi jicuiauucu . mwi xxxxvxv,xx oluc' uu ulu , ttlc oaiu LU ,JC AO f- be allowed to go home. Some win per cent, greater than a year ago, and " Jr?W Za the market value is considerably less doWs were smashed and severatpe than when they were put in storage. f.ons were SSifaS'i Wholesalers are said to be faoinir mil- llcemen' wnile Police reserves were I nrAnLn iL Wa f Sit Quelling the riot. The 3,000 children lions of dollars in losses unless a cost , j? plus ten per cent price is fixed arbi- were dismissed for the day. ; trarily by the government. It wag. - C1?MADITV::S pointed out today that action making' HIM UKIL ofclNUKH I -these eggs an. army ration would take, RUT F ' SFT ASfHF uaie ui iub uvei-auyyiy, NEW GERMAN LOAN CAUSES OUTBREAK . - TODAY'S LEADERS (By Associated Press.) " - V' i ? ; Washington, Oct. 19. The . historic , s seniority rule fdr army promotions was - ,. ', formally set aside today to." govern pro- ; motions in the national army knd na-' ; tional guard. "X - - Officers of either the regulars, the v guard or the national army are held ' 1 : to be equally eligible for temporary ap- , '. pointment or promotion, which !ninsi y . be "based solely on demonstrated fit- ' ' Cities of Alsace-Lorraine Give ne? without regf J. to seniority v XT . ' - I Tne new regulations make officers C ; Vent to Antl-Cjerman - jinterchanegable within their, , own;' feeling .arms and grades in the service and . 6 j the list of reserve . Corps second t iieu- , (By Assooiatea Pre88.i tenants of the regular army j also Washington, Oct. 19. Advices made available for appointment. :ot: reaching here today from Switzerland men in that grade to. the other bnwich v? tlic nonnla Qrocluirir T.Trr o -n -I AS. StrfiSS is ' laid "llnOTl t.hfi de.RiraJiil-'-'' I IUV l ..Wpi VX V-1 UUU t.l I-) Ati I tX H Ix K. . , other points in Alsace-Lorraine re-,fty of promoting, .men withtoithe.wtt:''r cnnnrlorl ritti a conaro I nntKiivof it in which a vacancv occurs where thll-. " drreithn th7 e?n d0S' ,'anti-German feeling to attempt to is advisable. In naming secondaieu-3 : Other leaders for today are: Mis3.,flol. nf xK T. tfitiants. rnmnmndfira- tnav select non-V N J l.ua U JUl U vJ. JJLC vv UCl LAI & 11 wai ' - - -. - 7 - ... ton unless some of the city candidates "The time has come to con quer or submit." "For us there is but cna choice. We have made it." President Wilson. "Shall we be more tender with, our dollars than vith the lives of our sons." Secretary McAdoo. Sallie Garrell ... .. !' Nettie Lewis '. Beatrice Brown , Mattie Britt ! Pauline Underwood . . Mrs. A. G. Sessoms . Bertha Allsbrook Ella McCarley .' 4 4 4 P0 7"- t it1eaBrm XT'T cTloan and ceIebrate the birthday of commissioned officers or officers ot the m C0,75 v tie Britt, Conway, S. G., Mrs A. G.l Hindenburg reserve corps as they . deem-besi --k--Vf-60.365 Sessoms. Lumberton, and Miss Bertha Tn nitf , 5' t . x, I ' - . ' --.4. Mon Akchmnt Aiishmnir ' In spite of the terror that the Prus- : -r:vVAJ . . . 60,125 . . . 60,045 . . . 59,990 r. . . 59,900 ' . . . 59,880 'h Several other candidates are very near the top of the list 'and the ques- feian military authorities produced in ALLEviLL) r LOT 1 U ti?-- the country, on the occasion of the Dl ftU I Tl 17Qi5l7I - tion is, "Who will be the leaders to- ,;birthday of Hmdenburg, October 2, mbrrow?" The second period of the contest, many posters bearing the likeness of (By Associated Press.) New York, Oct. 19 An alleged plot I In order to further stimulate the in terest of the public, in The Dispatch contest, we begin .today publishing the i leaders in the contest. This "Hon ior Roll" will be printed each day un ; til the close of the campaign, i Miss Sallie Garrell, Tabor, has the i distinct honor of being theleader of ;the entire field, on .this, the first day that the "Honor Roll" is published. Mis Nettie Lewis, of Chadbourn. is a bond?. 20,000 individual subscriptions x A-x. ' roaay. Qllt hns already KJUb 6'J ecu -"in - "iiii'-i!:,, former world's ! -ni)ion, who is critically ill :',;,-:!i!!onia, at 1 ,p. . m. at i ne hospital said ne was : - Urond nresident into ami his chances . tor re- t.u .,,,, wnrth Gl his re- promising to la.-vu x-,-. ,. i bends himself. 1 r.v ylmost jtvholly in Itality. candidates appear among tne leaders today. Thev are Miss Pauline Under wood and Miss Ella McCarley, who j occupy fifth and eighth places respect i rea t- vcry close second to Miss Garrell. In i not wn a more valuable prize or th fact, there are only 410 votes between first special prize. Contestants the two. Only the names of two of the city the marshal were scratched put and which began October 8 will close Sat- i tprn down over1 night in Strasburg. to damage or blowup a United' States ' lirday night, Oct. 27, and after that;'At "Metz the official advertisements converted tranportjiere ibeiiefedAy::f?i)if date there i will be another reduction anu vvsivm ui un? new war loan aiso iiave been frustrated when the police' , of 10,000 votes on each ?15 worth of were torn down and so far, the out- arrested today a Scandinavlattjjharg-; subscriptions. . raged German authorities have fail-ed with attempting to bribe a ship mt,-4' ' Quite a number of the -contestants ed to find any one to punish. chanic to go aboardsthe..TesseL''.i'.'f'. are making efforts during this period i These reports are regarded as more The man arrested is ChaTles'JWalUv to capture the $60 Diamond Ring offer-. contradictory evidence of Foreign man, a pantrymaiLi- employed: on': 'tLZP ed as a special prize for new business. Minister von Kuelhmann's repeated yacht owned by Harry Payne Whit- This prize is to be awarded the con- assertions that the people of Alsace-ney. The transport'; is a former GerT 4 f testant who .turns in the : largest Lorraine do not wish to be separated man liner, seized when the . United'. -, amount of money for new subscrip-. from Germany. " States entered th6 war, and. helng:;. tions this and next week, who does ovrhauled at a Brooklyn drydock.:','.? i-rV' Nicholas Uses Bread Cards. ! - ... (By Associated Press.) ively. From present indications most 140,000 extra votes. From- Berlin' to ' Riaa. &&A h&i ize that the subscriptions turned la etrograa, Oct. 19 The family of . By ..-Associated -P?ess.)? toward the special prize will '..all re- Nicholas Romanoff, former Emperor! 'Amsterdam, .Oct... r9,-Thronghn ceive votes toward the automobiles of Russia, now procures its food sup- trains are N how running tfroia Berlin' j; nd the other grand prizes, and the plies by the use of sards. The au- to Riga, the trip consuming 24 hoitfs ;4 money made will also help make a $15 'thorities in the Tobolsk district are A person can now travel froni Uhe i ; f ' "club" which If completed will giv-v issuing food cards: and the 'Roman- Baltic seaport to Ostend ? Belgintn . v; .oil's must obtain their food the same with one change of cars at Berlin, in of the prizes will go outside Wilming- (Continued" on Page :Four. as other citizens. 45 hours. 1 1 1 V 1 , v. i -? jff v -
The Wilmington Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Oct. 19, 1917, edition 1
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