Bill MET
HAS RESIGNED
SCARCITY OF FOOD AND GENERAL
DESIRE FOR PEACE BRINGS
RESIGNATIONS
HUNGARIANS ARE OISCONTENI
Minister of Interior Will Form New»
Cabinet at Once. —Count Ciernin
Was Head. —Held Portfolio of Min
later of Foreign Affaire.
The crista in Austria, ar'slng from j
the discontent of the people over the !
continual lon of the war. the scarcity
of food and h general desire for peace,
has ■ esulted in the resignation of the j
Austrian cabinet.
For weeks there has been bitter op
position to the government on the
part of the people and dutfng the last,
few days this has resulted in nation
wide strikes and some disturbances.
The internal strife in Austria, ap
patently due chiefly to war weariness,
the high cost of living and the dis
location generally of economic life, ;
continues to be of ahrfbrbtnft Interest.
Although the exact sMuation resulting
from the troublous times is not giv
en In the extremely meager details j
available, tjie dispatches that Have
crept through Bre Indicative of a sit
nation that will require skillful hand- |
ling by the authorities again to brliiK
the dissatisfied populace into n stat.i j
of tractahillty
No newspapers In Vienna were per
mitted last Saturday The only pub
licatlon allowed was a single sheet
bulletin, which told some of the de
tails of the nation wide strike and the
developments In the peace discussions
at Hrest I.ltovsk * As usual, the hand
of the German propagandist waa 'o
be seen in tills one sheet publication
•or the chief announcement In It wns
from the German social democracy  f
Austria. This lay stress on last year's
declaration of the Auslro-llungarlan
foreign minister, Count ('serin, that
the central powers were ready to
make an Immediate general peac,
without annexations or indemnities.
Evidently, however, this statement
failed to placate the strikers In VI
enna, who sent a large delegation to
wait upon the food minister to Inform
him of conditions among the work
ing classes and to impress on him that
their desire for peace overshadowed
and took precpdence over all other
demands.
In Hungary also the people are
endeavoring to ascertain what are the
prosppcts for a cessation of hostilities
and a return to normal. So Insistent
has hepn thplr ptTorts in this direc
tion that the Hungarian premier has
been forced to announee In the lower
house of parliament that the govern
ment adhered to the principle of
peace without annexation
GOVERNMENT MAY HOLD
RAILROADS AFTER WAR
McAdoo Says It Would Be Injurious to
Stockholders to Turn Them
Back
Washington - Changes In the funda
mental prlnclleps of railroad opera-
It on under government control_ will
make It Inadvisable to turn the roads
back to private ownership immediately
after the end of the war. Director Gen- j
oral McAdoo urged before the senate
interstate -commerce committee. Cnltl ]
"comprehensive and rational legisla
tion" to meet the changed eruditions
Is enacted it woldu be injurious to the
stockholders for the government to re
linquish control, he added
Examination of the director gen
eral on the administration's railroad
bill mayfcbe resumed later by the com
mittee. but Chairman Smith an
nounced that the hearings, including
arguments, will be completed later
The committee plans to begin work on
the bill and report It to the senate as
aoon as possible. The chief questions
at issue are whether the measure shall
fl xa definite time for the return of the
roads to private ownership and the
baaia of compensation.
STONE'S SPEECH IN THE
SENATE BTARTB A BLAZE
Washington—Smouldering flres of
partisan feeling were set ablaze in the
senate by Senator Stone, veteran Dem
ocrat, with a long prepared speech
accusing Republicans of playing poli
tics In criticisms of the hovern
ment's conduct of the war.
There had been plenty of advance
notice of the speech, which adminis
tration leaders sought vainly to Induce
the Missouri senator to abandon or
postpone.
TWO N. C. SOLDIERS DIE
OF DIBEASE IN FRANCE
Washington.—Sixteen deaths among
members of the American expedition
ary force, 15 due to nautral causes
•ad one from drowning, were report
ed by Pershing, among them were:
Private Joseph Bonner, engineer*,
January 10, pneumonia. Mother, Ba*»
Bonner. Box No. 6, Ransomville, N. C.
Private Roland P. McArthur, ma
rines, January 19, cerebro spinal men
ingitis. Mother. Mrs. Irene Jessie Mc-
Arthor Carthlae. N..G.
LIEUT, PATRICK O'BRIEN ;
Sh^B
Lieut. Patrick O'Brien, an American
member of the British flying corps, j
who wii brought down In a one.tided
battle by the Germans, and who had
been taken Into Germany on hla way to
a prison camp, Jumped from a train
which was going 30 mile* an hour, and
by many heroic and clever movea man
aged to get Into Holland, and then back
to England. |
TWO BILLS BEFORE CONGRESS
MAY CREATE WAR COUNCIL SIM
ILAR TO THOSE OF ENGLAND
AND FRANCE.
One Propoaea War Council of Five
Membera and the Other Would Cen- i
tralize Munition! Control In a Dlreo- j
tor of Munltiona.
Washington- Framing of legislation j
contemplating draHtlc churn*** In the j
government's wiir machinery, Includ- j
Ink creation of an Amerh an war conn |
ell k I it) Ila r "to thorn of England an-i J
France and a director of munltiona, i
was hi'Kim by the senate military com 1
m It t CP
Two bills —one proposing the war
council of fl vp members, Including
the secretaries of war and navy and
three civlllana oppolnted by the Pres
ident, and a second to centralize muni
tions control in a director of munitioni.
were prepared by a sub-committee con-
Misting of Chairman Chamberlain and :
Senators Hitchcock and Wadsworth.
Chairman Chamberlain announce! |
that the committee virtually had
agreed upon the two bills, in lieu of
his measure for a separate department
of munitions with a new cabinet mem
ber. The attitude of the administra
tion toward them has not been disclos
ed President Wilson and Secretary
Haker opposed the original Chamber
laln bill.
Independent of Cabinet.
The plan of the committee for the
war council Is to have It under the
President, but wholly Independent of
the cabinet. "It would sit with and
advise the President In forming broad
policies, similar to the British war
cabinet and the French war ministry."
said Chairman Chamberlain. "II would
give co-ordination now lacking in ceu
trnl direction of all government's war
operations."
The bill to establish a director of
mui.ittons is modeled after the Dry
ish law. The committee proposes that
the director should be subordinate
only to the war council and the Pres
ident and not the cabinet, taking over
many supply functions of the war,
navy, shipbuilding and other branches.
The director would have control of all
war supplies, their production, pur
which rejected proposals to call the
head of the new agency the "director
of war Industries."
was definitely decided upon by the
committee and written Into the re
drafted bill by the sub-committee,
The committee received from Direc
tor Oifford of the council of national
defense suggestions for centraliilng
munitions and war industrial control.
BATTLE FLAG ZEPPERLIN
BROUGHT TO WASHINGTON.
Washington.—The battle flag of the
Zeppelin L-49, brought down near
Bourbonne. France. October 17. 1917,
has been received at the headquarter.*
of the marine corps and sent to the
national museum The flag, deep red.
I bears no distinguishing insignia of any
kind Accompaylng It were small por
tlons of the outer envelope and of th->
gas bag of the Zeppelin The flag wae
given to Major General Barnett.
Boom Addreaaed to Governor.
San Francisco.—A bomb addressed
to Governor William D. Stephens' man
sion at Sacramento, has been Inter
cepted at the ferry postoffice here, it
became known. The package contain
ed several sticks*' of dynamite. The
executive) mansion waa damaged De
cember 17, last, by an explosition of
dynamite. A postal employe, opening
the bundle to discover whether it hal
been claasifled wrongly, discovered the
dynamite and a clockwork arrange
ment designed to explode the sticks.
THE ENTERPRISE, WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA
HALF THE NATION
OBSERVES HOLIDAY
ALL RETAILERS EXCEPT DRUG
AND FOOD STORES TO
CLOSE.
MMG EMPTY GOAL CARS
To Continue For Ten Mondays.—Gar
field Request* That Offloe Buildings
Be Not Heated. —Conditions Better.
The eap.tei.. half of the United
'State* oßserved Monday generally
las a holiday,the first of 10 heatless
Mondays decreed by the government
1 to conserve coal 1 nd to clear conges
tion from the railroads.
Although the closinff I>rder, promul
gated by Fuel Adtnl. Istrator Garfield,
goes no further *han to forbid the usa
of fuel for heating, fuel administration
!officials expect business to cearte and
Director Garfield li-sued a direct re
quest that nil retail establishment!,
except food and drug stores, close
I their doors for the day.
At the same time office buildings
l were requested, to observe the spirit
las well as the letter of the order and
operate no lights or elevators except
to accommodate the few exempted
persons who hr° housed In their build
ing
Food stores, which in the original
order were permitted to remain open
only half tbe day. were grntaed a spa
c!al dispensation under which they
may sell goods throughout the day.
It was said that the use of fuel fo)
lighting buildings and for operating
their elevators probably could he pre
vented during the remainder of tho
I Monday holidays. In drawing the or
jder tills was overlooked and thousands
of telegrams have reached the fusl
administration asking for a ruling.
While reports to the fuel adminis
tration told of an Increased movement
lof coal to householders and to ships
under the three days oper'atkin of tho j
I five day factory closing order, severo
: weather held back the clearing of
'freight congestion, which was one of
ithe chief purposes sought At
office of the director general of rail
road* It was said that there wa* little
hope for material improvement.ln traf
fic conditions until the weather moder
ated
Moving Empty Coal Cars.
Efforts were centralized on tlin
movement of empty coal car* back tii
the mines, and to the transportation
of bunker coal to the Atlantic s"i
--' hoard. A total of 150,000 tons of bun
ker coal had arrived or was en route
! for North Atlantic ports while 100,000
1 tons had been delivered on the south
ern and 200,000 ton* mure
| was on Its way. At one southern port
i 30,000 tons was delivered to ships that 1
have been tied up for more than a
week.
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
HAS BEEN DISSOLVED
Closed By B*llor Guards—Report Jap*
Have Landed.
Petrogntd (Hy Associated Press)—
The constituent assembly has been dis |
solved. The decree of dissolution wa*
Issued last night by the council of na |
tlonal commissioners and adopted
early this morning by the central ex ,
ecutlve committee of the workmen*
and soldiers' deputies.
The text reads:
"When • the constituent assembly
voted against the declaration made by
tho president of the central executive
committee after an hour's deliberation,
the bolshevikl left the hall and were
followed by the social revolutionists
of the leff on the assembly showing its
unwillingness to approve the manner
In which the peace pourparers were
being conducted. A decree dissolving
the assembly will be published."
The first hint the newspaper men
received that extreme measures were
contemplated was when they were in
formed that the Tauride palace, where
be closed to the members of the as
the assembly began Its sessions, would
sembly, to the newspaper men and to
everyone else.
BTRIKERB IN AUSTRIA
OPENLY ANTI-GERMAN.
Ixmdon. —A general strike Is on
throughout Austria, according to an
I Exchange Telegraph dlsptcah from
Paris, which reports 100,000 men qui'
ting work in Vienna and Neustadt.
(closing down all the war factories
jThe strikers are described as openly
antlGerman and the movement is
both political and economic and esp«v
lally aimed at securing peace.
Public demonstrations. It ti added,
have been held in many places.
. NEED 30,000 MORE WOMEN
I IN ARMY NURSING BERVICE.
Washington. Enlisting of 30.000
more women in the military nursing
1 service will be required if prospective
- needs of the government are to mot,
* the American Red Cross announced iu
- an appeal for volunteers.
f In order to meet the increasing de
t mands of the army and navy nurse
I corps, the Red Cross has modified
* somewhat it sformer requirements for
* enrollment. The age limit has been
lowered to 21 vears
MISS HELEN D. M'CORMICK
ami i 9 mm
Mis* Helen D. McCormlck ha* en
tered upon her duties a* an a*al*tant
district attorney In New York city.
Her excellent work a* atata factory
inspector brought her to tha attention
of District Attorney Lewla of Kings
county. Miss McCormlck Is thirty
years old and la a graduate of tha
Brooklyn Jaw achool. She was admit
ted to the bar five years ago. Bhe ha*
always been an active worker for wom
an suffrage, being chairman of tha
Tenth sssembly district.
TO CLOSE FOR TEN MONDAYS
ALL MANUFACTURING PLANTS
ARE ORDERED TO CLOSE
DOWN FOR FIVE DAYB.
Industry and Business Generally Af
fected by Order Which la Estimated
by Garfield to Save 30,000,000 Tone
of Coal. •
Washington. America's manufac
turlng enterprises with but few ex
ception* in all states east of the Mis
sissippl river was ordered by the gov
ernment to suspend operations for Ave
day* beginning Friday morning. Jan
uary 18, a* a drastic measure for re
lieving the fuel famine
At the name time, as ft further
mean* of relief, it wan directed that
industry and business generally. In
cluding all normal activities that re
quire heated buildings, observe as a
holiday every Monday for the next ten
weeks This will close down on Mon
days not only factories, but saloons,
stores except for sale of drugs and
food, places of amusement and nearly
all ofTlce buildings. While the order
does not mention shipyards, it ia
known that they will be permitted to
continue operation as usual, although
munitions plants will be closed
The government's move came entire
ly without warning in an order Issued
by Fuel Administrator Garfield with
the approval of President Wilson pre
scribing stringent restrictions govern
ing the distribution and use of coal
It was decided upon hurriedly by the
President and government heads as a
desperate remedy for the fuel crisis
and the transportation tangle in the
eastern states Even munition plants
are not excepted from the closing
down order
Officials would not discuss
reaching effects the action wotlhfWbre
on the Industrial fabric and que)f|£ft*
as to how the order Was to be inrer
preted to meet specific problems went
unanswered
The order prescribes a preferential
list of consumers in whose Interest It
wa* drawn. These uaers will get coal
j In the following order: '
Railroads; household consumers;
'hospitals; charitable institutions, and
1 army and nary cantonments.
Public utilltlM, telephone and tele
graph plants.
Strictly government enterprises, ex
ceptlng factories and plants worklni
on government contracts.
Public buildings and necessary gov
eminent, state and municipal require
ments. »
Factories producing perishable
foods and foods for immediate con
sumption.
Save 30,000,000 Tons.
It was estimated the enforcement ol
'the order would Lave a tctal of 30,000,
000 tona of bituminous coal, which
probably is about half the present
shortage. The indications were that
at end of the ten weeks of Mon
day's holidays a permanent policy ol
restricted consumption would hav«
been determined on.
MORE THAN 700 VEBSELB
TAKEN OVER BY THe NAVV
Washington. Since the Unlte
States entered the war the navy hai
taken over and converted to war us
between 700 and 800 passenger anc
freight vessels, yachts, tugs, flshini
boats and other craft. Thla was dis
closed in a statement by Chalrmai
Oliver, of the houae investigate
committee, commending tbe bureaui
of construction and repair and stean
engineering for the preparations madi
to meet war demands
son PUNTS
All CLOSED DOWN
'
BUSINESS MEN OF SOUTH OB
SERVE FUEL ORDER FOR
FIVE DAYS.
NO VIOLATIONS REPORTED
Cotton Interests Ar« Hardeat Hit
With Tobacco Following—lndustrial
Center at Birmingham Orly Slightly
Affected.
Atlanta. Ga. —Hundreds of Industrial
plant* in the south were cloned for
a five-day period under the fuel re
striction order and thousand* of op-'
eratlves were Idle No reports of vlo
latlons'of the order had been received
und surface indication* were that
! both manufacturer* and workers view
i ed the situation philosophically
The South Carolina house of repre
I sentatlves, in session at Columbia,
j voted down by an overwhelming mi;
Jorlty a resolution asking Fuel Admin
istrator Garfield to rescind the order
and the Atlanta chamber of commerce
adopted a resolution approving it. At
Koanoke. business men in mass meet
ing voted to observe the order, whlfe
the Norfolk. (Virginia) Retail Mer
chants' Association a*ked merchants
tq close all stores on Monday* during
the ten-week period.
The tobacco Interest* probably wa*
| the largest outside of cotton to be af
r fected by the order Cigar factories
In Florida, Virginia and other states
were closed as were tobacco and
! cigarette plants In Virginia, North
| Carolina and other sections
The industrial center at Uirming
ham was only slightly affected, as most
j of the steel plants there are epgaged
lon government work and at the coal
I miaes extra efforts were made to get
! out coal. Shipyards, including the
1 nftvy yards at Norfolk, Charleston and
New Orleans and the Newport New*
plant, were in full operation.
Richmond apparently had the great
est army of idle workers of any city in
i the south, thirty thousand having been
1 reported out of work there. Norfolk
and vicinity reported from 10,000 to
12.000 Nov; Orleans some IB,;000; Ma
con. Ga , 7.000; Memphis from 5,000
to 7.000; Chattanooga from 15,000 to
20,000; Charleston, 8. C„ about 2,500,
and Knoxville, about 3,500.
In the Hoanoke district where about
2,000 workers were idle, the Norfolk A
Western railway offered to employ
hundreds of persons in repair and
other work on its lines and in its shops
during the days of Inactivity, includ
ing Mondays.
RAILROAD WAGE COMMISSION
WANTED BY DIRECTOR McADOO.
'
Washington.—Director General Mc-
Adoo announced appointment of a ra'l
road wage commission of four public
men to analyse and recommend action
ou all wage and labor questions pend
ing before the government railroad ad
ministration, including the railway
brotherhoods' demands
At the same time the director gen
eral put Into effect a new system of
government railroad administration by
dividing the country into three oper
ating regions, south, east and west,
and placed a railroad executive at th«
head of each as his representative.
The wage commission consists of
Secretary Lane. Interstate Commerce
Commissioner C. C. McChord. Judge J.
Harry Covington, chief justice of the
District of Columbia supreme court,
and William R. Willcox, who announc
ed his resignation a* chairman of the
republican national committee.
In charge of the eastern railroads,
Mr. McAdoo retained A. H. Smith,
president of the New York Central,
who has acted as assistant to the di
rector general, with headquartersr in
New Y'ork. R H. Aishton, president
of the Chicago ft Northwestern, was
appointed regional director for terri
tory west of the Mississippi with heal
quarters at Chicago. Southwestern
roads were assigned to C. H. Mark
ham. president of the Illinois Central,
with headquarters at Atlanta.
! The eastern division consists of ter
: ritory north of the Ohio and Potomac
I rivers, "and east of Lake Michigan
and the Indiana-Illinois state line also
those railroads In Illinois extending
Into that state from points east of the
I Indiana-Illinois state line; also the
Chesapeake ft Ohio, the Norfolk ft
Western and the Virginia railways."
I The southern district is defined is
Including "all railroads in that por
tion of the United States south of the
Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of
the Mississippi river, except the Chesa
peake ft Ohio, Norfolk ft Western and
the Virginian railways.
FREDERICK BPOEMANN
AND ABCH LIBERATED.
I Baltimore. —Frederick H. C. Spoer
, mann. brother of Walter Spoermann,
, alleged German spy, held in Jail here,
I and Marlus Asch, both of whom were
, arrested in Baltimore shortly aftar
. Walter Spoermann was taken near
, Newport News, Vs., were liberated.
, Assistant United States District Attor
i ney Latane said the two sten had been
1 arrested in order to gat certain infor
, matlon and that such Information had
j baan obtained.
SATURDAY NAMED
AS PORKLESS DAT
' POOD ADMINISTRATOR PAGE AN
! NOUNCES ONE DAY TO CON-
SERVE PORK.
r '
BIGGER SUPPLIES FOR ALLIES
All Food Saved By Peepla of This
State Means More Food For Our
Allies.
Raleigh—A Porkless Saturday and
one wheatless and one meatless meal
each day of the week are announced
by State Food Administrator Henry
• A Page as a part of the more intea
' aire program that muat be followed if
the American people are not to fall
down on their Job of supplying the
fighting forces of our Allies with
foodstuffs. In addition to the volun
tary co-operation, the Food Adminis
tration proposes to require all bakers
to use 25 per cent as much of other
cereals as of wheat
Mr Page and Mr John Paul Lucas,
executive secretary of the Food Ad
ministration. who have Just returned
from a conference of Food Adminis
trators at Washington .are deeply im
pressed with the urgent necessity for
the co-operation of every Individual In
the matter of saving by economy and
the use of substitutes for these fool
products which are suitable for export.
Mr Page does not hesitate to say that
the man, woman or child who refuse*
to render the utmost service in th«*
matter of Increasing the supply of
foodstuffs available for export, ia
miserably falling in their duty 10
their government, to say nothing of
their absolute disregard of all human
itarian sentiment.
"The situation," declares Mr. Page,
"has assumed an aspect as simple as
it Is urgent. It Is purely an individual
proposition. The Food Administration
Is gauging the quantity of foodstuffs
released for export by the available
supply and this available supply la
fixed by the conduct in his eating of
every man, woman or child in Ameri
ca, The exportable food that any In
dividual might save but does not will
surely cost the life of a soldier or the
life of some woman, child or old man
In Europe. It is purely a matter for
the Individual conscience and indivi
dual action. There are no two waya
to It. There is no fence to ride. We
either line up with patriotic, whole
some decent people and help feed the
soldiers and the starving civilian peo
ple of Europe, or we line up with the
selfish, mean, ignorant, miserly arro
gant crowd which contenders its own
comfort and stomach above all pa
triotic or humane sentiments.
N. C. to Equip Base Hospital.
A base hospital to be designated as
No. 66 and served by North Carolina
physicians and nurses, provided the
latter are available, the hospital force
to Include 600 people or miTre, is now
being organised by Dr. J. W. Long of
Greensboro, chairman of the state
committee, Council of De
fense. medical section, for North Caro
lina. Dr. Long is authorized by the
Federal Government to equip a base
hospital at once .to contain 1,000 beds
and to be served by thirty physician#
and surgeons. 100 nurses and 250 or
derlies. The hospital will be located
"somewhere In France" and is expect
ed to be ready for use by May or June.
Dr. Long states that well qualified
North Carolina nurses are preferred
for work but adds that
any lack of trained nurses from thla
state will be supplied by the Red Cro:»«
at Washington. A salary of SSO per
month and expresses is assured nurses
who will be accepted for this work.
Those interested In this call to pa
triotic service are requested to write
to Dr. J. W. Long at Greensboro.
The medical staff chosen for tho
hospital will be presented to and
passed upon by the Federal authori
ties before they are officially accepted.
The sugar you hardly miss is equal
to a week's ration In Belgium. UN
syrup.
Child Badly Burned.
Kinston. Rosebud French, about
four years old, may die from burn*
sustained when her clothing waa Ignit
ed from a fire by which she was warm
ing at the residence of L N T. More
adith here: The little girl's mother
Mrs. Jerry FYench, a telephone op«ra
! tor who lives at the Moreadlth home,
1 had just returned from work and left
the child in a room by herself. She
returned to find her eveloped in flamei.
The little victim waa fearfully burned
' on the body. Her face and head escap
ed Injury.
Killed an Eagle.
Kinston. —Julius Whaley, a Lenoir
county farmer, is exhibiting the talon
• of an eagle shot at his place near here
- one day last week. The bird had kill
ed and was devouring a two-months
' old pig when Whaley knocked It over
with a well-directed allot The eagle
measured seven feet across the wings.
■ The specie* la believed to be getting
more numerous in this part of the
1 state, aad Its depradatlpna are begin
ning to constitute a real menace to
I stock.