North Carolina Newspapers

l l I E I mm 1.O0 a Ym- In Advanoe 'FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." VOL. XXVIII. BUYERS ARE PAYING l LIBERTY BONDS MORE THAN SIXTY PER CENT OF ISSUE HAS ALREADY BEEN PAID. ONLY 20 PER CENT 00E Out of the Proceeds The overnment Has Redeemed Certificate of Indebt edrfess Financial Activities Break Records. Washington. More than sixty per cent of the $2,000,000,000 liberty loan already has been paid into the treas ury. The treasury statement, the first issued in twenty-four days, shows pay ments June 30 on the liberty loan ac count of $1,385,024,456. Only twenty per cent, of the loan or $400,000,000 was due June 30, the two payments of two and eighteen per per cent, respectively, being due June 15 and June 28. The amount thus vol untarily paid Into the treasury by sub scribers ahead of time totalled but $15,000,000 under a round billion dol lars. , ; Out of the proceeds and other reve nues the government has redeemed treasury certificates of Indebtedness, issued in anticipation of the loan, amount to $626,000,000 June 30. The balance was deposited in federal re serve and national and state banks and trust companies throughout the country in accordance with Secretary McAdoo's plan for distributing the de posits among as many institutions as possible. A total of $560,662,218 was deposited in banks other than federal reserve banks June 30. The heavy payments on liberty loan account ran up the government balance of cash on hand June 30 to the record figure of $1,064,086,250. This was after the treasury department had re deemed certificates of indebtedness amounting to $626,000,000. The last day of the fiscal year also ranked high in ordinary revenue receipts, the total being more than $20,000,000. Hundreds of thousands who bought so-called baby bonds, those of $50 to $100 denomination, availed themselves of the privilege of paying in full at once. GOVERNMENT WORKING ON INSURANCE PLANS Washlngtonj The federal govern ment's plan for insuring officers and men of the army, navy and marine corps against death and injury while in service, broadened into a complex program which would provide gov ernment allowances for families ol soldiers and sailors, and the rehabili tation and training of injured men to fit them for making a livelihood after the war. The program was discussed at con ferences among officials of the war, navy, treasury, commerce and labor departments, the labor committee of the council of national defense and the presidents and othler .high of fleers of leading insurance compa- nies of the United States. Issuance of insurance policies from $1,000 to $10,000 on officers and men at ordinary peace time rates, the gov ernment paying the extra cost, indem nities for total or partial disability, and administration of the entire scheme by the government's war risk insurance bureau, which is at pres ent insuring officers and crews of American merchant vessels, are among the outstanding features of the proposed program. Three Young Ladies Drowned. Mobile, Ala. Misses Gussie Riley, Dora Nelson and Ethel Watodman were drowned while bathing in a river near Moss Point, Miss., ac cording to advices received here. All were members of prominent families In that section. The bodies were re covered. Luther Burbank l Seriously ill. Santa Rosa, Cal. Luther Burbank, noted horticulturist, is seriously 111 "at his home here from overwork and a cold. He is 68 years old. SUBMARINE IS SUNK BY AMERICAN GUNNERS Paris. An American steamer re cently sank a large German subma rine according to a dispatch to the Temps from Havre. While on a voyage from the United States the steamer was attacked by a submarine, and replying to Its Are, sent thirty-five srells at the underwa ter boat, which assumed a perpendic ular position and disappeared beneath the water. BRIG. GEN. J.E. KUHN V x , , A new portrait of Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn, president of the Army War College in Washington. RUSSIAN SITUATION BETTER GOVERNMENT FORCES CONTINUE TO PATROL ALL PARTS OF PETROGRAD. Estimated Result of Two Days' Con fusion in Russian Capital Special Commission is Formed Patrol to Watch All Automobiles. London. A Reuter dispatch from Petrograd says the number of killed and wounded in the two days' disor der there is estimated at about 500 The government controls the city as completely as the bolshevik! ap peared to control It. The First machine gun regiment which had its headquarters in the villa of Mademoiselle Kahesinska, and the men manning four armored cars which buarded the entrance to the villa, have submitted to the author ity of the soldiers' and workingmen's council. Cossacks and other mounted troops are patrolling the streets and all thoroughfares are guarded by infan try. Particular attention was given to automobiles. All over the city they were subjected to scrutiny and any suspects were arrested. One automo bile attempted to dodge the patrols It was caught and found to be occu pied by persons who wered Istributing anarchist handbills. The occupants showed fight and were beated sound ly by the Cossacks and then taken into custody. NEW CHANCELLOR UPHOLDS GERMANY'S U-BOAT CAMPAIGN Asserts That It is Lawful Measure, Justifiably Adopted to Shorten the War. Conenharen. Dr. Michaelis, the new German imperial chancellor, ,in his address to the reichstag, declared his adhesion to Germany's submarine campaign, asserting it to be a lawful measure, justifiably adopted for shortening the war. Dr. Michaelis opened his reichstag speech with a hearty tribute to Dr von Bethmann-Hollweg, the retiring imperial chancellor, whose work, he said, history would appreciate. The chancellor declared that the war was forced upon -unwilling Germany by the Russian mobilization and that the submarine warfare was also forced upon Germany by Great Britain's Il legal blockade starvation war. The faint hope that America, at the head of the neutrals, would check Great Britain's Illegality was rain. Germany's final attempt to avoid the extremity by a peace offer failed and the submarine campaign was adopted, said the chancellor. The submarines, the speaker contin ued, had done all and more than had been expected, and the false prophets who had predicted the end of the war at a definite time had done a dis service to the fatherland. SUFFRAGISTS SERVING IN PRISONED PARDONED BY WILSON Washington Sixteen women sent to the workhouse for their part in the suffragette demonstration at the white house accepted pardons from Presi dent Wilson and were released after serving two days of their sixty day terms. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1917. AVIATION SERVICE MEASURE ADOPTED THE SENATE PASSES HOUSE BILL WITHOUT AMENDMENT ON RECORD VOTE. 640.U00.000 APPROPRIATED Only Dispute In Upper House Was Over Amendment to Strike out Draft Clause Provides for About 22,000 Airplanes. . Washington. The House bill ap propriating $640,000,000 for the avia tion service was passed by the Sen ate without amendment or a record vote and with less than one hour's discussion. It now goes to the Presi dent. The Senate's only dispute, with many members expressing a desire to pass the bill immediately, was over an amendment by Senator Hardwick, of Georgia, to strike out a clause au thorizing drafting of the men for the aerial service. The amendment was rejected sixty-seven to twelve after Senators LaFollette and Gronna made brief speeches opposing the draft. Details for plans for expending the huge sum appropriated have been withheld, but it is known that it pro vides for about 22,000 airplanes and nearly 100,000 men. The President is expected to sign the bill Monday, and the work of building one o fthe greatest air fleets the world has seen will be pushed with vigor. During the first year of ficials hope to produce at least 3,500 machines, with a great increase the next year. For the ftst few months, virtually the entire attention will be centered on construction of student planes, and ' there has been talk of bringing British and French aviation student officers to the United States for training. Opposed the Draft. ' In rejecting the Hardwick amend ment, the dozen senators voting to strike out the draft clause were: Bo rah, Broussand, Curtis, Gore, Gronna, Hardwick, Kirby, LaFollette. MsKey lar, Norris, Owen and Vardaman. In a vigorous speech opposing the draft clause, Senator LaFollette said that any war prosecuted by democ racy ought to be without compulsory service. "Democracy ought never enter a war that it cannot prosecute with vol unteers, he said, particularly object Ing to compulsion for the extra haz ardous air service. OFFICERS TRAINING CAMP PLANS ARE REVISED Forts McPherson, Logan H. Roots, and Riley Abandoned. Washington. A complete revision in the plans for location of the sec ond officers' training camps to open August 27, has been decided on by the war department as a result of a re-in spection of the sites previously chosen. Under the new arrangement, there will be nine camps instead of eight: Fort McPherson. Ga.; Fort Logan H. Roote, Ark., and Fort Riley, Kan., be ing dropped from the list and Platts- burg barracks, New York; Fort Nia gara, New York; Fort Snelling, Minn.; and Fort Sheridan, 111., added. The Fort Myer, Vo... Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., Presidio at San Francisco and Leon Springs, Texas, designations remain nuchanged and a reassignment of state personnel among the various camps has been or dered. Some of the locations originally or dered are objectionable for various reasons, said a report on the subject transmitted to Secretary Baker by Ad jutant General McCain. "Fort Mc Pherson la already overcrowded and fcaa poor facilities for training camp work. Fort Logan H. Roots is decid edly unsuitable and Fort Riley, Kan.. is objectionable because of the scat tering of the building; furthermore It Is to become a large cantonment." ENGLI8H COAST AGAIN RAIDED BY GERMAN AIRMEN London. Another daylight raid, car ried out over the east coast of England resulted in the repulse of about twen ty German airplanes after they had dropped a number of bombs over Felixstowe and Harwich. An alarm was sounded in London, but before the Germans could reach any point near the city they were at tacked heavily by defending squad rons of aircraft, which speedily caus ed the mto retreat. MARION CLEVELAND "f$r Vxf ' "i,:i'M ! ', v ' ' -- ff' ?' Miss Marion Cleveland, youngest daughter of the late President Cleve land, is engaged to marry William Stanley Dell of New York City. ATTACKS CEASE EFFORTS TO OVERCOME FRENCH GAINS AT VERDUN HAVE FAILED. On the Russian Front General Korn oloff's Army in East Galicia Is Stub bornly Holding Back Reinforced Austro-German Armies. After having tried ineffectually to overcome the French gains in the Verdun sector between the eastern edge of the Avocourt wood and Hill 304, the Germans have ceased their costly enterprise and are now con tenting themselves with throwing shells into the positions which Gen eral Petain's men forced them to evacuate. Likewise, along the Chemin-des-Dames the violent infan try activity of the early week has ceased and artillery duels Instead are taking place. The British and the Germans con tinue their violent artillery duels in northern Belgium and Field Marshal Haig's forces are keeping up their harassing patrol raid3 on numerous sectors of the front. One of the most successful of the enterprises was carried out east of Monchy-le- Preux in the Arras sector, in which the British gained ground and took prisoners. On the Russian front. General Korniloffi's army in East Galicia is stubbornly holding back the rein forced Austro-German armies, which at various points are endeavoring to wrest from them the positions re cently won in the Halicz and Kalusz sectors. In the latter region, near the village or Novtca, tne enemy won a vantage point from the Russians but mediately afterwards, in a counter attack lost it again. The Germans are violently bombarding the Rus sians south of Brzezany and near Halicz. Late reports from Petrograd are to the effect that the disorders have been quelled. In Tuesday's fighting in the streets of Petrograd, six per sons were killed and 238 wounded. The weekly British admiralty state ment shows that last week fourteen British ships of more than 1,600 tons. of under 1,600 tons and eight fishing vessels were sunk by subma rines or mines a slight increase In tonnage over the previous week. UNCLE SAM'S SOLDIERS BEST FED IN EUROPE American Training Camp In France By the Aaeociated Press The busi est of all the American troop depart ments these days is the quartermas ter, which Is working almost feverish ly to perfect its system of supplying the men with all the necessities. The work has gone ahead no fast that the quartermaster already has a three months' supply of all foods within a short distance of the camp, and a con stant ten days' supply here. The troops are still eating the dark French bread which Is being paid for with American flour, but within three days bakeries will be established and white bread will be baked here for the sol diers. The Amerlaan army will then be the only one in Europe eating white brea? SELECTIVE DRAFT POT INTO EFFECT VAST MILITRAY LOTTERY IS CON DUCTED AT NATIONAL CAPITOL. 10,500 NUMBERS DRAWN Every Registered Man In Country Has Been Given Definite Place In Lia bility for Military Service 687,000 Called to the Colors. Washington. Selective conscription was put into effect when a national lottery fixed the order of military lia bility for 10,000000 young Americans registered for service. To accomplish the result 10,500 num bers had to be drawn, one at a time, a task which began in the morning and lasted far into the night. The lottery was held In the public hearing room of the Senate office building, with war department officials in charge of the actual drawing and with members of the Senate and House military committee as wit nesses. Through the day there were a small crowd of spectators, tut alto gether probably less than a thousand persons saw any part of the process. As a result of the drawing, every registered man is given a definite place in the liability for service list. Already 687,000 have been ordered to the colors to fill to war strength the regular army and national guard and to con stitute the first Increment of the na tional army. To secure that total, 1,374,000 men will be called for examination within a few weeks, officials estimating that two registrants must be called for ev ery soldier accepted. These 1,374,000 will be taken from the head of the liability list, every local furnishing a fixed quota. " The drawing was conducted with ceremonies as democratic as the ideal of citizenship it embodied. It was shortly before 10 o'clock when Secretary Baker, entrusted by the President with the carrying out of the draft law, rapped for order, and on a small table stood the great lottery jar .sealed with brown paper and showing through its transparent walls the heap of number-filled cap sules that must be taken out one by one. In front of the table a row of army officers waited with the official tally sheets before them. Down one side of the room ran another table where the two score press represen tatives waited to send out the num bers as they were read. Secretary Baker briefly explained the purpose of the drawing, then stepped forward to be blindfolded and draw the first number. Major Gen eral Duval broke the seal and with a long wooden spoon bearing a ribbon of the national colors, vigorously stir red the capsules. The secretary reached into the jar, picked up a capsule and handed it to an announcer. It was number 258. Then in quick succession other num bers were drawn while camera and motion picture machines recorded the scene. The only interruptions were the frequent changes of tired announcers and tabulators and the removal for cleaning of the blackboards where the result was publicly displayed as each number came out. When a group of 500 number has been writ ten the first section of the board was taken out to be photographed to es tablish an absolute record, while second section was submitted. By the taws of chance, the serial number one was drawn from the jar as number 4,269 in the liability list. while number 10,600, the top number J among the capsules, came out numbe 233. The serial 13. fabled bearer ol itl luck, was drawn In the 7,890th placO Registrants will receive no officir nrnri) rvf Ihalr nvAmr nt lUKIIItv imf their local board summon them examination after official record the drawing have been transmitted ed them by mail. WHY NORTHERN TROOPS .V WILL TRAIN IN SOUTH Washington. In response to pro- teats against training northern na tional guardsmen in southern states, a letter from Secretary Baker said the arrangement had been made for cli matic reasons and that the guardsmen probably cannot be sent to France be fore cold weather. He said It was planned to send divisions of the guardsmen to France, probably during the winter ,as soon as they are trained and tonnage Is available. NO. 4 NUMBER ftRE KILLED III THREE ACCIDENTS ONE RAILROAD WRECK AND TWO AUTOS HIT AT CROSSINGS BY TRAINS. MANY PERSONS ARE INJURED Train Wrecked Near Charlotte Auto Struck by Train at Smithfield and Another at Raleigh. Raleigh. Two men and one woman were killed and two other women seri ously if not fatally injured, when Sea board train No. 34 crashed into their automobile on a crossing at Method, a station about three miles west of Ral eigh. The dear are: H. K. Harris, Raleigh; E. N. Elam. Raleigh, and Miss Alice Harris, For estville. Those injured are Miss Eliz abeth Harris of Raleigh and Miss Lena Luther of Fayetteville, N. C. J According to an eye-witness, the automobile wtih curtains down stop ped directly across the Seaboard track. The train running fifty miles an hour splintered the car and scattered the" occupants, badly mangled, along the track for a distance of sixty yards. Three Killed at Smithfield. Smithfield. A horrible accident oc curred in front of the Smithfield cot ton mill when No. 83, the Florida Spe cial of the Atlantic Coast Line, smash ed Into an automobile driven by J. G. Greenlee, instantly killing v'JreenIee and his son Dewey aged about 18, and , fatally injuring Ray Crump, 18 years old, son of E. F. Crump, young Crump dying about five hours after the acci dent. Greenlee and son boarded at the hotel and young Crump drove the car after them to go to worn in the mill, where J. G. Greenlee was super intendent and young Greenlee was em ployed. Mr. Grenlee bought his machine laat week and was not familiar with It. The car choked on the track fifty yards in front of the train, which was approaching so fast none of the occupants of the cear could escape. Greenlee came here from Fayette- ville last October as superintendent of a mill. He has a wife and five chil dren at Fayetteville. Two Killed In Wreck. Charlotte. Fireman Ernest Kistler of Barber's Junction was killed and Engineer J. C. Lanyce, of this city, badly injured at Caldwell's Station, fif teen miles from here, when Southern passenger train No. 26, Charlotte to Winston-Salem, was completely over ..amed, the engine and three cars be ing hurled over an embankment. J. E. Walker, colored passenger, head of printing department Straight University of New Orleans, was also killed. Dr. Adam Fisher, of this city, and Walter Sloan, of Statesville, were seri ously injured and other occupants of the first-class coach were shaken and shocked to such an extent that medical aid was necessary. J. Choate mail clerk, was badly bruised on hips and legs. Eleven Spikes Removed. Washington. Removal of eleven spikes by unknown persons caused the wreck of Southern Railway pas senger train No. 26 at Caldwell's Sta tion, N. C, with the loss of two lives. Paper Mill Near Wilmington. Wilmington. Erection at an early date of a giant paper mill on Smith's creek, just outside the city limits, is proposed by the North State Pulp and Paper company, having offices in the Murchison National Bank build ing. If the present plans materialize and It is highly probable that they M'K a plant of sufficient proporttens f Jibe erected to provide for a week- ""yoll of $13,000 with $3,000 to be d weekly for wood. If estab plant will be on a site late d by the city, county Tlde tr Company and business Vblch they propose develop- suburban manufacturing H. i;rocKer is presmeai y and Mr. W. K. Worth id treasurer. ea of 44 Counties. rge N. Lamb or jr lit".Vv r Forestry Service 5 Starts Forester J. S. Holmes, of C," I HllL are on their home stretch il lag stock of thd timber reeourcl U 45 counties, embracing Pied. 4 j North Carolina. . Union county V-v-H Just been completed and Moore wilt be subjected to the timber inventory. Anson, Stanly, Montgomery and Rich mond are the counites In the un touched territory. A 'bulletin will be published affording an estiiaate of the timber In the various counties.