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1.00 m Year In Advance
FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
VOL. XXVIII.
PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1917
NO. 16.
A I . . t . a m
ASKED TO MOBILIZE
ALL HAWS GOLD
PRESIDENT WILSON S0UND8
CALL FEDERAL RESERVE
BOARD SUPERVISES.
TO AID IN PROSECUTING WAR
r
8tate Banks and Trust Companies
Are Asked to Join in System Big
Financial Transactions - Make Con
trol of . Reserve Imperative. j
Washington. President Wilson
sounded a call for the mobilization of
all the nation's gold reserves under
the supervision of the federal reserve
board.
In a statement made public through
the board, the President called upon
all eligible non-member state banks'
and trust companies to join the federal
reserve system without? further delay,
that they may "contribute their share"
to the consolidated gold reserves of
the country and aid more effectively
"in a vigorous prosecution and suc
cessful termination of the war."
Scores of such institutions have
flocked to the system within the past
three weeks, among them some of the
largest trust companies of New York,
Philadelphia and other cities. The
movement to the federal reserve sys
tem has lacked only a final impelling
force to assume the proportions of a
landslide. Within less than three
weeks, resources of such Institutions
in the system have risen $2,600,000,000'.
Liberty Loan financing, the result
ant activity in the money markets, the
effect of the government's huge finan
cial transactions upon the bond mar.
kets and the stock exchanges of the
country have made it imperative, In
the view of the administration, for
the federal reserve board to control
not a major fraction of the gold re
serve of the country but the entire
amount.
Financially Impregnable.
With the board inactive, dally con
trol of the country's huge store of
gold, at present more than $3,000,000,
000, watching every avenue through
which it may be lessened and vigilant
in its supervision of the country's
hanking activities, officials believe
j iai tuts uuaxitiai sisiiivii ui 1113 ,vui
j 1 J .1 1 -.
rr y may uw 1 euuei eu 11 i ly iuuyi 05-
aable as human skill can make it.
FUEL ADMINISTRATION SAYS
THAT COAL SUPPLY IS AMPLE
Communities Really in Need of Fuel
Can Get at Government Prices.
Washington. Communities really in
need of coal can get It at government
Drees. Fuel Administrator Garfield
announced and the supply is ample to
meet Immediate needs even in the
middle west, where an acute condition
arose through failure, he said, of cities
to state specfloally their needs.
Anneals should be made to tne luei
I administrators la each state, Dr. Gar
field' said, but where there is no state
administrator, communication should
be directed to the food administration
here. ,
Dr. Garfield, who has just returned
from Ohio, where he discussed the
situation In that state with Home P.
Johnson of Cleveland, the new state
administrator, served warning against
attempts of communities to confiscate
coal in transit, cases of which were
reported from points in the middle
west.
"When local officials," he said,
have undertaken to confiscate coal
for the use" of public Institutions or
local communities, they not only have
assumed to exercise powers not vest
Ad in them, but at the best would be
required to pay contract prices for I
the coal, instead of the lower price
fixed by the fuel administration.
When the fuel administration acts, It
has the power to furnish coal at gov
ernment prices.
"The difficulty is the communities
do not tell us specially what
amounts they need, what the purpose
is when to deliver and other specific
information. All they need to do Is
to give us definite facts and coal will
be ordered shipped at once."
GERMANY EXTENDS AGE
FOR MILITARY SERVICE
Copenhagen. Germany has extend
ed military service to men 47 years
cf age and is calling up those who here
tofore have escaped service on ac
count of militay unfitness. The army
already included a large number above
the .legal limit of 45 years, on the
ground that although nobody above
that age could be mobilized, yet no
requirement existed for the discharge
of a soldier reaching that age.
T POWER 0
WAD TRADE B
EXECUTIVE ORDER CREATES
BODY TO ENFORCE TRADING
. WITH ENEMY ACT.
VANCE train CHAIRMAN
New Law Foblds Trading With Enemy
Company or Agent at Home or
Abroad Without License Foreign
Language Papers Get Attention.
Washington. Broad war powers
conferred upon the. president by the
trading with the enemy act were put
into operation under an executive or
der delegating the authority under the
law to various government depart
ments and to a newly created war
trade board.
The trade board is composed of the
members of the exports administrative
board which it will replace, with the
addition of a representative of the
treasury department. It will continue
to license exports and will exercise
a similar control over imports as soon
as the president proclaims under au
thority of the trading with the enemy
act the articles to be restricted. Trad
ing or commercial dealings of any na
ture with an enemy company or agent
in this country or abroad Is forbid
den, except under license of the war
trade, board, which also is authorized
to license enemy or "ally of enemy"
companies, doing business in the Uni
ted States excepting insurance com
panies, whose supervision is entrust
ed to the treasury.
May Censor Mails.
Censorship of mails, cables, radio
and telegraph messages passing out
of the United States is placed in the
hands of a censorship board consisting
of representatives of the war, navy
and postoffice department, the war
trade board and of George Creel, chair
man of the committee on public infor
mation. To the treasfury is assigned the reg
ulation of transaction in foreign ex
change and exportation of gold or sil
ver coin under license and enforce
ment of the law's provision against
transmission to the enemy of informa
tion by any. other means than regular
mails. The treasury also must license
insurance or reinsurance companies
of the enemy or ally of the enemy do
ing business within the United
States.
Regulation of the use of the enemy
owned or controlled patents for the
war, and of the granting or publica
tion of patents containing information
valuable ..to the enemy is given to the
federal trade commission.
Foreign Language Newspapers.
The postmaster general is entrusted
with supervision over and the licens
ing of foreign language newspapers.
In anticipation of this authority Post
master Burleson has . been receiving
applications for licenses and will begin
issuing them before Tuesday, October
16, the date the provision of the law
becomes effective. All such papers,
except those granted licenses, are re
quired under penalty to file with their
local postmasters before publication
true translations of all matters relat
ing to the United States government or
the governmnt of any other nation
at war. The same section of the law
makes it unlawful to circulate in any
manner matter made unmailable by
the espionage act.
The president's order defines the
powers of the alien ' property custo
dian to act as trustee for all enemy
to issue licenses exempting enemy
property within the United States or
companies from his supervision. An
appointment for this position will be
made soon.
The secretary of state is empowered
to license the transportation of ene
mies to or from the United States
through the existing passport means.
The secretary of commerce will retain
his present authority to review the de
cisions of customs collectors refusing
clearances to vessels carrying car
goes in violation of the trading with
the enemy act.
Personnel of Board.
The new war trade board is to con
sist of Vance C. McCormlck, chairman,
representing the secretary of state;
Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, representing the
secretary of agriculture; Thomas D.
Jones, representing the secretary of
commerce; Beaver mite, represent
ing the food administrator; Frank C.
Munson, representing the shipping
boad, and a representative of the sec
retary of the treasury yet to be named.
The name of the present exports
council is changed to war trade coun
cil with the secretary of the treasury
and Chairman Hurley of the shipping
heard added to its membership, the
proletaries of state, agriculture, and
co'nimerce and the food administrator.
GREA
IVEII
This body will act in an advsory ca
pacity 10 me president and the war
trade board.
The president's order vests in the
war trade board power to license trad
"directly or Indirectly with, to or
from or for, or on account of, or on
behalf of, or for the benefit of, any
other person, with knowledge or
reasonable cause to believe that such
other person is an enemy or ally of
enemy, or Is conducting or taking part
in such tf ade directly or indirectly for,
or on account of, or on behalf of, or
for the. benefit of, any enemy or ally
of enemy." Only with Consent of the
board may agents of enemy compa
nies do business in the United States
after November 5. Enemy companies
also may not change names they used
at the beginning of the war without
special license..
Affects Financial Transactions.
Secretary McAdoo is vested by the
president with and is expected to turn
over to the federal reserve board "the
executive . administration of any in
vestigation, regulation or 'prohbtilon
of any transaction in foreign exchange,
export or earmarking of gold . or sil
ver coin, or bullion or currency trans
fers of credit in any fbrmj other than
credits relating solely to transactions
to be executed wholly with! the
United States) and transfer of evi
dence of indebtedness or of ownership
of property between the United States
and any foreign country, or helween
the residents o fone or more foreign
countries, by any person with the
United States." The reserve board al
ready exercises virtual control over
gold and silver exports.
The secretary of the treasury's vest
ed authority to prevent transmission of
information to any enemy either to or
from the United States will be exer
cised by the secret service. The eec-
etary may permit this transmission
when he wishes.
Enemy Insurance Companies.
"I farther authorize the secretary of
the treasury," says the president "in
his order, "to grant a license under
such terms and conditions as are not
inconsistent with law or to withhold
or refuse the same to any 'enemy' or
'ally of enemy' insurance or reinsur
ance company doing business within
the United States through an agency
or branch office or otherwise,-which
6hall make application within 30 days
of October 6, 1917." (The date the
act was approved).
The censorship board is entrusted
with the "censorship of communica
tions or mail orders, radio or other
means of transmission passing be
tween the United States and any for
eign country from time to time speci
fied by the president, or carried by any
vessel, or other means of transporta
tion touching at any port, place or ter
ritory of the United States and bound
to or from any foreign country."
"Among the most important and far
reaching of the povisions of the ene
my act," says an official statement ex
plaining the law, "are those dealing
with the taking over by this govern
ment of the custody and control of
enemy property within the United
States.
Enemy Property In America.
"The nooerty affected by these pro
visions Is that which is located in the
United States and belonging to any
nArsmi or corporation that is an
'enemy' or 'ally of enemy' within the
definitions of the act, rererrea w
above, except those licensed to con
tinue doing business In the United
ctaffta flM-man subjects ana tne sud-
Jects of her allies resident in the Uni
ted States do not, from the mere fact
of their nationality, fall within these
definitions.
"The act makes it the duty of every
concern within the United States issu
ing shares of stock, within 60 days af
ter the approval of the act, to report
to the alien property customan me
names of such of its officers, directors
Q-rt ntnrkholders as are known to be
or reasonably believed to be 'enemies'
nr allv of enemy and the amount oi
stock or shares owned by each.
"The act provides in addition under
severe penalties that every person in
thA United States holding any property
an 'enemy or 'ally of enemy or fori
any person who he may have reason
able cause to believe to be an 'enemy
'or ally of enemy' must report the fact
to the alien property custodian within
30 days after the passage of the act.
So also, any person In the United
States indebted in any way to an 'en
emy' or 'ally of enemy' or to a per
son whom he may have reasonable
rnnsA to helieve to be an 'enemy' or
ally of enemy' must make a similar
report.
May Take Over Property.
The alien property custodian may
require a transfer to himself of any
property held for or debt owed to an
enemy or enemy ally and any person
so holding any property, or so owing
any money, may transfer such prop
erty or pay such money to the custo
dian with his consent.
Rroperty or money transferred to
the alien property custodian will be
held until the end of the war and then
dealt with as congress shall direct. All
funds or ready money may be Invested
in Liberty bonds and held in such
form.
,'fSOII
AMES
OCT.
DAY
24TH LIBERTY
APPEAL COME8 FROM WHITE
HOUSE FOR LIBERTY LOAN
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
URGE PEOPLE TO ASSEMBLE
President Makes Stirring Appeal for
People to Pledge to Support Govern
ment. Special Word to Subscrip
tion Workers.
Washington: President Wilson in
behalf of the liberty loan issued a
proclamation setting aside October 24
as liberty day and urging the people
of the nation to assemble on that day
In their respective communities and
"pledge to one another and to the gov
ernment that represents them the full
est measure of financial support."
The President's proclamation fol
lows: "By the President of. the United
States, of America, a proclmation:
"The second liberty loan gives the
people of the United Staets another
opportunty to lend theier funds to their
government to sustain their country
at war. The might of the United
States is being mobilized and organiz
ed to strike a mortal blow at autocra
cy In defense 'of outraged American
rights and of the cause of liberty.
Billions of dollars are required to
arm, feed and clothe the brave men
who are going forth to fight our coun
try's battles and to assist the nations
vlth whom we are making common
cause against a common foe. To sub
scribe to the liberty loan Is to perform
a service of patriotism.
"Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wil
son, President of the United States of
America, do appoint Wednesday, the
twenty-fourth of October, as liberty
day, . and urge and advise the people
to assemble in their respective com
munities and pledge to one another
and to the government that represents
them the fullest measure of financial
support. On the afternoon of that day
request that patriotic meetings be
held in every city, town and hamlet
throughout the land, under the general
direction of the secretary of the treas
ury and the immediate direction of
the liberty loan committees which
have been organized by the federal
reserve banks. The people responded
nobly to the call of the first liberty
loan with an over-subscription of more
than 50 per cent. Let the response to
the second loan be even greater and
let the amount be so large that It
will serve as an assurance of unequal
led support to hearten the men who
are to face the fire of battle for us.
Let the result be so Impressive and
emphatic that it will echo throughout
the empire of our enemy as an index
of what America intends to do to
bring this war to a victorious conclu
sion. "For the purpose of participating In
liberty day celebrations all employes
of the federal government through
out the country whose services can be
spared, may be excused at 12 o'clock,
Wednesday, the twenty-fourth of Oc
tober. 'In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
"Done in the District of Columbia,
this 12th day of October in the year
of our Lord, one thousand nine hun
dred and seventeen and of the Inde
pendence of the United States of
America the one hundred and forty
second. (Signed) "WOODROW WILSON. "
"By the President.
(Signed) "ROBERT LANSING,
"Secretary of State."
TRADING WITH THE ENEMEY ACT
IS PUT INTO OPERATION
Proclamation by President Confers
Authority to Officials.
Washington. Broad war powers con
ferred upon the president by the trad-ing-wlth-the-enemy
act were put Into
operation under an executive order Is
sued delegating the authority under
the elaw to 7arlous government de
partments and to a newly created war
trade eboard.
The board is composed of the mem
bers of the exports administrative
board, which it will replace with the
addition of a representative of the
treasury department. Tt will continue
to license exports.
Trading or commercial "dealings of
any nature with an euemy company
or agiit in this country or abroad Is
forbidden, except under license of the
war board, which also 1s authorized
to license enemy or "ally of enemy"
companies doing business In tho Uni
ted States, excepting insurance com
panies, whose supervision in entrust
ed to the treasury.
MAY HASTEN CALL
SECO D DRAFT ARMY
DATE WILL LIKELY BE FIXED
SOME TIME IN DECEMBER OR
'JANUARY.
016 DEFICIENCY IS EXISTING
National Army Divisions Formed Out
of First Increment Are All Short of
Quota Room for Regiment at Each
Cantonment.
Washington. Discussion of the ad
visability of expediting the call for
the second increment of the draft army
now is in progress at the war depart
ment and it appears likely that the
date may be fixed for some tkne in De
cember or January.
Mobilization of the first increment
of 687,000 men is now ar enough ad
vanced to show clearly that there will
be a big deficiency for the 17 national
army divisions. More than 250,000 of
the first increment are still to be as
sembled, but it already is evident that
there wiirbe available at the 16 can
tonments quarters for an additional
regiment at each post and at some
for a full brigade of two regiments.
The strength of the new regimental
organization Is 3,600 men. With a
regiment lacking at each cantonment,
this alone would mean a shortage of
nearly 50,000 men. In addition, there
has been authorized a separate divi
sion of negro troops, which means
nearly 30,000 men withdrawn from the
original number assigned to the 16
cantonments.
The shortage is due partially to the
necessity of tak'ng out of the national
army men to fill up national guard di
visions. Two complete national divi
sions of southern troops have been
absorbed in this way. The reinnants
of three other southern national army
divisions will be consolidated to form
a single divisional unit, and the sur
plus men from other camps will be
sent south to make up the missing
divisions.
Drafts on the national army forces
must be made to fill up the enlisted
personnel of the aviation service, the
meidcal corps and the service battal
ions needed behind the fighting lines
abroad. Eventually there will be
250,000 men In the last named service
alone, and the aviation and the medi
cal service will take nearly as many
more though not all of them will be
taken from the national army.
HAIG'S ATTACK CHECKED
BY DELU-E OF RAIN
Already Swampy Region Converted
Into Quagmire.
For the first time since he started
his series of attacks against the Ger
man positions in Flanders, Field Mar
shal Haig has had to cease ar. opera
tion before all the objectives were at
tained. It was not the German guns,
however, that stopped the British. It
was a more than usually heavy rainfall
whkh started during xhe battle and
turned the already swamp region over
which the men were supposed to pass
into a Teritable quagmire from which
they could not ur-track themselves for
a. forward move.
The drive, as has been customry
in Haig's strategy was started In the
early hours of Friday morning and
extended from near the Houtholst
wood to below the Ypres-Menin road.
At several points the British troops
succeeded in gaining ground over
fronts ranging up to a thousand yards
but here the rain lntvened and the
fighting ceased for the day.
The struggle was particularly bit
te rto the north of Poelcapelle and
around Passachendaele. In the lat
ter region the Germans apparently
have massed their strongest array of
troops, hopeful of being able to stay
a further press forward by the British
toward the Ostend-Lllle railroad.
The Germans were expecting the
battle for several hsrs prior to the
tanal for the British to attack they
laid down a heavy barrage fire all
along the line, interspersing the rain
nf Htfiol and explosive sueeio
phyxlating gas bombs.
EAST ST. LOUIS MOB
MEMBERS CONVICTED
Bellevlllo, IlL-Ibert Vjf V"
Leo Keane were fo-i-d gujf P?
murder of Scott C'arU. a .it
Hed as a result of injuries Waived
n the recent rare riots in East St.
Louis, and the penalty was fixed -at
'4 vears' imnnsomnent. Wood and
reone were the first white men to be
-ied on charges growing out of th
-nee riot. Ten nesrroes were found
-nllty last Sunday, and each was
slven sentences of 14 rears.
UNUSUAL DEMAND
ES SHORT
COAL PRODUCER HAVE DON!
THEIR BEST, GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY ANNOUNCES.
Ml UNPRECIDENTEE OEMAfiD
Due to Increase in Manufacturing
and Transportation Activity. Coal
Being Mined at Rate Never Equaled
Before.
Washington. Existence of a general
coal shortage was admitted by the geo
logical survey, which attributes the
situation, not to the failure of produc
ers to do their best, but to the unprec
edented demand.
"The tremendous increase in manu
facturing and transportation activity
this year," said a statement issued
today, "has created a demand for soft
coal in excess of any in the past, an
Increase in demand that is difficult
to measure in terms of tons, but that
is certainly more than the 10 per cent
by which the production has increased.
To meet this demand the operators
have been mining coal at a rate never
before equalled."
. A serious coal shortage exists in
Ohio, fuel administration officials wer
told by a delegation of consumers
headed by Attorney General McGhee.
who came to Washington to protest
against lifting the embargo on coal
shipments to Canada. of 200 towns
in the state reporting more than 100,
the delegation declared, are entirely
without coal and are unable to obtain
supplies because virtually all coal min
ed in the state is going thruogh lak
ports in the northwest and Canada.
The people of the state, spokesmen
for the delegation said, are suffering
and cannot wait until the northwest
is supplied under the fuel administra
tion's priority order before laying in'
winter stocks. Mayors of Bome towns
have seized carloads of coal en rout
to the lakes and have apportioned it
among the inhabitants. Doctor Garfield
assured the delegation that Ohio
would be adequately supplied under a
plan to be announced within a few
days.
The fuel administration's first move
toward a general apportionment of
coal was made in an order directing
that mines along the Pennsylvania
system supply under a pro rata plan
all the coal the road , needs. Later
other roads will be supplied in th
same fashion and the final intention is
to distribute coal among domestic
users and industries where it is most
essential.
Ooal prices in some districts : . of
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia
were raised by the fuel administra
tion after it was shown operators
could not mine coal at a profit at th
prices fixed recently.
LEGAL OBSTACLE OF AERIAL
PROGRAM IS CLEARED AWAY
Washington. Legal approval has
been given the agreement between the
aircraft production board and the Air
plane Manufacturers' Association,
clearing away a possible serious ob
stacle to the government $640,000,000
aircraft program. Attorney General
Gregory has held that the patent pool
ing plan to prevent patent litigation
does ot violate the herman anti
trust law.
The effect of the opinion is to ratify
all the work done by the aircraft pro
duction board and the advisory; com
mittee for aeronautics and insure- the
employment of the entire airplane pro
ducing capacity of the country on the
big Job. Another result will be to
halve the costs of machines to the
government.
Details of the pooling agreement,
have not been made public by the gov
ernment, atlhough much has been
printed about It. In general terms, it
provides for the pooling in the Air
plane Manufacturers Association of
the basic aeroplane patents known as
the Wright and Curtis patents and
also of all other airplane patents now
held or hereafter developed by mem
bers of the association.
APPROPRIATION FOR
RELIEF OF BELGIANS
Washington. The American Red
Cross war council appropriated $589,
930 for the relief of Belgians not un
(rr German rule, the work to be car
ried out by the new Red Cross depart
ment for Belgian organized under the
Red Cross commission to France. Com
prehensive plans for relief work have
hren worked out as the result of con
forences between King Albert and
Major Grayson M. P. Murphy, hei4
of the commission to France.
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