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Paying Allotments and Allowance. BANKHEAD ROUTE IS DECIDED FOR IN POWER Pinal Decision Has Been Reached as to Route of the Bankhead National Highway. APPEALS a ii Mini Mir "hi; .? ryu wmmammmmnim'-w mmm ''', . r ' v "V. CHALLENGE TO PATRIOTISM THAT FEW WHO READ WILL FAIL TO HEED. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple, Gathered Around the State Capital. Raleigh. "Here is a message that should go direct to the hearts of the people of North Carolina; one that challenges their patriotism in a manner they cannot fail to heed." J. T. Mangum, plate recruiting secretary for the army Y. M. C. A., said. Mr. Man gum is from the headquarters of the southeastern department at Atlanta. The telegram was as follows: "Rapidly expanding program war department makes imperative we pro Vide increased leadership home camps. Recruit now to January 1. 23 men each mojith from your state to work in home camps. An immediate end wholehearted response to this appeal alone will save home work from paralyzing handicap. In his conversation, Mr. Mangum tated that the need for overseas sec retaries is as great now as ever, as each departing transport means that more "Y" secretaries are needed at the front. But while the need "over there" is imperative it is no less so "over here" he said. Of the 4.000 secretaries already in France, Italy and the other battlefronts, he said, a large percentage were recruited from the home camps. This, taken togeth er with the fact that the wr de partment Is constantly expanding its equipment for the training of soldiers In this country, makes necessary a large response from the men for work In the camps. "The army Y. M. C. A. gives some valuable training to the men who en list for service, ". said Mr. Mangum. "At Blue Ridgee a training school for war secretaries, is constantly in progress. The Blue Ridge school has ne of the finest and most complete equipments in the United States. The bext school there begins August 29, continues through September 25 and so on. September Sugar Allotment. The sugar allotment for September will be the same as it was for August, two pounds a person, it was learned from the food administration. Retail ers of this state will receive their authority before September 1 to buy tated quantities of this commodity for the needs of their trade. North Carolina's allotment of sugar for September for all purposes -is 5,518,000 pounds. This includes a slight addi tlonal allotment for canning and pre serving which Is being apportioned to the various counties by the food stdminlstration offices at Raleigh upon recommendation of the county food administrators. Bee Industry Growing. Recognizing tlfat each grain of ugar saved is a bullet shot at the Hun, North Carolina farmers are be coming more and more interested in ugar substitutes such as sorghum yrup and honey. Beekeeping is stead ily growing in value and importance In the state and the keepers are more and more demanding accurate infor mation in regard to the industry. Mr. C. L. Sams, specialist in beekeeping for the agricultural extension service, states that many meetings are now being held over the state where good crowds are in attendance. New Enterprises. A. charter is issued for the Up church Milling and Storage Co., of Raeford, capital $100,000 authorized aad 125.475 subscribed by T. B. Up church and others. Another charter is for the Lucas tc Lewis Co. of New Bern, capital $150,000 authorized and $70,000 sub scribed by W. J. Lucas and others for a wholesale aand retail grocery and upply business. More Than 200 Fairs. With a total of 202 fairs making ap plication to date for state aid, the fair season of 1918 gives promise of being ne of the largest yet had in the state and presumably the south. To date SO negro fairs, 138 community fairs. 17 county fairs. 6 district fairs and on state fair, or a total of 202 have been registered with the fair com mittee of the agricultural extension errice. Mr. S. G. Rubinow, chair man of the committee, states that around fifty more are expected to come In within the next day or two. A Spry Old Veteran. John C. Mangum, well-known Confed erate veteran in charge of the agricul tural department buildings here, is tke proad head of a family with four gen erations represented in the home. There is his son, John Mangum; hi3 grandson, Inglehardt Mangum. who bow has a little son, John Mangum, that makes the fourth generation John C. Mangum is 73 years old, re markably spry for his age and Having a war record most creditable with company B, 44th regiment. If allotment checks sent to relatiws of soldiers and sailors are late or of reduced amount, don't worry. Don't write to Washington either, because letters will hinder rather than help. Have patience, and if necessary apply to the Red Cross Home Service Sec tions. This is the request of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, which hereafter will handle only those Allotments which carry family allowances, and only in amounts (either $15 or $15 and $5) necessary to support the gov ernment allowances. All other allot ments will be paid in separate checks by the service departments War, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. An allotment is part of a soldier's pay deducted for a beneficiary or Bet of beneficiaries. An allowance is an amount paid by the government to the family of a man in service. Al lowances range from $5 to $50, ac cording to the number and personnel of the family. For example, a sol dier's motherless child receives from the Bureau of War Risk Insurance a $5 allowance in addition to the allot ment; a wife without children receives a $15 government allowance plus the $15 allotment; a wife with two chil dren receives $32.50 allowance plus the $15 allotment. The recent changes in the allot ment-allowance system are essentially two. (1) The enlisted man, formerly required to allot a certain proportion of his pay, must now allot a flat $15 if his dependents are all in Class A or all in Class B; if he has depend ents in both classes, he must allot' $15 plus $5. Class A dependents includes wives and children; all other benefi ciaries are in Class B. (2) Allotments in excess of the required amounts ($15, or $15 plus $, as the case may be) must be voluntarily made by the men in service, and are now paid through the service departments. Al lotments which do not carry family allowances allotments to friends or cousins, for example are also paid through the service departments. Vol untary allotments, including excess al lotments to wives and other depend ents, were formerly pai'd through the War Risk Bureau; they are now paid through the War Department, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. If the allotment sent by the War Risk Bureau is smaller than last month, the difference will probably be made up by c separate check through another department. If not, it is because the soldier or sailor has neglected to make the voluntary al lotment. Men in service have been supplied with the necessary applica tion blanks. The family of a married sergeant who makes $48 will now receive from the War Risk Bureau (1) the allot ment, fixed at $15, (2) the government family allowance, the amount depend ing on the make-up of the family. If the sergeant wishes to allot $10 more than the required $15, he makes ap plication to his own service depart ment. In this case the extra $10 is paid by a separate check through the j service department. The change of system may delay i some checks and may cause temporary j anxiety. But Its result will be to j simplify enormously the work of the j War Risk Bureau and to speed the delivery of allotment-allowance checks j during the remainder of the w'ar. j Recent N. C. Casualties. Casualties among North Carolina troops overseas, as shown by late re ports are as follows: Killed in action: Corps. J. B. Farm er, Wilson;-John R. Massey, Prince ton; Private J. S. Whitson, Rosemary. Died of wounds: Privates Geo. Har- rell, Hobgood; A. T. Carpening, Le noir. Died of disease or accident: Jos. R. Lawrence, Como. Severely wounded: Lieut. II. L. Lewis, Charlotte; Corps. M. L. White. Stocksville; D. R. Roark, Ashland; Carl M. Lewis, Whiteville; R. L. With- erington, Kinston. Prisoner or missing: Lieut. Paul Montague, Winston-Salem. Charters and Commissions. The Hanover Bonded warehouse Company of Wilmington wa3 charter ed with $50,000 capital authorized and $5,000 subscribed. The Cockey Bros. Co., of Wilming ton, is also chartered with $20,000 cap ital by M. T. Cockey, Dora D. Cockey and others. Farmers Warned Against Fire. With the advent of the harvesting season when farmers all through North Carolina gather their grain and other crops into their barns in prepa ration for Its use for feed and food purposes, so tremendously important in these war times, the farmers are being especially warned by Insur ance Commissioner James R. Young fire marshal for the state, against stor ing any gasoline or other articles about the barn that might start fire and not to use the barn as a garage for an automobile. Pressing Call for Labor. Due ro a shortage of labor and dif ficulty in securing necessary road ma terials, the state highway commis sion is having a hard time of it at present. The commission, however, is contriving to keep up its end of the load, that is. it is keeping all the promised federal aid money lined up for the benefit of the state. The rest is up to the counties. The highway commission has secured the approval needed for securing the fedexal aid offered by the state. Part of ta roon?v has already been received. li il mmM mm rW 1 Old Glory implanted on Genu an soil for the first time, at n review Alsace. 2 Wounded Arab soldiers of the army of Hedjaz being removed Funnel of American torpedoboat bearing the star that is awarded each of stroyed a submarine. NEWS REVIEW OF THE GREAT WAR Allies Continue Their Advance in Picardy Steadily but More Slowly. fiOYE AND N0Y0N IN DANGER First American Field Army Is Formed Situation in Austria and Russia Improved Man-Power Bill In troduced in the Senate.. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Moving more slowly but steadily and with determination, the allies last week pushed the Germans further back in Picardy. General von Boehm, the Hun "retreat specialist," having been placed in command on the Somme front, put up an increasingly strong resistance to protect his withdrawal, and the figuring became rather local ized. The fiercest struggle was toward the south end of the battle line, where the French were forcing their way to ward Noyon. Overcoming tremendous resistance, they drove the Germans from most of the massif or heights of Lassigny early in the week, and tlso moved forward In the Oise valley. Then they gained a secure footing on the Thiescourt plateau and thus dom inated most of the country northeast of them for miles. This movement and the unceasing pressure of the British from the northward imperiled the en emy's position In Roye, although he clung with desperation to that city and to Ohaulnes further north. Along much of the line he was holding he had the advantage of the old trenches and wire entanglements built by him prior to July. 1!)16. Whether Von Boehm would elect to try to make a prolonged stand there, or fall back on the much stronger Peronne-Noyon line was not revealed, but observers believed he would choose the latter course, and the fact that he was withdrawing his troops north of Albert Ptrehgthened this view. He evacuated The towns of Beaumont, Hamel, Serre, Puisieux au M$nt and Bucquoy, taking up positions on heights mire easily defended. Along the Sorani, on both banks, the British, with the able assistance of some American troops have been advancing slowly, taking Bray and Etlnehem. l In the advance on Roye and Noyon from the southwest the French have been fighting over extremely difficult ground with numerous ravines that furnish cover fo the innumerable ma chine guns the Germans have been us ing. But the French kept bringing up their nrtillery and cleaning out these nests, and long before the end of the week they had taken Ribecourt, on the Oise, and had Noyon under con tinual fire, rendering It almost unten able. On the Soissons-Reims front the fighting was mostly confined to repent ed but futile attacks on the Americans at Fisr.ies, Fismette and the neighbor ing region. Artillery of both sides was very active along the Vesle river. ta Although the Picardy offensive was slowed up somewhat, army ofiicers see no indication of a letting down on the part of Marshal Foch. On the con trary, they predict that another great drive will come soon, either in Flan ders or between the Oise and Soissons, and expect movements of far greater scope In the near future. The Ger man high command seems to have ac cepted defeat and to be trying to get out of its difficulties as best it may. The effect of this on the morale of the soldiery is quite evident in the pris oners taken, and its effect in Germany Is reflected in the press, which admits failure on the west front, as else where. Early in the week It was announced that the First American field army, of five corps, had been constituted with General Pershing as commander. It is understood that this army will by Itself hold the eastern part f the line, to Alsace, and some officers believe an fill-American drive east of Verdun may come soon. Geneva dispatches said ihe Austria Swiss frontier was closed for some days and all trains were full of Aus trian troops going to the Italian front, which was taken to mean another com ing offensive there. However, the Ital ians were ready for It and daily im proved their positions, especially in the mountains. In Albania the Austrians evacuated all points held by them south of the Semeni river. An amazing development Is the seiz ure of Baku, center of the Caspian sea oil district, by a British force which made its way up through Mesopotamia and Persia. ta The parlous condition of the central powers resulted In a "kaiser confer ence" at German main headquarters which was attended by 'the rulers of Germany and Austria and their chief advisers and by representatives of the Turks, Bulgarians and Russian bolshe viki. The internal situation in Austria-Hungary especially is growing worse or rather better daily ; an ex plosion there almost any day would not greatly surprise anyone. Bulgaria shows signs of breaking away from its confederates, and as for Turkey, the general public knows nothing of what is going on there or what Is expected. isa The situation in Russia, Including Siberia, also is improving, for the forces opposed to the bolshevik! and the Germans are growing stronger and amalgamating. The possibility of es tablishing an eastern front that will seriously worry the Huns is being con sidered, especially since the "supreme government of the northern territory," embracing half a dozen districts, has declared Itself opposed to the Germans and ready to fight them. Possession of the port of Archangel and the Mur tuan coast gives the allies an inlet for troops to help this movement. That Germany recognizes the menace is evi dent from the facts that she is sending more soldiers from the west front to Russia, and has ordered Finland to prepare to make war on the people of Murmansk and the allies thtre. Dis patches from Helsingfors declared the Germans intend to occupy Petrograd, though what they would gain by pos session of that hunger-stricken city is not apparent. Lenlne and Trotsky and their soviet government were re ported to have fled from Moscow to Kronstadt, the great fortress near Petrograd, and to have placed the exe cution of power in the hands of a tri umvirate composed of Lenlne, Trotsky and Zinovieff. Lenlne also issued a manifesto urging the pitiless annihila tion of all counter-revolutionaries. Moscow being admittedly in the con trol' of the counter-revolutionists, the German embassy also fled from that city to Pskov, which greatly perturbed the German press. The diplomats of all the allied pow ers, now living on warships at Arch angel, have demanded of Trotsky an explanation of his threat that Russia would declare war "against Anglo French imperialism." The first American regiment sent to Siberia, the Twenty-seventh regular in fantry from Manila, landed at Vladi vostok Thursday, and other Yankees are on the way. The Czecho-SIovaks in eastern Si beria now have the assistance of Brit ish and French forces which landed at Vladivostok and joined them in the Usuri river valley. Those in western Siberia were last reported as engaged in a desperate battle with a large bol shevik army. A long step forward in the moral support of these fighting Czechs and of their fellow nationals who are in rebellion against Austria-Hungary was the formal recognition by Great Brit uin of the Czecho-SIovaks as an al lied nation and of their armies as an allied force regularly waging warfare against the central powers. It is hoped and believed America and other allied nations will follow the example of Great Britain. Last week's dispatches told of furi ous and bloody riots against the Ger mans in several Russian clt!s, caused by the attempts of the Huns to seize foodstuffs. ta The activities of German U-bonts off the Atlantic coast h.ve grown so an noying that the cabinet Is said to have d'.-voted a lorg mating to discussing of American troops in Mussevuu, after a battle with the Turks. 3 these vessels that has met and de- thern and the ways of combating them. The submarines, in addition to. sinking a number of steamers and at tacking others, in some cases only a few miles from the harbor of New York, also destroyed a considerable number of fishing vessels off New Eng land. Several fights with these U-boats were reported and It was believed that at least one of theai was sunk. What was believed to be a gas attack on the coast guard station and lighthouse on Smith's island, South Carolina, In which several men were overcome, has not yet been explained though the theory that the poison gas came from a submarine was discarded. Presum ably the fact that our naval vessels are pretty busy on convoy duty accounts for the comparative immunity of these U-boats along the Atlantic coast. The steady decline of the German submarine campaign is emphasized by the official reports on sinkings and shipbuilding for July. The allied and neutral shipping sunk during the month amounted to 270,000 tons, compared with 534,839 tons sunk in July, 1917. During the month the allied nations constructed a tonnage in excess of 280,000 to that destroyed by enemy op erations. ta The administration's man-power bill extending the draft age to eighteen and forty-five years was reported to the senate Thursday and that body prepared to take it up and act on It speedily. Chairman Chamberlain in reporting the measure said General March told the military affairs com mittee that he believed 4,000,000 Amer icans under one commander could go through the German lines whenever they pleased and that if the ages are fixed as asked, the voluntary enlist ment system automatically' ends. He also said afl the men called for active service under the amended act would be in France by next June. The new American war program, it was re vealed, calls for 80 divisions, or about 3,000,000 men, In France and 18 more divisions in training in America, by June 30, 1919. Mr. Chamberlain told the senate that President Wilson's program called for concentration, of American forces on the western front, including Italy, and that the theory of the fighting In the future is that we must force the issue and win on the western front. The bill as reported contains a work or fight provision to which organized labor, through Samuel Gompers, has filed emphatic objection. The immediate need for more fight ing men Induced the president to issue on Wednesday a proclamation calling for the registration, on August 24, of all young men who shall have become twenty-one years of age between June 3 last and that day. This extra enroll ment, it is believed, will include about 150,000 men, one-half of whom are fi for military duty. isa Chairman Kitchin and other mem bers of the house ways and means committee being wedded to the idea that the best way to raise more rev enue is to Increase the excess profits tax, rather than to Impose a war prof Its tax, Secretary of the Treasury Mc Adoo was compelled to go before the committee with a mass of figures, to sustain his contention that the war profits tax method is the best and only fair one. In reply to Kitchin's asser tion that a war profits tax was "only camouflage to let out the big fellows" the secretary produced figures to show that in a great majority of cases the war profits tax would fall more heav ily on the large concerns than would the excess profits tax, which, if fixed at 80 per cent as the committee pro posed, he said would touch not more than one of the large corporations. He favors the continuance of the existing excess profits tax, with corrections but without Increase. He also urged heav ier levies on unearned incomes than on earned incomes, and the imposition of a tax upon servants as luxuries. The secretary Impressed on the committee the necessity of passing the new revenue bill before September 28, the date set for launching the fourth Liberty loan campaign, saying that further delay would ' jeopardize the ability of the treasury to etll sufficient treasury certificates to firm nee it in the intervals between the Liberty loans. In Washington most of the de lay in passing the measure Is expect ed to develop in the senate. Charlotte. The Raleigh-Richmond Bankhead highway from Atlanta to Washington was decided upon at a meeting of board of directors Of the Bankhead National Highway associa tion. Secretary J. A. Rountree, of Birm ingham, and Col. Rountree, of Birm ingham, and Col. Benhan Cameron, of Durham, N. C, were designated a committee to prepare arguments for i: submission to Congress in" an effort to obtain the designation of the route as a military road. The map of the route selected shows that the road will pass through the following named towns and cities between Atlanta and Washington: Stone Mountain, Lawrenceville, Au burn, Winder, Stratham, Bogurt, Ath ens, Royston, Hartwell, all in Geor gia; Anderson, Williamston, Pied mnot, Greenville, Greer, Spartanburg, Drayton, Gaffney, Blackshurg, all In South Carolina; Gastonia, Charlotte, Newell, Concord, Kannapolis, James town, High Point, Greensboro, Gib sonville, Burlington, Graham, Me bane Hillsboro, Durham, Cary, Ral eigh, Neuse, Franklinton, Oxford, Sou dan, all in North Carolina; Clarks ville, Baskervllle, Boydton, South Hill, Skelton, Grandy, Lawrenceville, Warfield, Dinwiddie, Petersburg, Rich mond, Solomon's Store, Ashland, Oli ver, Mantico, Partlow, Mount Pleas ant, Spotsylvania, Fredericksburg, Dumfrees, OccoqUan, Accotink, Alex andria, all in Virginia. Charles T. Lassiter, of Petersburg, Introduced a resolution which was adopted, designating the route of the highway through Virginia which would give roads greater value as a military highway by passing through camp cities. To Use All Tar Heel Pine. Washington. The war department is preparing to build an extensive ar tillery plant at Fayetteville, and use approximately 55,000,000 feet of North Carolina pine lumber in its construc tion. As has been stated before six artillery brigades of 3,300 men will be trained at Fayetteville and the in dications are that heavy artillery is to be used. It is held here that Fay etteville is an ideal place for an artil lery camp, as the lands are sandy and rolling. The price to be paid by the government for the purchase of the site is not over $10 an acre, and 100, 000 acres between Fayetteville and Manchester may be taken over. Some mighty good fox hunting territory is going to be ruined. For, Jewish Relief. Hickory. By request of Mr. Lionel, president of the Jewish Relief Com mittee of North Carolina, in a note to Judge B. Council, a campaign will be made to organize the neighboring communities and endeavor to raise $.1,000, that being the local quota. The fate of the three million Jews In Eu rope who are starving has aroused the sympathies of the people and the appeal will not be in vain. The local churches have stated their willingness to collect a separate offering for this cause. Gouging Wouldn't-be Soldiers. Durham. Protest against several Durham magistrates and notary pub lics, who it Is alleged have charged exorbitant prices to registrants want ing affidavits filled out for dependen cy, farm and other deferred classifica the Durham county legal advisory board. Mr. Bramham Ks written a letter to Governor Bickett, telling him of the e"exorbitant charges" and has asked that the registrants be relieved of this expense. In making public his protest, the Durham attorney, has the affidavits of several men, who he says will swear that they have been charged from 75 cents to $2 for affidavits . ... Gastonia. Charles C. Holler, .aged 46, is dead and seven of his children are in the city hospital here suffering from injuries, as the result of an auto accident, which occurred at a grade crossing at Grover, 20 mile3 west of Gastonia, when a Southern freight train struck the car in which they -were riding. Spontaneous Combustion. Wilmington. Fire originating from spontaneous combustion In a. car of fish scrap spread to the F. B. Joaey guano plant, -located on the northwest' river, wiping it out completely and entailing a loss of $100,000. Eight freight cars were burned, the rosin drawn from the masts of the schooner Comack, sister ship of the ill-fated Koppauge, recently torpedoed off the Virginia Capes, and the Naul ship yard seriously threatened. Three thou sand tons of guano were destroyed. Type-aetting Machine. The Cade Manufacturing Co., a con cern organized to manufacture the type-sattlng machine invented by the late Dr. Bay'.us Cade, has purchased a building at Greensboro which will be converted into a factory with a ca pacity of about 1,000 of these ma chines per year. The corporation is chartered with an authorized capital Ptock of $1,500,000, over $300,000 of which is subscribed. The president, of the company is E, Hamrick, a Shelby banker.
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