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A (Eltan Coral Krogyayfr 3Por All Sljr Jamtlji VOL. 15. N0 48 KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1918 $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE RED GROSS GOES LINER 10 PIECES ALL ABOARD NUMBERING 140 ARE LOST WHEN SHIP IS WRECK ED IN BLIZZARD. BE 0. Celebration of Washington's Birth RUSSIAN OFFICIALS TAKE STEPS I day Occasion Celebrated at Thrift Stamp Rally Fine Program by BODIES ' WASHED ASHORE TO CHECK MARCH THE TEUTONS. OF ARE GIVING OVER TO EHEf KING'S MOUNTIAN P. 0.) GRAVE SHORTAGE i MUMPED OF FOOD IN EAST! E Nobody Catches Line Shot Out by Gunners Twelve Women and Four -Children Among the Passengers. 6tj Johns. N. F The crack Red " rosn' liner Florlzel, from St. Johns fOTjfJew York, by way of Halifax, wltb"140 persons aboard, Including 78 passengers, piled up on the ledges near Cape Race during a bllizard and it la believed that all on board were lost. yuval gunners sent on a special train from 'litis city, shot a line across the bow of the partly submerged ship but waited In vain for it to be hauled aboard. Just before darkness blotted the 'wreck from view, five men, driven from the forecastle by the giant seas, were seen to climb the forward rig- glng'slgnalllng feebly for help. But f wheii,hey failed to make fast the line it wis feared that they had succumb- , ed toWie cold and exposure. Those ' five wjtre the only ones visible on i' board jeveral hours after the ship r ,'' Somewhere beyond the white mael ; strom q breakers two staunch rescue . steamet-s, the Terra Nova, and the Home, manned by New Foundland sailors, lay in waiting for a favor able moment to send .a.-boaf"hrougl- the surf, but , though the storm,pV ' 9eAfpTo be subsiding. It waarteared iierTHat, it would be daybreak before the "fT aea moderated enough 'to make It nns. elble to approach the wreck. Included among the passengers were 12 women, and four children. Among the flrat-cabln passengers were John Shannon Munn, a managing director of the Arm of Bowring Brothers, Ltd., owners of the liner, and his three-year-old daughter, Betty. They were gong to New York to meet Mrs. Munn and Sir "Edgar Bowring, one of the owners. of the line, for a visit of two months In Florida. Six cadets of the royal flying corps, on their way from New Foundland to join their comrades, were aboard. The.. body of one member of th(yde-tatfh ment, Fred Snow, was'iiMfdeii among the six washed ashore. Anoth er New Foundland officer who. It is feared was lost, was Michael Sullivan, S. ARMY OFFICER GIVEN 25 YEARS Wanted to be Relieved of Commission Saying He Could Not Fight Friends. New York. Capt. David A. Menkes, Sixth infantry, U. S. A., has been sen tenced to dismissal from the service and confinement at hard labor for 25 years by a general court-martial held at Governor's Island. Captain Menkes, who was stationed at San Antonio last May, wrote the secretary of war, urging him to accept his resignation, which he had already submitted, and giving reasons which, he declared, would no longer allow him to serve as an officer of the Amer ican army. "Further service as a commissioned officer must sooner or later take me to Europe and there bring me in con tact with my relatives and friends, although for the time being my legal enemies," Captain Menkes wrote. "My father came from Oermany; my mother was born here shortly after the arrival of her parents. We have many other relatives and friends .there, . "I cannot force myself to the con viirtlon that I am capable of making war on my kindred upofl their soil in a manner that would become my duty and station." I earnestly request that I may not be required to undergo this ordeal. I seriously doubt my ability to withstand It, and would avoid, in the Interest of my country, family and friends, what at least appears to be toe probable consequences." Under Penalty of Death Russians Are Ordered by Bolshevlkl to Resist Advance of Germans. Facing absolute subjection at the hands of the advancing Germ nan, the Russian premier and commander-in-chief have taken what steps they could to initiate at least a nominal defense against the Invaders of their country. Orders directing that guer rilla warfare be carried on and plac ing Petrograd in a state of siege have been issued by Lenine and Krylenko, and It is expected that the Germans will meet with some resistance before long. That the Teutons can be tempor arily checked, however. -Is doubled even In Petrogr$i. The Russian army's debacle apparently is so com plete that there Is no shadow of au School Children "To Lick a Stamp Is to Help Lick a German," Said Gardner, miotic addresses heard In this town since the outbreak of the war was that delivered by Lieut, Gov. O Max Oa"-(!-ner of Shelby here last Thursday at the graded school building on the oc casion of the celebration of Washing ton's Birthday which was observed as Thrift Stamp and War Savings dy also. A most splendid and effective program was tendered by the school children prior to the address by Mr. Gardner. After the address Mrs. C. A. Dllllng evidenced her patriotism and her faith lu the war savings system by buying $1,000 worth of the stamps. All were enthused and built up In the cause of our country. "To lick a stump helps to lick a Ger man," was a fact Mr. Gardner strove to Impress ueon the hundreds of school childree eresent as well as the older heads. "Our government needs our moiiey and is offering to borrow it and lf-'we refuse to lend It 'he gov ernment wilt-have to conscript It and I hope It will." said Mr. Gardner. He laid heavy stress on the wisdom of the 1 ttimn mtom uh.iwtnr that while It thority over Its units. Berlin reports , l9 most unlque nvKitm of nnln.n, that the first Esthonlan regiment has tne war gl80 t,ache thrift to our deserted in a body ant) offered Its j peopiea essoll .,, we ,,, ,or.. sc. vlcea to the German commander j v need who Is operating lnjhe northernmost i dealing with the slacker and Baltic province. Me Russian navy, I pa(.lfist , Mr. Gardner wrought too Is completely, disorganized and. f Mmwlt up l0 , high p(tcn and fla,eJ while It hvaeslred to withdraw the t0 a flnUh anv wn0 woaW s,ve a(d warships from Reval and Helslngfors or fomfon , ,ne enemy-or even less, to. Kronstadt. it is believed that this ,u9t fa (0 do ,,,, duty ln tni, cr,sj, operation is Impossible. In view of ..There's no room in North Carolina the disuse Into which the Baltic fleet.. lor ,he pro.Gernian pacifist," he de has fallen. Only the submarines are The business houses were closed from 2:30 to 3:30 and a good attend ance of the adult population as well as the school children was present. SCHOOL TEACHERS SHOOL COMMITTEEMEN In a seaworthy condition. It Is ported. There is as yet no definite advices as to the rumored fall of the Lenine Trotzky government, The proclama tion directing that resistance be of fered to the German advance, how ever, did not bear the name of Trotiky who hitherto has been a vir tual dictator, which may be signifi cant. The Germans have pushed still fur ther eastward. In the far north, the " Village of Hapsal, on the south coast At the Shelby Courthouse. Saturday, of Finland has been captured. Fur-, March Second. ' ther south the city of Rleshltsa. about a patriotic meeting of all school lollies east of Riga, has been enter- teaohers and school committeemen is d by the Teutons, who report that called for Saturday. March 2. to pro they were welcomed by the people. vde the means of introducing the Still farther south the village of Leu-principles of thrift Into every branm In. east of Minsk, has been taken. of the school work. ' For years the foremost educators LARGE DETACHMENTS have been deploring the lack of thrift ORDERED TO CAMP GREENE study in the public schools. The ' ; i school is the logical medium for the Will Be an Assembling Point and Prob- dissemination of knowledge; it is but Says. Shelby News in Last Week's Is sue Sings Praises of Everything ' Visible or of Record But the Post office. The Shelby News edited by our friend and neighbor, W H Miller, over at the capital of Cleveland county, trot tel out lust week in a regular Kings Mountain Special The way he did write up Kings Mountain was a de light to its population and almost a shame to the home paper. The Very first colu. in on the first page and at the top of the column appeared the bold bending, "Kings Mountain u Thrifty Town." With that as a text the versatile editor proceeds to ring j forth ln his poetic style the facts about Kings Mountain. First, he rev els In the historic battle and sings forth the praise of those forefathers who split their blood to make possible SHORTAGE LIKELY TO CONTINUE ' PLANES SHU PEO NEARLY FIVE SO DAYS, SAYS ADMINIITKA- i MONTHS AHEAD OF ORIGINAL TOR HOOVER. ' SCHEDULE. PUIS BLAME ON RAILROADS I ANNOUNCEMENT BY BAKER Declares Situation to Be Most CnUesI In Country's History Many Food Stores at Point of Exhsusttor. Washington. - The eastern part of the I'nited States faces a food short age HLely to continue fur the next sixty days. In making this disclosure Food Ad ministrator Hoover declared that the this great commonwealth. A little aituatlon Is the most critical In the later he gets down to the present age and bubbles over with rapture as he tells of the virtues of the present gen eration and pictures tbe town as a most splendid little city. Well, we just kept on a-readln' and shaking hands with ourselves that our lot had really hen cast In God's country and at the head of the table. Brother Miller Just kept on a brag gin' Everything looked fine to his editorshfo until he got down to the postoffUn. There his feathers fell Of course, we all know that Kings j Mountain hasn't a postuffice building i that will measure up lo the splendid I Federal building that adorns our : county seat., but as Kings Mountain : develops her strength we will some ' good day likely have as fine a post- j office as Shelby. Here's what Brother . Miller says about the postofflce: "lies- ! ter Patterson is the pleasant postmas- ter In a small antiquated brick build- j Ing not commensurate with the town's 1 growth." In the first pun the post- 1 master Is not "Hester," but "Hunter" ! Patterson. But that's nothing to qulb- i ble over. Mere's the Jonah, "Small ; antiquated" brick building, etc. Now, j we don't like for a thing like this to go out to people who do not know i what sort of a home our postofflce has Marks Final Overcoming of Many Dif ficulties Met in Building New Indue, try Only a Few Yet Shipped. Washington The first Amerlcan bullt battle planes are en route to France, nearly five months ahead of the original rchedule. In making this announcement, Sec retary Baker said the first shipment, although in itself not large, "marks the final over-coming of many diffi culties met In building up this new and Intricate Industry." "These 'planes,'' Mr. Baker said, "are equipped with the first liberty administrator on railroad congestion, j motors from maclllne production, which he says also has thrown Ihe One of them In a recent test sur food administration far behind ln its i passed all records for speed and cllmh program for feeding the allies. The ; ing for 'planes of that type. Engine only solution he sees, Is a greatly In- 1 production, which began a month creased rail movement of foodstuffs i ago. is now on a quantity basis, and country's history and that ln many of the large consuming areas reserve food stores are at the point of exhaustion. The whole blame Is put by the food even to the exclusion of much other i commerce. I It was evident that the railroad ad- j mlnistrati n Is inclined to resent Mr. i Hoover's blame of the railroads, and I Director General McAdoo declared he was ready to provide every transports the peak of production will be reach ed in a few weeks. Only the 12-cylln-der type Is being made, bk develop i mems abroad have made it wise to concentrate on the high-powered en gine Instead of the 8-cylinder." Optimistic as these statements ap- tion facility for expediting food move- i pear, the secretary said they should ment. The railroad administration, ! not be exaggerated and should be con he said, had suggested that fara-ors sldered in the light of these facts: be urged lo release their gram hold- i That after three years of warfare ings that large numbers of available cars might be utilized in moving them. Cereal exports - lo the allies Mr, Hoover's statement says, will 1st 46, 000.000 bushels short on March 1 ehd meat shipments also are far short of the amounts promised. Inability to move the crops. Mr. Hoover sets forth, lias suspended the law of supply and demand and has the total number of 'planes able to take the air at one time on either side of the western front has not been more than 2.500 That 46 men are required on the ground for every 'plane In the air, making a total of 115.000 men needed for Ihe present maximum of 2,600 'planes. That for every 'plane In the air. WANTS OVERWHELMING FORCE 8ENT TO FRANCE Washington. The sending of an "overwhelming force" to France, greater activity In the internment of enemy aliens and sympathisers, prohi bition of compulsory study of German in the public schools- and universal military training for Americans be tween the ages of 18 and 21 years are among several features urged upon the government by the American De fense Society In an announcement oi Its policies. ably An Aviation Camp. Washington, D. C The war depart ment took the first step in rehablllta tatlon of Camp Greene as an assemb ling camp. This was in the ordering of a detachment of from 10,000 to 12,000 men to the ordnance depot. natural to enlist the support of th schools In a movement in behalf of the government to educate the people of our country to thrift, patriotism, con servation and co-operation. The teachers and committeemen will hear addresses by Hon. Gilbert Stephens, who Is giving a year of his Assistant Secretary Crowell stated time free to the aovemment. and Mr. that arrangements for assembling Max Gardner. It is earnestly hoped these men are now under way. that every school in the county will Secretary Baker stated that It Is his be represented here Saturday. March intention to send Inspectors to Camp 2nd. Greene at once to look over the loca tion tor a signal corps depot. All In dications point to utilization of the camp to Its full capacity. It would be advisable for the city and township road building author! ties to proceed With their work and anticipate completion of the camp as S. C. LATTIMORE. Chairman County Association. GERMAN AGENTS IN TAMPICO ARE BUSY San Antonio, Texas. Reports here from well authenticated sources in the government may be depended upon 1 Mexico indicate that feeling against to carry out Its part of the contract . Secretary Baker expressed the opin ion that Charlotte is going to have a better camp than before. It has never been regarded as a training camp and never was so Intended. It will be re membered that Secretary Baker made that statement a couple of months ago but its establishment as a permanent military assembling camp may be ac cepted as a settled fact and that as such It will be likely developed stead ily to full growth. Divisions now there are to remain there until ordered to France, and that date seems Indefinite. Americans In the Tampico region has become acute and that Americans liv ing ln that district are apprehensive of a demonstration. The belief that ef forts to foment anti-American feeling Is the work of German agents Is inti mated. Government agents here have dispatched messages asking an official statement on the situation. RETREATING ARMY REFUSES ABSOLUTELY TO FIGHT VON KUEHLMANN AND CZERNIN GO TO BUCHAREST stories. Directly over the door of the postofflce Is the Inscription "1908" in letters large enough that he who runs may read. If it Is old and antiquated, as Brother Miller charges, then the building of the Finger Drug Company of The Peoples Loan Trust Com pany are "old and antiquated." Ten years old is not bad for a commercial building when as well built as this one. Brother Miller cracked his heels together once too many over our pos office and we would like to see him devote another bit of space to telling the people who read his paper that our postofflce building was built Just ten years ago, a good brick building, in the most central and suitable location in town, that the general office fronts on Mountain street and the rural de livery department on Cherokee ave nue. If he will be so kind as to do this and in so doing clear up the minds of the people as to the real status of Un cle Sam's business In Kings Mountain. he may reap his revenge on this editor with as many quotations from "The Lady of the Lake" as he likes and We will be just as good friends as ever. No harm. Brother Miller, but Just to keep the record straight. was before. . A large part of the corn crop Is ! The nostoff , ouarters is nart of he V ! ' .1 DPlweeR pr- i there must be two replacement 'planes i lie pomon if quartern is pari or ine t ducer and ponauniP" wirier than if pvrr . , i , Hord building, a red brink front, two 1 hef"r, " ,he round and one ,r"",,ng pl?nS ror every puot wno eventually reacnes the front, with a spare engine for about to spoil because it is not mov ing to terminals for drying. The per centage of soft corn In last year's crop, all of which must be dried if It is to be saved. Is the largest ever known. Estimates placed the amount as high as a billion bushels. Potatoes, the food administrator declares, are spoiling In the produc ers' hands while consumers have been supplie! only from summer garden crops and stores carried over. each 'plane. After reviewing the many obstacles that had to be overcome in getting thi aircraft production program under way, Mr. Baker said the great problem now remaining Is to secure the thous ands of skilled mechanics, englnemen, motor repairmen, wood , and metal workers, etc, needed to keep tho 'planes in perfect condition and with out which the machines turned out ARMY OFFICIALS ! soon would be useless and the flyers : helpless. SHOW SURPRI8E FUTURE The Guilford county health depart ment, according to Dr. Wm. M. Jones, the county health officer, is planning to employ a county dentist by the month to go about from place to place throughout the county and hold free dental clinics for school children. This is a part of the plan in connection with the state campaign for medical inspection of schools. State Food Administrator Henry A. Page is indignant at reports that have been circulated in some parts of North Carolina to the effect that the food ad ministration, the department of agri culture or some other branch of the government had issued an order limit ing the acreage that may be planted in tobacco, cotton or other crops per horse or mule. These reports are not only absolutely groundless, but Mr. Page states that there Is absolutely no authority in any existing laws for any Amsterdam. According to. The Lo kal Anzel&er of Berlin, Dr. von Kuehl msnn. the Herman forefern minister. has gone to Vienna where he will be j uPPer hand poined by Count Czernln, the Austro Hungarlan minister. The will travel together to Bucharest, where they will open discussions of peace terms with General Fofoza Avenesco, the Ruma nlan premier and commander of the Rumanian forces In Dobrudja Petrograd. Acceptance of the Ger man terms, however onerous they may be, Is urged strongly by the bolshe vlkl premier, Nikola Lenine. He as serts the demoralized and retreatins- army refuses absolutely to light, and jdepartment of the federal government says that he will not remain In the government or oa the central execu tive committee of the. soldiers' and workmen's delegates an instant longer If the "policy of phrases" obtains the A Theory. Fogg enys that the reason the fash ions change so frequently is that they ire trying to elude some of the people ffho are . following thsm. Boston transcript . to issue such an order. Not Always. A fellow shouldn't believe every thing his press agent snys about him. Boers Stic- to Weak Tobacco. The Boers l.l the Transvaal smoke something that resembles a weak tea. It has a peculiar flavor and English men who have become used to It never moke any other substitute for tobacc while In that country At Reports That German Airmen Con trol American Sector. Washington. Army officials show ed every evidence of surprise at press dispatches from France telling of Ger man control of the air over the sector of the front held by the American forces. They would make no com ment for publication, however, and Secretary Baker also was silent be yond saying that his advices from General Pershing made no mention of such a situation. Disclosures of the conditions de scribed by the dispatches comes on the heels of Secretary Baker's an nouncement that American-built bat tle planes have been shipped to France Ave months ahead nf the nrto-innl schedule and soon Would be ready In ' quantity. This statement does not mean that the whole program for the I American air fleets Is so far ahead and it is understood thai actually It Is j not far from the schedule one way or the other. The exeat status of the program is a carefully guarded secret. Secretary Baker said in response to questions sbout the cable dispatches 1 that any publicity of that nature must 1 come from General Pershing, who j alone is able to Judge of the military value of the information. j It was .obvious around the war de- j partment that there are other ele- j ments in the airplane supply situation that Is regarded as unwise to reveal, ISSUES WILL BEAR 4ia PER CENT THREE AVIATION CAMP SITES ARE SELECTED Washington. Sites tor new army aviation training rataps at Sacramen to, Cal.. Amerlcus, Ga., and West Point, Miss., were totally approved at the war deparmem., ' Various other sites have been recommended by the aviation section of the signal corps and many new camps are to be es tablished because it has become ap parent that the fourteen flying schools and eight ground schools now In oper ation cannot . accommodate recruits. Washington. Futlre issues of treas ury certificates of Indebtedness plan ned ln preparation of the third Lib erty loan will bear an interest rate of 4 Va per cent, or one-half per cent more than Issues of the immediate) past. This announcement was made by Secretary McAdoo, together with the statement that the 1500,000,000 block of certificates was subscribed in full only because banks In New York and other big financial centers took more than their share and offset the scanty subscriptions from the rest of th . country. About S? f'00,000.000 ln certificates remain to be issued at the higher rata before the third loan campaign prob ably in April and the rate for all will bs per cent. This Increase In the rate offers an indication of the treasury's perspec tive on money market conditions, which may affeot the next liberty loan. The second liberty loan, issued at 4 per cent, was preceded by sev eral Issues of certificates at SVk par cent, but this rate was increased to 4 per cent for the last blocks before the second loan. A similar situation preceded the first loan, which was at SH Per cent. In both cases the in terest rate of the loan was the same aa the rate on the last Issues of certifi cates preceding. : KAISER REPLIES TO CARRANZA'S TELEGRAM Mexico City. Emwor William's re ply to President Oirranza's birthday message to him of January 27, was given out officially here. It reads: T am Tery gratefal to you for your amiable telegram of felicitation on the occasion of my birthday. I send to you, Mr. President, my sincere thanks together with my best wishes for' your self and for tha prosperity of the Mex ican people. "WILHELM, King and Emperor." '-.' ; ":..; -