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I THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. C.,v FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1918. ;.". .; SEVEN. PRICES CONTINUE f .V; ' TO MOVE UPWARD If You Want the Best Values That Your Money Will Buy, You Should Trade at I ROYAL REPrCROSS WORKER 111 T 1 n reserve Board Urges Strict Per sonal Economy. n ( oininodity tines Not Affected By (ho Governments Price-Fixing j-rogram Increases are Par ticularly Noticeable.' Washington, Nov. 7. Despite peace ?r0?pec'p "prices generally throughout he Uni-ed States are showing a ten dency toward a further upward move pent," according to the federal , re serve board's monthly review today 0f business conditions and reported by ,gents in each federal reserve district. Tcr ases arc particularly noticeable ;a commodity lines not affected by the jovernmert's price-fixing program, yany manufacturers and other pro ducers are reported following a -con- gervative course by keeping only small sioek-- on hand in preparation for new business conditions arier - tne war. iisiri ; prices and credit inflation, the board says, must be opposed by strict personal utuauuij. Hie Doa.ru b eApiauaiiQU goes into Retail lo snow iuai uauK loans ior turposes otner tnan snore time com mercial transactions are becoming' readily greater in volume and in pro portion to reserves, causing inflation ind resimam increases in prices. General business activity through- 5it the country is reported by practi- ta;!y all reserve agencies. The marked reduction in recent, out put of clothing materials, shoes and Miier articles of personal use indicate, lie board said that civilians in a few months may have great difficulty in renins? tnese goods. " Banking conditions are reported as 'about ar satisfactory as could be ex- Building operations are practically stationary. v tt'M"-" ijjfwv ' iwJ pi 5 M FAYETTEA ILLE'S HOUSEVG TO RECEIVE EARLY ATTENTION IVannon Thaerard, Cumberland Soldier, Killed Overseas One Wounded. (Special Star Correspondence. ) Fayetteville, Xov. 7. The United states hcuing- corporation in Washing ton has under consideration an appli cation made by the Fayetteville cham ber of commerce for a modification of She housing bureau's stringent regula tions as to Dunaing operations to meet the emergency created in Fayetteville bv the coming of the artillery training rarr.p to this city. The need for additional building and emodeling' here on account of the camp is so urgent that the chamber of com merce has been working for some time on an effort to have the condition re lieved. H. V. D. King, secretary of the cham ber, has just retjrned from the nation al capital, where he took the matter up with the housing corporation, with the result that Fayetteville's plea will be given immediate consideration by the heads of that organization. 1 In addition to the promise of-consid- eration of Fayetteville's case in gen fral, Mr. King, in a specific instance, secured the approval of the war indus tries board for a contemplated enlarge ment of the tras plant of the Fayette ville Light and Pawer company, which urnishes gas for the entire city. TV. T. Thagard, of Cedar Creek, this county, has received a letter from a nmrade of his son, Waymon Thagard, tolling of tne latter's death in action in Fance ,on Sunday, September 29. 5vng Thagard was one of the first selected men from this county to go overseas, and though the latter does not so state, it is presumed from the Jate that ho was killed in the victroious drive in which the Carolinians and Tenneseans went through the Hinden fcurg line. The letter is from Ernest Capps, who had been a comrade with Thagard since they entered the army, ind breathes devotion and admiration !'r his friend. Policeman W. H. Henderson, of this ity has received a card from his son Sergt. Herbert Henderson, Company F, HHh infantry, informing him that he as recently wounded in action. The seriousness of his wound was not stated. To Occupy the Dardanelles. London, Nov. 7. Preparations are being mac-e for the transfer of Brit ish and French troops to occupy the Dardanelles and Bosphorus, says the Evening News today. brings cheer and cohrrforfc "to many a coffee drink er who wants his coffee but doesn-b drink t because ne knows. jtna-b coffee nurfcs hinru There's a Reason" -for POSTUM v r.AAviii:.:.::.gWj, ..The Duchess Elena d'Aasta, of Italy, is one of the many women of roy alty engaged in Red Cross work.. Her highness is the inspector general of the volunteer women's Italian Red Cross. Her husband, the Duke d'Aasta, is a cousin to King Emanuel of Italy and commander of one of; the Italian armies. (c)Underwood & Underwood. 7och Cash Jepl tores Reliable Men's Suits, Overcoats and Odd Pants Men's Suits of cashmere, olive and grey mixture, per suit . v ... . . . $24.50 Men's Grey Suits of casmere suiting,, small stripe, a good business suit . , . ., ..$19.95 Brown worsted men's Suit, heavy weight, per suit. . . .$25.00 Men's striped worsted Pants, size 31 to 48, a pair $5.50 to $12 Mens odd Pants in worsteds and cashmeres, also heavy Dickey Kersey, fine for work and hunting, a pair. , . .$4.50 Men's all wool Serge Pants, blue and black, from, a pair, up . $5.50 Men's Overcoats, heavy weight, stylish coats, for young and old, priced from $25.00 up News of the Soldiers Lieut. Harriss Alderman of the avia tion corps, writing from France Octo ber 10 to his aunts, Misses Agostinl, 19 South Sixth street, says: "This is a 'dud day, very misty and rainy, so I don't suppose there will be any work for us. A rainy day comes as a relief some times and this is one of the times, as we have been working very hard, two 'shows' a day for the past week or more; and dirty work some of it has been. We have been doin-g quite a big of 'ground strafing 'and although its very interesting work, it is rather tiring on the nerves. On this work .we fly any height under 3,000 feet and some times as low as 50 feet, shooting up the Hun troops and trans port. Each iriachine carries four small bombs which we drop gently on the best targets we can find, such as dumps, bridges, transport, etc. It's 'a great feeling to find a bunch of trans port, trains, trucks, wagons or any old kind of Fritzies' rolling stock, all loaded up with stuff, lots of whfch no doubt are things he has plundered and stolen from the places he is leaving. Then swoop down nice and close and cut loose all four bombs in the middle of it. Blooie! What pretty smoke and O, what a pxettyv jumble when the. smoke rolls away! Usually just two machines go - together on "'this -work and a few days ago another pilot and I found. a road Just chock-a-block with wagons, trucks, etc., and some important-looking touring cars, and diving down along this road and spraying It with machine gun bullets, we surely started something. One big touring car and several trucks and wagons ran into the ditches on the side of the road and overturned. One driver in this bunch I know had the champion speed team of the Hun army. It was an open wagon and two fellows were on the seat. Take it from me, they were traveling, when suddenly I must have got some bullets into them or too close for comfort, for one bird just left the seat and landed in the ditch and the last I saw of the other he was on the ground running and leaving the team farther and farther behind. What it took to pass the team he had it, I'll say, and I can imagine him saying, 'Get out of the way and let somebody run that can. Gee, but it was funny the way that crowd scat tered! But the fun is not all on one side, for while all this is going on, from some unobserved shelters on the ground, old Fritz is taking shots at us with machine guns and every other thing. Of course the chances of a vital hit are quite small as we are fly ing at tremendous speed and diving and 'zooming and turning so that it is difficult for him to get a bead on us, but at that, sometimes he puts up so much stuff that you can't help running into some of it and we are always getting holes shot in seme part of pur machines. Fortunately? none of them have been in the right spot, yet. One of our fellows got hit in the back of the neck the other day but luckily it was just a flesh wound.; Wish I could tell you just where we are but it isn't done.' There has been some fierce fighting going on here and the ground over which we have ad vanced is just one absolute stretch of shell holes. You can't imagine how the ground is torn up and the cillages are level with the ground and the only way you can tell some of them from the air is by the yellow spot on the ground where the brick and stone j of the houses have been crumbled UP 1 and the grass hasn't had time to bid it. -You see this is the country from which we have driven the Huns and I don't wonder they left. The only wonder, to me is that they didn't leaye sooner. They must have been well dug-in for it would have been impos sible for anything to stay on the sur face without being hit. Things sure ly look good to me at present and everything indicates that it will con tinue this way. We were 20 miles over the lines yesterday and low enough to observe, ground movements and all we saw was 'eastbonnd and take it from me, we were helping them along." Wounded in both jaws by a machine gun bullet during a recent battle on the French front and invalided to a French hospital, Harold Bunnell has written an interesting letter to his aunt, Mrs. Victor B. Britton of this city, in which he describes how he "got his" while going over the top. JIr Bunnell is the son of Capt. Grant Bunnell, recently with the Clyde. Line Steamship company, but now com manding the transport Emllie B. Mal ory. He is not yet 21 years old, bay ing volunteered and been accepted for service before he was 19 years old. with the first con tingent of New Tork national guards. N recently and of whose death the young I soldier has not yet learned. George, ; another cousin referred' to, is son of' Rev. and Mrs. James B. Dare, of Gar- j field, N. Y., and nephew of Mrs. Brit- . ton. The letter follows: "I was slightly wounded in -the last mix-up we were in and have been in a French hospital 11 days, where I a mnow. I am feeling first rate but the doctor says I am good for three or four months in the rear anyhow, and may never get back to the front, as things point to a speedy end. We were making our second attack in two days and advancing over open ground with patches of woods here and there when we unexpectedly ran into a Hun machine gun nest. I caught a bullet through the jaw, which, out side of knocking a few teeth out, J didn't do much. Itear teeth, and a j small scar the size of a bullet on each I side of the jaw. How lucky I was. j Some of the fellows aro so scarred they never will be recognized. Artil lery shells, and not bullets are what inflict the bad wounds. Expect to leave for southern France in a day or two, where I will spend most of the cold weather months. "It kind of jarred my jaw a bit when I got hit, so I have to have my teeth tied together for three months and eat through a hose. It's just un comfortable and not painful, so I do not mind it. The nurse in the room that I am in is a very good one and does everything possible, and the doc tors understand Just what to do. There are five Americans mixed in with the wounded French, but as none of us can say much with our mouths tied up, it doesn't matter much that there is ' no one to talk with. ' "Has Lester left home yet for the navy? Haven't heard from George but once since he came over, but he isn't much of a fellow to write anyway. I feel almost certain now that I will get back as good as ever, and as we havev been through quite a lot this summer, I am lucky to have gotten nothing worse than this. Am sorry to lose the good regiment I was in. but will try and get back if possible. It must be pleasing to read th ewar news back in the states now with the Huns on their knees. Had a letter from Mr. Paughbern, chief clerk at the Irving National bank, saying that the bank was about to publish a magazine, and would like an article from each one of its employes in the service, so I wrote a few lines about what has happened over here as I saw it. "It probably sounds funny, but I was made a corporal seven days before I was wounded, mainly because of the year's service over here, I think." Women's New WINTER COATS In Fabrics Most' Delightful New coats of wool velours, cash mere velour and other good fabrics some are pleated, some button trimmed, some have helts in front. All have the new high collars which button up to keep out the cold winds. Priced from $22.50 to $65.00 JMiv ) A Lower Priced Shoe Store That Welcomes all the Family It is a shoe department full of good wearing shoes, and ts y busy early and late smoothing people's paths and sending them light footedly along life's highway. Wee brother, big sister,;', mother, father and even granddad can be fitted here in the shoe best suited for their needs and the best part of it all is , that the prices never startle you. It isn't a case of "which; shall I have, a coat or a 'pair of shoes? for both can be had. and a hat besides, mayhap, when you come a shopping to or store. And what a fine lot of shoes for the children. Baby Kid Button, spring heel, size 5 1-2 to 8, all leathers, a . pair . . $1.88 Child's box calf Lace Shoes, boys or girls, small heel, solid' leather, sizes 8 1-2 to 11 1-2, a pair 9SJSO Child's kid button Shoe, small heel, 8 1-2 to 11 1-2, a pair.SSJSO Misses' box calf blucher lace, a heavy school shoe, solid leath er, school heel, sizes 12 to 2, a pair ... -92.88 Misses kid button school shoes, all solid leather, low heel, sizes 12 to 2, a pair .$2-88 Little Men's box calf lace school shoe, made of good solid calf leather, sizes 9 to 12, a pair -$3.25 Boys' Gun Metal Lace, English toe, all solid calf leather, sizes 2 1-2 to 6, pair 4-V Growing girl dress shoes in black and tan. English walking last, medium high lace, solid leather, in mahogany and black, sizes 2 1-2 to 6, a pair $8.SO Men's Cygolf union-made shoes in black, tan and mahogany colors, all solid leather, a pair, from $6.30 to' $8JM , Kidddies Love Our f TTT A TATTTV 1 LABI W Big shipment of Doll Reed Carriages have come in and are on display. Automobiles, Skudder Cars, Velocipedes, Doll Furniture, Wagons, Model Wood, Drums. Letthe children come in and make the selection. Specials in BOYS' PANT Boys' Corduroy Pants, sizes 6 to 17, a pair $1.25 Boys' Corduroy Pants, sizes 6 to 17, a pair $1.50 Boys' Corduroy Pants, sizes 8 to 17, a pair $1.75 Boys' Corduroy Pants, extra fine grade, sizes 7 to-18, a pair. . . .$2.00 Ladies' Home Journal Patterns for December styles on display at Pattern Counter. f if 17 IT 11 9 ,n,o ,r L. ,(.,.. The Store For Better Prices. Phone 272 DC Col. John VanB. Metts of the 119th infantry, 30th division, writes his Tath er. General James I Metts, under date of October 14, as follows: "Am out of the line again for a few day.., Our regiment -was Jgh ting three days and three nights, Having advanced all in all about 12 miles and captured 4, towns which have been German po sessions since 1914. Busigny Escau fort, St. Sauplet and Benin, all between Cambrai and St. Quentin, yet much farther east. "I hear the 30th has quite a reputa tion in Paris and London. In the last fight I had my headquarters in a beau tiful old home which of course the Ger mans have occupied and torn up for a long time but which was in tact ex cept that the Hun had cut all leather out of backs and seats of chairs and had broken up much furniture. The day after I moved out a shell knocked it to pieces. Got some Australians and horses. "I am getting on fine now that I had a bath this a. m., first in three weeks.- Slept in ,a real bed last night and had a good vegetable dinner from a Hun garden. - All this country was theirs a week- ago.. They have ;blown up two or three mines in middle of streets to stop- traffic. "All roads to the front are absolutely S0 block of vehicles and troops going and coming day and night and now. and then a shell gets some. Got one of our transports sometime back. Killed two animals and wounded three men. My regiment has of course had casu alties but mostly slight wounds. Young I Green Fenley was not fatally but bad ly wounded in the canal and tunnel fights. Unfortunately when wounded are evacuated to hospitals we aon r. know just where they are and I can't keep track of them." Friends in Wilmington will be inter ested in learning of the recent promo tion of Lieut. Dellmahn Osborne Hood, 307th field signal battalion, from first lieutenant to captain of his company. Captain Hood is the son of Mrs. Lisette B. Hood, of Charlotte, and a nephew of Mrs. Eloise B. Burkhelmer, of this city, .and is well and favorably known here. The news was received by Mrs. Hood in the following cablegram from her son, which was dated October 27: "Well and fine. In the big fight. Am now Captain Hood." Captain Hood won his promotion for distinguished service on the field. He is a grandson of Rev. Goddard Dellmann Burkheimer, for many years pastor of the Lutheran church in this city. Centrar Freight Tracins Office. Washington, Nov. 7. To aid ship pers in tracing freight shipments, . a central office has been established' at Atlanta under B. L. Winchell, director of the southern region, with the Ap proval of the United States railroad administration. The central organi zation will keep a strict record of the whereabouts of shipments and the in formation will be quickly available to shippers. HAWAII LACKS MAN POWER. Enlistments and Draft Have. Left Se vere Labor Prob-lem in Island. Hawaii has a labor problem no less than the United States aa a whole, for so many of, the young men of the islands have e'nlisted in the army and navy that the supply of workmen is at 'the lowest ebb in many years. Ef forts 'have been made there of late to interest native Hawaiian workers in field labor, for which in the past they have not shown an'- great liking. These men are able to make45 a month at present, .a wage which, in view of liv ing costs there, is considered sufficient. YOUNG A. C. L. SWITCHMAN KILLED AT SOUTH ROCKY MX. (Special Star Correspondence). Rocky Mount, NOv. 7. Herbert O. Smith, a young switchman in the em ploy of the Atlantic Coast Line rail road, was instantly killed in the yards at South Rocky Mount early yesterday morning as the result of an accident. It seems the young man was riding on the front of a shifting engine at the time. " Seeing that the locomotive was going to collide with some cars in front of it, Smith jumped. As he did so, he struck a car on the next track, fracturing his skull. Death re sulted almost instantly. The young man was 20 years of a.ge and had been employed in the city for over xne year. He was a son of Mrs. George A. Smith, of Marion, S. C. The remains- were sent to Marion, where interment will take place. RESTAURANT GREAT SUCCESS Assurance That They Present Practical Method of Savins Pnel. London has made a success of its na tional restaurant, which opened its door several months ago in New Bridge street. After meeting all ex penses, an average profit of 70 pounds or about $350 has been made. As the national restaurants and kitchens save fuel, they will probably multiply during the winter. Collective cooking for whole communities is one of the plana for saving coal now being discussed. In a Joint letter to the Morning Post, the coal controller and the director of the national kitchens have expressed their desire to co-operate in this' move ment and have invited the public to pursue the plan. The national restaur ant and kitchens are not only furn ishing the public with meals of good quality at a nominal price, but are also engaged In a campaign to save hun dreds of tons of coal which can be sent ffe Italy and France. Greensboro Lifts Ban. Greensboro, Nov. 7. Theatres, stores and other public places were re-opened this morning with the lifting of the quarantine against Spanish influenza. The board of education will decide upon the date for the re-opening of the schools. There have been few deaths from the malady in'Gullford county. Germans Leave Vienna. Amsterdam, Nov. 7. The German military mission has left Vienna, ac cording to advices from the Austrain capital. TWO ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF FRAU& Carpenter Foreman and Time Cheek On Government Work Alleged to Have Padded Payrolls. Norfolk, Va., Nov. 7 W. L. Whito. hurst, a carpenter foreman, and Row land E. Darling, chief time checker at the army engineering depot, urere'ar rested last night by agents of the de-, partment of justice, charged with, sys tematically defrauding the government by means of. padded payrolls. Officer of the department hint at other arrest in a short time, in connection with tfco alleged conspiracy. No statement, way given ouf regarding the amount -fl" money involved. .- The method used in defrauding thf government, according to the agents who investigated the alleged cbnspirV acy, was the addition of dummy names; to scores of payrolls submitted: to; Colonel G. E. Humphries, commander la" charge of the depot. Discrepancies .be', tween the check sheets o f active tfme. checkers on jobs and the chief .time checker's final reports. It is alleged, led to the investigation and uncovering" "of frauds charged. The operations ex, tended over months, it is also claimed;: Whitehurst was tonight released on bail, but Darling is still in custody. IplSlillllllii ... J '' .'.'--,. ' ..(.'.... i . i ' . r m"""""''""''" . .... .- . .i.UJ. .".'A '.'..'.'.y .i..nntT-nrrn n WCrX7'T7KCV7K:T:yXK7KCT. X ... .TTTTT!. , . ' yij tuEr.ratuvKRAms,im ' ' .Si lt u '14 n ft '1 Lester, to- wnom-.ne- ibi, sin. son otMr. and Mrs. B. B,,W'orden,;ot New. Jersey, who died ,c. - ; ' -V
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