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A. .VENING Toda? Weather Forecast EGRAM THE c VUL.X. No. 126 FREEH SEVERE .BifflHD 1E1JT0N cause DEALT BY ALLIES Crown Prince Loses Nearly " Eight - Thousand Men ' Taken Prisoners POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN GERMANY SEETHING The French Penetrate the Ger man Line to a Depth of Over Two Miles and Now Dominate New Areas. ...Smashing against ('In' German lines :i .si iiiilo fniiif northeast ni'; S'.li. sons tin' French . have it : i i in po I, t :i n t k;( '..it. f I "" tin' Herman Crown l'lineo. 'I'll' si'Vi !i' blow also' brought.- tin' French mini' than 7,.")ii0 prisoners ami twenty t'fl lii'.-ivv n n r. . leneraTletuin mill' pletel an ctlcituc step toward Laon, tlic .southern rxti'iisinn nt' tin' Iliuden burg line and an important railroad "'I'i'iif iv which lies ton miles southeast of ( l.avignou where tin' I'l-eni'li advance attained iN jiirtiii-i! step, two am! one fift Ir miles tii, thr height, dominating rnigny,! iliim "and flic extension liiu' 'was sei A by the 11 i lich guns battling i .' ( .f i ui:i lis on tlic 'lull .nil nie .--.Mc of tlic A i I t-t t '-.river; ("!:av me ; in i i i t a lit t ill t lit-v .i-oii "to iH: i nt iladc : -fire into till' "I'f-' .OKI I a'OH; ill I'll I..1 ri ; in- 1l ha I'V lit- liellliail I. I I'M 11 I'l'lllcC V llO !.-'. iitn! to tin' northern':1 slopes ul' I ;.. ;.:r, ;i i 1 1 -3 i ii l; tin- Cliemin Pes t;.-s. "!. tin- lli-iniaii Ciown 'Prince i.li.v. may- m. tin' must severe !,.i .ni r s'tft red at Verdun. He lost .several divisions of his best tr:i,s iiu lii liny Prussian jjiia i 1 s, aim i ,-'" rushed (inward to hold the line jit all v. - ' ; liriH'iiil I'ntain ' 'masterly- stroke on t in' fores iiiian lines was iio'ithwaril of th" . rif Si, Gobain.. II is '-'ret iteinent 1 roiu ' tin' 0 - -front' Tin uu Hi tliis lino would probably :uisf I in : ii H to give up .-their:-. iu.'si'iit at. , I -'havignoir to St. Quenfin.i . Trench IkhI no "cn-sy task going hill against! I.Vilcf'cnsive eaveins lint their ii t ilh i v Iiit was very . i'l - ' t i1 e. ' political nffaiis in Germany an' seeth im again with the return of tin' Kin-. I.. Mor to' Berlin-.' All parties Krt'in im'liiii' I that 'liam-illoi M i-lin.lis must j;ii ami it i--. liar.Uy .rol.abli' tlr.it tlic Knii.-i or In- williny to oppose tliis agitation vi.'i out;. Wlietlier the Kinpi-ror w ill ,-ippoint another Prussian - Jttn I'.iuerat in M ieliaelis ' laee is lint yi-t .rli'ar. Home li'ii'leis favor I'riiii-e Vim Huelow. the former - ehaueellor, but " -Hoe in lists 'onpiit.ion against him if 'till very stroui. OEEMANS EETIEE ON UIOA FEONT. Iteiln., O.'t. -I. -On a nli) irnnt be tue.'ii the C 1 i 1 1 f " of Hie;a ami- the fvinn the Ceiinan troops have been with ili.iwn without interruption from the eiieinv niniv lieU'lipiarters anoiini '.1 to .lav. The nith.lrawal tol; pla nijjht. stiii'la STEAMERS CRASH INHARIJOR TODAY An Atlantic Port, Oct. 24. A Jap anese Mcnmship laden with munitions, rammed and sank the I,:t0O ton lumber steamer Katah lin here last night. The ook of the vessel sunk is missing. The Katahdin is from Georgetown, .-v and had a cargo of one million feet of k'ln- dried southern pine. The dap nincse steamer had her bow stove in. o o COTTON MARKET o- New Vork. Oct. 2L There appears to be a good many overnight, selling orders at the opening of the cotton market today and first prices were .1 4 n..,A nn;.,l. Ino-Ar Tlimn ' " , ' . . ' , n r...... it 'll ,f cnveriniT hv shorts and good buying by Liverpool and trade interests, which soon rallied prices with! Oct. selling at 20.2."i, making a new high record for the sensniwPec. nnd .Ian. advanced about 10 to 1l points net hj"hcr. Cotton closed barelv steady Oct. 20. le, '.!io. .Tan. .2! March 27.01 Mav 2'".!n. New York, Oct. 24. Cotton futures opened steady. Oct. 20.1.1; December 27.i;0; Jan. 27.H, March 2C.j; May Mm. X. T. Keel, left TPsterday for Greensboro, where she will visit her - ddueMer; Miss Gladys Keel, who 1 at s teing the Grcfnsboro College for Wo- men. ADVANCE SEVERE BLOW TO mans;? sustain heavy losses MiEiI('S JOIN CANADIANS IN OPENING - ctr Calgary ( - " ' ' i WmwMM S Pri i n3 Wheat in ALKt-H r a ' Am".rici!ris are nut . only eagerly- crossed the border this year to tak-i wealth to fanners, p'-owing' their, owiv farms snd back-:.' up Canadian Pacific land- as in 1916. Many settlers are .this year clear vai lis but are going to (Canada .in ami that these new settlers bought i ing their land of all indebtedness. ' large nuinbers to' help (heir cousins three times as miich land. i lwo seasons ol crops does, it theso rorth -t the border .reducu thi; uu- (j. S. Noble, an .American, holds ! davs. 1 hev are thus accomplishing tillr-ii a; t eat'e the record for growing the largest j in two years what they planned to do -. Cusudu- lii-s mai.y u.Oie siiuuro t Canadian w heat clop on bus 1,000- in twenty. . ROCKY MOUNT I FAR FROM GOAL $1-10,000 Must be liaised Be fore $150,000 Is Sub scribed ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT Unless Subscriptions Come in Very Rapidly Rocky Mount will be Among Few To Fail to Subscribe Their ""Allotment. Koekv Mount is stil nal of if 1 Ojl 0 in tin eainpaigii. Total figures up to last nieht sliowe with still . 1 10,0011 to tar ftom the Liberty I.oan of subseript ions 1 only ir:Uil.00U be rnised. The 111 t el this' t in i-ek" the 'inipain liad ilw iinlb snbseri I'ri'in the tions which hac been lemarkably low. Kneky . Mount can raise the remaining l tii.O'H1, so why not get busy and 'In it. Other cities in North Carolina have gone far over the mark set for tliem, and many, of them have at least sub scribed their allotment, while very few have failed to come up to the desire.l goal. Why can't Kncky Mount at least subscribe .ft 5i 1,1 II in .' It other cities th size of liocky Mount, with a similar amount allot ed 'To them can do so why can't the people of this city- ilo it? The news comes from Gohlsboro,whosft I allotment was $700,000, that the sub ' scr'ptions there have totaled a million j or .V.'IOOMHI more than the desired sub scription Think of what Gohlsboro has done. Oversubscribe 1 as much as Kocky Mount has subscribe. I. If Koekv Mount leads the wav everv dav, Roekv Mount, , . , , , , , . . ,, . ,,:i.;.. i her allotment to the cond I.ibertv Loan of U'17. The money is here just as it is in any other city, so why can't it be raised? There will have to be some .mightv hard work done to raise $140.- t " OOO todav and tomorrow, and unless th citi.ens of Ko.-ky Mount, w flf have not done so, come across with their subscriptions, Hoi ky Mount is going to be among the very few who have fail d, when the government called for help Can thc-.jieople of this city brag over being loyal and-patriotic, if they fail to show it I Let those who have not sent in their application for a bond or bonds do so now. If you can't fight, the least vou can do is to biiv a bond. Elder O, J. Denny, of Charlotte, who was to speak at the Primitive Baptist church, at the Falls tomorrow, will be unable to 11 his appointment, owin to icknew. . OCKY MOUNT, N. miles of land than the Linitcil States ' aero fa:m at NoMeford, Alberta. Ha 'and the problem of putting her land : made a profit of $100,001) last year under crop and of Retting her cropland will this season have under to elevators and tidewater, is always i cultivation 3,000 acres, a plant's task. Farming- as a business end a big i figures from the Canadian Pacific.: business is taking . on prosperous railway's land department show that- proportions. Prices as they have seven times as many Americans i been for the past three years mean Ml 111 E Want to Reach Agreement With United States Re gards Recent Law CRITICS ARE RAMPANT The Government Organ Says Matter is I' Adjusted as Rapidly as Possible. Christiana. Nnrwav Oi t. .2-l.-Com- mcntinc oa the recent Amerieau nt 1 1 eial statement eoiu'.erning exports ".from the I'niteil States to neutral countries a Christiana newspaper the government organ',- says Norway is doing lier best to arrive at I'nite.l. States s tntenient w 1 :in agreement, as Minn as pm with the silile. The to other ade repl newsft:iiers whii-h tire ilemaiuling mole active steps for asettleinent of the ifif fieiilty before Norway is faced with famine. RECEPTION TO CLARK STREET MEMBERS Hev. and Mrs. H. i. Slaughter last night gave a reception to members of the I 'lark street Methodist church, at the new parsonage on Clark street. Many were present,' and all enjoyed a must delightful evening. Tempting refreshments in the form of ice cream, fruit punch, cake' and other good things were served. The new parsonage of the Clark street church was completed a few weeks ago an "'"" occupim, ny ,ne pasu.r a,,., his familv. It is an attractive residence and i9 a credit to the church. READYTD RESIGN Has Placed His Portfolios in the Hands of Emperor William Says Dispatch To- . day.' ' London, Oct. 24. Dr. George Mich aelis, the) German Imperial Chancallor, has placed his portfolio in the hands of Kuiperor William, according to an Amsterdam dispatch given out by the wireless press. I HIS MBARGQ RAISED M S C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNON OCTOBER 21, 1917. NEW FOOT) SOH?CES 11 1 1 1 m mm - i ' Apple and Corn Crop Reliev ed to Have Been Damaged ALL WIRES ARE DOWN A Heavy Snowstorm Starts Falling This Morning and Continues During the Morning. Winchester. a., Oct. 21. Wire com munication in northern Virginia is 'interrupted-and heavy damage to the ap ple and corn . crop is feared becarrse of alicavy snow storm which began at day break. Thousands of barerls of ap I!!1J'"' s' '" '" "rdiards and ;n-nc- t icall v the ent ire crop is in the iicl l. MRS. F. E.WARF DIED YESTERDAY Mrs. Y. V.. Warf, age 6.'!, a well known lady of this section, died yes terday at her home in Nash county, in South Whitakers township, about live miles from Koekv Mount. Mrs. Warf had just returned from Richmond, after a short visit, and yi-sterday morning the end came, her death being attribut ed, to heart disease. She is survived by several children and other relatives. He husband pre ceded -tier to the grave several years ago. She is one of the old residents of this section, and. has a host of friends, th whom the news of her death will be known with regret The funeral will he held this after noon at ."! o'clock and interment will take place at Proctor burying ground, near the city. The services will be con ducted by the Rev. Frederick Piehl, rec tor of the Church of the Good Shepherd STOCK MARKET New ork, o.-t. 24. The observance of Liberty Day told on the Stock mar ket this morning and the market was generally sluggish and inactive with the shipping group manifesting the greater strength, while the industrials hesitated and there was a general in aetivitv in -rails. LibrrtT Bond of the issue of 3 1-1 were fluoted at th outset t P9.73, bnt within leu than half a hour of the opening rose to 99.80. . VALLEY VI 6 N SUFFERS A SNOW E Nine Thousand Pounds Sold Here Yesterday. Aver age of 75 Cents SOLD AE FENNER'S One Lot of the Weed, Weigh ing 9,539 Pounds, Sells for $7,229.67, Average $75.63 Per Hundred. Grown by South Carolina Planter I M it ev er ur to you that: 0,000 o would sell at an pounds of tuba'cei average ol over per pound .' It was seventy Ive cents lone here y esterdn V it t'eiinei al ehouse. One lot of to baci-o, Weighing '.'(."fiil pounds, sold lit average ot, 7."i.fi.i per hundred Mr. I!. P. Williamson, of Par a (im pound lington, South Carolina, was the own er of the tobacco,- and the lot was sold tor $7.22!t.i. The lot consisted of wrap pers, and was grown on Mr. A illiam- son s tarin at the South Carolina, citv. .One pile of u 1:11 'pounds sold! at 1,01 a poniul, another of mo pounds sold at ii met v in ne cents n pound and many other piles sold above the ninetv cent mark. Mr. Williamson came here with nine thousand pounds, and he lacked onlv about two thousand of carrving back as manv lollars. Koekv Mount has set up a record that die can afford to crow over, and if anv other market can eonio across au 1 bent this, thev will be going some. Tobacconists here, who have had con siderable experience in tint South Car olinn and Kentuekv fields, as well lis in the old. North Htate, sav that never before, since thev tbecatne human be ings on this great planet, have they heard of sucji a record price for a like amount of tobacco. Home other markets have hung up a record aver age somwhcre iln fio neighborhood of forty or fiftv cents a round, flap ped their wings and crowed over t, while- Koekv Mount has not said any thing. But these above averages wilt now be relegated to a back sent, because all known price averages have been broken. 1 his sale was the chief topic of the conversation in-tobacco circles vesterilav, and hundreds of those who don't know anvthing about the golden weud commented on it in astonishment. It is another argument for Koekv Mount as having one of the foremost markets In the State, and second to the largest, bright leaf market in the world. The reputation of the local market has gone forth tor miles around and many farmers, who ordinarily sell their weed nt a nearer market to their homes, come all the wav to Rocky Mount, where, thev know thev can get the highest prices. Mr. Kenner s reputation as a tobae nonist nnd warehouseman lias also gone out, as can bo seen bv the fact that Mr. 'WilliaDison, living in a town where a tobacco market is located, and hav- lnir access to manv others, took the trouble to send his shipment all the wav to Mr. Fenner at Rocky Mount to have it sold: at a price average higher than ever known in the history of to- bnccodom. when such a large amount of the weed was involved. Most- likely the crowini over price averages V.1 1 !"Bll 0 w7t -considembl e set back until some market will be able to beat this: and it is not very proba ble that any of them will beat it any time soon. Mr. Fenner also made, another average vrrferdav that will be hard to beat. IPs sales for the day were 9.1,.'lfi.r) pounds at an average price of $.'!7.i5 per hundred pounds. This is going some, and is the highest average for such n large amount of the weed ever made in this section. WINTER WILL NOT HALT ALLIED DRIVE Washington, Oct. 24. Military ex perts here do not expect winter to halt the great allied drive against the Ger mans in Flanders. Secretary Baker's weekly review of war operations issued last nUrht discloses the belief of the War Department that poteucy of ma terial and men will enable the British and French commanders to triu'tnph over natural obstacles and continue forcing the enemy backward without waiting for spring. The review touches for the first time 0)1011 the American expeditionary forces in France, declaring the men, after three months intensive training are in efficient fighting trmi and splendid phy sical condition. In dwelling upon the importance of the battle of Flanders and its effect up on the morale- of the Germans, the war secretary declares it apparent that the German high command planned the re- cent expedition against the Russians to bolster up morale and meet impend ing internal difficulties. By expending her lines in the east, he adds, Germany has merely added to the length of her line of communications and has increas ed confidence ia the final allied victory. T 0 AVERAGES BROKEN EARLY PEACE NOT IN SIGHT I W mbassador Stovall Today is a Guest at the White Louise EXIJECTA REVOLUTION The Ambassador Says Eco- nomic Conditions are Very Bad and Growing Worse In the German Empire. Washington, Oct, 24. No immediate prospect nt , peace, despite ticrniany s gradual weni ning morale in the civilian population and the army is seen by Pleasant A. tnfovall, 'minister to Switz erland, who called oil President Wilson to-dav on his first return, from his post in tour viTirs. " The Gorman people" said Mr. Stovall "are slowly realizing that tin' war is a total, failure as this spirit glows it will cnuse some sort of a revolution, but I lo not think and one can not forecast, what form it will take, Food and other economic condi tions in Germany are very bail and are growing worse. .. .Switzerland" the ministar continu ed "was genuinely neutral and will not abandon that position, .. MEN KILL A Much Dissatisfaction in Var ious Bodies of German Troops British Front in France and Belgium, Tucsi-Iav, Oct. ''2.1. In one of the re doubts captured from the Germans Mon dav northeast of -Vpres, according to re liable information Brititsh troops found a German officer who had been executed bv his own men. Many tales are going the rounds among the British soldiers indicating much dissatisfaction among the various bodies of ' German troops. Very otteu soldiers charged with dis sortions ami other violations of military law escaped with slight punishment. Ac, cording to prisoners, this is something new for Prussian militarism. LAW UPHELD TO MAKE CAPITAL DRY Washington, Oct, 24. The law which makes the National capital dry Nov, 1st was upheld as constitutional in the local supreme court which dismissed the nttneks of liquor dealers. FORTUNES IN METAL UNDER N. Y. STREETS New Vork, Oct. 24. Kxpcrts esti mate the copper wires and lead protect ed cables in transmitting electrical current under the streets of New York Citv at thirty million pounds of copper worth approximately, seven million five hundred thousand dollars and four mil lion pounds of lead worth about four million eight hundred thousand dollars. LEAF TOBACCO GETS NEW RECORD W iiiston-Sniem, Oct. 21. The Wins ton leaf tobacco, .market smashed all previous known records for this or any other market when it sold- 579,HHO pounds for $20.'i,0!'1.33 and an average price per hundred pounds of $35.17. TAKES A HAND Declares Cuba Will Expel Foreigners WTto Try to Foment Trouble . in Sugar Industry. Havana, Oct. 24. President Meno cal issued a proclamation last night warning all foreigners who instigate or encourage strikes in" the sugar pro ducing region that they will be consid ered pernicious and will be expelled from Cuba. The president directs the civilian and military authorities to take proper action declaring there are on the island a number of foreign citizens of different nationalties who have been endeavoring to fomost strikes for the intention of jeopardizing the production of sugar. "Has there ever been insanity in your family f" thundered the lawyer. The witness jtaled. " I have an nncle," he stammered, "who insists that you are one of the aUest attornevs in the State." I GERMAN OFF GEH PRESIDENT CUBA PRICE: FIVE CENTS ALL COMMUNITIES THE RESPOWID TODAY To Pass the Three Billion Mark Tonight It Is Believed RICHMOND DISTRICT RAISES ITS QUOTA No One Was Willing to Fore cast How Near the Four Billion Mark the Amount Would go Today. Washington, Oct. 24. Not a commun. ity in the United States so far as the Liberty loan managers have learned. have failed to respond to the call for tomorrow's big drive. How far toward the five billion goal the subscription. total would be enrriotl no one was will ing to forecast. It apeared certaln,how over, in the light of advices, that the two million workers throughout the na tion Would roll up a mammoth total Liberty day dawned with les than half of the big total taken. Liberal estimate from all reserve districts indicated that $2,4 (15,(100,000', 'had been subscribed up to the close of business last night. Sub seriptions by the reserve districts as announced by the Treasury department includes Richmond 110,000,000. GOLDSBORO EE ACHES THE MILLION MASK Goldsboro, Oct. 24. Though this city was assessed $700,000 as its proportion . for the Liberty Bond issue. Liberty bond day has been an occasion for great effort here and this city at noon today completed an unofficial canvass which discloses that the city has subscribed over one million dollars for this the second issue of the Liberty bonds. The loyal work of influential citizens who have for the time- being aparently east off everything else and plungoii into the task of selling these bonds explains the gratifying total which was revealed at the noon hour todayv ! A. C. L. BTJYB MANY BOND8 LIBEBY LOAN Wilmington, Oet. 24. The Atlantic Coast Line Railway Co. today euthoriz ed the purchase of one half million dol lars worth of Liberty bonds. CAMP OEEEN ' MILLION AND QX7AETEE Charlotte, Oct. 24. Oficers and tan of the forty first division at Camp Green subscribed or $181,000 second Liberty loan bonds today, bringing the total subscriptions for the campaign to $1,205,000. . DOINGS OF THE BOYS IN FRANCE American Field Hcadquartersranea Oct. 10 (By Mail) "Ah, you Ameri cans, ' ' said an elderly woman today. "Nous Hommes Allies. Do you see that field over theref In August, 1914, my man received tho call to the colors aa he swung the scythe into the wheat. -I was gathering it and tying the sheaves I finished the harvest of 1914; I plant ed and harvested for two years alona but before the next harvest, I hope. you American soldiers will send the old man back here to me and that wheat field. The "old man" can't get back in time to do much work on the harvest of 1H17. The "old woman" has done if allj But she is pinning her hopes on tho Americans and looking ahead Two weeks ago the first of those "pores" walked in on his family and announced that he had come back to help do the harvest. In his case it was not yet the Sammies bat a contingent of American motor transport drivers of the American Fheld Service but "in time" the Sammies will be relier ing the "obi man" for work less strea uous than Boeho killing. . . .t .. . OVER 38 MILLION IN WORLD UNDER ARMS Washington, Oct. 24. At least 38 000,000 men are bearing arms in the war 27,500,000 on the side of the world allies andl0,600,000 on the side of the Central powers, according to latest War Department compilations from publish ed reports in various countries. These figures do not include naval personnel strength, which would raise the total several millions. Against Germany's 7,000,000 Austria's 3,000,000, Turkey's 300,000 and Bul garia's 300,000, are arrayed the follow ing arrail forces: Russia 9,000,000; France 6,000,000; Great Britain 5,000,000. Italy 3,000,000; Japan 1,400,000; United States more tSan 1,000,900; China 541,000; Rumania 320,000; Serbia 300,000; Belgium 300, 000; Greece 300,000; Portugal 200,000; Montenegro 40,000; Siam 36,000; Cuba 11,000. and Liberia 400. San Marino and Panama also have small forces under arms. Military experts do not regard tlie- figures as entirely accurate, but b. vf they represent in roundnumbc-s t' -comparative Ptrength of the en: ' ing armies as jul'Ld r - l-.';-. NATION
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