AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM THAT BRINGS RESULTS ONLY $1.50 PER YEAR v IN ADVANCE A. F. Johnson, Editor and Manager. THE COUNTY, THE STATE, THE UNION. Subscription $1.50 Per Year ? ' %... . 4 ' v = VOLUMN XLVI. LOUISBURG, N. C., FRID AY, APRIL 27TH, 1917. NUMBER 11 A REAL BATTLE IN LOUiSBURG OM FRIDAY SIGHT, BIT NOT GER MANS. *?' Only Officer* After Supposed Blind Timers or Whiskey Transporters? About Twenty Shots Exchanged. The Inhabitants of Loulaburg In the vicinity of Strickland's store on the South Bide of the river y/ere quite excitedly aroused on last Friday night Just after midnight, when Chief High and a number of officers attempted to halt an automobile supposed to lw transporting whiskey, and were tired on by the parties and the officers re turning the fire. From Information furnlsned us, it seems that during the evening' Chief High had a message from Chief Cooko that some parties had boarded a train at Frankllnton for sotrie northern points for the purpose or bringing hack some liquor and were expectcd hack that night and to look out for them. He at once got together a posse composed of Constable R. W. Hudson and Messrs. B. H. Meadow3.' Ellis Ramey, J. E. Thomas, F. M. I Fuller and Clyde Collier and at the I proper time took cars and went out the Frankllnton road to Mr. O. II. j Harris farm to await the arrival of the parties under suspicion. While waiting there the party saw the re l'cctlon from a car on the river r >ad alnut a mile across from whera^they were aiy| supposing this to be tne on? they wanted the posse returned to Loulsbufg to take the other road Upon coming down Main street just after passing Strickland's store they met a car and recognized two parties wanted, Haywood Foster ana Seth Mitchell, whereupon the officers de manded them to halt, but Instead they put on more speed and began firing at tile officers, which of course the officer j returned. However the shot* did npt serve to stop the car but tt kept going and before the officers could turn their cars around and give them chase they had gotten away. The officers .then began a search for information to assist them ! and learned that the car Belonged to ' a colored school teacher named Wm. Allen, near Frankllnton who stated | he had rented his car that night to ) Seth Mitchell and that he had re- j peatedly done so for the purpose of 1 hauling whiskey, as he believed al -1 though ho had never seen or tasted the whiskey himself. While seeking this information the officers overtook Hence- Mitchell en route rrom Frank llnton to Louisburg with a suit case full of empty pint bottles. Seth and Haywood were given a' hearing before 'Squire A. W. Al ston on Monday and as a result were bound over to court under a $500 b'e no charge to the pat rons and children of the school. An invitation is cordially extended to tho public to be present during all the ex-1 ercises. Little Martha Ferry*"Dead. The home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Perry was made sad on Monday after noon when death claimed their little six year old daughter, Martha Rosn. She had been sick only a few day? when her illness developed into Mlnin gitif* which resulted in her death. She was a sweet little girl who haa won a place of love not only among her own household but among her playmates and acquaintances. Be sides her parent* she leaves, one bro ther and six sisters. The funeral services were held Tuesday- at Maple Springs, conducted by Rev. G. M. Duke an? tne Inter ment was made in the beautiful lit tle cemetery adlolning the church. Quite a large number of friends and relatives were present to witness the aervices. The floral tribute was pro fuse and beautiful. The bereaved parents have the deep est sympathy of the entire public. Approves $54,000 OO^Loans. ? The* Directors of the Louisburg Farm Loan Association met In Louisburg on Thursday of last week and approved applications for loans to an amount in excess of $54,000.00. These pa pers have been forwarded to the Dis trict land bank for their approval, fic tion upon which is expected to bep'n at once. % Dr. S. Burt* Returned'home Sat urday from a trip to Richmond. GEBJIa.VS hendek bodies DEAD THOOFS FOB OIL AM) FEBTILIZEB. Story of Awful Efficiency Verified by Pdblliiitiini In Berlin Newspaper - Pope Hurrlfied at the Beports? Factory Hidden In Bemote Forest. Rome, April 21. Pope Benedict has been "horrified" and haa expressed deep indignation over the reports of Germany's system of rendering fats and fertilizers from the oodles of ssl dter dead, according to an artijls printed today by the newspaper In tormazione. London, April 21.?(Cable dispatch to. the New York Sun.)?That the tiannans are systematically collect ing the corpses of their dead and shipp.ng them ?o rendering plants WMff 'hey are BU're'.tcd to a proces? for YV I'verlng tli? o i and fats 'Ct o-e as fertilizers seems incontestable borne out by the.latest information. When such stories were first -pub lished they were generally disbeliev ed. American consuls formerly !n Germany who arrived here arter their recall said the Germans were distill ing nitroglycerine from the corpses and bo obtaining the essentials of ex plosives . % Boast of Efficiency. It now develops that the German censors are allowing the German pi pe re to print accounts or and even to boast about the efficiency which al lows Loth ing to be wastea. The Bel gian newspaper L'Independence Belgo of April \0, prints an account of th* industry, in which it says: "We have long known that the Ger mans stripped .their dead behind the firing line, fastened them into ban dies of three or four bodies with iron wire and then dispatched these bun dles to the rear. Until recently trains laden with the dead were 3ent I to a tb*n near e and a point near LJfigt ch^Au Brussels. Much^fturprise was cruis ed by the fact that of late this traf fic has proceeded in the dlrecUetv. cf Gerolstein, and that on each wagon was written D. A. V. G. "German science is responsible for the idea of the formation of tne Deut sche Abfalle VerwerttmgsgesellschaCt. or German Offal Utilization Company. Ltd., a dividend earning company, with a capital of $240,000. The chief factory has been constructed 1.000 yards from the railway connecting St. Vitli, near the Belgian rrontier, with Gerolstein, in the lonely and little fre quented Eifel district southwest of Coblentz. Guarded by Live Wires. "The factory deals especially with 'the dead from the western front. If the resultB are as good as the com pany hopes, another will he estab lished on the eastern front. The factory is Invisible from the railway and is deep in the forest country. Electrically charged wires surround it. A special double track leads lo it. The works are about 700 feet long. 110 feet broad and the railway runs completely around them. "The trains arrive full of bodies which are unloaded by workers who live at the works. The men wear oil skin overalls and masks with mica eyepieces and are equipped with long hooked poles. They push the bun dles of bodies to aq endless chain which picks them up by means ol hooks at intervals of two feet. The bodies are transported on an end'.ess chain into a lon.g, narrow compurt ment where they pass through a bath which disinfects them. They go through a drying chamber and are au tomatically carried to a great cauld ron into which they are dropped by an apparatus which detaches them from the ohaln. Employes Held Like Prisoners. "They remain six to eight hours in the cauldron, where they are treated by steam, which J^ean them up while they are slowly stito^edjjy ma chinery. The fats aVe broken into stearlne, a form of tallow and oils which require to be redistilled before they can be used. Distillation is car ried out by boiling the oil with car bonate of soda, and some part of the by-products resulting is used by the soapmakers. The refined oil Is sent out In small casks like those used for petroleum and is yellowish, brown. "There is a laboratory, and in c harge of the works is a chief chem ist, with two assistants and 78 men. There Is a sanatorium near the works, and under no pretext is any man per mitted to leave. They are guarded as prisoners at this appalling work*." Story In German 1'uper. . The London Times reproduced the | foregoing account Monday, but it was so horrible that it seemed unbeliev- j ahle. The Time* today presents t Close Call; Didn't Fire. steamship was chased five miles by the German sea raider Seeadler oft the coast of Brazil, April 12, accord ing to the captain of the vessel, which reached this port today. The Seead ler, previously reported by the victims of her raids on their arrival at Rio Janeiro, was formerly the American bark Pass of Balmaha, into which the Germans had fitted gasoline motors. The captain of the steamship which is engaged in the South American trade, said the raider was sighted at 6 o'clock in the morning bearing, down on him at a point thirty-nine mile* north of the Equator, and between 200 and 300 miles off the coast. The pur suer, he said, put on all speed mak ing about 13 knots an hour.- As this was slightly less than his own vessel's speed, he was able to throw her off after a desperate chase. Although within range, the raider did not attempt to fire on him. She had Norwegian flags painted on her sides, he said, and mounted two guns, apparently' of eight-inch calibre. This is the first report of the opera- . tions of the Seeadler since crews from shlpsshe sank reached Rio Janeiro March 31. American Ship Sinks Submarine. London, April 25.?Captain Rice of I the American steamship Mongolia which has arrived at a British port told the Associated Press today that the Mongolia had fired the first gun of the war for the United States and sunk a German submarine. The naval gunners on board made a clean hit at 1,000 yards. The peris cope was seen to be battered. | The submarine, Captain Rice said. I was ?bouL.k> attack the great liner (ii i British waters on April 19/ He de clared there was absolutely no doubt that the U-boat was hit, and that there -was every-reason to believe It waa rtc? stroyed. Even more pertinent a fact, as re gards the ultimate fate of the subma rine, was that the shell disappeared immediately after the hit was made. The captain stated that a Bhell always ricochets in the water and can be j seen again unless it finds its mark. | Oil also was seen on the water after the submarine disappeared. The Mongolia was going at full speed and was a long distance away when the spray and foam subsided, but from the bridge the officers observed the spot through their glasses and they are confident the submarine was sunk. The periscope was sighted dead ahead on the last afternoon of the voyage. The captain gave the ordor for full speed ahead with the inten tion of ramming the submarine. The periscope disappeared and a few minutes later reappeared in the ship's broadside. The gunners fired, hitting the periscope squarely and throwing up a mountain of water. New York, April 25.?The American steamship Mongolia, a vessel of 13, 638 tons, owned by the International Mercantile Marine Company left an American port for England on April 7, on her second trip since Germauy s submarine declaration of February 1. French Mission Beaches Capi" ?1 Sometime Today. WASHINGTON, April 25.?The French war commission to the United States, headed by Rene Vlvlani. vice premier and minister of Justice, and General Joffre, was speeding up the Potomac today aboard the presiden tial yacht Mayflower bound for Wash ington, The party was due to reach hero shortly after noon. Foreign Minister Balfour, head of the British war com mission, was among those who ar ranged to greet the French party hero. The arrival of the French leaders permits the beginning of formal con ferences between the represntatlve* of the allied nations and American offic ials over ~the part'the United States may play In the war against Germany Lawyers In the Legislature. "Subscriber" asks how many law yers there were In the last General Assembly, 'fhere were 65 lawyers,Itj the General Asaejirbly?39 In the House and 26 In the Senate.?News Observer . :"v Inpleslde Commencement. The commencement exercises at ln glesidc Academy will begin Tuesday. May 1st. at eight P. M. Wednesday May 2nd. at eleven A. M# Dr. Cullom of the faculty of WakJ Forest College, will make the com mencement address. We are very fortunate in securing the service of Dr. Cullom. He is well known in this community because or hia pas torje in the Corinth Baptist cnurch. The exercises Wednesday night be ginning at eight o'clock, will conclude the commencement exefcises. At this time a small door fee of fifteen and twenty-flve cents will be charged, the proceeds of which are to go for the benefit of the school. Come everybody to each of these exercises, you ate welcomed. ? Seed Sweet Potatoes. It Is advisable to plant SEED SWEET POTATOES extensively. In dications are that there will not be anythinglike enough Irish Potatoes to plant for late crop for winter use. Seed sweet potatoes can be obtained at the present time without and dif Acuity, and as they make an admir able winter food cr^p and are likely to be very profitable, farmers should put in as large an acreage as possi ble. Sweet potatoes are also one of the surest crops .the soutl^rn farmer can grow.?Wood's Crop Special. ?"V Mr. and Mf?. Georze Lewis return ed Frld^^from their bridal trip. ? . V?,v< Vj . ' ? ...