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f 1 2 Volume XIX Published Tuesdays nd Fridays LENOIR, N. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1917 Price: Fit CenU a Copy No. 42 NE SE- 1EE-F WALKER S SENTENCE IS IFUEL VALUE OF AT GAMP SEVIER IT LEGTED FOR HOME GUiRQ IS Arc Now Fully Organised for Work ' Although 3,000 Negroes at Camp Defense Council Gives Out Names of Selected Men Will Hold First Meeting Soon and Elect Officers Tnei Teutons' Enemies Include Eigh- A Massive Petition Signed by Cald About Two Pounds of Wood Are) Required For One Pound of Coal Some Other . Facts .teen Nation and Nearly All well County and Lenoir Women Swayed Gov. Bickett and Gave Life to Boy Under the Direction of North Carolina Officer Jackson Only One Ha Been Arretted by Cirilian Columbia Police the White and Yel low Race f. More A' All four field hospital and four ambulance companies of the 105th sanitary train have now been organ ised. Three of the former and one of the latter units were national guard organizations, while the re maining field hospital and three re maining ambulance companies were organized by transfer within the di vision. The ranks of the train have been practically filled to their allowed strength, 900 men, by the assignment of selectmen, and each company now haa several officers. Each field hos pital company is allowed a major and five other officers, either captains or first lieutenants, while ' each ambu lance company is allowed one captain commanding and five other captains or first lieutenants. About 400 patients are in the base hospital at Camp Sevier, while the field hospital is handling perhaps 200 persons which the base hospital can not yet care for. Thirty trained' nurses of the army nurse corps and nearly 200 enlisted male attendants, in addition to the physicians, com prise the present staff of the hospital. The number of the nurses is to be increased to 50, and of the attend ants to 300. School at Remount Station Schools for packers and for team sters have been started at the re mount station. They will run for three months each, as will that for horseshoers, which has been in prog ress for some days. About 4,000 an imals have been received to date by the station. Some of these have been supplied the division, which finally will have more than 8,000 animals, while the remainder are still being cared for at the station. Classes of twenty officers each yes- tcrday began iiutroctiBn- in jyanmda Lieut. Martal and Aspirant Douay, the two Fsench officers who arrived last week. Other French and British officers are expected at any time. A working party has begun clear ing ranges on the site secured for a rifle range between the camp and Paris mountain, while Brig.-Gen. C. G. Catley, commanding the field ar tillery brigade, has inspected the ar tillery range site near Cleveland Mills, in the upper part of the county. Work on this is to commence Mon day. Ranges up to 1,000 yards will be cleared on the rifle range, and up to 7,500 yards on the artillery range Trenches, roads and similar object; will be the targets for the fire of the big guns. SOLDIERS BOUGHT $76.86 IN BONDS ON AVERAGE The "average" American soldier subscribed $76.86 to the second Lib erty Loan, making a total army sub scription of $89,273,650. Complete figures for the United States fighting forces published show that the en listed men, drafted men and officers, not satisfied Nwith offering their lives offered their dollars without stint. Partial reports from Gen. Pershing indicate that the American fighters in France rolled up a total subscrip tion of more than $5,000,000. The thirty-one cantonments in the United States subscribed $43,270,500, of which the national army units con tributed $23,733,900, and the nation al guard camps $19,546,600. The national army camps have a per cap ita subscription of $58.72, and the national guard camps $59.18. Camp Meade leads the former with $89.39, and Camp Cody leads the latter with $110.88. THREE U. S. SOLDIERS ARE KILLED) OTHERS CAPTURED Advancing under protection of, a heavy barrage fire, a German raiding party before daylight on Nov. 3 stormed a trench held by American infantrymen, killinc three, woundintr five and capturing twelve, according to dispatchesfrom Gen. Pershing re ceived by the war department. American infantry were in occupa tion of a small salient for instruction I when cut off from the main body by heavy bombardment of German ar- tillery. Gen. Pershingi reports the capture of one prisoner. Enemy losses are not known, says the dis- patch One of the best indications that Columbia will not have any serious trouble with the negro soldiers at Camp Jackson is that, although there have been upwards of 3,000 negroes at the camp for the past several weeks, not a single one has been ar rested by the military police. One negro soldier was arrested by the civilian police on a charge of being drunk, and this is the only arrest of a negro soldier at Columbia up to the present time. . "We have no trouble with the ne gro troops at all, and they make ex cellent soldiers for beginners," said Lieuts. A. S. Nelson and E. L. Spen cer, when here Sunday morning. Both Lieut. Nelson and Lieut. Spencer are officers in charge of training drafted negro soldiers in the First provisional regiment stationed at Camp Jackson. It is true there were a few deserters among the new negro troops, but this was because of homesickness," said Lieut Nelson. "Every soldier who left camp without leave has been brought back." Col. Edwin Bell, commander of military police, has given out a state ment that the conduct of the negro soldiers had been most exemplary. "The donning of the uniform of the army has not given them the 'big head,' as some persons expected it would," said Col. Bell. "On the con trary, I believe that it has instilled a desire in them to make themselves worthy of the uniform they wear and of the responsibility it has placed upon them." A party of four French army offi cers and six non-commissioned French officers have arrived at the camp to assist in instructing the national army men JAGmetw It is not known just how long the officers will remain at the camp, but it is certain that they will be there long enough to assist in installing a system of informing America's new army men just how the war of to day is carried on. Officers look for ward to entering upon the new study with much enthusiasm. E Expected That 10,000,000 Families Will Be On Rolls This Week Fake Messages to Dis courage People More than a million families were added to the food administration's pledge enrollment by Sunday reports, says Washington headquarters. The total as officially recorded now stands at G,4G9,4G7, and officials of the ad ministration think that pledges for at least 10,000,000 families will have been signed before the close of this week. Because workers in some sections have only fairly gotten under way, the campaign, which started a week ago, has been extended until next Saturday night. Vermont, with 53,785 pledges signed, is the first state to pass its goal. Its apportionment was 50,000. North Carolina turned in the banner report today, jumping from 165,000 to 224,910. California still leads the states with 446,562. Reports of attempts to interfere with the food pledge campaign con tinue to come in. A fake letter signed "Herbert Hoover" and an nouncing that a government inspect or would take over a percentage of home-canned goods, was circulated in Connecticut and in Iowa, fake pledge cards informing housewives that the government would take all in excess of 100 jars of their canned goods wero put out FINGER IS CUT OF BY FALLING RADIATOR Mr. George Miller of Hickory, while working on the new Methodist church, got one of his fingers mashed off the other day when one of the steam radiators turned over and caught his finger over a piece of tim- ber. . Fifty men in Caldwell county have been selected for the ranki of the North Carolina home gu'rd, as called for by Gov. Bickett T'f-eae men are being notified and as soon as their acceptance is turned in to the defense Wouncil a meeting will be held and the officers will be elected. Guns and uniforms will be furnished by the government The organization of home guards is to take the place of the state troops called into national service, They will be called out in case of riots and to do guard duty and other duties of a like nature when neces sary. The organization of the home guards is under the direction of the national defense council, which is working through the county organi zation. The chairman for Caldwell county is Capt. Edmund Jones. The other members are Messrs. George F. Harper, George O. Shakespeare, H. C. Courtney, J. W. Whisnant, V D. Guire and J. B. Atkinson. They are all taking i n active part in the work which they are called to do. Capt. Edmund Jones, chairman, announces the following names of the men selected for the ranks of the Caldwell home guards: L. B. Martin. Lenoir: J. Steele Greer, Legerwood; Artie Flowers, Le noir, Route 6; F. 11. Hoover, Lenoir David Bower, Lenoir; Ralph Parlier, King's Creek; C. D. Rabb, Lenoir; G C. Courtney, Lenoir; K. A. Link, Le noir; Ward Powell, Lenoir; J. A Bush, Jr., Lenoir; J. W. Whisnant Lenoir; R. F. Reins, Lenoir; Floyd Gash, Lenoir; D. W. Turner, Lenoir J. R. Ingle, Lenoir; J. G. Abernethy, Lenoir; Mark Goforth, Lenoir; Rus sell Presnell, Lenoir; Tom Seaboch, Guire Lenoir; E." DTVuVfiSVJirj W. H. McGowan, Lenoir; E. M. Hu kill, Jr., Lenoir; J. R. Todd, Lenoir Ransome Icard. Saw Mills; A. G Foard, Lenoir; R. S. Crisp, Lenoir Jasper Hoffman, Lenoir; W. W Branch. Granite Falls; D. M. Cline Granite Falls; J. L. Cottrell, Lenoir Hope Throneburg, Hudson; Munroe Cloer, Lenoir; J. T. Ingram, Lenoir; R. M. Bowman, Lenoir, Route 4; J. V. Gragg, Globe; M. H. Courtney, Lenoir; R. M. Jones, Patterson; T. C. Rash, Lenoir; H. B. Rash, Lenoir; Joe Anderson, Valmead; Fred S. McGow an, Lenoir, Route 1; I.. E. Corpening, Lenoir, Route 3; J. C. Clark, Adako; R. F. Munday, Lenoir; Joe Cowles, Lenoir; James Clay, Lenoir; Alfred Miller, Lenoir. PRISONERS ALMOST ESCAPED LAST THURSDAY NIGHT Last Thursday night about 12 o'clock Jailer P. A. Healan was awak ened by a noise overhead. On inves tigation he found thet the two pris oners upstairs, Rome Pearson and Harold had in some way escaped from the inner cage and were work ing on the window in the rear. Mr. Healan said that ten minutes more possibly would have been sufficient time for them to escape had he not arrived on the scene. He turned on the light and ordered them back to their cells and they went without fur ther trouble, but two more crest fallen were never seen. They were so near liberty and possibly had all their plans made as to where they would go, etc. However, they took the disappointment good-naturedly, one of them even displaying a post card with the picture of an automo bile on it, saying they intended riding away in it had they escaped. Rome Pearson will be remembered as striking at Mrs. Eugene Ivey with a quart bottle while she was out auto ing with Mr. Ivey one evening this past summer, and the Harold boy was put up recently for stealing a bicycle. Both are to be tried at the next term of court, which begins Monday. SON OF CALDWELL MAN FOUND DEAD IN AVERY Mr. Louis Rohbins, who lived in the Plumtree section of Avery coun- I ty, was found dead last Wednesday morning with a bullet through his heart. Mr. Robbins was a son of Mr. and Mrs, L. M. Robbins, who live out on Route Four from here. The News is unable to get any. particulars concerning Mr. Robbins' death than three-fourths of the world's population lives in the eigh teen countries at war with Uermany t her allies, according to compila- lfipns from government sources. The persons living within the cen tra) countries are outnumbered more than seven times by anti-Germanic populations, and the proportion is welled even higher if consideration fs taken of the populations of the ten countries which have broken re lations with the central powers. Ger many's enemies now include nearly 111 the white and yellow races, and the physical resources of about half the world's area are mobilized against pe forces of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. 'tor these reasons observers nere are watching intently the play of in fluences within the -few remaining neutrals, including Spain, Nether 14mls, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, and in America, Argen tina, Venezuela, Paraguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Salvador and Mexico. Similarly, unusual interest i3 felt b.ere in the future course of the na tions which have broken relations with Germany or her allies. These are Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Gau temala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay and San Domingo. It is pointed out here that, of the world's total population of 1,691, UOO.doO, about 1,342,000,000 live un der flags of the central powers' open enemies in the war. About 40,000, 000 inhabit the countries which have broken relations, and 132,000,000 are neutral, while the population of Ger many and her allies is about 177, 000,000. Of the world's total area of 57, 600.000 sauare miles. 27.000.000 are theGermanic allies control only 5,000,000. State department records show the following nations at war with Ger many or her allies: United States, Great Britain, France, Russia, Ser bia, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Rumania, Greece, Montenegro, San Marino, China, Cuba, Panama, Siam and Liberia. The alignment of these nations is shown by the formal declaration of war made since Austria precipitated the world strife on July 28, 1914, by declaring war on Serbia. These dec larations are as follows: Austria against Belgium, Montene gro, Russia and Serbia; Bulgaria against Serbia; China against Aus tria end Germany; Cuba against Ger many; France against Austria, Bul garia and Germany; Cermany against France, Portugal and Russia; Great Britain against Bulgaria, Austria, Germany and Turkey; Greece against Germany; Italy against Austria, Bul garia and Germany; Liberia against Germany; Montenegro against Aus tria; Panama against Germany; Ru mania against Austria; Serbia against Turkey; Siam against Austria and Germany; Turkey against all the en tente nations Nov. 23, 1914, and later against Rumania; United States against Germany. BRITISH TROOPS MAY BE IN JERUSALEM SHORTLY Gen. Murray's British army may be in Jerusalem by Christmas if his drive against the Turks in Palestine continues at its present rate of prog ress. An official statement from the Egyptian expeditionary force an nounced that on Thursday night the British had attacked the western and southwestern defenses of Gaza and captured the first Turkish line on a front of 6,000 yards. Turkish pris oners captured numbered 296. On Wednesday the occupation of Beersheba by the British forces to the right was formally announced. Both Gaza and Beersheba are about forty miles from the Holy City. LADIES OF REFORMED CHURCH TO HAVE SALE The ladies of the Reformed church will sell fancy articles, home-made cakes, candies, chicken pies, etc., at the Lenoir drug store Friday after noon. Your patronage will be appre ciated. Any one wishing to place a special order for a cake will leave the order with Mrs. Blackwelder and they will get just what they want. The death sentence given Charles Walker by the Caldwell Superior Court and sustained by the Supreme Court of North Carolina has been commuted to life imprisonment by Gov. Bickett. This is according to a message yesterday from Gov. Bick ett's private secretary, Mr. Santford Martin, to "Uncle Mose" Harshaw, Walker's attorney. The message gave none oi the reasons which prompted Gov. Bickett in this action of clemency. It reads as follows: "Hon. M. N. Harshaw, Lenoir, N. C. Charles Walker's sentence commuted to life imprisonment. (Signed) Santford Martin, Private Secretary." With the . statement of Gov. Bick ett it is surmised that the petition of a great number of the women of Lenoir and Caldwell county swayed the governor in granting clemency to Walker. Numbers of the best women of Lenoir and the entire county j signed this petition, which-held over Hire ehunarea names, said Mr. nar-; thaw yesterday. The petition also carried the ntunes of ten of the jury men who sat on the case when Walk- er was convicted. TOM HELTON IS PLACED IN JAIL SATURDAY NIGHT Mr. Tom Helton, who lives about ; four miles from town and who has been in bad health for the past sev eral weeks, was placed in jail last Saturday night to keep him from do ing violence to the members of his family. His mind has been unbal anced at times recently, say his friends, but he was not thought to be dangerous. However, last Satur day he secured his shotgun and a number of shells and threatened to llrill Via nls n) hiMrn,.-lul- s&a overpowered before any harm was done. In talking to Jailer P. A. Healon Sunday morning he said he had seen a vision and had heard the Lord tell him to murder his people and that he was only trying to carry out the Lord's command. He will be confined in the jail here until arrangements can be made to take him to Morpan ton. HEB II I VHGII Right Arm Is Cut Off and His Left Leg is Broken When He Fell Under a Mov ing Train ! inch wood four feet hyh and eight . Last Tuesday morning Mr. Bob feet loner is commonly sold as a Stine, son of S. Frank Stine, who "run," but contains only one-third of lives near Lenoir, while attempting ' a cord. to board a train at Fitzpatrick, W. Where wood is to be burned in a Va., was seriously though not fatally stove or furnace intended for coal injured. The extent of his injuries 1 it will be found desirable, the forest are: Right arm cut off just above the ers say, to cover the grate partly with elbow and his left leg broken below ( sheet iron or fire brick in order to re the knee joint. He was carried to a duce the draught. If this is not done hospital in Beckley City. W. Va., and his physicians say it will be at least eight weeks before he can be brought home. Messrs. Will Bush, Boone Munday and Bob Stine left Lenoir about a month ago for Maben, W. Va., to en gage in carpentry work there for some concern. The job was completed last Monday a week ago and the three were on their way to build some docks for the Ritter Lumber Company at a place about forty miles south of M.i' i a when the accident oc curred. Mr. Stine was walking up the slope to the platform as the train was com ing into the station. The platform extended clear up to the main line tracks, but it never occurred to him that the lower step would jut out far enough to strike him, but it did, strik ing him just below the knee and throwing him between the platform and the track: In falling he naturally threw out his right hand to prevent his head from hitting the end of a tie and it extended over the rail and was mashed completely off in fact, was thrown about twenty feet from where he lay, said Mr. Bush in telling of the accident. Mr. Bush says the (Continued on page two) Persons who plan to relieve the coal shortage this winter by burning wood can figure, roughly speaking, that two pounds of seasoned wood have a fuel value equal to one pound of coal, according to experts of the forest service. While different kinds of wood have different fuel values, the foresters say that in general the greater the dry weight of a non-resinous wood the more heat it will give out when burned. For such species as hickory, oakr beech, birch, hard maple, ash, locust, longleaf pine or cherry, which have comparatively high fuel values, one cord, weighing about 4,000 pounds. is required to equal one ton of coal. It takes a cord and a half of short leaf pine, hemlock, red gum, Douglas fir, sycamore or soft maple, which ! weicrh about 3.000 Dound3 a cord. to eoua a ton cf C0K, whi for cedaiv redwood( pop,ar( catapa) Norway Dine, evere?. basswood. SDruce and white m two eords weighine about 2,000 pounds each, are required. Weight for weight, however, there is very little difference between va-' rious species. Resin affords about twice as much heat as wood", so that resinous woods have a greater heat value per pound than non-resinous woods, and this increased value va ries, of course, with the resin content. The available heat value of a cord of wood depends also on the amount of moisture present. When the wood ' is green part of the heat which it is capable of yiciuiny; . ...ken up in evaporating the wa- .'he greater the amount of water . a Lhe wood the : more heat Is lost Furthermore, cords vary as to the ' ' tt Aiid.-sE-0l iky-eontain, -even when they are of the standard dimension and occupy 128 cubic feet of space. A certain proportion of this space is made up of air spaces between the sticks, and this air space may be considerable in a cord of twisted, crooked and knotty sticks. Out of the 1 28 cubic feet a fair aver age of solid wood 1s about 89 cubic feet This, however, applies to tne stan dard cord, in which the sticks are cut to four-foot lengths and piled four feet high and eight feet long. In- stead of buying the four-foot lengths. j however, most people nowadays have, 'the sticks cut into two-foot lengths I by a gasoli:ie saw. This results in I a saving of both time and labor. The purchaser should, however, take care j to see that lie gets full measurement j when wood is bought in this way. In ' p.irts of New England a stack of 16- the wood is wasted by being con sumed too fast, and makes a very hot fire, which in a furnace may dam age the fire box. It is pointed out, however, that heat value is not the only test of use fulness in fuel wood, and since 95 per' cent of all wood used for fuel is con sumed for domestic purposes, largely in farm houses, such factors as rapid ity of burning and ease of lighting are important Each section of the country has its favored woods and these are said to be, in general, the right ones to use. Hickory, of the non-resinous woods, has the highest fuel value per unit volume of wood, and has other advantages. It burns evenly and, as housewives say, holds the heat The oaks come next, fol lowed by beech, birch and maple. The white pines have a relatively low heat value per unit volume, but have tV advantages. They ignite readily and give out a quick, hot flame, but one that soon dies down. This make them favorites with rural housekeep ers as a summer wood, because they are particularly adapted for hot days i in the kitchen. The same is true of " gray birch, or "white birch" as it is often called, in the regions in whtcfc it abounds. With the resinous pines a drawback is their oily black smoke.
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