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LENOIR. N. C, huDAf, DECEMBER 28, 1 917 PeiiiAed TVoedays and Fridays Pricei Fire Cents Cepr No, ST imi.UiS WREST FROM leiiemg pits In Italian Highlands Weevil Brenta , the Battle Raged All Day Ctri.t- fira:i!JEIT 1ES MPEROB.WiLLlALl HAS U ; CLOSE GALL AT TROflJ BURNS TO DEATH III. . L . LITAKER SELECTED T GRANITE FALLS JAIL T AS TEACHER AT Secretary McAdoo ! Cheeea by Free- The Eaaperor's Train Had Beeai Com Yowsg White Man, Who Was Locked WaH-PUjed and Exciting Game- Summer School to Be Held in Dor hem; Teacher Selected From Prominent MetWUt Minis ter in the State .. (dent a Director General, hut i WO! Continue e Secre- 7 Ury of .Treasury Vclasae XIX Up for Drinking. Sets the Jail on Fire and Met a Hor rible Death Many Feature Lenoir Defeat Granite Fall Wednesday v Night, 72 to 21 r - It la Snowing in . r 3- Fraaee Oidyai Heur Whan the Su i V t!o Was Bombed by i-"-' ' ''-' tbe Britkb ' , -v; The German - emperor, returning r Except ' on the northern Italian front tiie ' military operations ron-r- thine far hjjow normal. . In France, -T where anow has fallen along the en tire front, only bombardment an4 : small raiding operation! are taking place,", v : ; "-"- f Wert of BrenU river, in the Ital--, iai highlands, the Italians Chriatmas - day 'continued their counter-attacka - which - previously had succeeded , in mating gains on VOt-uei nosso ana v Monte P VI Bella, The . battle 1. i : 1 ' 1 vt m ."'.raged throughout the morning with ' great -violence and the Italians wrest Vd aererai of their former positions ' from ' the J enemy, but owing . to' re t .. newed . onslaughts by the . Teutonic if'. '.allied iorces",were again compelled S te give ground.. f , . ., ', . Tha RArlin mr nfPino admits that the Italians threw heary coanter-at" ' f tacks against the invaders on the Col r Dei Rosso and neighboring sectors, but "asserts that all of them broke down under heavy losses. - , - Not only are the hotels throughout the country observing meatless Tues days and wheatless, Wednesdays, bat -elubs are effecting a v large saving - through, the observance of the food pledge. ; One Chicago men's' club is : saving a ton of flour and two tons of ' meat each month. DEATH OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN FRANCE First Lieut James D. PaulL avia vion section, signal . reserve corps, died Dec. 20 as the peault of an , air plane accident, Gen Pershing baa ad , vised the war department Lieut Faull'Sifnther, Joseph PauH, lives in I Pittsburg. ........ ... ... 1 ftv The deaths of o private inac- ? tSon "and of a tiilrd from wottmfc re served in actios juW were reported by Gen. Pershing. ,' ; . Among deaths from natural causes 'are the following southern men: Pri vate William M. Weatherf ord, engi neers, Dec20, broncho-pneumonia, - acuta; mother, Mrs. M. Weatherf ord, Scranton, S. ,C. .Private Walter J. - Bennett, engineers, Dec, 80, measles, complicated , by broncho-pneumonia,' acute f father, W. L. Bennett Kirk- land," Ga. , v NEW RED CROSS MEMBERS . EXCEED THIRTEEN MILLION Further returns from the ' Red .Cross Christmas membership drive indicated, officials at headquarters at Washington, said Wednesday, the to tal enrollment would be even in ex cess of the 13,000,000 new members. With 200 out of 480 .chapters not reported and with several of the larg er, cities yet to,, be heard from, the southern division. North Carolina, Souths Carolina, Georgia and Florida, has enrolled 243,000. , Its quota is 438,000, but tbe managers are con fident this figure will le reached. ,TI Governor Called on for MoViliaatlou , of This Class of Meat From Draft ' ArmT O-ly WklU Me l 'i ' Are Wanted ;,,The new draft machinery was.in- toked Wednesday for the first time when Frovoat Manual ueneraiorow der made pubjic instructions to gov ernors calling, fqr .the mobilisation of 1,000 bricklayers needed by Gem Perahing Jmtnedistaly. & , . ' Local - boards are directed to tx amine questionnaires now being re ' turned and to report as early as pos- ' sible On ta number of bricklayers of draft age available for service. Obly - white; men will be-accepted, either LKby draft or aa voluntersk through lo cal-boards: , They will be. forwarded , to San Antonio.' -.The purpose 'for . which they are needed, in France is 1 not dclosed:ri:.i::5';:v jt v . The order i the firit application of the special occupational classification provisions, of the nev di aft regula tions, but en. 4 Crowder's letter in .' dicates that there may be similar calls fof skilled i workmen '"'in other trades, v ;'t?v Zijfrk vfv':' Government possession and opera- . w- t , a tion of the nation's railroads for the r- was, proclaimed by President Wilson Wednesday night, to become effective" at , noon today, the 28th. William G. MeAdoo, retaining his place in the cabinet as secretary of the treasury, is placed , in charge as director-general of railroads. ;.. Every, railroad engaged in general transportation with . its appurte nances,' Jncjuding steamship lines, is taken' over .land all systems will be operated as one' under the director- generaL; ' j In a statement accompanying his proclamation the . President an nonneed that as Bon as Congress re assembles he will recommend legisla tion" guaranteeing - pre-war earnings and maintenance of railroad proper ties in-good repair. ) ' 'Government backing vrll be given to new issues of railroad securities that a ready market may be round. The. .President's' move, although forecast f Or weeks, came at this time as a great surprise to nearly every body in Washington, including rail road officials. It had been generally believed he would await the reassem bling of Congress before taking any step: He acted through - Secretary of War Baker, under authority con ferred in the army appropriation act. Direct management of the roads will, remain in the. hands of railroad officials and the railroads' war board, comprised of five railroad heads, will continue to direct actual operation under Secretary - Mc Aden's general supervisiofit'-i. 4 . f.V, Although the proclamation applies te nil' electric lines engaged in 'gen eral transportation, local interurban syatejnse speciflcaHy ttiempted. The President makes Ht dear that bis decision was not made-because of any failure on the1 part of the mil- roads to perform their whole duty in sO far as they could while hampered as they were by legal restrictions. Killed Three PereoaV Wowaded Oae aad Stele IT.OOO-iAmerieeii Troops Came to the Reecoe . - American .troops Wednesday were guarding all outlets to Van Home canyon, where 100 Mexican bandits on Christmas morning crossed the American border, raided the postof- fice and general store on. the Brite ranch, 27 miles southeast of Marfa, Tex., killed Michael Welsh, a veteran stage , driver, : and ; bis two Mexican passengers, wounded Sam Neill, fore man of the Brite ranch, and carried away booty estimated , to be worth $7,000 vV's After . the bandits bad. passed over the rim rock which rises abruptly more than'1,000 Jeet above theVRio Grande, the soldiers, who were in close pursuit, fired many rounds at them and are reported to have killed and wounded many of the Mexicans. The shooting compelled the ' bandits to abandon the horses on which they carried away the loot Col. George TXanghorne, in command, of the American forces in the Big uena expected the pursuit to be resumed at dpybreak. When the bandits attacked - the ranch Neill, with his wife and number of ranch hands, barricaded themselves in a house until United States soldiers hod been sent to their aid. s v Cavalrymen were sent ; to the Brite ranch in autcfmobiles JWhen the raiders sighted the ap proaching cavalry: they, abandoned the work of pillage and rode off oyer the rim rock, toward tae soutnweat.. .' AY the. point .where the bandits dropped from sight of the pursuing troops there is an abrupt descent of more than 1,000 feet When the sol diers had gone as far as possible in automobiles they continued the pur suit on foot to the edge of the rim ro'cki.Ywheie they "did some ! expert shooting at the , fleeing bandits at J distance' of more thatt 1,000 yards. BANDITS GR0SSEOB0RI with his staff from the Verdun front, had a narrow escape during the re prisal raid of a British air squadron oa bfennheim Christmas eve; accord ing to a dispatch from BaseL Only, about -an hour earlier the emperor's special train" left -the station, which wu partly . destroyed by , several bombs. A section of the tracks was torn up, ' cutting communication north. ' " '', In fact, the emperor's train waa the last to leave Mannheim, and no trains arrived at' Basel- yesterday from that city. Two bombs fell on the palace and on the suspension bridge across the Neckar river, both structures being badly damaged. An ammunition factory in the northern suburb was blown up. Few persons were killed, however, as tile employe! were having a holiday. A consider. able number of persons were killed or injured within the town, and sev eral were blown into the Rhine. a TRIED IN TOGETHER S teener Carrying President' Repro entattTO and Other. Americas ;l Saved From Germea Eaemy . '; , By NotoI Convoy Gov. R. L., Beeckman of Rh Island, who left the latter of . October to visit the Ameri forces in France and to convey to them a personal message of greeting from President Wilson, arrived at an Atlantic; port Christinas -day. 'J On the same vessel Was William,B. Thompson, head of v . Che American Bed Cross mission to Russia, who is returning to the United States to make report of the conditions in that country with reference to the work of bis organization. Thomas W Lamont of J, P. Morgan A Co. and Sir Frederick Edward Smith, attor ney general for Great Britain, were also among the passengers. That the crew of a German .sub marine made prisoner after their sel bad been destroyed, knew when a urge steamship carrying American army officers had left the United States and that the submarine lay in wait to sink her, was the .-statement of several enlisted men of the Amer ican nayy who were A passengers on the' steamship. According to the Ger man prisoners who were taken England they knew ."all about the de parture, of the steamship,' Tut the submarine bad failed to sink her be cause of the viligance of her convoy. GERMAN COMMISSION FOR PEACE GOES TO .PETROGRAD . Berlin advices" received at Amster dam say. that ' the commission pro vided for in thesRusso-German armis tice agreement proceeded for Petro grad Wednesday. ' It is headed by Count von Mirbach, former German minister to Greece, and will under take to reach a. settlement with the Russian authorities for the exchange of ' civilians and i Incapacitated war prisoners and also devue measures to restore relations KL between Ger many, and Russia. .. ,r 3l The commission includes a number of officials of the foreign -and war ministries. ; . ... THIS COUNTRY'S TRADE BALANCE ' $3,000,000,000 . Reports from; Washington say that America's balance of trade approxi mated $3,000,000,000 at the, close of November, according to figures just issued by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce.. It was an in- crease W $141,000,000 over the same period feat year. During November export restrictions ' caused a sub stantial decrease in foreign trade. Dtfring . theeleven months ended with November gold imports amount ed to $535,000,000. and exports to $37,000,000, : leaving an ! excess of imports of $168,000,000 in 1917 against $399,000,000 in 101$. J Silver imports ; during . the eleven sionths; ambnnted to $7,000,000 Hgainst $29,000,OOOV' ago and the exports were valued at $74,000,- 000 In lOlTand $62,000,000 in 116. ' Walter Hines, a young white man who formerly lived at Stony Point, Alexander county, met ' a horrible death Christmas eve' night in the lockup at Granite Falls when the lit tle place was burned. He had been arrested for drinking,' though it was said that he was not boisterous. The lockup at Granite Falls, which is seldom used, is .said not to have been equipped with a stove or other means of heating, and there was only a bed of excelsior Inside. The jail is Very small. ' Hines probably had attempted to make a fire or had lighted a cigar ette. The facts never will be known. At any rate, he wssby himself and persons nearby heard him screaming and rushed to the lockup, which was ablaze. The door was locked, but it was. forced and the man pulled out Hines died as soon as he was re leased. It was said that his skin pulled oft when touched. GERMANS AGAIN ACTIVE Hi AIL YERDON SECTOR Hoaw Fighting May Mean Renewed Effort of Gormen to Break Throofb Fifhtinf on thePbTO Increased cannonading in the re gion of Verdun, especially around Douaumont, the Chaume wood and the Caurieres wood, whkb-4 year ago were the theaters of some of the fiercest encounters in the war, indi cates apparently the intention of the Germans tkeep thtf French forces teihia sector wttvceupiodrn might even mean a renewed effort io break through at this vital point. . The allies, however,' are evidently making ready for an nnotward event andliave taken the initiative in oth er directions. A British air squad ron successfully bombarded the dty of Mannheim. fte great Rhine 50m- mercial -center end one of the most important baaee.for theTrevictualing of the Germans on the western front Numerous fires were started in this city, i too of bombs being dropped The British squadron had numerous combats with- German airplanes In this expedition and one of the Brit ish machines was forced to maae landing. In Italy .the battle is still, raging on the Piave front The Italians an nounce that they have recaptured, despite stubborn resistance, the posi tions they had lost the previous day on the Ariairo plateau. Berlin re ports, however, tend to minimise the setback and lay stress on the repulse of Italian counter-attacks against the positions newly won by the Germans and a thrust at Monte Pertica. The Germans report the capture1 of 9,000 Italians in engagements around Col Del Rosso. ' , t.Trne...to-.theii;.,tactiea,. the Austro Germans will probably direct another and great r thrust at a different point, -as would appear from the shifting of large forces to the Fran- xela valley and the mountainous re gion to tiie north.., The menace to Venice seems, however, W have been removed for the tim Jieing. Th BolsheVlo commander-in-chief, Ensign Krylenko, reports the trans fer of large v, numbers of German troo.toc'hewesH"lrott' and the souinesiern nussiau iruuu , MINNEAPOLIS FLOUR MILLS BEGIN GRINDING WAR FLOUR Flour mills' "at. Minnapplii began grinding, ?war iour'' Wednesday un der the new government regulations designed to save 16,000,000 bushels of wheat in the present crop year. Undeir these regulations," which pro vide for the" '"use of tt.pet cent of the Wheat beriry instead ''of but 50 per cent, two grades of flour will be eliminated, and, the output will be listed as war flour of first and sec ond grades; i 'Members of the, food administra tion milling division said that' because of the large supply of flour now on the market it would be some time be- sumer. ;Y-C r , ; T1 In one of I the fastest games seen on the local basketball court here this season the Lenoir high school defeated the quint from Hickory high school last Friday night by the score of 34 to 25, Lenoir took the lead at the first of the game and never lost until the whistle blew at the end of the last half, although they came very near losing it several times dur ing the game. Hoover, for Lenoir, was the star of the game, getting nine goals, six in the first half and three in the last Aside from this, Bernhardt not only played a good game at center, but hedd'd four more goals to his list' Cottrell also was there with the goods, letting-his marf down with a single goat For Hickory, Mitchell seemed to be the only one who. could put the ball through the ring, getting eleven goals to his credit Taken as a whole the Hickory team played a. fast, clean game, but their ability in playing basketball was not equal to that of the Lenoir high schocl. The line-up:. Lenoir Position Hickory Nelson Forward Mitchell Hoover Forward Longacre Bernhardt Center Bolick Hedrick Guard ..Abernethy Cottrell-Guard ..: Fritz Substitutes: Tuttle for Hedrick; Johnson for Bolick. Summary: Goals, Nelson 2; Hoo ver 9; Bernhardt 4; Tuttle 1; Hick ory, Mitchell 11; Longacre 1. Foul goals, Nelson 2 out of 4; Mitchell 1 out of 6. (,....' Wednesday night , in a very slow and loosely-played game Lenoir de feated the team from Granite Falls by the score of 72 to 21. .Bernhardt I ill Ili I . 1 V--il 4. tor umutir leu u (uei-euvwuuK edi ting 12. Hoover, next, highest. got 10. v. , . Line-nn: Lenoir Nelson and Hodver, forwards; Bernhardt, cen ter; Cottrell and Dysart, guards. Granite Falls -Lutx and Hickman, forwards; a Tilley, center; A. Tflley and Houck, guards. , Summary: Goals, Nelson 8; Hoo- ver 10; Bernnarat iz; uonreu ; Dvsart 2. Hickman 5; Houck 6. Foul goals. Luts 1 out of 2. Tomorrow nieht in the opera hoese the Lenoir high school will play the fast team from Stateaville. This is promised to be one of the best games of the season. Come. OF American Sentry in France I Found With Hie Throat Cat Af ter He v We Shot Driro Children , in the Snow With the American Army in France. German atrocities against American soldiers are officially re ported. ; An American sentry has been found with his throat cut, and, it ia officially declared, "he must have been so killed after capture." Information concerning German savagery has reached the troops in one, of a aeries of bulletins read to them by the unit commanders and posted on the bulletin boards. Here is what they heard: "After raid by the Germans on trenches held by American troops a lone sentry of infantry was found with his throat cut from, ear to ear. ;. Re V nil . been surprised by an ovenv!; ;!) ing force of Germans and must have been so killed after capture, r . . "Such brutality is familiar to old soldiers - who served against savages in the Philippine campaign.' Another bulletin tells the men bow the Germans in" occupied sections of France and Belgium - are turning women and children - out ; of their homes into the snows, the buildings being then given over to soldiers, horses and material '' '.w . Boy . Moore, who is stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky., spent the holidays here with his vpAnts, Mr and' Mrs. Y: D. woo" U . 1 Moore... INS On Decv18 the board of managers appointed by the Western North Car-' olina and North Carolina conference of the Methodist Church met in Dur ham and made arrangements for holding a summer school for theen- efit of young' preachers at Trinity College. This school will open Wednesday afternoon, June 5, and will close June 15 th. There will be ' about fifteen teachers selected from among the prominent Methodist min- . isters of the state to conduct this in stitute. Among them will be Rev. D. M. Litaker, pastor of the First Methodist church of Lenoir. Regarding this summer school the Charlotte Observer of Dec 23 gives - -some information in detail as fol lows: : In addition to the teachers for the regular conference courses of study ' prescribed for undergraduates, ether courses for post-graduates will be of fered. In addition to these it is con templated that some of the leading preachers and teachers of the coun- v try will be secured for special ser- vice. Both conferences have enthu siastically endorsed the proposition,, and it is expected that this summer school will from the very beginning; rank with the best of its kind in the country. Full announcement will be made later as to the courses of study.- : offered and the personnel of the fac- ' ulty. i ' " Every young Methodist minister - who joins either of the two confer- , ences is required to take a four-year course and stand an examination. The summer school will be mainly for the benefit of these young minis-. ten in that courses. In the studies) which they take up will be given dur-. . ing the eight dayv5rJut it-promise SS be "more than that, forpubfie lee- tuxes wut 09 s;iyu wite uu;. ., for these public lectures that the-", prominent preachers and theologians -- are being invited. i Financial support has been pre- . vided for the summer school by the two eonferenceev and it baa been in timated that no financial efforts will , be spared to make the school just, as effective as possible. It U the first , step the church, has taken in this di rection and the two committees. ap pointed by the conferences who met inJOurham this week, ate very entim- . siastic over the outlook. ' They be lieve the summer.' school will ulti mately develop into one of the big gest things in the work of educating v tne young minisiera wno. op: wi( ; in the service of the; church. It will , also mean that Durham .and Trinity College will become thc Mecca for . Methodism in North Carolina. It is v hoped the annual gathering of the ministers after commencement will ' be the means of a great inspirational development not only for the preacb- , ers, but for the lay members of .the church as well, who will gather her every summer in increasing number to attend the public lectures which. t will be given twice daily..' COMPELLED TO DIE Before They Were Burned Alive.! Haned or Shot Down With M V chine Guns; Atrocities Sur- pot - Imagination. Compelled to dig .their own gmes, , drowned, burned' alive, banged or shot down with machine guns, the i Serbians of Herzegovina, Bosnia, Is tria and Dalmatia were the victim of Austro-Bfungarian atrocities sur-? passing , the human imagination, re- ' centiy declared Dr. Tresic Pa,vicic, a Slav member of the Austro-Hunga-' , rian chamber of deputies." Narra- " Uvea of Serbians made prisoners, ia , Austrian jails and fortresses, were re-. -lated in detail before the 'Austrian' , parliament by the Slav deputy. : r ' According to Dr. Pavicio these out-, v, rages were practiced upon the civile ian population, old men, women and , ' children, when orders were given-by Gen. Potiprek, described as the auto- ' crat of Bosnia, to remove all the Ser- bians f rtm the frontier districts ... (Continued on page); four) - y- r
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