North Carolina Newspapers

" . aaiasE ii? M.fci&iTi::-:i'i4s v 1 A. ESTABUSI1ED :HC23!. i - VOL. a '.5--r:" "-7 - O't f 1 " , , ... -- - j . . - . . . i w v . . " - - ' i : - v - 'yfi t u trig-,, -g.;- ;.p.-?S - ir-r-- . a GRAND JUKirPCTSr ON ACCOOTT OP JEAfff iWF - i i I iui unit ' - ? Y ' -v Wlven the grani.jury" returned not a true bill agatiniW Bicasle charged with, manslaughter in con nection with the deiath of J. H.. Luth-f er, the only case l ot general inteteot i a this week' criminai 50urt went off the calendar, Beasley wad -dTiy ing the automobile that struck Mr. Luther on Summit avenue a few weeks ago and caused Mr. Iutjier'e d;ath. He was arrested and at the preliminary hearing was tOT3ind orer !0 court. . -: 1 , r The court was predMed 4ter by Judge W. J. Adams, address to Cue grand jury waa brief.- The foreman of the grandPjury for the nrst six months of 1918 i& John J. Phoenix and the other members are: W. H. Smith, W. J. Blair, R. L. Small. C. L. Kirkman..C. W. CanadaV C :arles E. Honner, P. W. Coble, J. A. Heath. W. J. Stafford, Jerome Leonard, Frank Gurley, L. C". Scott, T. D. Whittington. J. A. Idole, R. -L; Coble. J. S. Ingold and Jmea A. Robert Ellis pleaded guilty to "breaking and entering a freight car. anl the co-defendant in the case, Jo in Truitt, was acquitted. No sen er. :e was passed. 3. E. Idol, of the Hickory Grove e:tion of the county, who was ar retted after the sheriff .found-a kg o: whiskey under his bed, pleaded 2u:ltv. He was fined $100 and the co-te and required .i.' )0 for his appearance t j years to show good behavior. April terpf durt to show wUat ia iiiiuw ptravjor is to oe wwaro MnfLerjr TKe jprayer for aentemie was continued anil! then, and' tnei judgej warned jthe defendant to stay a4frmi Ills wife1 and cause her no more trouble. ' . Mrs? Marjr .Bryant, of High Point : was tried on the charge of getting goods from atore in her town on approval and failing to return thm dr pay for them. She said she Tas buying lier trousseau and got a coat suit that iray . and asked tfie er chant to collect 'from ner father in the event that sne; retainec" it. She .got the go dHpa Thursday and was married on. the oHo wingv Saturday. The father dii.lMit pay the bill and the charge wi Vrought. Very little time. was required fby the jury to re turn a verdict of not guilty. Joe and Sam Scales, two negroes, were acquitted of the charge Nof breaking into and robbing freight, cars on the Southern tracks west of town. The court continued the murder chargebrought against Theodore Matthews for trial in the next term of court. Matthews was charged with murder o Jesse Jinea; another High Point negro, and the grand jury returned a true bit!. r .ft.. a. . & nuy oLucia, oi nign fornt, was cuuvimea oi seaucuon unaer nrom- ise of marriage and senten-ced to IS months in prison. , The term will adjourn sometime today. The grand jury yesterday made the following report: Report of Orand Jury. We have passed upon seventeen to give a bond of biUi of indictment with the follow ance in court for ( reults : 1 TVJB-Mh. lMtWt j'wmm kW " Iiotrs ixndox axr raxis. ni ftn flirt i rr nn ' it n rrnn PEOPIiE Uf FBA5KLIX AJBMT IiA13EiySL OF XAVT BUT ' , ' PKOMI8E lOE GOOD.' . .. -r t Ljouisburg, Jaii,. 29. tPorT somfrfl'1 asnlhtftbn, Jan. 2d.r-Cble and time, persistent rumors have fio'ate1 i tel jritphlc lines to Russia "btve. been-. tothe outside, world tha;t FkflTcnh American Minister Morris; at county, was hoarding flour. The. Stte Stckhj&lmr reported today, andthe Food Administrator Henry" A. Pdge onfyTcmaining -routes of communi appeared upon the scene this afte- esttjlpn with Petrograd now are noon very unceremoniously and in ltttgn Persia -and Vladivostok. , the court house tonight he addressed .- a good sized audience of representa- r catft -details hate come through live citizens from various sections of co. 'eef ning the situation in Finland the county. He read the riot act to Jbuiithe reports indicate vthat the RedT the viol-ators and would-ce transgres-J varo is in control at Helsmgfors, sors of the hoarding act. Mr. Pagelwlsre a Tevolutionary manifesto turned the meeting into a Methodist J hai proclaimed that authority is sole-mass-meeting and called- for peni- l lyJn the hands of the. working class- tants. . . vIt was freely admitted that ther had been many infractions of the ' supreme war council, with law regarding the hoarding of food J de agates representing the United War Council in Session. in the county, but no individuals States, Great Britain, France and were bawled, out. ... vQuile a number of tobacco and cotton, farmers . ac cording to their custom, in this sec tion, Nbut -now contrary to the law, laid, in a year's supply of flour when they sold their cotton and tobacco at enormous profits. It was explained that the Franklin farmers did cot do Italy in attendance, has convened at Vqaailles, France. e The plans of the military campaign of th-2 entente al iie and of the United States forces arr expected to be discussed. Troubles in Germany. penous si rises are reported be in progress throughout Germany. In Tiue hills returned 14, nor true square Brown, tne young negro, Vr;-ught bacji here from Alexandria, - We hve personally visited county V;., a few days ago to answer to the : hoine' county jail, county clerk's of- arge of carrying a concealed weafc pfj- We found the jail iuood con- on, and the more serious one of as- fl,tl .;n Prfoners properly cared this for the purpose of hoardingrbut Berlin and. suburban towns 90,000 to save their surplus money which I workers are said to haye quit work. they might have otherwise wasted Various large manufactories engaged and to provide against a day of'want.T'lthe manufacture of war supplies, All" of the food merchants present, eciall" airplanes, are affected. In nearly a score, whowfere equally as I dependent Socialists are reported to guilty as their customers to whom taken an active pare in the call- they had sold more flour than the iPf of the strike. The German gov- Iaw allowed since September 10, erpnent has decided to oder the ar- 1 17," promised to have the surplus flour returned and to be good in the future. The penalty for having broken thej law is a fine of $ 5,0 00 and imprison ment for two years. bu in view of rest of six leaders of this party Not h withstanding the fact that deep snows still cover the ground the Italians have carried out success fu)ly a spectacular drive against the Aus'tro-iGerman lines in the mountain other" that Leon Trotzky ,the Bol sheviks! foreign minister, intends' to return immediately to Brestltovsk' or a resumption" of the peace conver sations with tbeustrd-German del egates. StiH another Ietrogradr dis patch says Trotzky has reiterated to' the council , of Workimen's-- and sol diers delegates that tho Bolshevik! will insist on a democratic peaces One Petrograd journal declares that Austria-iHungary already has offered to conclude a separate peace with Russia regardless of Germany. - The breach between Russia and Rumania meanwhile is ' broadening. In addition to severing .diplomatic relations with the little kingdom the Bolsheviki have ordered the seizure of Rumania's gold ..reserves on de posit in Moscow. - FOUR DEAD IX HEAD-ON COJLISION OF TRAINS. BEmOD&DLOu 10 -Alii Sifi'f? FUEL I - r y 0 r s'im'l' v. . XHE AJFAiiAOHIAN BRANdT OF RAILWAY WASHED AWAY BY FLOODS. SOUTH.t J r V . 5 - r a. f " 1 Bristol, TennVa., Jan. 29 No 4m St v?'- .."r,:ifr tit with his revolver upon his for. Mr. Caffey, jailer, extended w.iite foreman on the raiiroad'wgrk near Pomona, plded eutltr. He eciuia manner in wnich nis uepartment is conducted. Clerk's office: We found this de- I partmeni in excellent condition. Rec- was given 'Avf morithsr After hearing the plea of counsel, the court was lenient to Liliie Tal- ley, the 17 -year-old white girl of ord neatI' Jid properly kept. Mr. Wnite Oak, w.ho was indicted on the ant extended every courtesy to en- . aDie us to properly inspect his of fice. I County home: We visited the dant shot the other girl, in the mill, ! J.11 iour miles east w ere they worked together, after a , cf Orenboro. Found the inmates quarrel. It was stated that the dH-J cared fo5 wel1 as surroundings vate nrosecution did not want to pre-sj the case. The judge dismissed j the girl with the ' payment of the the fact that the good - people of of northern Italy and captur- Eranklin county v have violated tlie strong positions and more than law hitherto in ignorance and un M00 men- i-beUef, tVMarse Henir.. saidthtft.lft aetiTered- on the fenses.' ? But now they had been en-i portions penetrated Vere tenacious- lightenedxthey would have no Excuse 1 1' neld notwithstanding strong coun- Roanoke, Va., Jan. 30. Four ieu were killed, two trainmen injured ciu. tjciai :pastngers -aKen uip in d neaa-on collision between the Memphis Special and ' westbound Norfolk and Western freight train 10 miles west of Radford tonight, about 10.30, according to informa tion given out at the Norfolk and Western division offices. m i i . xne wrecK is said-to havft ihon caused by failure of the freight en gineer to observe instructions, The dead reported are: Engineer J. H. Smith, of the Memphis Special, of Bristol, Va.; Freight Engineer F. A. Jacobson, of Roanoke, Va.; Freight Fireman H. C. Hoyle. of Roanoke, Va.; Elbert Taylor, negro, brakeman, of Bristol, Va. "J. R. Mason, engineer on the sec ond -Higine of the Memphis Special, was injured.iby getting the toes on one of his feet cut off. A fireman. whose name could not be learned, was scalded. The Memphis Special is a South ern -Railway passenger train between Memphis arid New Xork 'but is oimr- burg. charge of an assault with a deadly weapon upon her girl friend, Lottie Denny, of the same age. The defen- u e o?ts . Sdgar Scales, a negro, pleaded g-u.lty to carrying a concealed weap on and with making an assault.. He :lr--w 9 0 days. Frank C. Perry,- white, was con victed of an assault with a deadly veapon. He was fined $50 and costs. J. H. Farlow, white, pleaded guil ty to dist'lling liquor. He was also c larger with deserting his wife in preference for the still. The court gave him 15 months for the abandonment and suspended sen tence in the case for distilling. ould permit. The tnanjuA Wr - , Scott, conducted us throughout the various departments. We found Mr. 5cott to be a very careful and effici ent man, doing splendid work With the facilities at his command. How ever, -we regret to have to report that in keeping with the resources of Guilford county. The buildings are old nd out pf date, unsanitary, and in the future and if Mr. McAdoo or one of his secret service men should bob!up unceremortiously violators of the law had better take to the-woods and hunt the tall timber. Mr. Page explained in a perfectly good-humored way the necessity laid upon Americans for the next six months to live on tialf rations at least as far as wheat was concerned. He made a strong appeal to the pa triotism and to the religious im pulses of his audience Lo co-operate- with the administration in feeding our allies and the neutral nations who would) perish if,we did not send them food, A profound solemnezs prevaded the auditorium as the speaker por trayed the condition that confronts us and this community is beginning IM ). V": - Yet ' trains will operate on: the Appala- , yS; cm an division oi tne spuxnern Kau- V, way for at Least this vWOek on ac count of the washing away ,of mpf6x than 15 bridges andi treaties ; and -numerous slides and wiwhouts, : fol lowing heavy rains -and the thawing of snow on the mountains. . This division operates into the coat v fieldsand is the main fuel feeder for the Southern; system. More than six hundred feet ot trackage through the natural tun nel is entirely washed away. Two trestles at this point are gone. At Ironton, one bridge is gone and a 50J-foot slide destroyed the -track. Another' bridge ia gone near the Iron furnace at Big Stone Gap and be tween .Big Stone Gap and Appala ctiTa, there is a 5X 0-foot slide and five bridges washed away. Between Appalachia and St. Charles, six bridges went down and there, are a number Of slides. Work trains and men were rushed here from the Asheville division and repairs are being pushed. Officials hope to have part of the line in op eration by Friday. There were one or two small wash outs on the Knoxville division last1 night but they were quickly repair ed. Two-mall bridges on7 the Moun tain City division were repaired to day and operation resumed. The Bulls ;Gap and Gate City division is operating after small damage was repaired. It is reported here thVl thse Virginia and Carolina railroad operating from Abingtton Va., to Boone, N. C, has suspended opera tion on account of washing away of two bridges. Two small bridges were washed away on the Big Creek Park interur- ba. lines out jpl Bristol... y IJ i" ';.wiii-'iiii jlw'h.hi 'S, . . . V V' . y4 ; : V'-" - .wxxxCil.4 u.y to wake u, tQ fa(;t t.iat we jn cne Doaru oif county commissioners tne wa taite immediate steps to remedy con- A long story told on thevstand by "'S'aine" or Arthur Farrington, a ne wrought his freedom. He was r.arged with Larceny of about $12o from. the. person of a white man, T. 'P. Farrington, but he pleaded, not criiilty, explained the occurrence- in detail and the jury believed him. He declared not guilty. Oharged with larceny, John Ded ress, a white youth of High Point, as so adjudged and was given the minimum sentence, fou, months on v-e roads. His home is in South "'irolina. Solicitor Bower withdrew tne .bill indictment against John Truftt. w io was charged with 'breaking into a freight car, and Robert Ellis, in-' itited with him, plea4ed:gutfty 'Roy Stutts, a young man of High P-oint. was charged with seduction under promise of marriage and was tried Tuesday. He was convictei. Miaa Pearl Beck, of High Point, was tie complaining witness. ditious. We tfurther fecomirftTid that the present farm of 365 acres, worth approximately $50,000, be sold, and a farm purchased 10 or 12 mile from the icity upon which a modern county home be constr acted, with a suitable wing for the proper rare of insane patients. ResipecCfuliy supbn: it ted, JOHN X- PHOENIX, Foreman. RIGHT OF WAY ORDERED FOR LOADING OF COAL. HOARDING CXSTSPiAIMETTO STATE OTIili FES MCENSE. An indeterminate sentemce - 'was given .Eck Caldwell, which may v run only three years but 40a b&feb$ iiuju n aims en weu. jiaift 'frVs mltted his guilt f jrglay.l)U kia counsel showed certain Dteniiating: I circumstances and pledipiCnlh ) oe& m. ir 4mtf Washington. Jan. 30 Speculating in and hoarding of cottonseed has cost the Olio Oil, and Fertiliser Com pany, or Liio, s. i(J., its license to deal in commodities covered under the, food control act ' of -Congress.. The" United States food" administra tion announced today that it has re voked the license of the concern and h as rdered tt o . cjode up f ts u siness not 1-ar than 'February 6. As all of its products afe manuffictured from cottonseed which is under' license, it wilL be -unable to, operate; even as a fertilizer manufacturer. Hungarians Pledge Their Loyalty .Cliicao. Jan . 2. Men -and wo-1 Washington, Jan. 30 In response' to an urgent appeal from J. J. Stor row, New England fuel administra tor, the shipping board tonight di rected that coal piers at Hampton Roads ports give complete right of way for loadmg during a 72-hour period beginning tomorrow morning to a fleet of 50 steamers, schooners" and barges w-aiting there to take coal for Boston. At the aame time Director General McAdoo instructed the railroads to give . priority tomorrow to 1 2 coal trains of 25 cars each tj supplement the usual movement, 0i coal to New England and -tj meet "emergency de mands at Boston. , Secretary Daniels ordered the commandant of the navy; yard there to turn over 500p tons of bituminous to" the city fuel adminis trator. '- - V men representing thirty-eight HunHulletin issued.-today by.he weatfc rrin pieties, and moami3h fc? oar CS 3nagi meeng: Aheld: under might it il&use'geral snows if tne miaate axianiic-' sisnw. xnts r - . T u n ii n i.i am 1 1 iiinir T T n O Tfmiir I esojiuiions ,wefiB yw- rnf6rl Cold Vave is Expected to Reach thfc v s. v , Ookst Krida. , 'y - vi Washington, Jari 3 OA disturb! ance that developed in the tGulf of Mexico Tuesday is causing genera! rains in Southern stages and snoTtfe Andic&J in -Virginia,, -si-a specifll each : the Atlantic coftst STfShatfayT? except lohs the flitk; 3h cold eathei? ter-attacks in which the Austro-Ger mans were repulsed witl: heav- cai ualties. The Berlin war office, in admitting the reserve to the teutonic nlHtil Una ncoA-r, fUnt i-1, Ti.i:. ""vu iuo, acsci M lUdl LUC5 XLclllclIlO j repeatedly . tried to bring up rein forcements to widen the breaches they had made in the enemy front but that their efforts failed and 600 Italians were made prisoners. That airplanes aided i. aterially in the fighting, full details of which have not yet been received, is indi cated in the-Italian official commun ication which asserts that during the progress of the battle th enemy lost twejve aircraft. e Important Victory. The victory for the Italians at this particular point is of considerable significance, because of the fact that lately, since the enemy's strong at tempts to break through from the hill region to the Venetian plain fail- i iuuic luiuua ana sectors I west of the Austro-Germans have been bringing up reinforcements in the Asiago district preparatory to a further series of attacks to reach the lowlands around Bassano atfd Vicen- za. Aside from this battle no impor tant infsntry operations have been recorded although the Germans have been operating with their artillery on somewnat extensive scale on the Arras front and have carried out raiding operations on several other sectors.of FieJd Marshal Haig's line. London Air Raids. Monday night's air faid, the first of the year,on London and adjacent territory, resulted in the largest cas ualty list of any air rajd since that -of June 13 last. The total casualties were fortyseven killed and 169 in jured. Forty-6ix of the fatalities oc curred in London where 162 persons were injured. Bombs were dropped by the invading enemy 'in Kent and Essex, but slight material damage was done. One of the airplanes, a three-seated maohine, was brought down in flames from a height of ten thousand, feet and all three of its occupants were burned, to -death, v In the June raid ninety-seven were killed and 437 irere . wounded toy bombs which fell In London, and- on Essex and Kent, , - Russia Ct-Offr1 . .Jbfst what is thersituation in Rus sia, remains osteure. , One report says' tbere Baa beena split -mong knie vBolshevtkl . oa:-the jneSon f. PAYS HALF OF EARNINGS IN GOVERNMENT TAXES. HEALTH OONDMPIONS IN TIIE ARMY OAMfS. Washington, Jan. 29. Slight in crease in the sickf rate for both na- New York, Jan. 29. The United tio,nal ffuardx and national army for States Steel Corporation paid to the the week ehding January 2'5 over reaerai government more than half nures:or tne preceaing wee are us earnings in the final quarter of s 11 7 & bealth report publish- 1917, according to a statement of the corporation issuer fo-.r " WUCJ . xv,ti wiring's ror that period amounted to $59,724,125, after mak ing allowance for $60;9 50,364 paid nto the government treasury as war ,UW1U aau excess profits. Net in come for the final quarter was $48 - r. e r ffV a a r voo,4 4 and surplus for the same pe riod amounted to 970 This compares with total earnines of $68,243,784, net income of $55,- ed today by the war defpartnu&ut. The noneffective rate for the na tional guard was 50.4 per thousand compared to 49.1 ihe preceding week, but the hospital admission" rate decreased, from 30.1 to 29.3. The non-effective of the national. army was 53.9 compared to 51, and the hospital admission rate was 39.6 compared to 36,6. ; There were Ji deaths in the na tional guard camps compared 'with '.?!;! 245,377 and surplus of $21 824 &54 66 the PreoedinS week. Of that num- tor the previous Quarter Der were pneumonia cases. Deaths In keeping with expectation thP in the aonal army Were 108 directors declared an "extra" divi- affainst 149' pneumonia causing 71 dend of 3 per cent on the common 01 tne- hs stock, Tn-addition to the result I . 0amP Wheeler, Georgia, showed common dividend of l 1-4 ann the highest non-effective and admis- ferred of 1 3-4. Including a Red Cross dividend of sion rates of all national euard camps, although both -rates1 were be- one per cent -voted in the second low those oil the preceding week for quarter, total disbursements on the lhat caiP- common shares for 1917 amounted I Among "the national army camps to 18 per cent. the highest admission and non-effec- Total earnings for 1917 amounted I tlve rates-were a: Camp Travis, Tex- to $331,6-68,131. after chartrinsr off I as ' where plumps prevails exclusive- $212,467,249 to government etc. , yvf taxes. Father Seeks Missing Son. uoncora, Jan. 29. L. C. Dry, of this place, is seeking his missing 15- year-old son, who h'as disappeared tis in r national army camps ly. . Measles generally showed a de crease at the . cantonments. There was an increase iu. pneumonia . at Camp Lee, Virginia, and Camp Tra vis. There was an increase in meningi- . ; . from his home, No. ly Caldwell street. .The youth, may be identified by a marked scar on the outer side of one. thumb, running lengthwise. When last seen, he was wearing a dark brown serge suit with knee trbusers, a cap, and ruober buttom ed shoes. JTe has dlark brown eyes and is well grown for his age. His father isanxious for information. ' , " ' - ' ' Sugar as a Souvenir. ' ' Washington, Jan.- 9. One pound of sugar as a souvenir with theater tickets is -much too much. That's why D. Nichomsin, wholesale grocer of Paterson, N'. J., will be fiorced by closed during February. He sold 400 pounds of sugar to the Orpheum theater there, 1 thereby selling more to acn indlvfdnal tha the food Jaor permits ? -T3ie ' Oiphum dteryaed" as a souTenir a pound of sugUr with ' This Prophet Failed. Faterson, N. J., Jan, .2flL-Havlng pfophesiedi that "th kaiser . would die- January i. 8? and despondent because- the emperor failed - to Blake the prophecy good, Lombardua Mull er, a retired ea captain killed, him self by shooting b&t& today. He left a not .which read: .y.-r "I 'havebeen '..afaj prophe, therefore I. haye. ,sinaed. against tL" - As ; VflUte : Broken '' -Er Pasp Teat" angRefugees i from the- iRta Ftorlda1 jlistrict 4a Chihuanua Arriving bere state tnat FrtraTirco Villa was rown from his horj two weeks iigkahd -on'-ofni JoIteifoi .a lit j-.L--iiWWffti Af I Atattftccoast tlie Jury wife,-