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VOL. XXXVIII.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, MAY 24, 1916.
NO. 42.
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IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days An
Given.
THE NEWS JJFJHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In the South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs.
Mexican News
Major Langhorne and two troops of
cavalry surrounded the Mexican ban
dits who raided Glenn Springs,, about
125 miles from the border, killing six
and capturing seventy-five according
:o a truck driver arriving from Boquil
las. United States soldiers have res
cued Jesse Deemer, the American
storekeeper captured by Mexican raid
ers on Glenn Springs and Boquillas.
General Obregon entered the re
cent conference with Generals Scott
and Funston with much apprehension,
is, in Mexican eyes, he said, it seem
ed as though a great force armed with
cannon and all the impedimenta of
war could not be moving in pursuit
merely of one bandit chieftain and his
handful of followers. Undoubtedly he
reflected the fears felt in Mexico, dis
patches announce.
The war department at Washington
has been advised that Obregon has
been convinced and, through him, Car
ranza, that President Wilson's an
nouncement of the expedition told the
whole story; that its mission was only
to disperse or capture the bandits.
From field headquarters in Mexico
General Funston has received news
that Villa has recovered from his re
cent wounds and is endeavoring to
raise a new army in the state of Du
rango. Cavalrymen are riding hard on the
trail of small bands of bandit3 in the
vicinity of Rubio range, 20 miles from
the American expedition, where three
bandits were slain by an American
forage detachment. There were fifty
in the band.
General Funston has completed his
plans for the reorganization of the
border patrol, and in only a short
time the safety of border citizens will
be guaranteed.
The territory along the internation
al boundary will be divided into three
divisions, with Brig. Gen. James Par
ker, Brig. Gen. William A. Mann and
Brig. Gen. Harry a Greene acting as
district commanders.
Two hundred Mexicans residing in
San Benito and other border towns
in the vicinity of Brownsville, Texas,
have expressed a desire to form a bat
talion to fight for the United States,
and will hold themselves in readiness
to answer a call for volunteers by the
United States government.
European War
Under the heavy pounding of the
Austrian artillery, Italian forces have
been compelled to withdraw from nor
tions of their lines in the region of
Trent.
British warships and aeroplanes
have bombarded the town of El Arish,
in Egypt, near the border of Palestine,
and are believed to have destroyed the
fort there.
A British official communication ad
mits the loss of a small monitor as a
result of the fire of Turkish batteries
The monitor was reported as having
been set on fire and sunk in a Turk
ish official statement.
American aviators lined up with
France against the Germanic allies
flew over the German lines for the
first time as a separate unit, and sus
tained particularly heavy shelling, but
landed safely.
The pinch of war has caused Italy
to put an embargo on the export of
macaroni, one of her chief food prod
ucts. It will remain in force for an
indefinite period according to advices
from Genoa
From Rome, Italy, it is reported that
Austrian air raiders attempted to at
tack a train on which were Queen
Helena and the children of the royal
household. The attack failed.
Progress for the Austrians against
the Italians in southern Tyrol and on
the Lower Isonzo is reported from Vi
enna.
The Russian advance through Kur
destan toward Mosul, the Russian ob
jective being the Bagdad railway, is
reported by Petrograd to be succeed
ing beyond expectation.
A Turk attack against the Russians
around Dlarbekr, was repulsed.
An outbreak among Austrian pris
oners of war in the interment camp
at Kapuskasing, Canada, in the prov
ince of Ontario, was quelled by the
military authorities after one of the
prisoners had been killed, nine sen
ously wounded, several fatally and
four slightly injured, is the news dis
patched from Cochrane, Ont.
On the Russian front bombard
ments alone are in progress.
Petrograd reports that the Russian
force which recently drove out the
Turks from the Rowanduz region is
continuing its progress westward to
ward Mosul and the Tigris river re
gion.
Sir Roger Casement, knighted by
the English king in 1911 for services
to the British government, and Dan
iel Julian Bailey, an Irish private sol
dier, have placed on the docket of the
Bow street police court in London for
preliminary examination on the sen
ous charge of high treason. The main
attack of the prosecution is directed
aeainat Casement.
. From the Tonale pass region, in
western Trentino, to Monfalcone, a
short distance from the head of the
Gulf of Trieste, the Austrians are vig
orously on the offensive against the
Italians
In Tyrol to the south of Trent heavy
infantry attacks to the east of the
Adige river have forced the Italians
again to abandon some of their ad
vanced positions and resulted in the
capture by the Austrians of an ag
gregate of 141 officers and 6,200 men.
On the line in France and Belgium
the fighting for several days has con
sisted mainly of artillery duels, most
severe to the northwest of Verdun.
Fighting of minor importance only
is reported on the Russian front for
two or three weeks.
The Turks are reported to have as
sumed the offensive around Diarbekr
in the Asiatic arena.
Domestic
New Orleansw as selected as the
1917 meeting place of the Southern
Baptist convention by the committee
to which the time and place of the
meeting was referred at the annual
convention in Asheville, N. C.
A dog strayed on a neighbor's porch
at Yamacraw, a suburb of Savananh,
Ga., and started an inter-family row
which resulted in the death of the
head of one family and the serious
stabbing of an elder brother of the
other.
The Confederate reunion will be
held next year in Washington, D. C,
and will then be reviewed by the pres
ident of the United States.
Gen. George P. Harrison, comman
der of the Alabama division, was elect
ed commander-in-chief of the United
Confederate Veterans.
Gen. John P. Hickman was elect
ed commander of the department of
the Army of Tennessee, U. C. V.
Gen. K. M. Van Zandt of Texas was
re-ejected commander of the Trans
Mississippi Department, U C. V
Gen. John Thompson Brown of Vir
ginia was elected commander of the
Army of Virginia, U. C. V.
Gen. Benentt Young of Kentucky
refused to stand for re-election as
commander-in-chief of the United Con
federate Veterans.
Girard, Ala., across the river from
Columbus, Ga., is under martial law,
and officers on the Georgia, side are
guarding the bridges leading into that
place. The Alabama soldiery captur
ed three-quarters of a million dollars'
worth of hiskey and beer, and will
send it to Montgomery on five freight
cars. "
Washington
Only about one hundred and fifty
million dollars in additional revenue
will have to be provided during the
coming year to meet the bill for pre
paredness and other large contemplat
ed expenditures.
It is probable that all of the reve
nue measures, Including provisions of
preparedness revenues, a tariff com
mission and the encouragement of the
dyestuffs industry will be includ in
an omnibus bill. The president is un
derstood to favor this plan.
Administration forces in congress
lost the first skirmish in the naval
preparedness campaign when the
house committee broke a five-day
deadlock and completed the naval
appropriation bill without approving
the five-year building program advo
cated by President Wilson and Secre
tary Daniels.
Appropriations of $16,800,000 for
continuing construction and operation
of the Panama canal and a fund of
$4,535,000 for its fortification are
among the large items in the sun
dry civil bill reported to the house.
The president says the United States
is for peace because she loves peace
and believes the present war has car
ried the nations engaged so far that
they cannot be held to ordinary stand
ards of responsibility.
President Wilson has lain awake
at night considering the European sit
uation, because there might come a
time when the United States would
be compelled to do what it did not de
sire to do, and the great burden on
his spirit has been that it has been
up to him to choose when that time
came.
In a public statement the president
frankly criticises a number of promi
nent men in Washington political life
by saying that some have grown and
some have "swelled."
An optimistic view of the Mexican
border situation was laid before Pres
ident Wilson and his cabinet by Sec
retary Baker, after a long conference
with Major General Scott, chief of
staff. General Carranza and his ad
visers now understand the motives
of the Washington government more
fully than ever before as a result of
the conference at El Paso between
Generals Scott and Funston and Obre
gon. A phase of interference with mails
which will be made the subject of spe
cial protest in the next note to Great
Britain is the custom of taking neu
tral ships into British ports for in
spection and then removing the mails
and sometimes subjecting them to
long delays.
President Wilson has made public
a frank and intimate review of his
three years in the white house and his
impressions of foreign and domestic
problems, delivered confidentially be
fore Washington correspondents gath
ered at the National Press Club; he
spoke of the difficulties of the presi
dency and particularly of the motives
which have guided him in handling the
European situation.
The president says he will use force
in the European situation if necessary
by using the paraphrase that "for the
-ake of a man's soul I have got to
occasionally knock him down."
CONGRESS ACCEPTS
I
FIRST ADMINISTRATION PREPAR
EDNESS MEASURE READY FOR
PRESIDENT'S SIGNATURE.
ONLY 25 DISSENTING VOTES
Provides Fop Regular Army of Over
200,000 Backed by Federalized Na
tional Guard of More than
400,000.
Washington. Congress has com
pleted its part in enactment of the
first of the Administration prepared
ness measures, the army reorganiza
tion bill, and sent the measure up fcp
President Wilson for his signature.
The House approved with only 25
dissenting votes the conference re
port on the army measure ,already
accepted by the Senate. It provides
for a regular army with a peace
strength of more than 200,000 men,
backed by a Federalized National
guard of more than 400,000, and car
ries many reorganizing features
worked out by War Department of
ficials to make the nation's fighting
arm more efficient.
To complete the main elements of
the program of preparedness on which
the lAdministration plans to spend
more than a billion dollars within the
next five years. Congress "jf.a still to
perfect and pass the naval bill,
embodying the navy increases, and the
fortifications bill, which includes pro
vision for most of the equipment for
the increased army.
Estimates vary as to the actual
number of men the army will provide
the maximum to be enlisted under it
depending on the interpretation plac
ed on some sections by War Depart
ment officials. As construed by Chair
man Chamberlain of the Senate mili
tary committee it provides for a reg
ular establishment of 211,000 at peace
strength and 236,000 at war strength
with a national guard of 457,000. The
peace strength of the regulars under
interpretation given the House by
Chairman Hay of the House military
committee would be 206,000.
Besides the personnel increases the
measure provides for a government
nitrate manufacturing plant to cost
not more than $20,000,000 for estab
lishment of a system of military train
ing camps for civilians paid for out of
the Federal Treasury; for a board to
investigate the advisability of estab
lishing a government munitions plant;
and for vocational education In the
army. Federalization of the national
guard would be accomplished through
Federal pay and through a require
ment making the guardmen subject tc
the orders of the President.
Eighteen Republicans, five Demo
crats, one Progressive and one Social
ist voted against adoption of the con
ference report. Republican Leader
Mann, who believed the measure inad
equate, was one of those voting in the
negative.
TERRIFIC TEXAS TORNADO
SWEEPS INTO OKLAHOMA
Three People at Kemp City, Okla.
Killed and Scores Injured.
Denison, Tex. Nine persons were
killed and 38 injured at Kemp City,
Okla., eight miles east of Denison, and
the town was badly damaged by a tor
nado which swept a path three quart
ers of a mile wide and five miles long
in the vicinity of Kemp. Only three
small dwellings remain intact at
Kemp.
Twelve business houses, a two
story hotel and 60 residences were
demolished in Kemp City. This is the
second time in recent years that the
little town of 300 Inhabitants has
been visited by a tornado. Merchant?
said that the town probably would
Lot be rebuilt.
Eight were killed In the town while
the other victim, a child was killed in
the collapse of its father's home Just
across the Red River in Texas. Of
the 38 persons injured, 36 are resi
dents of Kemp City. Most of those
Injured were caught in the collapse
ol buildings while trying to reach
storm cellars.
The bodies of the dead in several
instances were found hundreds of
yards from where their houses had
stood. The two-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William Brinson, who
were killed, was hurled 500 feet with
flying debris when the Brinson resi
dence was destroyed but the child
suffered only minor injuries.
Immediately after the storm passed
emergency treatment was given the
injured in darkness, with rain falling
In torrents. A special train carrying
12 physicians from Denison did not
reach Kemp until several hours after
the tornado passed.
STRATEGIC POSTS ON VERDUN
FRONT SOUGHT BY ARMIES
Paris. The battle for possession of
important strategic positions on the
Verdun front west of the Meuse River
continued, with unabated severity
during the past few days. The French
War Office has just announced that
the Germans, although repulsed In
most of their attempts, succeeded In
capturing a first line trench on Dead
Man Hill and gaining ground on the
slopes west of the hill.
m
MEASURE
PRESIDENT WILSON
CHARLOTTE'S GUEST
SPEECH IS SIGNIFICANT AND 18
LEADING TOWARD PEACE
PROJECT.
GREATEST CELEBRATION
IN CHARLOTTE HISTORY
Mr. Wilson Voiced What is Regarded
In South as Forerunner of Appeal
For National Peace..
Charlotte, N. C. President Wilson,
addressing approximately 100,000 per
sons attending a celebration of the
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independ
ence voiced what is regarded in the
South as a forerunner of an appeal to
the European nations to stop their
war. He indicated he thinks the time
has come when the belligerents are
practically at a standstill and that
they should stop fighting and accom
plish the settlement of theid differ
ences by counsel.
"It is an interesting circumstance
that the procsesses of the war stand
still,, Mr. Wilson declared, amid the
applause of thousands massed about
a great ,flag-bedeeked grandstand,
before which a preparedness parade
had passed a few minutes before.
"Those hot things that are In contact
with each other do not make very
much progress against each other.
When you can mot overcome, you
must take counsel."
Mr. Wilson ventured the opinion
that the present war might be the
final process to amalgamate the world
in a fashion similar to the way in
which the vastly different elements
that have gone to make up the United
States have been bound together.
He denied that the foundations of
America have sprung up from the
people of the South. He denied that
the nation's history is a history of the
expansion of New England.
"The characteristic part of Amer
ica," he said, "originated in the mid
dle states of New York and Pennsyl
vania and New Jersey, because there
from the first was that mixture of
populations, that mixture of racial
stocks, that mixture of antecedents
which is the most singular and distin
guishing mark of the United States.
The most important single fact about
this great nation which he represents
Is that it is made out of all the nations
of the world."
America, he added, has had to serve
xa ix uieiiing yui iui xu mr 1x1a.11 v oiiu
diversified elements which have come
to it.
"What kind of fire of pure passion
are you going to keep burning under
the pot in order that the mixture
that comes out may be purged of its
dross and may be the fine gold of un
tained Americanism? That is the
problem."
Mr. Wilson dwelled at length on
the achievements of the United States
in mouldering the varied peoples into
one. He discussed, also, the coming
of the European war just as this great
work of America was being accom
plished. "What are the elements of the
struggle?" he asked. "Dont you see
that in this European war is involved
the very thing that has been going on
in America? It is a competition of na
tional standards, of national traditions
and of national politics political sys
tems. "And what you see taking place on
the other side of the water is the tre
mendous I had about said final pro
cess by which a contest of elements
may in God's process be turned Into
a co-ordination and a co-operation of
elements." !
He concluded his address with an
expression of hope that America
"could lift some sacred emblem of
counsel and of peace, of accommoda
tion and righteous judgment, before
the nations of the world and remind
ing them of that passage in Scripture,
'After the wind, after the earthquake,
after the fire, the still small voice of
humanity.' "
The president and a large party,
which included Mrs. Wilson, Josephus
Daniels, Secretary of the Navy; Jos
eph T. Tumulty and Past Assistant
Surgeon Cary T. Grayson, U. S. N.,
arrived in Charlotte, shortly after 10
o'clock to participate in the celebra
tion of the day in 1775 whes a band
of Mecklenburg county farmers adopt
ed resolutions which, it is said, gave
inspiriation to the Declaration of In
dependence declaring themselves
free of the British crown.
The president and Mrs Wilson en
tered an automobile and headed a pa
rade through the streets of the city for
several mHes, while thousands of visi
tors lined the streets and cheered.
At the grandstand, the President
Governor Locke Craig of North Care
Una, and Governor Richard I. Manning
of South Carolina, reviewed a parade
that took nearly two hours in passing.
The people of the town called it a
"preparedness parade." It included
several regiments of state militia; the
Richmond Grays, who stopped over
on their way back from Birmingham,
where they attended the Confederate
veterans' reunion; a few feeble Con
federate veterans and probably 200 au
tomobile floats prepared by the busi
ness houses of Charlotte.
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HOUSE COMMITTEE
REJECTS PROGRAM
AGREES TO BILL WHICH CARRIES
$240,000,000 FOR THIS YEAR
ONLY.
BREAKS FIVE-DAY DEADLOCK
Largest Naval Appropriation Ever Pre
sented to Congress. Administra
tion 5-Year Plan Rejected.
Washington. Administration forces
a Congress lost the first skirmish in
the naval preparedness campaign
when the House Committee broke a
five-day deadlock and completed the
naval appropriation bill without ap
proving the five-year building program
advocated by President Wilson and
Secretary Daniels.
As finally agreed to the bill author
izes the construction in 1917 of five
battle cruisers, as against two dread
naughts and two battle cruisers rec
ommended by Secretary Daniels, four
scout cruisers, an increase of one over
the Department's program, 10 destroy
ers as agamst 15 recommended; 20
submarines, three to be 800-ton boats,
compared with five fleet and 25 coast
defense submarines recommended;
one hospital ship, one oil fuel ship and
one ammunition ship. The gunboat
recommended was stricken out and the
fuel and ammunition ships were added
from Secretary Daniels' program for
the second year.
The total amount carried by the bill
is $240,000,000; fhe largest naval ap
propriation ever presented to ongress.
While the appropriation is, if any
thing, an increase over the Depart
ment's plans, failure of the five-year
program and the fact that no dread
naughts were provided for, make the
bill unsatisf- ctory to Administration
officials. Secretary Daniels said he
never lost hope of getting what he
asked for until Congress adjourned.
It was clearly indicated that the
Senate, which has not yet taken up
consideration of the naval bill even
in committee was relied upon to re
store the battleships. The Senate has
never failed to increase the program
for the Navy mapped out by the
House, and Navy officials are confi
dent that the final bill will provide
for at least two battleships and four
battle cruisers.
FIRE IN NAVY YARD
AT NORFOLK, VIRGINIA,
Flames Spread Rapidly Soon Beyond
Control. Stubborn Fight.
Norfolk, Va. The ship-fitters shop,
known as building No. 24, and all ol
the equipment, consisting of valuable
woodworking machinery, at the Nor
folk Navy Yard, were destroyed by
Are. The boiler-makers shop and the
plumbers shop, adjoining buildings in
the group, were slightly damaged.
The fire originated in the ship-fitters
shop from some unknown cause
shortly after 6 o'clock. The flames
spread rapidly and were quickly be
yond the control of the navy yard fire
fighting force. The entire Portsmouth
fire department was called to the
scene. A stubborn two-hours' fight
confined the fire to the buildings men
tloned and at 9 o'clock all danger of a
general sonfiagration had passed.
SOLUTION OF REVENUE
PROBLEM PLEASES KITCHEN
Washington. Secretary McAdoc
submitted to Chairman Kitchin of the
House Ways and Means Committee
and Chairman Simmons of the Senate
Finance Committee revised estimates
of the Government's receipts and ex
penditures for the remainder of the
current fiscal year and the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1917, tending to show
that much less new revenue will have
to be raised to meet the bill for pre
paredness and other large contemplat
ed expenditures than had been sup
posed. Only about $150,000,000 in addition
al revenue will have to be provided
during the coming year, Mr. McAdoo
said. This is less by $75,000,000 than
the most conservative members ol
Congress calculated at the outset.
Italians Hold Back Austrians.
The Italians in southern Tyrol now
are tenaciously holding back the
Austrians from further inroads into
their positions. In the Ledro Valley,
southwest of Trent, and in the Laga
rlna Valley, to the south of the city,
the Austrians, after heavy artillery
preparation, threw vicious attacks
against the Italian lines but all of
them were repulsed with heavy casu
alties, according to Rome. Five at
tacks were made on Zegnatorta, and
all of them were stopped with san
guinary losses.
Test Navy Yard Shell Shops.
Norfolk. Va. As a preparedness
test and in order to demonstrate the
facilities and capacity of the Navy
Yard shell shops, rush orders have
been received for 10,000 six-inch and
10,000 five-inch naval shells. Castings
are being transferred as rapidly as
possible to shops, where they are be
ing machined, finished and sent to St.
Julien's magazine for loading. Ca
pacity forces are being operated in
order to establish a record time for
the productoin of the finished shells.
Other orders are expeeted to follow.
0. C. V. MEETS Ml
N ' CAP TAL
GEN. GEO. P. HARRISON IS ELECT
ED COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF TO
SUCCEED YOUNG.
CONTEST OVER CONVENTION
Reunion Closes at Birmingham. Tat
tered Flag of Morgan's Raiders
Presented to Gen. Young.
Birmingham, Ala. Washington won
the honor of entertaining the United
Confederate Veterans in 1917 by a
close vote at the closing business ses
sion here.
General George P. Harrison of Ala
bama was elected commander-in-chief,
to succeed Gen. Bennett Young
of Kentucky.
The desire of the old Confederate
soldiers to parade down Pennsylvania
avenue and be reviewed by the Presi
dent of the United States led them to
choose Washington, D. C, for the
1917 reunion city, at the closing busi
ness session of their reunion. Tulsa,
Okla., and Memphis received tne next
highest votes in the order named.
Gen. George P. Harrison, command
er of the Alabama division of the
United Confederate Veterans, was
elected commander-in-chief of the
veterans, succeeding Gen. Benentt
Young of Louisville, who refused to
permit his name to be presented as a
candidate for re-election. Other offi
cers named were:
Commander department army of
Virginia, Gen. John Thompson Brown,
Virginia.
Commander the department of army
of Tennessee, Gen. John P. Hickman
of Tennessee.
The recommendations of the reso
lutions committee, with the exception
of one favoring a reducation in the sal
ary of the Adjutant General from
$1,800 to $1,500 annually, and another
favoring the consolidation of the vet
erans and sons of veterans organiza
tions were referred to the command
ing general and the heads of the
three departments.
The effort to reduce the adjutant
general's salary failed when it was
learned that the constitution leaves
that matter in the hands of the ex
ecutive council and commander-in
chief.
According to the report of the com
mittee on the Jefferson Davis Home
Association, presented by John S.
Leathers of Kentucky, showed there
were no debts against the organiza
tion and they had a balance in the
bank of more than $600.
Ernest G. Baldwin of Roanoke, Va ,
was elected commander of the Sons
of Veterans over Garland P. Peed of
Norfolk.
New officers for the Sons of Veter
ans elected in addition to the commander-in-chief
were:
Commander Department Army of
Northern Virginia, Dr. J. Garrett
King, Fredericksburg, Va.
Commander Department Army of
Tennessee, Thomas B. Hooker of
Memphis, Tenn.
Commander Army of Trans-Mis-slppi,
Merritt J. Glass, Tulsa, Okla.
Executive council, A. J. Wilson, Lit
tie Rock, Ark.; Adolph D. Bloch, Mo
bile, Ala.; Garland P. Peed, Norfolk,
Va.; Seymour Stewart, St. Louis.
Historian-in-chief, Dr. T. M. Owen
Montgomery, Ala.
SENATE AGREES TO ARMY
REORGANIZATION BILL
Upper House Passes Conference Re
port Without Roll Call.
Washington. The senate after an
all-day debate agreed to the conference
report of the army reorganization bill
without a roll call. The house Is
expected to approve the report with
in a day or two and send the first of
the big national defense measures to
the president.
The bill provides for a regular
army of 211,000 officers and men at
peace strength, and approximately
260,000 at war strength, and for a
Federalized National Guard of 457,000
officers and men at maximum strength.
Senator Lodge criticised the house
for not accepting the larger. Chair
man Stone said he was so anxious to
see the ntirate provision enacted that
he would be almost willing to agree
to any size army necessary, but in
sisted there was no need of an in
creased army. Senator Brandegee,
author of the amendment for a regu
lar standing army of 250,000 men at
peace strength, declared the English
language was inadequate to express
his disgust at the conference action
and said he hoped "the good Lord
who guards the drunkard and the fool
will save the nation."
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
TO BE BASED ON RECORD
Washington. President Wilson,
talking with congressional callers in
dicated his gratification at the prog
ress being made n legislation sup
ported by the administration and ex
pressed hope that congress would be
able to adjourn early in the summer.
It is the hope of the president to se
most of the administration program
completed before the political conven
tions which meet in Chicago and St.
Louis in June.
BAPTISTS RE-ELECT
REV. RR. BURROWS
TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL CON
VENTION MEETING AT ASHE
VILLE ELECTS OFFICERS.
PLAN TO AID WAR PRISONERS
Would Send Missionaries to German
and Austrian Prison Camps Grat
ifying Reports Received.
Asheville. Rev. Dr. Lansing Bur
rows of Americus, Ga., was re-elected
president of the Southern Baptist Con
vention at the opening of the sixty
first annual session of that body here.
The opening session was taken up
with election of officers and presenta
tion of reports of the various boards
controlled by the convention. The
Foreign Mission Board recommended
in its report that the Southern Baptist
Convention decline to enter into a
union with other denominations in
foreign mission work.
Vice presidents, B. C. Hening of
Elizabeth City, N. C, J. D. Mell of
Athens, Ga., JU B. Lawrence of Colum
bus, Miss., and J. C. Stalcup of Okla
homa City, Okla. Mr. Hening was the
only vice president re-elected.
Secretaries O. F. Gregory of Balti
more and H. C. Moore of Raleigh, N.
C. Both were re-elected.
Treasurer, George W. Norton of
Louisville, Ky. ; auditor, W. P. Har
vey of Harrodsburg, Ky.
The Sunday School Board in its re
port showed total receipts of $452,
729, with a balance on hand of more
than $30,000. It was said a larger
balance than usual had been laid
aside because of the increased cost
f white paper used in printing work
done by the board. The Foreign Mis
sion Board announced completion of
the Judson Centennial fund of $1,250,
000 for aiding foreign missions. This
fund was virtually completed last
year.
Flans to send missionaries into Ger
man and Austrian prison camps to at
tempt to convert to the Baptist faith
the "2,000,000 Russian prisoners of
war" held therein were outlined.
Approval of the stand of the For
eign Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention against joining
other denmoinations in foreign mis
sionary activities, and recommenda
tion of several plans to lower the ex
penses of the board, were made by the
committee to which the annual report
of the Foreign Mission Board was re
ferred after Its presentation at the
opening session.
Discontinuance of the two field
secretaries employed by the Foreign
Board to travel through the South
and seek to arouse interest in the
cause of foriegn missions was asked
and the recommendation was made
that the publications of the Home
Mission Board and the Foreign Mis
sion Board be united and that the
Woman's Missoinary Union be invited
to unite its publication with the joint
magazine which thus would be formed.
The field secretaries of the Foreign
Mission Board are the Rev. C. J.
Thompson of Raleigh, and the Rev.
C. D. Graves of Nashville, Tenn.
While paying tribute to their work
the committee thought their services
might be dispensed with.
Among other means suggested for
lowering the debt of the Foreign
Board was one which would provide
that the current expenses of the
board during the coming year should
not exceed those of the past year, and
that the churches try to enlarge their
contribution:: to foreign missions.
Mill Site Contains 35 Acres.
Gastonia. The Groves Mills, Inc.,
one of the four new cotton mill cor
porations recently formed in Gastonia.
has purchased a site of 35 acres just
across the P. & N. Railway Line from
the Flint Mill, east of the city. Work
has begun on the sidetrack and the
construction of the buildings will be
commenced at once. It is expected to
have the plant ready for operation
about the first of September.
The officers of this mill are L. F.
Groves, president; L. L. Jenkins, vice
president; H. H. Groves, secretary.
Lady Meets Tragic Death.
Lumberton. A distressing accident
occured in East Lumberton recently
when Miss Marjie Meadows, 14 years
old, was shot a pistol ball entering
her head just above the left eye. She
was sent to the hospital, where it is
thought the wound will prove fatal
No blame attaches to anyone. A
party of young folks were engaged in
making kodak pictures; the subjects
being "Western Scenes," in which
pistols were used, none of which was
supposed to be loaded. The weapon
was fired by Frank Bryant.
Tar Heel Aviator In Paris.
Paris. Corporal J. M. McConnell of
Carthage, N. C, took part in the first
aerial expedition which the American
aviators in the service of the French
Arnfy have made over the German
lines since the Franco-American corps
was organized as a separate unit
Though Corporal McConnell was fly
ing at a height of 12,000 feet the
German shells were bursting all
around him, showing that the range
of the German anti-aircraft guns has
been lengthening.