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VOL. XXXIX.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, JANUARY 31, 1917.
NO. 26.
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IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nititts
Fir Seven Days Art
Gives.
THE NEWS JJFTHE SOUTH
What It Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs.
Washington
Enlargement of the national forest
reserves by 23,700 acres acquired
through purchase in the Southern Ap
palachian and White mountains is an
nounced by the reservation commis
si, n. This brings the total up to
i 373, 131 acres.
The Supreme court has been asked
to decide whether the federal gov
ernment shall pay $68,000,000 to for
mer slaves and their. heirs for cotton
picked in slavery times after the fam
ous emancipation declaration.
An amendment to the federal re
serve act, proposed by the reserve
board, to make immediately effective
the provision requiring all reserves of
MKT.ber banks to be kept in federal
reserve banks, has been approved by
the house banking and currency com
mittee. Contracts were awarded Hadfields,
limited (England), for $3,141,000
worth of 14-inch and 16-inch armor
piercing shells at about $200 apiece
less than the lowest American bid.
Secretary Daniels has not received of
ficial notice that the British govern
ment has declined to permit the Had
fields to fill its contract. "I will wait
until I get official announcement," he
said, when asked what alternative pre
sented itself.
The amount of whiskey consumed
by the American people in 1916 ap
parently was greater than in any pre
vious year since 1909, according to tax
returns to the treasury department.
The amount of revenue collected by
the government on whiskey, beer and
cigarettes during the year was the
greatest on record.- ,
Consumption of cigarettes in 1916,
which reached the highest mark in
the history of the country, is attribu
table to the large number of women
who have become devotees of the
weed.
Frank P. Glass of Birmingham, A.,
vice president of the American News
paper Publishers' association, voiced
his objection to restrictions upon news
paper publishers in the Owen corrupt
practices bill, before a senate sub-com-
miuee.
President Wilson has under consid
eration the making of a speechmaking
tour in different parts of the country
in a campaign of education concerning
the ideas expressed by him in his re
cent convention-smashing speech to
the senate.
For the second time since it togan
consideration of railroad legislation
to supplement the Adamson law, the
senate interstate commerce committee
declined to approve a provision sag
gested by President Wilson forbidding
a strike or lockout pending investiga
tion of a labor controversy.
The board designated by Secretary
Daniels to inspect proposed sites for
the government armor plate factory is
expected to leave Washington soon for
a tour of locations already held to be
safe in time of war.
Protests against the recommenda
tions that tv armor plant should not
be located within 200 miles of the
coast line were made to Secretary
Daniels by a delegation from Rich
mond, Va.
Cotton ginned prioro Janurry 16
amounted to 11,147,118 running bales,
exclusive of linters, including 189,004
round bales and 115,163 bales of sea
island, the census bureau announces
Domestic
Detectives summoned-from several
cities are in Lakeland Fla., seeking
clues to the identity pf the thief or
thieves who robbed th$t residence of
C G. Memminger, a Wealthy phos
phate operator, of $20,100 in jewels
ma 7o in cash.
Baltimore renorts thar; fahinnine cir
cles there that three stAmers whioh
left Baltimore recently, presumably
coal, also took out' several mil-
"wi dollars in gold eagJLes and half
gies. The gold, it. is reported, is
ur nnany and is to be transferred
sea to the raiders sweeping the
"Jum Atlantic.
The United Stntos ehir Anaahlo loft
Norfolk December 28 with $2,000,000
ln gold to be delivered to German
agents at Buenos Aires, but nothing
"as oeen heard of here since her de
i'arture.
A New York disnateh ravs that the
American commission for relief of Bel
gium is preparing for at least another
eai s work and the necessity of rais
lnS approximately $150,00.0,000 more
"in De discussed by the commission in
ew York. ' r
The nomination of J. A Donald of
' ew York as a member Of the new
federal shipping board has been con-
nrmed by the United States senate.
yrganization of the board - will be ef
ected shortly. v
The 14-year-old daughter of Jailer
o. f. Bowers of Hamnton. S. C held
a mob at bay with a, pistol when they
came to take Dave Richards, a negro,
on the charge of assaulting a
wnite man. Her hrnthor foa ti Ti cr for
.L 9 A
er safety, took the weapqn from her
and the crowd took the negro back
; woods, beat him badly and
A tract of eight thousand acres on
Mount Mitchell. N. C. has Been nur-
chased by the federal reservation com
mission. ' .
The federal reservation commission
announces that it has purchased forty-
five hundred acres of land in the
White Mountains of New Hampshire.
it is stated that on the collateral
deposited by the allied nations of Eu
rope, they are entitled to a loan of
seven billion two hundred million dol
lars. Small Woman, former wife of Sit
ting Bull, who annihilated Custer and
his command in Little Big Horn in
1876 and who himself was slain in
battle fifteen years later at Wounded
Knee, is dead at the North Dakota
Fort Berthold Indian reservation. She
died from injuries sustained in the
burning of her cabin, from which she
escaped uninjured, but returned for
an old shawl which she prized highly,
and it was then that her clothing took
fire with disastrous results.
It is stated that the loaning capac
ity of the federal reserve banks will
be increased by $800,000,000 by next
November.
An ocean freight rate of $4 a hun
dred pounds will be paid on one thou
sand bales of cotton booked for ex
port from Galveston, Texas, to Havre,
France. This is the highest rate ever
paid for the transportation of cotton
from Galveston.
The president of the American
Newspaper Publishers' association
says that prohibition against printing
news of election betting, which is
contained in a section of the Owens
corrupt practices bill, might become a
stepping stone toward further restric
tions. Governor Rye has attached his sig
nature to three anti-liquor bills, thus
putting the state of Tennessee in the
bone dry" class.
A New York dispatch announces
that leading financiers of Wall street
will co-operate with the congressional
committee in going to the heart of
the leak scandal. The committee an
nounces that collateral issues will be
entirely ignored until all available in
formation anent the "leak" on the note
of December 21 and the alleged re
sultant profits have been obtained.
European War
SDirited fiehtlner has taken nlace
northwest of Verdon on the front in
France. Attacking on a front of
sixteen hundred meters against Hill
301 northwest of Verdun, Teuton sol
diers stormed French trenches and
took 500 prisoners.
The German troops have gained con
siderable ground on Le Mort Homme
and Avocourt.
West of Riga, in the Tirul swamp re
gion and along the River Aa, the Ger
mans and Russians continue heavy
fighting. Germans claimed to have
taken 500 prisoners and gained some
ground.
The Turkish first line trenches on a
front of 1,100 yards were gained by
the British in their attacks southwest
of Kut-el-Amara,
There is, no great activity in Rou-
mania.
On the northern portion of the
French front, the British have carried
out successful raids.
Speaking at the annual meeting of
the London City and Midland bank,
Sir Edward Holden, managing director
of the bank, said that 232,000,000
pounds of gold which had 'flowed into
America up to the end oT 1916, about
212,000,000 pouds represented the
amount contributed by the entente al
lies to form the basis of loans.
The British government has refused
permission to the Hadfields, limited,
to proceed with work on the contract
for shells for the American navy "so
long as the exigencies of war con
tinue. Capture by German forces of 1,500
Russian prisoners, as well as consid
erable ground near the River Aa, at
the northern end of the Russo-German
front, is announced.
A Ymuiden, Holland, dispatch says
an encounter occurred in the North
sea between fourteen German torpedo
boat destroyers and a British flotilla.
Sixteen severely wounded Germans
have been landed at' that place by a
Dutch steam trawler .which took them
off the badly damaged- German torpedo
boat V-69. That boat was afterwards
towed into Ymuiden with twenty dead
aboard.
London reports from Ymuiden say
that German torpedo boats at
tempted at night to leave Zeebrugge
to avoid the ice, which was very
thick, and were immediately attacked
by a large British squadron. The ac
tion opened at short range and early
in the fight the bridge of the German
destroyer V-69 was swept away by a
direct -hit, the commander and two
other officers being killed
The sinking of a British torpedo
boat destroyer in an engagement with
another German destroyer in the vi
cinity of Schouwen bank, witji the loss
of three officers and forty-fpar of the
crew, is announced by the London ad
miralty. In Volhynia, the Russians admit, the
Germans successfuly ( carried out
trench raids.
German airplanes have dropped
bombs , on Montdidier, France, with
more or less damage.
Newspaper reporters who were al
lowed to approach near the scene of
the explosion in London describe what
was formerly the site of the explosive
store as a hole a hundred yards across
and eighty feet deep with masses of
earth, iron and all sorts of wreckage
covering an area of about six acres
around the hole.
Three airplanes have been brought
down on the French front, two of
them during a spirited aerial engagement.
r
PERSHING'S TROUPS
ARE WITHDRAWING
FINAL CHAPTER IN THE OCCUPA
AION OF MEXICO BEING
WRITTEN.
BAKER ISSUES STATEMENT
Border Militia Question and Sending
of Fletcher to Mexico Capital Now
Hold Interest. Villa and Carranza
Are Busy.
Washington The final act in the
entrance into Mexico of 12,000 Amer
ican soldiers as a result of the Villa
massacre of 17 Americans at Colum
bus. N. M., on March 9, 1916, was writ
ten with official announcement by the
War Department that General Persh
ing had been ordered, and actually
had started to bring his troops back
to the United States,
Secretary Baker issued the follow
ing announcement:
"General Pershing has been ordered
to bring his troops cut of Mexico. The
moyement is to be an immediate one,
and probably is already under way.
Later advices to the department said
hat the troops already had begun the
evacuation of Colonia Dublan, 110
miles from the border, where they
had been concentrating during the
past few weeks. The last American
soldier is expected to recross the bor
der in about a week."
XTo official information is at hand as
to whether Villa or Carranza troops
will occupy the territory left vacant
by the Americans, but the belief is
strong here that the bandit, who is
credited with, at least, 8,000 well-arm-ad
men who . is now, at least, four
times as strong as when the American
: oops went across the border, will
i;ake a desperate effort to take the
?rritc?ry, particularly for its moral
feft. The two other phases of the
Mexican problem on which interest
enters n&w, are the disposition of the
moi ti tha 50,000 militia still on the
oorder. and the sending of Ambassa
dor Fletcher to his post at Mexico
City. Officials say no decision has
been reached in either of .these ques
tions, but that both are dependent on
the turn of events in Mexico.
SENATORS WORK OVERTIME
TO CLEAN UP MUCH WORK.
Less Than Thirty Days to Solve Con
jested Legislation.
Washington. With less than 30
working days remaining in the life of
the Sixty-Fourth Congress, the Demo
cratic Steering Committee of the Sen
ate decided to hold daily sessions of
the Senate from 11 o'clock in the
morning until 10 o'clock at night, be
ginning Thursday, February 1.
Overtime exertions were determined
upon as the first move in an effort to
solve the congested legislation situa
tion, the decision being to drive away
as hard and fast as possible op es
sential appropriations and the revenue
bill, and to undertake the big general
Administration measures one by one
as time permits. Whether any of the
Administration bills over which there
ig so much dispute Could be passed,
nonje of the Democratic leaders would
predict.
The generis understanding is that
the railroad -Jabor bills will be consid
ered as soon as the India appropria
tion bill is qtjjt of the way, provided
the Interstate Commerce Committee
does, not ultimately decide to await
action on this; matter is he House. In
view of the "iact that Representative
Admason is preparing to rush a sep
arate bill on 'the subject through the
House, the Sjenate committee may
decide to waiy In that case, the cor
rupt proctice jll or the mineral land
Teasing measupe may be given a try
out. . i
BIG BRITISH jfiUISER
; MINED OR TORPEDOED.
London. Thii&British auxiliary cruis
er Laurentlc o 14,892 tons gross, has
oeen sunk by submarine os a,s a re
sult of striking a mine, according to
an official statement issued by the
British Admiralty. Twelve officers
and 109 men were saved.
PITTSBURGH iSUFFERS LOSS OF
MILLIONS IN BIG BLAZE.
Pittsburgh, F Fire which swept
through a section of the retail busi
ness district herje destroyed the Frank
and Sedar Department Store, the
Grand Opera Hojjse, the Hilton Cloth
ing Company atid a dozen or more
smaller buildings'-with a loss estimated
at from $2,00O,00d .to 13,000,000. jFojur
firemen were seriously hurt and a doz
en or more so bsplly injured that they
were removed o hospital. Frozen
hydrants handicajpped the firemen.
ENGLISH HAVE -EXTENDED
DANGER ZONE IN NORTH SEA.
Washington. gaming of a consid
erable extension of the North Sea
zone designated ,-as "dangerous to
shipping" was received at the State
Department, from -the American Em
bassy at London. At the State De
partment it was said that what signifi
cance the enlarging of the British mine
field may have was not known, but in
other quarters it was pointed out that
the new extension formed a cordon of
mines around the German coast.
R VERS
HARBORS
BILL PASSES HOUSE
CARRIES AN APPROPRIATION OF
$38,000,000, OF WHICH $10,000,
000 IS NEW WORK.
PARTY LINES NOT DRAWN
President Wilson's "Approval Express
ed as to Existing Projects Concern
ed. Vote Was 221 to 131. Bill
Now Goes to Senate.
Washington. The annual rivers
and harbors appropriation bill, carry
ing $38,000,000, including more than
$10,000,000 for new projects was
passed by the House by a vote of 221
to 131. It now goes to the Senate.
The House increased the appropria
tion for Norfolk harbor from $270,
000 to $360,000 and retained as a con
tinuing project $1,425,000 for deepen
ing the channels leading to the harbor
at Tampa, Fla., to 27 feet, $300,000 of
the amount being made available in
this bill.
The President, although opposing
the proposed public buildings bill now
awaiting action in the Senate, has ex
pressed his approval of the river and
harbors measure in so far as appro
priations for existing projects is con
cerned. The House struck out a provision
to create a commission of Cabinet
officers and members of the Senate
and House committees to investigate
river and harbor improvements, drain
age, reclamation, irrigation and flood
control problems, with a view to rec
ommending to Congress next Decem
ber plans for co-ordinating ell such
activities. This plan, favored by the
President, was eliminated on a point
of order after a lively parliamentary
fight, but another flood control bill
is pending in the House.
The vote by which the bill passed
was not along party lines.
PUBLISHING BUSINESS IS
IN HAZARDOUS POSITION
DUE TO COST OF PAPER.
Declare Publishers, Who Say Remedy
Must Be Found at Once.
Chicago. Newspaper publishers
and news print paper manufacturers
at a conference here voted to appoint
committees to meet immediately after
delivery to Congress this week of the
Federal Trade Commission's report on
the print paper situation to see if
knowledge gained from the report
points the way to an adjustment of
the paper problem.
Publishers, representing the Amer
ican Newspaper Publishers' Associa
tion, agreed that the present high
price of paper has placed the news
paper publishing business in a posi
tion so hazardous and menacing that
a remedy must be found without de
lay. On the other hand, representa
tives of the Print Paper Manufac
turers' Association asserted that the
increased cost of production justified
present prices.
Many of the publishers favored an
agreement by both sides to abide by
any price the Federal Trade Commis
sion may set. This would have to be
a gentlemen's agreement, as the com
mission has power only to inevsti
mission has power only to investi
gate. Those active in the meeting includ
ed for the publishers Frank P. Glass,
of Birmingham, chairman of the print
paper committee of the Publishers'
Asociation; E. B. Stahlman, Nash
ville, and Victor Lawson, of Chicago.
Prominent manufacturers present
were P. T. Dodge, president of the
International Paper Company; Alex
ander Smith, managing director of
the Abitibi (Canada) Paper Com
pany, and J. A. Bothwell and F. A.
Sabbattan, Canadian manufacturers.
COMMITTEE APPROVES
FEDERAL RESERVE ACT.
Washington. An amendment to the
Federal reserve act proposed by the
reserve board to make immediately ef
fective the provision requiring all re
serves of member banks to be kept in
Federal reserve banks, was approved
by the House Banking and Currency
Committee.
MODERN ATTIRE OF WOMEN
IS DECRIED BY SOCIETY.
Wilmington, N. C. The North Caro
lina Women's Missidnary Society, of
the Methodist Church in session Here
adopted resolutions decrying the im
modest attire of the modern woma,
the low standard of , moying picture
shows, enforcement of laws regulat
ing sale of habit-forming drugs, urged
enforcement of laws abolishing liquor
traffic, urged discouragement of the
use of coco-cola and favored a single
standar dof morality.
MEXICAN TROOPERS IN
FIGHT WITH COWBOYS.
Tuscon, Ariz. According to tele
phone advices from Arivaca, Ariz.,
about 14 miles south of here, fighting
has been in progress all day at a
place called Stonehouse between
Mexico troopers and American cow
boys. When the cowboys attempted
to drive their cattle from the boundary
line, the Mexicans opened fire and re
ports said the Americans retreated
and were reinforced by a part of troop
B. Utah Cavalry, who returned fir.
LANSING PROTESTS
TO MEXICAN CHIEF
SOMMUNICATION REGARDS CER
TAIN PROVISION'S PROPOSED
IN NEW CONSTITUTION.
RELATING TO FOREIGNERS
Objects Because Chief Executive May
Expel Anyone Without Recourse to
Appeal. Not in Accord With Other
Nations.
Mexico Cit. Secretary of State
Lansing has sunt to General Carranza,
through Charles B. Parker, American
Charge d'Affatrs here, a communica
tion in regard to certain provisions
which it had been proposed to include
in the new Mexican constitution. The
communication calls attention to ar
ticles vesting the Executive with pow
er to expropriate property without
judicial recourse, and alse the article
providing that civil commercial com
panies cannot own properties of a
greater area than is necessary to ac
complish the purpose for which they
are formed, and placing the power to
determine what area is necessary in
the hands of the Executive.
The communication says that if the
latter provision were made retroac
tive, it might be confiscatory as no
provision is made for compensation.
Attention is called to the article pro
viding that there be no exemption
from taxation. If this were given a
retroactive effect, says Secretary Lan
sing's communication, it would impair
contracts of many foreign corporations
now operating under agreements pro
viding periods of exemption by the
federal or state governments.
Regarding article 33, dealing with
the expulsion of obnoxious foreigners,
objection is made because the pro
posed article permits the executive to
expel anyone, without recourse to ap
peal, whose presence is deemed inad
visable by him. The letter states that
this is not in accord with the usual
practice of nations that cause be
clearly shown.
FIGHTING UNABATED IN
MARSHES NORTH OF RIGA.
With Germans Having the Advantage
Cold Weather Halts Operations
In Rumania.
The big battle between the Germans
and Russians over the frozen Tirul
marsh, southwest of Riga, continues
unabated. Further progress for the
Germans along both sides of the Aa
River is reported by Berlin, which
elaims an advance over a front of
about six miles and the capture of
Russian fort positions together with
14 officers and 1,714 men and 13 ma
chine" guns.
Petrograd admits the southeast ,of
the river, the Russians have had to
fall back a third of a mile, but says
the attacks by the Germans on the
marsh we.e repulsed.
Aside from this battle, the fighting
in the various other theaters con
tinues to be carried out mainly by
the artillery and small reconnoitering
and raiding parties. In Rumania, the
extermely cold weather has virtually
put an end to the operations for the
moment.
Lively fighting has taken place on
the famous Dead Man Hill, in the Ver
dun region of France, but no details
of it have been made public. Recip
rocal artillery duels, which have'
reached considerable proportions at
several points, are being fought from
tie Swiss frontier to the North Sea.
The British Treasury, under the de
fense of the Realm act, will shortly
requisition such foreign securities
heldln Grett Britain, as may be re
quired to strengthen the country's
financial position.
INDIANA LOWER HOUSE
PASSES PROHIBITION BILL.
Indianapolis, Ind. By a vote of 70
to 28, the lower branch of the State
Legislature passed a bill prohibiting
the sale, manufacture, distribution or
advertisement of liquor in the state
after January 1, 1918. The bill now
goes to the senate. Fifty-two Repub
licans and 18 Democrats opposed it.
PERSHING'S BAGGAGE
REACHES COUUMBUS.
El Paso, Tex. Part of the field
headquarters equipment and baggage
reached Columbus, N. M., from Colonia
Dublan together with quatities of sup
plies and munitions, passengers from
there said. Arrangements continue to
be made in Columbus for receiving the
expeditionary troops. After a brief
rest there it was said the plan was
to move the troops to El Paso, Doug
las and other border points where
cantonments will be provided.
GIANT SUPERDREADN AUGHT
MISSISSIPPI IS LAUNCHED.
Newport News, Va. The great red
coated hull of the superdreadnaught
Mississippi was moored to a pier at
the plant of the Newport News Ship
buiHing & Drydock Co., where hun
dreds of workmen began the work of
preparing her to take first rank in the
Nation's sea forces. The battleship,
the third American man-'o-war to bear
her name, was launched here before
a distinguished company.
NEW BASE FOR U. S
IN
OJA FEDERICO, EIGHTY MILE3
NORTH OF COLONIA DUBLAN
IN CHIHUAHUA.
TEMPORARY HEADQUARTERS
Column Will Enlarge at Columbus.
De Facto Troops Occupy Evucat
ed Territory. El Valle is Perman
ently Abandoned as Outpost.
El Paso, Texas. Ojo Federico, 80
miles north of Colonia Dublan Chi
huahua, will be the temporary field
headquarters of the American puni
tive expedition during the withdrawal
operations. After retirement of the
American troops, Major General
Pershing and his staff will ptoeeed to
the border at Columbus, N. M., in the
rear of the expeditionary column.
. General Pershing has perfected his
pians for moving the headquarters
equipment to Ojo Federico at once
and it was considered probable that
he had already sent advance detach
ments there to establish the head
quarters camp. . a
El Valle (San Buena Ventura) has
permanently abandoned as an outpost
of the American expedition at dawn
when the Fifth United States Cavalry,
which had been acting as a rear guard
for this preliminary withdrawal move
ment started northward.
Juarez, Mexico. Two thousand de
facto troops reached Jimenez, Chihua
hua, early in the day from Torreon,
en route to Chihuahua City to police
western Chihuahua after the evacua
tion of the American punitive expedi
tion, an official message from Jimenez
l stated. These troops were sent north
following the receipt of orders from
General Obregon, Minister of War.
PROVISION TO FORBID STRIKES
STRICKEN OUT BY SENATE.
Committee Again Defeats Effort to
Incorporate Suggestion By -
President.
Washington. For the second time
since it began consideration of railJ
road legislation to supplement the
Adamson law, the Senate Interstate
Commerce, Committee declined to ap
prove a provision suggested by Pres
ident Wilson forbidding a strike or
lockout pending investigation of a
labor controversy.
The vote was ten to five, with three
Democrats, Senators Underwod,
Smith, of South Carolina, and Thomp
son, voting with the Republicans in
the negative.
On the first vote 10 days ago, the
committee turned down this provis
ion seven to three. A further effort
may be made to win the committee's
approval, and if this is unsuccessful,
a fight will be made for the provision
on the floor of the Senate.
Chairman Newlands said the com
mittee was still at work on an inves
tigation bill with this feature elimi
nated, and was confident that approval
would be given a measure that would
prevent obstructions to interstate
commerce without actually forbidding
a strike.
The action of the committee came
shortly after representatives of the
four railroad brotherhoods informed
President Wilson that they desired to
suggest changes to the biJJs now pend
ing. The President asked that the
suggestions be submitted in writing,
and promised to give them careful
consideration. The brotherhood lead
ers declined to make public their pro
posals at this time, but it is under
stood they follow the lines indicated
In hearings before the House Com
mittee and provide for a permanent
investigating commission compos-id
partly of employers and employes,
without any strike prohibiting feature.
BALTIMORE NEWSPAPER
INCREASES SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
Baltimore. Te Baltimore Sun an
nounced that owing to the increased
cost of print paper and other mater
ials, the weekly subscription price for
its 13 issues would hereafter be 13
cents instead of 10 cents.
HADFIELD'S CANT MAKE
SHELLS FOR FOREIGN USE
London. The British government
has refused permission to the Had
field's, Limited, to proceed with work
on the contract for shells for the
American navy "so long as the exi
gencies of war continue."
The announcement is made in the
form of an official notice by Doctor
Christopher Addison, the minister of
munitions, in which attention is called
to the fact that the entire steel output
is vnder his control.
FORTIFICATIONS BILL
FAVORABLY REPORTED.
Washington. The House fortifica
tions committee reported favorably a
$1,000,000 bill providing for a compre
hensive scheme' of defense for New
York narbor, eight 16-inch mortars for
Cape Henry, two 16-inch guns for the
Puget Sound, $4,800,000 for an elabor
ate aero service for coast defense, and
$80,000 for anti-aircraft guns. Em
placements are provided also for
eighteen 12-inch long range guns.
MEXICO
MORE N. G. LAND EOR
FOREST RESERVE
LARGEST SINGLE PURCHASE
WAS TRACT OF 8,000 ACRES
ON MT. MITCHELL.
SOME IN OTHER COUNTIES
Small Purchases in Burke, Caldwell,
Henderson, Macon, Buncombe
and Jackson Counties.
Washington. Enlargement of the
National Forest Reserves by 23,700
acres acquired through purchases in
the Southern Appalachian and White
Mountain was announced by the re
servation commission. It brings the
total added to the public forests in
the East and South under the Weeks
law up to 1,373,131 acres.
The largest single purchase among
those announced was a tract of 8,000
acres on Mount Mitchell, N. C. In
the White Mountains of New Hamp
shire, 4,500 acres were purchased,
and the other tracts, scattered through
North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and
Tennsee, follow:
In Burke and Caldwell counties,
North Carolina, on the Boone National
Forest, 4,300 acres. On the Natura
Bridge National Forest in Amherst,
Bedford and Botetourt counties, Vir
ginia, 12 tracts, comprising 3,135. In
Buncombe, Henderson, Macon and
Jackson counties, North Carolina, "ii
acres; in Union, Fannin, Lumpkiii
and Rabun ceunties, Georgia. 744
acres; in Shenandoah county, Virgin
ia, 741 acres and 320 acres in Polk
county, Tennessee.
RALEIGH MAN AGAIN
ELECTED SECRETARY.
DANIEL T. GRAY.
New Orleans. Daniel T. Gray of
Raleigh was re-elected secretary of
the Association of Southern Agricul
tural Workers at the concluding ses
sion. W. R. Dodson of Louisiana was
elected president and Montgomery
was selected as the 1913 meeting
place.
Announces Muster-Out Stations.
San Antonio, Texas. General Fun
ston announced the mustering out
stations to which the National Guards
men designated in a recent war de
partment order to be relieved of bor
der duty, will be sent. The list in
dues: First North Carolina Infantry or
dered to Asheville and from there to
be distributed as follows:
Field and staff headquarters com
pany, supply company and G com
pany to Shelby; machine gun com
pany and D company to Charlotte;
sanitary detachment, Rutherford ton ;
A company, Hickory; B company.
Gastonia; C company, Winston-Salem;
E company, Statesville; F and K
companies, Asheville; H company,
Waynesville; I company, Mount Airy;
L company, Concord; M company,
High Point.
Negro Gets Bickett's First Pardon.
Raleigh. Governor Bickett .has
granted his first pardon. It is for
Nathaniel Bost, of Catawba county a
19-year-old negro, who has served
since last July on a 12-months sen
tence for larceny. The county health
officers report that the negro is sick
and that his trouble is such that his
recovery is . handicapped by confiner
ment and the fixed dttet necessary in
prison life. ; Judge Lane and the
mayor and other officials of Hickory
recommended the pardon.
Salary Raise Constitutional.
Raleigh. Attorney General Manning
completed for State Auditor Wood his
opinion, finding the act of the Legis
lature increasing the salary of Gov
ernor Bickett constitutional. It is a
lengthy document, treating the whole
scope of the question and holding
that five sections qf the Constitution
must be construed together, and that
officers are elected for specified per
iods of time, and further time to the
election and qualification of succes
sors. Rulings to the effect by numer
ous other states are cited.
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