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- -f r" THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER TEAR Strictly in Advance cconl THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - - $1.00 One Square, two insertions - $L50 One Square, one month - - $2.50 Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. VOL. XL. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. O, OCTOBER 3, 1917. NO. 9. IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OYER i2pj$fliags of This and Other Nations For Seven Days Are Given. M NEWSJJFJKE SOUTH vvnat Is Taking Place in the South land Will Be Found in Brief Paragraphs. Domestic. KVrnmI return of a blanket indict ment charging a nation-wide conspir , t ' hamper the government during the Tar has been made in the United atea district court at Chicago against 1 leaders of the Industrial Workers of Ue World. Twenty-seven persons are known to have been killed and more than a score injured in a head-on collision )tiv.-en a westbound St. Louis and San Francisco train and an empty 'rain, which had been used for trans porting troops, one mile southwest of KpHyville Okla. FY.or privates of the forty-fifth Unit ed States infantry stationed at Fort Sheridan were run and instantly killed by a North Shore electric train at Higbtend Park near Chicago. Declaring Senator Robert M. LaFol lette of Wisconsin to "be the most sin ister foe of democracy in this country," Theodore Roosevelt, in a speech on The Children of the Melting Pot," in Chicago, denounced the pacifists and inpreparedness. , Reports from Chicago show that here have been more than seventy-five bou?and applications for seats for the world s baseball championship series ecejved at the park of the Chicago American League club. Efforts will be made to prevent tick et scalping in the world's series games o decide the baseball championship i.eiween the New York National and ?be Chicago American clubs. Former Governor James E. Fergu son of Texas was formally declared re moved from office as governor of Tex as and barred hereafter from holding any public office of "honor, trust or :roftf in the state of Texas. William P. Hobby, elected lieutenant governor, is now the full-fledged governor of the Lone Star state. Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, former chief of staff, retired because he had reached the age limit, will be placed in charge of Camp Jackson at Colum bia, S. C, vice Maj. Gen. Francis H. French, given leave of absence on ac count of illness. Immediate wage increases of from -0 to 70 per cent will be demanded by the country's coal minei"s, it is an nounced in Washington, after a pre liminary meeting of operators and the miners' representatives of the central competitive field. It is reported that the mine owners will refuse to entertain requests for increase of wages because the miners, hey contend, want too much. The eleven billion dollar war cred its bill authorizing the second Liberty Bond issue has been signed by Pres ident Wilson. A call for a general meeting of South era cotton growers and those interest d in the industry bankers, factors and others to consider the advisa bility of holding cotton for a minimum rice of 30 cents per pound, has been -ued by Harry D. Wilson, Louisiana commissioner of agriculture. The con ion is called to meet October 2 in Baton Rouge, the capital of Louisi ana. European. Thirteen British merchantmen of sixteen hundred tons and over and two vessels of less than sixteen hun dred tons were sunk by mines or sub marines last week, according to the weekly statement issued by the Brit admiralty. In the aggregate this the smallest number of vessels to have been sunk any one week since German began her intensified subma rine warfare last February. Germany has agreed to evacuate Bel gium on certain renditions, it is de clared in a dispatch from Berne, given out by wireless messages. In a supplementary note to the reply to Pope Benedict's peace proposal, Ger many stipulates that she must have the right to develop her economic enter prises freely in Belgium, especially in Antwerp. American army engineers sleeping in their barracks have been under fire from German airmen. Not an Ameri can was hurt, despite a fusilade of ma chine guns fire from the air which rid died the barracks roofs and walls. The Americar marines who have fwen with Major General Sibert's com mand have now all been withdrawn from it and split up in to provost guards in dozens of villages and cities of France, some of them also going to England. In the Trentino, in the region of Mon'e Nero, the Austro-Hungarians exploded a mine under the Italian po sitions, but the Italian barrage fire pre vented the enemy from making any perceptible gains. The Italians have repulsed attacks on the Bainsizza plateau, east of Go rizia. Another hostile airplane raid cn Lon don fs reported to have taken place on the night of September 25. There were apparently two attacks, for after a for ty minutes' quiet interval anti-aircraft guns resumed firing in the London district Although there are no signs of panic among the population of Petrograd, and there are indications of returning confidence, the partial evacuation of Petrograd is proceeding irrespective of whether the government will be transferred to Moscow. A priceless collection of pictures at the Hermi tage gallery is already boxed for ship ment to an unknown destination. The treasures of the synod and parochial churches in Petrograd are also being removed. Of all the points of vantage sought for and gained by Field Marshal Haig, the village of Zonnebeke, probably, was the most important, for six miles far ther on lies the Ostend-Lille railway, the cutting of which by the British would seriously interfere with opera tions between German's naval bases at Ostend and Zeebrugge and the south ern part of the line. Northeast of Verdun the infantry ac tivity on both sides has slackened. On the Aisne front artillery fighting only is reported for several days. Washington. Attorneys investigating seditious conspiracy for the United States gov ernment issue this statement: "The prosecutions are under sections 6, 19 and 37 of the criminal code, and un der the espionage act. Only leaders in the conspiracies or those personally culpable in connection with the per petuation of crimes against the United States are included as defendants." There is little doubt now that a large deficiency will be shown when the first increment of the national army has been made. Seventeen Na tional Guard divisions must be brought up to war strength and several spe cial service forces organized out of this reservoir. A further credit of forty million dol lars has been extended to France by the United States government. The credit of the allies up to Sep tember 29 amounted to $2,466,400,000. Peru has demanded that the German government give satisfaction within eight days for the sinking of the bark ' orton. Otherwise, diplomatic rela tion will be severed. Col. E. M. House, a personal friend of the president, is collecting peace data, but state department officials state that this does not indicate that the United States is looking for peace. A virtual embargo on the export of certain foodstuffs and feeds has been declared by the exports administra tive board. Such articles are food and feed grains, oil cake and meal, animal fats, vegetable oils and soap, caustic soda and certain machinery. The general conference of Unitarian and other Christian churches, at its twenty-seventh annual session in Mon treal, Canada, repudiated by an over whelming vote a "pacifist" resolution concerning the entrance of the United States into the war, and followed the leadership of former President Wil liam H. Taft in adopting a resolution approving President Wilson's action and declaring that "the war must be carried to a successful issue." More than thirteen thousand head of cattle have been moved from drought stricken portions of Texas to the south eastern states since Ju!y 1, the bureau of animal industry of the department of agriculture announces. A Mexico City dispatch says that it is stated on good authority that an in vestigation shows that the passage of messages in German code between the German legation and Berlin by way of the Swedish legation and Stockholm as revealed recently by Secretary of State Lansing extended as far back as the early part of 1916. The French chamber of deputies has passed the appropriation bill for the last quarter of the year by a vote of 4S0 to 4. The bill calls for 12,150,000 francs. The department of agriculture and the food administration will co-operata in a campaign to increase the demand throughout the nation for cheap, pala table and nourishing foods. It is hoped by this method to maintain a reason ble level of prices. Return to the United States treas ury of about $28,000,000 loaned to va rious states in 1936 and never repaid is sought in a bill introduced by Repre sentative Clark of Florida. Almost ev ery state in the Union at that time participated in the loan. Discovery of a deposit of paraffine in Chihuahua, Mexico, near the Ameri can line, is announced in official dis patches received in Washington from the Mexican government. The second Liberty Loan bond issue will be for three billion dollars and will mature in twenty-five years, re deemable at the option of the secre tary of the treasury. Washington hears that Germany weakening, though not yet beaten is making a desperate effort for peace in he fear of America's might next year. The United States government, it is announced from the war department, was- informed long ago that Germany would start a new propaganda for peace to avoid a winter campaign and fhe effects of America's participation the war. Peace feelers were fore cast in Washington by diplomats early in the month of August. After two weeks' work by twenty five entomologists of the department f agriculture and Texas institutions, it is believed there is no longer any danger that the pink boll worm will become established near Hearne, Tex as, where it was discovered in a cot ton field. Every American vessel of more than twenty-five hundred tons dead weight capacity available for ocean service will be requisitioned by the govern ment October 15. This announcement ;s made by the shipping board, giving, at the same time, the charter rates at which the vessels will be taken over. START DRIVE FOR NEW LIBERTY LOAN FIVE BILLION DOLLARS AND TEN MILLION SUBSCRIBERS IS GOAL SET. MINIMUM (3,000,000,000 j Gigantic Machine is Set in Motion. Banks, Newspapers, Commercial Or ganizations and Patriotic Societies Will Work For Success of Big Loan. Wasington. The second liberty loan campaign opened Monday with which to carry on the war. To obtain $3,000,000,000 in subscrip tions, the minimum set by treasury officials for the issue, a gigantic ma chine of many parts stands were set in motion with the opening of the compaign. Fifty per cent greater than the first liberty loan, the present or fering is the largest the American people ever have been called upon to absorb, and to make certain that it will be more than fully subscribed of ficials for months past have been per fecting the elaborate sales and public ity mechanism. Five billion dollars and ten million subscribers that is the goal to which officials hope to drive the campaign successfully during the next four weeks. The services of virtually ev ery industry of the nation have been enlisted to bring about this result. Secretary McAdoo .opened the cam paign formally with a speech in Cleve land, Ohio, the first of many he will deliver in a transcontinental tour which will take him into virtually ev ery section of the country and keep him on the road until October 26, the day before the subscription books close. More than 26,000 banks will co-operate in floating the huge issue. These, working under the guidance of the 12 federal reserve banks, regional headquarters for the loan, will be the treasury's first lieutenants. The entire press of the country daily newspapers, weekly and month ly magazines, trade papers, foreign language publications and farm pa pers which contributed so largely to the success of the first issue, will work for the success of the second. Chambers of commerce, boards of trade, manufacturers' associations and kindred organizations have pledged their active and unstinted efforts in the campaign. Patriotic societies by the score have been elisted, as well as church and school organizations, labor organiza. tions, fraternal societies and school children. The stage and the screen will do their part. Leading theatrical and moving picture stars have been filmed for a special number which will be displayed in virtually every moving picture theater in the country, while from behind the footlights of vaude ville and other theaters speakers wiil utilize daily the time between the acts to campaign for the loan. COAL RETAILERS' PROFITS LIMITED BY ORDER ISSUED Immediate Reduction to Consumer Is Expected. Washington. Government control j over tne coal industry was made com plete by an order of Fuel Adminis trator Garfield limiting the profits of retail coal and coke dealers through out the country to a basis which is expected to bring about an immediate reduction in prices to the consumer. The order directs that the retailers shall fix their prices so as to limit their gross margins over cost to the average of such gross margins during the year 1915, plus a maximum of 30 per cent of the 1915 margin, provided that in no case shall the acerage mar gin of the month of July this year be exceeded. Local committees appointed by the federal fuel administrators in each state will see to it that the dealers comply with the order and the deal ers themselves will be called upon to return sworn cost sheets showing the facts upon which they have based their prices. Doctor Garfield selected 1915 as a normal year because the coal short age which resulted in continued rises in prices did not begin until 1916. The additional 30 per cent is allowed to cover increased cost of doing business. Prices already fixed by the govern ment for coal at the mouth of the mine are near those charged in 1915, and with the jobbers' charge now lim ited to 25 cents a ton and the cost of transportation not materially increas ed, the consumer in every community should be ample to get coai of any de scription at approximately the price he paid in 1915. LONDON DISTRICT IS AGAIN RAIDED BY AIRMEN London. The London district was again raided by German airmen. There is a circumstanial but unconfirmed report that one enemy machine was brought down. While there was a bright moon, there also was a slight mist and the raiders were invisible to persons in the streets, but from the sounds of the anti-craft guns in action the Indications were that the raiders were moving over various quarters of the district. f LEADERS OF IN. IK. INDICTED CHARGED WITH NATION-WIDE CONSPIRACY T HAMPER GOVERNMENT. W.B. HAYWOOD OF FIRST TAKEN None But Members of I. W. W. Are Included in the Blanket Indictment. Thirty-five of the Men Were Ar rested During First Hour. Chicago. Formal return of a blank et indictment charging a nation-wide conspiracy to hamper the government during the war, was made in the Unit ed States district court here against 166 leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World. Arrests speedily follow ed the return. Almost before the court proceedings had reached the state of the discharge of the jury, deputy marshals were on their way to the local I. W. W. head quarters in automobiles, donated and driven by women, and quickly return ed to the federal building bringing prisoners with them. In the first hour 35. men were thus haled into the marshal's office and later were questioned by investiga tors for the department of justice. Among the first to be taken into custody was William B. Haywood, secretary of the national organization of the I. W. W. who was questioned September 5 when the headquarters of the I. W. W. in various cities were raided by the government. An explanatory statement issued by the government attorneys who have directed the investigation of the se ditious conspiracy, the crime of which the men named in the indictments were accused, said : "The prosecutions are under sec tions 6, 19 and 37 of the. criminal code and under the espionage act. Only leaders in conspiracies of those personally culpable in connection with the perpetration of crimes against the United States are included as de fendants." To permit the sure arrest of the indicted men, no hint of their names was permitted to escape during the court proceedings. None but members of the I. W. W. was named in the indictment, the gov ernment attorneys taking pains to specify that no others were touched. GULF COAST SECTIONS EMERGING FROM STORM New Orleans. The gulf coast sec tion of east Louisiana. Mississippi, Alabama and western Florida were emerging from the battering of the tropical hurricane which swept in from the Gulf of Mexico near Pilot Town, La. The course of the storm shifted after striking Pilot Town from northwest to northeast and sweeping across a narrow portion of southern Louisiana, missed New Orleans but struck Gulfport. Biloxi and the Mis sissippi coast section, swept through Mobile, where the wind reached a ve locity of 96 miles an hour, and extend ed east beyond Pensacola, where ac cording to latest reports received here, the wind was blowing 100 miles an hour. HEAD-ON COLLISION KILLS 27, AND INJURES MANY Kellyville, Okla. Twenty-seven persons are known to have been kill ed and more than a score injured in a head-on collision between a west bound St. Louis and San Francisco passenger train and an empty train, which had been used for transporting troops, one mile southwest of Kelly ville. At 9 o'clock the bodies of seven white men, three Indians and 17 ne groes had been taken from the wreck age of the passenger coaches, three of which were telescoped. The passenger train is said to have been ordered to wait at a siding here for the empty troop train td pass, but for some reason pulled out -of the sta tion and met the eastboimd train head-on at a bridge over Pole Cat creek. U. S. COMMISSIONER NICHOLS ENDS LIFE AT RALEIGH Raleigh, N. C. United States Com missioner John Nichols, 84 years of age, at one time a member of Con gress, shot himself through the back of the head in his office at the post office building here and died a few minutes after he had been rushed to a local hospital. He left a note in his office, which read: "Old, poor and blind; what's the use of living?" He wa3 said to have been the oldest Ma son in North Carolina. TRENCH AND CAMP TO APPEAR ABOUT OCTOBER 8 Washington. Trench and Camp, the weekly newspaper to be printed for every army camp through nation wide co-operation of newspaper pub lishers, will make its first appearance about October 8. It was to have ap peared a week earlier bu arrange ments of details in the far west made a postponement necessary. The paper will be published under the auspices of the national war council of the Y. M. C. A. MAN 2ND LIBERTY L TO BE THREE BILLION DENOMINATION OF NEW BONDS WILL BE $50 AND MULTIPLES OF $50. INTEREST RATE 4 PER GENT Maturity in 25 Years. Subscriptions Payable Two Per Cent Upon Appli cation; Installments Monthly of 18, 40 and 40 Per Cent. Washington. Secretary McAdoo announced the details of the second liberty loan, which will be offered to I the public October 1. The chief fea tures are : Amount $3,000,000,000 or more, the excess not to exceed one-half of the amount of over-subscription. Terms of bonds Maturity, 25 years ; redemable at the option of the secre tary of the treasury in 10 years. Denominations of bonds $50 and multiples of $50. Interest rate Four per cent, pay able semi-annually on November 15 and May 15. Terms of payment Two per cent upon application, 18 per cent Novem ber 15, 40 per cent December 14 and 40 per cent January 13, 1918. The privilege of converting bonds of this issue into bonds of any suc ceeding issue bearing a higher inter est rate than four per cent during the period of the war is extended, and through an arrangement under which bonds will be printed with only four coupons instead of 50, (to be exchang ed at the end of two years for the bonds containing the full number of coupons deliveries will be prompt In this manner the issue of interim cer tificates will be avoided. TO REQUISITION ALL BIG AMERICAN MERCHANT VESSELS. Shipping Board to Take Over on October 15 All Ships Available For Ocean Service. Rates Fixed. Washington. Every American mer chant vessel of more than 2,500 tons dead weight capacity available for ocean service will be requisitioned by the government October 15, the ship ping board announced in a statement giving the charter rates at which the vessels will be taken over. American ships available for ocean traTc total slightly more than two million tons, but some already nave been taken over for the army and navy. In most instances, except where re quired for actual government service, the ships, it was said, will be turned back to their owners for operation on government account subject at all times to any disposition the shipping board may direct. The rates announced will cut sharp ty the present charter rate charged by i American vessels for carrying govern- I ment supplies. It is the intention, it is understood, to apply them later to j any foreign ships chartered in the United States. The chartering will be I In the hands of the shipping board's chartering commission. COMMITTEE WILL INVESTIGATE USE OF GERMAN MONEY Washington. Inquiry by the House committee into whether German I i v. a I uiuucy lias uceu useu iu iuiiueiii;e Congress probably was proposed in a resolution sponsored by the rules com mittee and supported by the Demo cratic leaders. Demands for an exhaustive inquiry overwhelmed house leaders from both11'! sides while the rules committee in executive session was considering whether to report favorably one of the several resolutions introduced since Secretary Lansing made public Count von Bernstorff's message to Berlin asking authority to spend $50, 000 influencing Congress as it had been done before. All efforts of committeemen to get Mr. Heflin to name some of the men he had in mind failed, but he reiterat ed his willingness to name them if a committee were appointed by the Democratic caucus. DEFER ACTION ON ALIEN SLACKER LEGISLATION Washington. Objections to enact- ' ment of any alien slacker legislation ! at present, voiced by Secretary Lan- sing before the house military affairs i committee, resulted in a committee vote to indefinitely postpoone action. Chairman Dent later said that the secretary's statement that the state department was negotiating with oth er countries to effect a result equiva lent to enactment of "alien slacker" legislation was responsible for vote. AIRPLANE AMBULANCE SUCCESSFULLY TESTED Paris. The airplape ambulance that has been tried out successfully in recent tests is the invention of Dr. Chassaing, of the French military sanitary service, wwho represented a wounded passenger during the initial trials, occupying one of the two stretchers that are placed in the tail box of the machine behind the pilot. A successful test of tbe machine at one of the French airdromes was wit nessed by Justin 'odard. BRITISH MEETING WITH GOOD RESULTS FIELD MARSHAL HAIG'S MEN ARE AGAIN STRIKING IN FLAN DERS IN BIG DRIVE. FACE TERRIBLE OPPOSITION ! Veritable Inferno of Artillery Fire Is Opened in Early Morning and at Evening Important Enemy Positions Had Been Riddled. Field Marshal Haig's men again are striking in Flanders, and the force of their blow, like that of those that have preceded it, is meeting with good results on a front of nearly six miles. Notwithstanding the necessity of carrying the battle to Crown Prince Rupprecht across uninviting ground virtually a morass owing to recent rains and against the inevitable con crete and steel redoubts and woods and shell craters teeming with rapid fire guns the English, Scotch and Australian troops have snatched val uable vantage points from the Ger mans, but not without terrible oppo sition. The battle at last accounts was still raging, with the greatly reinforced Germans, who had anticipated the new thrust, fighting with unusual bit terness to hold back further British advances or to recapture terrain al erady wrested from them. Location of New Drive. Haig's new thrust was delivered from the base of front line positions captured and consolidated la3t week, before which the Germans held nu merous vantage points of strategic value, barring the way to further in roads by the British or for harassing the British line by machine gun and rifle bullets. As on previous occasion, Haig loosed a veritable inferno of artillery fire against the Germans before launching his attack in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and when night fell many important posi tions had been ridded of the enemy, but with the Germans at numerous other points savagely contesting the right of way. Probably the most significant gain of the British, which the Germans as sert was to a depth of two-thirds of a mile at certain points, was near Zonnebeke, to within a few hundred yards of the western outskirts of which village they penetrated, plac ing them about six miles from the railway running from Ostend through Roulers and Roubaix to Lille. The cutting of this line, which seems to be the objective of Field Marshal Haig, would seriously affect the trans port of the Germans from their naval bases at Ostend and Zeebrugge to the south. MAGNITUDE OF SHIPBUILDING PROGRAM IS REVEALED Nearly 1,600 Vessels Are to Be Com pleted Within About a Year. Washington. The magnitude of the American government's shipbuilding program was revealed for the first time in a statement by the shipping board showing that nearly 1,200 mer chant vessels of about 6,000,000 ton nage will be completed within a lit tle more than a year. Completion of ships commandeered in shipyards and of vessels actually or about to be contracted for will give the country a fleet of 1,600 ships with a total tonnage of more than 9,000, 000. In addition to this the board will complete In 1919 vessels already con tracted for and under negotiation of about 4,000,000 tons. A billion dol lars has just been asked of Congress to complete the program. The United States now is leading the world in shipbuilding and if the present rate of construction were kept up would become the leading ship ping nation of the world in a few years. The British, whose present ocean-going tonnage is about 15,000, 00, are hampered In building by lack of men and materials. In all other countries except Japan building vir tually is at a standstill. BAKER ISSUES FIRST OFFICIAL WEEKLY STATEMENT Washington. The American gov ernment's first official statement con cerning military operation in Europe, was issued by Secretary Baker, inau gurating a series which in time will be devoted largely to activities of the United States expeditionary forces. It ays though ascendency on the west ern front has passed definitely to the allies, they are content merely to wear down the enemy until the force of American army makes itself felt. SERIOUS DISORDERS ARE OCCURRING IN ARGENTINE Buenos Aires. Serious disorders occurred in various parts of the cap ital as the result of an anti-German manifestation and strike agitations. As an outcome of the firing upon street cars by strikers or sympathiz ers, an inspector was killed and sev eral persons were wounded. In sym pathy with the anti-German demon stration of business houses in the city closed their doors. Y PAPERS ARE HELD IN NEW YORK ONLY A SMALL PACKAGE OF THI MEANS' LETTERS BROUGHT TO CONCORD. CLERK NOW HAS "PAPERS" Solicitor Hayden Says Papers In Ro wan Clerk's Office Will Be of No. Value to State or Means. Salisbury "All the papers that were turned over to me by Mr. Dooling," says Solicitor Hayden Clement, "are now in the office of the clerk of the superior court of Rowan county and I am perfectly willing to show them to Mr. Means' attorneys at any time they desire to see them." In a lengthy interview explaining the "papers," the solicitor states that the papers brought to North Carolina and turned over to him consist of one package of letters. He has not yet examined them, but is sure from what Mr. Dooling says they will be of no benefit to either the state or to Means. The solicitor insists that Means' at torneys are trying to prevent Mr. Dooling from bringing certain papers to North Carolina under threat of seizure and that these papers are more damaging to Means than bene ficial. He expresses anxiety over the prospects of betting these papers for the trial next month. At the conclusion of the hearing at Gastonia the day before brought by E. T. Cansler, attorney for Gaston B. Means to have John T. Dooling, of the district attorney's office in New York appear before Judge Crlne in Salis bury October 8 to answer charges of contempt of court, Judge Webb an nounced that he would make his deci sion later. Attorneys for Means brought ac tion for contempt of court against Mr. Dooling after he had refused, they charge, to deliver up papers as was demanded in the order of Judge Webb issued. The papers are those which were taken from Gaston Means' apart ment in New York and are now sup posed to be in the possession of the attorneys for the prosecution, also the alleged second will of J. C. King, for mer husband of Mrs. Maude A. King. Solicitor dement appeared for Mr. Dooling at the hearing and stated that he had affidavits from Mr. Dool ing and witnesses from New York, stating that they had turned over to him (Mr. Clement) all papers in the case which they had brought into this state. Solicitor Clements stated that the alleged second will was not among the papers. He declared that the contempt proceedings were brought to humiliate and intimidate witnesses who had voluntarily come from New York to appear for the state in the King-Means case. Stating that all the papers in the case were in his pos session, he said that the attorneys for the defense were welcome to copies of any papers he might have, there being no disposition on the part of the state to withhold this information from them. E. T. Cansler, of counsel for Means, stated that the defendant Means was only asking for his legal rights in de manding possession of these papers, which Mr. Cansler contended had been wrongfully taken and withheld and he stated that civil action had been taken in friendly spirit, that if the papers were in North Carolina he might have the right to see them. He stated that the returns on Judge Webb's oTder showed that Mr. Dooling had refused to honor the or der and should therefore be cited for contempt of court. Child Crushed to Death. Rocky Mount. Little Jacob Lee Vick, the 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Vick, of this city, wai crushed to death between two piles of lumber. The little fellow was play ing alone at the time, and it seems that one of the piles of lumber fell over on him, killing him almost in stantly. University Has Over Thousand. Chapel Hill At the end of its sec ond week of work the University ot North Carolina already has 1,030 stu dents registered in the various courses. There has been only a very slight falling off in the academic courses, the largest decline in attend ance coming in the law, pharmacy and graduate departments, where the men are older. The medical depart ment has enrolled nearly as many men as last year. The number of students this year who are planning to go into medicine is also large. Croatans at Camp Jackson. Camp Jackson, S. C A. H. Mc Eachern and G. B. Sellers, members of Robeson county, N. C. local board No. 2, came to Columbia bringing with them 14 Cherokee Indians from that county, who had been selected for service in the national army. These were the first indians to reach Camp Jackson. The Messrs. Sellers and Mc Eachern said that they came along to explain the social status of the In dians to the officers at Camp Jackson. The coming of the Indians will gl authorities another problem to solve. MAN
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