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THE CHATHAM RECORD ; nH. AwLondori 7 EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR' Terms of Subscription .$140 PER, YEAR, vr Strictly in Advance THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - - $1.00 One Square, two insertions - $1.50 One Square, ono month - - $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. t lii VOL. XL. PITTSBORO CHATHAI pUNTY,N. C.. JANUARY 23, 1918 , , ..Vf " - - NO. 25. -. ...-.. v ' - A ...... IMPORTANT NEWS, THE WORLD OVER . lTp8f IMPORTANT HAPP ENI NiS O P AND OTHER 'NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN : V THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What' is Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In,."' Brief Paragraphs "r I Domestic. Taking over of pa&ing plants will fc be urged upoatine prrgiueui uy. a ucie cation representing' every craft in the industry and headed bj John Fjtzpak, rick, president of tnephieago Fedefa lion of labor, which is in Washington". A mob of several hundred citizens of Hazelhurst, Miss'v. took Sim Edwards, a negro, from the county, jail aird.bjlftt-' ed him'.pear. the place where he had murdered" Miss Vera Willys. . Between a dozen and twisty men, most of them negro laborers, were drowned in the Estuary channel at Tampa, Fla., when two skiffs upset in the middle of the narrow channel. The nfcney taken " from7, the army bank at Camp Funston, Kan. by Capt. Lewis Whistler, after he' httd killed four employees and injured--a- fifth; said to have been more than $62,000, has been found. The discovery of the money taken by Captain Whistler from the army bank at Camp Funston, Kan., probably closes the case, as far as the theory that Whistler had an accomplice Is concerned. . " - Six men were killed and three injur ed on the United , States 'battleship Michigan when t,he . ship .was caught in a heavy gate at-,,s.ea, ithas tie"en officially 'hpguneed 'in Washington. The men-.ere kified'and injured' by the falling. ..of a cage Mast,, .the first accident oi its kind in,' the . navy. - A b.Qmb ad dress eI to ."Go vynor Wil liam D: Stephens', mansion, at Sac'ra mentoj2 Cal.', has- been intercepted 'at the Feffy'ostoffjceiaSan Francisco. This is the econdatt:empt td assassj, nate the Califorhja gbvenor-in three months -s -v. i - ' ' . . A Sap Francisco dispatch "says that Germany's .. latest attempt to destroy the wheat crop; of, ! California and pth-, er states has f aken the'., fprail of ship-' ment to"thisQpuntry;of powerful poi; sonous polleft.iOv. be distributed Ijy German. agentavin:the -Western states in sucha manner as to kill the entire wheat oBtpttt? 'of -that' section. " c , .. -s Washington Manufa.cturerK:in . tfife 28 f!ates eftst or tne Assisipr n-ryerrnaye virtually suspended. in'oDedl"ent;;?to. jjhe. govern ment's oraerfbrbiddmg ttr use M fuel. Millfensjof persomwere-made itiW as a result." of "te pr4er.-" " ' According toTeport"-frQm; Washing ton, most of ih?e;piaTrkT "engagedon war contracts wet'e ein pled from the fuel order's op&rtip;but few of them" learned of it in trmi' ahaost 'Df'theitf closed down with- -t&ejptoef factories A price of $75.50 tpV 6. b.' board for the nitrate, fertilizer, which the department rkgriculture has pur chased in Chile'Vas7 announced-bjf Secretary Housn?? : 'J V" "-'-" ' 4 m buying , nitrate .fef tilizerji t$ctt farmers must payii.eftiiht chftrg"es iroin ports and "the state tax fees and. Payments must belj&vs&tea, ' btM tBfe ships will be directed to the most con venient porljs., .-. Vt; ':-n-'-:y The South should help win" the war. by raising its own foods ttiffil atid elimi nating the necessitjif . trahspXJ.rtiflg food from other . section 'of ,fh ,coji- Secretary McAd6'd ajt3..Swth?ielKlniBri '.of l,6&0Mnj; 6 Al$V andi - without reducine cotton nrodnction three merchantmen nnder tha totmake. reducine cotton Droduction. farmers ought to prodjiQe t mere milk I t-ggs, pourrry,..1iri4iu.aacrvVeg tables. - 4 ' Director General-JVIcAfto sfcrMd that t the South can., feed" -.ftiSelf Hi wUf release from spneVaBar1 "'scvice an.. ' all states east of "thevjJiiisstssmnf ; .river! ere ordered by tig'efnment Vc. suspend operations 'fbrr'daWbeein- ni-ng January IS, as a rffaSic Weaur;r for relieving the: coaaiiinV t,utuuuiem nas vorgered that air normal activities that require heated, buitdir.gs, observe lidayJ-iMoib "ay for the nexttten- vteeKt r? ludes industry and 4n6iifeki;iw According to government ordf j-sxhv-: ondays not onTy ' Wbrj.r.u loon cui es except rrme.'-sailAbf:' Qruss and od, places.:am;lrs(aSff, and nearly all office buildings "will be.: closed L.-i..--i v..v An exception is made In the 'coal rder, in the case of sbuilding Piant because of the great need for ssels to move supplies;already ready ior shipment over seas. The government's move in the coal situation came entirely without warn- X-$3rd& issued by Ad !&Wd with the approv fWiWilson. .'raTron bill has been in .Jguced in congress ; center 'for all ,me.?".o hate Teached 21 Z: B?tiSh MOSW'cails'upon . ie peoples of Jthft . y4i - . - r pnss -umcsiy. gS. ,!!Wr;to enounce; th,same iv . 1U WQh we.are .renounWirr uvl,l vase mimneTVor- ireigfi.; ;vjri-'.n.-xii&u&u yroAa.-.iuui5eu My .. the--assembly will be putolished. tars and engitfesJilpjefaig 'action fcitwn aftalfy arid yjrtie fifst hint the '-Tfewspaper men the war. . "v"-1&- sva. x-Vi ftbrlfll Vlt ;' fi&s benfouod im-received hatxtreme measures were America's manUflGlrienterp'ris-:- PfiV-itP: solve fouiv onJjr,--ccordifig-;t 'contemptapifed wss wher-tliey were in es with but fKw 'Vxcefttten's'iiv aill 'io-'l&amk.J. , Mcainar ftnachcial. ; fmtnett : thai' ttf Tanride nalaca. where thos According to Mr. McAdoo, one uf the great tasks confronting . th& American people, is that of improving and making thoroughly efficient their railroad, transportation system. Fuel Administrator Garfield, ex plaining the r-drastic fuel order, says: L .J.ne -iiiOBi urgent ining 10 De aone is X'to end'to' the American forces abroad and to the allies the food and war supplies which .they vitally need. War munitions, food manufactured arti cles of every description, lying in At lantic ports in tens of thousands of tons, where literally hundreds of ships Jpaded with war goods for our men and the allies, cannot take the seas because their bunkers are .empty of J, way is waiting behind the congested freiefit that has lammprt nil Termi nals - Says ..EpoS Administrator Garfield: a ms is witi : wiiaieyer ine cost, we must pay so that in the face of the jjgiiemy jUiere can never be the re- Foacn tnat we. held back from doing our full share. Those ships laden with our supplies of food for men and Lfobd;;fpx guns must have coal and put to -sea. . The new order in the coal situation was decided upon hurriedly by the president arid government heads as a desperate remedy for the fuel crisis and the transportation tangle in the Eastern states J-.."- ; ' . Inclusion of "war industries among those to which fuel will be denied caused some surprise,- but fuel of fi- Iciate explained that war plants have proaucea more material than trans portation systems could handle While the government order for ! business suspension does not mention i ship yards, it is known that they will be permitted to continue operations as usual, although munitions plants will be closed. . While even munitions plants are not excepted frorq,'th closing down order, a preferential list .of consumers in whose interest .it was drawn is pre scribed, r - Senator McCumber of North Dakota gave the senate a very jjloopoy. picture of the position of the tjnited States and. her allies in : emphasizing his ple.a for.; radical . speeding;- or.1)bie ship- : Duwamg program.- - t According to. Senator McCumber of Nortn Dakota, the United States mu send 5,000,0.00 soldiers to balance the manpower' of the central powers, and 7,0)0,000 w,ould: be needed to . make the Germans retreat. 1 . According to Director General Mc- .Ad,po, all state railway lawand regu- lations will remain in full, effect nnder oyernment operation of the railroads - The recent ruling of Director Gener fit UffcAdpo in the railroad- situation, disposes of the contention . that under SoyeYnment'. cerations the railroads were not subject'- to. either intrastate raf,es, or other sa$ Tegulations. . (European Acedrdini .A Aj: a . m . . According to reports from Petrograd. - - . . . - a aiinatipsp fruispr -nio. nit nshnro at ! Vladivostok and that the Japanese i consur declared llie Japanese soldiers Tri . "T W weie, there to.bratW Japanese clti-' tons ad en deIiYered on the south 6,10 e lp-vP Tl teC Japanese cm j-era seaboard and 200,000 tons more, . ... ; ! was. on its way At one southern-port A fauliny.-amon;g submarine.crs .at-i 30)O05 iona. was delivered to shia that" the German: flaarbase.jf Kiel on Jan- ; have peen !tied up for more than a uaij . - j cui I.CIJ. jit a .yisiiaiu .trum t uene.va- m wicn t :isy stated 1 thirty- i -! - '.' . .... -i. - . -- eight officerserkSMdj; - Accordine.ito tebottihra tondon.- another masked decrease in the. sink- Ting's -h:. British merchantmen by mine. j. or submarine. ei.w-e'lj.endihg Jan-, uacy '0, is" npt'e.. ip. the report-' of the' admiralty. , V v ;. ' .... Jn the week ending January 16, only I six merchanment of 1600 tons, or, oyer jsued last night by the council of na wije.unk.by mine oubmariife, and, ;. .im1ai Commissioners and adopted two merchantm.en;ndeT--l,6pq-,.tons ariy mis morning-by the central ex pand two fishmg;vsfeels;v.a(oxdin&.taH ecuiive Committee of the workmen's tendon admiral1ty;repprts.; ; ; -.4 and gbldSfers' deputies. '-' r ' v iThei -report o'fvthev.IMie'on admiral-. -Mfla. y'4orthyeekof-ja; Aosi by mine oh' s.ubjnarme Tf"x& Tost-, -o-..8ljing.5Sftsai'. K-'i V'SH-bo and were "iffW 1?" - orJanuajys 2 gaye-thse sinkttfg'b'y mine. s&tarj' -jpf thet, . adnrtralty ' the, .hpjye commons of ' Ii6ndbri. ; . vAautomobile. carrying-NakolaiLe rQfafthelsn'iefvlki prinijejr.a:flred'. trpoti'wtetf. he was diying--tfi! .& i'meet- ; ialg't.he.jc.ounciof Saries; tnPetr-ogTad, ; but herrwasf nets . Ifome, Italy, dispatch, .ca.rrjtejs -the 1 1 ia?e"mv'tfe sector eart Venice, Tiie? ftalians captured 150. prisoners andatargti quantity of gjps n('war niat,efial. " r'- '- The American sailing vessel Monitor has been sunk by a submarines near Fuerteventura.. The crew was saved. The Monitor was a schooner of 137 tons, built in 1904. The British Labor party says the sovereign independence 'of the Turk ish people in their national home is respected, but that, the JTurkihT-gp'v-ernment's domination ovej: other, peo ples, is a hindrance to the national deVelopnientdf 'the , Turks. Therefore, it-qalls for the .formation of an Inter national organization to take over the responsibility :of . governing ' certain ipeb'nie, such as the Arabs, the Pales- s and Armenians. Along the southern course of the Piave :r riyer, the Italians have : add ed aiaaterially to 'their bridgehead east of or uDmance ior-.jne.jpa.ii ,week-cn 21 unwiiiingness to; approve nhe manner .merekantmen. eieJ3tefiic?fteinirf. 1 fiOft , vit. ut. ....v.- . - ... - - 'i . ... . -s-. , 'V . . .rrt.ec.-." .. .' ...."iv hpinp- rnndnctRdsi A rree' dissolvinsr iha Austrlans ;harecered farj.'change --elegjati - dfsptch from San-gulnry VrpSiSe;. pn, the lbw.e:r" j.Rirl.- whlcli reobrts 100.00.0 men auit- i HALF THE NATION , OBSERVES HOLIDAY ALL- RETAILERS EXCEPT DRUG t i AND FOOD STORES TO CLOSE. MOVING. EMPTY G 0 ALEGAR S To Continue "For Ten Mondays. Gar field Requests That Office Buildings Be Not Heated. Conditions Better. Thje eastei. half of the United States observed Monday generally as a holiday.the first of 10 heatless Mondays decreed by the government to conserve, coal t nd to clear conges tion from the railroads. Although the closing order, promul gated by' Fuel Administrator Garfield, goes no further than to forbid the use of fuel for heating, fuel administration officials expect business to cea3e and Director Garfield issued a direct re quest that all retail establishments, except food and drug stores, close their doors for the day. At the same time office buildings were requested to observe the spirit as well as the letter of the order and operate nd'Tights or elevators except to accommodate the few exempted persons who a'r housed in their build ing." Food stores, which in the original order were permitted to remain open only half the day, were grntaed a spe- j cial dispensation under which they may sew gooas tnrougnoux me aay. It was .said that -the use of fuel foi lighting buildings and for operating their elevators probably -could be pre vented during the remainder of the Monday holidays. In drawing the or der this was overlooked and thousands of telegrams nave " reached, the fusl administration asking for a ruling. While reports to the fuel adminis tration, told of an increased movement of coal ..to householders and to ships under the three days oper'ation of the five-day factory closing order, severo "weather -held batk the clearing of freight congestion. whichwas one, of. the ; chief purposes J sough.t. At" thd office of the director" general of .rail roads it -was said that , there was little hop for. material improvement in traf fic cpnditions until the weather moder ated;. : ... . . . . -. I Moving . Empty Coal Cars.. . Efforts---were - centralized on . the .moyemenr-of.'empt'y coal. cars, back'tt the mines, and " to the transportation jl uuiiai wai lu cue; nuauiiL . , . . t , . ,CA nnn t , , board. A total of 150.000 tons of bun- j u-v .fiiu ri r t ri"i i -t Mir wf v. 1 1 i inn - i i i a ..4. , ".,.. inn nnn week CpNSJltO&NT ASSEMBLY HAS pEEN; DISSOLVED Ctosed;By Sailor Guards Report Japs - . i C Have Landed. , Petrograd (By Associated Press) The constituent assembly has been dis- finlv6l1 The ef,reV of dissolution was thfe constituent assembly A;r.ri nut; moia .tt tije Resident lof the central executive ' o4Fowed 'Dy tne - social revolutionists wir Ai.:to tne. asSeinbIy begaa its-sessions, would be closed' to the menders -'of the as- seinbly,' to "the newepa-pef inenand to - eTery0ne' else. .' '" "' "",. " . STSi K ER IN" AUSTRIA "OPENLY ANTI-GERMAN. ., - - - 1 : LpndQPj-rrlA general . strike is on tiii work'' 1ft Vieifnia : and Neustadtr closing down all the war" factories,. The striker.3 ,!are describeijpp.enly-i antfJefman and ffie" movement ia both political and economic and espec ially aimed at securing peace. Public demonstrations, it is added have been held in many places. NEED 30,000 MORE WOMEN , IN ARMY NURSING SERVICE. fv.s Wahjriton; , Enlisting -. of . 30.000 'nore women - in the i military -nursing servicetwiU be required if prospective needs of the government are to met; the American Red Cross announced in an appeal for volunteers. In order to meet the increasing de mands of the army and navy nurse corps, ..the Red Cross has ' modified somewhat .it sformer-requirements for" "enrollment. I .The . age limit has been lowered to '21 ye?.rs; . ALL CLOSED DOWN BUSINESS, MEN OF SOUTH SERVE FUEL ORDER FOR . FIVE DAYS. 03- NO VIOLATIONS REPORTED Cotton 'interests Are Hardest Hit With Tobacco Following Industrial Center at Birmingham Only Slightly Affected. Atlanta, Ga. Hundreds of industrial plants in the south were closed for a five-day. period under the fuel re striction order and thousands of op eratives were idle. No reports of vio lations of the order had been received and surface indications were that both manufacturers, and workers view ed the situation philosophically. The South Carolina house of repre sentatives, in session at Columbia, voted down by au overwhelming ma jority a resolution asking Fuel Admin istrator Garfield to ' rescind the order and the Atlanta chamber of commerce adopted a resolution approving it. At Roanoke, business men in mass meet ing voted to observe the order, while the Norfolk, (Virginia) Retail Mer chants' Association asked merchants to close all stores on Mondays during the ten-week period. The tobacco interests probably was the largest outside of cotton to be af fected by the order. Cigar factories in Florida, Virginia and other states were closed as were tobacco and cigarette plants in Virginia, North Carolina and other sections. The industrial center at Birming ham was only slightly affected, as most of the steel plants there are engaged on government work and at the coal mines extra efforts were made to get out coal. Shipyards,:, including the navy yards t Norfolk, Charleston and New Orleans and the Newport News plant, were In full operation. Richmond apparently had the great est army of idle workers of any city in the.south, thirty thousand having been reported out of work, there. Norfolk and vicinity reported from 10,000 to 12s,000 New Orleans some 15,;000; Ma con, Ga.,i 7,0.00;: Memphis from 5,000 to 7,000; Chattanooga from 15,000 to 20,000 ; Charleston, S, C. about 2,500, and Knoxville, about 3,500. "In the Roanoke. district where about 2,000 workers were idle, the Norfolk & Western railway offered to employ hundreds of persons ' in repair and other. work on its lines and in its shops during the days of inactivity, includ ing Mondays. RAILROAD WAGE COMMISSION WANTED BY DIRECTOR McADOO. Washington. Director General Mc Adoo announced. appointment of a r-a'l-road; wage commission of four public men Jo analyze. and recommend action oti &H 'wage and labor questions pend ing before the government railroad ad ministration, 7 including the railway brotherhoods': demands. At the same time the director gen eral put into. effect a new system of government railroad administration by dividing the country , into three oper ating regions,1 south, east t and west, and, placed a railroad executive at- the head of each as his representative. ' The wage commission consists of Secretary Lane; Interstate Commerc-3 Commissioner C. C. McChord, Judge J. Harry Covington, chief justice of" the District of Columbia supreme ' court, and William R Willcox. who announc ed his. resignation as chairman of the republican national committee. . : In charge, of the . eastern railroad. Mr.- McAdoo regained A. Hb Smith, president of the.VNew York Central, who has acted a,s assistant to the di rector general, srith hea'dquartersr in New- York. ' R. H: Arshton, president of the ' Chicasro & Northwestern, was appointed regional -director for . terri tory west of the JMIssissipni with head quarters at ' Chicago. Southwestern roads were assigned to C, H. Mark' ham, president of-'the Illinois Central, with headquarters-' at; Atlanta. .. . The eastern division consists of ter ritory north, of tire Ohio and Potomac: rivers "arid east.iof Lake Michigan and the iridiaria-UHnois state line also 'hose'- railroads in. . Illinois extending into that state from points-east of the Indiana-IU'npis state; -line: --also the Chesapeake &' Ohio, the Norfolk & Western and the Virginia railways.". -r-.Tlwsoutherri district is defined as bMudtfl?s"aU railroads in that por tion of the United States south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers and east nf the M'ssissinni river, excent the Chesa peake '& Ohio, Norfolk & Western and the Virginian railways. FREDERICK SPOEMANN - . AND ASCH LIBERATED. Baltimore. Frederick H. C. Spoer mann, brother of Walter Spoermann, alleged German spy, held in jail here. and Marius Asch. both of whom were arrested In Baltimore shortly aftSr Walter -Spoermann was taken near Newport News, Va., were liberated. Assistant United States District Attor neyLatane said the two men had bean arrested 1$. order to get certain infor mation and that puch information hai been obtained V DESPERATE REMEDY TO CONSERVE FUEL ALL MANUFACTURING PLANTS ARE ORDERED TO CLOSE DOWN FOR FIVE DAYS. Tfj. CLOSE FOR TEN MONDAYS Industry and Business Generally Af fected by Order Which Is Estimated by Garfield to Save 30,000,000 Tons ' of Coal. Washington. America's manufac turing enterprises with but few ex ceptions in airstates east of -the Mis sissippi river was ordered by the gov ernment to suspend operations for five days beginning Friday morning, Jan uary 18, as a drastic measure for re lieving the fuel famine. At the same time, as a further means of relief, it was directed that ; industry and business generally, in- ' eluding all normal activities that re quire heated buildings, observe as a holiday every Monday for the next ten , weeks. This will close down on Mon- , days not only factories, but saloons, stores except for sale ot drugs and food, places of amusement and nearly all office buildings. While the order does not mention shipyards,' it Is known that they will be permitted to : continue operation as usual, although munitions plants will be closed. j The government's move came entire ly without warning in an order issued by Fuel Administrator Garfield with the approval of President Wilson pre scribing stringent restrictions govern- I ing the distribution and use of coal. It was decided upon hurriedly by the ; President and government heads as a desperate remedy for the fuel crisis and the transportation tangle in the J eastern states. Even munition plants are not excepted from the closing , down order. Officials would not discuss the far reaching effects the action would have ; on the industrial fabric ard questions as to. how the order was to be inter preted to meet specific problems went unanswered. The order prescribes a preferential list of consumers in whose interest it was drawn. These users will get coal in the following order: Railroads; household consumers; hospitals; charitable Institutions, and army and navy cantonments. j Public utilities, telephone and tele graph plants, i Strictly government enterprises, ex ! cepting factories and plants working on government contracts. Public buildings and necessary gov ernment, state and municipal requlre- ! ments. Factories producing perishable foods and foods for immediate con ' sumption. Save 30.0iD0.000' Tons. Yt was estimated the enforcement, of the' order would t;ave a total of 30,000, 000 tons of bituminous coal, which probably is about half the present shortage. The indications were that at the end of the ten weeks of Mon day's holidays, a permanent policyof restricted consumption would have been determined on. The critical coal situation Is blamed on the unusually severe weather which has made it impossible in many In stances to move coal at all and which has cut off the fuel supplies of whole cities. Rules on Holidays. j On the Monday holidays besides manufacturing plants the following consumers will be forbidden to use coal: Business and professional of fices (except to prevent freezing) ex cept those used for government of fices or banks and trust companies and those housing physicians and den tists; wholesale and retail stores with exceptions for drug stores and those that sell food; all amusement places and saloons. .'State fuel administrators may close the bank and trust company buildings if they think necessary. i On the holidays, subways, surface, elevated and suburban cars will be permitted to use only the amount of coal ' they normally consume on Sun- ' days.' ' ' ' ! ,The order was issued under author ity conferred in the Lever food act, . which provides a fine of $5,000 or im prisonment for violation. Officials foresaw that the German " government , might distort and make much of the order to improve the morale of the German people, but they said this danger was negligible when compared with that of permitting the fuel situation to continue unimproved. ! To prevent industrial unrest it was said the government might make a for mal request on industries affected by the order to pay their employes du--ing the time they are idle. MORE THAN 700 VESSELS .TAKEN OVER BY THE NAVY Washington. Since the United States entered the war the navy has taken over and converted to war use between 700 - and , 800 passenger and freight vessels, yachts, tugs, fishing boats and other craft. This was dis closed .in a statement by Chairman Oliver, of the house investigating committee, commending the bureaus of construction.,, and repair and steam engineering for the preparations made o meet war demands. MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARDS AE NAMED MEDICINAL MEN NAMED TO HEAR APPEALS ON EXEMPTION IN NORTH CAROLINA. Raleigh. The district exemption boards 1 of North Carolina have receiv ed from the office of 'Col., John D. Langsfon, UniJejJtiites Lenrolling of ficer for North Carolina, a list of the members of the medical advisory boards for the state. These boards will constitute a board of appeal from the t findings of the examining physi cians on the local exemption boards cf the several registration divisions throughout the state, where the regis trant feels that he has not been ac corded a just examination by the local examiners.- The several boards are as follows: District No. 1. Counties included are 'Swain, Jackson, Macon, Cherokee, Clay and Graham, with a total popula tion of 58,386. Location of board, Franklin and Bryson City. Chairman of board, Dr.. W. T. Huggins,' Franklin ; associates, Drs. R. M. Waldroup, H. T. Horsley, Charles Z. Candler District No. 2. Counties included, Haywood, Madison, Buncombe. Tran sylvania, Henderson, and Polk, total population, 131.943. , Location of board. Asheville; chairman. Dr. M. L. Ste vens, Asheville; associates, Drs. J. M. Crawford, W. C. Browson, C. H. Cocke, F. W. Griffith . District No. 3. Counties included are Rutherford, Cleveland, McDowell, Mitchell, Avery and Yancey; total pop ulation, 80,734. Location .of board. Rutherford ton ; chairman, .Dr. M. H. Biggs; associates, Drs. L. V. Lee, C. R. Bhulf, C. F. Gold and A. J. Whisnant. " District No. 4. Counties include! are Burke, Catawba, Caldwell, Watau ga, and " Lincoln ; total population 100,593. Location of board, Morgan ton; chairriian. Dr. John McCampbell, Morganton; asociates, Drs. I. M. Tay lor, E. W. Phifer, W. R. Griffin. J. B. Riddle, I. P. Jeter and M. A. Griffin. District No. 5. Counties 'included are Wilkes, Ashe and Alleghany; pon ulation 57,101; location of board, Wilkesboro; chairman, Dr. J. W. White; associates,- Drs. M.- A. Royall," F. H. Gilreath, C. S. Sink, B. E. Reeves, W. E. Linney and W. F. Jone3. District No. 6. Counties included are Anson, Union, Mecklenburg, Gas ton, Montgomery, Richmond; total population, 197,466. Location of board, Charlotte; chairman, Dr. A. J. Crowell: associates, Drs. W. O. Nesbet, A. M. Whisnant, C. E. Walker, B. J. Wither spoon and P. C. Hull. District No. 7. Counties included are Alexander, Rowan, Cabarrus, Stan ly, Iredell and Davidson; location of board, Salisbury; chairman, Dr. R. V. Brawley, Salisbury; associates, Drs. J. E. Stokes, John Whitehead, H. H. Newman, W. H. Wadsworth, R. C. Sharpe, and J. W. Zimmerman. District No. 8. Counties included are Forsyth, Stokes, Surry, Yadkin and Davie; total population, 125,989. Lo cation of board, Winston-Salem, chair man, Dr. F. M. Hanes, Winston-Salem;' associates, Drs. T. W. Davis, V. M. Long. A. DeT. Valk, J. A. McClung, M. A. Royall, with Miss Letitia Tharpe as clerical assistant. District No. 9. Counties included are Caswell, Rockingham, Guilford, Randolph; total population 141,278. Lo cation of board, Greensboro; chairman, Dr. J. T. J. Battle, Greensboro; asso ciates, Drs. J. W. McGehee, D. A. Stanton, H. H. Dadson, F. O. Hyatt, Parren Jarboe, J. S. Betts, and W. F. Knight. s District No. 10. Counties included are Durham, Granville, Person, Orange and Alamance; total population, 121, 000. Location of board, Durham; chair man, Dr. Foy Robertson, Durham; as sociates, Drs. M. N. King, N. S. Bit ting, M. T. Adkins. T. C. Kerns, E. W. Shackleford, D. K. Lockhart and B. W. Fassett. District No. 11. Counties included are Chatham, ,Wake, Franklin, War ren and Vance; total population, 150, 257. Location of , board, Raleigh.; chairman, Dr. Hubert Haywood, Ra leigh ; associates, Drs. C. O. Aber nethy, John B. Wright, W. C. Horton. James MaGhee, and R. G. Sherrill. -District No. 12. Counties included are Cumberland, .Harnett, Robeson, Hoke, Scotland, Moore and Lee; total population, 162,752. Location of board, Fayetteville ; chairman, Dr. J. F. High smith, Fayetteville ; associates, Dra. W. L. Holt, Francis Juat, Peter John, W. C. Monroe, D. S. Currie, J. H. Judd, W. H. Lilly, and A. S. Cromartie. District No. 13. Counties included are Pender, Sampson, Bladen, Colum bus, Brunswick and New. Hanover; total population, 137,948. Location of board, Wilmington ; chairman, Dr. E. J. Wood, Wilmington; associates, Drs. T. M. Green, J. G .Murphy, .J. M. Tank ersly, R. H. Bellamy, W. T. Smith. District No. 14. Counties included are Wayne, Duplin .Johnston and Wil son; total population, 130,810. Location of board, Goldsboro; chairman, Dr. Wm. H. Cobb, Goldsboro; associiates, Drs. R. B. Miller, Wm. H. Smith, C. C. Daniels, ,W- W, Faison, J. E. Patrick and J. M. Johnson. District No. 15. Counties included are Northampton, Halifax, Hertford, Nash and Edgecombe; total popula tion, 142,152. Location of board, Tar" boro; chairman, Dr. J. M. Baker, Tar boro; associates, Drs. A. S. Harrison, T. W. M. Long, Donald Williams and L. E. Norfleet SATURDAY A ED AS PQRKLESS DAY FOOD ADMINISTRATOR PAGE AN. NOUNCES ONE DAY TO CON SERVE PORK. BIGGER SUPPLIES FOR ALLIES All Food Saved By People of This State Means More Food For Our Allies. Raleigh. A Porkless Saturday and one wheatless and one meatless meal each day of the week are announced by . State Food Administrator Henry A. Page as a part of the more inten sive program that must be followed if the American people are not to fall down on their job of supplying the fighting forces of our Allies with foodstuffs. In addition to the volun tary co-operation, the Food Adminis tration proposes to require all bakers to use 25 per cent as much of other cereals as of wheat. Mr. Page and Mr. John Paul Lucas, executive secretary of the Food Ad ministration, who have just returned from . a conference of Food Adminis trators at Washington ,are deeply im pressed with the urgent necessity for the co-operation of every individual In the matter of saving by economy and the use of substitutes for these, fool products which are suitable for export. Mr. Page does not hesitate to say that the man, woman or child who refused to render the utmost service in the matter of increasing the supply of foodstuffs available for export, Is miserably falling in their duty :o their government, to . say nothing of their absolute disregard of all human-' itarian sentiment. "The situation,'" declares Mr.' Page, "has assumed an aspect as simple as it is urgent. It Is purely an individual proposition. The Food Administration is gauging the quantity of foodstuffs released for export by the available supply and this available supply is fixed by the conduct In his eating of every man, woman or child in Ameri ca. The exportable food that any in dividual might save but does not will surely cost the life of a soldier or the life of some woman, child or old .man in Europe. It is purely a matter for the individual conscience and indivi dual action. There are no two ways to it. There is no fence to ride. We either line up with patriotic, whole some decent people and help feed the soldiers and the starving civilian peo ple of Europe, or we line up with the selfish, mean, ignorant, miserly arro gant crowd which consinders Its own comfort and stomach above all -patriotic or humane sentiments. . N. C. to Equip Base Hospital. A base hospital to be designated as No. 65 and served by North Carolina physicians and nurses, provided the latter are available, the hospital force to include 500 people or more, is now being organized by Dr. J. W. Long of Greensboro, chairman of the state committee, Council of Nation i" De fense, medical section, for North Caro lina. Dr. Long is authorized by the Federal Government to equip a base hospital at once to contain 1,000 beds and to be served by thirty physicians and surgeons, 100 nurses and 250 or derlies. The hospital will be located "somewhere in France" and Is expect ed to be ready for use by May or June. Dr. Long states that well qualified North Carolina nurses are preferred for this hospital work but adds that any lack of trained nurses from this state will be supplied by the Red Cross at Washington. A salary of $50 per month and expresses is assured nurses who will be accepted for this work. Those interested in this call to pa triotic service are requested to write to Dr. J. W. Long at Greensboro. The medical staff chosen for tho hospital will be presented to and passed upon by the Federal authori ties before they are officially accepted. The sugar you hardly miss is equal to a week's ration in Belgium. Use syrup. Child Badly Burned. Kinston. Rosebud French, about four years old, may die from burns sustained when her clothing was ignit ed from a fire by which she was warm ing at the residence of L. T. Moro adith here. The little girl's mother Mrs. Jerry French, a telephone opera tor who lives at the Moreadith homp, had just returned from work and left the child in a room by herself. She returned to find her eveloped In flames. The little victim was fearfully burned on the body. Her face and head escap ed Injury. . Killed an Eagle. Kinston. Julius Whaley, a Lenoir county, farmer, is exhibiting the talon of an'eagle shot at his place near here one day last week. The bird had kill ed and was devouring a two-months-old pig When Whaley knocked it over with a well-directed shot, The eagle measured seven feet across the wings. The species is believed to be getting more numerous in this part of tho state, and its depredations are begin ning to constitute a real menace U stock. i I :!:! J ill: :1 t ! ! . i i i ,1 i s i I f ! i I l.;t 4 i " i 1 J i e m Asia:? tCape Sile. V-''-'v:' ..Vv ' '-.' ,