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1 : j't't' ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1S78. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. MARCH 20, 1918 VOL. XL. NO. 33; - 4 ; The Chatham Ebcosb I t MPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN HE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Domestic. james Stillman, born m Browns ville Texas, in 1850, chairman of the board of the National City bank of New York City, and one of the most famous bankers in the United States, died of heart disease at his home in New York City. The sentences of the eight German seamen convicted in the United States court of sinking a German craft in the Charleston harbor more than a year ago, has expired. The men were given one year in the federal prison at At lanta, Ga. A general increase of about fifteen per cent in commodity rates has been granted by the interstate commerce commission to railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers, supplementing simi lar increase allowed last June in class rates. News from Washington is to the ef fect that war department officials are not convinced that the Germans are ready to undertake a big offensive- on the western front despite notices sent out from Germany. Another new government shipyard may be established on the south At lantic coast and a representative of the shipping board will visit Wilming ton, N. C, to inspect available sites. It already has been definitely decided to establish a shipyard at Charleston, s. c. An outburst of Bolshevikism struck Norfolk harbor when the crew of the Russian steamer Omsk decided to put the Lenine-Trotzky" theories into ef fect on the vessel, and all day long and far into the night the customs collector, immigration bureau, depart ment of justice and district attorney's office were kept in a stew. Mrs. Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, nearly 86 years old, widow of James' A. Garfield, twentieth president of .the United States, died at her winter home, in South Pasadena, California. Archibald R. Roosevelt, son of The odore Roosevelt, has been wounded in action with the American forces in France. Fire, at Greenwood, Miss., believed to have been of incendiary origin, to tally destroyed one of the cotton sheds of the Tallahatchie Compress and Stor age cempany and 4,000 bales of cotton stored there. Lieuts. Marmaduke Earl of Lewis burg, Pa., and Nile Gelwick of Find lay, Ohio, were killed at Ellington field and Civilian Instructor Kaiser was seriously injured internally from falls in airplanes resulting from tail pins, at Houston, Texas. At San Antonio, Texas, Howard Holladay, of Denver, Colo., a flying cadet at Kelly field, was killed when his airplane fell four thousand feet. Washington. The daylight saving bill, which was passed by the senate last June, under which the nation's clocks would be turned forward an hour every spring and back again every fall, has been passed by the house of representa tives. The bill goes back to the sen ate, because the house added two months to the period involved. Four American soldiers, condemned to death by courtmartial in France, two for sleeping on post and two for disobedience of orders, will not be shot. Instead the reviewing authority has returned the evidence in the cases to General Pershing with a notation showing that the findings were irreg ular. American troops in the Luneville sector have occupied and are holding German trenches northeast of Badon villers, which they forced the Ger Eians to abandon through recent raids and concentrated artillerr fire. The trenches have been consolidated with ino of the French. Details of how the second draft will e applied will he mad nnhlic after congress has acted upon the proposed cgisiaiion. Droviriintr fnr th rfritra- HOn Of VOlltha sttginini. tV. 01 years, and for basing state and dis trict quotas on the number of regis trants in class one. Newly organized regular divisions "e particularly short of men and heavy drafts on national army divi sions to make these good have been necessary, seriously interfering w.ith he training WOrk of the national army divisions drawn upon. The call tor new men makes it probable that no further transfers will be neces sary. The attempt of the4 railroads to re cover from the government forty mil- on dllars under the old system of space compensation for transporting wads has been defeated in the court Jt claims. The court has affirmed a iormer decision in favor of the gov ernment. A London dispatch says Leon Trotz T waS dismissed as Bolsheviki for in!n tminister by Premier Lenine, ow- 5 to a quarrel over the German n!Clterms- Trotzky held that peace "ad been exerted by force and that o law recognized promises made un apr duress as obligatory. A million tons of Dutch ships now held in ports the world over, through Holland's fear of Germany's threat to sink them if they venture out, will be brought into the service of the United States and Great Brit ain. Formal notice has. been present ed to The Hague by the American and British diplomatic representatives of the intentions of the allied govern ments. As a result the Netherlands minister, August Phillips, acting un der instructions of his government, made a final and personal appeal "to 1 resident Wilson to at least modify the decision, but the president saw no reason for altering the decision and unless the ships are. turned over a presidential proclamation will be is sued taking over the ships in Amer ican ports about eighty, and many in British and allied - ports will be taken over by the respective allied powers. President Wilson has called on all American boys of sixteen years and over, not permanently : employed, to enroll in the United States boys' work ing "reserve. A national enrollment week, beginning March 18, has been set aside by the department of labor. A shell explosion on the United Spates ship Von Steuben, which willed three . men, has been announced by the navy department. The shell ex ploded while being fired. The dafe of the explosion is not given. European. Twenty-six persons are missing in consequence of a collision between a naval vessel and the British steam ship Rathmore. Survivors have been landed at Kingstown, Ireland, by de stroyers. The all-Russian congress of Soviets, meeting at Moscow, by a vote of 453 to 30, decided to ratify the peace trea ty with the central powers. M.; Ryaz onov, a prominent Bolsheviki theorist and representative of all the profes sional unions, resigned from the Bol sheviki party after the vote. Replying to an inquiry as to wheth er there was any truth in the ru mor that proposal had been received from Germany for a peace at the ex pense of Russia, Lord ' Robert Cecil said i . "As far as I know no such pro posals are being considered or will be considered. The peace treaties that have been signed by Russia and Roumania have not caused any change in Serbia's dip lomatic representative in Switzerland. All rumors in regard to a separate peace on the part of Serbia are un founded. It is stated, however, that Serbia has lost oyer a million men in the war. ' According to news received from Field Marshal von Hindenburg it is stated that the entente had shown an unresponsive "attitude toward Germa ny's peace intentions, and that the great German offensive, therefore, must and will go on. The Verdun offensive of the Ger mans, in which they failed to break the French line, has been ' estimated in conservative quarters as having cost them something like five hundred thousand men. r. General von Ludendorff says: "If the enemy wishes to attack now let him do so. He will find us ready. If the enemy does not want peace, he will have to fight, and this fight will, of course, be the most tremendous of the whole war. With Gods' aid, we will obtain a German peace, not a doubtful peace." British Foreign Secretary Balfour says nothing could be more unfortun ate than the coincidence between the Russian revolution and the war that was being conducted by Russia and her allies, but he is an optimist about Russia, though not about Russia's im-' mediate future. A Constantinople message says that Erzerum has been captured by Turk ish forces, after Armenian resistance. was overwhelmed. Erzerum is the principal city of Armenia, and is lo cated 100 miles southeast of Trezi zond, the Black sea port, which was seized recently by the Turks from the Russians?... The notice served on Holland by Great Brffcain and the United States regarding the taking over of Dutch ships in allied ports has thrown the German press into a towering rage. Th capture of Odessa and Erzerum. gives the central powers an open se same into the Black sea aSid opens the gateway for 'a drive into trans Caucasia and Persia. Premier " Lloyd-George; speaking in London, said there had been criticism because the cabinet ministers had not. given much . prominence to the idea of a league of nations in their state speeches. The Bolshevikists had, he ct"u -"&"- mem a irasuu wiai. o uia.1 a real league, ui huliuus uiu nui come by talking about it. The British admiralty reports the loss by mine or submarine of 18 Brit ish merchantmen in the past week and one fishing vessel. Of these: 15 -were 1,600 tons or over, and three under that tonnage. Nobody has been so eloquent on the subject of the league of nations as the German emperor. His reply to the pope, says Lloyd-George, breathed the spirit of brotherly love, but in it there was no word about Belgium. . Speaking in the British house of commons, on the sanation in the east, Foreign Secretary Balfour expressed perfect, confidence in Japan's abso lute loyalty in carrying out any de cision that might be reached and de clared that in this question he had drawn no distinction between Japan and other allies. The situation in Siberia apparently is daily growing more serious. As yet ttie Japanese government has reached no decision concerning the matter of Japanese troops being sent to Siberia, . - RAID IDE UPON AMERICANS PERMISSION NOT GIVEN TO PUB LISH THE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES. APPARENTLY AFTER PRISONERS Purpose of Raid Was Quickly Accom plished: Was Aft,er Information from Captured Americans. After a terrific artillery preparation large numbers of the enemy crossed No-man's-Land on the extreme righi of the American sector, northwest of Toul. Apparently the purpose of the raid was quickly accomplished and only a comparatively small number entered our lines. Permission has not been given to mention the number of casualties. This raid, like most of the others carried out all the way, from the sea to Switzerland, was designed to gather Information by means of taking pris oners. East of Luneville our patrols have explored part of the German trench which our artillery forced the enemy to abandon. Patrols proceeded later ally until they established contact with the Germans. Our reconnais sance and wire patrols found snipers' posts, listening and nests from which machine guns had been firing on our lines. The artillery attended to all these posts. The German positions have been so uncomfortable at sev eral places that they now are trying o- regain a foothold by connection shell holes. Our troops have been subject to an extraordinary heavy ar tillery fire. More than 240 shells, which make craters 20 feet deep and 30 feet in diameter, fell in one sec tion of the line. In another section btateries have been shelled heavily. More gas shells have fallen in both the Toul and Luneville sectors, but the larger number In the former. 500 ARMY HORSES OUT OF 726 WERE POISONED Ten Thousand People Join in Remark able Demonstration. Covington, Ky. A crowd estimated at 10,000, which included men, women and children here, participated in a markable demonstration of patriotic protest against what is believed to be pro-German propaganda in Covington as exemplified by the poisoning of 500 of 720 government artillery horses hipped from Camp Grant, Illinois for n Atlantic seaport. Ten thousand, others were unable get near the field outside of the ockade of the Covington stockyards -here lay the carcasses of hundreds ? animals and the steadily diminish ig number of survivors of the poison .jlot. Emotions of the throng had been aroused to a high pitch of patriotic fervor when an interruption from a man giving the name of Richard Schmidt, 23 years old, nearly brought about his lynching. As it was, he was severly beaten before police lock ed him up. The mass meeting of pro test was held under the auspices of the Citizens' Patriotic League of Coving " on. . The meeting decided to send a .nemorial to congress calling upon the ongressional lawmakers to enact a w interning every enemy alien with i the borders of the United States and making more stringent the laws gov erning'7 all "seditious and traitorous acts. An investigation of the poisoning of ihr horses is being conducted by fed eral agents. Acquire Egyptian Cotton. London The British and Egyptian governments have decided jointly to acquire the entire Egyptian cotton tod beginning next August. A com aission has been appointed to take ontrol of the regulations. MESSAGE CABLED FROM THE HAGUE TO LONDON. The Hague. After ' a cabinet coun cil lasting into, the night, the govern ment cabled to London a message which, according to reliable informa tion, probably; will lead to a satisfac tory conclusion of the shipping diffi culty. An Amsterdam dispatch said It. had been, learned on excellent auth ority that the Dutch . government had iccepted the demand of the entente allies relating to the use of Dutch ships in the danger zone. COL. J. C. L. HARRIS, OF RALEIGH, PASSES AWAY Raleigh. Col. J. C. L. Harris, one of the organizers of the republican party in North Carolina, former chair man of the statw borad of agriculture, former president oft he board or trus tees of the State College of Agricul ture and Engineering, and former ad jutant general of North Carolina, died -ere this morning at the age of 7C -ars. He . is survived by a widow nd 12 children. Two of his sons are i the military servir HAVE PEACE TERMS ME TO BRITAIN? LORD CECIL SAYS THAT NO SUCH PROPOSALS ARE BEING "CONSIDERED." PEACE IS OFFFREO SERBIA Holland in "Perilous" Situation, on Account of Allied Nations Taking Over Her Ships. That peace terms have been offered Great Britain by Germany may possi bly be inferred from several signifi cant statements given out. Lord Robert Cecil. British minister of blockade, when asked if proposals had been received for a peace at the expense of Russia" answered that "no such proposals are being considered or will be considered." A little earlier an Amsterdam dis patch quoted Field Marshal von Hin denburg as saying that "the entente has shown an unresponsive attitude toward Germany's peace intentions and the great German offensive must therefore go on." Later General von Ludendorff, the German quartermaster general, was reported as saying: "Since the enemy is not inclined to make peace, we will have to fight, and this fight will, of course, be the most tremendous of the whole war." Ludendorff Boasts Strength. General von Ludendorff continued: "We are stronger than the enemy as regards men, material, aerial forces, tanks.. Everything, in fact, of which he boasted is standing in readiness on our side in the greatest abund ance. The treaty of peace submitted by Germany to Russia at Brest-Litovsk, which makes Russia an outpost of the central empires, has either been ratified by the all-Russian congress of Soviets or its ratification apparently is imminent. Reports from Moscow are not clear on the rituation," but It seems certain that the bolshevik element has voted by a large majority to affirm the treaty. As this element dominates the congress, the hard terms will doubt less be accepted, notwithstanding re ports that Leon Trotzky, the mouth piece of the bolsheviki, is opposed to their provisions and is willing to try to reorganize the Russian army to fight the German invaders. . Holland stands in -a perilous situa tion, according to the German news papers, which are printing editorials, evidently Inspired, on the taking oyer of Dutch ships by the United States and Great Britain. "Drastic measures' are advocated if Holland "gives way" to the allies. FIFTY HORSES ARE DEAD; RESULT OF GERMAN HAND Covington, Ky. Fifty horses are dead of poisoning, in Covington and many more are expect eo to die out of a government shipment of 726 horses from Camp Grant, Rockford, 111., con signed to Newport News, Va. Dr. L. E. Crisler, veterinary surgeon, Cov ington, pronounced the death of the animals to be due to belladona and oroton oil poisoning. The consignment of horses reached Covington : in charge of Lieut. Frank Lilley and 16 soldiers. Doctor Crisler said he believed the poison had been placed In water given to the horses m Covington. Government authori ties were . notified. An agent of the department of justice began an inves tigation. Deaths of the horses gen erally are said to be ramifications of German plots. . . . Bow to Germany's Will. Washington. The decision of the allRussian congress of doviets at Mos cow to ratify the German peace terms, announced in press cables was reach ed after receipt, of President Wilson's message to the Russian people assur ing them that America would1 take the first opportunity to help them regain their complete sovereignty and inde pendence. TROOPS ENJOY SUNSHINE AFTER WEEKS OF RAIN After weeks of rain, snow, wind and murky weather there came to the American front its first bath of geu'al sprine sunshine. The skies-, were cloudless, and in the moderate tempar ature that prevailed sweaters were discarded by the men for the first time s'nee last summer, while in the vil lages where they are billeted and in the cantonments in the training area, the camps were decorated with, rolls of bedding being given an airing. REINFORCED CONCRETE SHIPS TO TAKE LARGE PLACE Washington. Reinforced concrete ships apparently are about to take a large place in the solution of the ship building difficulty whic'a lies across the path to victory over Germany. Chairman Hurley, of the shipping board, telegraphed the buIMers of the 5.000-ton concrete vessel which was launched successfully on ihe Pacific coast to report immediately what were the prospects fo: la ring down additional bulls. ONE MILLION TONS DUTCH SHIPS ADDED VESSELS TO BE TAKEN OVER MONDAY, MARCH 18, UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW. HOLLAND MAY ACQUIESCE But Her Plea of Germany's Menace No Longer Will ' Prevail Deci- sion is Final. One million tons of Dutch shipping which will be used, in sending supplies to the armies of the allies or in trans porting troops to the war zones, will be taken over by the United States and Great Britain Monday, March 18, thus relieving in great measure a dire need of the countries at war with the Teutonic allies. Holland's hesitancy to come into- an agreement with the United States and Great Britain which would permit of the use of ships flying her flag, many of which are now lying in American and allied ports, - no longer is to be tolerated, and. next Monday, whether she be willing or not, the vessels will be taken over under the provisions of international lanw and put Into uses which are highly essential to the suc cess of the allied cause. Holland yet has time to acquiesce in the demands of the United States and Great Britain and sanction - the use of her shipping, but her plea of Germany's menace no longer will avail, and there- is to be no modifica tion in the decision of the United States, and the allies to seize all Dutch vessels in their respective ports throughout the world and use them. Liberal compensation is to' be awarded owners of the vessels and all their rights will be safeguarded. In addi tion the export of foodstuffs to Hol land will be permitted and coal by which Holland may resume her inter rupted trade with her colonies will be guaranteed. Washington, March 14. A million tons of Dutch ships, now held in ports the world over, through Holland's fear, of. Germany's threat to sink them if they venture out, will be brought into the service of the United States and Great Britain on March 18. Unless the Netherlands government braves the menace of Germany's pressure and voluntarily accepts an agreement under which the ships would be put in trade, the United States anf Great Britain will take them over under International law, availing themselves of a sovereign right which Germany herself has hith erto exercised under the same author ity. GAS PROJECTILES ARE BLOWN TO PIECES American Artillery Upsets Germany's Plans for Attack. Four groups of German gas projectors in addition to the group of 200 project ors already xliscovered and likewise blown to pieces by the American artil lery. Probable German plans for gas attack on a comparatively large scale against the American positions north west of Toul have thus been upset. The new group of projectors were discovered from aerial photographs taken by American, observers in French airplanes. The elective action taken against them was. due to the quick work of the observers, the intel ligence officers and the artillerists in turn. The American . artillery on "'' this front has been more active than ever in the past 15 hours, and its shells also found lodgment In a number of am munition dumps, which were blown up. Many extensive explosions are reported. The correspondent, stand ing on a hill, witnessed one dump sit uated in a wood go up in a brilliant flash and a great puff of whitish smoke, a tremendous report following a few seconds later. Explosions and fires also were caused by our .shells In. villages and a number in the woods behind the enemy fron ANNOUNCEMENT AS TO SIBERIA EXPECTED SOON Washington. Japan's avowal -of her Intention to intervene in Siberai and the announcement of the courses to be taken by the United States and other governments aligned against the cen tral powers are expected to follow closely upon the adjournment of the Russian congress of Soviets called to meet at Moscow. Official Washington and diplomats here still retain faint hope that the warriug factions of Rus sia may yet reject the peace terms GERMANS TO GET SOME -, OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE London. German, prisoners of war are to be distributed over areas which the enemy's aircraft are subjecting to attack in their raids, according to The Evening News. "This," says th9 newspaper, "is being done because the allied government have learned that prisoners of their nationalities In Ger-' man hands already have been so placed in all towns which the German government considers lite ly to be attacked" SEAPLANES HAVE LIBERTY MOTORS FIRST ONES THUS EQUIPPER ARF TRIED OUT AND ACCEPTED BY DEPARTMENT. MOTOR DEFECTS REMOVED Advance Guard of New Craft Being De livered or Use in Submarine Hunting. Washington. America's - first fight ing seaplane .equipped with Liberty motors has been tried out and accept ed, it was learned, and a number of the craft are now being delivered for the use of the naval air service. They are the advance guard of a big fleet which will be added to the forces engaged in submarine hunting in the war zone. A second type,; of fighting plane for the American army known as "the Bristol model" also has how reached the production stage and a consid erable number will become available during the present month. Still an other type, a two-seated machine, also is being manufactured. Construction details ol these planes have never been published. It is known, however, that the seaplanes are substantially similar to the Brit ish flying boats and are equipped with two Liberty motors, which provide ap proximately 700 horsepower to drive the ship. This is understood to be much in excess of the power used in similar British craft and their per formance is expected to be. propor tionately better. ... . In this connection, it was learned that engineers of the aircraft board now have overcome the last minor defect of the Liberty motors, having to do with the lubricating system. A number of motors taken haphazard from the quantity production supply have been operated continuously for many hours without any trouble de veloping. Officials in close touch with prog ress being made on production of fighting planes in this country are still satisfied that the output will tax ship ping facilities before July, when de livery In quantities in France has been scheduled. Already a problem of caring for the planes on the other side is one to which General Pershing's staff is giving serious thought. BOLSHEVIKI CREW IS MENACE TO VESSEL Half a Hundred Bolsheviki Cause Trouble at Norfolk. Norfolk, Va. Bolshevikism struck Norfolk in the shape of the crew of the Russian steamship Omsk and it raged with more or less intensity from 11 o'clock in the morning In and out of federal offices back and forth from ship to shore until finally at a late hour the whole crowd of malcontents, to the' number of 49, were taken into custody by a force of 35 Norfolk po lice acting under the personal direction of Major Ford and marched from the steamer to police headquarters where they were locked up. " The charges against the men, wjiich were embraced in warrants sworn out, at the request of Collector of the Port Norman Hamilton, by Victor E. Gartz, attorney for the Russian con sul general at New York are: "That they did unlawfully act In a mutinous manner, threatening offi cers and refusing to obey their orders, arm themselves with firearms and other dangerous weapons and engage in other riotous conduct on board - the steamship Omsk, shouting bolsheviki control principles as against organized authority on board the steamship Omsk and threatening to damage said ship, thereby endangering the safety of the harbor and city property." The. raid by the police was the climax of a day chock full of excite ment and activity for the customs de partment, the immigration bureau; the department of justice and the " United States district attorney's office. . .. BALLOON FALLS 3,200 FEET; THREE INJURED Temple, Texas. Capt. B. H. Four nier, of San Antonio, suffered a severe scalp wound, Cadet G. W. Adams, re ceived a broken leg and Cadet E. M. Hawley sustained a sprained back when the balloon in which they were making a trial flight from San Antonio fell from an altitude of 3,200 feet near Killeen, this county. Something went wrong with the valve in the top ot the bag, It was said. .... . FATAL ACCIDENT OCCURS . ON U. S. S. VON STEUBEN Washington. A shell explosion on the U. S. S. Voh Steuben, which kill ed fhree men, was announced by the navy department. The shell exploded while being fired. The dead are: . Emmette Joseph - Shields, seaman, Hannibal, Mo. Valentine Przylskl, fireman, Buf falo, N. T. Erdell William Martin, mess attend ant. Philadlphla, Pa. JESSE R0l TO DIE III THE CONVICTED OF FIRST DEGREE BURGLARY IN CRAVEN . COUNTY LAST FALL. UPHELD BY SUPREME COURT Bowden Says He and Another Negro Started Out to "Have a Little Fun" Will Get It r.v Raleigh. Jesse Bowden, a Craven county negro, must die in the electric chair for the crime of first degree bur glary the Supreme court handing down a decision affirming his convic tion in the Superior court of Craven county. ' " . The crime was committed last Au- . gust. Lee Perkins and Jesse Bowden, both negroes, broke into the home of Mr. W. A. Wilson, near the town, of Dover, Bowden entering a room oc cupied by two daughters of Mr. Wil son and Perkins going into a room occupied by another daughter. The latter was awakened and cried out, and at the n6ise the Bowden negro crawled under the bed on which the two girls were asleep and was found there by the father a little later. In his defense he maintained that he was drunk and that he did not know where he was at the time or what he was doing there, further than that he had started but with the Perkins ngro to "have a little fun." Both the negroes were convicted of first degree bur glary, and Bowden appealed. The Su preme court -finds no error in the trial below, at which Judge Thomas H. Cal vert presided. Wandering Child Nearly Starved. Washington. After having been missing for two days, Sarah Griffin, the nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Griffin, of Thompson's Creek, was found almost starved to death and completely, exhausted, seven miles from home in the woods. Sarah wandered away from home while at play. She strayed off into the woods, looking for violets. Paying no attention to where she was going, she tost all sense of direction and soon found herself completely at a loss as to the location of her home. She ran until completely exhausted and at last fell down and slept at the foot of a tree. The next morning she contin ued her search for home. She went all day without . a thing to eat, al though she managed to secure water from the shallow places in the woods where the rain had made puddles. The second night was also spent in the woods. When the searching party of ten men found her the next morning she was in a pitiable condition. It is believed that she would have died be fore nightfall. . She was taken home and medical attention summoned, Prominent Man Drowns Self. Salisbury. J. N. Ledford, aged 45, living in the northern part of Rowan county and manager of the Irvin Mill Company's large store at Cooleemee committed suicide by drowning in the mill race at Cooleemee. He left a cou ple of notes, in one of which he told where his body would be found. In another note, addressed to his brother-in-law, J. B. Ivey, of Charlotte, he told where his money was and asked Mr. Ivey to act as his administrator. No motive for.- the deed has been dis closed. To be sure of a successful job, Mr. Ledford tied an iron weight about hlr neck. A widow and six children sur vive. ' Get 20 Per Cent Increase. - Monroe. The teachers in the Mon roe graded schools have been allowed an increase of 20 per cent .in salary. This matter had been up for consider ation before the aldermen not long ago. The increase was not allowed then, the aldermen claiming that the city did not have the necessary funds. At the last meeting of the aldermen the teachers' demand for higher pay was again taken up and this time an Increase of 20 per cent was allowed. A New Gun Sight. ' Monroe. I. S. Noles, a young man of Indian Trail in this county, has in vented what he claims Is an improved machine gun sight. He has been working on it for the past 18 months. This improved sight as planned by him will enable the man who is firing the gun to do his own sighting and will also make the gun more effective at short range. The invention has. won the consideration of the national poun cll of defense and the' war department. Noles has forwarded one of his sfghts o them. : McCoy Must Complete Term. Raleigh. President Wilson denied the appeal of Representative Zebulon Weaver to -interfere with the a&minis-. tration of the legal machinery, and Tom McCoy, the Buncombe county white man, must complete bis three years' term in the Atlanta peniten tiary. McCoy was convicted in Flor ida about a year ago charged with perpetrating revenue frauds against the government. The ' appeal was taken to President Wilson last night by the Tenth District Congressman, fcut to no avaiL CHAIR 1 1 ji ' ! I r: ) ; Jtl i 1 1 V i " ; i ' i - ?; i: II II
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