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PITTSBORO, CHATHAM CO UNTY, N;C. MAY 15, 1918
VOL. XL. NO. 41.
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IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
,MPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
HE HEWS CF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South,
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Domestic.
Eight American gunners were killed
and seven injured more or less seri
ously near Benbrook. Texas, a " few
miles west of Fort Worth, when a 3
inch shell exploded. First reports
that two trench mortars exploded
were erroneous.
Legislation raising the draft age to
40 ve?.rs has been discussed as a pos
sibility t7 Provost Marshal General
Crowder and the house military com
mittee. An appropriation of $15,762,000 has
been asked by Provost Marshal Gen
eral for expenses of the draft for the
next fiscal year.
Petty profiteers who have been vic
timizing soldiers and sailors in war
camp communities will be shown short
shift by Uncle Sara. Many complaints
have been made by the men in uni
form, and the matter has about reach:
ed a climax. Some cf the malefactors
srill probably go to the pen.
Joseph F. Rutherford, successor to
Pastor Russell as heud of the Interna
tional Bible Students Association, and
five other leaders cf that organization,
were arrested in a raid by federal au
thorities in the headquarters at the
Tible Students' Association in Brook
lyn. Eighteen persons were killed in. a
tornado at Calmar, Iowa, and three
men were killed and one injured' at
Macon City, Iowa. Later reports In
crease the number of the killed.
At Franklin, 111., two women were
tilled when the chirrney of their home
fell, as a result cf a tornado.
Great damage was done by a tor
nado at Eldridge, Iowa, nine miles
from the Mississippi river, near Dav
enport, Iowa, where a building was
reported to have been blown down,
vhen a score or more person were
in the ruins. Nurses and doctors were
rushed to Davenport.
A farmer residing at Toulon, 111.,
50 miles northwest of Peoria, and hist
son were killed when their home
was wrecked by a tornado.
A billion and a half dollars will be
paid out this year to volunteer farm
hands counted on to help the United
States harvest one of her greatest
crops.
Connecticut farmers are offering $5
a day for hand3 to get in hay. .
Stackers of hay are receiving. $7
a day in Nebraska.
An army of fifty thousand volun
teers has been organized in Kansas
to work and harvest the crops, and
each member is to receive $5 a day
ana board.
The average wage for volunteer
wrkers this year, taking , the coun
try as a whole, will be at least $3
a day with board.
Cotton pickers will get $4 a day
and board tlrs year.
Fniits pickers in all parts of the
country, mostly women and boys, will
Sgt from $2.00 to $2.50 a day.
Corn huskers will be paid $2.50 a
fcy and in some instances $3 with
ward during harvest.
!t has been definifplv nmvaA that
Members of the Bolsheviki party in
jtussia were corresponding with the !
Industrial Workers of the World In 1
wgo m August, 1917, relative to
achvities in America.
Eight soldiers were killed and 26
more or less seriously injured when
wooden passenger coach, loaded
Sm, diers of the 321st infantry,
2 VFeGtle at CamP Jackson. The
Sevfc juSt entrained for Camp
GreenviIIe, and the train
as pulling out of Columbia at a very
10w rate of snp a 5 x.A
snr a blg steel coach struck a
bar w 7 rai1, and the coach was
UrIed d0a the embankment.
Washington. , . .
tofl Aerican Patrol on the Toul sec-
enem e fel1 victim to a silent
ceauv J" time at night re-
anrt , Z Germans used bayonet3
lthe butta of their rifles.
aadinrihydro"airplane adrift at sea
IneMl fanger of siling from a leak-
Pontoon, Ensign Arthur Laverents,
d atr' and C- C- Ctton, ob-
twWere rescuei hy a coastwise
to an tn ff Miami' Fla- taken
The u, antlc Frt on the steamship.
rs J!tu d been floating eighteen
5 s Without food.
fre nf aCii0n on a house eal suf-,
lndefinitpi T 5 Deen Postponed
that , 7 4because a canvass showed
rr vrters cf the resolution num
essarv fft?a tw-thirds majority nec
Tt7 for the adoption.
CS, Japanese 'bank
Hion Chmese bankers twenty
Shuntehn011 StCk f the Tsi
Ported Zll lway. and there is re-
'Sed tIarShal General Crowder
xm ArilL691"011 on a" states
ont for An. Delaware and Ver
ants to W,SPeCially alified reg
British , Camp Ma7 20.
J. BtartiSUwf;r, rePrted durins
t week h figUres ln tne
hereafter ' 8 ! t to mount rapidly
ila tt t0tal for the
More than half a million American
soldiers have been sent to France. .
As a result of a personal, investiga
tion of machine gun production, See
retary Baker announces that there, is
no present shortage of light or heavy
types of these weapons either in the
United States or France, and that
there is no shortage in prospect. "
Major General Eben Swift, National
Guard has been put on the retired list.
He ranked as a brigadier general in
the regular army. .
Although General Swift has been
put on the retired list, It is probable
that he will be retained on the active
list during the duration of the war.
Secretary of War Baker inhounces
that he has. appointed Marlen E. Pew
as his personal press representative.
Thi3 appointment marks the beginning
of th6 -secretary's new policy of hand
ling publicity.' .
Sensational sworn statements, let
ters and telegrams from the files of
the army intelligence , service were
read into the senate record to show
that Gutzon Borglum, while holding
a personal commission from President
Wilson to inquire into the government
aviation program, was negotiating se
cretly for the formation of a private
airplane company to take war con
tracts and capitalize hi3 friendship
with the president.
An agreement on the bill extending
the selective draft law to youths at
taining twenty-one years of age since
June 5, 1917, has been reached by the
senate and house conferees. They re
tained the amendment providing that
additional registrants shall be placed
at the bottom of present eligible lists.
Theological and medical students are
exempted.
Men already in the military service
who have attained their majority since
last June 5 will probably be required
to -Register in order that they may be
sent to any branch of the service re
gardless of what they are now in.
A b'llion dollar appropriation for air
craft production has been asked of
congress by the war department.
Over five billion dollars nearly six
billion to be exact has been asked of
congress by the war department for
the quartermaster branch of the serv
ice. The war department wants nearly
four billion dollars for the ordnance
department.
The American artillery fired 60,000
shells into the German trenches before
a recent attack, says a Paris dispatch.
Men raised under the selective serv
ice law can be sent anywhere in the
world to fight for the United States,
is the decision of the Supreme court.
Representative Flood of Virginia, in
seeking to prevent the return of Amer
icans abroad without a passport, says
there are hundreds of Americans in
Europe who are not loyal.
The Overman bill, granting broad
powers to the president to reorganize
and co-ordinate government depart
ments, was ordered favorably report
ed by the house judiciary committee
by a vote of 15 to 1.
European.
Earl Curzon says: "The" present is
not a moment for prophecy. It is a
moment for grappling with hard facts,
because the military menace is great
er than at any time during the last
four years.
French Lieutenant Fonck brought
down six German biplanes In the
course of two patrols. He downed the
first two in ten seconds, the third five
minutes later and the other three
in the course of the second patrol.
Field Marshal Haig expresses his
deep appreciation of the services ren
dered by the British artillery in the
recent battles of the river Somme and
river Lys. The infantry was the first
to admit the inestimable value of ar
tillery support.
The - military forces on the Anglo
French front engaged in local fighting
in the Ypres and Some sectors. The
French made a notable advance at
Grivesnes, where they took the park
of the town, which had- been in the
Germans hands for three weeks.
Scattering engagements have been
reported at Aveluy wood, north of Al
bert in an effort by . both sides to
gain strategic ground..
Small operations in the Kemmel hill
front, southwest of, Ypres, are report
ed from Paris.
Only local engagements are report
ed on the Italian and Macedonian
fronts.
It is believed that German subma
rine operations frcm the harbor of
Ostend, Belgium, have been seriously
hampered for a time, if not rendered
impossible by a daring raid made on
the harborby the British. The Vin
dictive, which wa sused in the opera
tions in Zeebrugge, was manuevered
into position, under heavy fire, and
then sunk by bombs. There is some
doubt that the entire channel is block
ed, one report saying that the vessel
lies at an angle and does not abso
lutely' interrupt the use of the fair
way. The German official statement con
cerning the raid on Ostend says the at
tempt was a failure and that the hulk
of the Vindictive lies entirely outside
of the navigation channel.
If Ostend and Zeebrugge are re
moved as ports from which the Ger
man U-boats may be operated, the Ger
mans apparently will be compelled to
withdraw their submersibles to their
home ports.
Speaking to the Primrose League,
Earl Curzon, leader in the house of
iords and member of the British war
council,' said 'that grave times are
ahead and that the British soldiers
may be forced to. give ground. En
couragement "is to be found, however,
in the unity of command, in America's
effort and in the resolute indomitable
spirit of the British people.
WILL NOT BE USED
UNTIL COMPLETE
ENTENTE ALLIES CONFIDENT OF
THEIR ABILITY, WITHSTAND -ANY
DRIVE FROM GERMANS
FIELD AS ALL AMERICAN FOE
Allies Saving Their Men--YHi'e the
GerrnanV are . Draining Thfc
-; Country Dry.
Ottawa. So, confident is the en
tente of its ability to witstand any
drive the Germans can launch that it
has been decided not to use the Amer
ican army until it becomes a complete
and powerful force, according to a ca
ble summary of operations on the
western front received here from the
war committee of the British cabinet.
"The position now is." snid the
summary, "that the Germans, deter
mined to concentrate every available
unit on one enormous offensive, are
draining their country dry to force
a decision before it is too late, while
the entente are so confident that, hav
ing been given the choice of a small
immediate American army for defense
or waiting till they are reinforced by
a complete, powerful, self-supporting
American army, they have chosen the
latter.
"To the sledge-hammer uses of
masses of men by the enemy the allies
are opposing the strategy of meeting
the blow with the- smallest force ca
pable of standing up to the shock,
while keeping the strongest reserve
possible. Troops on the wings are
permitted to give ground within limits
whenever the enemy has been made
to pay a greater price than the ground
is worth, the whole aim being to re
duce the enemy to such a state of
exhaustion that our reserve, at , the
right moment, can restore the situ
ation. What British Have Done.
"In the present operations, the Brit
ish army has withstood many times
its own weight of enemy masses. It
has retired slowly, exacting the full
est price. Meanwhile, Foch holds the
bulk of the French in reserve, sending
units only to points hard pressed. This
strategy has Justified itself in that in
three weeks J;it - has . seen the enemy
brought to a standstill without a sin
gle strategic objective being fulfilled
and with losses .so immense that his
reserve is in danger of proving inade
quate to his policy.
"The German commander, seeing
how nearly he is delivering himself
to the allied reserve, has been com
pelled to accept temporary failure
and call a halt. His position is "tacti
cally exposed in two dangerous sali
ents on waterlogged ground. His
countryment are dangerously dissat
isfied at the immense price paid for
his failure to terminate their suffer
ings. .His allies are on the verge of
quarrelling and daily . exhibit their
growing dislike and distrust of the
task master who robs them of their
lives and food.
"His reserves have nearly reached
complete exhaustion. Those of the
Franco-British are still in being,
while the American preparations de
velop. The time draws closer when
defeat is inevitable. Therefore, he
mus renew the offensive. His prep
arations proceed feverishly but jit
takes months properly to orgairfze4
such an offensive. He must be sat
isfied with what he can do in weeks.'
We may, therefore, expect a renewed,"
furious onslaught before long. The
enemy is so committed to his strate
gical plans that we may await his
main blow on the Arras-Amiens front
while necessity compels him to try to
improve his position in the Lys sector.
"The allies may have complete con
fidence" in the result. For the enemy
the issue is a desperate endeavor to
avoid defeat; for the allies the issue ,
is only that of victory deferred. The j
coming battle may be a repetition of
Verdun on a large scale and if both
sides should be exhausted, the allies
have vast powers of recuperation,
while-Germany has. drafted her - re
sources already."
AMERICAN ARMY OFICERS
ARE FRANKLY DELIGHTED
Washington. News of the British
statement that the entente is so con
fident of its ability to hold the Ger
mans that the American army is not
to be used until it bocomes a com
plete and self-supporting force, was
received by army officers here with
frank delight, not only because of the
supreme confidence indicated by such
a decision button account of the keec
desire of American military men to
take the field as all-American foe.
EVERY CITIZEN MAY ACT
AS-VOLUNTEER DETECTIVE
Washington. Every citizen may act
as a volunteer detective to assist gov
ernment officers in ferreting out per
sons suspected of disloyal action or
utterances, : says a statement issued
by Attorney General Gregory. United
States attorneys have been told to co
operate with newspapers in. their dis
tricts so that , public notice .can be
given of the nearest offices of attor
neys or the bureau of investigation
to which citizens may refer.
EIGHT SOLDIERS
KILLED III WRECK
THE DEAD AND INJURED MEN
WERE MOSTLY FROM THE TWO
CAROLINES AND TENNESSEE.
CAUSED BY SPFA01NG RAIL
A
Troops From Jackson Ha,d Jus Start-.
ed to Carop S'evieif GirtvlHe, '
Military Inquiry Is Started. S.
Columbia, S. C. Eight soldiers were
killed and 26 injured when a wooden
passenger- coach carrying members of
the 321st infantry jumped a trestle at
Camp Jackson. The soldiers had just
entrained for Camp Sevier at Green
ville and the train was pulling out of
camp at a very low rate of speed.
As it approached a trestle a big
steel coach struck a spreading rail.
This hurled the wooden coaches im
mediately in front down the em
bankment. A military inquiry into the cause of
the wreck was begun by a board
headed by Lieut. Col. Halsteadt of
the 321st infantry, 81st division, to
which all of the dead soldiers were
attached. All of the dead were pri
vates. List of Casualties. '
The official list of the dead and in
jured follows:
The dead are:
Private Edgar Simpkins, Co. K,
321st infantry; father, Wm. E. Sim
mons, Patmost, Arkansas.
Private Philetus C. Swann, Co. K,
321st infantry; mother, Mrs. Ninna
Swann, 10 1-2 North Park square,
Asheville, N. C.
Private Marion O. Hawkins, Co. K,
3?lst infantry; father, S. A. Hawkins,
R. F. D. No, 2, Marion, N. C.
Private William E. Lowery, Co. K,
321st infantry; father, Samuel Low
ery, Alta Pass, N. C.
Private Jess Reno, Co. I, 321st in
fantry. Father, Tom Reno, Soddy,
Tenn.
Private Andrew Scoggins, supply
company, 321st infantry; father, Arch
Scoggins, R. F. D. 1, Ooltewah, Tenn.
Private James L. Leatherwood, Co.
L, 321st infantry; brother, Thurman L.
Leatherwood, Waynesville, N. C. v
Private Benton Goolsby, Co. A, 321st
infantry; father, John Goolsby. Pauls
Valley, Tenn.
The injured are:
Thomas I. Fitzgerald, Trenton,
Tenn.; L. P. Ramsey, Asheville, N. C;
Andrew Shoulders', Dierks, Ark.; E.
M. Henry, Willets, N. C; John W.
Frost, Gilliken, N. C; George W.
Stoke, Louisville, Miss.; George S.
Thompson (Indian), Ella, N. C;
Franklin P. Poindexter, Mooresville,
N. C; Charles M. Deal, Hickory. N.
C; Jacob Kluttz, East Spencer, N. C
John W. Rook, Robersonville, N.; 0
William A. Brown, Ramseur, N. CV;
Robert C. Harris, Rocky Mount, N. C;
W. J. McKinnon, Henderson, Tenn.;
Dewey Kilpatrick, Asheville, N. C;
Richard Grey, Shallotte, N. C; Ches
ter Sircy, Todd, N. Cij W. C. Bryson,
Candler, N. C; Hugh Aldridge, Bald
win, Miss.; Robert A. Moore, Clio, S.
C; Roscoe Braswell, Montezuma, ,N.
C; WilUain.. -South, Ashland City,
Tenn.eiHiipitHigh, Whitesville, N.
C; JohnrEHyatt, Weaversville, N. C;
William' Ledford, Almond, N. C.
SAYS ATTEMPT TO BLOCK
TOSTEND WAS A FAILURE
."London. The Cerman submarine
base of Ostend on the Belgian coait
has been blocked as a result of a new
raid by the Britisbr naval forces, the
admiralty ' announces. - The obsolete
cruiser Vindictive, filled with con
ciretterhas been sunk across the en
trance to the harbor.
BeflhV! (via London) .The British
attempto hiockade the harbor of Os
tend was a failure, according to an of
ficial statement. An old cruiser, en
tirely battered to pieces, lies aground
before the harbor outside the naviga
tion channel, and the entrance to 'the
harbor is quite free, the statement
continues.
TWO NORTH CAROLINA
SOLDIERS ARE DEAD
Greenville, S. C Two deaths of sol
diers in the 50th division, both cf
which occurred Wednesday evening,
were announced at divisional head
quarters, Camp Sevier; They were
Private James R. Cullum, 120th infan
try, whose next of kin is a sister, Mrs
E. A. Frazler, Durham, N. C, and
Geruver Woodring, 105th ammunition
train, next of kin, father, H. B. Wood
ring, of Sands,' N. C.
8UBMARINE OPERATIONS
ARE GREATLY HAMPERED
German submarine operations from
the harbor of Ostend, Belgium, hare
been seriously hampered for a time if
not rendered impossible by a daring
raid made on the harbor by the Brit;
ish. An officials statement issued by
the British admiralty says the chan
nel leading out of the inner harbor
has been completely blocked by the
hulk of the oid cruiser Vindictive,
which was maneuvered; into position
under heavy fire and then sunk.
CRISIS AVERTED
DY VINDICATION
OF PRIME MINISTER LLOYD
GEORGE OF SENSATIONAL
CHARGES BY ASQUITH.
GERMAN ATTACK REPULSED
British Improve Their Positions
Along Somme Front, Despite the
Artillery Fire.
The Lloyd George ministry has won
vindication in the British parliament
at a time when defeat would have
meant a government crisis. A motion
by former President Asquith asking
for the appointment of a special com
mittee to investigate sensational
charges made by Major General Fred
erick B. Maurice, published earlier in
the week, was defeated by a vote of
293 to 106.
While Mr. Asquith disavowed any
Intent to put the present government
to a crucial test, it was felt that with
an adverse vote the Lloyd George cab
inet would have resigned. The Maurice
incident, Involving charges of misrep
resentation by the premier in his re
ports to the house of commons, has
stirred all England, and the section
of the press hostile to Mr. Lloyd
George did not hesitateto say that if
the present government fell there
would be an alternative cabinet ready
to step into office.
Germans Made Attack.
The allied defense on the Flanders
front to the southwest of Ypres has
again been tested by the Germans
and has been found adequate. Two
divisions of Teuton troops were em
ployed on a relatively short front and
were sent into the fight under cover
of a terrific artillery fire. The front
chosen for the attack extended from
the village of LaClytte to Voorme
zeele, but the center of the assault
seems to have been at Vierstraat, a
hamlet northeast of Kemmel hill.
' The flank of the German attack
ing line were stopped short by fire
from the French and British artillery
posted on high ground and which was
able to enfilade the German regiments
as they tried to advance.
In the center, however, the Germans
made quite a serious dent in the allied
line- Wednesday night, however the
allies drove forward in a counter-attack
and the latest reports from Field
Marshal Haig are to the effect that
the line has been re-established. . The
Germans are reported to have lost
very heavily " during the fighting.
COMPROMISE ON TIME
LIMIT IS OUTCOME
Atlanta, Ga, With the -disposal of
the question of the time limit on mln-
fefsters by the general conference of
the 7 Methodist Episcopal - Church,
South, indications were that the next
big issue to reach the debate stage
would be the demands of the woman
for laity rights, already favorably act
ed upon by the committee on re
visals. ,
The conference after a two-day- par
Iimanetary wrangle, adopted the mi
nority report on the time limit pro
posal, which inserts in the discipline
a .paragraph permitting bishops to ap-
point ministers indefinitely, on recom- j
mendation of quarterly conference, to
gether with the vote of the majority
of the presiding elders of the bishop's
cabinet. The status of the presiding
elders was allowed to remain unchahgi
ed and they will continue to, be forced
to move at the end of four years. A
movement to restrict the eldership ex
clusively to fouriyears -was defeated.
Change In Creed Demanded.. .
Showing the unanimity of the' de
mand for a change in the creed and
other portions of the ritual where the
words holy Catholic church" appear,
the conference without debate and
by a vote of, 172 to 76, adopted the
committee report recommending the
substitution of the words "Church of
Christ." The movement for this
change has been before the church
for eight years.
PERSHING ISSUES
MOTHERS' DAY ORDER
Gen. John J. -Prshing' has , issued
the following order:.
"May 8
To: aircommandlng" offUJln : the ( Austrian-Hungarian fleet have
cers: I wish every officer and soldier
in the American' expeditionary 'forces
would write a letter home on Mothers'
day. This is a little thing for each
one to do, but these letters will carry
back our courage and cur affection to
the patriotic women whose love and
prayers inspire us and cheer us on to
victory.
(Signed) . "PERSHING."
HAMSTEAD MERCHANT
GETS YEAR IN PRISON
Wilmington. For advising regis
trants that they could not be made
to serve , in France and promising to
supply them with provisions if Hhey
would "hide out" and for utterances
against theh government and favoring
the kaiser, X L. Bowers, 59, merchant
of Hampstead, N. C, was sentenced to
a year and a day in the federal prison
in Atlanta by Judge H. G. Connor, of
the federal court.
E THAN HALF
8ECRETARY BAKER SAYS FORE
CASTS MADE BY HIM HAVE
BEEN SURPASSED.
NO MACHINE GUN SHORTAGE
First - Official Utterance .Indicating
Even Indirectly' Number of Men
Sent Out.
Washington. More" than half a mil
lion American 'soldiers have been sent
to France. Secretary Baker authoriz
ed the statement that his forecast to
Congress in 'January that 500,000
troops wolud be dispatched to France
early in the present year had now
been surpassed.
Mr. Baker dictated the following
statement:
"In January I told the senate com
mittee that there was strong likeli
hood that early in the present year
500,000 American troops would be dis
patched to France. I cannot either
now or perhaps later discuss the num
ber of American troops in France, but
I am glad to be able to say that the
forecast I made in January has been
surpassed."
No Machine Gun Shortage.
As a result of a personal investi
gation of machine gun production dur
ing the past few days, the secretary
announced that there is no present
shortage of light or heavy types of
these weapons either in France or in
America and no shortage is in pros
pect Mr. Baker said there had been no
question as to the supplies of light
type Browning guns, which were com
ing forward in quantities. He would
not say whether shipment of these
guns to France had been started. As
to the heavy Brownings, he said some
have been produced and there is every
indication of forthcoming production
in increasing and substantial num
bers. The secretary chose his words
about the troops in France 'with ut
most care. He would not amplify the
statement in any way and specifically
asked that the press refrain from
speculation as to what precise figures
his guarded remarks covered or as
to what possibilities of early further
increase in the force there might be.
There has been repeated official an
nouncements, however, that the gov
ernment is bending every energy to
rushing men across to back up the
allied lines in France, and officers di
rectly in charge of the transportation
have expressed satisfaction with the
progress . being " made. There is no
doubt that the present. force of Amer
ican troops there represents . only a
small part of the total, strength that
will be available before the summer
fighting ends. '
TALK OF RAISING DRAFT
AGE TO FORTY YEARS
Washington. Legislation raising
the draft age to 40 years was discuss
ed as-'a possibility within a few
months at a meeting of Provost Mar
shal General Crowder and the house
military committee. Although General
Crowder, made no specific recommend-
ations members of the committee said
-afterwards ; that the war department
:was considering a plan for changes.
'An appropriation of $15,762,000 was
"asked by General Crowder for . ex
penses of the draft for the next fiscal
yearl Registration of men reaching
the ago of 21 will require the exami
nation, he said, of half a million more
men than originally; - provided for.
Class -1, the general said, now has a
total of about 2,265,000 men, of whom
two million are effectives. -
BRITISH TROOPS ENTER
TURKISH TOWN OF KERKUK
London British troops have en
tered the Turkish town of Kerkuk, 80
miles southeast of Cosul, in Mesopo
tamia," the British war office, an
nounced. The British met with no
opposition. The Turks on retiring
left 600 men in the Kerkuk hospital.
SERIOUS DISTURBANCES
IN THE AUSTRIAN FLEET
Washington. Serious disturbances
caused changes in the high command,
a dispatch from Switzerland said. The
crews, composed largely of Slavs and
men of Italian descent, have made
a great deal of trouble and the disturbances-
were put down with diffi
culty. The dispatch said that meas
ures have been taken to establish a
naval school at Trieste to increase the
number of Germans -in the navy.
PRISONERS HELD FOR
' DISLOYALTY MUTINY
Muskogee, Okla. -Twenty-six pris
oners held in the federal -jail on
charges of disloyalty and pro-Germanium
"mutinied and a riot in which a
'guard and several : prisoners were
slightly injured followed. Loyal pris
oners who were in the minority were
roughly handled and only the arrival
of police who herded the rioters Into
their cells brought an end to the
trouble."
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DRAFT
OH III III CLASS I
HOUSE ADOPTS CONFERENCE
REPPORT ELIMINATING CRED
ITS FOR VOLUNTEERS.
INCLUDES
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QUOTA
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Also Medical Students and Bill Goes iV
Back to Conferees on That
Section.
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r Special from Washington. The
house adopted the conference report
on the bill to base draft quotas on
the number of men in Classl, accept
ing the elimination of its amendment
authorizing credits on quotas for vol
unteers. The report awaits action in
the senate. .
Because of a senate amendment ex-'
empting ministerial and medical stu-!
dents, the house sent back to the con-',
ferees the conference report on the'
bill providing for the registration of
youths attaining the age of. 21 yearst
since the registration last June 5. '
The vote on the rejection of the sen
ate amendment was 182 to 118. Repre
sentative McKenzie, of Illinois, sup
porting the house action, declared that
opposition ot tha drafting of divinity
students comes from men who have
money invested in theological semi-)
naries. Supporters of the amendment
said the" President has authority under
the draft laws to exempt such students
from the draft, so that adoption or re
jection of the proposal by the house
was Immaterial. .
Representative Cannon, of Illinois,
vigorously opposed the rejection of the
amendment giving States credit for
voluntary enlistments and was sup
ported by Representative Mondall, of
Wyoming, and Schallenberger, of Ne
braska, author of the amendment.
Chairman Dent, of the military com
mittee, said he had not changed his.
mind regarding the credits plan, but
since President Wilson, Secretary Ba
ker and Provost Marshal Crowder had
opposed it he would subordinate his
own desires.
Ice Plant for Camp. .
Charlotte. The war department has
authorized the construction of an ice
making and refrigerating plant at the
quartermaster depot, Camp Greene, ac
cording to information obtained from
Maj. Clarence H. Green. Though the
war department's orders given about
two months ago to make surveys for
six additional quartermaster store
houses were carried out, authority to
begin construction of. these big build
ings has not yet been received.
While hundreds of workmen are
employed at the camp in building ad
ditions to the mess halls, constructing
roads and enlarging the base hospi
tal ,no other new authorizations for
construction have been received in
some weeks. Rapid progress is be
ing made on all work undertaken in
refrigerating plant will be commenced
without delay, it was understood,
owing to the arrival of the hot weath
er. The ice consumption at Camp
Greene totals many thousand pounds
each day, and unofficial information
places at about 300 pounds the dily
consumption in each mess hall. Other
quantities of ice are required for va
rious purposes. .
... The work of providing the camp
with a sewer system is nearlng com
pletion. Prosecutes Prosecuting Attorney.
Wilmington. Standing on their so
called constitutional rights Solicitor
Edwin T. Burton, Secretary J. B.
Huntington, of the Y. M. C. A., Patrol
man L. J. Williams and G. W. Branch,
against whom -suits have been started
ln Superior court by Miss Jacobl Wev
ers, refused to answer any question
when they appeared before commis
sioner Rogers, contending that any
thing they said might tend to Incrimi
iate themselves. Their refusal to
answer questions when called for ex
amination for the plaintiff prior to the
filing of complaint, as provided for in
the revisal, will be certified down to
Judge Lyon, whose opinion will then
be given. - :.
Good Doctor Felt the Call.
Charlotte. Dr. Benjamin K. Hays,
of Oxford, who has bee.n on the state
board of medical examiners, and who
has been secretary of the state medi
cal society for three years and re
elected at their recent meeting, has
resigned ami turned over the office to
Df Ij. B. McBrayer and has entered
the service. He felt the call of coun
try so strong that after consideration
he felt it his duty to give up his prac
tice and join his comrades in the pro
fession on the other side.
- Woman Lawyer Loses Case.
- Raleigh. Out-of-State witnesses oth--er
than experts ln the Gaston B. Means
murder 'Case receive no expense mon
ey fromNorth Carolina for their pres-
ence at the trial of the prosecution;
Miss Julia, Alexander, the first woman
lawyer to appear before the Supreme
court, ' misses a victory before the
tribunal- on .account of precedent, and .
the court refuses to grant a new trial
Inthe appeal of the Charlotte Electric-
Railway company from a Judg
ment against it in favor of Grace M
Spittle for $11,500.
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