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CHA r 1 iTTTT II 1HE m WAM ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1378. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY.N. C. MAY 22, 1918 VOL. XL. NO. 42. NO LIMIT TO MEN GOING OVER THERE -VERY SHIP THAT SAILS WILL TAKE FIGHTING MEN AND THEIR SUPPLIES. TP FIVE MILLION ? President Tells Great New York Gath ering That Every Eenergy and Every Resource Must Be Concen trated to Crush the Horrible Hun. The President's speech in full fol .ows: "Mr. chairman and fellow countrymen- I should be very sorry to think that Mr. Davison in any degree cur-J roiled his exceedinly interesting; speech for fear that he was postpon ing mine, because I am sure you lis tened with the same intent and inti mate interest with which I listened to the extraordinarily vivid account he gave of the things which he had re alized because he had come in contact ffith them dn the other side of the waters. "There are two duties with which we are face to face. The first duty is to win the war. And the second duty, that goes hand in hand with it, is to win it greatly and worthily, showing the real quality of our power not only, but the real quality of our 'purpose and of ourselves. First Duty is to Win. "Of course, the first duty, the duty that we must keep in the foreground ef our thought until it is accomplish ed, is to win the war. I have heard gentlemen recently say that we must get five million men ready. Why limit it to five million? "I have asked the Congress of the United States to name no limit be cause the Congress intends, I am sure, as we all intend, that every ship that can carry men or supplies shall go laden upon every voyage wjth every man and every supply she can carry. "And, we are not to be diverted from the grim purpose of winning the war by any insincere approaches upon the subject of peace. I can say with a clear conscience that I have tested those intimations and have found them insincere. I now recognize them for wha they are, an opportunity to have a free hand, particularly in the east, to carry out purposes of con quest and exploitation. To Stand by Russia. "Every proposal with regard to ac commodation in the west involves a reservation with regard to the east. Now, as far as I am concerned, I in tend to stand by Russia as well as France." A voice from the audience inter rupted with: "God bless you." "The helpless and the friendless are the very ones that need friends and succor; and if any man in Germany flunks we are going to sacrifice any-r' oody for our own sake, I tell them cow they are mistaken. "For the glory of this war, my fel low citizens, in so far as we are con cerned ,is that it is, perhaps for the tot time in history, an unselfish war. 1 could not be proud to fight for a selfish purpose, but I can be proud to fight for mankind. Tf thev wish no9 Iet theja come forward through ac credited representatives and lay iheir terms on the table. We have laid urs, and they know what they are. Force to the Utmost. But behind all this grim purpose, my friends, lies the opportunity to aemonstrate not only force which will oe demonstrated to the utmost, but we opportunity to demonstrate char- C er' and 11 is that opportunity that I , ave mst conspicuously in the Z0Tk of the Red Cross. Not that our men in arms do not represent our 111 fr they d0 and is a character which those who see and Z m -appreciate and admire; but their duty is the duty Qf fQrce Tne meL h Red Cross is the ot aercy and succor and friendship. ww-you fcrmed a pIcture in y- pagination of what this war is doing ol IT1 for the world? In my uun7 1 am cnvinced that not, a talttM vears of Peace cold havev sine ! V Dation together as this letheryear,f War has kni"ed it to Possibi0 ,better even than that, if IS?r 3 knittiae the world to ol 1? at the pIcture- In the center aainst tlCene' fUr nations engaged of Z 6 World' and at every point 8eeki7ge; showlnff that they are a?a-0sf tf aSSrandizement; and, h-'thl governments represent- of the ZTf Part f the Position sense J drawn tgsther in a new sease of COmmunity of purpose, a new se of unity of life. jl freat Day of Duty- h'oml !!' a great day f duty MnJ S Y dUty finds a man'8 Boul Kind of work can ever find it. L ai7 tWf? The dUty that other ,L W is toserve one an- a fort n0 man can afford to make meri s, war. mere are ' that uZBat US Wh0 have forgotten. n thpv . i yu are m w ll' aome of -to It enough I am old enough know how X CiV" War' apd you their f ,, hey vere regarded bv to aav! citi2ens. That was a war e 0ne country this is a war to save the world "And your relation to the Red Cross is one of the relations which will relieve you of the stigma. You can't give anything to the government of the United States; it won't accept it. There is a la-nr of Congress against accepting even services with out pay. The only thing that the gov ernment will accept is a loan, and du ties performed; but it is a great deal better to 'give than to lend or to pay, and your great channel for giving is to the American Red Cross. "Down in your hearts you can. take very much satisfaction, in the last analysis, in lending money to the government of the United States, be cause the interest which you draw wil burn in your pockets; It is a com mercial transaction, and some men have even dared to cavil at the rafce of interest, not knowing the inciden tal commentary that constitutes upon their attitude. "But when you give, something ol your heart, something of your soul, something of yourself goes with the gift, particularly when it is given in such form that it never can come back by way of direct benefit to yourself. You know there is the old cynical defi nition of gratitude, as 'The lively ex pectation of favors to come.' "Well, there is no expectation of favors to come in this kind of giving. These things are bestowed in order that the world may be restored; that suffering may be relieved; that the face of the earth may have the blight of destruction taken away from it and. that wherover force goes, there shall go mercy and helpfulness. Give to the Limit. "And when you give, give abso lutely all that you can spare, and don't consider yourself liberal in the giving. If you give with self-adulation, you are not giving at all, you are giving to your own vanity; but if you give until it hurts .then your heart blood goes into it. "And think what we have here. We call it the American Red Cross, but it is merely a branch of a great international organization, which is not only recognized by the statutes of each of the civilized governments of the world, but it is recognized by in ternational agreement and treaty as the recognized and accepted instru mentality of mercy and succor. And one of the deepest stains that rests upon the reputation of the German army is that they have not respected the Red Cross. "That goes to the root of the mat ter. They have not respected the in strumentality they themselves partici pated in setting up as the thing which no man was to touch, because it was the expession of common hu manity. "We are members, by being mem bers of the American Red Cross, of a great fraternity and comradeship which extends all over the world, and this cross which these lads bore to day is an emblem of Christianity it self. ' "It fills my imagination, ladies and gentlemen, to think of the women all over this country who are busy to night and are busy every night and every day doing the work of the Red Cross, busy with a great eagerness to find out the most serviceable thins to do, busy with a foregetfulness of all the old frivolities of their social relationships ready to curtail the du ties of . the household in order that they may contribute to this common ' worK mat an tneir nearts are engaged in, and in doing which their hearts be come acquainted with each other. "And you have, then, this noble pic ture of justice and mercy as the two ' servants of liberty, or only where men are free do they think the ' thoughts of comradeship; only where ' they are free do they think the ' they are free ars they mutually help ful; only where they are free do they realize their dependence upon one an other and their comradeship in a com mon interest and common necessity. "I heard a story told the other day that was ridiculous, but it is worth I repeating, because It contains the germ of truth. An Indian was enlist ed in the army. He returned to the reservation on a furlough. He was asked what he thought of it. "He said: 'No much good; too much salute; not much shoot.' Then he was asked: 'Are you going back?' 'Yes.' 'Well, do you know what you are fighting for?' 'Yes, me know; tight to make whole damn world demo cratic party. "He had evidently misunderstood some inocent sense of my own. But after all, although there is no party purpose in it, he got it right as far as the word 'party'; to make the whole world democratic in the sense of com munity of interest and of purpose, and if you ladies and gentlemen could ! read 3ome of the touching dispatches ! which come through official channels, for even through these channels there come voices of humanity that are in finitely pathetic; if you could catch some of those voices that speak the uf:er longing of oppresssed and help less peoples all over the world to hear something like the Battle Hymn of the Republic, to hear the feet of the great hosts of liberty going to set them free, to set their minds free, set their lives free, set their children free, you would know what comes into the heart! of those who are trying to con cribufe all the brains and power they have - to this great enterprise of lib erty. .1 summon you to the comrade ship. I summon you in this next week say how much and how sincerely and how unanimously you sustirtn th'e heart of the world." t - 56 KNOWN DEAD 31 ARE rXS A RESULT OF NINE EVPLO SIONS THAT WRECKED CHEM ICAL PLANT. CHINA GROVE fl.C. MAN KILLED Remnants of Human Bodies Brought Out From the Debris Throughout Day After Explosion. Pittsburg. Fifty-six men are Known to be dead, 94 injured in hos pitals and 31 employes of ?ne Aetna Chemical Company, are missing as a result of the nine explosions that wrecked this company's explosive manufacturing plant at Oakdale, 16 miles from this city. This report is the result of the day's investigation by state, federal, county and city officials and of the work of scores of men un der the' direction of Coroner Samuel C. Jamieson. Throughout the night anil all day men were extinguishing small fires in the debris and were bringing out rem nants of human bodies, legs and arms hands with finger rings on them and, in some instances, only the incinerated torsos fere found. In most cases there was nothing to indicate the identity of the victim. These gruesome recover ies were carried to the temporary mor gue where opportunity to view them was given any one that might have lost friend or relative in the disaster. While earlier explosions wrecked the plant, the last one, about 6:20. scattered debris over more acreage than before and blackening every piece of metal or timber as well as anything human beyond recogniton. All day a blue-brown smoke con tinued to hang over the ruins consid erably impeding the work of the searchers. Its deadly fumes are fear ed by the residents of the community and only when a slight breeze would lift the smoke would searchers be able to get close to the various piles of de bris. For a time the work was imped ed further by the thousands f sight seers that flocked to the scene from the surrounding country. A company of the state constabulary was rushed in automobiles from Greensburg to establish a greater cordon about the scene of the disaster. The crowds and automobiles were turned back when they had eached within five miles of Oakdale. Only those having business or the officials were admitted past thh guards. Thousands of persons steamed into the temporary morgue all day to view the gruesome finds from the ruins and it tok a special detail of police to keep this morbid element in check. Some identifications were made. Piti ful, sad, scenes were on every hand. POSTMASTER GENERAL SAYS TEDDY WAS MISLEADING. Washington. Postmaster General Burleson issued a statement asserting that Colonel Roosevelt -evaded the issue and was misleading in his "pre liminary" reply to the demand that he prove his charge thai the adminis tration was punishing publications which upheld the war but told the truth about administration -failures, while it failed to proceed against those who opposed the' war or at tacked the allies but defended inef ficiency. "Mr. Roosevelt's reply of May 11 which -he then termed 'preliminary'," said Mr. Burleson, "in the main evades the issue presented and is throughly misleading. He names The New York Tribune, Collier's and The Metropolitan Magazine in a way which creates the impression that these publications have been the ob jects of improper discrimination by the postoffice department. "This department has taken no ac tion against Collier's. "This department has taken no ac tion against The Tribune. "The department has taken no ac tion against The Metrpolitan Maga zine. . NAMES 13 MORE NEW TORPEDOBOAT DESTROYERS. Washington. -.Secretary Daniels an nounced that he had named 13 more new torpedoboat destroyers in mem ory of men of the navy who won dis tinction through heroic conduct. Among them the Anthony is named in memory of Sergeant Major William Anthony, of the marine corps, who distinguished himself when the Maine was blown up in Havan harbor and the Edwards for Midshipman W. F. Edwards, of Petersburg, Va. SILENT TRIBUTE PAID CAPTAIN JAMES N. HALL. The airplane driven by Capt. James N. Hall, which fell while flying within the German lines a few days ago, bore the number 17." Now a new "No. 17" has appeared on the American front northwest of Toul. Immediately under the pilot's seat, on each side, has been placed the in scription "Old Jimmy." It is a siltnt tribute to Captain Hall. The American flydrs have adopted, for a mlscot a jackass. MISSING STARS AND STRIPES 111 AMERICAN TROOPS ARE .BRIGAD ED WITH BRITISH ON THIS MOST IMPORTANT SECTOR. BETWEEN HON AND THE POUTS Less Than Two-Months Required to Get Them Across and Into Position. American troops are awaiting the time when they will be thrown into battle on an entirely new part of thte battlefield in France. The announce men that the Stars and Stripes are waving with the British Union Jack and the French Tri-Color on this bat tlefield and that the Americans were "completing their training Mn the area occupied by the troops -which are blocking the path of the Germans to the channel ports," which may indicate that somewhere along the line from Merville to Ypres is the point where General Pershing's men will once more strike the Germans. This is the fifth section of the front where Americans have been located! The others are east of Luneville, northwest of Toul, north of St. Mihiel and on the heights of the Meuse, and in the Montdidier secto- of the Pic ardy battle area. How many Americans are behind the British front, when they arrived and the part of the United States from which they came, are as yet un known. It is probable that they are not to be used as a separate unit but will be brigaded with the British in meeting the next stroke of the Ger mans in the northern battlefield. THIRD LIBBERTY LOAN TOTAL IS $4,170,019,650 Washington. The total of the third Liberty loan is $4,170,019,650, an over-subscription of 39 per cent above the $3,000,000,000 mininium sought. The number of subscriptions was about 17,000,000. Every federal re serve district over-subscribed, the New York district to 124 per cent, be ing the lowest. "This is the most successful loan the United States has offered, both in number of subscribers and in the amount realized," said Secretary Mc Adoo in a statement. "Every sub scription was made with the full knowledge that allotment in full was to be expected, unlike the first loan, when allotments were limited to $2, 000,000,000 and the second loan, when allotments were limited to one-half the over-subscriptions. I congratulate the country on this wonderful result which is irrefutable evidence of the strength, patriotism and determination of the American people." Total subscriptions to the second loan were $4,616,000,000 and the. amount accepted was $3,808,000,000. Pledges to the first loan ran above 3,000,000.000 but the loan was limited to $2,000,000. Subscribers- to the sec ond loan numbered about 9,500,000 and to the first loan about 4,500,000. The feat of the Atlantic district, standing fourth int he final percent age list, was the topic of favorable comment about the treasury. AT. NEW YORK TO OPEN BIG RED CROSS DRIVE New York. President Wilson came to New York to review the great Red Cross parade : and to open the Red Cross drive for a $100,000,000 war fund. He was met at the station by Colonel and Mrs. Edward M. House at whose home he and Mrs. Wilson dined before going to a theater. Although the time of the Presi dent's arrival was unannounced, thou sands of persons at the station and on the street leading to the hotel at which he stopped recognized him and cheered as he passed. Later in the day crowds homeward bound from the downtown district gave him an ova tion when -with Colonel House and Mrs. Wilson he went fo ra 15-minute ride through the city. DR. JOHNSON IS ON TRIAL IN RICHMOND Richmond, Va. Following tha tes timony of Miss Mildred Taylor, chum of Mrs. Alice Johnson, the girl bride of Dr. Lemuel Johnson, Middlesex, N. C. dentist now on trial for the murder of his wife here last Decem ber, Dr.' J. M. Whitfield, city coroner, testified that he had made an analysis of the dead girl's stomach and found it to contain two-tenths of a grain of pcison. AMERICAN SECTOR IS HEAVILY BOMBARDED The whole American sector on the Picardy front was subjected to a heavy bombardment early this . morn ing. The cannonade continued for 45 minutes. There was much aerial ac tivity yesterday and today, with , a bright sun and little wind, but there were no -further indications that the enemy was preparing to renew the offensive. On this front troop move ments behind the German lines are normal. OW WOULD CONSIDER ' PROPER PROPOSAL - i, NO FAIR AND HONORABLE PEACE HAS YET BEEN PROPPOSED, ' SAYS SECY BALFOUR. EXPLAINS THE SIXTHS LETTER President Wilson May Soon Comment on Balfour's Statement In This Connection. London. The British secretary for foreign affairs, Arthur J. Balfour, in giving explanations in the house of commons in connection with Emperor Charles' letter to Prince Sixtus of Bourdon, recently made public by the President of the French republic, de clared that no effort at conversations has ever been made by the central powers in the interest of a fair and honorable peace, and he added: "If any representative of any bel ligerent country desires seriously to lay before us any proposals, we are ready to listen to them." The letter in question ,had been ex amined by a committee of the French chamber, said Mr. Balfour, and the conclusion reached was that it did not provide an adequate or satisfac tory basis for an honorable peace. Mr. Balfour in his explanations was replying to questions submitted by the Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman, for mer president of the board of trade, who asked whether, when Emperor Charles' letter was communicated to the French government, and by the French government to . the . British prime minister, it was communicated to any other of the allies; had the American government any informa tion as to what was passing? Did the prime minister inform the foreign office at the time of the fact that the communication had been shown to him? Why were the negotiations dropped was It on purely territorial grounds; was it because a demand was made by France not only for Alsace-Lorraine but for the 1814 line, or even the 1790 line? Mr. Balfour exJained that he ha no secrets from resident Wilson. Hi was in America at the time and, had not gone very thoroughly into the matter. The letter, however, had been conveyed by Prince Sixtus to President Poincare and the French premier under seal of the strictest secrecy. Only the British sovereign and premier were to see it. There fore, it was not communicated to thr President of the United States and the American government was at the time no better informed of the facts regarding the letter than he was Washington. Either through a pub lic address or a diplomatic note Pres ident Wilson in the near future may take occasion to comment upon and supplement the statement made by Foreign Minister Balfour in the Brit ish house of commons in connection with the Austrian peace feelers through Prince Sixtus of Bourbon. DAILY REPORTS BY PERSHING MAY BE FORTHCOMING Washington Publication of the first American "official communique" pre pared at expeditionary headquarters In France, inaugurated what is expect ed to be a dally report to the Ameri can people on what their soldiers abroad are doing. In giving out the text of the state ment. Secretary Baker could not say definitely that one would be forthcom ing daily hereafter. That rests with General Pershing, but Mr. Baker in dicated his hope that the expedition ary commander would find it possible to follow that course. As to the military situation in the two sectors held by American troops the communique was exceedingly brief. Increased artillery activity on both sides, both north of Toul and in Lorraine, were noted, 'with the com ment, "nothing else to report." Most of the statement was devoted to offi cial accounts of the daring and enter prise of America officers and men in scouting and raiding operations and in the air. "SUPER-WHEAT" HAS BEEN , EVOLVED BY L. BURANK Santa Rosa, Cal. A "super-wheat," containing 14 per cent gluten, has been evolved by Luther Burbank, the California horticulturist, after experi ments extending over 11 years, it was announced here. The . wheat may be grown frpm Hudson Bay to Patagonia. The new wheat is said to be of the winter va riety, h.ardy and producing a white Hour. TO INCREASE PROGRAM OF CONCRETE SHIPBUILDING Washington. The shipping board has decided to proceed immediately on a large scale with tlje building of concrete ships and will increase the program out of theappropriatlon out of two and one-quarjjer billion dol lars which has ben asked for the next fiscal year. y , Eighteen concrete ship aggregating 117,500 tons have been contacted "for anad it "was announced that '58 other vessels will be ordered. - PERSHING MAY SOON COMMAND ALLIED TROOPS, AS PROCESS OF BRIGADING ON WEST FRONT PROCEEDS. GEN. FQGH STILL SUPREME When Americans Predominate In Brl gaded Divisions, Pershing Will Command Them. Washington. General Pershing probably soon will be commanding French and British troops as the pro cess of brigading American units with the allies on the western front goes forward. As if exemplifying the unity of com mand and action into which the Uni ted States and its co-belligerents have entered, it became known here that whenever American troops predomi nate in the brigaded divisions as the p.ocess goes on, these divisions, un der present plans, will be turned ever to General Pershing's command. This plan would accomplish several things which the military authorities consulting upon it regard as very de sirable. It would rapidly increase tha size of the American fighting com mand on the battleline, it would con tribute tremendously to the spirit ol unity and concerted effort, and at the same time instead of holding large numbers of Amreican .troops behind the line while . training, would sur round them with seasoned veterans and under actual battle conditions school them to be re-brigaded later with fresh American troops coming to France. In this way, the efficiency of the British and French forces is ex pected to be increased and the work of building up a great, fully trained and completely equipped fighting force in France hastened. , In addition to this, as illustrtaive of the unity of command under which Generalissimo Foch directs all the al lied armies, it was stated .officially here that Foch commands the Italian troops in Italy as fully as he does the American, British and French troops in France and Belgium. There has been no question that Foch command ed the Italian troops in France and it had been supposed that, considering the Italian front as part of the west ern battlefront under a decision reach ed at the Versailles conference, the generalissimo's authority extended there. For the first time, however, It was stated unreservedly that General Foch's supreme v command extended to Italy. BAPTISTS GRANT WOMEN FULL AND EQUAL SUFFRAGE ; Hot Springs. Women of the South ern Baptist churches were granted full and equal rights with men in the convention of the churches, by an overwhelming vote at the sixty-third session of the Southern Baptist con vention. By this action which con sisted of an amendment to the con vention constitution, women now are entitled not only to represent their churches in the conventions, but also to hold any office in the convention, which is the highest administration organization in the denomination. The vote was taken after three hours of debate. After the vote was announced, a division or roll call was demanded by some of the opp'onents of the amendment, but was withdrawn and the constitution was declared of ficially to have been amended. Because of the length of debate on that amendment, other convention business was restricted and the day's session closed with the reports of the home and foreign mission board ,and the Sunday chool board. B. D. Gray, corresponding secretary, of the home mission board, in making his report, requested a contribution or apportionment by the churches of $1, 000,000 to advance the work of ' the church next year among the army cintonments. S. C. NEGRO SOLDIER CHARGED WITH MURDER New York. Private James Layton, a negro soldier who was drafted from Rion, S. C, in training at Camp Up ton, was locked up in the Tombs charged with the murder of Private Michael Maloney.and Mrs. J. Harrity of Brooklyn at the cantonment on May 5. The police say Layton has confessed he -killed Maloney when he came to the rescue of Mrs. Harrity, whom the negro had attacked. EMPERORS &ISCUSS THE "MITTEL EUROPA PLAN' Washingtonv According to a dis patch from Switzerland, the Berlin newspapers indicate that the basis of a new treaty of alliance agreed upon at the recent conference between the German and Austrian emperors con templates fixing 25 years' as the period for the duration of the alliance, the Imposition of stricter military obliga tions upon each nation and the regu lation of economic relations so- as to realize the Mittel Europa plan. CORRECT AG A Y SAYS THE GOVERNOR GOVERNOR ASKS COUNTRIES TO HOLD MEETINGS TO DISCUSS PROBLEM MAY 29. DELEGATES TO STATE MEETING Governor Bickett's Idea Is to Cur Vagrancy Rather Than, to . Punish Vagrant. Raleigh. With the, .purpose of cur ing vagrancy rather than merely pun ishing vagrants, Governor Bickett is sued a proclamation calling upon the counties of North Carolina to hold meetings on Wednesday, May 29, to discuss the problem and to appoint delegates to a State convention to be held in Raleigh, Tuesday, June 4. Governor Bickett wants it to be understood that wherever an able-bodied man is arrested under the vagran cy laws and will make it clear to hia that he is ready to : go to work and keep working, he -will be given an op portunity to do so. The Federal government is vitally interested in this matter and an agent was recently in Raleigh where the matter of a speeial session of the Leg islature to provide vagrancy legisla tion was broached. General opposi tion met the suggestion, but It was conceded that some corrective steps should be taken to remedy a situation admittedly bad. Governor's Proclamation. Governor Bickett's proclamation reads : "Never before in the history of North Carolina has It been of such supreme Importance to bring together the jobless man and the manless job. The agricultural, commercial and in dustrial life of the State depends on the utilization to its fullest capacity of every labor unit that can be found At this time idleness is a crime that savors strongly of treason, for the man at. home work. . "To this end I call on every coumty in North Carolina to hold a session on Wednesday, May 29th, for the pur pose of discussing the best methods of enforcing our vagrancy laws, of es t9 Wishing employment bureaus and of appointing delegates to a Stats con vention to be held In Raleigh on Tues day, June 4, 1918, for the purpose of discussing these subjects. The Fed eral government is vitally interested in this matter, and its representatives are prepared t give valuable assist ance in the solution of the grave labor problem that confronts the State. "T. W. BICKETT, . "Governor." "By the Governor: "Santford Martin, Private Sec'y7' For Drafting Doctors. Raleigh. The Medical Optional Se lective Draft Commission was created by Governor Bickett in pursuance to petition fro mthe North Carolina Med ical Society which at its last meeting in Pinehurst adopted resolutions to apply the draft to the enlistment of medical men in the service. On that commission Governor Bickett ap pointed Dr. Cyrus W. Thompson, of Jacksonville; Dr. A. W. Knox, Ra leigh; Dr. M. L. Stevens, Asheville; Dr. F. R. Harris, Henderson; Dr. R. F. Yarborough, Louisburg. The com mission is called to meet in Raleigh May 22 for the purpose of organizing and drafting rules and regulations for the work. The Medical Society at its meeting in Pinehurst unanimously adopted res olutions placing its entire membership in the State under the provisions of the selective draft. In this, it antici pated the United States Government and led all the States. Three hun dred and forty-five members of the Medical Society have already Joined the colors. In some communities the burden has fallen with particular se verity upon the physicians who re main. It is the purpose of the selec tive draft for the medical men to pre vent hardships either upon the physi cians and upon the communities they serve. Expell Trinity. Council. Special from Washington. The Na tional Judiciary of the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics has issued a proclamation expelling from the fraternity the officers and mem bers of the Trinity, North Carolina Council, No. 307. The action is a sub sequent event to the special sitting of the National Judiciary held in Greens boro on April 20. The council and of ficers are charged with violating cer tain sections of the national laws of the order which forbid the exploita tion of grievances through the press. Episcopals in Convention. Salisbury. The one hundred and second annual convention of the Dio cese of North Carolina convened in St. Luke's Episcopal church In Salis bury with Bishop J. B. Chesfre, of Raleigh, presiding and with more than one hundred olerlcal and lay del egates in attendance. The diocess em races the central part of the State be tween Wilson and .-Rocky Mount on the east to States ville on the west, and represents, some of the strongest churches of the' denomination In North Carolina
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