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ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1 878.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. JUNE 13, 1918
VOL. XL.
NO. 45.
IMPORTANT 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
& country-wide more to reduce tho
cost ol tood to tke consumer and to
standardize the methods of compelling
the observance by dealers of. "fair
price lists'' has been ordered by Food
Administrator Hoover. Prices will be
published in every county, town and
city, and consumers will be asked to
co-operate with officials in forcing the
merchants to bring their prices to a
uniform level.
Five American citiezns and two sub
jects of the German empire, one of
them a woman, are named as fellow
conspirators, charged with assembling
and transmission of information rela
tive to America's prosecution of the
war and the destruction of American
piers, docks and troop transports, in
two indictments returned by the fed
eral grand jury in New York City.
Naval stores operators have been
advised that the manufacture of tur
pentine and rosin are non-essential to
the successful prosecution of the war,
and this industry will probably sus
pend during the war.
Sinking of the Norwegian steamer
Vinland by a German submarine 65
miles off the Virginia capes, June 5,
has been announced by the navy de
partment. The crew was rescued and
landed at Cape May, N. J.
Government taxes gathered from a
wide variety of sources every month
are barely sufficient, if levies on in
comes and excess profits are excluded,
to pay war expenses for two days of
the month. This is shown by a de
tailed treasury report of tax collections
for April, giving th-? yield of ordinary
and war taxes for that month as $43,
700,000; government expenses now are
running nearly fifty million dollars a
day.
Nineteen thousand Liberty motors
will have been dellveed to the govern
ment by September 1, 1919, from De
troit, according to members of the
committee in charge of the senate in
vestigation into aircraft production.
Senator Thomas, of Colorado, chair
man of the committee In charge of
the senate investigation into aircraft
production, said in Detroit that the
government "needs airplanes on the
French front and needs them badly.
Governor Stephens, of California,
has been appealed to a second time
by President Wilson in behalf of
Thomas J. Mooney, who was convict
ed of complicity in a bomb explosion
in San Francisco, July 22, 1916.
It is reported that anti-draft riots
have broken out amcng the Creek
Indians near Muskogee, Okla., in
Southern Okmulgee ctunty, and the
Henryetta home guards have left for
Uie scene.
Reports reached Henryetta, okla.,
that the Creek Indians had attacked
two white farmers and that the whites
in the vicinity were arming to meet
the Indians.
Criticism of publicity matter sent
out by various government depart
ments with requests that it be pub
lished, featured the session of the Na
tional Editorial Association at' Little
Rock, Ark. . .
The National Editorial Associa
tion, in session at Little Rock, Ark.,
adopted a resolution asking the gov
eminent to employ a competent man
to edit matter sent out from the va
rious government departments.
Washington.
Sinking of the British steamship Har
pathian by a German submarine 100
mile? off the Virginia capes, has been
announced at the navy department.
The entire crew was rescued by the
steamer Palmer.
Secretary McAdoo recommends to
h house ways and means committee
that a war profit tax be established at
high rate to be superimposed upon ex
iaitng excess profit taxes; that the
normal income tax on unearned in
comes be raised and that heavy taxa
tion be imposed on luxuries.
Gutzon Borglum, whose sensational
accusations against officers and others
connected with government aircraft
Production were aired before President
Wilson asked Charles E. Hughes to
it with the attorney general investi
lating SUCQ cnargeSf been exam.
jned by the attorney general. His tes
mY has not yet been made public.
The war industries board at Wash
ington will determine the margin of
j""oflt wherever a tendency is. shown
to raise textile prices owing to gov
wament urchases.
An American machine gun battalion
accounted for approximately 1,000
nnans while holding a bridge at
bateau Thierry during the recent
ngnting.: The Americans lost only one
killed and a few wounded.
Tule the Germans dominated Cha
,VU Thierry from Hill 204 theoAmer
IntS French 8et UP machine guns
kus windows and doorways 6f the
Jore vessels, a Norwegian
teamship and one schooner, were add-
to the list of ships known to have
Jen sunk by the German submarines
h are raiding in American waters.
A million young Americans just
turned 21, were registered for ser
vice on June 5. The registration was
attended by the perfect order that
marked the enrolling a year ago of
10,000,000 men.
While the young Americans were
registering on June 5, Provost Mar
shal General Crowder issued orders
to the governors of different states
for mobilization of 200,000 more reg
istrants between June 24 and 28.
The men who will be called to ser
vice between June 24 and 28 .do not
include 40,000 negro men requisi
tioned from twenty states and brings
the total number of. selective service
men called.to the colors to 1,596,704.
Military authorities estimate that
from the number of registrants of
June 5, 1018, there will be had 750,000
men fit for active service.
An ac of congress requires that
the new registrants be placed at the
bottom of the class to which they are
assigned, but owing to the depletion
of these classes many of them may
soon be called to the colors.
Fixing of prices on cotton duck
and other cotton fabrics to the public
where government purchases have up
set the markets is under considera
tion by the war industries board at
Washington.
While "luxuries" will have a heavy
tax placed en them to support the war,
it is not known yet what is consid
ered "luxuries."
Administration opposition to any
attempt to stop the manufacture of
beer and wine so long- as the sale
of whisky is permitted, was made
certain by Food Administrator Hoov
er at Washington.
Secretary McAdoo recommended in
a letter to Chairman Kitchin of the
house ways and means committee, that
the revenue bill be drawn to raise eight
billion dollars by taxation, one-third
of the estimated twenty-four billion ex
penditures in the fiscal year of 1919.
"A far as the American army is con
cerned," writes Major General .Swift
to the war department, " it is quite
certain that we need not fear compar
ison with the allies as soon as we have
profited from their experience. It is
to be remembered that the war had
been going on from one and one-half
to two years before our allies began
to show results."
Angered by the news of the sinking
of the Porto Rico liner Carolina by a
German submarine, an anti-German
demonstration broke out in Ponce,
Potro Rico, and numerous houses oc
cupied by Germans were stoned.
Although the latest German official
communication announces that the sit
uation on the battle front is unchanged,
there has been a change on one of
the most Important sectors in Picardy.
And American marines were responsi
ble for it. In a great assault on a
front of about two and one-half miles
the Americans advanced more than
two miles. .
The Italian army is improving, both
in morale and material, according to
Maj. Gen. Eben Swift, head of the
American military mission in Italy,
who writes of various phases on the
front, which is considered interesting,
in view of the possibility of an Aus
trian offensive.
European. .
There has been no let up in the of
fensive of the American and French
troops against the Germans in the re
gion northwest of Chateau Thierry.
Severe defeats have been inflicted on
the enemy and American marines have
won great praise for. their valiant
fighting.
Battling shoulder to shoulder over a
front of six miles from Vinly, which
lies just to the northwest of Veuilly-la-Poterie,
to Bouresches, the Ameri
cans and French have captured the
towns of Veuilly-la-Poterie and Bour
esches and also made progress all
along the front.
Close pressed, the American ma
rines have given the Germans n taste
of cold steel, even in the face of ma
chine gunfire; surrounded, they have
fouhgt their way through the gray
coated lines with their bayonets. From
all accounts there has been no part
of the game of modern warfare in
which the men from America have not
excelled the enemy.
John R. Clynes, parliamentary secre
tary of the British ministry of food,
told the house of commons that no ef
forts of the German submarines, how
ever severe, could menace the civilian
population of Great Britain.
One hundred acres more of Irish po
tatoes have been planted in Great Brit
ain this year than ever before in the
history of the island.
One hundred" and twenty thousand
acres in Irish potatoes are reported to
have been planted this year in Ire
land. Margarine manufacture in the Brit
ish empire has increased four-fold
since the war began.
The hospital ship Koningin Regen-.
tes, having on board the English dele
gates to the Anglo-German war pris
oners' conference at The Hague, is
reported to have struck a mine off the
English coast. Four firemen perished,
but all others aboard were saved.
Heavy sacrifices are needed, but
the German government hopes that a
decisive blow will soon be made
against the allies, declared Dr. H." S.
Pasche, vice president, in opening
the reichstag meeting according to
reports from . Amsterdam.
Four hundred and fifty-seven thou
sand tons of bacon and ham hae
been recently received in England fionv
the United States. v
Between the Aisne and Ourcq, rivers
the Ge?r4'ans have captured Pernant
and to'the south of that village the
French have decided a little terrain,'
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IRE THAN 700.000
II
BAKER TELLS "BLUE DEVILS"
THAT NUMBER HAS SAILED
FOR FRANCE.
ALPINE CHASSEURS FAREWELL
War Secretary Says Hereafter We
Are Going to Believe in Strength
of Moral. Force. -
Washington. More than 700,000
American soldiers have gone overseas
to carry back to France the encour
agement and assistance which LaFay
ette and Rochambeau brought to
America, Secretary Baker told the
French Alpine Chasseurs in bidding
them farewell here at the base of the
Washington monument.
The war secretary's last announce
ment some weeks ago concerning the
size of the American forces abroad
was 500,000 men had sailed for the
battle front.
The Alpine Chasseurs, better known
as the "Blue Devils" of France, came
to America last month to assist in
the third Liberty loan campaign and
since have toured the south and mid
dle west.
They were reviewed and received
by the se.cretar yof war before leaving
j for their native land.
"You soldiers of France," said Mr.
Baker, in addressing the chasseurs,
"came to this country in order that
the people of America might see with
their own eyes in your persons the
kind of men who have written a new
page in the record of human heroism
and success. You were welcomed in
this country from one end of it to the
other.
"You are going back to your own
country still, thank God? your own
and when you get there you will find
that the small beginning of our army
which you left there has grown into a
mighty manifestation. When you left
France, the American army was there
in small representation, but now
more 1 than 700,000 Americans have
sailed from their shore to carry back
to your army and your people the en
couragement and assistance which
LaFayette and Rochambeau brought
to America in the early and struggling
days of American freedom.
"Instead of believing in mere physi
cal force, hereafter, we are going to
believe in the strength of moral force.
JAPANESE TO TAKE
HAND IN SIBERIA
Harbin, Manchuria. Although it
has been reported that General Sem
enoff, commander of the forces operat
ing against bolshevik! in Siberia, is
hourly expecting Japanese troops to
support him, there is no confirmation
that these troops actually are on the
way. It has been learned, however,
that strong recommendations have
been made by the diplomatic corps
for the immediate intervention of the
Japanese in the face of the growing
German menace. These recommenda
tions have been forwarded to the gov
ernments of the respective diplomats,
including the Washington government.
ADDITIONAL GROUND
GAINED BY GERMANS
The Germans in the center of their
new attack on the front between Mont
didier and Noyon have gained addi
tional ground against the French, but
On both the right and left wings they
are being held. In violent successive
attacks they captured the villages of
Mery, Belloy nad St. Maure and also
pressed forward and gained a footing
in the village of Marqueglise, the last
named place representing the deepest
point of pentration since the offensive
began between five and six miles.
The French still are exacting a
heavy toll in lives from the Germans
as they deliver their attacks in waves
and are giving ground only when
forced to do so under superiority of
numbers. Nowhere has the enemy
been able to pierce the front, which
has been sent back in perfect order
wherever the necessity arose.
AMERICAN TRANSPORT
FIRES AT SUBMARINE
An Atlantic Port. An American
transport fired five shots at a German
submarine 75 miles off the Jersey
coast, with unknown results,, accord
ing to information brought here. The
freight ship, sighted the submarine
soon after 10 o'clock. Immediately
full speed ahead was ordered. A few
minutes later a United States army
transport, opened fire on the subma
rine. GERMAN U-BOAT ON THIS
SIDE 350 FEET LONG
Newport News, Va. One of the Ger
man U-boats operating off the Atlantic
coast Is 350 feet long, carries two 6
lnch guns and 75 men and is protect
ed with a heavy belt of armor above
the water line,, according to a seaman
who was held prisoner on the under
water craft t-several days. The sea
man says he talked with a member of
the crew and was informed that the
U-boat had. been in these waters about
ten daysC " "
AMERICANS OVERSEA
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GERMANS LAUNCH
NElfcjpSNE
BETWEEN MONTDIDIER AND NOV.
ON OVER FRONT OF ABOUT
TWENTY MILES.
ALLIES ARE fJOT SURPRISED
Fighting Declared to be of Extremely
Sanguinary Character - Quiet
North of Marne.
The armies of Crown Prince Run
precht of Bavaria again are hitting
the allied line In a new offensive with
Paris apparently their objective.
Between Montdidier and Noyon
over a front of about 20 miles pre
ceded as usual by a heavy bombard
ment with shells of all calibers and
with noxious gases, the enemy's ini
tial maneuver evidently has in view
the bending back of the aL.ed frort
toward the town of St. Just on the
northern wing and toward the rail
road junction of Compeigne on the
southern flank, getting astride of
Oise river ad driving southwest to
ward the French capital.
The French troops are resisting the
impact with their usual valor, but the
' Germans on their right and in the
j center have been able to penetrate
I the line for distances ranging from
I two-thirds of a mile south of Mont
didier to relatively two and a half
miles at Ressons-Sur-Matz. in the
center. Thence to Noyon, however,
the allied line is holding strongly.
If Buccess should rest with the en
emy on the new battle front, it pos
sibly might badly affect the stability
of the line of the defenders from the
Oise to the Marne and compel a fall
ing back westward from the Oije to
the region of the Marne northwest of
Chateau Thierry in order to straighten
out the deep salient that would then
project eastward with the Soissons
sector as its apex.
The allied commanders, it is as
serted, were not taken unawares by
the new offensive. . On the other hand
they had anticipated, since the fail
ure of the army of the German crown
prince to gain its objectives between
Soissons and the Marne and thence
on the southern part of the line run
ning to Rheim8 that the German high
command would decree another ma
neuver ti the north and preparations
accordingly were made to withstand
the shock.
The fighting is of extreme :y an
guinary chaiacter, and waetaer it w'll
be confined to the area at prasent af
fected rc.mt.Ins to be seen. At last ac
counts it had not spread nor:h of
Montdidier.
U. S. CASUALTIES IN FRANCE
THUS FAR TOTAL 7.315
Washington. Casualties among the
American expeditionary forces thus
far reported by General Pershing total
7,315, the war department announced
in making public the first of regular
weekly summaries of casualties.
Deaths In action and from wounds,
diseases, accidents and all other
causes number 2,927, while 4,046 men
have been wounded and 342 are miss
ing in action, including men held pris
oners in Germany. The department's
recapitulation follows:
Killed in action ( including 291 at
sea), 1,033. '
' Died of disease, 1192.
Died of accidents and other causes,
392.
Wounded in action, 4,046.
Missing in action (including pris
oners), 342.
Total, 7,315.
SLACKERS AND DESERTERS
HIDING IN ALABAMA
Scottsboro, Ala. A gang of slackers
! and deserters, who are said to have
: organized a band to resist capture, are
' hiding in the fastnesses of Sand
' mountain near here and officers are
preparing to swoop down upon their
lair.
DEALERS AND CONSUMERS
CLAMOR FOR SUPPLIES
Washington. Curtailment of the
production of less essential articles
has greatly stimulated the demand for
them. The monthly business condi
tions report' of the federal reserve
board, says retail dealers and consum
ers clamor fo rsupplies before they
are exhausted and place abnormally
large orders, which manufacturers are
unable to fill. This has been true of
the demand for pianos, talking ma
chines and other musical instruments.
JAPANESE SHIP STRIKES
ON LEDGE IN DENSE FOG
A Pacific Port. Striking on a ledge
in dense fog off the North Pacific
coast the Japanese freighter Aikoku
Maru, said to be the first Japanese
vessel taken over by the United
States shipping board, is in a preca
rious condition and may slip off to deep
water at high tide according to a
message received ;by merchants' ex
change. The vessel which recently ar
rived here with cargo for the Orient
was turned over to the shipping board.
jHARGE AMERICANS
WITH ESPIONAGE
TWO GERMANS SUBJECTS ARE
NAMED IN INDICTMENT AS
V CO-CONSPIRATORS.
SOME PLEAD NOT GUILTY
Operations Declared to Have Been
Sensational Indicted by New
York Grand Jury.
New York. Five American citizens
and two subjects of the German em
pire, one of them a woman, are named
as fellow-conspirators in two indict
ments returned by a federal grand
' Jury here. Investigators declared their
operations the most sensational under
: taken by German intelligence agents
since the war began.
The indictments allege conspiracy
to commit treason and conspiracy to
commit espionage. The assembling
and transmission of information rela
i tlve to America's prosecution of the
' war; the destruction of American
piers docks and troop transports with
fire bombs, destruction of quicksil
ver mines in this country to hamper
the manufacture of munitions ; as
sisting Germany in taking an armed
expedition in Ireland; fomentation of
a revolt against British rule in Ire
land, raising of funds in this country
with which to finance these opera
tions, and destruction of munitions
factories and mines in Great Britain
are charged as ramifications of the in
trigue. The wording of the indictments com
prising 30 pages, intimates that the
conspiracy may be of even broader
scope. This is. suggested by a para
graph in the treason indictment which
alleges that in July last year, one of
the defendants sent a cablegram to
Olten, Switzerland.
"Madame" de Victorica, Rodiger,
Robinson, Fricke and Kipper pleaded
"not guilty" to both indictments be
fore Judge Augustus - N. Hand and
were remanded to the Tombs to await
trial today.
O'Leary,' now wanted on three
charges, and Ryan have not been -apprehended.
The treason conspiracy indictment
charges that "Madame" de Victorica
and Rodiger, "from April 6, 1917, to
the date of the presentation and filing
of this indictment, were enemies of
the United States and spies for and
secret representatives, secret agents
and secret employes of said imperial
German government" and still are.
After naming Ryan, O'Leary, Rob
inson, Fricke, Kipper, Binder and
Schweitzer as citizens owing allegi
ance to the United States, the Indict
ment charges that they "and divers
other persons within and without the
United States" whose names are un
known, conspired to commit treason,
in that they "would knowingly and
wilfully adhere and give aid and com
fort" to the German government, and
to Madame de Victorica and Rodiger
by sending to the German government
communications "connected with and
In prosecution of the war," receiving
from German officials communications
"connected with and in promotion of
the war" and by furnishing money and
credits to Rodiger and de Victorica;
by concealing the presence and activi
ties of the two alleged from American
authorities and by furnishing messen
gers to the two suspects.
SUBMARINES CHASE
TRANSPOPRT 12 HOURS
An Atlantic Port The story of a
transport's race up the Atlantic coast,
closely hugging the coast, with dark
ened lights at night and under a full
pressure of steam in Order to elude
German U-boats, at least two of whom
gave chase, were told by men on shore
leave here.
Members of the crew declared
that they were warned in ample time
by wireless of the nearness of the sea
wolves and were advised to keep in
close to the coast and to make all
possible speed to this port. They ask
ed in return that the ship be met at
once by American destroyers.
MOVE TO REDUCE COST
OF FOOD TO CONSUMER
Washington. A country-wide move
to reduce the cost of food to the con
sumer and .standardize methods of
compelling the observance by dealers
of "fair price lists" was ordered by
Food Administrator Hoover.
Lists will be published in every
county, town and city and consumers
will be asked to co-operate with offi
cials in forcing merchants to bring
their prices to a uniform level.
LLOYD GEORGE PRAISES
VALOR OF AMERICANS
London, j . Premier David Lloyd
George, in replying to a toast to the
success of the entente allied arms at
the dinner to the Printers' Society of
London, said that Britishers have
made sacrifices for a great purpose
and a high ideal. One of he most en
couraging things, the premier contln
ued, was the "superb falpr. and the
trained - skill with whlc&i'th't Ameri
cans have, taken theii atV In the
struggle.
AMERICAN
MARINES
DRIVE ENEMY BACK
RESPONSIBLE FOR CHANGE ON
ONE OF THE MOST IMPOR
TANT SECTORS.
BERLIN REPOnTS "NO CHANGE"
Germans Compelled to Reinforce
Front May Attack Other Amer-
' " lean Sectors;
Although the latest German official
communication announces that the
situation on the battle front is un
changed, there has been a change on
one of the most important sectors in
Picardy. And American marines were
responsible for it.
Attacking on a front of about two
and one-half miles in a fight that be
gan Thursday with the break of dawn,
the marines in four hours drove back
the enemy over a distance of virtually
two and one-quarter miles and occu
pied all the imporvant high ground
northwest of Chateau Thierry, which
village in a previous fight the Ameri
can machine gunners had turned into
shambles by the accuracy of their aim
as the Germans tried to wrest a
bridge from them.
After a breathing space, the Ameri
cans late in the afternoon returned to
thefray and at last accounts hard
fighting was in progress for this Im
portant sector, which , commands the
Marne at that part of the front where
the battle line swings eastward toward
Rheims. The marines took 100 Ger
mans prisoner in the early encounter,
while the French troops on their left
also gained an advantage over the en
emy and made 160 of his men cap
tives. So hard pressed have the Germans
been by the attacks of the Americana
in the Chateau Thierry sector during
the last few days that they have been
compelled strongly to reinforce their
front, using three divisions of picked
troops in an attempt to hold back the
men from overseas. Thus far, how
ever, their efforts have been unavail
ing. The Americans could not be
denied their objectives.
To the northwest around Veuily-La-Poterie,
where recently the Americans
have dealt the German several savage
blows and captured portions of the
terrain they were occupying the en
emy now seems fearful of another on
slaught and is deluging the region
with shells. No infantry attacked by
either side has been reported,
OPEN WARFARE TO BE
STRESSED IN CAMPS
Washington. American troops in
training at home are being especially
schooled now in preparation for the
forward move of the allied armies ex
pected to follow the ultimate crushing
of Germany's offensive power. It was
. learned that orders have been issued
I tn lfiria1Yn nmmQTlrlora in lav PTAOter
stress upon training for open warfare,
and reduce the time devoted to teach
ing trench specialties. The men are
being hardened to long marches, given
target practice without end and thor
oughly trained to take care of them
selves in the give and take of open
combat. Military observers say this
change in the midst of the greatest ef
fort of the German general staff of
the entire war speaks significantly of
the spirit of confidence that pervades
the councils and armies of the Amer
icans and the allies.
EIGHT BILLIONS BY TAXATION
PLAN OF SECRETARY M'ADOO
Washington. Secretary McAdoo
recommended in a letter to. Chairman
Kitchin, of the house ways and means
committee, that the new revenue bill
be drafted to raise $8,000,000,000 by
taxation, one-third- of the estimated
$24,000,000,000 expenditures in the fis
cal year 1919. He also recommended
that a new war profits tax be estab
ed at a high rate to be superimposed
upon existing excess profits taxes;
that the normal income tax on unearn
ed incomes be raised; and that heavy,
taxation be imposed on luxuries.
british ship sunk by
German u-boat:
Washington. Sinking of the British
steamship Harpathian 100 miles off
the Virginia capes was announced at
the navy department. The entire
crew was rescued by the steamer. Pal
mer, which arrived in Chesapeake bay.
The submarine used a torpedo. One
member of the Briitsh crew was in
jured. The Harpathian was a freight
er of 2,800 net tons. Only meager de
tails had reached the department at
last report.
SUBMARINE EFFORTS FUTILE
SAYS FOOD SECRETARY.
Washington. Organization of "de
velopment battalions"at every na
tional army, national guard and regu
lar army camp W as ordered by the
war department. These new units
are designated to take over all men
not immeditely fit for service, with a
view to giving them intensive train
ing to overcome their faults, mental
or physical, or to eliminate such as
are unfit for either combatant ovtnon
combatant service. ;. .''
COSTAL STATION
EOR II. C. COAST
WAR DEPARTMENT IS TO ESTAB.
L1SH THIRTEEN ON THE
ATLANTIC COAST.
TO LOOK FOR ENEMY U-BOATS
It Is Regarded As Certain One or
More Will Be Placed In
This State.
Washington. Estimates sent to
Congress by Secretary Baker show
that the war department, intends to
establish 13 permanent airplane sta
tions and probably a number of bal
loon observation -stations, on the At
lantic coast. It is regarded as practi
cally certain that the North Carolina
coast will get one or more of these
stations. The two senators from
North Carolina, and representatives
from the coast districts Will get busy,
it Is understood, to see that adequate
protection is afforded the coastal ter
rltory of the state.
Sites for the stations, from which
airplanes and balloons will watch for
and attack enemy submarines, have
been selected but their announcement
Is withheld pending the completion of
the purchase of necessary land.
The visit of German submarines is
largely responsible for the etsimates
of. the deparement, which aggregate
approximately $28,000,000.
It is understood that sites have been
selected for 13 stations on the Atlan
tic, three on the Pacific, four In Pan
ama and three in Hawaii. In addition
20 balloon coastal stations are planned
by the war department at the several
coastal points suitable for observa
tion. The estimates submitted are in de
tail as follows:
Construction of 16 permanent coast
al stations, $16,000,000.
Construction of 20 permanent bal
loon coastal stations, $2,500,000.
Construction of four permanent sta
tions in Panama, $5,400,000.
Construction of three permanent
stations in Hawaii, $4,420,000.
The desired amounts will be includ
ed in the fortifications appropriation
bill soon to be reported by the house
committee.
. Hege Guilty of Manslaughter.
Lexington. After deliberating for
three hours and a half, the jury re
turned a verdict of guilty of man
slaughter against J. Graham Hege for
killing J. F. Deaderick, in Hege's
home on March 19 th. Judge W. J.
Adams sentenced JJege to be confined
for an indeterminate period of - not
less than one year, nor more than four
years, in the State prison.
Counsel for Hege gave notice of ap
peal to the Supreme Court and Hege
was released on $2,500 bond. I Before
sentence was given, Judge Adams
over-ruled a motion to set aside the
verdict. After the Jury had rendered
the verdict, Hege's counsel made pleas
for mercy.
The court room was tense as E. E.
Raper rose and declared that there
had been insinuations and charges by
counsel for the State of a frame-up on
! the self-defense plea of the defendant,
j "If I had to face the judgment bar to-
day I should denounce that as raise."
Mr. Raper then stated that TTege and
his wife had both told him the same
story they told on the stand just after
the killing, the prisoner in Jail and the
wife ill in bed.
A. L. Brooks arose and told the
court he was with Mr. Raper when
the Hege home was visited and that
he talked to Mrs. Hege as she told the
story she bared to th world for the
first time Tuesday morning.
Solicitor Bower arose and spoke of
the regard of the local bar for the at
torneys of the defense and said, none
of these had ever pointed the finger of
suspicion. He added that the State's
counsel were friends of Hege and had
no desire to urge heavy punishment
upon him.
Hege received the verdict calmly.;
As he came into the court at the
sound of the bell he talked Jokingly
with relatives and counsel.
Correct Defects Class 1 Men.
The James McConnell Hospital at .
Vass is the first institution of the kind
In the State to respond to the call
from Major John D. Langston for free
medical assistance in weeding out . of
group B, class 1, those registrants
who have remedial defeets and who
may, by treatment, become eligible
for full military service in class 1.
The general call which Major Lang
ston is sending out Is part of the pro
gram which contemplates the enlarge
ment of class 1 by additions and cor
rections. Pharmacists Meet In Raleigh.
The 39th annual meeting of; the
North Carolina Pharmaceutical Asso
ciation will be held in Raleigh, "June
19, 20, 21.
Election of a member on the State
Board of Pharmacy and other regular
business will come before the meeting.
Dr. Henry. P. Hyson of the Balti
more College of Pharmacy will ad
dress the association on "The Little
Things in Pharmacy That Win Success.
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