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V if ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1 878. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. JULY 18, 1918 VOL. XL. NO. 50. The Chatham MECORD - . ... : - ; c IMPORTANT NEWS THE WOp OVER iMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN ; NEWS OF THE SOUTH whgt s Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs " Domestic sieged draft evaders shot and.kill- , g',aB;e Ranger J. Dudley White and Severely wounded Rnnger W. I. Rowe, near Broaddus, in the piney woods of San Ausustine county. The shooting took "place on a farm seven miles from White City. . Three persons were shot and the mail and express cars were looted by thirteen bandits, who held up a fast jl-ssiouri, Kansas and Texas passen ger train at Koch, a siding three miles 0f paola, Kans. They compelled ihe engine crew to detach the mail and express cars and ran them away and then fled north in motor- cars. junaluska Inn, the b;g hotel at the assembly grounds of the Methodist Episcopal church, south at Lake Juna luska, near Asheville, N. C, was de stroyed by fire. The building was eected two years ago at a cost of 1160.000. The fire started in the kitch fn and the frame building and fur Eishings are a total loss. Nobody was injured. Church officials announce that t the lojs of Junaluska Inn will not inter ne with the Methodist conference scheduled to be held at Asheville, N. C., this summer. It will require ten million bales of .uon to supply the domestic uses and war purposes for the United States during the winter of 1918-1919. A playhouse of scrap iron, built on the track by a nine-year-old boy, caus ed the wreck of a Southern railway fast freight train near Newport, Ten nessee. To equalize the price of sugar to the consumer in the face of prospects for an increase due to a threatened short age, and to secure better distribution, President Wilson has created the su gar equalization board. The board Till be incorporated at 15,000,000, the capital to be furnished by the presi dent from his special war fund, and will hare authority to acquire sugar even at a loss to the government. The body of John Purroy Mitchel, in a flag-draped casket, on which rested the cap which he wore as a major of aviation, was borne through th& streets of New York while tens of thousands watched in silence tribute. Our allies and other European coun tries will need 8,000,000 bales of South ern grown cotton. The Busch family of St. Louis have bought at least one million dollars Torth of the German war bonds, which :he government believes were sold in this country for propaganda and for the purchase of the New York Even ing Mail and other newspapers,, ac cording to a statement made by Al fred L Becker, deputy state attorney general of New York. It is stated that one hundred mil lion dollars' worth of German war bonds have been sold in the United States. Most of it was invested in bonds before the United States went into the war. All able-bodied men engaged in sell "ig insurance are placed in the class f non-essential industries by the South Dakota council of defense in a supplemental order to its "work or ght" regulations. Representative Heflin of Alabama says that the 1918 cotton crop will be lpss than thirteen million bales, and he will continue to fight the price-fix- mg measure. Sales from July l to July 9 of War aavings Stamps totaled $46,552,529. Washington. Turkey has informed the United ates, through the Swedish foreign Jnce, that so far as the true facts s 'o the reported seizure of the Amer- an .insulate and sacking of an -mencan hospital at Tabriz by Turk-. ' so'diers, have not been ascertain-. but that it will be done at the. wi:est possible moment. p-eiUtenaiU General Horvath, vice P'. . ent and general manager of the clad6-Eastern railway, having de ed himself premier of a temporary iT"? government. has been pro ni(1d provisional ruler of Siberia. lu'"esi(Ient Wilson vetoed the reso tH v 3dopted by congress extending ti'on m e 'n M hich railroad administra te m!ght rel:nquish control of lines Vetg 'nted m the federal system. The P ovd ben exPected because of a t;e rS!n addcd to the bil1' forD-dd5n? s co "qUishment of any road wnore n--.,-nn!ctIng or competing -line was ""ned. M.he pircc-fixing committee's action ' i:evedrtgard l flnished cotta is be gjin be tbe forerunner sof price tiPs Jfon ,viriually all other commodi- Dix-haer' government is a larse in 1 mnth 0r less General Pershing ciPD 3 mre than half a million wP,fe his direct command on the j. l rn front ready for the fighting 1fcaS?eii0n f 23 ships of 122-771 t,., ,ght tons in the first wrpV vf , J made a total rf ooo built under the direct ion of the shlp- board, If the latest French attack contin. ues successfully, the French may be able to press the foe back across the Avre and thus have an admirable de fensive position to the - southeast, of Amiens. Colonel Roosevelt's youngest son, Quentin, brought down his first Ger man airplane in a fight north of Cha teau Thierry. He was flying at a height of 5,000 yards eight miles inside the German lines when the machines became separated. He was soon caught close to three German machines. He opened fire and after fifty shot tracers penetrated the fusilage of the nearest German machine, and then made his escape. Several banks and brokers are un der investigation by the office of the alien property custodian, in an effort to trace the exact origin and handling of more than a million .dollars paid for the New York Evening Mail. All persons who participated in the trans action will be asked to tell what they know about it. In a statement on the result of the Panama elections to the national as sembly, which is to choose a presi dent, E, 4A. Morales, leader of the op position forces which will control the assembly by a fair majority, declared the new government, when inducted into power, would be in perfect ac cord with the United States for the en forcement of order in the cities, the restriction of liquor selling and the carrying out of other regulations to improve conditions. European. Air force contingents acting with the Britsih navy dropped a half ton of bombs upon the city on Constanti nople on July 7. The British fighting forces in France now aggregate two million men. This equals the entire number on the front in 1917. Striking the Germans on a front that has been quiet for the past six weeks, the French have once more broken through the enemy defenses and ad vanced their lines. This new blow was launched between Castel and Mailly Raineval, on the Picardy front, south east of Amiens, where there has been, but little fighting since the French, by a local attack, pushed the Germans out of Senecat wood late in May. The American attack on Cantigny, some time ago, advanced the line ma terially at that point, while the Aus tralians and Americans, July 4 and 6, cut deeply into the German . lines at Hamel and Villers Bretonnex, south of the Somme. The latest French at tack was launched at a point between positions of the Americans, at Can tigny, and the Australians, farther north. Five American airplanes of a squad ron of six which started out to raid Coblenz, fell into the hands of th Germans according to announcement from German general headquarters. The Russian middle classes do not want a monarchy. What they want is to retain certain things won by the revolution, but they do not want Bol shevikism. Ukraine is in a state of country wide revolution. The Germans have at least 420,000 men in that country. The peasants have several small ar mies of 15,000 to 20,000 each, armed with artillery and machine guns. They are defending the villages and whole sections of trenches against the Ger mans. A royal air escort of three Bel gian seaplanes guarded King Albert" and Queen Elizabeth oh their flight over the channel from Belgium to England on a trip which marked the first time that any ruler has ever made an air flight from one country to an other. The royal couple traveled in separate seaplanes, each operated by a Belgian army aviator. The purpose of their visit to England was to attend the silver anniversary of King George and Queen Mary, July 13. Chancellor von Hertling, speaking to the main committee of the German reichstag, told them that there would be no change in the foreign policy of the empire. "Germany, although she is ready to accept a proposition for serious negotiations, must go on fight ing," he says. The German government does not intend to hold the Russian soviet gov ernment responsible for the death of Count von Mirbach, it being evident that Russia is doing all that is possi ble to punish the murderers. In a recent German raid on the Belgians more than fifty girls were kiilled by air bombs lnunched upon an ambulance park behind the Yser front. Fifty bombs were dropped in the imme diate neighborhood of the park and several struck a large villa about a hundred yards from the hospital. The fight in Ukraine is not of a po litical character, but is due chiefly to the surrender -of land by the Germans back to the landlords. Homestead sec tions (33 miles square) have been en tirely wiped out. - ' - . The Germans are highly disliked it Russia, though more German is heard than was heard there in peace fines. But one thing shines out. c.w.rly an t'nathy to anytlr'ng to German. Japan's reported decision refusing to intervene in Siberia is authoritstive ly denied." It is added that the atti tude of Japan is unchanged and that the feeling in unofficial circles there is almost unanimous that it is unnec essary to send troops to Siberia at present. - The necessity of sending so many German soldiers into Ukraine may be the reason for the delay of the Ger man offensive in the west. Messages received in London from Russia state that count revolution have been suppressed. FIERCE BATTLE IS H PROGRESS ENEMY ATTACK ON BOTH SIDES OF RHEIMS GALLANTLY MET. BUT SMALL GAINS MADE. STERN FIGHTERS Complete German Brigade Staff It Among Prisoners Taken; Tanks Used in the Assault The expected renewal of the Ger man offensive in France has begun. Fierce battles are in- progress "on both sides of the famous cathedral city of Rheims, which since the first offen sive along the Marne has stood the apex of a sharp salient into the Ger man line. West of Rheims the Germans with the pressure of large numbers of troops, the unleashing of which was preceded by a veritable hail of high explosives and gas shells, have been enabled to cross the Marne at several places. East of the city, however, they have been held for the- smallest of gains by the tenacious resistance of the defenders of the line. Altogether the two batlle fronts aggregate about 65 miles in length. American troops are fighting vali antly on the sectors they have been holding and at two points have met ! with notable success. At Vaux they ! not only broke down, a violent attack by the enemy, but drove him back sev eral hundred yards and only returned to their former positions when the ad vance of the Germans southeast of Chateau-Thierry across the Marne made the reoccupation of their j trenches of strategic value. Along the Marne, between the town of Fossoy and the river Sumerlin, where the Germans crossed the Marne the Americans in a strong counter attack forced back the enemy to the right bank of the stream. At other points along the river they used to the greatest advantage , their ' machine guns against enemy elements .which were crossing the river on pontoon bridges, killing or wounding many of them. In the counter-attack near Fossoy between 1,000 and 1,500 Ger mans were made prisoner by the Am ericans. The captured contingents in cluded a complete brigade staff. The French general in command on this sector sent a congratulatory message to the general in command of the American troops. The -Germans in addition to their tremendous- expenditure of explosive ; and gas shells used numerous tanks against the lines of the defenders and also opened with numerous naval guns bombardments of towns and cit ies far behind the battle line, dropping upon them shells from 10 to 12-inch pieces. The details of the strategic scheme ; the Germans have in view have not yet been unfolded. It seems apparent, however, that the main objective in the first stages of the offensive is the throwing of their lines southward on both sides of Rheims, enveloping that city "and forcing its capitulation. RESULTS SO FAR $HOW FOCH WAS FOREWARNED The fact that stubborn resistance met every German rush all along the line shows that General Foch was fully forewarned of the general terri tory in which the attack was develop ed. It appears certain that he had his reserves close up and outgeneralled the enemy im this vital factor. Offi cials were strongly inclined- to be lieve that the present German effort is intended only as a forerunner for a later assault to the north toward the channel ports. If it proves successful in dislodging the Franco-Italian de fenders, of Rheims by fater direct as saults or by pressing their pincer movement, it is argued that the Franco-British reserves back of Amiens might be drawn into the de fense of Paris, weakening the line in the Albert region which is regarded as the certain prime objective of the whole German plan of campaign. NEWS OF ACTION WAS RECEIVED WITH ELATION HERE Washingtoni. An air of elation was apparent in government circles as press dispatches from France unfold ed the story of the valiant stand of American troops along the Marne, where they hold the left flank of the great battle front, while the French army, aided near Rheims by Itaiian divisions, stood fast over the far greater extent of the "line, they defendad against fierce assaults by the enemy. GERMAN INFANTRY NO MATCH FOR AMERICAN With the American Army on the Marne The correspondent talked to some American soldiers now in hos pital. They were in. complete agreement that the German infantry was no match for the American. This Is evidenced by the reports from all the American hospitals, there being only a few cases of wounds from rife and machine gun fire, while most of the men are suffering from shrapnel wounds. NOW ALL QUIET ALONG WESTERN FRONT PfiEVALENCE OF BAD WEATHER PREVENTS MOVEMENTS OF , IMPORTANCE. FRENCH TR00pS TAKE VILLAGES Morale of Austrian Extremely Bad, and Surrenders Are of .Fre quent Occurrence.'' Bad weather conditions continue to prevail on the greater portion of the battle front in France and Flanders and the military operations are still far below normal. Nowhere have there been any engagements ranking in importance above trench raids and patrol encounters. On several sectors, however, the big guns are constantly hammering away at opposing positions, particularly on the American front along the Marne; on the sectors held by the British and near Corey, where the French face the enemy. As yet there is no Indication htat the date for the commencement of the expected grand offensive by the Ger mans is at hand. The British troops in Macedonia seemingly have started an operation against the Teutonic allies which may develop westward along the battle front and eventually conform with the succsesful drive which is being car ried out by the French and Italians in Albania. West of the town of Doiran, which lies on the railroad north of Saloniki, the British have de livered a blow against the Bulgarians which -was productive of good results. Meanwhile, in Albania, the French and Italians are giving the enemy no rest,( pressing him back, daily mile af ter mile over the trackless country and capturing strategic positions and villages. The latest French official communication shows that the French troops have taken the villages of Nar ta and Gramshi. The morale of the Austrians is de clared to be extremely bad and sur renders of war-worn soldiers are re ported constantly to be taking place. HEROES IN-MONSTER PARADE CELEBRATING BASTILE DAY Paris. Heroes distinguished during the war in all the entente allied arm ies participated in a monster parade through the streets of Paris in cele bration of the fourteenth of July Bastille day. American - troops from the First and Second divisions, recent ly cited In army orders, represented the United States army. One detach ment took part in the capture of Can tigny, while others were in the Chateau-Thierry fighting. All the American units had ben in France more than a year and wore two service stripes. The American expeditonary force was showered with flowers by French girls and were received all along the route with the geatest enthusiasm. The parade was reviewed by Presi dent Poincare, who was accompanied by General John J. Pershing, the commander-in-chief of the United States 'orces in France. The Americans oc cupied second place In the column. NO. PEACE SAVE BY THE SWORD, SAYS GEN. LLOYD London. Maj. Gen. John Biddle, commanding the American forces in the United Kingdom, was among the guests at the annual Anglo-French dinner organized by the Alsace-Lorraine Patriotic League to London .in connection with the French national fete. Baron Burnham presided. General Sir Francis Lloyd replying to the toast "Success to the allied forces," said: "There can be no peace by nego tiations and nothing but peace by the sword. Now that we have an inde scribable asset which hascome over to us across the western waves at a time when we most need it we surely should carry through and attain the desired end." TOTAL AMERICAN DEATH LIST TO DATE IS 4,673 Washington. Casualties in the army and marine corps overseas in creased 647 during the week compar ed with 703 the previous week, and aggregated 11,733 "with the inclusion of the latest army list giving 72 names and the marine corps list giv ing 51 names. Total deaths, including 291 men lost at sea, men killed in ac tion, dead of wounds, disease, acci dent and other causes, number 4,673 army men 4,100, marines 573. GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF TOBACCO IS POSSIBLE Washington. Government control of the tobacco industry of the United States may result from the heavy re quirements of the allies and the Am erican military forces abroad. Ra tioning of the American population is believed to be a possibility. The war industries board announced that it has been conducting an investigation to determine the requirements abroad and the amount that must be- conserv ed in this country. ; GERMANS T BLOW DELIVERED ALONG FRONT OF THREE MILES TO DEPTH OF ONE MILE. ? , BRITISH FORGES ARE ACTIVE Austrians Revolt in Serb' as Does. Turklsrt Garrison In Asia Minor. Striking the Germans on a front that has been quiet for the past six weeks, the French have once' more broken through the enemy defenses and advanced their limes. This new blow at the enemy was launched be tween Castel and Malliy-Raineval, on the Picardy ' front, southeast of Amiens, where there has been but little fighting since the French by a local attack pushed the Germans out of Senecat wood late in May. The attack was along a front - of approximately three miles. It swept the Germans tack out rf the village of Castel and the Anchin farm, about a mile to the south, and cleared out a number of strong- enemy positions. The French penetrated the German lines to a depth of more, than a mile. The American attack on Cantigmy, some time ago, advanced the line ma terially at that point, while the Aus tralians and Americans on July 4 and 6 cut deeply into the German lines at Hamel and Villers Bretonneaux, south of the Somme. The French attack was launched at a point between po sitions of the Americans at Cantigny and the Australians further north. Between the Marne and the Aisne, the French- Tiave - continued their of fensive operations. It is reported that the village of Longpont, south of Corey, the capture of which was re ported on Thursday, has been taken by General Petaln's men who have also made progress north of Corey, at the Chavigny farm. East of Fa vorolles,. according to the French of ficial statement the allied lines have been advanced, this marking a south erly extension of the fighting line which has heretofore not been un usually active' farther south than Longpont. On the British front there has been spirited fighting, ac-cording to the German official report which Indicates that from Tpres around the Lys salient and down it the Picardy sec tor as far as Albert there have been scattered attacks made by the British. A revolt of Austrlam1 troops in Ser bia is reported from Italian' sources. The mutiny was suppressed after hard fighting. Athens reports a similar state of affairs in a Turkish garrison in Asia Minor, where it is said .Ger man officers werenurdered by Turk ish soldiers. PRESIDENT VETOES PRICE SET FOR COMING WHEAT CROP Washington. In vetoing : the $28, 000,000 annual agricultural appropria tion bill because of its amendment fix ing the government guaranteed mini mum wheat price tit $2.40 a bushel, the President informed Congress that he did not believe the farmers ' of America "depend upon a stimulation of price to do their utmost to serve the nation and the world at this 'time of crlBis." A fixed minimum price of $2.40 a bushel, the President said, would in crease the price offlbuTfTow., $10.50 to $12.50 a barrel and would put an additional burden of $387,000,000 this year on the consumers. Such an in crease in price, he said, would force a similar increase in Canada, thus en larging the whole scale of financial operations in this country. The President said the patriotic spirit of the farmers has been1 "wor thy of all praise and has shown them playing a most admirable and grati fying part in the full mobilization of the resources of the country." Ha added that the bumper crops -they have raised this yar hare relieved "the anxiety of tho nations arrayed against Germany with regard to their food supplies." VOTE ON PROHIB TION IS POSTPONED UNTIL AUGUST 16 Washington. While the senate con tinued to debate house resolution authorizing government control dur ing the war of tel-sgraph) telephone, cable and radio, systems, leaders framed . a program for. presentation calling for a, vote on the resolution at that time, postponement of a vote on prohibition legislation until late next month and a mid-svjnmer vacation by interim recesses for 'three days until August 26. OTHER SHORT LINES TAKEN OVER BY GOVERNMENT Washington. The short line situa tion seems to be clearing up. Senator Simmons was notified that the Pied mont & Northern would - be taken over. The Aberdeen & Rockflsh', the East Carolina and . the Durham & Southern will also be taken over. The Piedmont if v.' Northern . lines formerly were op rated by the-government, but ' this was one of the lines the railroad administration re turned into the coi.trol of the owners ATTACK ON PIGARDY FRON EXPECTED BATTLE NOT YET JOINED GERMANS GREATLY ANNOYED BY 8LOW AND METHODICAL AD VANCE OF FRENCH. AMERICANS LOSE -AIRPLANES French and Italians Are Steadily Pressing the Germans Back Along Front. French pressure along the line from the Marne to the Aisne, which began two weeks ago as a series of local attacks, . has begun to yield re sults which are appreciable when taken from the Germans and strong viewed on the map. The town of Courcy, east ofRetz forest, has been taken from the Germans and strong positions captured by the slow, meth odical advance that has been the source of much annoyance to the en emy for several days. As a result of the assaults made by the French from Ambleny, south of the Aisne, to the hills .south of Courcy, their line has been straighten ed and advanced to high ground. There has been some reason for be lieving that when the Germans re sume their offensive on the western front they will attempt to break through between the Marne and th Aisne in a dash straight for Pariff. On the British front, the Australians have been in action once more, pene trating German positions and captur ing prisoners. On the rest of the lines, held by the British, there have been the usual artillery duels and patrol engagements. French and Italian detachments are steadily pushing Austrian forces back along the western slopes of the moun tains that parallel the coast of Al bania. They are reported north of the Important town of Berat and have moved ahead In the hilly country to the east. A Peking dispatch states that the Czecho-Slovaks are in virtual control of all the western Siberia. - Over vast stretches of this country they have triumphed over, the bolsheviki. The overthrow of the bolsheviki at Irkutsk haa been confirmed. An official fitatement from Berlin says that five of a squadron of six American airplanes which started out with the intention of bombing the city of Coblenz fell Into the hands of the Germans. SUGAR EQUALIZATION BQARD CREATED Washington. To equalize the price of sugar, to the consumer in the face of prospects for an increase due to a threatened shortage, and to secure better distribution. President Wil son created the sugar equalization board on recommendation of Food Administrator Hoover. : The board will be incorporated at $5,000,000, the capital to be furnished by the presi dent from his snecinl war fund,, and will have authority to acquire even at a loss to the government the produc tion of beet sugar factories that can-, not under the present price of beets be sold to the public at a reasonable price, and other high cost cugar. This will be resold in the common lot at the stabilized price, thus, saving con siderable to the consumer. SEAPLANE FLIGHT OF ROYAL COUPLE London. A royal air escort of three Belgian seaplanes guarded King Al-r bert and Queen Elizabeth on their flight over the channel from Belgium to England on a trip which marked the first time that any ruler has ever made an air flight from one country to another. The royal couple traveled in separate seaplanes, each operated by a, Belgian 'army aviator. The king landed first near a British warship off Dover. The queen : descended soon afterwards, her seanlane also land ing near a warship They started from the Belgian coast and made the trip to England in about 50 minutes. AMERICANS TO OBSERVE GREAT FRENCH HOLIDAY With the American Army in France Bastile day. July 14. has been de clared a general holiday by 'a general order rfom headquarters for all troops of the Ameihcan expeditionary- force t actually engaged with the enemy. "It will be the privilege and duty of the American soldiers." says the order, "to celebrate the French inde pendence day, which anpeaf.s alike to every citizen and soldier of France and America." TO RECRUIT MALE STUDENTS FOR COLLEGE Washington. President Wson was asked by a committee of. the emerg ency council of the National- Educa tion Asiciat!on to endorse a' cam pain to recrult . male students for col leges and prevent, the present tend ency of young men to leave e CO leges for military service. The com mittee announced that a meeting o the council wll be' held here wber nlans for the campaign will be formu lated. - . . E MEET REPRESENTATIVES FROM MANY COUNTIES HEAR NATIONAL DIRECTOR ALLEN. THREE THINGS NECESSARY Thir Must Be No Obstacle to Trans portation, Production of Food, and War Material. Mr. Harold Allen, assistant national director of the United States Public Service Reserve, addressed a gather ing of the county chairmen of the United States Public Service Reserve to North Carolina, called toy State Di rector T. L. Bland, of Rocky Mount. Nearly half of the counties of the State were represented in the meet ing, in spite of the fact that it was called without much notice. Those in attendance were enthusiastic and brought' from Mr. Allen, unqualified approval as to personnel and appar ent fitness for the work. He had high praise for the North Carolina chairmen. , "Three things are absolutely neces sary," said Mr. t Allen. "The govern ment has taken a hand to see that there is no obstacle to the production of food, the manufacture of war ma terials, and transportation. No one wants to see other industries closed dowrn'. They have good money invest ed in them. They are useful. But if they drain the necessary industries of men and stay the hands of the govern ment in winning the war, then they must be curtailed or, if necessary, topped." The Public Service Reserve and the United States Employment Service work side by side, each complement ing the work of the other, he explain ed. The function of the Public Ser vice Reserve is to enroll men who are engaged in non-essential work, or in no work, and to keep in present jobs those who are essentially employed. The enrollment of the Public Service Reserve is drawn upon by order from the United States Employment Serv ice, which deals directly with the es sential enterprises needing men. Items and Appointments. Raleigh. Special dispatch from Washington: Grover Cleveland Hamrlck, of Shel by, has been appointed income tax in spector in the internal revenue bu reau. J. H. Hardwood, of Bryson City, has been given a $1,800 position in the in ternal revenue service. Thomas Christian Lyon, of Creed moor, has been named alternate for Annapolis by Representative Stedman. W. L. Hardin, private secretary to Representaive Weaver, has returned from a visit to Waynesville. He says that western North Carolina is pa triotic, democratic and prosperous. Oak Ridge Institute is to have 150 rifles for training purposes. James S. Purcell has been appointed rural carrier at Maxtow, Elber A. Owen at Roseboro, and Walter M. Morrison at Taylorsville. Gretta M. Smith, of Sandersville, and Lucy F. Winfleld, of Raleigh, have been appointed clerks in the war de- partment. James T. Barrett, of Asheville, trav eling representative of the department of labor, is here for a discussion of department matters . Wood Again Heads Carolina Ry. Greensboro. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the North Caro lina Railroad Company was held at the Guilford hotel. About 25 men were in aatendance. The principal busi ness before the meeting was the elec tions of directors and the following were unanimously re-elected : W. H. Wood of Charlotte, president r Col. Benehan Cameron, of Statesville; W. E. Holt, 6t Lexington; C. M. Vaa story, of Greensboro; W. T. Brown, of Winston-Salem; Alex. Webb, of Raleigh; J. M. Yount, of Newton; C. M. Tomlin, of Statesville; and T, A. Gwyn, of Canton. Fourteen-Year Age Limit. Charlotte. The making public of the text of the resolution adopted at the recent session of the Cotton1 Man ufacturers' Association of North Car olina revealed that the-body did not ask the State legislature to enact a law identical with the declared uncon stitutional Keating-Owen child labor law. The text, supplementing the announcement, says manufacturers warn a 14-year age limit for child la bor, a six-months school term and pro hibition of ight work by children under 16 years. Junaluska Inn Burned. Asheville. Junaluska Inn, the big hotel at the assembly grounds of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Lake Junaluska, was destroyed by fire. The building was erected at a cost of $160,000. The fire started in the kitchen and the frame building and furnishings are a total loss. No body was injured. There are other hotels and many cottages on the grounds and the church officials an nounced that the loss of the ton would not interfere with the conferenca scheduled for this summer. PUBLIC SERVIG RESERVISTS 1 'M t i: j i' 1 - . -. Us. , - . ' '. - ,