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ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. , SEPTEMBER 26, 1918
VOL. XL NO. 8.
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Chatham
Record
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THI
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS JjFTHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The Southv
.land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Domestic
Coal miners and operators meeting
si t Uniontown, Pa., were told by P.
B. Noyes, director of conservation of
ifce fuel administration, that the more
coal mined between now and Christ
mas the fewer the casualties would be
reported next spring to the homes of
American soldiers. Mr. Noyes told
them that miners are first line men
in this war.
President Wilson has proclaimed
Saturday, October 12, the four hundred
and twenty-sixth anniversary of the
discovery of America, as Liberty Day,
and called upon all citizens to cele
brate it to stimulate a generous re
sponse to the fourth Liberty Loan.
John W. Davis, who was born at
Olarkesburg, W. Va.. April 13, 1874;
bow solicitor- general of the United
States, has been selected by President
Wilson to succeed Walter Hines Paige
as ambassador to Great Britain.
With less than an hour's discussion
and without amendment, the national
house adopted the general plan and
rates in the war revenue bill for taxa
tion f war and excess tax profits, es
timated at $3,200,000 in revenue.
An army of 4,800,000 by next July,
afier all deductions have been made
for casualties and rejections, is what
ihe enlarged American military pro
gram calls for.
General March says there are now
about, three million two hundred thou
sand men under arms.
The war department plans to call 2,-
700,000 of the new registrants to the
colors between now end July.
Second Lieutenants James L. Mc
Keever of New York and John M. Wid
nham of Los Angeles were killed at
Love Field, Dallas - Texas, when their
airplane went into a slide slip and
crashed to the earth twelve miles
north of Fort Worth.
An embargo against the shipment
of virtually all. kinds of lumber from
any point in the United States or Can
ada to any point east of the Missis
sippi river and north of the Ohio river.
ipxcepting shipments for war purposes,
is announced at the St. Louis office of
the railroad administration.
Washington
Every city, town and countryside is
asked by the president to arrange for
commemorative addresses, pageants,
"harvest home festivals or other demon
strations on Liberty Day, Saturday,
October 12, and he has directed that
all federal employes whose services
can be spared be given a holiday on
that day.
The house passed the- war revenue
"bill, designed to raise by taxation ap
proximately $3,182,000,000 of the twen
ty-four or more billions 1 needed by
the nation for the current year. The
passage of the bill was unanimous.
The acquiescence of The Nether
lands government in German threats
which keep 400,000 -tons of Dutch ship
ping idle in port, while the people of
Holland suffer for want of the food
these vessels might bring, is com
mented upon in a statement issued by
the state department to clear up mis
apprehension as to the attitude of the
United States towards exports to Hol
land. The department expresses the
hope that the Netherlands government
will lift the embargo.
Recognition of the Jugo-Slavs in
Austria will be President Wilson's next
thrust at the enemy, according to diplo
matic officials.
Jugo-Slavs in the United States, for
merly Austrian subjects, have shown
their loyalty to the allies again by de
feating an alleged Austrian-Socialist
coalition.
It is announced that three hundred
and thirteen thousand United States
troops embarked for Europe during the
month of August.
The Belgian government, after con
sultation with the allies, has decided to
refuse, without elaboration, the report
ed offer of a separate peace made by
Germany.
Information emanating from London
is to the effect tfeat Germany has of
fered Belgium peace.
The American army is still hammer
ing away in the .German iron fields of
Lorraine. .
The American troops in France are,
operating in the: great Lorraine iron
region, and if they can get through
before the intense cold sets in, we
may expect great events before Christ
mas. . - .
The United States, as was fully ex
pected, has unconditionally rejected
Germany's peace:, feeler:' In doing so,
he government has spoken for all the
fo-belligerents..
Draft calls announceds by Provost
Marshal General Crowder will send
181,838 men qualified for general mili
tary, service to army camps before Oc
tober 15.
According to reports from London
!e British steamer Galway Cashtle,
a steamer of 7,988 tons gross, has been
torpedoed and sunk. She had 960 per
sons on board, of whom more than 700
ere reported saved.
Information reaching the state de
partment from d neutral country threw
new light on the ..situation in central.
Russia, whei a reign of terror con
ducted by the BolsheyiKi has made
the position of the populace tragic
in tht extreme and is endangering cit
izens of the entente powers who have
been unable to leave the' country.
A general search is beins made of
the- homes in Moscow of the well-to-
do and of former officers in an ef
fort to secure any shreds of evidence
upon which to make arrests. The
prisons are filled to-overflowing and
executions continue daily. ' In many
cases, it is said, sentences are passed
upon the slight grounds that the ac
cused may be dangerous to Bolshe
viki powers.
All newspapers ki Moscow exceDt
the Bolsheviki organs have been sup
pressed since July 1.
Austria's peace offensive is a closed
incident so far as the American gov
ernment is concerned. Secretary Lan
sing sent to the 'Swedish minister the
note authorized by President Wilson,
flatly rejecting in two short sentences
the proposal of the Austro-Hungarian
government for secret and non-bind
ing peace discussions.
A delegation of Southern senators
and representatives protested to Pres
ident Wilson against the government
fixing prices for raw cotton. At the
conclusion of the conference Senator
Underwood of Alabama, speaking for
the delegation, said if any statement
is issued it will. come from the presi
dent himself.
European
On the ancient battlefields of Judea
the BritishFrench and Arabs are driv
ing the Turks pell mell back into Asia,
In the latest drive the allied troops
penetrated the Turkish ' lines to a
depth of twelve miles and captured
more than three thousand Turks.
Added to their already heavy losses
in ground, men killed, wounded or
made prisoners and stores captured
in Belgium, France, Italy and the Bal
kans, the Teutonic allies, judging, from
first reports of the hostilities begun
against the Ottoman in Palestine, are
in for further extremely hard usage.
In addition to the large number of
prisoners taken great quantities of war
materials have fallen into the hands of
the allied troops.
The predicament of the Turks in Pal
estine is heightened by the operations
of the Hedjas tribesmen -on the eastern
side of the Jordan, which will prevent
them from taking refuge across the
stream in the Jordan valley and 'com
pels them to fight their way out of
their trouble west of the river as best
they may.
Ten thousand Bulgarian prisoners
were sent to ths rear on September 18
alone says the Paris Echo de Paris.
The .pursuit o fthe retreating enemy
continues with great success.
Capture of sceveral villages and 5,000
prisoners is recorded in the Serbian
official statement. The Bulgarians are
burning their depots and camps.
Efforts to organize pillaging by the
German army and the transportation
of loot appear from official documents
and verified incidents to have been
much more effective, than the work of
carrying out .the removal of legiti
mate war booty during this summer's
operations.
An order found in the pocket of a
German prisoner, signed by General
von Marwitz, throws light on the sub
ject of pillaging. It condemns in se
vere terms disorganized looting opera
tions by soldiers on their personal ac
count, and points out that the men
of "loot detachments" bear white arm
badges and special identification cards
and have the same powers as military
police.
Both the British arid French armies
in Picardy have materially developed
their plans for the eventual envelop
ing of St. Quentin and Cambrai.
More than ten thousand prisoners,
and in excess of sixty large guns, fell
into the hands of the British during
the big operation begun by Field Mar
shal Haig northwest of St! Quentin.
The Bulgarians are in flight in Mac
edonia and are burning stores and
villages. The allied troops now have
advanced more than twelve miles and
their progress is so rapid that they
have not been able to count the pris
oners and war material taken.
Serbian and French troops have
taken the towns of To pole ts, Potshe
ishta, Beshista, Melynitsa, Vitolishta
and Rasimbey.
An official note says that Foreign
Minister Pichon, in acknowledging to
the Swiss minister the receipt of Aus
tria's peace proposal, sent with his
letter a copy of the official journal
containing Premier Clemenceau's
speech in the senate. , r .
The Belgian foreign minister in Lon
don declares that the conditions of
peace offered by Germany to Belgium
cannot be taken seriously.
The Italian government has no
knowledge of the Austrian note in
viting the belligerents to a conference
except for the telegraphic agencies. The
Italian government is in no mood for
opening such negotiations as are sug
gested in the unofficial text.
In the various theaters "of the war
the fighting is going on steadily and
with added impetus in Macedonia,
where the reconstituted Serbian army,
co-operating with the French forces
have stormed three strongly fortified
positions and occupied Vetrenik, Dob
ropolje and Sekal, considered the most
important part of the Macedonian
front.
A movement exceeding perhaps that
of the Czecho-Slovaks is being organiz
ed by Polish officers to form a Polish
division to fight in Siberia westward
to their oppressed fatherland, as inte
gral -units, in the American army.
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BY BRIT
NAZARETH IN GALILEE IS AGAIN
IN CHRISTIAN HANDS
AND CONTROL.
THE ADVANCE IS IRBES1STABLE
Airmen Play Important Part In Sew
Ing Up Enemy in Sack Brit
ish Losses Slight.
Our transcendent Interests, for the
moment at least, are the operations
of the British General Allenby's
forces In Palestine, Here, in less
than four days the British have swept
forward in the center between the
River Jordan and taken the famous
Nazareth, while their wings closed
round in a swift enveloping movement
and nipped within the maw of the
great pincer all the Ottoman forces
In the cpastal sector, the plain of
Sharon, the hill region in the center
and also the western Jordan valley.
More than 18,000 Turks had been
made prisoner by the British and runs
In exeess of 120 had been counted
when, the last reports from General
Allenby were .received. In addition
great quantities of war stores had
been captured, and still others had
not. been counted owing to the rapid
ity of the' movement.
Although the Turks at some points
offered considerable resistance to the
British, at ho point were they able to
stay the advance, even on the famous
field of Armageddon, which the Brit
ish cavalry swept across and occupied
Nazareth to the north. In the op
eration of sewing the ' enemy - within
the sack, airmen played an important
role, vigorously bombarding the re
treating Turks, inflicting enormous
casualties on them. The losses of
General Allenby are described as
slight, in comparison with the impor
tance of the movement carried out.
ITALIANS HAVE JOINED THE
FRAY IN MACEDONIA
In Macedonia, the Italians have
joined the fray . with the British,
French, Serbian and Greek troops and
are hard after the Bulgarians and
their allies, who . are being driven
northward through southern Serbia.
Between the Cerna and Vardar river,
although the Bulgarians and Germans
are sending up reinforcements, the
allied troops have continued their
pressure. The Serbians- west of the
Vardar river have crossed the Prilepe
Ishtib road at Vavardar, which con
stitutes an advance of more than 25
miles into . their once-held territory.
To the east of Monastir the Italians
have begun operations in the famous
Cerna bend and have taken several
positions.
PLANS TO SECURE ALLOTMENT
OF MEN NEEDED IN NAVY
. Washington. The program under
which the navy and the marine corps
will secure the men hereafter needed
was aannounced by Secretary Daniels
after conferences with representatives
of his department, the marine corps
and tha -provost marshal general's of
fice. The navy is to have an average
of 15,000 men Thonthly, while the ma
rine corps will get 5,000 monthly for
four months and 1,500 each month
thereafter.
Of the navy's allotment of 15,000
it may enlist or enroll men who have
special qualifications for certain navy
work, but the remainder will come
Trom "the run -of the draft," navy of
ficials culling out skilled men to meejt
as far as possible the special naeds
of the service.
Men desiring to enter either the
marine or marine corps will be re
quired to make application at the
proper recruiting office. When men
are accepted for the navy, the mobili
ationz officers-will apply for them
through their draft boards, but in case
of men qualified to enter the marine
corps the recruiting officer will send a
request to the provost marshal general
for their enrollment. .
HAIG SMASHES HUN LINES
. AT FOUR DISTINCT POINTS
London. Field Marshal Haig's
troops smashed into the German lines
at four distinct points on the battle
front. English troops, near Gavrelle,
north of .the River Scarpe, advanced
on a two-mile front. East of Epehy
the British captured several organized
points of resistance.
North o Epehy,' Haig's men . push
ed forward in the sector south ot 711
lers Guislain. They also repulsed a
German attack oh -Meuvres.
TWO AVIATORS ARE KILLED
AT INDIANAPOLIS SPEEDWAY
Indianapolis, Ind.-7-Captain Ham
mond, of the British royal flying
corps, and C. Kinder, of Greenfield,
Ind., were instantly killed, and Lieut.
Roy Pickets of the speedway aviation
field, Indianapolis was seriously in
jured when an airplane in which they
.were returning to the field from a
Liberty, loan trip to Greenfield went
into a nose-dive and fell 400 feet
while they were preparing to make a
wi'rt at the speedway field.
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CAPTURE OF 18,000
TURKS BY BRITISH
NAZARETH IN GALILEE IS AGAIN
IN CHRISTIAN HANDS
AND CONTROL..
THE IDVtNGE IS HfflESISTHLE
Airmen Play Important Part In Sew
ing Up Enemy in Sack Brit
ish Losses Slight.
Our transcendent interests, for the
moment at least, are the operations
of the British General Allenby's
forces , in Palestine. Here, in less
than four days the British have swept
forward in the center between the
River Jordan and taken the famous
Nazareth, while 'their wings closed
round in a swift enveloping movement
and nipped within the maw of the
great pincer all the Ottoman forces
in the coastal sector, the plain of
Sharon, the hill region in the center
and also the western Jordan valley.
More than 18,000 Turks had been
made prisoner by the British and guns
In excess -ol 120 had been counted
when the last reports from General
Allenby were received. In addition
great quantities of war stores had
been captured, and still others had
not been counted owing to the rapid
ity of the movement:
Although the Turks at some points
offered considerable resistance to the
British, at no point were they able to
stay the advance, even on the famous
field of Armageddon, which the Brit
ish cavalry swept across and occupied
Nazareth to the north. In the op
eration of sewing the enemy , within
the" sack, airmen played an important
role, vigorously bombarding the re
treating Turks, inflicting enormous
casualties on them. The losses of
General Allenby, are described as
slight, in comparison with the impor
tance of the movement carried out.
ITALIANS HAVE JOINED THE
FRAY IN MACEDONIA
In Macedonia, the Italians have
Joined the fray with the British.
French, Serbian, and Greek troops and
are hard after the Bulgarians and
their allies, who are being driven
northward through southern Serbia.
Between the Cerna and Vardar river,
although the Bulgarians and Germans
are sending up reinforcements, the
allied troops have continued their
pressure. The Serbians west of the
Vardar river have crossed the Prilepe
Ishtib road at Vavardar, which con
stitutes an advance of more than 25
miles into their once-held territory.
To the east of Monastir the Italians
have begun operations in the famous
Cerna bend and have taken several
positions.
PLANS TO SECURE ALLOTMENT
OF MEN NEEDED IN NAVY
Washington. The program under
which the navy and. the marine corps
will securs the men hereafter, needed
was aannounced by Secretary Daniels
after conferences with representatives
of his department, the marine corps
and the provost marshal general's of
fice. The navy is to have an average
of 15,000 men monthly, while the ma
rine corps will get 5,000 monthly ifor
four months and 1,500 each month
thereafter.
Of the navy's aUotm&nt of 15,00
it may enlist or enroll men who have
special qualifications for certain navy
work, but the. remainder will come
from "the run of the draft," navy of1
ficials culling out skilled men "to meet
as far as possible the special naeds
of the service.
Men desiring to enter either the
marine, or marine corps will be re
quired to make application at the
proper r&cruitng office. When men
are accepted for the navythe mobili
ationz officers will . apply . for them
through their draft boards, but in case
of men qualified to enter the marine
corps the recruiting officer will send a
request to the provost marshal general
for their enrollment.
HAIG SMASHES HUN LINES
AT FOUR DISTINCT POINTS
London. Field Marshal Haig's
troops smashed intq the German lines
at four distinct points on the battle
front. Engjish troops, near Gavrelle.
north ' of the River Scarpe, advanced
on a two-mile front. East of Eperiy
the British captured several organized
points of resistance.
North of Epehy, Haig's men push
ed for.ward in the sector south of Vil
lers Guislain. They also repulsed a
German attack on MouVres.
TWO AVIATORS ARE KILLED
AT INDIANAPOLIS SPEEDWAY
Indianapolis, Ind. Captain Ham
mond, of the British royal flyinff
corps, and C. Kinder, of Greenfield
Ind., were instantly killed, and Lieut
Roy Pickets of the speedway aviation
field, Indianapolis was seriously in
jured when an airplane in which they
were returning to the field from a
Liberty loan trip to Greenfield went
into a nose-dive and fell 400 feet
while thy were preparing to make e
'.anding At the speedway field.
MIGHTY BLOW SETS '
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TEUTON ALLIES ARE IN FOR
FURTHER EXTREMELY HARD
USAGE BY ALLENBY.
. NEf RESULTS OF ONE MY
Turkish Line Is Penetrated to Depth
of Twelve Miles Over Front of
v Sixteen Miles.
The Holy Land is aflame under the
impetus of a mighty stroke by the
British, French and friendly Arab
forces, and the Turks from the Jordan
river westward to the Mediterranean
seemingly are in rout.
Added to their already heavy losses
in ground, men killed, wounded, or
made prisoner -and stores captured in
Belgium. France, Italy and the Bal
kans, the Teutonic allies, judging
from first reports of the hostilities be
gun against the Ottoman in Palestine,
are in for further extremely hard
usage.
In less than a day General Allenby's
British forces, aided by French troops
and natives under the flag of the king
of the Hedjas, struck the Turkish line
over a front of 16 miles and penetrat
ed it to a depth of 12 miles, taking
more than 3,000 Turks prisoner and
over-running the entire hostile defen
sive system. Railway and highway
junction points were captured and
strong forces ofcavalry at last ac
counts were well in advance of the
attacking troops, threatening to carry
out a turning movement against the
fleeing Turks which might prove dis
astrous to them. Meanwhile along the
shores of the Mediterranean naval
units were clearing the coastal roads
of, the enemy by their gunfire.
In addition to the large number of
prisoners taken great quantities of
war materials had fallen into the
bands of the allied troops.
PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT
OF A GREATER LIBERTY DAY
Washington. President Wilso has
proclaimed Saturday, October 12, the
four hundred and twenty-sixth anni
versary of the discovery of America,
as Liberty day, and called upon all
citizens to celebrate it to stimulate a
generous response to the fourth Lib
erty loan.
The President's proclamation fol
lows: "The anniversary of the discovery
of America must, therefore, have for
us in this fateful year a peculiar and
thrilling significance. We should
make it a day of ardent rededtcation
to the ideals npon which our govern
ment is founded and by which our
present heroic tasks are inspired.
"Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wil
son, President of the United States,
do appoint Saturday, the 12th, day of
October, 1918, as Liberty day. On
that day I request the citizens ' of
every community of the United States,
do appoint Saturday, the 12th day of
October, 1918, as Liberty day. - On
that day I request the citizens of every
community of the United States, city,
town, and countryside, 'to celebrate
the discovery of our country in order
to stimulate a generous response to
the fourth Liberty loan. Commemo
rative addresses, pageants, harvest
home festivals or other demonstra
tions should be arranged for in
every neighborhood under the general
direction of the secretary of the treas
ury and the immediate ' direction of
the Liberty loan committee in co-operation
with the United States bureau of
education and the public school ' au
thorities. ' Let the people's response
to the fourth Liberty loan express the
measure of their devotion to the ideals
which have guided Jhe country from
its discovery until how, and of their
determined purpose to defend them
and guarantee their triumph. -
"For the purpose of participating in
Liberty day celebrations all employes
of the federal government throughout
the country whose services can be
spared may be excused on Saturday,
the 12th day of October, for the en
tire day. "WOODROW WILSON."
CZECHOSLOVAK FORCES ARE
GATHERING FAST AT IRKUTSK
Tokio. Czeiiho-Slovak forces from
the west and those from Vladivostok,
(after ' having effected a junction al
Tohita, are concentrating at Irkutsk in
preparation for an advance to relief
of the Cezoho-Slovaks in European
Russia, says a war office announce
ment. The relief force will be com
manded by General Gaida, the Czecho
Slovak leader. Immediate and impor
tant results are expected.
VERY HEAY LOSSES BY FOE
AT BATTLE OF ST. QUENTIN
British; Headquarters in France.
German casualties in the battle of
St.' Quentin, which now is quieting
down; have been most heavy owing tc
the close character of the fighting
and the sturdy resistance of the Teu
tons. The sixth Brandenburg division
was raked to Khreds by a machine gur
barrage.
The villages of Holnon and Lempir
have been entirely cleared of smaJ
"pockets of Germans.
HOLY LAND AFLAM
ANOTHER VICIOUS
SMASH AT GERMANS
ALONG FRONT OF TWENTY-TWO
AND DEPTH OF THREE MILE8
ALLIES PRESS THE ENEMY.
MORE THAN S.000 PRISONERS
Hindenburg Defense System in Dan
ger of Being Breathed at
Three Vital Points.
British and French veterans have
made another vicious and successful
smash at the Hindenburg line. Sweep
ing forward on a front of 22 miles,
they went ahead from 1 1-3 to 3 miles,
taking many prisoners. The most im
portant aspect of the advance is that
it makes more certain the capture of
St. Quentin, which the Germans have
been ordered to hold at all costs.
Field Marshal Hg's third and
fourth armies charged over the trench
system occupied by the British before
they were pushed back by the Teu
tonic flood last. March. They captured
in wide sectors the outer defenses of
the Hindenburg line.
The British assault was over a
front of 16 miles, from Holnon, west
of St. Quentin, to Gouzeaucourt, north
of Epehy. In their advance, which
reached a depth of more than three
miles at some points, they took more
than 6,000 prisoners.
While the French advance was less
spectacular than that of the British,
with whom they co-operated, they
were equally successful in gaining
their objectives. They moved forward
on a front of six miles to an average
depth of 1 1-3 miles, adding several
hundred prisoners to the British bag.
They now hold the southern outskirts
of Contescourt,, less than three miles
from the suburbs of St. Quentin.
This city, where the troops of Von
Goeben scored a great victory In 1871,
is one of the buttresses of the Douai-Cambrai-St.
Quentin-LaFere-Laon line,
beyond which it has been announced
the Germans would not fall back. With
the French In the outskirts of LaFere,
with. St. Quentin invested and with
the British battling doggedly for Cam
brai, the great Hindenburg defense
system Is in danger of being breached
at three of its strongest points. . Once
ousted from it the Teutons will have
back of them no strong fortifications
until they reach the Maubeuge de
fenses. THE PRESIDENT TO FIX
THE PRICE OF COTTON
Washington. President Wilson will
fix the price of raw cotton by presi
dential proclamation in the next few
days, according to the information of
Representative Lee Robinson, who is
himself a big cotton farmer and in
close touch with developments here.
While there is strong opposition to
the proposed plan of stabilizing cot
ton prices by governmental action, it
appears inevitable when the whole
situation is considered.
The crop for 1918 Is estimated at
11,000,000 bales. The war needs of
the allies, including the United
States, will reach 9,000.000, leaving
only 2,000,000 bales for civilian use.
Whenever the government becomes
the dominant buyer of any commod
ity, this in Itself regulates the price ;
which civilian buyers must pay for
the same article, and that is the sit
uation with respect to cotton. The
government's program of "price
stabilization" only contemplates that
the President will name a price for
the cotton which the government pur
chases for itself and its allies.
GENERAL SOUKHOMLINOFF IS
COURT MARTIALED AND SHOT
London. - General Soukhomllnoff,
minister of war in the Russian im
perial cabinet from 1909 to 115, was
court martialed on September 3 and
shot on the same day, according to a j
Petrograd dispatch printed in the ;
newsDapers of Vienna and transmitted ,
here by the Amsterdam correspondent j
of the Exchange Telegraph Company.
AMERICAN GUNNERS EASILY
HOLD THE UPPER HANC
With the' American Army on th
Lorraine Frnot. In the artillery ex
change oif Tuesday the Amerfcan gun
ners held the upper hand, destroying
German ammunition dumps near La
Chaussee, in addition to a big gun,
and making direct hits on the rail
road near Chambley. A number of box
cars were destroyed near Chambley
The Germans threw 800 shells intc
the regions around Xammes, Benncj
and Chateau St. Benoit.
THIRTEEN TONS OF BOMBS
DROPPED ON DOCKS AND DOME
London. British army and navj
aviators in the last 48 hours have
dropped thirteen tons of bombs on tlh
docks at Bruges and a Ge-man air
drome in Belgium says an official
statement from the ' admiralty. In ail
fighting 11 German airplanes were de
stroyed. Five enemy seaplanes
which approached the east cost oi
England were driven off by four Brit
ish, machines, ot& enemy machine be
ing destroyed.
AWFUL EXAMPLE OF
RECKLESS DR V 6
PISTOL IN HANDS , OF A CHILD
CAUSES DEATH TO EIGHTEEN
YEAR OLD GIRL.
SAD SERIES OF ACCIDENTS
Fatalities and Serious Injuries Caused
by Automobile, "Horse," Pis-"
tol and Bicycle.
Durham. Two people are dead ana
.several injured as the result of acci
dents that occurred in the city. Harry
Mangum, manager of the Five Points
Automobile Company, died this morn
ing at 1 o'clock as the result of inju
ries received when an automobile in
which he was riding turned over at .
the intersection of Holloway and Dil
lard streets shortly after 12 o'clock
midnight Miss Lena Strayhorn, 18,
died at 2 o'clock this morning from a
bullet wound in her forehead caused
by a bullet fired from a .32 caliber
pistol in the hands of Wesley Vlck
ers, a 14-year-old boy. Miss Brunella,
Teer is Buffering from severe injuries
that resulted when she was run dewn
by a bicycle, and Walter Umstead and
Miss Lucille Umstead are recovering
from injuries suffered when a horse
they were driving became frightened
and ran away. Joseph Manning, an
automobile traveling salesman, and
Robert Morton, a local chauffeur, are
both suffering from injuries received
in the same accident which caused
the death of Mr. Mangum.
The automobile accident ' occurred
early in the morning. The automobile
in which the three men were riding
passed Patrolman Joe Shipp on the
Holloway street beat, going at a rapid
rate of speed. A few second later, the
officer heard a crash and saw the ma
chine turn turtle. Mangum's skull was
crushed. With Manning and Morton,
he-was rushed to the Watts hospital.
It was found upon examination that
his injuries were not serious, although
Manning is confined to the hospital.
Transfer of Exhibits.
Charlotte. A letter from R. S. Cur
tis, animal husbandryman, office ef
beef cattle and sheep, North Carolina
department of agriculture, contained
the announcement that the Percheron
Society of America, of Chicago, and
the American Aberdeen Angus Breed
ers' Association, also of Chicago, have
transferred to the exhibition here the
premiums they had offered for the
State fair. "This is of very great im
portance, and it may be that we will
get still other associations to so offer
their special money," said Mr. Curtis.
He added that, "I think there is con
siderable Interest in horses and Aber
deen Angus cattle In your section.'
The 1918 catalogue of the State fair
shows that the Percheron Association
offered 18 cash prizes, totalling $130,
and 39 medals and ribbons to .compet
itors at the State fair, which have
been transferred to the livestock as
sociation's exhibition. The catalog also
shows that the Aberdeen Angus asso
ciation offered 27 regular cash prizes
and 36 special cash prizes, totalling
$500.
As. Mr. Curtis' letter indicates well
directed effort Is being made to se
cure the participation in this show of
the national associatfons of the vari
ous breeds of beef and dairy cattle,
swine and sheep. These associations,
rather large In number, have funds
mounting high into the thousands o!
dollars which are offered as prizes for
exhibits of the respective breeds.
Word has been received here that
Prank B. Mebane, owner of the Meb
ane stock farm, a Spray, is planning
to place the head'of his Hereford herd
on exhibition during the show here.
This bull, Lord Hilton Fairfax, is a
son of Perfection Fairfax, the recog
nized king of Herefords. Several
brothers of Lord Hilton Fairfax sold
for an average of $17,000 each, and
several others for an average of $10,
000 each. Mr. Mebane is considering
shipping a car.load of Herefords here
for exhibition, and also a number ot
registered Jerseys.
Reclaiming Lost Cars.
Spencer. A force of workmen Is
now reclaiming a number of freight
cars lost along the Catawba river In
the big flood of July, 1916, near Ca
tawba station. Up to the present time
the wrecking force has reclaimed 22
of the lost cars, some of which were
washed several miles down the river.
By the use of heavy cables attached
to the big derrick some of the cars
are being dragged a distance of 1,300
feet or more across the river and
swamps. The. men work In the wsiei
a good portion of the time.
Injuries Result Fatally.
Albemarle. News has reach id Al
bemarle from Winston-Salem jnnoun
cing that Mr. William Furr who fell
from a trestle at Norwood aad who
was taken immediately to a hospital
at Winston-Salem, had died from the
iojury received in the fall. Mr. Furr's
home is in Albemarle and ne was
working with a railway company and
while performing services on a coaJ
chute at Norwood, slipped and fell,
crushing his skull and 8C3ta!ning oth,
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