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ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, NC. OCTOBER 3, 1918
VOL. XL NO. 9.
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BULGARIA YIELDS
TO FOGH'S FORGES
ARMISTICE IS CONCLUDED BY
WHICH "CZAR OF BALKANS"
IS PUT OUT OF WAR.
TURKEY IS NEXT IN ORDER
Rear Invasion of Austria Made Easy
fcr Allies of Which Fact Advan
tage Will Be Taken. '
Bulgaria is definitely out of the
war. and Turkey, virtually cut off
from communication with her allies
and her armies in Palestine almost
annihilated, likely soon will be forced
to sue for a cessation of hostilities
against her.
Seeing eventual defeat staring her
in the face through the swift prog
ress of the Serbian, Italian, British,
Greek and French troops in the re
claiming of Serbia and the invasion
of Bulgarian territory,- the Bugalrs
(egged for an armistice, reserving to
themselves no conditions. All the ter
ritory now held by King Ferdinand's
men is to be evacuated, the Bulgarian
army is to be immediately demobilized
and all means of transport inside the
kingdom, even along the Danube, is
to be given over into allied hands.
Thus, in addition to the isolation
of Turkey, the back door to a direct
invasion of Austria-Hungary is flung
wide open to the allies and doubtless
the time is not far distant when ad
vantage to the full will be taken of
the new avenue through, which the
enemy can be reached. With the de
bacle in Serbia and Bulgaria complete,
the Austro-Hungarians in Albania
soon will be put to the test, and when
their evacuation to their own borders
is accomplished, the allies will have
welded an iron semi-circle about the
central powers from the Black sea to
the North sea:
TERMS UPON WHICH BULGARIA
DEFINITELY LAYS DOWN ARMS
London. The armistice concluded
with Bulgaria by the entente allies is
a purely military convention and con
tains no provisions of a political char
acter.
Bulgaria agrees to evacuate all the
territory she now occupies in Greece
and Serbia, to demobilize her army
immediately, and surrender all means
of transport to the allies.
Bulgaria also will surrender her
boats and control of navigation on
the Danube and concede to the allies
free passage through Bulgaria for the
development of military operations.
All Bulgarian arms and ammunition
are to be stored under the control of
the allies, to whom is conceded the
right to occupy all important strategic
points.
The press learns that the military
occupation of Bulgaria will be en
trusted to British, French and Italian
forces and the evacuated portions of
breece and Serbia respectively to
iGreek and Serbian troops.
All Questions of territorial rear
rangements in the Balkans was pur
posely omitted from the convention.
The armfstice will remain in opera
tion until a final general peace is coa
lluded. (CLIMAX OF BATTLE REACHED
TO SAVE IMPERILLED WORLD
New York There can be no mistak
ing the fact that Foch's battle has
leached its climax. Within a brief pe-
iod. oerhas of hours, certainly days,
k German retirement out of Northern
tYance is assured. German resistance,
remendous and sustained in certain
ectors, is breaking down completely
it others.
Fochs tactics are now clearly re
pealed. The period of manuevers is
Fver. The moment in the battle has
Itrrived when a decision is to be
ueht an from fl'ae Yser to the
Meuse Foch is throwing in his last re
erves. The pace cannot be long main-
ained; the "event." to use the Na-
oleonic term, is in sight.
iO LONGER ONE OFFENSIVE
BUT SIX, ALL CO-ORDINATED
London. It is no longer one offen-
Mve. but half a dozen, all co-ordinated.
la Belgium King Albert and General
burner are winning the battle of
I'pres: in French Flanders and Artois,
florae, Bing and Rawlinson are re-
Rghtine. victoriously the battle of
I'anjbrai; above the Aisne Mangin is
r inning the battle Nivelle lost in
917; in Champagne, Gouraud is win-
pig the contest only partially won by
retain in 1915. .
REPRISALS TO BE TAKEN IF
GERMANS MURDER PRISONERS
Washington.- The American govern-
ient, in reply to Germany's threat to
:ecute American prisoners of war
und in possession of shtoguns, gave
tice that if Germany carries out any
ich threat suitable reprisal will be
Secretary Lansing's reply declares
,at the use of shotguns is sanction-
y The Haeue conventionVand ca'-r
Pt be the subject of legitimate ox
AUTOCRACY QF ARMS
MUST BE CRUSHED
PEACE IS NOT A QUESTION OF
TERMS, 'TERMS BEING NOW
IMPOSSIBLE.
JUSTICE THEPRICE OF PEACE
President Speaks Before Great Audi-
ence of Liberty Loan Workers
at New York.
New York. The price of peace will
be impartial justice to all nations, the
instrumentality indispensable to se
cure it is a league of nations formed
not before 01 after, but at the peace
conference and Germajny as a mem
ber "will have to redeem her charac
ter not by what happens at the peace
table, but by what follows."
This was President Wilson's answer
given before an audience of fourth
Liberty loan workers here, to the re
cent peace talk from the central pow
ers, although he did not refer specifi
cally to the utterances of enemy lead
ers. Peace was not a question, declared
the President, of "coming to terms,"
for "we cannot 'come to terms' with
themr" as "they have -made it impos
sible." Peace must be guaranteed, for
"there will be parties to the peace
whose promises have proved untrust
worthy and means must be found in
connection with the peace settlement
to remove the source of insecurity."
"It would be folly to leave the guar
antee to the subsequent voluntary ac
tion of the governments we have seen
destroy Russia and deceive Rumania,"
continued the President.
Five thousand persons heard the
President speak. Just before his ar
rival a guard of soldiers, sailors and
marines seated at the rear of the
platform were suddenly ordered to at
tention. They arose with a smart
click of rifles the national colors were
advanced and the great audience be
came silent. This dramatic quiet was
maintained without interruption until
the President, without other warning
of his coming, walked on the stage,
escorted by Benjamin Strong, gover
nor of the federal reserve bank of
New York. Then a tremendous burst
of cheering broke loose which caused
the President, after taking his seat,
to rise three times in acknowledg
ment. AMERICAN FORCES CONTINUE
STEADY ADVANCE MOVEMENT
London. With Bulgaria evidently
fallen by the .wayside, with Turkey
staggering and with Austria a welter
of internal discord and discontent, the
shaken armies of Emperor , William
are grudgingly falling back upon their
own frontiers before the irresistible
blows of .Marshal Foch's British,
French and American troops. The
French and Americans plunged for
ward again between Rheims and Ver
dun while the British attacked on a
wide front in the Cambrai sector. Be
tween them they already have taken
more than 20,000 prisoners and many
guns of all calibers.
In the face of steadily strengthen
ing German resistance the American
forces in the . Champagne continue
their advance and their front- now
includes the villages of Charpentry,
Very, Epinonville and Ivoirry. They
threw back German counter-attacks
with heavy losses to the enemy. The
prisoners captured by the Americans
alone now number 8,000 and the cap
tured booty includes more than. 100
guns.
The French troops east o2 Rheims
were equally as successful as the
Americans with whom they co-oper
ated. They have increased the num
berber of prisoners taken by them in
the present drive to more than 10,000
British troops in heavy force also
swept forward on a wide front in a
continuation of their efforts to drive
a wedge into the German defenses be
tween Oambrai and Douai with the
evident intention of outflanking both
these buttresses of the Hindenburg
line.
AERIAL WORK IS SERIOUSLY
HAMPERED BY BAD WEATHER
With the American Army Northwest
of Verdun. The second duy's prog
ress of the American troths in the
new offensive was slight when com
pared with that of Thursday because
the bad weather and well night, ini
passable roads slowed up all kinds of
transport and made it nearly impos
sible for the Americans to move their
heavy artillery. The bad weather
also seriously hampered aerial work
and the movement of tanks.
AMERICANS MONEY GIVERS
INSTEAD OF MONEY GETTERS
Chicago. Having in past loans
"given the lie to the sneers and taunts
of our adversaries that we are a mere
nation of money makers interested
only in profits " belief was expressed
by Secretary Daniels in an address be
fore the American Bankers' Associa
tion that the American people in the
fourth Liberty Loan will demonstrate
again that Americans have left the
valley of money getting . and have
reached the heights of money giving."
Proclamation by the Pres
ident of the United
States of America.
Every day the great principles for
which we are fighting take fresh hold
upon our thought and purpose and
make it clearer what the end must be
and what we must do to achieve it.
We now know more certainly than
we ever knew before why free men
brought the great ' nation and govern
ment we love into existence, because
it grows clearer and clearer what su
preme service it is to be America's
privilege to' render to the world. The
anniversary of the discovery of Amer
ica must therefore have for us in this
fateful year a peculiar and thrilling
significance. We should make it a day
of ardent rededication to the ideals
upon which our government is founded
and by which our present heroic tasks
are inspired.
Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States of
America, 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 cele
brate the discovery of our country in
order to stimulate a generous response
to the Fourth Liberty Loan. Commem
orative addresses, pageants, harvest
home festivals, or 'other demonstra
tions should be arranged for in every
neighborhood under the general direc
tion of the secretary of the treasury
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 the country from
its discovery until now, and of their
determined purpose to defend them
and guarantee their triumph.
For the purpose of participating in
Liberty day celebrations all employees
of the federal government throughout
the country whose services can be
spared may be excused on Saturday,
the 12th day of October, for the entire
day.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
Done in the District of Columbia
this 19th day of September in the year
of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hun
dred and Eighteen, and of the Inde
pendence of the United States of
America, the One Hundred and Forty
third.
WOODROW WILSON.
By the President:
ROBERT LANSING.
Secretary of State.
REVEALS FOES' DIRE STRAITS
German Poster Reproduced by Bureau
ot Publicity Proof of Shattered
Morale of Enemy.
A poster recently Issued by the im
perial German government In an effort
to belittle the participation of America
In the war and thus strengthen the
morale of her people form the text of
one of the most striking pleces.of lltera
ture that the bureau of publicity of
the war loan organization has prepared
for use in the forthcoming Fourth Lib
erty loan.
The center, of the poster is devoted
to a drawing showing New York city
on one side of the Atlantic and a tre
nendous explosion on the other side,
probably somewhere In France. Two
sinking vessels are shown in the lane
of travel between New York and
France, while in the offing are two
U-boats securely afloat. "Opportunity
for the German U-boats !" is the catch-
line for this section of the poster,
The lane of travel in which the boats
are sinking bears this inscription :
"America Europe. Distance 200 times
greater than from England to France
mainland." In a corner of this sec
tlon of the poster are shown the names
of Serbia, Montenegro, Italy. Rou-
mania, Russia and Belgium. They are
lined up in the order named under an
other exploding figure representative
of the European war, and the names
of all the countries except Italy are
crossed out, indicating that they have
been eliminated from the struggle by
the Huns.
The title of the poster is "Can
America's Entry Make a decision of the
War?" Integral sections of it attempt
to convince the reader that America's
army cannot take the place of Rus
sia's withdrawn forces ; that the Unit
ed States cannot build enough ships
to have any effect on the result of the
war, and that the U-boats will destroy
virtually all the ships that America
can build when those ships at
tempt to cross the ocean.
Two millions of the booklets have
been printed and will be distributed
In various parts of the country, par
ticularly in theaters where Liberty
Loan speakers take the book as their
text.
Every effort is made in the wording
and the illustrations of the poster to
minimize and ridicule the efforts of the
United States in the war. A striking
example Of this is found in the figure
of Uncle Sam, who Is pictured as a
cadaverous individual who wears an
American flag with nine stars and five
stripes around his plug hat and smokes
a long-stemmed cob pipe. He also ap
pears to be wearing spats or dancing
pumps.
The enormous figure of a Russian
soldier Is the first object on the poster
to strike the eye. He stands with
hands in his overcoat pockets, indica
tive of. the fact that he Is through
fighting Beside him stands Uncle Sam
holding a small, figure, designed to
represent the United States army, In
his right hand. In his left hand Uncle
Sam carries a banner which "bears the
inscription, "America threatens to
send transport of one-half million men.
But it cannot: ship them I" Below
Uncle Sam are' these words : "It is
impossible for America to-train and
fit out in time for the European war a
suitable and sufficiently large army
arid provide it with the necessary re
enforcements." The catchline of this
section of the poster is "Russia's army
of millions could not down Germany,"
and on the skirt of the Russian sol
dier's .overcoat are printed these
words: "Russia used up altogether
fifteen million men in vain I"
On the opposite side of the poster is
this catchline : "England's sea power
and England's merchant marine have
not decided the war!" j Below this
line appears a huge figurei intended to
represent the English shipping facili
ties at the outbreak of the war, which
bears these words : "England went
into the war with twenty million gross
registered tons of freight space." N
Alongside this figure of a ship is a
drawing designed to show Uncle Sam
carrying the United Spates tonnage un
der his left arm. The caption above
Uncle Sam reads: "Can America re
place England on sea?" On the ship
which Uncle Sam carries is printed
this inscription: "Three million gross
registry tons" and below that is .an
other inscription which says: "At the
beginning of the war America had on
ly a tonnage of three million gross reg
istered tons." Commenting on these
statements, the poster further declares
"America cannot increase her gross,
registered tons for 1918 by more than
two to two and a half million tons.
Our U-boats sink twice as quickly as
England and America can build!"
The answer of the publicity bureau
to the two sections of the poster refer
ring to the transportation of men and
the building of ships follows: "At the
moment the bulletin boards of Ger
many scoffed the possibility of Amer
ica sending a force to France, there
were already more than a million fight
ing men overseas, and transports,
walled about by the American navy de
fying the cowardly submarines, were
bearing every month hundreds of
thousands more. The gauge is set and
the summer of 1919 will see 4,000,000
fighting American men in France. Nor
will there be a lack of ships to trans
port and sustain them. The Liberty
Bond buyer is fast giving to America
a merchant marine that will be the
peer of any ' in the world. America
launched in July alone 033,011 tons.
Losses to allied andjieutral shipping
combined, from every cause, for the
last six months, amounted to 2,089,393
tons.
."The distance from New York to
England, tho Boche points out," com
ments the bureau of publicity publi
cation, "is two hundred times greater
than that from England to France,
from which he spells 'Opportunity for'
the German U-boats.' Pitiful is this
boast in face of the facts. Instead of
the U-boat being an unconquerable
engine of war, as the Hun confidently
expected, it has become the,, slinking
foe of fishing smacks and other iso
lated craft. The vast army of Liberty
Bond buyers, thirty millions strong,
has built an unbroken bridge over the
Atlantic ocean into the heart of the
enemy's strongholds. Across this
bridge - there are streaming our mil
lions of fighting men, as good as the
world has ever kqown, munitions and
equipment that.have been wrought by
those back home, whose determination
is that the American fighting man shall
lack nothing that he needs."
As a back-handed slap at the French,
the German propagandists have repro
duced a French poster which pleads
with French people to eat less in or
der that the United States may send
over more man power. The French
poster pointed out that if every per
son in France would save a hundred
grams of food a day that the American
reinforcements could be increased a
division a month. The French catch
line on this poster was "Does France
want wheat or men?" and the German
poster remarks "Also the allies are
now beginning to have their doubts I
Tn a further effort to convince the
German people'that It will be impos
sible for the United States to trans
port troops to France, I the German
section of the poster says that ten
tons of freight space are required for
every soldier in crossing the water.
The truth Is that a soldier requires
less than one-half this amount oi
space.
Summing up all the falsehoods which
the German poster contains, the book
let says : "The War Lord of Ger
many may have the futile hope that
his people will devour in the place of
food, such statements as the forego
ing. Falsehoods, however, are poor
substitutes and arc likely to aggra-'
ate rather than appease when the de
luded people of Germany learn that
every requirement of the American
soldier will be met by his patriotic ana
unqualified support back home. If a
single soldier required ten tons of
freight space, It would be given him
But the truth is he requires less than
one-half of that.
"As for Germany's statement that
even if the United States built from
two and a half million gross regis
tered tons in 1918, It would not mean
deliverance for the allies, no further
comment is needed than that by July
of this year the 2,000,000-ton mark
has been passed. If further refu-tnl'f-n
of the Hun boast of his
U-boat prowess were needed, It might
be stated that less than 500 American
solciers have lost their, lives in the
present war as: a result of U-boat at
tacks." V
Closing the booklet is this striking
quatatirn from Secretary McAdoor
"The Fourth Liberty loan is the bar
rage which will precede the victorious
thrust of our army.'
TILLING STORY IS
TOLD BY PERSHING
AMERICAN ARMY ADVANCES AN
AVERAGE DEPTH OF SEVEN
MILES, TAKING 12 TOWNS.
ENEMY STUBBORNLY RESIST
Liggetts' Corps Storm and Take Four
Towns, Together With Five
" - Thousand Prisoners.
Washington. Attacking over a front
of 20 miles, west of Verdun, ia co
operation with the French, the Ameri
can first army advanced to an aver
age depth of seven miles and captured
12 towns and. more thin 5,000 pris
oners. Four of the towns were carried by
storm by Pennsylvania, Kansas and
Missouri troops of Major General Lig
gett's corps, General Pershing said in
his official statement on the battle, re
ceived at the war department. The
enemy offered stubborn resistance.
Troops of other corps forced their
way across the Forges brook, took the
Bois de Forges and wrested eight
towns from the enemy.
General Pershing's communique fol
lows :
"Section A. This morning north
west of Verdun the first army attack
ed the enemy on a front of 20 miles
and penetrated his line to an average
depth of seven miles.
Pennsylvania, Kansas and Missouri
troops, serving in Major General Lig
gett's corps, stormed Varennes, Mont
blainvllle, Vauzuois, and Chappy, after
stubborn resistance. Troops of other
corps, crossing the Forges brook, cap
tured the Bois de Forges and wrested
from the enemy the towns of Malan
court, Bethincourt, Montfaucon, Cuisy,
Nantillos, Zeptzarges (Septsarges?),
Danaeoux . and Gercourt-Et-Drillan-court.
The prisoners thus far report
ed number over 5,000."
DIFFERENT SORT OF CONTEST
TO THOSE OF RECENT REPORT
Paris. The new allied offensive in
the Champagne was begun three
years, almost to a day, after the first
offensive of the French on the same
front, on September 25, 1915. The
French fourth army is conducting the
attack in conjunction with American
forces and the front extends to the
east and west of the Argonne forest.
"The fourth army," says La Liberte,
"has held this sector since the first
battle of the Marne. The enemy ex
pected the attack. It is even learned
that in view of the effort he foresaw,
his troops in that sector had been
given special nourishment. The strug
gle, therefore, will be of a different
character to those described in recent
official communications, which show
ed the allies almos'l galloping to vic
tory." RECENT CALL FOR 142,000
REGISTRANTS IS CANCELLED
Washington. Because of the epi
demics of Spanish influenza in army
camps Provost Marshal General Crow
der cancelled calls for the entrap
ment between October 7 and 11, of
142,000 draft registrants.
During the 24 hours ending at noon,
6,139 new cases of influenza in army
camps had been reported to the office
of the surfgeoh general of the army.
One hundred and seventy deaths re
sulting chiefly from pneumonia fol
lowing influenza, and 723 new cases of
pneumonia were also reported.
Stamping out of Spanish influenza,
which has extended to more than a
score of army camps and many sec
tions of the country, has been recog
nized by the government as a war
measure.
Medical and nursing units were mo
bilized in communities where the epi
demic has gained considerable head
way, under the general direction of a
central committee, representing- the
public health service, the army, the
navy, and the American Red Cross.
LONG FORTIFIED
POSITIONS ARE TAKEN
With the Frnch aremy on the Cham
pagne Front Troops of the French
army, operating in conjunction with
the Americans in a new battle along
the Champagne front, have conquered
positions that the Germans have been
fortilfying for four years, positions that
they have sacrificed thousands of men
to hold. The French losses have been
remarkabiy light, in spite of the fact
i;hat the German resistance stiffened
GEN. K. M. VAN ZANDT IS
NEW HEAD OF U. C. V.
Tulsa, Okla. The Unked Confeder
ate Veterans unanimously elected Gen.
K. M. Van Zandt, of. Fort Worth
Texas, commander-in-chief, chose the
commanders for the thre chief divi
sions of the organizations and adjourn
ed their twenty-eighth annual re
union, leaving the location of their
next reunion to be determined by a
committee headed by General Van
Zandt, and the division commanders.
BRITISH CAPTURE
40,000 PRISONERS
ENEMY FORCES IN MACEDONIA
AND TURKEY STILL FLEEING
T BEFORE ALLIED ARMIES.
BESISTANCE IS UHWHS
Allenby's Evident Intention Is to
Overwhelm the Ottomans, and
- -Success of Pians Seems Near.
The Teutonic allied forces in Mace
donia and Turkey are still in flight
before the armies of the entente,
while on the highhly important St.
Quentin sector in France the British
and French armies, after hard fight
ing, have drawn more closley ' their
lines In the investment of the townv
on the northwest, west and south.
The stubborn resistance of the Ger
mans, in defense and in counter-attacks,
,has been unavailing except to
impede the progress of the men of the
armies of Field Marshal Haig and
General Debeney.
In Macedonia the Bulgarian and
German troops are still faced with
disaster in Palestine the remaining
Turks seem to have scarcely a chance
for escape from the British forces
and friendly tribesmen who are clos
ing in upon them east of the River
Jordan. More than 40,000 prisoners
and 265 guns have been taken by the
British and yet General Allenby's ap
petite for further emoluments for his
hard campaign has not been satiated.
Gauged by the swiftness of the
strokes Allenby is delivering, it is his
purpose absolutely to overwhelm the
Ottomans. And the fulfillment of his
plans seems appreciably near.
SUBMARINE WHEN ATTACKED
BY SEAPLANE FIGHTS BACK
London. The first case in which it
is known that a submarine fought
back when attacked by a seaplane
resulted in the probable destruction
of the submarine by an American' avi
ator, Reserve Ensign J. F. Carson.
With shrapnel from the elevated
forward gun of the, submarine burst
ing around his seaplane, Ensign Car
son maneuvered until he was able to
pour machine gun fire into the crew,
felling two of them and driving the
others inside. The submarine sub
merged, and as she 'was diving two
bombs were dropped on her.
Within a few minutes the bow of
the U-boat appeared on the . surface
and remained visible about four min
utes. More bombs were dropped In
this interval and it is believed the un
dersea craft was either badly damag
ed or destroyed.
Ensign Carson's machine, with two
others, was on patrol when the sub
marine was sighted on the surface.
WARM PATRIOTISM IS SHOWN
BY UNITED CONFEDERATE VETS
Tulsa, -Okla. This was another day
of surging patriotism for the Confed
erate veterans, their" sons and their
associates in annual reunion here.
The veterans are no longer living
over their own battles of more thahn
half a century ago, but have made
the progress of the allied troops on
the western battle front a subject of
conversation and discourse that has
almost put into second place the figit
which they themselves partici
pated. A pledge - of support was sent to
President Wilson in the following
resolution:
"The United Confederate Veterans'
Association, in convention assembled,
desires to go on record before the
world with reference to the great
world war our country now is engaged
In, as heart and soul back of the
Washington administration and 100
per cent loyal to the colors. There
fore, be it resolved, we hereby pledge
our best and continuous efforts in up
holding, the hands of our great Presi
dent in his faithful execution' of the
most gigantic trust ever placed upon
the heart and brain of a human bt
lng." CAMP LEE HAS MORE
THAN 2,000 CASES INFLUENZA
Richmond, Va. Following the re
port to health authorities of a number
of cases of Spanish influenza, Health
Officer Flannigan Issued a suggestion
that all public dances be discontinued
until such time as the danger of a
spread of the disease is 6ver. With
over 2,000 cases at Camp Lee, and
many of the soldiers daily visiting the
city, the health officer has taken this
step to prevent an epidemic here.
DRAIN ON TREASURY HAS
BECOME VERY MUCH LESSENED
Washington; The drain on the
treasury has been less tis month
than for several months, amounting to
date to $1214,000,000, of which $1,004,
000,000 went for the army, navy, ship
ping board and other war purposes,
and $209,000,000 went as loans to al
lies. If this rate continues, the gov
ernment will spend about $1,500,000
000 this month, as "compared with
$1,805,060,000 last month, and $1,608,
000,000 in July.
ENTHUSIASTIC FOR
MILITARY HIGHWAY
AN ORGANIZATION, COMPLETE
AND COMPACT FORMED AT
CITY OF ROCKINGHAM.
CHARLOTTE - TO WILMINGTON
Highway Commission of the State
Appealed to to . Immediately
Make Survey of Route.
Rockingham. If complete and com
pact organization, enthusiasm and de
termination are capable of the
achievement, then it was apparent at
the close of the highway convention
here that Charlotte, and Wilmington,
will be connected by a military road
im the hot very distant future.
' Several hundred enthusiastic good
roads advocates ' representing all the
10 counties along the line from Meck
lenburg to New Hanover, inclusive,
except Brunswick, met here and form
ed a compact and permanent organ
ization to be known as the Charlotte-to-Wilmington
Military Highway Asso
ciation, and adopted resolutions look
ing to the achievement of its purpose.
The officers of the permanent or- .
ganization are: President, T. L. Klrk
patrick, Charlotte; first vice presi
dent, G'. Herbert Smith, Wilmington;
second vice president, E. A. Lackey,
Hamlet;' secretary-treasurer, W. C
Wilkinson, Charlotte. The executive
committee, of one member from each
county represented, heads the board
of directors of 10 members elected in
each county composing the associa-1
tion.
Patriotism and good roads enthusi
asm' bubbled over frequently. Speak
ers were' so enthusiastically applaud
ed and the applause took the form of
a chorus of yells when speakers, in
patriotic vein, mentioned the name of
Wilson or Pershing or spoke of the
American army going to Berlin.
' .The principal resolutions adopted as
reported b ythe committee of one
member from each county represent
ed, read by Heriot Clarkson, of Char
lotte, follow:
"That this convention heartily en
dorse the military highway from
Charlotte to Wilmington.
"That the senators and representa
tives in Congress from North Caro
lina be requested to at once introduce
a bill to secure an act of Congress
authorizing the secretary of the treas
ury to float a bond issue for the con-,
struction of said military highway in
-such' sum as they shall be advised as
necessary for the purpose and under
such rules, regulations and restrict
tions as may be deemed wise and ex
pedient.. Another Horrible Accident.
Greensboro. A horrible accident oc
curred here when the Ford roadster
of J. N. Allen was struck by the pas
senger. train from Raleigh at the West
Washington street crossing of the
Southern. In the machine were Mr.
and Mrs. Allen, their little five-year-old'
son, Paul Allen, and a colored nurse,
Virginia Graves. The colored girl
jumped when she saw that a collision
was inevitable, and escaped with a
broken leg. The little boy was in
stantly kiUed, his body being cut in
two and terribly mangled. Mr. and
Mrs. Allen both sustained severe in
juries. It is thought that Mrs. Allen
will recover, but Mr. Allen had not
regained consciousness at the time of
this writing. Relatives of the unfor
tunate young couple were wired im
mediately after the accident, and their
arrival is awaited before arrange
ments are made for the funeral of the
little son.
To Aid In Loan Drive.
Washington. The bar of Beaufort,
county unanimously resolved that the
calendar of fifty-five civil cases set tor
trial at the October term of ths supe
rior court be continued by consent,
and that the judge pTesidtag, Hon W.
M. Bond, be requested, after disposing
of the motion docket and uncontested
business, to adjourn the term and to
devote his time from this court in aid
of the fourth Liberty Loan.
Charlotte's Loan Quota.
Charlotte. Charlotte's quota of the.
fourth Liberty loan has been placed
at. $3,306,000, and the allotment to
North Carolina is $39,900,000, accord
ing to a telegram received by H. M.
Victor, chairman of the Liberty loan
committee for Charlotte and Mecklen
burg county, from the federal reserve
bank at Richmond. Mr. Victor said
he was unable to conclude from the
text of the telegram -whether or not
tke quota for Charlotte was also the
quota for th eounty. :
Map of Radio Site.
Monroe. County Surveyor R. W.
Elliott has been engaged for the past
week in making a survey and prepar
ing a map of the land near Bakers,
about four miles west of Monroe, on
which the government is considering
erecting the largest radio, plant in
the world! Three men connected with
the government have arrived to give
the land a second inspection and
went away favorably impressed. The
radio station in all probability will be
located on the sita at Bakers.
asonable protest. ...
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