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ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. 0. MARCH 27, 1919
VOL. XL NO. 34.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS OFTHE SOUTH
What la Taking Place In The South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraph
European . .
The Ukrainian troops besieging the
city of Lernberg have entered the city
after five days of hard fighting. The
resistance of the Polish reinforce
ments sent to the aid of the besieged
city was broken by the Ukrainians.
The Italian delegation to the peace
conference has unanimously decided
to withdraw from the conference un
less Flume is assigned to Italy con
temporaneously with the conclusion of
peace. The decision was reached at
a meeting of the full delegation presid
ed over by Premier Orlando.
Announcement is made in Paris that
all the main questions surrounding the
peace conference have been discuss
ed; that a meeting in which President
Wilson, Lloyd-George and Clemenceau
had participated was entirely satisfac
tory and that there have been no
changes in the plans previously an
nounced. Although no final decision has been
reached at the peace conference, it is
said that the present plan of a ma
jority of the five big nations contem
plates attaching the league of nations
compact to the peace treaty as an ap
pendix. This would enable Germany
to sign the treaty without securing ad
mission to the league, although at the
same time she would accept the declar
atory principles.
Andrew Bonar Law, government
leader in the house of commons, told
that body to the best of his belief there
was no foundation for the report that
a hitch had occurred in the presenta
tion to Germany of the draft of the
peace terms on account of divergences
of opinion on the subject of the league
of nations.
Domestic
Joseph E. Rutherford, president of
the International Bible Students As
sociation, which was founded by the
late "Pastor" Russell, and seven oth
er members of the asosciation who
were convicted recently in the federal
court in Brooklyn, on a charge of vio
lating the espionage act, have been
ordered released by the United States
circuit court of appeals in ten thou
sand dollars bail each.
Casualties in the United States air
service personnel serving with the
American and allied armies at the
front, numbered 554.
J. A. Cate and K. J. Hammond, stu
dent aviators of the naval station at
Pensacola. Fla., were killed when one
of the hydro-airplanes fell Into the
bay.
The navy department at Washing
ton announces that preparations for
the attempted flight of a navy sea
jplane across the Atlantic ocean are
going steadily forward.
The state department has called the
attention of the California-Mexico
Land company of Los Angeles that
it is contrary to the wish of the Unit
ed States that land be sold in Lower
California which might be used for
military or naval purposes against
the United States.
Two hours after the First National
bank of Freeport, N. Y., had been rob
bed of $3,181 by three masked ban
dits, two of the robbers were lodged
in jail, one with a bullet wound re
ceived while resi-.ting arrest. The
other bandit is expected to be caught,
as it is thouhgt he is surrounded in
the woods.
Improvement in building and con
struction activities as shown by. con
tracts let in February are reported in
statistical memorandum by the public
works division of the department of
labor.
The committee of distillers of the
United States, representing the entire
distilling industry, announces that
steps are being taken to attack the con
stitutionality of the federal prohibition
amendment and the wartime prohibi
tion act.
Mrs. George Greenwood, wife of the
vice president of the Savings Union
Bank and Trust company of San Fran
cisco, was killed by a bomb explosion
in the family home at Oakland, Cal.
According to the police a letter de
manding five thousand dollars on pain
of trouble had been sent to Greenwood
several months ago.
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker
says the cost of the war in money will
be one hundred and ninety-seven bil
lion dollars, which is eleven billion dol
lars more than the total value of all
the property of North America.
It is given out that the deaths in all
the armies in the great war totaled
nine million men.
The war department announces" that
thirty thousand more of "our boys"
are homeward bound. This is the
largest single homeward movement of
troops since cessation of hostilities.
Maj. Gen. Enoch H. Crowder, judge
advocate general of the army, having
been invited to Cuba to revise the
election laws, decided he would go
over in a hydroplane from Key West.
The trip was successfully made, and
the general is loud in his praise of air
riding.
The American squadron under Ad
miral Caperton which has been in
South American waters for some time,
is on its way home.
The war finance corporation has lent
Director General of Railroad Hines fif
ty million dollars for the railroad ad
ministration. This was made neces
sary by the failure of congress to pro
vide for the railroad contingency. Oth
er loans will follow as rapidly as they
can be arranged. ...
Governor Pleasant has Issued a call
for a general meeting of cotton grow
ins interests of the South tote held at
Wmthi- on March 24
Levy Mayer of Chicaro. renresenta-
tire of the distillers of the United
States, has advised his clients that In
those states having referendum laws.
an dwhoae legislatures have ratified
tne amendment, the ratification would
have no effect unless a majority of
the votes cast in the elections favored
he amendment.
The war finance corporation is con
sidering the advisability of floating a
large bond issue, probably two hundred
million dollars' worth, within a few
weeks to provide for railroads and to
meet any other demands on the corpo
ration. The interest rate contemplat
ed is 4 per cent.
Under the stimular of wartime de
mands meat production reached the
enormous total of twenty-three billion
tnree Hundred and sixty-six millioa
pounds last year, and the department
of agriculture announces that "un
doubtedly never before had been at
tained in this country, and ' certainly
not m any other country by long
odds."
John Thomas O'Brien has been sen
tenced to -the Ohio penitentiary for
seven years for having passed a worth
less check for $100 bearing the signa
ture of Woodrow Wilson.
Miss Ruth Garrison, 18, confessed
to the Seattle, Wash., police, that she
put poison in the food of her luncheon
guest, Mrs. Grace E. Storrs, 28, be
cause she was a rival of "Mrs. Storr
for the affections of Mrs. Storrs hus
band. The poisoned woman died im
mediately after eating the lunch.
The railroad administration has is
sued instructions suspending millions
of dollars of railway improvement
work because of the financial predica
ment congress left the administration
in by failing to pass adequate appro
priation. Washington
Decision of the war department to
proceed with the purchase of'the sites
of fifteen army camps and thirteen
balloon in flying fields over the coun
try is announced by Acting Secretary
Crowell. Less than fifteen million dol
lars will be involved and it will not
be necessary to. await action by con
gress, as the war department now has
the necessary funds.
Twenty-seven camps and fifteen
aviation fields will be abandoned. Or
ders already have gone out for the
abandonment of twenty of the camps,
including nearly all of the National
Guards' training centers set up after
the United States declared war on
Germany.
It is definitely announced by the war
department that only two flying fields
actually will be used In training army
aviators in peace time.
Dispatches from London announce
that wireless telephony has been es
tablished between Canada and Ireland.
General Pershing has notified the
war department- that the forty-second
(Rainbow) and the twenty-sixth (New
England National Guard) divisions
will sail from Brest between March
28 and April 19.
General Pershing cables that it will
not be possible to send home the sev
enty-seventh (New York national
army) division before April 24 unless
German shipping becomes available
sooner than now anticipated.
Tropps returning from France dur
ing the week ended March 14 number
ed 59,454. the largest total for any
week since the armistice was signed.
Reports of growing anti-American
feeling in eastern Siberia have been
for some time in the hands of the
state department. The reports came
from both American diplomatic and
military representatives In Siberia,
and show that they have been stirred
up by the Japanese and a British com
mander who oppose the policy of the
United States that is, the United
States refuses to commit itself to any
iaciion in ine miHsiuu muuuic.
Congressman Alvan T. Fuller of
Massachusetts says Japan planned to
join Germany against the allies, but
when she learned that the United
States was deadly In earnest she at
once changed her mind.
After successful trials of new Brit
ish dirigibles of the rigid type of con
struction, the government of Great
Britain, according to the London Daily
Mail, has ordered the building of two
enormous airships. Each will be 800
feet in length will have a capacity
of three million cubic feet.
The League to Enforce Peace an
nounces through its Washington head
quarters that Attorney General Pal
mer is preparing o make a series of
speeches in support of the proposed
constitution for a league or nations.
Organization of a co-operative cot
ton export corporation with capitaiiza
tion of perhaps fifty million dollars.
is beine advocated by Governor w. f
G. Harding of the federal reserve
hoard.
The American embassy at Mexico
City has been Instructed by the state
department to request uie ivies."
government to take every possible step
to insure the protection or Aniens
citizens in the territory of northern
Mexico, where Villist bands are report
ed to have become active again.
Figures made public by the war de
partment show that up to aiarcn i
412.27S men had been brought home
from Europe.
Representative Edward L.. Hamilton
of Michigan has informed the state
rienartment at Washington that he nas
been told by Warren & Co. that em
nlorees of the company's ranch at Oji-
tos, Chihuahua, were neia uy
Lopez, a Villa . leader, who demands
five thousand dollars ransom under
v.-ot of killing the prisoners ana ae
stroying the ranch. Tiit- message said
the foreman of the rant n was eiiuv
nrtno to raise the money.
ThrR has bein rioting at Tanta,
Egypt, an important town on the Nile,
t uvQtiirin the ca Di
va miles auu" '
ti of the province of Gharbiya, in con-
nection with the disorders which have
occurred there. Twenty-two casualties
,, snorted in a dispatch irom airc
A farmer or a merchant who has
cotton for sale must either take the
price offered him or he must hold his
cotton in the hope or oDtainms 'e"
er price, and he has no assurance that
hn will eet a higher price uy noimua
The cotton spinners have their own
organisation; those wU iurt flotton
;r hi eB
HINDEIIK LINE
BROKEN BY 30TH.
PERSHING TESTIFIES AS TO
WHOM THE DISTINCTION OF
DECIDING WAR BELONGS.
NEW YORK REGIMENT ASSISTED
Letter of Chief Commander Puts End
to Controversy Between New York
and Tennessee-Carolina Troops.
All doubt as to the identity of the
army organization first piercing the
Hindenburg line is cleared away, the
incipient controversy between the
arolinas and Tennessee, on one side,
and New York on the other, definite
ly ended, and the Thirtieth division is
given full credit for this wonderful
feat at arms by no less authority than
General John J. Pershing, commander-
in-chief of the American expedition
ary forces, in a letter to Major General
Edward M. Lewis, commanding the
Thirtieth division, in which the ac
complishments of the division are giv
en highest commendation. '
Officers and men of the Thirtieth
division who have been returned to
the United States during the past two
weeks have expressed emphatically
their dissatisfaction over the manner
in which " certain publications of the
eastern states have described the
breaking of the Hindenburg line, de
clared by many authorities as the
greatest single military accomplish
ment of the world war and by others
as the military decision of that con
test. In these lengthy descriptions of
the fighting of September 29-30. 1918,
it was claimed that this break was
made by the Twenty-Seventh (New
York national guard) division.
FEDERAL JUDGE HOLDS THAT
WAR IS OFFICIALLY ENDED
Louisville, Ky. Federal Judge
Evans, deciding a case which hing
ed upon an interpretation of when the
European war ended, decided "the
war was brought to a close when the
armistice was signed" and President
Wilson "in an official speech" had
made lhat declaration upon which the
court predicated the decision.
Judge Evans refused to take cogni
zance of a telegram from Attorney
General Palmer to the effect Congress
declared war and only congress could
terminate it as far a 3 the United
States 'is concerned by ratifying a
treatv of peacej and brushed aside a
quotation from Secretary of War Ba
ker that the armistice meant only a
cessation of hostilities.
ATEST NEWS FROM HUNGARY
IS CAUSING MUCH ANXIETY
Washington. Dispatches to the
state department from Belgrade said
the new Hungarian bolshevik govern
ment had ordered the beginning of
hositilities against the entente. Nc
information was given as to whether
operations actually had been under
taken.
Belated messages bringing official
reports on the development in Hun
gary reached the department during
the day from Berne, Belgrade and
Copenhagen. One report said Bela
Kun, foreign minister of the Hunga
rian bolshevisks. before leaving Rus
sia served as aide-de-amp to Trctzky
Advices to the state department
from three widely separated Euro
pean sources tended to increase the
anxiety of officials over the situation.
FU' L PARDON FOR DEBS
IS URGED UPON WILSON
New York. A full pardon for Eu
gene V. Debs, former socialist presi
dential candidate ,now under a 10
years prison sentence for violation of
the espionage law. and amnesty for
all persons imprisoned for "honest ex
pressions of opinion against America's
cause in the war" were urged in a
petition cabled to President Wilson
by the. executive committee of the
Social Democratic League of'Amer
ica.
VON ECKH ART ARRIVES IN
NEW YORK FROM "MEXICO
New York. Heinrich von Eckhart,
former German ambassador to Mex
ico. to whom was sent the famous
Zimmerman note in which Germany
proposed an alliance with Mexico and
Japan in case the United States en
ered the war, arrived here from Mex-
o City.
Von Eckhart and Bninow. recall
ed by their government, refused to
answer questions upon their arrival
Here.
COTTON INTERESTS IN
MEMPHIS CONFERENCE
Memphis. Tenn. Reports submit
ted to the conference here of Southern
planters, bankers and State officials
called to perfect details of the cotton
acreage reduction movement mauKii
rated at a meeting held in New Or
leans last month, were declared in
resolutions adopted at the final ses
sion of the conference to be "emi
nently satisfactory" and plans were
perfected for making the organization
permanent.
WHISKEY MAY BE SOLD BY THE
GOVERNMENT IN DRY STATES
Washington. Customs authorities
have long pondered over the disposal
of many rallons of whiskey, rum and
-ther distilled spirits seized as it was
about to be imported in violation of
the food control act. The department
of Justice rendered an opinion to tht
effect It might be. confiscated and
old for industrial or drinking pur
Mini oven in drv States, cn the as
sumption the federal government wt
RECORD OF 113TH. REGIENT
High .Spots in History Made in Brief
Period by Now World Famous
Body of. Southern Troops.
Known as "storm" troops and
shock" troops, the North Carolina
youths of the 113th field artillery,
commanded by Colonel Albert L. Cox,
of Raleigh, won all distinction now ac
corded them.
This regiment came back to Amer
ica with a record unsurpassed by
any unit of the American artillery
forces in the world war, having done
its share to make the world "safe for
democracy."
What they really have seen and ex
perienced is summarized by Colonel
Cox in his statement in greeting to
the parents and friends of the men,
as follows: "We of the 113th field ar
tillery .have . been through times that
burned men's souls with the hofwr
of it all, and the future of our lives
will be sweeter for a fuller under
standing," The following resume of events
shows the high spots in history of the
regiment:
May 27, 1918. After training at
Camp Sevier, sailed on H. M. S. Ar
magh, from New York, landing June
7 at Liverpool.
June 13 Arrived at La Havre,
France.
June 16 Arrived at French training
camp at Coetquidan.
Aug. 24 Left in trains for battle
front on Toul sector, where the regi
ment was continuously under fire.
Sepl. 12 In front of Bernecourt par
ticipated in the opening of the first
ail-American offensive in the flatten
ing of the St. Mihiel salient.
Sept. 14 Advance was stopped at
Thiaucourt and Bouillonville, the sa
lient having been eliminated with
wonderful dash.
Sept. 15 Began nine-night forced
march to the Argonne forest.
Sept. 25 From positions just south
of Avocourt, opened fire at beginning
of first drive against the Germans' Ar
gonne forest positions.
Sept. 28 Objectives gained, regi
ment took up positions near Monfau
con and two days later moved to Ivou
ry, about three forths of the regi
ment's animals having been lost by
ahell-fire or overwork.
Oct. 6 Enduring great hardship
and experiencing tremendous difficul
ties, the regiment began its forced
march to the Woevre region, on the
Meuse river.
Nov. 11 Armistice was signed after
the regiment, which was operating
with the 33rd division, had been firing
and under fire continuously since ar
riving on the Meuse in the region of
Plainsville, where on one particularly
trying occasion the regiment found it
self in front of the first line infantry.
Liberal use of gas shells proved ample
protection for the Tar HeeJs.
Nov. 14 Found Germans disposed
to obey armistice terms and'withdrew
guns from positions for cleaning.
Dec. 7 Attached to 33rd division,
began march toward Luxemburg,
spending successive nights in the re
gions of Trianville, Joudreville, Nuil-
lon-Pont, . Rehon. Rechangen. and
crossed the French border into enemy
territory, sleeping December 14 at
Mutford, on German soil; December
16, at Assel; December 17. atHassel;
December 19, at Wolferdange; Decem
ber 20 at Colmar Berg, in Luxemburg.
Jan. 5, 1919 Detached from 33rd di
vision and ordered to proceed to the
forwarding camp at Le Mons, to re
join other units of Thirtieth division.
Jan. 9 Again re-entered France at
Benvilleres.
Jan. 13 Arrived at Cornieville, near
the point where the regiment was sta
tioned at the beginning of the St. Mi
hiel drive, and there turned in theii
field pieces, French 75-millimeter guns
used throughout the regiment's fight
ing.
Jan. 19 Left Cornieville. and at
Trondes the men were loaded ir
freight cars, 65 men to the small car
Jan 25 Detrained about 20 milei
from Le Mons.
Feb. 5 Arrived at Le Mons for
warding camp, rejoining other units of
the Thirtieth division, and there the
men were re-equipped.
March 4 Left Le Mons.
March 5 Arrived at port of em
barkation at St. Nazaire.
March 6 Embarked on U. S. S. San
ta Teresa for Newport News, Va.
March 19 Debarked and hiked to
Camp Stuart, near Newport News.
Norfleet Closes Offices.
Winston-Salem. State Fuel Admin
istrator R. C. Norfleet has been noti
fled that all state fuel administration
offices will be closed, this order com
Ine from the department in Washing
ton. Mr. Norfleet has conveyed this
information to the local administra
tors in the various cities and counties
in North Carolina with the closing ol
the State office here on the date des
ignated. Mr. C. L. Shuping, who has
been executive secretary of the State
administration since its organization
will return to Greensboro.
To Form R. O. T. C.
Chapel Hill. That a unit of the Re
serve Officers' Training Corps will be
established at the University of North
Carolina at an early date, now ap
pears to be a certainty. A total of 114
men have made application for the
course, 14 more than the necessary
quota, and Maj. M. Crawford has made
formal application to the war depart
ment for a unit here, which he thinks
will be organized within the next twe
or three weeks. The course will be
voluntary, and will only require three
hours a week.
Move for Health Office.
Charlotte. Dr. C. C. Hudson, city
health officer, who with Dr. I. W. Fai
son and Mrs. C. C. Hook attended a
meeting of citizens at Gastonia in the
Interest of a movement for tr.w em
ployment of a whole-time health offi
rsr. reported that the people seem en
thusiastic. At present part of the time
of a physician has been engaged foi
city health work but the growth lr
size and progressiveness of that cits
fca mn urgent the need for a physi
cian to devote bis entle tint to heHfc
ATMOSPHERE TENSE
AND APPREHENSIVE
POLAND BONE OF CONTENTION
AND IMMEDIATE SUBJECT OF
CONFERENCE DISCUSSION.
VIEWS ARE WIDELY DIVERGENT
Lloyd George Fears Denationization
of So Many Germans Would
Cause Another War.
Paris. When the council of great
powers met it was in an atmosphere
of considerable apprehension over Pol
and, which is the chief subject of dis
cussion. This is not on account of
Poland itself but because of differences
which have arisen affecting the funda
mental question of nationality, to
which President Wilson has given his
strong approval and also his thir
teenth "point" which called for an in
dependent Polish state with access to
the sea.
This last cause has introduced an
issue on fhich there is a wide diverg
enceof views. A committee under the
chairmanship of Jules Cambon. with
Sir William Tyrell as the British mem
ber and Dr. Robert , LorHd as the
American, has reported the plan giv
ing Poland this access to the sea by
means of a "corridor" 60 miles wide
running across east Prussia. But the
effect of this concession is to place
about 1.500,000 Germans within the
new Poland and to detach the eastern
most part of Prussia from Germany.
Premier Lloyd George has taken the
view that this denationalization of a
large body of Germans would cause
such discontent as would be likely to
bring on another war and it is under
stood that President Wilson also is
not entirely satisfied with the pro
posal. OFFICES OF POSTAL SYSTEM
ARE REMOVED BY BURLESON
Washington. Differences between
the management of the Postal Tele
graph & Cable Co.. and Postmaster
General Burleson culminated in an or
der by the postmaster general sum
marily relieving the chief officers, di
rectors and owners of the Postal com
pany from all duties in connection with
government operation of their system.
An announcement by the postoffice
department says that the order re
moving Messrs. Mackay. Cook and
Deegan from the operation of the
Postal company's lines under govern
ment control was "made necessary
by the fact that since the postoffice
department refused to grant the com
pensation asked for by them, these
officials have refused or failed to fol
low out the instructions of the depart
ment in the management of the prop
erties and failed to put into operation
promptly the wage schedule and the
eight hour day; and in various ways
endeavored to embarrass and discredit
the government operation of the wires
NUMBER OF RETURNED TROOPS
EXCEED ONE-HALF MILLION
Washington. The total number of
members of the American expedition
ary forces returned to the United
States has passed the half million
mark. The war department an
nounced the actual figure March 20
was 500,034. including 27,940 officers,
2.146 nurses, 3,683 civilians and 448.
241 men of the army, 13.500 navy per
sonnel and 4,474 marines. The
strengh of the expeditionary forces
March 20 was 1,470,676.
DREADED SEVEN-YEAR LOCUST
HAS APPEARED IN VIRGINIA
Richmond, Va. Reports received by
State authorities from Spottsylvania
county indicate that many of the seven-year
locusts which are reported as
due to sweep that section of the State
this year, have been plowed up by
farmers The situation has reached
a stage where the agricultural depart
ment at Washington has detailed en
tomologists to that section to study
conditions.
TO FORM ARMED ALLIANCE
AGAINST THE ARISTOCRACY
Paris. The proclamation of the
new Hungarian government invites
the workmen and peasants of Bohe
mia, Rumania, Serbia and Croatia to
form an armed alliance against the
aristocracy, landowners and dynasties
It requests also that the workmen of
Austria and Germany follow the lead
of Hungary in breaking off relations
with the Paris peace conference. They
are requested to rally with the Mos
bow government.
SECRETARY DANIELS HAS
REACHED PORT OF BREST
Brest. The American transport Le
viathon, with Secretary of the Navy
Josephus Daniels oa board, arrived
in Brest. Secretary Daniels was re
ceived by the American naval attache,
Admiral Moreau, maritime prefect.
and Rear Admiral Alexander S. Hal-
stead, U. S. N., district commander at
Brest. A detachment of marines with
a band acted as a guard of honor for
the secretary, who went to the prefec
ture. V
MORE CAROLINIANS HAVE , -.
ARRIVED FROM OVERSEAS
Newport News, Va. More troops of
the Old Hickory division the Thir
tieth, which includes men from Ten
nessee, North and South Carolina re
turned home from the battlefields of
France on the transport Finland after
a 13-day voyage from St. Nazaire.
Officers and men of the Old Hickory
division aboard numbered more, than
2,400 and each one of them is afikloui
to iet to his home. They will be test
to varieue dmsomrti camp.
YELLOW PERIL IN
LOVER
ATTENTION OF JAPANESE IS
CALLED TO OUR ATTITUDE ON
ALIEN LAND HOLDING.
ONE MILLION ACRES SOUGHT
No Land Sales to Forei lers Which
Might Be Used for Military or
, Naval Purposes Favored.
Washington. As a result of tele
grams from Senator Phelan, of Cali
fornia, giving information of a pro
posal by Japanese interests to acquire
a large tract of land in Lower Cali-n
fornia owned by Americans, the state
department has called the attention
of the owning corporation, the California-Mexico
Land CompaEy,of Los
Angeles, to the attitude of the United
States government toward such sales
of property which might be used for
military or naval purposes.
It was said at the state department
the land in question was reported to
comprise nearly a million acres. The
use to which the prospective purchas
ers propose to put it is not known
here.
Documents indicating the attitude
of the government to which the de
partment called the Los Angeles ocm
pany's attention included the Lodsce
resolution in the 62nd Congress and
a message by President Taft.
The Lodge resolution declares the
sales of property by Americans to
any nation which might 'use the site
as a base to threaten the ; United
States could not be seen without
grave concern by the government of
the United States. The message of
President Taft transmitted a report
by Secretary Knox in response to a
senate resolution, and conveyed cor
respondence between the office of the
secretary of state arl a New York
lawyer who represented a Japanese
syndicate which sought to purchase
land on Magdalena bay.
SITUATION IN EGYPT
IS DISTINCTLY GRAVE
London.The situation in Egypt is
becoming worse and at the present
time is distinctly grave, a Reuter dis
patch from Cairo savs. General Al
lenby. the commander in Palestine,
will reach Cairo Tuesday. The large
forces of troops already in Egypt are
being reinforced.
A large number of armed bedouins
have entered Behira province, lower
Esypt. from the west and are robbifis:
towns and villages. The situation is
not regarded as presenting any mili
tarv danger.
The Turkish flae is reported to be
flyina; in some villages of Beheira
province. There are no reports of any
casualties having been suffered by the
nv'Ht."ry, but some prominent native
officials and several Egyptian police
have been killed.
50 MISSOURI LEGISLATORS
CHALLENGE 'REED TO RESIGN
Jefferson City. Mo Fifty Demo
critic mmehors of the Mos-.our'' leris
lature offered to resign if ftaiitor .Tas.
A. Reed. Democrat, from -'Missouri,
would res'en from the United States
senate. The legislators then propose
to run for re-election, as they sufrr-ost
Reed should do. to foj-re a pomilir
vote in Missouri on the league of na
tio"s.
The hituse of representatives re
fentl" passed resolutions demnndinir
that Senator Reed resign beense of
h's opposition to President Wilson's
program.
HYDRO I Pp I AN F FAttR:
TWO FLIERS ARE KILLED
Ponsacla Fla Two student off'-
.r, of the nqval station herp wr
killed this afternoon when their hf
rfoairplane fell into the biv. Thev
were J. A. Cate ard K. -T. Hmmonfi
to authorises did not rve the home
-H,1res'"! of the men Tho cause o
the accident has not been determined.
FIRST GREAT RESULT TO
BE OBTAINED IS PEACE
Paris. "The first result to be ob
tained is peace. P"d the quickest
"eace possible." said David Lloyd
(-jonrs-e. the Kritisn . premier, in
statement. "All internal events in
every country, allied or enemy, are do
pendent unon that peace, which we
expect and desire to com at the
earliest possible moment. Pendinr'
this, evervone is living in a state r.f
expectation aid uncertainty. Com
merce and industrv are stagnated.
30 TRAILING CAMPS ARE TO
EE RETAINED BY GOVERNMENT
Washington. Decision of the wa
department to Proceed with the pur
chase of the sitos of 13 arniv camps
and 13 balloon and flying fields over
th. country was announced hv Act'ng
3prretarv Crowell. Less than $15
"0 000 will be involved. Mr. Crowell
aid. and it will not be necessary to
wait. action by Congress as the de
partment now has the necessary
'funds. With these Purchases the army
will have 30 training camps.
$100,000,001 PAIO ROAf!S RY
THE WAR DEPARTMENT
- Washipgton. The urarent need of
the railroad administration for readr
cash with which to meet the current
oblieations was partially met thronerb
payment of $100,000,000 bv the war
department on account of transoorta
tion of troops and war supplies.
The payment. It was announced at
the war denartaen.. covers bills l
r9dv approved and RfltlHtJptes bills
wh'ch ordinaruy wonid fan r -un-
m tot r.sxt ihtfn Mt! tha.
BRIGHT PROSPECTS AHEAD
Contract for a New Street Railway
System Has Just Been Signed by ,
the City of Fayetteville.
Fayetteville. The Fayetteville
Chamber of Commerce at its annual
meeting paused to review the most
prosperous 12 months In its history,
and looked forward to the most prom
ising year that, has ever awaited Fay
etteville. The reports of the various
officers and directors showed progress
everywhere.
Two very substantial instances of
this kind were brought out when
Mayor J. D. McNeill, reporting for
the conventions, entertainment and
street railways committee, told of
the signing of papers that day with
a Richmond capitalist, who is to build
a street railway through the principal
streets of Fayetteville, to the jCape
Fear river and to Camp Bragg, and
when D. U. Sandlin, head of the di
vision of wholesale and industrial af
fairs, reported the acquisition ' of the
big Jackson Brothers Lumber Com1
pany, which has bought land for the
building of a woodworking plant, and
secured the passage of ordinances al
lowing the building of spur tracks to
the site and the opening of two new
streets in the southeastern part of the
city, by which the property will be
reached. The company will employ
700 hands here.
More Tobacco Warehouses.
Sanford. A second tobacco ware
house company has been organized to
erect a warehouse for the coming sea
son in Sanford.
The stockholders held their first
meeting last night in the Commercial
club rooms and elected the following
directors: H. A. Palmer, J. W. Cun
ningham, J. E. Brinn, K. L. Baldwin,
J. E. Walker, M. C. Reeves and Geo.
L. Stone, who met and elected J. W.
Cunningham, presidenL and J. E.
Brinn, secretary. The directors 'also
appointed a committee to secure char
ter, select lot and erect a building,
work to begin within 30 days if pos
sible.
The outloolt for a large tobacco
crop in Lee county this year is good.
Extensive preparations have been
made in the way of plant beds. Be-
ween 40 and 50 tobacco farmers have
moved into the county this year and
have already made arrangements for
crops. It is expected that there will
be more than two million pounds put
on the Sanford market this fall.
New Type of Road.
Charlotte. The Mecklenburg coun
ty commissioners have under consid
eration a new type of asphaltic road
with the view of using it on tne nign
ways of this county.
The advantage of the road was
noin ted out to be that little rock will
ar '
be required. Unless some preparation
can be secured wnicn can De iaia
without rock the county commission
ers will be undoubtedly unable to ao
anv extensive repair work on the
Mecklenburg county roads, Mr. Mc
Donald said last night. Because or
the labor shortage during the fall and
winter the farmers of the county
nave gathered practically no rock and
it would be prohibitory to ship it here
for road purposes.
Delight of Traveling Public
Greensboro. The furnishings for
the O. Henry Hotel have been order
ed and it is expected that this new
hostelry will be occupied not later
than May 1. It is understood that the
contractors expect to hand over the
keys of the completed building early
In April. The furniture will be placed
as rapidly as passible. News that the
hotel fs to be occupied in a short time
will be hailed with delight by trav
eling salesmen and others who visit
Greensboro frequently or occasionally.
Elections on Petition.
Shelby. The county board of com
missioners on petitions signed by the
voters of No. 5 and No. 11 townships
issued calls for elections to be held
In each town April 14 on the question
of bond issues for good roads. No. 5
will vote on an issue uf $40,000 worth
of bonds while No. 11 will vote on an
issue of $30,000 worth of bonds. It
these two elections carry, as it is
thought they will, because the state
wide road law under which tne elec
tion is called, the issues can carry on
a majority of votes cast
Carload of Fine Jerseys.
rH.fiotte Charles E. Miller, Meek
Vutwvv
inhiirer county demonstration agent,
returned from Ohio where he bought
a carload of Jersey cattle for Meck
lenburg breeders.
Tfcere are 21 haad in the carload
Mr Miller said lhat the cattle form
one of the best lots that have ever
hun hroue-ht into this county.
Nearly 100 head of thoroughbred
Jersey cattle have been hrougm iuu
Mecklenbure; county within the last
year or more, and there are at pres
ent about 125 head tn tne coumy.
95 Wioh Schools Competed.
Wake Forest With twenty-five ac-
riitH hisrh schools representee
covering a wicV geographical extent
from Edenton to Asheviue. tne inira
Tntar.Srholastic Declamation Contest
which closed at Wake Forest College,
marked the beginning of a new era in
the declamation field, by the. unusual
of the declamations deliv
ered. The first prize, consisting of a
scholarship - in Wake Forest, and a
i nil some medal, from the Literary
Societies, went to Mr. Victor Young.
of Durham City School.
Golf Course ta Be Built.
Asheville. The Hendersonville
hoard of tradfl finished a campaign to
raise $25 000 for the building of a golf
ceurse at Hill Girt, three miles out of
Hendersonville. The course will take
in 113 acres of rolling land, said to be
an excellent site for such use.. The
jonmA will be comprised of 18 holes
nine of which will be constructed this
year. A splendid clubhouse will also
hm built this year on the rrouii. at
English tolf expert ii now at Hill Oirt
for the purpott of Uy!a cut the
T
WILL BUILD ROADS
BOND ISSUE OF $1,000,000 WILL
BE SUBMITTED TO VOTE
OF THE PEOPLE.
DATE OF ELECTION APRIL 20
Office of State and Federal Govern
ment to Assist Is Accepted By the
Board of County Commij'rs.
Washington, N. C. One of the most
important meeting ever held by any
set of officials in Beaufort county was
held when the county commissioners
met in special session and called' for
an election to vote on a million-dollar
bond issue for the ctmstructlorr of per
manent roads throughout the county.
The date for the election was fixed
for April 29. The commissioners also
decided to accept the proposition of
fered by the State and Government
for assisting in road building, agree
ing to put up one-fourth of the amount
required to secure federal aid. They
also donated $500 to be used on the
celebration which it is' planned to
give Beaufort county boys who have
been in the service upon the return
of Battery B of the 113th Field Artil
lery.
Ex-Soldier Caught Blockading.
Statesville. E. J. Cain, a young
soldier recently discharged from the
military service, giving his home as
the northern part of this county, was
arrested by Police Officers Gilbert
and Mills. He was caught in the act
of measuring up a lot of blind tiger
liquor. The officers had gone to the
home of Charlie Allison, colored, to
search his premises for some articles
recently stolen here. Allison was un
der suspicion of having received them.
The officers, not suspecting anything
unusual, walked into the home of the
negro and found. Cain and the colored
man in possession of tour gallons of
whiskey. Cain was arrested and
tried Saturday night and released on
bail of $200. His team consisting of
a horse and buggy were seized by the
offieers and it together with the whis
key was turned over to the county
authorities.
Fair of the Carollnas.
Charlotte. The directors of the
Fair of the Carolinas decided to hold
a fair here during probably the second
week in next October. The meeting
was called for the purpose of electing
officers for the ensuing year and for
discussing plans by which the fair
next fall would be operated.
A conference with the directors of
the Charlotte Merchant's association
will be requested by the fair associa
tion directors for the purpose of dis
cussing with the merchants the mat
ter of securing their co-operation in
holding the fair.
Next Mayor of Gastohfi.
Gastonia. Friends of Captain R.
Gregg Cherry of Company A, 115th
"Machine Gun batalion, 30th division.
now en route home from France, have
launched a boom for him for the of
fice of mayor of Gastonia. This fact
will come to Captain Cherry as a sur
prise when he lands in the homeland.
The mention of his name in connec
tion with this office is without his
knowledge or consent but his friends
believed that he would not turn a deaf
ear to the call, which will be unani
mous. Hambrick Charges Dismissed.
Goldsboro. O. V. Hamrick, princi
pal of the Goldsboro High school, was
tried in the county court nprj the
charge of assaulting Harold Grady,
one of the school pupils with a stick.
After hearing both Bides of the case
Judge T. H. Bland refused to find
Hamrick guilty of this offense. Hon.
J. L. Barham. prosecuting attorney
for young Grady, stated following the
trial that he was not satisfied with
Judge Bland's decision, and that while
it was not possible to appeal the case
he inteded placing sjjne in the hands
of . the next Wayne county grand
jury.
Rd Cross Conference. '
Greensboro. Home service work
ers of the Red Cross will meet in
Greensbvo March 26 and 27 for a
conference. All Red Cross workers
of the central northern counties of
North Carolina are expected to at
tend, but the meeting is especially
for home service workers. Sessions
will be held in the Elks club, and the
visitors will be entertained at the
Cuilford hotel. Miss Msy C. Mc
Donald, of the southern division head
quarters in Atlanta, is here to act as
executive secretary.
To Relieve Canctst'-'v
Fayetteville. Steps to relieve the
congestion brought about by the burn
ing of the Rosemnt hotel, were taken
when J. P. Sander, proprietor of the
LaFayette hotel closed a contract for
the lease of the two upper floors of
the building owned by the Huske
Hardware house on Hay street and
will fit them up immediately for the
entertainment of gue3ts. Other hotels
here are making efforts to expand
their facilities, though moit of them
are already overtaxed.
Fertilizer Factories Idle.
Wilmington. With more tons of
nitrate of soda stored almost in sight
of the plants than ever were In this
city at one time before, local fertiliser
factories face a shutdown. The gov
ernment forces the plants here to ship
their nitrate from Jacksonville, and
en route somewhere between here and
there, are trainloads of nitrate not to
be located. On this $6 a ton fretght
charges have to be paid when the
local warehrmnes re overflowine with
nitrate. tV m'M le bad at almoil
freight share!.
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