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M PAGES TODAY One to Fourteen LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST: FAIR AM) WARMKII TODAY FAIR TOMORROW YAJMM VALLEY HERALD PAGES TODAY One to Fourteen VOL.S. NO. 41. r SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA, Tl'KSDAY, MARCH 2(1, 1917. PRICK TWO CENTS VALUABLE AND USEFUL PRESENTS GIVEN AWAY FREE TO LADIES OF ROWAN COUNTY AND VICINITY BY THE YADKIN VALLEY HERALD With the Towns of Salisbury, Spencer and East Spencer Elimineted All Candidates Will Be on Equal Terms. This is Your Opportunity to Eearn a Valuable Prize in the Next Few Weeks. Read the Page Advertisement. With a 1917 Ford Touring car ns the first grand prize the Daily Post and Semi-Weekly Herald makes its first announcement today of the greatest circulation campaign of encr gy ever given ly a newspaper in this section. Ladies, this big prize distribution is just for you. No men allowed to compete for the awards in this cam paign. We have eliminated the candidates living in the corporate limits of Sal isbury, Spencer and East S'pencer from entering this campaign. No canaiaaie win De alJjwert to secure any - subscription where the same is to be delivered by our carrier boys ut candidates may secure subscrip tion any place in the world if they are to be delivered by mail. if you appreciate the opportunity this campaign offers you. it will pay you to read every word about the big; prize distribution even if it is a littlf long. Learn all about the campaign The complete schedule of regular and extra votes that will be allowed dur ing the campaign is announced in the above column in this issue. You wil! know just where the best possibilities I are. As soon as you finish reading all about this big campaign for the la dies send in your name and make up your mind that you will win the first prize the new Ford Touring Car. Plans that have been based upon the expenditure of hundreds of dol lars have finally matured and the complete details of the great gift-giving entei-pri.se are given in a page ad vertisement of this issue. The Daily Post and Weekly Herald wishes to gain entrance to every home in the county on a paid-advance basis, and are billing to pay handsomely to those who assist in accomplishing the work. j A corps of professional solicitors could be secured to do the work at a j smaller cost than the plan that has , been adopted. But the Port and Her ald chose to eive the people through out the county an opportunity to do the work and earn the reward. Be sides, professional solicitors are some- j times a nuisance, and it is certain j that the big campaign will make a lot of fun for the people of this vici nity as well as for the paper, and there is nothing li'e having a little fun in connection with woik when possible. A Great Opportunity. Every lady living in the section has an equal opportunity to win any prize that is offered. Luck or chance nlays no part in this campaign it is an opportunity a race of energy where the deserving will receive the veward. Those who enter early, tak ing active part and working constant ly to the end, will be the ones to re-j ceive the larger awards. ' The only requirements needed to make a successful race is that the candidates have a few spare moments each day to devote to the work of securing renewals and new subscrib ers to the Daily Post by mail and Weekly Herald. The ladies who do the greatest amount of worlk will earn the greatest reward. The plan , is so "erulited that the deserving moist win. Energy is the only afset needed. The prime object of the camcaign is .o e:';tain bona fide subscriotions, and every de tail is regarded to place the vote value of energetic work above money or anything else. Every one living in the contest territory has equal op portunity regardless of aare, nlace of residence or condition of their finan- How Votes Will Be Issued The campaign has been divided into Five periods. The num ber of votes allowed on subscriptions wil! decrease at the end of each period. It is so arranged that those entering at the begin ning have the best chance to win. Bear in mind that the votes on subscriptions will be the greatest at the beginning. Votes will be given on subscriptions as follcws up to and in cluding April 21st, 1917. VOTES ON SUBSCRIPTION TO HERALD: One Year $1.00 15.000 Votes Two Yeirs $2.00 15.000 Votes. VOTES ON SUBSCRIPTION TO DAILY POST BY MAIL: Three Months 75 6,000 Votes. Six Months $1.50 18,000 Votes. One Year 3.00 54,000 Votes. Two Years 6.00 192,000 Votes. From April 21st up to and including April 28th, 10 per cent less than the above schedule. From April 28th up to and including May 5th, 20 per cent less than the above schedule. From May 5th up to and including May 16th, 25 per cent less than the above schedule. Last period one-half the above schedule. A subscription secured during the first period will equal aj many votes as two subscriptions will the last period. Regulations Any lady residing in the territory outside the corporate limits of Salisbury, Spencer or East Spencer, in which the Daily Post by Mail or Semi-Weekly Herald circulates is eligible to enter the campaign. No salaried employee, or member of their family of the Post Publishing Co. can enter the campaign. Candidates may nominate themselves or be nominated by their friends. The Contest Manager reserves the right to reject any nom ination. You will find a nomination blank good for 10,000 votes which will give you a fine Btart. Votes will be issued on paid subscriptions to the Daily Post by mail or Semi-Weekly Herald. Votes will be given on both old and new subscription!. Sub scriptions may be taken anywhere. Votes will not be transferable. All Special Vote Ballots issued on subscriptions are good un til the end of the contest. The votes will be counted and canvassed by a committee of prominent citizens. No person can win more than one prize. In Oise of a tie for any prize each candidate will receive an identical prize. Any question which may arise will Joe settled by the Contest Manager and his decision will be absolute and final. In case of a typographical error it is understood that the Con test Manager shall not be responsible except to make necessary corrections on discovery of same. ' All active candidates will receive a five per cent cash commis sion on every dollar that they turn in if they fail to win one of the prizes as advertised. The Campaign has been divided into Five Vote Periods. Extensions on subscriptions may be secured at any time and the same number of regular votes will be issued as the date the subscriptions were first received by the campaign department. pons to vote a reasonable nunr' er of their subscription votes in the paper to muke a showing. A voting rule to this effect will be made later on. Un der no circumstances will a candi date be allowed to vote the entire number of her subscription vote bal lots. This is done so that it will be impossicle for a candidate to know the real standing of another; and also to prevent clubbing of candidates to defeat another. The First Thin to Do. Clip the nomination blank to ie found in each issue of the Semi Wee ;Iy Herald for a certain period. Fill in your name or that of a Wend and send it to the Contest Depart ment of Post Publishing Co. This will count as 10,000 votes. When the Contest Department receives your nomination a representative will call and explain the contest thoroughly and start you on the right path to victory. After that the outcome will depend entirely on your own efforts. The Contest Department, however, will assist as much as possible in a manner not detrimental to other can didates. This is the main purpose of this contest department. Always re member, that your success is ours. Send in your nomination today. THE AMERICAN SHIPS LOST TO SUBMARINE; PRES. WILSON PLANNING FURTHER ACTION Ships Unarmed and Flyiog American Flags Sent to Bottom By German Submarine Brings the Question More and More Seriously to the Face of the United States President Planning to Meet the Conditions and Further Protect the American Rights, Congress May Be Called Together to Act at Once. A GREAT MILITARY ! MOVEMENT NOW ON i Ocrmans in Retreat on a Front of Nearly One Hundred Miles and Much Ground Abandoned. MARSHAL MACKENSEN'S RETIREMENT IS HELPING. British and French are Sharply Following Up the Retreat of Germans With Cavalry. MENAR EMI SSING (By Associated Press.) The grcitcst military movement Oi the Franco-Belgian front since th, battle of the Marne is still in pro gress and in full swing with the Ger- FROM SUNK SHIPS Captain of the City of Memphis and the Men in Boat With Him Among' the Missing. PRESIDENT GIVING SITUATION T T FEB. BIG MONTH IN POSTAL SAVNGS Last Month Showed Largest In creased in Postal Savings De posits Since Established. SEVERAL CITIES IN THE MILLION DOLLAR CLASS. Extreme Uorthwest and Extreme Southeast Made the Biggest Gains in Deposits With U. S. nothing but securing subscriptions to the Post and Herald, the rewards for your labor would repay you many times over. Think what a wonderful profit would be yours were you to win the first prize, the five passenger Ford Touring Car. Enter the campaign to day and prove to your self and your friends that you are a person of pluck and energy. Do it now. ces, Energy is the necessary asset, and with an ordinary supply of that you may crawn yourself with success and win a prize that i3 worth a small for tune. How to Enter. Turn to the big page advertise ment in this parer and clip the nomi nation Hank, fill it out and bring or send it to this office, and you will be credited with ten thousand votes. There is also a vote coupon in each paper it is worth five hundred votes clip as many of them as you can, have your friends save them for you and send them in to your credit. The quickest way of securing votes Is by Joking subscriptions to the Daily f&st and Weekly Herald. Vot?3 will be issued to yon on each subscrip tion that you collect for at the rate hosn in the rate tai'rle that is pub lished in the above column this paper. Receipt books will be supplied at the Herald office. Call today and start a canvass among your friends taking renewals and new subseriDtions. Use Your Lefeare Time. As soon as yon have secured one subscription, go after another. This dres not mean that any time which should be spent in looking after your tasjness should be neglected. Under stand, yon can do thia work durinr our leisure momenta, although even if yon were to spend your timeloing How to Win. In this article today will be found the complete schedule of regular and extra votes that will be in effect dur ing the campaign. The largest votes will be given at the beginning of the campaign. One club received during the first period will equal 250,000 more votes than it would during the last period Don't allow the value of the prizes to discourage you. If the prize were only a gold watch and your mind was set on winning it, what would you do? Strive your hardest, of course. Well, that is all that is necessary of you to win the five-passenger Ford Tour ing Car. You can do anything that is oos3ible if you make up your mind. It is possible for you to win this Ford car, and your chances are better than your opponent's who waits to see who her competitors are. Are you willing to work a few short weeks for a Ford automobile? Start now, and you can win it easily. Send in your nomina tion today. A Great Campaign. This campaign is a big thing. It's going to assume still vaster propor tions, and one might go on for col umns telling about it, but the watch word is "To Work.'' The party that gets started first has a real advantage over her opponents who procrasti nate. So make up your mind today to go in to win. Send in your nomina tion properly filled out. It costs noth ing to enter, and the rewards are val uable. Get an Early Start. All ladies who contemplate enter Ins; the campaign should commence to work for votes immediately. .An early start is a prime factor for suc cess; it secures the exclusive efforts of your friends and enlist the great est amount of energy and enthusiasm at th time when the field is cleanest for the canvass and will produce the greatest results. Why You Should Enter This Contest Because you will not have to com pete against any man for the prizes. Because you will not have to com pete with any candidate living in Sal isbury, Spencer or East Spencer for any prizes in this contest. (Because there are many prizes to be given away every prize well worth winning. Because by winning one of these splendid prizes you give yourself a real start on the road of happiness and prosperity. Because you are no doubt just as popular as anyone else who will enter the contest. Because it costs not a penny to try. Because your relatives and all your friends stand ready to help you, once you enter the race. Because the work required to win is easily within YOUR ability to per form. Because the campaign is just open ing and your chances of winning are excellent. Because the question of winning one of these prizes may be more than one of your own happiness it may mean the happiness of those who are dear to you. Because all you need to do is to tear out the nomination blank you : will find printed in the page adver tisement, fill out and send It in to enter. " Because you will not have to com pete against any candidates living in the larger towns of the county. Not Transfering of Vote Certificates. When a subscription is brought or sent to the Contest Department . a Vote Certificate will be issued and re turned to the candidate. The certi ficate should be preserved until the last night to be placed in a seal en velope and given to the judges to count No candidate will ever know the vote of her competitor. The standing in the paper will in most cases only constitute the coupons clipped from the paper. The .Con test Departement, however, will allow candidates who are Cot clipping con- Washington, March 19. February, the shortest month in the year, rolled up the largest increase in postal sav ings deposits in the history of the Service, according to figures just made public by the Post Office Department. Over $5,000,000 was added to the sav ings of depositors, now numbering approximately 700,000. Scores of small postal banks took in more money than they had accumulated in any one year. Foreign-born depositors were especially active and their de posits ran larger than usual. Up wards of 80 per cent of the $121,000,- 000 on deposit March 1st is owned by this class. Postal station B of New York, located on the East Side, made a gain in February of $115, 000. This Station alone has $4,000, 000 on deposit and is outranked only by New York City, Brooklyn, and Chicago. Its depositors are largely foreign-born. Newark, New Jersey. Scuttle, Wash ington; and Kansas City, Missouri, jumped into the million-dollar class of postal savings depository offices during the month, increasing the num ber in this class to sixteen : New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Pittsburg, Portland, Ore., Philadelphia, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Butte, San Francisco, St. Louis, Ne wark, Seattle, and Kansas City, Mo. The February increase in deposits J was general throughout the country but some remarkable facts are dis closed by a careful analysis of. the fijrnres. For instance, the extreme northwestern and the extreme south eastern states showed the largest per centages of gain for the month Washington, 18 psr cent, and Florida, 11 per cent. Other states reporting particularly big gains were South Carolina, 10 per cent; Idaho, 9 per cent; Michigan, 9 per cent; Indiana, 8 per cent; New Jersey, 8 per cent; Wyoming, 7 per cent. Louisiana, 7 per cent; and Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Utah, Virginia and Geor gia, 6 per cent each. mans in retreat on a front of neari 100 miles, and French territ3ry of ap proximately 620 miles has been aban doned. The retirement of Field Marshal Von Mackensen's western army al ready has virtually resulted in Ftraighening out the famous Arras and Noyon salients and apparently the retiring movement is ?till in pro gress. Should the expectations or many military observers who have been watching operations be realized the retreat will not stop short of the pow erfully fortified line running from Lille to Iaon, and from Laon to the strong defensive position of Cham brei and St. Quentht. Today's German official statement speaks of the movement with a cer tain finality as if it were entirely completed. Previous retirements in the Somme region, however, were marked by such successes, was the statement made in discussing its pro gress. The broad scope of its operti tions is indicated in the Berlin an nouncement that the ground evacuat ed was a strip of land between Arras and the Ainse which takes in virtual ly the entire front from a short dis tance south of Lille to the Soissons- Laon district Both the British and French are sharply following up the retreating Germans, employing cavalry, and are enabled to keep in close touch A movement of much progress is also in progress in another field. In Persia lth Russians columns are ad vancing to hem in the disorganized Turks retreating before the British up the Tigris from Bagdad and are making fresh progress, Cotton Opens Steady at Advance. New York, March 19. The cotton market opened steady at an advance of 9 to 15 points. May contracts sold at 18.00 on call and October at 17.54, making an advance of 45 to 60 points from the low level of last week. Con siderable realizing was encountered at these figures and prices eased off 6 to 8 points toward the middle of the morning. Some of ,the fantastic ploting sug gests that spies have overworked themselves in "seeing things." Wah ington Star. . I "DIXIE DRIVE" IS PLANNED BY SUFFS. Will Begin Campaign to Win South ern Support for Federal Amend ment; Will Visit State Capitals. Washington, March 17. Suffrage cohorts will begin a "Dixie Drive" on April 1, in a campaign designed to win support from the Southern States for the Federal suffrage amendment. Every Congressman from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia, Honda, Atabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Ken tucky, West Virginia and Maryland may expect a visit from the suffraze crusaders if he is at home when ii expedition passes that way. His home town will be invaded whether ho is there or not and his constituents ex horted to urge him to vote for suff rage. Miss Maud Younger a woman vot er of California, will lead the expe dition, which will be conducted un der the auspices of the National Wo man's Party. Five other women vot ers from western States will accom pany Miss Younger and they will travel entirely by automobile. Fred ericksburg, Va., will be the first stop, according to present plans, although the itemary has not been completed. The suffragists intend to visit each State capital. The trip will be con eluded on June 3, if plans are carried out THREE AMERICAN SHIPS ARE SUNK BY U-BOAT Torpedoes Send Ships Sailing American Flag to the Bottom and Lives May Be Lost. (By Associated Press.) Iondon, March 19. 'Captain Borum and 8 men who formed the comple ment of his boat and among those missing from the steamer City of Memphis. Four of the sailors are Americans. The boat was picked up at 10 o'clock Sunday morning empty and it is hoped that the men may have been picked up by a small boat or a trailer without a wireless outfit and that the men may yet be landed, or may have been already landed at some out of the way port. The sur vivors in other boats say that the captain's boat was separated from them Sunday morning. The City of Memphis left Cadiff with 58 persons of whom 29 were Americans. Survivors thus far re ported to the Consulate numuer 3. Fifteen persons from the Vigilancia sunk by a German submarine are list ed as missing. The American embassy declares that the submarine fired two torpe does at the Vigilancia, the first miss ed by a considerable distance. It was immediately followed by a second shot which found the mark. The Washington Government De ciding What to Do Next and Congress May Be Called. PRESIDENT AND LANSING , HOLD CONFERENCE TODAY What the American Government Will Do as the Next Step la Not Yet Made Known. '. AMERICAN STEAMERS SUNK. 1,200 Murguia Troops Killed, Wound ed or Missing. El Paso, Ter., March 17. General Murguia lost approximately 1,200 men in killed, wounded and missing at the battle of Rosqario, according to a foreign refugee who arrived frttn Chihuahua City tonight Murguia al so lost six cannon, 15 machine guns and large quantities of stores and ammunition according to this man. The refugee also reported that when Villa entered Parral Tuesday he ordered two more Germans and seven Syrians executed on charges of aiding government troops. He con firmed the capture of Jimines. Members of the crew Missing at First Report of the Sinking. London, March 18. The sinking of the American steamers City of Mem phis, Illinois and Cigilancia was an nounced today. Fourteen men from the Vigilancia are missing, as are some of the men from the City of Memphis. The crew of the Illinois was landed safely. The City of Memphis, in ballast from Cardiff for I ew Pork, was sunk ty gunfire. The second officer and fif teen men of the crew have been land ed. A patrol boat has gone in search of the other members of the crew. The Illinois, from London for Port Arthur, Texas, in ballast, was sunk at 8 o'clock this morning. The Vigilancia was torpedoed with out warning. The submarine did not appear. The captain, first and sec ond mates, first, second and third en gineers and 23 men of the crew have been landed at the Scilly Islands. The fourth engineer and 13 men are missing. The American steamship City of Memphis, which left Cardiff Friday in ballast for New York, was sunk Saturday. When she left port, the Citv of Memphis had the Stars and Stripes painted on both sides. She encountered a submarine about 5 o'clock. Saturday evening. The Ger man commander ordered the captain of the steamer to leave his ship with in 15 minutes. The entire crew entered five boats and the submarine then fired a torpe do which struck the vessel on the starboard side, tearing a great hole through which the sea poured. The steamer settled down quickly and foundered within a few minutes. .During the night the boats became separated, and at 4 o'clock .Sunday morning three boat crews were picked up by a patrol vessel and landed. These boats contained S3 men, most ly Americans. All the officers were Americans. The officers believed that the other 'reason ef Germany's flagrant assault boats will be rescued. (on American shipping. (By Associated Press.) Washington, March 19. New and agjressive action to protect American merchantmen from German submsr ines are to be undertaken ss a result of yesterday's sinking of three un armed American ships with a possible loss of American lives. The calling together of Congress in extra session before the 15th of April looms up as a large possibility' today, though the President is said to have other courses under considera tion. With American ships being arired the most probable step would be the cleasing of the seas of submarines. No plans to have the United States enter the war, in the same sense as the European countries have entered, is understood to be planned. The fact that some American ships unarmed are on the other side of the Atlantic is a factor in the considers, tion, and large warships being unaf fective against submarines the prob lems is to get small submarine chas ers in sufficient number. The most rf this fleet is needed at home to pro tect the coast of the United States, There is no doubt that supplement ary iteps to arming the ships will be ta'en and the only thing in doubt to day is whether the President will take steps without waiting for Congress to give him specific authority or not. No statement was made, from the White House this morning other than that the President is getting reports and is giving the whole subject thought. Secretary Lansing was called to the White House today and the policy of the government was discussed with the President. Of the three ships destroyed, two were unloaded and homeward ibeind, and all were American built,' Ameri can owned and officered and manned largely by American citizens. . Meag er disratches indicate that all were sunk with complete disregard for the safety of those on board, and that. . many of the crew may have been lost. Today's development trought the government face to face ; with the v ;r ..1 lem of formulating a definite pol io for the nation in case the United States actually enters the war. This possibility was mentioned by ' the President in his inauguarl address March 5. All the conditions outlined by the President in his message announcing the diplomatic break witii Germany as leading to a state of armed neu trality have now been fulfilled. The 1 "overt act" described by him then has actually come; if in fact I had not been committed when the President went before Congress. Since then he has established a state of armed neu trality without the specific authority -of Congress. ..' Several hours later official reports came from Consul Frost at Queens town and Consul Skinner at London, telling of the sinking ef the City of Memphis, the Vigilancia and the Il linois. These dispatches confirmed -press reports tat added few details. International lawyers smd coniti-. . tutional experts here showed no best- : tancy tonight in saying thst Presi dent Wilson has full authority ti in terpret as an act of war, and en- -neunce that this country considers- that an actual state of war exists br
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