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git WEATHER FORECAST Fair and continued cold, with Freezing temperature. ONE EDITION 2 CENTS MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. 13. NO. 277. SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER. 24. 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS 1 L f DIES AFTER ILLNESS ft4J'- DESPERATE FIGHTING MILLION AND HAL AROUND MAI SOLDIERS MOVED British Making Progress But Germans Offering Stubborn Resistance to Check Them. ITALIANS AND AUS-OERMAN HAND TO HAND STRUGGLE Bait for Separate Peace Offered By Bolsheviki Evidently At tracts Central Powers. (By Assoeated Tress.) Reinforced by divisions from other sectors of the western front the Ger mans are resisting desperately the British advance on Cambrai. Around Fountaine Notre Dame, less than 3 miles east of Cambrai the Bourlon woods close by ia the scene of the most desperate fighting that has yet occurred, with the British making progress. General Byng is combin ing his attacks with construction work and the British are firmly es tablished in their new positions which give opportunity to destroy Cambrai as a center for supplies and for a starting point for another -drive. The Bourlon mood is the dominant hill to the 'A est of Cambrai and the Germans have put up a stiff resist ance here as well as at Fountaine Norte Dame. The British have made advanees to the south, and the south west edges of the wood. Near Moeu vres General Byng's men have taken Tadpole corps which, dominated the village, a part of whic hthe Germans hold. In addition to about 9,000 pris oners the British have taken many war supplies and guns. The fighting is renewed in Fland ers but on a small scale. East of Ypres General Haig has made a slight advance in the direction of Mienine. German artillery fire is es pecially heavy on this front, especi ally around Passchendaele. On the Italian front the forces of General Diaz in hand-to-hand fight ing are holding badk the Austro. German troopg in their attempts to advance. On the Asiago line, to the west of the Brenza the Italians have checked an enemy movement in their effort to encircle the Italians. The strong attacq made by the enemy the Italians broqe up and inflicted a hea vy loss to the invaders. East of the Brenta towards the Piave the" Ital ians on tTie Monte Grappe-Monto Tomba line are protecting the Vene tian plains. The fighting there is most desperate. The invaders are at tacking in mass formation aided by strong artillery fire. But they have been unable to make a dent in the Italian defenses in the three days fighting. The bait for a separate peace offer ed by the Bolsheviki in Petrograd ap parently has attracted the Central powers. According to a report from " Stockholm an emissary has gone to Petrograd ivtith an offer of peace rom Germany and her allies. It is report ed also that General Ludpendotf has gone to the eastern frontier in con nection with the Bolsheviki offer of an armistice. American government officials re gard the Bolsheviqi offer as "n net that will place Russia in the list of unfriendly nations. The British government, through the .minister of blockadge ha declar ed that the making of separate peace by the people of Russia will put them virtually outside the pale of civiliz ed Europe. War OFice Reports Satisfactory Op erations. London, Nov. 23. The British war office statement tonight reports sat isfactory operations against the Ger mans on the Somme front. The tet reads: "Operations continued today against the nemy's positions vest of Cambrai. The latest reports show they are developing satisfactorily. The hostile artillery has shown great activity today in the neighborhood of Passchendaele. British Troops in East Africa Active. London, Nov. 23. The following official communication 'as issued to day regarding the operations of the British forces in East Africa : "Wdenesday our left column, hav ing traversed the Makonde pirtcau aWf! Sinbas, seven miles o.itrheast JHtitangari. Fifty-seven Germans end 75 Askaris surrendered. "Today our right column tr-.te'ed Newala and 126 Germans nnd 76 Askaris were captured. "In last Friday's action at Mandebe our small forces inflicted on the rum erocally superior enemy losses great er that they sustained and .ilso cap tured prisoners." Turkish Post at Jabir Is Captured London, Nov. 22. The British war office tonight issued the following statement on military operations in Southern Arabia. "We are attacked rind captured a Turkish post at Jabir, fifteen imles north of Aden. Losses were inflicted OF One of Salisbury's Best Known and Mc3t Highly Resuerlrd Women Survived by Five Children, Tho Brothern and One Sister Funeral Monday Afternioii. Mrs. Mjic Virginia Shaver, wid ow of the late R. Shaver, did at her home, 517 South Main street, this morning at 4:20 a'cb.'k, a;'ier a ling ering illness ;f som months at the age of ('l years. The fjneral will take place from the First Presbyteri an church Mom'uy nfti"'iioon at 2 o'clock, conducted by lievs. Dr. J. ('. Rowe and W. A. La.nbih assisted by Dr. T. F. Marr, a fjrmer pastor of the First Methrlist church in this city, of which Mrs. Shaver was a i faithful and consistent member. Surviving a.e jiv c'lildren, 'wo daughters ami three s.)ns, thes; l-e-ing Mrs. A. Wago ier ami Mr3. E. E. Carr ,of Asheville;' Mr. Cha;. L. Shaver, who has lie?ii at t."a officers' training camp at l'ort Oglethorpe; Mr. Vance Shaver, jf sh-?vi!l?, and I Mr. John Robert Shaver, nnw of .Vui- I3UUI J 1 nu uiu.'i' a mitt . als suivive, th"se being Messrs. Chas. I), and H. A. CUrk, of A?hr vil'.e, and Mrs. Levin Anvell, of Sal isbury. The husbitnd did IS months ego and the eldest daughter, Mrs. Eugene Fuller, die! about two months ago at Alexandria, Va Mrs. Shaver was a native of Salis bury and before !ier marriage was Miss Maggie Virginia Clark. She a as a most excellent wmian, kind and considerate and fjll of sympathy for the afflicted and unfortunate. She was a Christian woman in the best and truest sense of the word; a neighborly neighbor, a friend of all and a most devoted mother. In late years she had spsnt practically f.ll cl her time in her own household where1 she gave her time and attet'on until stricken by 'disease. She bore her af fliction without murmur or complaint and quiently and patiently awaited the summons. The deceased had a large circle of friends and acquaint ances who are grieved over her death. SMALLER NATIONS TO BE REPRESENTED Portugal, Greese and Serbia to Have Representatives at Inter-Allied Conference To Last Three Days. (By Associated Presb.) Paris, Nov. 24. The. inter-allied conference will be in session three days. Premier Clemencaau will pre side. The smaller allied states will be represented. Premier Costa and former minister Soares will' attend the conference for Portugal; Greece will be represented by Premier Ven izlos and Serbia by Premier Pach itch. A PLANNING TO POOL LWAY EQUIPMENT AND ALSO TRAFFIC Congestion Has Reached a Stage Where Radical Measures Must be Adopted in Order to Handle the Country's Business. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Nov. 24. A plan for pooling the entire railway equipment and traffic of the United States was I taken up at a conference between I government officials and railroad : heads. Congestion has reached a I stage, it is realized, where radical measures must be put in force if the I county's trafic is to be moved. i I on the enemy and his defrnsjs were destroyed." Austro.German Thrust Fails. Rome. Nov. 24. Powerful thrusts carried out yesterday by the Austro Germans after artillery preparations on the Italian mountain front from Asiago plateau to the Bretna river all failed, the Italian war office an nounces. Site of Ancient Mizpah Stormed. London, Nov. 24. The site of an cient Mispah, 5,000 yards west of Jerusalme-Nadulus road has been stormed by the British, the war of fice announces. British mounted troops, which had advanced north ward, were forced back by the Turks. British Make More Progress. London, Nov. 24. At various points west of Cambrai the British made pro gress yesterday, the war office an nouces. More than 100 guns were captured recently in this area. Italian Attacks Failed. Berlin, aa London, Nov. 24. Italian attacks against the Austro-Geraan positions west of the Bretna river and between Bretna and Piave yesterday failed, the German war office officially announces today. b WIT, TW tm I II I Jim SCHOOLS WILL USE COUNTY COURT HOUSE The Board of Commissioners Gave Official Concent for the Use of the Courthouse by the Schools Work Will Begin There Monday Week. Th courthouse will be used by the pupils of the North Main street school as planned immediately fol lowing the fire which destroyed that building. The county commissioners today gave official concent for the rooms being so used. On account of the opposition -that was reported to exist to the use of the court for this purpose, Chairman Hall very properly decided that it would be best to put the matter up to the entire board. The board tody took official action and granted the use of the courthouse for the school. It will take some little time to get the arrangements perfected and school will begin in the courthouse Monday week, Decombeir 3rd. Two holidays and much work to do in getting the plans ready will make it impossible to use the court house the coming weeks. GOMiPERS AGAIN HEADS LABOR Samuel Gcmpers Re-Eelcted Presi dent of the American Federation of l abor at Buffalo, N. Y. (By Assoeated Press.) Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 24. Samuel Combers was re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor at the closing of the 37th annual con vention here today. TRANSFERRED ILLEGALLY. Judge Waddill at Alexandria. Virgin ia, So Decides in Case of Women (By Associated Press.) in Workhouse. Alexandria, Va., Nov. 24. Federal Judge Waddill decided here today that the twenty-five women's party mili tants who are serving b sentience in the District of Columbia workhouse at Occoquan, Virginia, were illegally transferred to that institution from the Washington jail. To make a pound of butter two and a half gallons of milk are required. Women are to Ik. admitted as as sociates and fellows of the Royal In stitution of British Architects. Prior to 1870 women were barred from all positions under the United States government .Pi A f C5 v. V 1 3 BIRD OF EVIL. ! U. S. DESTROYERS GET ANOTHER SUB. German Submarine Sent to the Eottom by Two Destroyers the Navy Makes Announcement. DROPPED DEPTH BOMB ON U-BOAT SUCCESSFULLY All On Board the Submarine Went Down With the Craft After It Was Hit. (By Assoeated Press.) Washington, Nov. 24. Definite news of another German submarine sunk by the American destroyers has reached the navy department in a ca ble sent by Vice-Admiral Sims. The submarine damaged by a depth bomb vent diAn with all on board after a destroyer had attempted to get a line on it and tow it in. Two destroyers took part in the fight, one of them sighted the peri score at a distance of 400 yards and headed for it, dropping a deadly depth bomb. Soon after the subma rine came to top with no signs of life. The second destroyer attached a line, but the iU-boat, apparentH shattered by the bomb, went to the bottom. STRIKE NOT SETTLED. Wilmington, Nov. 23. Unable to compose difference between the Atlan tic Coast Line and its striking clerks, Wm. Brown Hale, member of a com mitte of the Council of National De fense, and General R. W. McWade, fedeial couaciliator, left tonight foi Washington to report to the depart ment of labor. During today's confer ence the clerks agreed to waive ian tention for pay during the strike, but insisted that all strikers be reinstated. This, ths ia.ilroad declined it is said, to do, but offered to re-employ all for whom there were places open. NEXT WEEK'S WEATHER. Fair and Colder First of Week With Freezing Temperature Modera tion in Temperature Promised La. ter. (By Assoeated Press.) Washington, Nov. 24. Fair end colder weather Sunday and Monday with freezing temperature and frtst as far south as central Florida is in dicted in the neather bureau's weekly forecast for the South Atlan tic and East Gulf states for theweek beginning Sunday. There will be slowly rising temperature after Tu esday, with generally fair. Miss Maude E. Herbert, recently elected a school director, is the first woman to hold elective office in Clin ton county, Penn. Thus errives the dav in which it is worth more to know how to steer a plow thsn to fool a joy-riding car over the boulevard. MEANS TRIAL IS TO BEGIN MONDAY Special Term of Cabarrus County Court to Hear the Case Against Gaston B. Means for the Killing of Mrs. Maude A. King Begins Monday. (By Associated Press.) Concord, N. C, Nov. 24. Gaston B. Means will be placed on trial here next Monday charged with the mur. der of Mrs. Maude A. King, of New York, widow of a Chicago million aire. Mrs. King was killed, near here Ai.gust 29, last, while visiting rela tives of Means who was her business agent. A local coroner's jury decid ed she accidentally shot herself. After the body was taken to Chicago for burial suspicious were aroused which caused an autopsy to be performed, ind the Chicngo coroner's physician announced that the bullet wound In the bac' of the woman's head ahich caused death, could not have been self inflicted. Means, Mrs. King and several friends of Means had gone out for target practice, and Means and the woman were alone for a short time at Blackwelder springs nea rthe field where Mrs. King expected to learn to shoot with a pistol. Means told the coroner's jury that before bending over to drink at the spring he placed a small pistol in the fork of a tre?. A moment later he said, he heard a shot, and Mrs. King fell, dying al most instantly. The pistol lay near by. He called the other member's of the party, but Mr3. King was dead before they arrived. The investigation started in Chi cago, wis carried to New York and search of Means' apartments there disclosed evidence, which representa tives of the district attorney's office said indicated Means had planned to (jet $2,000,000 for Mrv Kin.j through an alleged second will of her hus band. The litter in his first will had left her more than $1,000,000, and had bequeathed the remainder of h's fortune to a charitable institution near Chicago. Statements thnt Means hud been connected with German -agents also were made by New York officials, and a federal agent attended the cre liminary hearing here in September. At this hearing, which was the form al reopening of the case by North Carolina officials, counsel for Means consented to his being bound over after failure of litigation by which which they sought to recaver the doc uments seized in Means' home in New York. Means was indicted November 1, in the Superior court of Cabarrus county and thp trial was set for No. vember 26. Counsel for Means suc cessfully resisted attempts of the state prosecutor to have the court grant a change of venue. The bread of the Balkans is ma-l' in the form of chains and sold ac cording to length. First Ship Goes Into the Water at the Pacific Coast Ship Yard Oth i th lo Follow in. a Sternly l'ri?rnm and Six Will He l.auiuluil in De cember. (By Assoeated Press. Washington, Nov. 2t. V, ith the sliding of 8,(100 'on at i' el shiji down lie ways of the P.i -ilic Const Snip yards today the shipping board re corded tho launching of the first of th-.- mvr.'iant fleet which it is build ing. Other Hccessitu t. the fleet will be launched i.i n steady program from now on, including three 2tJ,4(0 ton steel ships and tiiree I0,J')D tun wocden ships during December. I'NION LABOR DEFINES STAND ON INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS h-snei Declaration On Principles That MumI Govern Stirh Problems. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 23. The Ame rican Federation of LBbor tonight by a unan'mous vote, adopted a state ment of the conditions and principles thut must be applied to induetrral problems arising from the war as far as union labor is concerned. The declaration la regarded as In line with tho general understanding that has existed between President Wilson and President Gompers, 'but t'-ere are some points thnt have been in doubt whith the statement clarL fies. . The declaration doe3 not say there snail be no striqes. "It is advisable," the final para graph siys "that production should not cease bacauBe of an apparent in justime or dwsight contained In an award for it i necessary to the na tion's production as well as the wel fare of the trade union movement that there should be no cessation of work except as a last resort." The right to organise Is claimed as essential to the solution of all prob lems arising between employer and hror, nnd equal representation will be asked with the employer on all wage boards and commissions. Wage conditions, the statement says, will be governed by several fac tors to be considered apart from the increased cost of livlnrr, some of these factors mentioned being the compara tive wage scale In other establish ments in the same district and wheth. er it 'as reached by collective bar gaining between employer and em ploye. The convention adjourned at mid night with the election of officers as the special order qf business for to morrow. Girls to man the roller chairs on Atlantic City's famous Broadwalk are considered a probability of the near future. L T Russian Ambassador at Washington Officially States He Will Not Deal With Extremist Element in Russia. (By Asociated Press.) Washington, Nov. 24. The Russian ambassador today formally notified the state depa-tment that the embas sy would not recognize the authority of the .extremists now in control of the foreign office at Pertogra. In a letter to Secretary Lansing fallog the resignation of Ithree of the chiefs of the embsssey to avoid having relations with the Bolsheviki the ambassador said the Bolsheviki government was not representative of the irue will of the Russian people nnd he would not recognize that or any similar government which led the country into ivonparticipation In the war. INFLI X OF NEGRO WOMEN FOLLOWED BY PROTEST Moi'zomery, Nov. 23. Officers a Camp Dodd, located near Dee Moines Iowa are protesting against the influx of ucgro women from Alabama who have followed their men t) the camp. Protests have besn made in letters sent to Governor Henderson by Gov ernor Harding of Iowa and Senator LaFayette N. Young. In addition a military board appointed to investi gate the situation has returned an of ficial report to the government in which it is stated that it is "unwise" for negro women to come to Des Moines at this time. Goats' milk is richer in fat than rows' milk, but contains less sugar. In numerous districts of France the peasan't make their bread from acorns. kindred mm Record Now Shows That Roads - of the Nation Have Handled Total of 1,500,000 Soldiers. LONG HAULS IN MANY CASES WERE THE RULE To Assure Their Safety Only 'a Speed of Twenty-five Miles an Hour Made. (Special the Post.) Washington, D. C, Nov. 24. Troop movement figures to date indicate that the railroads of this country have safely transported approximate ly l,r00,)00 soldiers to training csmps and embarkation points since August 1st, according to a statement 'ust marie public by Chairman Fair fax Harrison, of the Rilroadi' War Board. Five hundred thousand of these men have made journeys necea sitating overnight travel and hat been nuvel in tour'st or standard slrepera furnished by the Pullman company. One one of the bng hauls, 8,000 men we:c moved from a training csmn on the Western Coast to a point on the Sastern Coast ,a distance of 3,708 miles in a little less than a weeV. The men travelled In sixteen section, each section comprising; 12 tourist cars and 2 baggage ca'rs. , In order to centralize tha furnish ing of sleeping cars at points most convenient tothe government and to utilize these cars to the best advan tage, the Pullman company changed the supervis'on of the supply and movement of these cars from the headquarters of t'ie company at Chi cago tn Washington, where they sta tioned C. W. Henry, ass'stant to, the siinerlntendent of car service. Mr. Henry, in his hedquarteri at the of flees of the Ra'lroads War Bosrd. tfcts been In daily touch with the of fice of the Qunrternnster Gensm, nnd on receipt. f requests from mili tary authorities for sleeping car j equipment has seen that tht cars lwere rushed at once to the points needed. . 'As a result of' ths oo-nneratlon Dfctween tne governmem, tne. au rovls, and the Pullman Company, .. . .... i vm' half a million soldiers hsvs been spsred the discomf arts of making? long trains trlns In day coaches. ' To assure he safety of the men In trans't, the railroads have adopted in average speed of 25 miles an hour for all troop trains except -when freight cars needed for the trantpor. tation of equipment are included in the trains. The speed Is then reduced to 20 miles an hour. REPUBLICANS PLAN MEETING A HICKORY If- Expect to Uy Fouitdatk- for Aggres sive Campaign in thf 'Next Elec tion. Hickory, Nov. 2a. A meeting of republican leaders of the state and especially the congressional districts comprising the western portion will he held in Hickory at the Hub theatre next Tuesday. The meeting is said to b- preliminary to the launching of an aggressive campaign for their nominees in the next election. The list of those who ae expected to attend the meeting here includes th names of Senator Borah, Marion Butler, Jno. M. Morehead, J. J. Britt, Augustus Price, Brownlow Jacks sn, Chns. A. Jones, Clias. E. Greene, Tent Settle, J. F. Newell and many other more or less prominent party workers. On the evening Spirecidjag the meeting on Tuesday an' informal so cial gathering will take place at Ho- itel Huffry. 'SECRET DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED j BY BOLSHEVIKI NEWSPAPERS. ' Leon Trotsky, Bolsheviki Foreign j Minister, Savs the Papers are Those I of "Czsrtiz Burgeoiz and Coalition I Governments." I (By Associated Press.) Petrograd, Nbv. 24. The text of r-vrtsH confidential communications between the Ru3ian foreign office and foreign governments h'lve been pub lishd by Bolsheviki and Socialist rer Leon Trot- i sky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, savj the i'Dcirimerts re thctsa of "czartiz hurgeaia and coalition gov ernments" and from them "the Rus sian nation and all nations in th i world must learn tha truth of th plan secretly made by financiers and .1 V it traders torongn paruamenuu-y diplomatic agents.' German and Austrians, Trotsky de clares, may try to make capital out I of these documents but he with then 1 when German proletariat, by means I of a revolution, recur access to ihe rh"n-U9rsecs they will , find there daramanla which show UD in DO beJJfcef light than those now puilished. - y ' An ordinary loaf of white bread ial nearly half water. ;. " " "A In Finland bread it frequently made from pine bark and znosa. I
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