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STOPPING WEATHER FORECAST Fcir and warmer tonight and Friday. VOL. 14. NO. 13. LAST PEACE TERMS Definitely and Frankly Germans Tell Russia That All of Cour- I land and Baltic Must Go. I RUSSIA TAKES RECESS TO i CONFER OVER THE TERMS Answering Direct Question .the ; German Delegates Point Out the New Map. (By Associated Press.) Petrograd, Jan. 24. Russia must Rive up Courland and all of the Bal tic provinces or the Germans will re sume military operations and occupy Kival within a week, the German del catti to the peiace negotiations at Brest-"dtovsk informed the Russian delegates at the last session of the cnnfeience. A recess has been taken till January 29th to give the Russian rcpiesentativcs to confer with their government and to confer on the Ger man terms. Repo:t3 at hand indicate that the Germans definitely and frankly out lined the plana and terms to ..he rep resentatives. The secretary of the Ukrainian delegates pave an account of the meeting-. This report sas that the Russians put the question to the Central powers asking for their final peace terms. General Hoffman, one of the German representatives, replied by opening a map and point ing out the lines which Germany in sists must constitute the future fron 1 ?r of Russia. "From the shores of the Gulf of Finland to the east of Moon Island t3 Volka, to the east of Minsk and to Brest-Litovsk." This would completely eliminate Courland and all of the Baltic prov inces. CHAS. D. POOLE DEAD. Well Known Young Man Victim of Meningitis Funeral and Burial Fri day Afternoon Mr. Chas. D. Poole, aged about 2'i years, died at his home on South Main street this morning at 3 o'clock of meningitis. The funeral will take place from the residence tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and the in terment will be in Chestnue Hill cem etery. Surviving is the wife and two children. Deceased was a member of Salisbury Council of Royal Arcanum. Mr. Poole was for a long time em ployed at the Crego wholesale fruit establishment but for seme time had been working in Virginia and was taken sick there, being brought home several daye ago. He was a most ex cellent young man and had a large number of friends in this city. A msrry heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. Old Testa ment. EXCESSIVE PROFITS Hoarding of Hides While Prices of Leather Goods Climbed is Charged ry Federal Trade Commission No Excuv for This Condition; (By Associated Press.) Washington. Jan. 24. The hoarding of hides by meat packers while shoe prices have been (climbing upward with excessive profits to packers who practically control the hide market, is charged in a report br the Federal Trade commussion and submitted to Coneress. The commission points out that the slaughter of cattle and calves in the United States increased in the test five years by 6,100,000 head, or virtually 30 per cent, "Such a record of food animals ought not at the same time mean the country would be forced abnormally to high priced leather products made from the correspondingly increased take-off of hide," the report declares. GERMANS LAY DOWN DH IN GERMANY HUNS LAY DOWN MADE IN OF UNNECESSARY TRAVEL WILL HELP ir IHEJCREASE Traffic Said to Be Growing in the Southern States and Especially About the Military Camps. A NATION-WIDE CAMPAIGN TO BE STARTED AT ONCE State Laws Forbidding In?orta- 1 i ... V llrU i nlrATT nnrl PaHako 1 Liu ii ui tt xnorvcjf axiu icuciai Tax Puts Price to $12 Quart. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 21. Discovery that the manufacture of moonshine whisketyi is increasing rapidly in bone dry states and th.it quantities of it are sold illi.itly to soldiers in South ern towns caused Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper to announce to day a nation-wide campaign against illicit distillation tr. co-operation with state governments. The military camps where most of the moonshine liquor is sold, despite the precautions by military and civil authorities, are Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C. Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C; Camp Jackson, Co lumbia, S. C, and Camp Oglethorpe, Chattanooga. Investigations about these camps is under way. The cam paign has already resulted in the ar rest of hundreds of moonshiners in Southern dry states. State laws forbidding the importa tion of liquor and the Federal tax of $3.20 a gallon have driven the price of crude corn liquor about many camps to $3 and $12 a quart, according to ev idence bv revenue agents. Commissioner Roper has obtained from a number of governors specific endorsement of the anti-liquor cam paign. Some state agents requested for the work. Special efforts will be made to clean out stills in dry states where conditions are reported bad. Illegal manufacturing of whiskey is thiiving best in Virginia, North Car olina, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee and Arkansas, according to reports of revenue agents. State agents already are at work vigorous ly in some states. A report presented to Commissioner Roper by Chief Revenue Agent Nutt shows that in North Carolina 54 of the 100 counties are known as "good moonshine territory" and that nearly) 700 stills were seized and destroyed during the year. Conditions are reported bad in Henderson, Polk, Wilkes, Orange, Johnston, Transylvania, Alexander, Y'adkin, McDowell, Burke and Wake counties. In a number of counties in the western part of the state local of ficials, it is said, refused to give pro per assistance to government agents and intimated they were friendly to the moonshiners. Bringing a High Price. There h no doubt about the price of "rude c m liauor having gone sky high. Only this week two soldiers from Camp Greene, Charlotte, who had fallen into the hands of Salis bury officers, told Chief of Police M;ler that they had secured their liquor in the country "out across that river bridge" the county would not be hard to guess and that they and two other companions paid $40 for four quarts, a quart each. Numbers of soldiers coming to this city have learned the way "across the river" and make the journey, paying well for transportation facilities and then forking out anywhere from $S to $10 o. r.uaTt for the cheapest and most in ferior grade of corn liquor. And this is only a d-op in the bucket of the moonshine liquor of which the above Associated Press dispatch speaks. BUNKFR COAL SHORTAGE RELIEVED SAYS PARSONS (By Associated Press.) New Yor. Jan. 24 The shortage of 'bunker coal, which a few days ago was seriously hampering the fueling of vessels in New Y'ork hvbor, has b?en entirely relieved, according to a statement by J. E. Parsons, detailed bv the United States shipping board (to supervise the bukering of ships at nunniio ii n thai port. MEMBER IF YOUR SHOULDERS ARE AS F ON BATTLE LINES Fronts in France and Belgium and the Italian Front Are Again the Scene of Operations. FRENCH CAPTURE GROUND THEY LOST WEDNESDAY King of the Belgians Declares His People Will Have Peace Only on Certain Guarantees. (By Associated Press.) On the Western front in Belgium and France and the Italian front, where the contending armies of the chief belligerents in the world war have displayed little activity for some time, official reports announce a re sumption of hostilities of unusual ac tivity for winter months. While the operations mentioned in statements from various army headquarters are of little consequence from a military view yet general extent of activity in dicates that developments of consid erable magnitude are in immediate prospect. Intensity of the artillery fire has increased all along the western front and raiding parties and fighting has been resumed under more favorable conditions. The success of a Ger man raid on British trenches west of I.a Bassee is announced by the Brit ish official communication which claims that another hostile party was dispersed west of Villaers Guiselain. In the Nieuport sector the French war oflice announces the recapture of gTound gained by the enemy in raid ing Wednesday morning. The French statement says the artillery was ac tive in the Chaume wood. During the period from January 17 to 20th teij German airplanes wer brought down by the French. More intense artillery firing be tween Adige and Brentna valley is reported in the Italian official state ment, which also tells of small en gagements on the right bank of the I 1 RESUMED .veinmM OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. J AN HARD M III ft -.v v.- Nv - at STRONG AS VOI R LUNGS, COLON EL, WHY DON'T YOU GET DOWN BESIDE MR. TAFT AND HELP?" MANUFACTURING PLANTS BURNED (By Associated Press.) Camden, N. J., Jan. 24. Two manu facturing establishments engaged in the manufacture of war material were destroyed by fire this morning which swept a two-story building covering a half block. The entire loss will reach $500,000, it is believed. Piave and the southeast slopes of Monte Spinocia. King Albert in replying to Pope Benedict's peace note declares th? Bulgarians will consent to peace only on guarantee of absolute political economic and territorial independence. The note of the Belgian government concludes with the declaration that the replies of the Central empires to the Pope's note failed to make men tion of the "undisputed rights of the Belgians that his holiness has not ceased to recognize and proclaim." Enemy Evacuate Ground In North ern Italy. Italian Front, in Northern Italy, Jan. 23. (By Associated Press.) The enemy has evacuated territory on the north of and behind Monto Tmba especially from the Piave to the west ward. Their defense lines have been moved back to Monte Stinoncia. Forty Killed in Petrograd. Petrograd, Jan. 2 Fortjyi persons were killed and 200 injured in riotinx at Moscow durir a demonstration on "Bloody Sunday." American Ship Sunk by U-Boat. An Atlantic Port, Jan. 24 Th-. American steamship Oswaco, former ly the German Allemannia, seized in this country following the outbreak of war, was sunk by a German sub marine in the early part of Decem ber in the Mediterranean near the Spanish coast, according to survivors who reached here on a Spanish liner. According the reports given two lives were lost when the ship went down. The Oswego was the ship recently reported as having been one of the three vessels sunk while passing a lighthouse with submarines lying off shore and picking the vessels as they passed through the beam of light. The two other ships sunk were Nor wegian and British. 1' All Y 21. 1918 RMS 10 GROWING Navy Canteen Found to Contain Candy That Was Thought to be Harmful and Sale Withdrawn MAY LIMIT FLOUR SALE FROM MILLER TO USER Washington Considering the More J Drastic Method of Controll ing Flour. I (By Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 24. Discovery of "impurities" in candies distributed to the canteen of the navy ships has caused the issuing of an order sus pending the sale of candy to the mn, also the purchase of fresh supplies pending an invalidation. Navy department officials did not say what the "impurities" consisted of, but the announcement of the or der caused a recurrence of the reports that powdered Mass had been discov ered. No confirmation of this is giv en and no sickness is reported from the use of the candy. To limit Flour Sales. To create a large export surplus of flour for the allies the food adminis tration is contemplating a p'an to force a reduction in flour sales all the way from the miller to the con sumer. Millers, wholesalers, ' retail ers and bakers will propably be re quired to hold their sales down to 75 per cent of the amount now hand led. As the allies are demanding from 75,000,000 to 100,000,000 more bush els of wheat the food administrator ! has arranged to take over 30 jier cent of the American flour production w'hich nill be selected from supplies for export. The food administrator believed the United States can give Europe 90,000,000 bushels of wheat (made into flour between now and the time the new Americsn crap comes in I without endangering the American I supply. IMPURITIES IN CANDY RELIEVE CONGESTION Posit THE AMONG 1 MASSES .en Making Sueech in Senate Today Oregon Senator Declares Pres ident Does Not Know Truth. ROSE TO QUESTION OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE Asserts That Hundreds of Sol diers LiVes in Military Camps Could Have Been Saved. (By ssociatcd Press.) Washington, Jan. 24. Senator Cham'ierlain, chairman of the military committee of the Senate, rose to a question of personal privilege in the Senate today to reply to President Wilson's recent st-e,mnt charging the Senator in a speech in New York with advocating government war re organization and declaring inefficien cy existed in all branches of the gov ernment had made "an astoundin? and absolutely unjustifiable ifistor tion of the truth." Chamberlain Reiterate His Charge. Washington, Jan, 24. Standing finmly behind his charge that Ameri ca's military establishment is en meshed in inefficiency Senator Cham berlain, of Oregon, chairman of the military committer of the Senate,, re plied today In the Senate to President Wiil son's denunciation of his recent New York speech by repeating the statement which drew the President's ire. und declared the President him self does not know the truth. Senator Chamberlain, after having read to the Senate a verbutim copy of the speech for which the President de nounced him, declared he adhered to what he had said. Senator Chamber lain declared that he could show that the death of hundreds of these men in the cantonment camps was due to the war department and that all epidemics could have been prevented if the war department had been ef fective. The Administration Will Win. Washington, Jan. 23. Administra tion leaders, including Senator Sim mons and Majority Leader Claude Kitchin, are confident tonight that the President will win when the show down comes between the White House and Congress over the proposed leg islation, advocated by Senator Cham berlain, chairman of the military af fairs committee, creating a council of war and munitions head. It is admit ted ho aver, that the vote may be close. Senator Chamberlain will arise in the senate tomorrow to a question of personal privilege and reply to ue President's iat!,er bitter letter con demning the senator's New York speech of last Saturday when he de clared all departments of the gov ernment are inefficient. Senator Chamberlain, his friends say, will lay all the facts developed by the recent investigation of the war department before the senate. He will then at tempt n justify his statement re garding the inefficiency of the depart ments, especially as it relatej to Sec retary of War Baker. The bill which proposes to create a mui'tions head and council of war will then he referred to the military affairs committee. In this there is little objection anticipated. Those fa vorng the legislation will of course favor it being referred to this very proper committee and the friends of the president are not expected to in terrose an objection. Should a mere handful of Demo crats join with the Republicans in support of the munitions and .var council measures it is certa:n that the b'l would have a good chance cf passing the Senate. The Congressional Line up. Washington, Jan. 22. A poll of the Senate by the World today showed that 27 senators would vote for the war cabinet bill, 34 against it. and that 32 were non-committal absent, undecided or refused to state their positions. There arc three vacancies in the Senate. A poll of the House showed that 84 members would vote for the war cab:net bill, 78 against it, and that 26? were non-commital, absent, un decided or refused to state their po- AULAIN REPEATS WORDS ONE EDITION 2 CENTS PRICK TWO CENTS I News From Austria, Where Up heaval is Expected, is Being Suppressed by Authorities. GERMAN PAPERS HOLDING OUT HOPE SUPPRESSED Influence on the German Work men is Reported to Be Grow ing Stronger and Stronger. (By Associated Press.) London, Jan. 24. The impression which is gathered from reports com ing through Switzerland and Holland regarding the internal troubles in Germany on the eve of Chancellor von Hertlings expected address before the reichstag is that the unrest is still strong among the massiu, and white it i3 a fact that the news from Austria is suppressed by the military author ities, the news of the strikes and ponce demands in the dual mararchy has leaked out and these events are well known to the German workmen. Hope, however, that they would fol low has not materialized, and been suppressed. Nevertheless, according to the Post's Amsterdam dispatches indicate that the influece ort the Ger man workmen is growing stronger and stronger. This is attributed to the attitude of the German delegates at the Brest-Litovsk conference which caused wide spread dissatisfaction. At meetings of the Fatherland party held the matter has been uppermost an 1 the socialists also have been active along similar lines of endeavor. Railway Bill Modified. The administration's railroad bill has been modified to stipulate ex pressly that tho federal operation is undertaken as a war emergency meas ure and shall' not prejudice the oper ations of the future policies towards municipal ownership. No fixed time is given for the turning of the roads back to the owners. WOULD HO.NOR NORTH CAROLINIAN French Government Asks Permission To Place Bronze Tablet cn Monu ment at Grave of James McConneH at Carthage. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 24. The French government desires to place a bronze tablet cn the monument erected at Carthage, N. C, to James McConnell, the American airn.an who, as a ser geant in the LaFayette flying corps, died for France. French Ambassador Jusserand has so notified Senator Ov erman and the request will be for warded to McConnell's father at Car thage, f SHIPPED OVER EIGHT Bulk of This Ore Was Produced la the Birmingham District. But Oth er Southern States Contributed Country's Output 75,000,000 Tons, (By Associated Press.)' Washington, Jan. 24. The South ern mines shipped more, than 8,100,000 tons of ore in 1917, the bul of which was produced in the Birmingham dis trict, but the iron mines of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia con tributed 1,400,000 tons. Iron ore shipped from the mines of the entire country amounted to. 75, 649,000 tons valued at $236,173,000. Shipments showed a 2.9 per cent de-,; crease while the value showed an in- ' crease of 29.3 per cent over 1918, ' sitions. There are wna vacancies) in the Home. The members wke re fused to state their positions declar ed that it wis not a House fight and they did not ear to discuss a Sena to measure.' - -, . .. UNREST OF MASSES GROWS RONGER
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