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War Raging in France Means Serious WEATHER FORECAST rnrtly Cloudy Tonight; Thurs day Fair and Warmer. VOL. .4, NO. 108. E E Annual Address by Bishop Joseph B. Cheshire Last Evening and Address by Paul Shimmon. ELECTING A SUFFRAGAN BISHOP FOR THE NEGROES First Time any Diocese in a South ern State East of the Mississip pi Has Taken This Step. The Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina is holding its 102nd annual convention in Salisbury with Bishop Joseph B. Cheshire presiding and there are a large number of clergy men and delegates in attendance. The aanual address of the Bishop was delivered last night in St. Luke's church whore the sessions are being held. There was also an address last night by Mr. Paul Shimmon, personal representative of the late Mar Shi mun, patriarch o fthe Syrian church, who was recently killed by the Turks. This address dealt with the treatment of the Christians by the Turks. At the close of the address an offering was taken for Syrian and Armenian relief. Those people, it is said, speak of the Episcopal church as " our church." This morning at 7:30 o'clock Holy Communion was celebrated with fiiahop Cheshire officiating. At 9:30 o'clock there was morning prayer led by Rev. Murrian Bethea, secretary of the conference. The business session began at 10 o'clock and the reports of the various rcmmittees and institutions were rej ceived. The women's auxiliary met this year for the first time, the meeting being held at Chapel Hill, and being s?parate from the meetings of the diocese. Dr. R. H. Lewis, of Raleigh read the report of the 'women's con .vention to the diocese. The 12 o'clock noon Litany, Parish and Mission was read by Rev. Thad dius E. Cheatham, former rector of St. Luke's church, this city. The board of managers of the Thompson orphanage made its report through A. H. Boyden, of Salisbury, and this showed the institution to be in splendi condition in every way. Col. C. E. Johnston, of Raleigh, who has served as treasurer of the conven tion for 34 years, tendered his resig nation. A vote of thanks was tend ered Col. Johnston for his long and faithful service. A feature of the Tuesday after noon session was the report of the committee recommending the election of a Suffragan Bishop of Negroes and this is the first time, any Southern state east of the Mississippi river has taken this step. The Bishop will serve the diocese of East Carolina,, North Carolina and South Carolina. The diocese of Sauth Carolina is now in session at Aiken and has the same matter up. This convention wired the North Carolina convention asking of the action taken in regard to matter f.nd will accept the man elected by this doecese. The election of this Suffragan Bishop takes place this af thernoon. The convention will be in session through Thursday. W S S E Bolsheviki Foreign Minister Protests Against Aleged Violation of Brest-Livotsk .Treaty Germany Gives Coated Ansewer. (By the Associated Press.) Moscow, May 8. An armistice has been contracted between the Ukran ians and Germans and Russians on the Kursk front and the Russian legation is making an effort to arrange an armistice on the remaining fronts. Replying to a protest by the Bolsh eviki foreign minister against the cap ture of Sebastopol and Black Sea fleets as a violation of the Brest Livostok treaty the German ambas sador sad the taking of Sebastopol and the- fleet was purley a military operation, made necessary by a tacks -si the Russian warships upon Nikola f iev and Kherson. He added that Germany had no intention of retain ing teritory coptured and would per mit the people the right to self de termination. W S S Mesdamea Claude Weston, S. F. Wedding ton and Miss Lillian Hyrea rrnt yesterday afternoon in Lexington. P SCOPAL DIOCESE IS MEETING HER n The President is Not in Favor of the Investigation Thas Cham berlain Proposes. NO OBJECTION TO THE AIR CRAFT INVESTIGATION Says the Full Investigation Into War Activities Is Untimely Just Now. (By Associated Press.) Washington, May 15. President i Wilson today confirmed the report that he objects to the investigation into the .general conduct of tine far. In a letter to Senator Martin, of Vir ginia, tfte President pointed out that the Oh'iiwberltin resolution directing a general reviewing of the wur con duct is unnecessarily broad. The iPresident informed Senator Martin that he has no objection to the scan 'hinrr inquiry into the air situa tion, but thiit he deemed the .proposed investigation into the conduct of the war linadvisaible. At tfte last session the President opposed such an inveti gation and it was ended. It is 'believed Dhat the President's attitude was due to the form of the Chamberlain resolution. The resolu tion "authorizes and directs" the com mittee to "inquire into and report to to the senate" the progress of the air craft production in the United Stales antd into lariy other matters relating to war, by or through the war de partment. Prident Writes Senator Martin. Washington, May 15. In a letter today to Senator Martin, of Virginia, Democratic leader in the Senate, President Wilson declared he would regard the pasnge of the Chamber lain resolution railing for an inveti gation of the aircraft and other war activitic as a "direct vote of want of confidence in the administration' and an attempt by congress to take over the conduct of the war. WS8 CLOSING EXERCISES E Will Begin Saturday, May 16th, With Alumnae Association Baccalaure ate Sermon by Rev. H,. E. Gurney, D. D., of Monroe. (Special to The Post.) Albemarle, May 14. TOe closing exercises of the Albemarle Normal and Industrial Institute will begin on Saturday, May 18th, with a meeting of the Alumnae Association at 4 P. M., in Northrup Hall. At 7 P. M. on Saturday, the Class Day exercises will be held on the campus. They promise to be very en tertaining. Sunday evening at 8 oHock the baccalaureate sermon f wall be preach ed in Ceitral Methodist cihurch by Rev. H. E. Gurney, D. D., of Monroe. The annual concert will be given in Northrup Hall Monday evening at 8:30 o'clock. After .tihis the audience will be invited to lUfford .Hall, where in Hhe dining room the industrial ex hibit wall be enjoyed by ell. Prizes will be awarded for sewing in the home economics class, one to the ibest seamstress, and one to the pupil who mtide the greatest improve ment during the year. Like rqaiards will be .given in the Traded "ewing class. The graduating exercises will be held in NoiUhrup Hall Tuesday even ing at 8:30 o'clock, at which time a number of girls will receive certifi cates for having completed the sew ing, course, or he domestic science course, or the grantnrvar grades. Ten rupils iwill meive diplomas; five for the literary course; and five for tfho home economics course. Rev. Geo. W. Cheeks, pastor of Albemarle Presbyterian Church, left today for Oklahoma to attend a ses sion of the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church during tme next nee, ev. uur. uieeres was recently elected as commiseioner from Md.klenburg Presbytery to attend the coming session of General Assembly. He will be eone about two weeks. WSS Souther Baptists Elect Oicers. (By the Asociated Press.) Louisville, Ky, May 15. Without a dissenting vote the general officers , of the Southern Baptist convention were re-elected at this morning's ses sion of the convention. WSS - India's peanut crop for the 1915-17. season is estimated te be 1,147,000 PRESIDENT WILSON ENTERS OPPOSITION Ions tons. beiry Eveimlinig MEMBER THEIR MONARCHS The All Highest Divides the Land and Name Rulers for People Whom They Override. WILLIAM AND CHARLES SELECT RULING MONARCHS British Say Only the Germans Could Have Laid Dangerous Mines in Cattegat. (By the Associated Press) The Austrian and German emper ors at their meeting at the great head quarters, according to German news papers, reported through the Ex change Telegraph company, through Amsterdam, have selected Monarches for Lithonia (Lithuania?) Courland, Ksthonia and Poland. Germans Must Have Laid Mines. London, May 15. The udmiraty announces with reference to the re port that vesesls have been sunk by mines in the Cattegat in the neigh borhood of Skaw, that no mines dan gerous to shipping have been laid by the British outside the notified area and adds that "any mines in the above region which are dangerous to shipping must, with her usual disre grad for neutral interest, have been laid by Germany. French Take German Positions. Paris, May 15. French troops last evening attacked German positions near Heilles ,on the front below Arm ines, and took a woods on the left bank of the Avre river, the war office announces. The Germans made a counU . attack bue were beaten off with severe loses. There was, a viol ent bombardment during the night on the front about mondidier and west of Kemmel. WSS SUPfirMCOORTSAYS The Court Said There Was No Error in the Case of Baxter Cain Under Sentence for Killing Harris Some Time Ago. (By Associated Press.) Raleigh, May 15. The supreme court today handed dqn a decision in the case of Baxter Cain convfoted in the Superior court of .Rowan coun ty for the murder of Able Harris and sentenced to the death chair in which the court holds that there was no er ror in the trial as set forth. Cain is the peg-legged negro in the Rowan jail under the death sentence for the kililng of Harris. The details of the case tare well known to the readers of this paper. Cain was the night (Aiatohman at the car barn of the N. C. Public Service Company. He wis off and had Harris on in his place. Harris was murdered at tih'e oar barn and later ICIam was arrested and tried, found iguilty land sentenced to the death chair. His case was carried to the supreme court and the decision today ends the case. WSS I One Hundred and Forty-One Whits Men WiU Be Sent From This County to Camp Jackson Com pletes Rowan's Second Quota. On Wednesday the 29th day May, two weeks from today, Rowan will send the largest contignent of her young men to the training camps that has yet gone to the army canton ment On that date one hundred and forty-one white men will entrain for Camp Jackson at Columbia, S. C. The local board has officially been notified to asemble these men here and en train them during the day for Colum bia camp. The names of these men will be announced in a day or two, the list now being compiled. This contingent will complet's Row an's second quota, provided credit is given the county for enlistments. However, this qeustion is now before congress and the military authorities and if credit is not slowed the coun ties throughout the country for vol untary enlistments then it will be nee ess ry to call additional men to com plete the second quota. The largest contingent heretofore sent off was in the neighborhood of one hundred. It was at first thought probably that the one hundred and forty-one men called from Rowan EMPERORS NAMING CONTINGENT WILL GO OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAUSBURY, NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY, ER- London is Manifesting Much In terest Over Meeting Between Bill and Emperor Charles. CHARLES COMPLETELY , UNDER BIO BILL'S THUMB Numerous Activities Reported Along the Western Front. (By the Associated Press) The extended renewals of the Ger man offensives having failed to de velop the allies are continuing to irea-dh out for new vantage points from which they can better re ' sist it. The French were the aggrensors in the last operation of this kind, carried out late yesterday. They pushed out from their lines south of Hailles on the Somme front, the objective being the wood situated about the point where Germans made their farthest I wpqtwarri advance and are in a short ' distance of the Paris-Amiens railway. The operation was entirely success ful, resulting in the capture of the wood on the slopes west of the Avre river possession of which improved considerably the allied offensive po sition in this important sector. The Germans evidently recognize this fact for they ceunter attacked last night. Their determined attempt failed and after a spirited fight the French remained in control of the po sitions after having cut up the enemy badly with their fire and taken many prisoners. Artillery activity is re ported also further north. The London statement also indi cates considerable activity by the British on the Somme front, between the So name and Ancre valleys. In the Flanders front the Germans also speeded up their fire in the Kemmel section and Jheir guns worked; vigor ously to"the south in the direction of ths Batum wood. Much interest is displayed over the meeting ' between Emperors William and Charles and their military and diplomatic assistants, especially over the vague uncertain tone of the offi cial reports. That firmer alliance be tween the two countries has been ce mented is certain, and it is also be lieved that Austria has been forced to take different position and is now more than ever under the complete domination of her ally. Develop ments in the near future will show whether or not Austria is being forced to make renewed offensives against Italy "or to send her armies to the western front to aid her exhausted ally. -WSS U. S. Senator Says He Thanks God Por Woodrow Wilson in an Address at Columbia. NAVY WAS READY SAID NAVAL COMMITTEEMAN In Making an Address Before the Democratic Convention Till man Rang True. (By Associated Press.) Columbia, May 15 To (hell with German sympathizers and .thank God for Woodrow Wilson," exclaimed B. R. Tillman, United States senator in concluding an address berore the state democratic convention here at noon today. The senator declared he want ed the people of the state to know where he stood on the one issue before them the war issue. "As your senator and chairman of the great vulval committee in the sen ate I am proud to say that when the test csme those of us in connection with the navy could truthfully say, all is well VTth the fleet." Aside from Senator Tillman, Sen ator E. D. Smith. Congressman A. F. Lever, William 6. (Stevenson, F. H. Dommick, president of the senate, and J. M. Baker are in attendance on the convention. The convention convenes to formulate rules for the holding of a primary election this summer. W S f r Wheat or defeat? Which T might be sent off in two or more con tingents but orders have been receiv ed to entrain the full number at one time, and May 29th has been de signated as the day for this. The men will leave on No. 45, the 2:30 af ternoon train on that date, reporting to the local board that morning. MEETING OF EWIP TO HELL WITH GERMANY-TILLMAN Food Campaign in America tpi MAY 15, 1918. AIRPLANE MAIL Delivery of United States Mail by Air Routes Began Today From Two Different Points. N. Y. TO WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON TO PHILA. President and Mrs. Wilson Wit nessed Initial Start of the Mail Airplane From Washington. (By Associatde Press.) Washington, May 15. .Airplane mail service between WasMngton and New York ,ent into operation today wMen the first airplane mail carrier piloted by Lieut. George L. Boyle left Patomae Park for Philadelphia at 11:45 oVlock. President and Mrs. Wilson witnessed the initial start. New Y ork to Washington. iNow York, May 15. Airplane mail service in the United States was in augurated today when a government airplane ipiloted by Lieut. Torrey H. Webb left .Belmont Part at 11:30 o'clock this morning for Wii&hington lABth tpouches containing some 4,000 letters. WSS A NEW AUSTRO- GERMAN ALLIANCE Is Fixed for a Period of Twenty Years and Includes a Military Convention and Close Economic Relations. (By the Associated Press) Zurirh. Switzerland, May 15. A Vienna dispatch to the Neuesti Nac richten of Munich says the new Aus-tro-German alliance is fixed for a period of twenty years and includes a military convention and provides for closest economic and custom rela tions. ,.. . .-. ,. WSS ,: AwiUtb ,Tlme pne pCBall bury'e best knswn and oldest negro women, died at her home in Dixon, ville last night. The funeral and burial will be held tomorrow. Aunt Edith was for many years a servant in the home of the late R. J. Holmes and was said to be 106 years old. She was one of the old time "black mam mies" and. an ante bellum negro whose numbers are fast dwindling away. WSS IING 21 YEARS OF AGE MUST REGISTER Call Has Been Issued By Adjutant General Lawrence W. Young For This Registration Will Probably Re June Jt, But Exact Date Will Be Announced Later. The Rowan exemption board in the matter of national army has received official instructions from Adjutant General Lawrence Young at Raleigh relative to' the registration of all vourrg men who have reahed the age of 21 years since June 6, 1917, the date of the first registration. While no specific dute has yet been announced for this registration it is expected that it will be on June 6th, lust one year from the date of the first selective draft registration. Un der the rules every Rowan man who has attained the age of 21 years since June 5, 1917, will be required to pre sent himself to the local board in the Federal building in Salisbury for reg istration. However no regulations have yet been issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder covering this registration, but these are ex pected any day. It is now known how many new registrants this plan will add to the Rowan list of men eligible for military service, but it is expect ed to reach several hundred. The plan of registration, as he set forth, requires each exemption board to register all men over (wfbont is will exercise authority. The number to be registered, it is estimated, is about one-tenth of that registered last year. In necesary instances, the exemption board will be authorised to call upon part time attaches of the board, in cluding county or city attorneys, members of the legal advisory boards nnd the government appeal agent Should insufficient assitance be there by obtained, the board would be au thorised to employ extra clerclal help. All men becoming of age during the past final year will be required to register on one day. General Young declared the record established list year must be duplicated,' and ' that violations of the regulations will be vhromusly ferreted out and prose cuted. SERVICE STARTED Posit FIVE IRE BISHOPS ELECTED A! ATLANTA Methodists in Their General Con ference Name More Men Bish ops for Southern Church. TODAY'S BALLOTING ENDED THE ELECTION OF NUMBER Drs. DuBose and Ainscourt Were Elected This Morning After Several Ballots. (By Associated Press.) Atlanta, May 15. The election of Dr. F. M. Parker, ipresident of Em ery University, as Bishop of the M. E. Ctwroh, Soubh, as a result of Dhe third ballot was announced tliis morn ing at n session of the Genera) Con fere nle. Drs. II. II. DuBose, of Nashville, and W. N. Ainscourt, of Savannah, were elected on the fourth ballot this morning, thus completing .the num ier to be selected by this conference. A Stir is Created. Atlanta, May 15. The action of the college of bishopc in vetoing the ac tions of the general conference in regard to women's laity risfHts and the changing ', of the ritual on tfte grounds that both measures were il legal, was being widely discussed in conference circles tonight. iHeuted discissions followed .the bishops Vfo. The ' annual confer ences now will vote On the measure, and if carried by a two-thirds ma jority the measures will become law. Women members, it was said tonight, are confident the annual conferences will ratify the legislation. The following delegates Mere elect ed us a committee to select the next meeting place of the general confer ence: W. E. WilWams, T. F. Lipscomb, J. W. Perry, E. B. Cappell, and W. W. Balk . . , -v.,,.., ' . Ths. memorial wC. recommended istJffJleeM as was needed for the efTice of presid ing elder, the bishop to make his se lection from the-names presented, was overwhelmingly defeated. , (Resolutions fwvtortng uniform di vorce laws in each state were adopt ed. The South Carolina delegation iissented. sralsclfl TRICT NUMBER ONE SuDDorters of Public School Vote An Extra Tax of Twenty Cents on the $100 and Sixty Cents on Each Poll. Three Other Ejections Pending. A special school tax electoin was held in unity district No. 1, Barber public school, Tuesday and resulted In the carrying of the measure wherebj a special tax of twenty cents on the hundred dollar valuation of property and sixty cents on each poll is to be levied for school in this particular district. There were forty voters reg istered for this election. Of this num ber twenty-six voted for the special tax, nine votes were cast against it and there were five who did not ex press themseleves at the ballot box, these, however, counting against the measure. There are three more of these spe cial school tax elections now pending, one for Franklin No. 4 on the 21st of May, for twenty-five cents on the hun dred valuation of property and seventy-five cents on eaji poll; one at Spencer May 28th for a tax of twenty cents on each hundred dollars valua tion of property and sixty cents on each poll, snd one in Cleveland, No. 1, for the same tax, twenty and sixty cents. The successful carrying of the Unity No. 1 electoin Tuesday gives fifteen special school tax districts in Rowan, and it is bslieved the three elections now pending will be carried for the schools, and it so Rowan win then have eighteen special school tax districts. 1 The people of the county are waking up to the fact that the more support, financially, the schools get the better schools we will have and it is not asj hard to carry a spe cial tax election as In former years. However, there are still those who vigorously oppose these special taxes. .WSS 8hipyreV Fire at Vancouver. - (By Associated Press.) , , Vancouver. B. C . May 15-flre starting nj the boiler room of the J. CouwMin A Eons shin yards here ear ly rMs morning dVf itmrngm estimated at 11X00,000. One fireman was kill ds nnd several injured. . . : . CARRIER N UNITY DIS ONE EDITION 2 CENTS PRICK TWO CBNTfl Grant's Creek Overflowing Below Point Where Drainage Was Dis continued Last Summer. SPENCER JUNIORS STRONG FOR SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX Special Representative of the Red Cross in Spencer For Meeting With the Shop Committees. By A. W. HICKS) Spencer, May 15. The expected has happened in the bottoms of Grant's creek near Spencer, where millions of tons of sand are being washed over the rich meadows, mak ing the lands almost worthless. Other nlnces are being washed away and ruined. This is of course jut down the creek below where the dredging stopped at the Gobbel mill site. It has been the prediction all along that (this would happen and that the lands down atream will be ruined and rendered worthless, and that the own ers who formely opposed the dredging will before long be very anxious to have the work completed aU the way to the river. On almost every oc casion when the stream rises the wa ter tear down through the bottoms, being given a great force by the clear stream above. Incalculable' amounts of mud and rubbish la being lodged on the lands which must stand full force of the tide waters from above. Just how the sewer outfalls from Spencer will stand the freshets re mains to be seen. The damage so far is to the Individual land owners rataher than to the town. Spencer Council No. 74 Junior Or der on Tuesday night took a verg de cided atand in favor of the proposed IsDeeJal, school, tax for-thls place. It is unuorswoa unsc a targe per cent of ths -members will work-for the pro ssdU In the election on May 28, ' not as political issue but as a strictly educational 'measure And In the best interests of the town. . While other towns near the Char lote camp are receiving considerable , notoriety, : some quite undesirable, Spencer is congratulating herself up on getting by without being scored by the military police. The recent pub lished reports of the Provost Guards men fall to incriminate Spencer, and the officials here are now looking af, ' ter their local fences, Oh Saturday night officers made two raids at well known places where it was said liquor might be found, and made a water haul. It is understood both places were bone dry, at least so far as the officers armed with search wa rants could discover.. The Carmen's War Savings Society will meet at the Y, M. C. A. tonight This is a society .organised soma f aw weeks ago which meets alternately In Spencer aid Salisbury, Mr. J. W, Ellis, a special represen tative of the Red Cross, of Atlanta, is la Spencer today with Mr. H. J. Kene. be! in the interest of the organisation. They met with the shop committee at noon and arranged for ths drive which the Red Cross expects to make. The measure will be handled in the shops by the same committee that so sue cessfully manage the Third Liberty Loan. WSS. JOINT MEETING IN PROGRESS. Methodist and . Baptists Holding In tereetlng Series st North Main. -The Methodists and Baptists are conducting an Inter jstlog series of Gospel meetings at the Baptist church Just off North Main street The services are held each evening, the song service beginning at 8 o'clock. The preachers alternate. Rev. Brady, the Methodist, preaching " one night and Rev. J. N. Brinkley, the Baptist, preaching the next" Mr. iBrady ipreaches tonight . All the services are held at the Baptist church and the Methodist ' hymn book is used. , . . , f Last night there was considerable interest manifested on the part of some of the congregation and there ' were several conversions. ' : The public is 'cordially invited to ' atend these services. . , WSS- TODAY'S CASUALTY LIST (By the Associated Press Washington, May 15. Ths casualty list today contains 120 names divided ' aa follows: v Killed tn action 3; died of wounds ' I; died of disease 5. died of accidents 1; died from other causes T; wounded severely wounded slightly 48; wounded 8; missing In action 39. . r WSS MUCH DAMAGE DONE TO BOTTOMS