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VOL. 14, NO. 15G.
BiAMS PRKPAR
BjQDEI BBSBS? HHBB sJMbsbs BOB HOB
ALLJEWS ORDERED
SOVIETS WOULD
ENEMY PREPARING
FOR A BIG ASSAULT
Germans Planning: to Recapture
Heights Taken by Austrians
and the Americans.
ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT
INTENSITY COMMENCED
General Haig Reports Ground
Gained in Infantry Operations
on the Flanders Front
(By Associated Press.)
There are indications tihat the'Cer
nians are preparing for an effort of
some magnitude to recapture valuable
ground won by the Australians
find Americans itn the past few days on
t.h.e front east of Amiens north of
Villcrs-Bretonneux. Loral attacks
recurred in t!he southern part of this
region last nighit, but tihe Britislh had
LUle trouble in dealing with them.
TVs mcrning the enemy artillery
ci,Tenjd a boniiberJiment of considerable
intensity in this seictor aver a front
cf approximately eiglhfc jTriilsJETQiO
yillers-Birctonneiux north across the
Soirane to the Ancre.
The only inf.intry operations wit5i
ti the past twentyfour hours in which
a round was pained ds reported iby
Field Marshal Haig. It occurred on
ti'-.te Flanders frorvt W'wre the JBrifrish
advance ! their line sligihtly near Mer
r.s. Titts .improves tne position wtmxn ,
pra,tect3 Miepipe 'wood and the ap-
preaches to Hazebroucki railway junc-
. . ii j
tion back of the wood, the continued 1
possession of which is vital to the .
maintenance of the British lines on
the Ypres front. '
Comparative quiet prevails on the ,
French front. '
The only activity of note was artil-le:-;'
duels north of Mountdiddirr and
in the Ix)ngpant region in the
northerly part of the Marne front
wheie the French recently made ex
tensive local gains of ground in the
the region north of Montdiddier
where a considerable volume of shell
ing was reported including Cantigny
sector held by t..e Americans.
The sector of tne Marne salient
held by the Americans were unusual
ly quite yesteiday and la3t night, the
ar..lk' firs baing below normal.
Such firing as the American gunners
indulged in was mainly directed
:igaint the Germans in the neighbor
hood of hill 201 wast of Chateau
Thierry.
W S S
I
BOYS ARE IN THE
CASUALTY LIST
Roanoke Rapids, .New Bern, Cherry -ville
and Campbell Boys Included in
' Today's Reports from the Front.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, July 10. The marine
corjps casualty list today contains five
mtmes divided as follows: Killed in
action' 2; died of wounds, 2; wounded
severely, 1.
Army Casualty List.
Washington, July 10. The army
casualty list today contains 103 names
divided as follows: failed in ection.
21; died of wounds, 15; died of. di
ease, 4; hed of accident ami other
causes, 3; wounded severely, 45;
wounded slightly, 1; missing in ac -
tion, 12; prisoners, 2.- Th list In-
eludes .the. tljyNr from North Car-
, Boat fcf 7
KajdV W Private Ashby J.
Ywit,il tenske Rapids; Private
Japcr f s of T2lofrrtason, of New
CWpe, l)JLifterriHe; Private Harry
lalT, of CbLIkte. . i
Wlounded severely, Bmce A. Spen
cer, of CampbelL
FINLAND 10 BANISH
JEWS FROM NATION
September 30th Set as Date for
Expulsion of All Hebrews in
Finnish Territory.
COMMUNITIES MUST DENY
FOOD AFTER THAT DATE
Appeal is Issued to the World by
Those Affected for
Assistance.
(By Associated Press.)
Stockholm, Only 10. The Finnish
government has ordered all Jews ex
pelled from Finland before September
J'Olh.und has instructed all communi
ties to deny food to the Jews after
that date, according to reports reach
ing tl.ne Jewish Press Bureau here.
Finnish Jews have issued an appeal
to the world for assistance.
The Finnish Senate, it is said, will
grant naturalization to only a few
Jews, exicejpfting those who fought in
the ranks lof tfhfe White Guard.
Finland Wants American Food.
Stockholm, July 10. General Man
uerhfiim, commander of the Finish
governmeh7ofe today visited Mr
Morris, the American minister to Swe
den, and asked him what chance then
was of Finland getting a supply of
food from the entente powers.
The general painted the food situa
tion in Finland in the darkest colors.
The American minister told him
it fill t r-tr t t
mere was very mue cnance 01 rmiana
getting supplies so long as Germany
held the country under her control.
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LEAVES FRONT; IS A
1
Disease so Prevalent in the German
Army it Seizes Upon Kaiser Bill
and Members of His Family.
(By Associated Press.)
Rome, July 10. (Emperor William
himself has fallen a' victim to influen
za, 8d prevalent in the German attny,
eccordir.2" fro advices from a Swiss
source tihat have reached the Epaca.
These declare that the etmperor has
gone home from the French front be
cause of an attack of the "Spanish
gTippe" as it1 is called, and several
members of the emperor's family are
also suffering from the same malady.
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MRS. CAROLINE HARRISON DEAD
Widow of the Late Thomas J. Harri
son Dies at Her Home on East Innea
Street .Funeral This Afternoon.
Mrs. Caroline L. Harrison, aged 63
years, widow of the late Thomas J.
Harrison, died at her borne, 620 East
Innes street last night land the fun
eral was held from the residence this
afternoon 'at 4 o'clock, conducted by
Rev. W. A. Lambeth, of the First
MetT-odist church, and the interment
was in Chestnut Bill cemetery. De
ceased was a native of Halifax county
but had resided in Salisbury for the
past thirty yean or more.- She was a
most xeceUeat -woman and had a large
cirde of friends in her community.
. five sons and four oaughters sur
vive, these being TJhos. J. Harrison, of
Hampton, Va.; James M. Harrison, of
Columbia, ft C; Claud Harrison, of i
Atlanta, us.; reter nam son, oi hoc
Hill, S. C; and Moses Harrison, of
j RuleSsft; Mrs. J. Moyer Sink, of
j Greensboro; (Mrs. W. T. Burke and
'Misses Belvm and Lottie Harrison, of
Salisbury.
WSS
j Misses Maude and Sarah Jackson
, returned to Danville today after a vis-
w ss
Mrs. W. D. Pethel went to the
WMtehead-Stokes sanitoriam tcday
to take treatment.
SALISBURY.
HG FOR
RESENT
RUSSIAN SITUATION
Events so Rapidly and Constantly
.Occurring That America's Part
is Yet Undetermined.
MILITARY ACTION MIGHT
WEAKEN WESTERN FRONT
Project for Extending Economic
Aid to Russia is Going For
ward Rapidly as Possible
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, July 10. The govern
ment regards the situation m Russia
as so rapidly and constantly chang
ing as to make it impossible to come
to tiy decision as to what military
aid may be extended by the United
States. TMs was authoritatively
stated today.
All of the plans so far submitted
which involve military action by the
United States, the government feels,
involves at the same time a Weaken
ing -of itlhte western front.
It is tfae uedsion of the government
Unit nothing must be permitted to de
tract from the- military strength in
"The'piojeot tec extending econoow
aid, tt was stated, is going forward ,
rr.!idly as possible.
While the situation eurroundimsr the
question of military action oontimues
to ba so mixed it was stated thit no
announcement of policy is possible.
THE SPENCER PUPILS
Pup'ls of Miss Boyd Give Recital
Thursday Evening A Number of
Local and Personal Matters of In
terest From Spencer.
(By A. W. Hicks.)
Spencer, July 10. A piano recital
will be given by the pupils of Miss
Clara Boytl in the basement auditori
um of Central Methodist church
Thursday evening, July 11th, at 8:30
o'clock. They will be assisted by Miss
Mabel Boyd, sproana. At the
same time an interesting contest will
take place, the pupil rerdering her se
lection most artistically receiving
as a reward a Thrift Stamp.
Mi3S Bod has conducted a success
ful class in Spencer for the past
year as well as keeping up her con
servatory work at High Point.
A social affair of much pleasure
was given Monday evening at the
home of Capt. aud Mrs. D. McBride in !
Spencer, the honor guests being
being Misses Lelia and Sarah Drake,
of Columbia, who are visiting hfe.
There were just sixteen young folks
present to partake of the bounteous
supper prepared bys Mrs. McBride and
to indulge in various games and in so
cial intercourse while music filled the
The social was a most enjoyable
one, and Mrs. McEride proved herself
t gracious hostess.
Mr. J. H. Ketner, chief of the Spen
der fire department, sustained pain
ful irjuries Monday by being caught
ar.der an electric crane in the shops
where he was engaged. His neck,
(ace and head were badly cut up and
it required a number of stitches to
dose the gashes. He is able to be i
an duty however, though right much '
VERY COMPLICATED
disfigured for the present . Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Withers hart
Mrs. M. E. Barrier, of Danville, I returned to their home in Columbia
has sold a large two story dwelling after a visit to relatives here.
n Third street to Mr. and Mrs.' Mrs. C C Paul of Jacksonville is
Frank Stansbury, together with three ' the guest of her parents, Mr. and
iesirsbls building lots in the same Mrs. A. L. Long, hi Spencer. -wction.
Mrs. Barrier was In Spen-J Miss Ruby Hamilton, of Gaston ia,
r this week to dose the deal lis visiting, her brother, Mr. E. F.
Mrs. C F. Griffith, a daughter of Hamilton, here.
Mr.and Mrs. W. P. Young of Spencer, ' Miss Erma Ferguson r Greensboro
is secriously ill in a hospital in is visiting her father Engineer W. S,
Pr in Jet on, W. Va and a brother, Al- Ferguson.
German Braxton L. Younr, and sister, Kirs. C P. Deal, of La Grange, Ga.,
Mrs. J. A. CahilL have gone there to is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. P.
be with her. An operation was per- Deal in Spencer. Mr. Deal will motor
formed recently and, Mrs. Griffith has to Spencer in a few days for a visit to
not recovered. An infusion of blood his parents.
NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY,
-Jul 11
ANGLO
FOR CANNING LEADERS,
THE NATIONS' FEEDERS
HERE'S A HELPING HAND.
Rigat Now the Seascn Enters for the Busy Canning
Centers Throughout the Fruitful Land.
Local leaders of canning centers and clubs are urged to
take advantage of the offer of the National War Garden
Commission to supply free books of instructions. By an
arrangement with this paper the Commission stands ready
to send a generous supply of its publications to every organ
ization or leader engaged in carrying on the work of canning
or drying vegetables cr fruits. Get these and make plana at
once to have all home earners enter the contest for the ten
thousand dol
Stamps and
itol Prize Cer
the Commis
ing for the
vegetables
gardens. One
gives all the
neejded for
ning, drying,
f e rmentation
Each 'detail is
scientific,, ac
simply stated
ly understood,
The thirty
tU8trted with pictures .Which help. Another publication
is a pamphlet on Community and Neighborhood Canning
and Drying, showing how to organize any number of
families for working together. Leaders should send for a
supply of each publication for use in their groups. They
can obtain then free by writing the National War Garden
Commission, Washington. D. C.
BACK UP THE CANNON BY USE OF THE CANNER
JUNALUSKA INN IS
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Big Hotel at Assembly Grounds of
Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, is a Complete Loss.
WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH
THE SUMMER CONFERENCE
Structure Was Built at a Cost of
$160,000 Furniture Also De
stroyed in the Fire.
(By Associated Freest)
Asheville, July 10. The Junalvska
Inn, the big hotel at the assembly
grounds of the M)ethodist Episcopal
Church, South, at Lake Junalvska was
destroyed by fire early this imomiwig,
according to a telephbne message
from Waynesville.
The building was erected two years
ago at cost of $160,000.
The Are Started in the kitchen and
tfhe frame building and furnishings
are a total loss. Nobody was injured.
There are other hotels and many
cottages on the grounds and the
church officials announced that the
loss of Wie inn would not Interfere
w?th the conference scheduled for this
eurnmer.
is to be made from the brother and
sister in hope of relief and recovery.
JULY 10, 1918.
EFFORT
FIIFl
JLJlJLJLJiJLJlH
- JAPANESE INTERVENTI
Izn in Thrift
National Cap
t;ficates which
n:.on is offer
best canned
grown in war
of these books
Info rmation
successful can
jelly making,
and brining,
explained with
4aask aa4 as!
- two - page book is freely " il-
Has the Unanimous Support of
the Population and Will Con
tinue to Fight Central Powers
LIBERATE SIBERIANS FROM
BOSHEVIKI IS ONE AIM
First Democratic State in Russia
and It is Hoped a Forerunner
of a Great Russia.
(By the Associated Press)
London, July 10. A new provis
ional government ' for Siberia and
which has the unanimous support of
the population and which will continue
to fight the Central powers has been
established at Vladivostk.
The program of the new govern
ment includes the liberation of Siberia
from the Bolseviki; the avoidance if
possible, of foregin intervention; uni
versal suffrage; establishment of pro
visional councils and labor bureaus;
distribution of lands among the land
less, and control of economic activities.
Siberia wiQ thus, adds a corespon
dent of the Times, become the first
democratic state in the history of
Russia and it is hoped to be a fore
runner of a great Russia.
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ANOTHER SOUTH
CAROLINA ENTRY.
Attorney General Peeplea Withdraws
From Race For Governor and Seeks
Seat in the United States Senate. ;
(By the Associated Press.)
Columbia, S. C, July 10. Attorney
General Thomas H. Peebles has with
drawn from the race for governor and
entered the race. for. the short term
in the United States Senate to succeed
Christie Bent, recently appointed te
fill the unexpired term of the late
Senator Tillman, according to an
nouncement made this morning.
WSS
Miss Winnie Deal and Mrs. C P,
Deal are spending a day or two In
Concord with relatives.
SIBERIAN
PROV
GOV
ESTABLISHED
OF
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) FROM FMLMB
MUCH ROAD IRK
IS
County Commissioners Take Up
Public Road Matters From Va
rious Sections of the County.
MONEY FOR COMMUNITY
BUILDING NOT GRANTED
All Officers, Including Policemen.
Requested to Enforce the State
Automobile Laws.
The board of county commissioners
at their regular monthly meeting
t ran factoid the following business:
Ordered Ithat Bringle's Ferry road
be built on present survey from Pool
town to tfr.i3 rive and said work, t
paid for out of the special township
fund. s -Xu j
Ordered that work on ihe$w and
Enocbville road be deferred. ? . ; '
The conumttee on the Concord road
from Mill Brtdgs -I,; fflher.tir iV
mended that said road be, built as sOonS
d9 funds aire available, $i $"0
of the members of (Lower Stone church
j thnt the township force build a certain
j pSece of road at Lower Stone, church.
: Ordered thit John Caitherbe given
$45 a month for services rendered the
. county as guard. . , 1
j The following! committee was ap
pointed to loo over tne road rrom
Pool Town to Corinth church; Brown,
KesCer and Rainey,
Ordered that Concord road be sur
veyed from Mill BrMge to Barber.
Ordered that the tax on moving pic
ture shows be fixed at $40.
Messrs. Kester, IRaimey and Brown
were named a committee to look over
survey of road from Wlthrow's Creek
to Amity road.
Ordered that the road from Amity
to ShrriH's Ford road be built from
Shtrrill's Ford road to .,Withrows'
Creek under the supervision of road
suprcintendent, with repsr force and
hired labor.
Ordered that fRUiney and Brown
look over road' leading by Nathaniel's
church to Cabarrus county line.
! It was ordered that the report of
committee on Community Building be
and is (hereby Receipted. Said report is
that the county not make !?proprta-
I tion 'of $1,020 as requested iby Ctem-
' ber of Commerce.
j Ordered that on account of financial
condition of the county there be no
increase in the appropriation for hbme
! demontration work, and it was fur
, ther ordered that the same appropria-
tion be made as was done last year.
I Ordered that teams now on town
'iftip road work be taken to North
j Mam street.
At the second day's session it was
ordered that the matter of taMing tihe
teams from townshdp forces and put
.tinij? them on North Main street be
re-opened.
At a special meeting a number of
'taxpayers were heard as to tax as
', sessments.
j It was ordered that the board take
up with Mr. Fallia the matter of build,
ing a sand-clay rood from Salisbury
,ti Souty River.
Ordered thst the Salisbury road be
discontinues from forks of the road
west of Frank Correll's to the forks
of the Salisbury ami Concord roads,
ejst of ML Vernon colored church.
Ordered that Coacord road from
Gullett's bridge to Matthew Rex's be
i built by township force.
I . Ordered that the sherif, all dupties,
chief of police and patrolmen be re
ovestci to do all m their power to sec
that &c state automobile law relative
' to numbers is enforced. ,
It was ordered that Messrs. Brown,
' HaH and Kester secure teams for the
work on North Main street..
W 8 S
CONSIDERED
TMs laes of ttte ttonrrerafc oral .gr-ws.. He used oaths h the bank de
church will give a lawn party et m rpite the presence it lady cixployees
home of Dr. and Mrs. W. B, Duttera and tibea invited the president ef the
on JBast Innes street Tblursday nsght. bank mto the street to settle Us dif -The
pnbtte fs iimted. :. , tferencea, . "... :
PRICK TWO CENTS)
WE
SOVIETS RESENT
Declaration Made That These
Russian Forces Would Join in
With Germany in Each Event.
AUSTRIA WON'T ACCEPT
BEULOW AS COMMANDER
German Artillery Develops Activ
ity, Aided by Machine Guns, in
Region East of Amiens.
(By the Associated Press)
Amsterdam, July 10. A declaration
that the Soviets government in Rus
sia would ally itself with Germany in
esse of Anglo-Japanese intervention
in Russia is contained in a ; Moscow
wireless message Printed in a news
paper in Vienna, according to aft un
dated, message M Berlin Loksl Ansel
ger, The Vienna aewroaper; quotes ;
the concluding sentence of the dis-.
natch a follows! v, v . ... '" s
, "If Japan and England shoulJ o
ANY INTERFERENCE
ton Rs!an territory the Soviets ' T,
fovertwent 'would immediately- join i-
H Deil s H ? cceriCeulow.. '
td- to accept the German'kenerah Otto
von Beulow, as commander In thief of
the forces on the Italian fronfi be
cause Germsny rfus,to.'send )li
division with him,4 according td a
Rome newspaper which , based tbo
statement on advices from a Swiss
sources, Austria, it adds, . hss tenv
porarily given up the Idea of reveng
ing herself for the recent defeat in
Italy. ... '?
German Artillery Develops Activity,
London, July 10. Considerable ac
tivity developed early this morning
by the German artillery and machine
guns in the region east of Amiens
from the vicinity of VUler Brctonneux
to Ancre, says a war office report.
The Germans delivered local attacks
In the Vilers Brettonneux area but
these were repulsed. ' ; f
On the Flanders front the British
carried out operations, in the Vicinity
of Merris northeast of Nieppe wood
by means of which the line wss ad
vanced a short distance and prisoners
taken.
Artillery Duels Nesr Chavlgny.
Paris, July 10. Artillery duels on
the front north of Montdidier and
south of Ainse near Xhavigny farm
whete Fench troops recently made in
roads on the German lines, were an
nounced by ths war office today.
Slovaks Eager for Western Position.
xondon, juiiy i0. Czecbo Slovak
trocps operating in Russia desire to
fight on the western front and do not
want to be mixed up in Russian In.
ternal affairs. A memorandum to this
effect has been presented to the Jap
anese foreign minister and allied am
bassadors in Tokio by Colonel Vladi- j
mir Hwban of the Csecho Slovak Na
tional Council, says a correspondent
of the Times at the Japanese eapitL
The memorandum says, among other
things, the conflict between the
Csecho Slovak and Russian Soviets
must be settled. -
Italian Troops Continue to Advance.
Rome, July 10. The Italian troops
on the offensive in Alabama are con
tinuing to advance, the war office
announced today. ,Th enemy yeiter
day was beaten back on both skies of
Oaum river. , .
WSS
WILMINGTON NEGRO '
' '. GETS VERY UGLY
Wilmington, July ' 10. Frederick
Wentsrnsen, a mulatto youtir, was ar
retted this morning and is being held
by the police on an insanity charge
following trouble in is bank here con
eerafoff the marfcetint; ef Liberty
Bonds. . He Ja alleged to have made
demratnry remarks conerrwng the
arnreranens and complained of the
ek of freedom enJoved hv the tie-
t'
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