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VOL.1. NO. 59.
ACTIVITY OF AIRMEN
CHIEF WAR I1E7S
Docks at Dover Have
Been Bombarded By
the Germans
French Statement Says Five
German Positions Were
Shelled By Allied
Aeroplanes.
(By International News Service.)
Berlin. Jan. 24. The German ad
miralty announced today that the Brit-
ish barracks on the dock at Dover was
bombarded by naval aeroplanes Sat- dier spent three days and nights in a
urday night. Aeroplane also threw British position and finally got back
bombs on Manastir, injuring and kill- unharmed to the trenches of his com
ing several civilians. There is a great , pany. During the entire time he was
activity on the part of the armies in without food. The private was on the
the western theatre. The official ' firing line with his company when he
statement had the following to aay: j received orders to reconnoitre the
tv.- . r-rln- ami if. nearbv Emrliah Dositions. About two
tillery action. A squadron of aero -
plane bombarded Metx where bombs
fell on the residence of the governor.
Two civilians were wounded. One of
the aeroDlanes was shot down. Ger-'into
man aviators have bombarded the 1
railway station and military establish
ment behind the enemy's lines.
Paris. Jan. 21. Intense activity on
the part of the aviators marked tho( enemy and had practically entered it.
operations on the 'wetern front. Five 'He could not retreat, but to obtain
German positions were bombarded by Utter shelter he crept into a trench
sllied aviators. The text of the elate-which was not occupied at that time,
mi it of the Premh war office follows: 'Without food or water he had to stay
"On 'Sunday n!ghl French airmen where he was. t
liombarded Aniey. l.aon and Nugent ! In the meantime daylight came and
A bast. Today seven aviator dropped, he had to lay entirely ftill, to avoid
twenty bomb on SouthUlst and Mid- beinir discovered. Fi r twelve hours
glejerks. !ne n,,t l'r- When night came
j again an English listening post of
BRITISH STIAs three men approatbed tha wire tn-
S11U1.H1.AM) 13 SI NK tanglement and established, itself in
London, Jan. 24. The British
steamship Sutherland, 3,12 tons, has
been sunk in the Mediterranean Sea,
presumably t y a German or Austrian
submarine
Her crew was picked up
end landed at Malta.
MAKRIAGE IS NOW FKKB
IX NEW YORK CITY
New York, Jan. 21. Marriage is
now free in New York.- I.ast year the
marrvinir graft of certain aldermen
was suppressed. A municipal clem
began to perform ceremonies fur $!.
which went to the city, plus a ten
cent internal revenue stamp on the
certificate. First the dollars fee dis
appeared and now Corporation Coun
sel Hardy decides the stump isn't
necessary either.
PERSONAL ATTACT
ON THE PRESIDENT
IIEPl ISI.ItANS. IN CHICAGO
M AKE S I KONG CHARGES
AGAINST HIM.
(My International Niut Service.)
Chicago, Jan. 54. Unsparing le- '
nunciiiiion of Pr.--t h ut W li.-im, wen'
nn arena t ion t.f vr.-r.:. ! c-pon:.;l il-ily i
for the carnage in Mexdee.. m.'i
Rcpul.dian party's beyra-W' s;;
. livered today by Charles Hiili
l thu
h .ie-hair-
man uf tlu committee, lldiis nidi
cati-d the lines upon, which the cam
patgn will be. fought. He mentioned
the President by name, accusing- Mr.
Wilson of having' sacrificed national
prestiire the world over to a desire to
te reventred upon all. "To his blamed
pursuit of that hatred," he said, "is to
be charged the loss of -. American
cetreiury ,mca,ioo was ac- me nearest shelter. After a physician tended I only wanted vegetables. So
cused of employing the methods "of had given him a little brandy and a ' I got through the line and after se
high finance to juggle the report, and few sptonsful of broth he fell into a 'curing vegetables. I asked with'a verv
Aim flamming the American people.
That the Republicans could win on
the record of the Wilson administra
tion was the general topic.
ALLEGED GERMAN SPY
TO UK CAPTI RED
(By International News Service.)
New York, Jan. 24. According to
reports that reached here tonight -I.
T. T. Lincoln, alleged German spy,
who escaped from Federal officers,
has gone to San Francisco. His
movements have been traced, tke
ports say, in such a manner that he
has been located on a train that will
reach San Francisco tomorrow.
GERMAN SPENT THREE
DAYS IN ENGLISH LINE
Won Iron Cross By His Daring
Acts
WENT WITHOUT FOOD
Narrowly Escaped Capture
When English Sent up
Rockets.
( By International Newt Service.)
Berlin, Jan. 24. The German gen
eral staff report that Otto Hardel, of
Keustettin, private of one of the
Prussian Beserva battalions on the
western front, has earned the Iron
Cross by a daring escapade. The sol-
! o'clock ia the morning he left his
trench and cautiously crept over the
J level ground, lie reached a small
-earthwork of the enemy and jumped
shell crater near the fortifi-
cation.
A moment later the British sent up
some rockets and by the light of them
the soldier discovered that he was be-
fore one of the main positions of the
a crater about twenty feet from him.
Later four other F-0(l.;h soldiers ap
peared with stakes and wire and
... i , . ... v ,i...,.i.
to close up the hole through
wnien ne naa eniereu me position.
I The Englishmen worked all night
'and when they retired in the morning
Ilardell found that his escape had
lieen cut off. The next day seemed
endless to him, as he was suffering
from hunger and thirst. As soon as
darkness set in again he tried to dig
through under the entanglement, out
he foun(i thi impossible, as he had
no tools. With bleeding hands he
worked all night, but he made no
headway. There was nothing left to
him, but to spend another day in his
hiding place. He was fast-becoming
weak and made up his mind to escape
during the next night, or die in the
attempt.
As soon as the English listening
post appeared in the evening he arose
boldly and walked along the entangle
ments until he reached a low section.
The British guard noticed him. but
did' not lire. Apparently the English
men took him for .me. c-f their own
nu n in the darkne.-s. ( limbing over
the embankment and the maze t-f wire
rite, private threw rbn-o hand grer.
.Ylos which he siiil hit with him. Two
i f the grenade" exploded -im-l killed
one of t lie three Engatdi soldiers.
The explo-i-'.'ns of the grenades
t-roiipht a tcrrilic rille lire f.
the
.llritish trench and the f .-ii.nio was
answered from the to rnu-.n po.-itioii.
jl'.uilets. flew as thick as had, but llar
'del threw himself (bit on the (rround
.ami escaped unhurt. When the tlrimt
ceased he started to creep back to the
.German trench through the darkness
'and two hours later he fell into the
'arms of his comrades, who had triven
him up for dead. He was completely
'exhausted and had to be curried to
death like sleep from which he did
not awake for thirty-six hours. .
AGED MAX MAKES ALL
PLAXS FOR Sl'KTDE
Korth Judson, Ind., Jan. 24. James
Serovy, 82, committed suicide yester
day by emptying the contents of a
shotgun into his left breast. -Serovy
made all preparations for death, shav
ing himself and putting on clean
Mnen.
He then drove a nail into bed
post and, placing the trigger of the
gun on the nail with the barrel point
ing to his left breast, discharged the
weapon.
ROW STARTED III
E
Schackleford Said Too
Much Attention Paid
Munition Trust
Representative Gardner Had
Unique Way of Calling: It
An Untruth Clark
Stops Row. I
1
CBy International News Service.) j
Washington, Jan. 24. Representa
tive Schackleford, of Missouri, pre
cipitated row in the House today
during a speech favoring good roads
appropriations by declaring that too
many legislators were giving- their
time to filling the money chest of the
munitions trust and not enough to im
proving the nation in other ways.
Many members took exceptions to
the remark, and Miller, of Delaware,
replied that they were untrue, where
upon Mr. Shackleford apprised Mr;
Miller "to go slow or the DuPont will
get another Congressman."
Representative Gardner, of Massa
chusetts, then broke into the squabble
and shouted "the man who says the
motives of those who stand for pre
paredness are in anyway influenced
by munition stock, speaks ,out of an
unclean mouth."
At this point Speaker Clark quelled
the disorder.
AMERICAN WAS
WOUNDED IN MEXi
YESTERDAY
Douglas, Arix- Jan. 24 Henry .MPCoiwo aeifcian cavalry. This activ
Tanner, an American merchant, ar
rived here today from Mexico City
said that he was badly wounded by
Carranza soldiers while dining with
friends in a cafe in that city, lie
stated that the Carranza men came
into the safe and began to abuse the
Americans. Tanne's companions fled
but Tanner himself stopped to get his
hat and was shot through the lungs
and beaten.
PITIFUL SCENES ON
GERMAN BREAD LINE
Scramble Over Quarter Pound
of Bread
THE POLICE KEEP ORDER
Working Class (Jet Butter V hile
Well-to-do ('. With
out. (lly International News Service )
The U.-v-ue, Jars. Jl IV tun- j
iun-i ---mew hat pit-ful sc--: es v:.;r
Ib.-iig lines wait at the ib-i-rs -.-" t.-.-t
n;,-n l-..tler shops: arc de--.ri-.-i-! i-i
liispatih to the New Rotterdam I at
laiit Irum its Bciliu c.-rio;--!-u-r-.
j A this, newspaper 'i.-.' ymp;itlicti
with tie! many, it cumud
of presenting an c-witaide
geratcd account, such as
.-ed
an-l i-sii
the to
'mans complain of in allied journals.
! The correspondent begins by quot
ing from a story told him by a friend:
! "I got in with a little persuasion. A
line was waiting. They would not let
me go in front, of course, but 1 pre-
innocent face for a quarter of a pound
jof butter. I hid it in my coat,' went
out and joined at the end of, the line.
Without much more trouble I got a
second quarter of a pound
The correspondent comments:
"That is how we get along in Ber
lin to-lay; that is what we must do to
capture a little fat or a little butter.
Only with cunning or patience can we
butter our bread. In King straight
lines the people stand for hours before
the butter shops. Some get nothing,
some welter in butter. He who has no
need for butter goes out on the hunt
for it, as for sport. Housewives tell
(Continued on page 4.)
BY THE AUSTINS
Soldiers Laying Down
Arms and Goin
Back Home.
Renewed Activity By the Ger
Mans May Be An At
tempt to Reach
Calais Again
(By International News Service.)
Vienna, Jan. 24. Scutari has been
occupied by Austro-Hungarian troops.
Several thousand Serbians who form
ed the garrison retired - southward
without offering resistance.
The Montenegrins are hastily dis
arming throughout the country( At
several places the Montenegrins did
notwait until Austro-Hungarians ap
peared, but laid down theirs before
hand in order to return to their homes.
At other places majority of the in
habitants preferred to be interned to
returning home. The population gen
erally has received the troops in
splednid spirit but not with ceremony.
Paris, Jan. 24. An extremely vio
lent bombardment by the Germans of
the Belgium lines south of the Ysar
was reported tonight by .the war of
fice. The Germans expended twenty
thousard shells in an attempt to
smash the defenses. Final reports of
the action hi.d not n -aohc-d tha wp.r
.lice when the midnight .statement
was is-vied. j-drst report :;o.tcd that
the ii-.frj-.ti-y fctu-mptcd to debouth
Xr "i ht-:r trench .-s but the attack
v.--a tr'jkxa un by the tire from he
upled with the reports of an ncticr
further south along the Ysar canal,
indicates operations or a new effort to
press forward to Calais.
Some German detachments tried to
take Hents, but the Belg: in and
french infantry backed by the ,ro of
machine guns and artillery, repulsed
the advances.
FIRST DAY FARMERS'
INSTITUTE WAS GOOD
Featured by Interesting
Yesterday.
Talks
NUMBER FARMERS HERE
Today's Session Wt1tiBe Even
More Interesting to the
Farmers.
Th.
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I..
ha I 1.
Jirse- (1,
-. hoi i iii
I -e vest
I rrii. h
ivetl the
do in:'--f-r
the Fan
In-
irmi'
L'r.
c-n.iig ;
K. A
i ir.-rs pi
-n.
j 'I he dixeu- si n y..-terdny w.i.- o tv
; lined to the fertdity of the .-.d:, pro
j due tivencs of this section an 1 ibt
j live stock industry. All the rcUi:irka
I by the two gentlemen were hiv.ii'.y
praised by the farmers.
Mr. French is recognize.! as one of
the lea-ling cattlemen of the Soe.tfc,
an-l can always give. valuable infornia
tion (-n this subject. Mr. Roberts is
a farmer of thirty-live years' experi
ence and knows about all there is to
know about it.
There was a large attendance of
Cumberland county farmers yester-.
day, and it is expected that the at
tendance today will be even better.
Today the problem of tile drain
age' and hog-raising will be taken up
and given free discussion.
One interesting feature of yester
day's talk was the advice given the
corn club boys in the selection of
their seed. There was a number of
the corn club boys in attendance, who
listened eagerly to the advice given.
Mr. Tarker, a member of the State
Audubon Society, yesterday spoke on
the value of .the small birds to the
farmer.
HARTNESS BELIEVES
mc n.iirrr to v.nn
no inmi- ij uuuu
He Was a Visitor to Fayetteville
: Yesterday
CUMBERLAND WITH HIM
In the East, He Is Not So Sure
of the Attitude toward
Him
Mr. J. A. Hartness, candidate for
the office of Secretary of State, was in
Fayetteville yesterday en route to his
home at Statesville.
When seen by News' reporter, Mr.
Hartness expressed the belief that the
tight for the office was going to be
some warm. lie believes, however,
that he will be successful in his cam
paign. Mr. Hartness stated that he be
lieved that Cumberland county would
go solidly for him.
Over in Eastern Carolina, the home
of Col. Crimes, he was not sure of
much support. "I have a number of
friends in those counties over there,"
he said, "and I believe they will stand
behind my candidacy."
Mr. Hartness expects the campaign
to open up in earnest in a few days.
Looks like Col. Tommie Bost has
been playing tag with you fellows ia
the '.Greensboro News, Mr. Hartness
was asked.
"Yes," he replied, "but I doubt if it
will have much effect one way or an
other1 on the campaign."
SOME HAD
MEAT SOLD
Health Officer Has Investigated
:hf fnwn anH a War.
- rant Out.
VcoTdirT to a statement made yes-
Itorday by Dr. McNeill recently a' man
I living out.-idc of town had a fine cow
i to die. lie told another mnn that he
j would give him half of what the hide
isoiJ for, if he would skin the cow.
The man took him up on his prop
osition, but instead of Ekinninjr the
cow and throwing the meat away, he
carried some of it to a meat market
ju?t outside of Fayetteville where it
was offered f r sale, and part hung
up in the mn-ket.
Dr. McNeill investigated the ease
with the result that a warrant was
sworn out f ir the man who sold the
cow, but the fellow had skipped be
fore the warrant was served. Hopes
;ire entertained, however, uim ne v.j,,
tie tnkert
Th pu,r!t Dr. McNeill wishes to
impress is that the people should be
careful about buying and buy their
meats where it is inspected, instead of
. . . i . i -o
Ibiiyinjr it from those i-mnll markets
u'.it-iide of town where the meat has
I not been inspected.
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in Mi-isr or i inon
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j MISSISSIPPI HIVFR ON j
I Vlli: RISK At. A IN '
Vat. he-.. Mis.. Jan. lM The M.s
sl.!ppi ste i.iiiy rising, pas.-ed 'be
le-i-i stage ti-.i iy and tbe isdia: :;a.-.t ,
of the low lands are moving to higher
irroun-ls.
IT IS READ-
The News is read more close
than any other paper in t'um
land county. The News and
the weekly lnde have tht- ?
times the circulation of v
two publications in CumV ! .
county. Advertisers cn ; - li
by advertising in o-'y t ios
papers that have a ci-ciiai o l
and are read closely frr. fr.-ai
to back. Call tor the News and
Index rates.
i
Mh fli: APDnniM
ULhL Ul ill I I.UIttL
Ofl INCOME TAX
Supreme Court Upholds
All the Previous
Kulinjrs -y
Resolution In the House to Put
the State Militia Under
Federal Control Presi
dent Chief- s .
(By International New Service.) .
Washington, Jan. 24. In a sweep
ing decision today the Supreme Court
set its seal of approval upon the in
come tax law as now administered by
the government. The opinion of the
court was delivered by Chief Justice
White in a test case. The court ruled
that every step taken by Congress im
carrying out the letter and spirit of
the Sixteenth Amendment to the Con
stitution, the income tax amendment,
was correct. The constitutionality of
the income tax law itself was not
questioned in the case brought by Wil
liam R. Barushaber,' a stockholder of
the Union Pacific Railway, but nearly
every detail of the law was challenged
as invalid.
The court in a very elaborate,
though highly technical opinion, laid
down the rule that the sixteenth
amendment did not create an entirely
new clause of taxing- power to be ex
ercised by Congrss, b it was subject to
the- limitations of other sections of
3 Con -titutioh as in'.-; r; rctod in past
rt-icisioiis.
Wat-hir.jrton. Jan. 21 A proposal
'-ve the federal government con
tjol of the present militia organiza
tion as a substitute for the adminis
tration's continental army plan vu
advance! in a resolution introduced
today by Representative' Dyer, of
Misouri.
Representative Dyer is at the bead
of the Spanish war veterans. His
resolutions would remove the militia
from State control and place it under
the control of the War Department
with the President as commander-in-chief.
It proposes an amendment ta
accomplish this result. Mr. Dyer con
tends that this would give the gov
ernment an organized force and
uld do away with any necessity for
the proposed continental army, j
. ; I
FROM MFSSEXC.KK R-OY
TO PKESIDF.NT OF BANs
New York, J41, S-J Theodore Hel
ler, who began his career as a mes
senger hoy, has just been elected
;- ;.;,! ,,f thi. 1'iilii -wruie bai.k.
DAMAGING EVIDENCE
AGAIHST NEGROES
M;s .- i 1 l v - is 1:1 i v i i n l
I : 'l sltll 'i; i s or
i :.' i: . id.i;i!i.s
.: V v . S..h: c I
1 '-': -i - The
-e " -1 up its
: - -i: '- .' r.g
1-j '- i.cgroes
v fd Pr. Vo-hr.
-' .:h beiiij: a ,--.-es-
' -. -red an t.nex
m Stearns
the jury not to let
!i a.-.iiT--t the vo-i-:e
St-. cr.-on, of
i t'-ia-Lreg e id- nee.
i' i when c.-urt ad-
; -. b, . he i!.s:.-.:ct
Ua.rT.s"
-. gave -h
i She u a e'i the
I .-earned : i-: Kr day.
She related alleged statements
, ni-ide'to her by the three negroes ia
the P-Kstoi -ail. Sh .-aid they asked
her about M-s M. hr and Brown ask-je-i
"-.to tell M-.-s. Mohr to get them
a l.v ;. . The attorney gereral read
' iu tee note ' ient'.tied by Miss
'te -i i a which she said Brown ask-h-
give to his sister. She gave
the po'iee The rote told of
J'.ov i's plans f-r an alibi.
Attorney Lewis made her admit that
s) e ha.l the connivance of the police
when she saw the negroes and that
she allowed them to assume that she
came from Mrs. Mohr, but the negro
lawyer failed to state her story. Tho
cross-examination of the girl was long
drawn out. ,