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VOL. I. NO. 112.
FAYETTE YULE, N. C, SATURDAY MORNING, .APRIL 1, 1916.
PRICE $4 PER YEAR
VICTORY ELATES U.
Villa's Defeat Terrific Mow; U
Believed He Is Nearby; His
Capture Hourly Expected.
OUR LOSSES 4 BOUNDED
Believed That Many VilUsla
Killed And Carried Off By
Comrades Chances Of Early
Capture Thought To Be Good.
San Antomu, Tex.. March 31. Ar
my officers here were greatly elated
over the success of the American
troops with their first clash with VU
lislas. While only 30 Villistas were
killed it is believed that many mure
were killed ami carried off by their
comrades.
Military officers believe that Villa
has been struck a terrific blow and
that Viila can not 1 very far away
and that the rhancSssjjf his early cap
ture are pood.
The name of the four American
wounded were not given out by Gen
eral Funston.
ONLY THREE -WET
CANADIAN PROVINCES
Ottawa. March 31. Canada is near
ly prohibition today. Ontario is the
latent province to join Manitoba, Al
berta, askelchewan. Nova Scotia and
Prince Edward Island in the ' dry
ranks.
The only provinces where liquor
may be obtained are Quebec, British
Columbia and New Brunswick and
they are partly under local temper
ance legislation.
British Columbia will take a pro
hibition plebeacite some time in April
when ia regarded as certain to make
the province no license.. An absolute
prohibition measure has been prom
ised in New Brunswick.
FORTY BRITISH SAILORS
DROWNJT YESTERDAY
London, March SI. Forty-five sail
ors of the British steamer Conquest
were drowned through the capsizing of
the cutter, it was announced official
ly tonight.
HOBSON AND PREPAREDNESS
If ever there was a man in the
world who was entitle! to say, "I
told you so." and say it loud cnouch
to be heard from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, that man is the Honorable
Richard Pearson Hobson, of Alaba
ma. He did his talking two or three
years ago, when he told us over and
over drain, in Congress and ow of it,
thnt the Unite! States of America
needed more ships rnd bigger ship?
more puns and bigger runs, and
mure sailors and more soldiers and
more officers to command them both.
And ve laughed'at him that is,
some of his fellow citizens did.
They made fun of him.
They made cartoons iff him, and
called him "Raven Hobson," and oth
ers found pleasure in naming him
'Jeremiah Hobson." and they told
him he was neither a pmphct nor
the 1011 of a prohpet, and they' I
thank him to (.ft p tcHir, 11 - what
we needed and to be ubojt hi own
personal and private bustcr-os.
"We'll have to come to it," ."aid
Ifobson to Congress. "We mi;'ht a?, .
well make up our m.n-ls to it now as
any time," and he "quote 1 tome good i
military authorities to lend weight I
und color to hfs vious. 1
And then they talked olmiit Hob
son's choice and made new jokes and
revamped old ones to t.uit the tcra
sion. And now, every word that Mr. Hob
oti said has turned out to be abso
lutely and uncontestabiy true.
We do need more ships and bigger
ships- more puns and bigger guns
more sailors and more soldiers and
mora officers to command them.
And we're going to work to get
them, just as Jeremiah Hobson pro
phesied that we would.
What's that about the prophet and j
nls own country!
Every once in a while something harmless books sent them from home In addition to these resolves the Attorney-General T. W. Bickett, E. R. Paris, March 31. The Russian ry is that at least eleven hours were
happens to make us realize that the and on two occasions submarines have Council suggests that each local un- Preston, T. M. Pittman and Clarence steamer Portugal has been torpedoed , over mountains and foot hills. Th
man or the men who wrote those Pro- been noticed hanging around the is- ion ask county legislative candidates Poe, and their business will be to doc- j and sunk. The destruction was an-. liberating of a large number of Car
verbs knew life and knew human na- land, but these were immediately dri- to express themselves through the lo- tor this beneficent measure which has nounced by the Var Office tonight, ranra troops shows how well Car.
tura very well, iodeed.-AtlsnU Geo- en away by French destroyers th- ' cal press of each county, also on the been mad bunglesome and impracti- On board were many wounded sol- jrarua has not placed actaai result
fiAr . rs const Jy oa the lookout salary and fe system; the abolition cable. ,diers. in the way of Villa.'
GERMANS MAKE j
GA!NSATVEROUNj
Capture Is Result Of Al'.-XisrM !
Fi'-ht And Terrific IJu re
tardment Of French.
THE LOSSES ARE NOT GIVEN
Malencourt Is 223 Feet High
And Commands Nearest Road
To Paris-Verdun Railway
3Iay Cut Off Supplies.
London, March 31. With another
tremendous driving force in this in -
stance from the east to the West of j sever their connection with "those in
the Meuse the Germans have overr-, terests before becoming candidates
whelmed the fortified village of Ma-' for the Ligslature, is a resolution of
leneourt, about 10 miles wet of Ver -
Un.
The capture was the result of an
all night fijrht and was made in the
evening by great masses of troops
that
swept over three sides of the
hill on which Malencourt was situ-
ated
The attack was preceeded by
the usual bombardment. Then the
German guns were ranged to keepJ
back French reserves and the German
infantry attacked under this cover.
The French made a heroic resistance,
but Malencourt in ruins and being
scorched by terrific fire the French
fell back to the outskirts of the vil
lage. No figures of losses are given, but
considering; the desperate fighting the
casualties must have been frightful.
While the battle of Malencourt with
the Germans was at its height they
tried to carry positions in th west
ern fronts. At Avencourt, three
miles to the west in this attempt the
Germans were repulsed.
The rapture of Malencourt is im
portant to the German campaign. It
ia on the crest of ridge which has
a height of 22. Una. mmd commands
the section.
Through this section is the short
est road to the Paris-Verdun Railway
on which the war supplies are skip
ped. The Germans now having pained
Malencourt, attempted to, push fur
ther at a late hour tonipht. They
made two attacks on French North
east Hill No. 2S5 in the Dublin re-
pion, but accordinp to the French
w ar irmce these attacks were re
pulsed. GERM AN OFFICERS GIVE
THEIR CAPTORS TROUBLE
Paris, March 3). I have just been
permitted to vint Belie I-le where
German officers are kept prisoners of
war. The island is twelve miles off
the Coast of France and the ap
prom hes to it are very closely guard
ed.
Earlier in the war no restricting
were placed upon the prisoners, and
they were given f ill freedom within
the limits i f the island. . The resui
w as a great disappointment, for the
Dicers, al' hough many belonged to
ristocratio families in Germany, in
sulted the inhabitants of the isb.n.K
So a French. colonel of ruiras siers was
placed in command of the citadel un-l
it took h'm ;ly a wei k to c-sta'-
li-h perfect di-ciphno.
There are a'-.cit 1 ",.,o ( man .- in
the island. The oilcer who had M,
be fla.-ed iir !-t li-cio'm" munl-tv,
alxnit three hundred, the Mower ..!' j
'ho Cerman n.-l-ibtv. end every one j
r.f them wears hulf a drn derora- ;
tiotis, among which is
invnriablv the
lr"n Cross.
Not one of them dcttrn
io ?pek
of k:l
pent at
to any of bis fellow prirei
than noble rank.
Most of their time they
out-door games dressed in
sporting
costumes of the most amazing colors.
and amone the French soldiers who
are guarding the island . the;,
known a." the "Parrots."
For the rturn of these m
Kaiser would undoubtedly triads
rifice an entire German divisii n
ordinary troops. They are very . 1
ly guarded, for many suspicion- I
ters have been found among i
correspondence, mystic pin-) -i.
, have been discovered
in app'irpv j
M FARMERS ONION
QUERIES CANDIDATES
Farn.ers' Union Adopts Resolu-
tutn""To Ask Candidates
Questions.
ATTORNEYS MUST RESIGN
Sue.-t Many Important
Changes Would Require At
torneys of Public Service Cor
porations To Resign.
Raleigh, March 31. That attorneys
' for public service cai porations should
1 the North Carolina Farmer's Union
Ij-atiried by the State Council at its
meeting here last week,
J .The Union enforces no hardship in
; this request. Its own members are
( required ly constitution to sever their
i connection as
omciais un cne vn-
ion the moment they enter the pri
mary. A misinterpretation of thig
constitutional
provision whereby
some members concluded that they
were privileged to enter a primary
without such severance of Union con
nection led the body to act directly
upon that question before any can
didates mipht embarrass the organi
zation. The Union, therefore, applies the
morals that it would desire in other
rigorously in its own household and
makes its request of others a consti
tutional mandate. As the political
season has opened it goes further
and seeks to pet an expression from
those who enter public life this year.
At the meetinp of the State Coun
cil here this week, the Union's last
convention resolutions were ratified
and are now offered to the people of
the . State. , The preamble and the
twelve issues upon which the mem
bers desire an expression of opinion
are the following:
Whereas. Believing that our farm
ers would appreciate knowing more
definitely how candidates stand on
all the really important issues before
the State;
Therefore, be it resolved by the
State Council of the North Carolina
Farmers' Union, That we hereby in
struct our secretary to send to the
avowed candidates for governor and
other State offices in each political
party, and other candidates as soon
as they announce themselves, a copy
of this resolution, and offer such can
didates an opportunity
to express
themselves as briefly and explicitly as
possible on the measure affecting ru-
ral interests approved at the last ses
sion of the State Farmers Union as
follows (including submission of ap
propriate constitutional amendments
.where necessary I: ,
1. . Repeal of the mcr. Iiaiits' crop
, lien law.
2. Provisions permitting neighbor
hoo 's to adopt race segregation in
land ownership.
'1. A just and equitable system of
'mati.-r. which will bullion the bur
den of labor by putting a larger
p-..p-,rtion on inheritance:-: which v:l
provide t'y consti'uti -r,il provisi- r.
f r a lo'ver rate on reM.b'!;t thr.n :,1 .
v.-ptec lav.ii'onls property, an-i v.
"v. rea-e the rule on lands held !:
of tie. .
4. Provision for inrnrpoi m o.L. r ,
r.il conir.iunit ic.
Initiative nn-i ret"., rendu rn.
A stringent lynti-usury law. nr..! .
'::. rt'"'.i!'mg -banks' pi-1'ie -er-,-ii
e corporal ions. i
7. Civ ing some oiVk-ial. authority to
regulate insurance ra' s.
5. A State warehouse system
somewhat like the South Carolina :
plan. I
1 ,
9. A simplified and popularise.
Torrens system
titles.
f registering lan.l ,
i
lo Provision for furnishing text-'
books to the people at cost. i
11. Requirements that attorneys)
r public service corporations to
ver such conection before entering
Legislature.
TKaf lhj fil.t. ' aAr.tarv nsk-
jn lidates for Congress to express ,
themselves on direct government land i
loans for the aid of agriculture.
VILLA RECEIVES A CRUSHING
DEFEAT BY GENERAL DODD'S
CAVALRY; HERANDEZ KILLED
ROCHESTER. N. Y, FLOODED
BY THE GENNESSEE RIVER
Ro.her.tcr, X. Y., March 31. With
the Cenne.ssee River up to the high
est point reached in years, water was
fiowit.if into the streets in the down
town section and resembled a raging
torrent.' t
Prn.-tica;!' every building in the
lower part was filled with water. The
tracks "f the Penr-ylvanis Railway
are .n !er water.
SWISS HEAR OF NEGOTIATIONS
BETWEEN ITALY AND AUSTRIA
Bejue. March 31. According to
persistent rumors published by Swiss
newspapeis, secret peace negotiations
have, been tinder way for some time
on Swiss soil between Italy and Austria-Hungary.
The "Neue Zuericher
Zeitung" says two biirh Italian offi
cials recently arrived at Lucerne,
where they were met by three repre
sentatives of Austria and a well
known German diplomat, presumably
the former Chancelor Prince Bueiow.
The conference, it is said,, lasted
several days, but brought no result,
as the emissaries of Austria made
propositions which were not accepta
ble to Italy and offered only a part
of the territory which the Dual Mon
archy was willing to give up before
the Italian governments decided to
break away from the Triple Alliance
and to enter the war on the side of
England, France and Russia.
After three or fojr days the Ital
ian oficials left Lucerne to return to
Rome, but the Austrians remained
and i js said that they expect the
Italians back with new instructions
within a few weeks.
Hiw much truth tnere is in these
stories can not be ascertained, but it
is a fact a number of German, Aus
trian, Italian and French, diplomats
have been in Switzerland lately and
the public generally believes that ne
gotiations of some kind are going on
!ehind the scenes.
LITTLE NEGRO LOCKED IN
EUREK A SETS UP HOWL
As Dr. Julian Shafer went home
last night he herd iin alarm at the in-
! iieroor of the Eureka Theatre
j calculated to make your hair raise
;yiiur hat but after taking a few steps
iforwad the Doctor decided to return
j and investigate when he found a lit-
tie negro' boy that was evidently
' asleep when the show closed making
the welkis ring with lamentations as
'iciy u scare-! necro can make. ' u
j The Doctor tried his kev on the lock
i and soon the little nogro w as bound
ing 'towards home which happened to
!e e ,-r titwnrtls tht .-..m,t.it-v-
' This was one time thnt the crm- !
:!: had i harms for a s a red' h..y
and there were no on h gh.-sts walk-
ire
the
there as
nddnight
in the
hour.
!.-:ie theatre
is safe to say t
r iutain sleep ir
rf-r' it has no cli
. i hoy's l.re.-i-'.
o music. t-er. ia
-pen,! t'-e nioj.
i -t
the
r'ol'ika the
to sootln- :
i! 'i i -
th.-re
hei
' 'o b : this
icfti S-Al.v 1';
neLl'-i
i-i h
r' h" ctuinty treasurer's etluv atid
he -,.hst it.it ion of the commissiou
fo.rn of government.
T'.-? Union resolves separately that
the resolution is not to be a "threat.
an entreaty or an endorsement of any I
car. 'i.iate, but merely
request for
the people
facts which presented to
will furnish their own. information
upon which to base action.
At this meeting the reports of the
secretary and the treasurer showed
that the memliership is 3.lHKi stronger
j at this period than it was last year
ni uir name iinie. intB is consiuereu
abnormal growth. j
To popularize the Torrens land law:
ithe State Council named a committee
Troops Rode 17 Hours And Fought Five Hours
Two Machine Guns And Large Number Of
Horses Capture Villa Suffering From Broken
Leg And Injured Hip Is Hiding Nearby And
His Capture Is Hourly Expected War Office
Says This May Have Already Been Accomplished.
GERMAN GIRLS IMPRISONED;
rw.l.U rKLAtll I'KIMIAUIS
Munich, March 31. Two ' pretty
girls, Eli7.aU.th Dietrich and Magda
lena Ste'inert, of Ramberp, have been
sentenced to four and two weeks' im
prisonment, because they fell in love
with French soldiers in the prison
camp at Landau.
The girls, who are still in their
teens, repeatedly visited the camp
and made the acquaintance of two
of the prisoners. The acquaintance
ripened into love and recently the
girls were surprised by a guard while
permitting themselves to be kissed by
their imprisoned French lovers. The
maidens were warned that they had
rendered themselves liable' to punish
ment under the special law forbidding
all intercourse with prisoners of war,
but they indignantly replied:
"Why should we ' not love the
Frenchmen ? They are nice and hon-,
est and will marry us. After the war
we shall go to Paris."
Despite their protest the girls were
arrested for disorderly conduct. At
their trial they insisted that they had
a natural right to love even an enemy
but the court called them "unpatriot
ic" and "shameless" and sentenced
them to twenty-eight and fourteen
days' imprisonment, although the
public prosecutor had only demanded
jail terms of seven and five days.
DANIELS AND THE CRITICISM.
Secretary Daniels has probably
been' criticised more than any other
man in public life and has probably
resented it the least of any other of
ficial. Coals of fire have been heap
ed upon his head and" all the time he
has quietly brushed 'hem off and con
tinued to wear a smile that would
not come off. The Columbia Record
attributes his unpopularity to the en-jo-.is
work he has accomplished
since he has been at the head r-f the
I ' " '
States navv. and in this con
nection that-paper says:
"Secretary Panic!- h:
the sv.-i . -el - i -hair-admiral
herefore incurred the
is criticism. '
That is cine s,.;i'-ce if
which hi's l.c i t -1
eliminate I
! a'-d has
by, '.vhuh
h- heal
He has
i ho fon i-T.h-
n o v
e-.l new
r.f the Va'.y Dep.
pushed o'.'t a few o!
fc'i-
N
!,
atretic. I
it 'hVi
rh.
t.h .t
ith 'he
h t
e P..:
-h ,
:h-.
, i-..r ;
it h---I...
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Th..
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whv
r. 'or
th -.
a n'.i'i .vh-i h i
a '.el. - Guv
itu'.y
ord.
I'RESIDENT COMIN(; TO
ON CHARLOTTE M VY 20.,
M'u..l.ln.. ... t 1. -i r.. 1
. .... :
uson nas accepted an inv itation to ' .,
vis,t Charlotte V C 'and C.hm,r,i, 1
S. C. on either Mav IVth or 2.-nd. '
"
'
,? Kfcit'Klfcll Kl MA
TROOP SHIP TORPEDOED
i
Washington, March 31. The cr;;-h
ing defeat of Villa by Colonel D-jdi
w-a reported to the War Department
by General Funston.
American casualties .were fj;r
wounded. Villistas were put t-j
Might. Villa was not in the battle.
General Herandez was kiiied. 'ij
la is aufferjpg from a broken leg arvj
hip and took refuge in the mountains.
His capture is expected hourly. War
Department officials said tonight that
they would not be surprised if Villa
was not already captured.
Colonel Dod's infantry is still irj
pursuit. 1
The defeat of Villa was the cli
max of a 60-mile ride that ranki with)
great, feats of the American cavalry.
Led by Colonel Dodd. the com mark
er, the American cavalry f rces made
up of the 7th and 15th regiments
rode 55 miles in 17 hours, surprising
Villa's forces at '"six o'clock in th
I morning. Dodd s cavalry drove the
ban.iits for 10 miles before them in
a running battle.
General Funston reported Dod-l's
victory to the War Department, arnj
also sent the following telegram:
"San Juah Ranch, March 30.
Dodd struck Villa's command,
consisting of artO men, at si
o'clock near Duerro. Villa, who
is suffering from a broken leg ami
lame hip, was not present. The
number of Villa's dead is known
to be 3rt. Others were carried
away. Dodd captured two ma
chine guns, a large number of
horses, saddles and arms. Our
losses were four enlisted men
wounded. The attack was a sur
prise, the Villa troops ling dri
ven in a Hi-mile running fight,
retreated into the mountain?,
where they separated into small
- bands. A large number of Car
ranza prisoners were being; held
for execution by Villa and were
released. pod.J marched 55 miles,
in 17 hours and fought for five
hours. Herandez, who command
el Villa's troops, was killed in
the' fight. Wih Villa disablecf,
Lopes .wounded and Herandez
dea '. the blow is a serious one
to Villa's band."
P..---! etary of Wrn Raker immediate-
." iisnruhe
-1 a te
im of ji or.grat-
ulat.
-ns o le .s -r:
nd '"-. rr-ri.l P.
C..r.'
Persh-
legi-am
Thi
Km-
Th
. '. " V:-r
- "-ne:.l Per- b
. convt-y
General
lit ;cn-'atioi-s.
o.' t his d-iiinifr, 1
The message was
Ic.-tcesentativcs
-i
li'se
cse;-,tativc
ch wiM
the rr-ent-.It
t"
I
is reeOTed
Th
i'h '
i
c an l dote:!;.
:' - h - v-i the
"ho nifiiiH
',. h C.. h.nel
f his com--e
It is a
irical position
r w as so de
ps have sjf-
,!
-:i';lt
hat the fir-: cnc-mii:
i-'e-l an-i that our-tit
ere-.l so sh.htly. The effect is jwihI
n h th sides of the f -order.. It show
the effectiveness and nlu. V with hi. K
our army fights and it wiil show thfl
int tfectn eness an.
discourage othr
". Ivrj Comes as
andits. This victorv- comes as a
1? f t'"" ""Tr. f
feare.! that it would be a long war
and
gives strong hopes that the en
, tire object of the expedition will b
, speedily accomplished. One feature
of the fxl-mil ri.U .if ik. r.. i.l l
i - - - - v '
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