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- jr - v - THE GREENVILLE DAILY NEWS Published every afternoon except eranday by Greenville Publishing Go., Inc. J. CONRAD LANIER, President; JAS. L. MAYO, Secretary & Manager Entered at the Post Office at Greenville, N. C, as second-class matter June , 15, 1917, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates: (Delivered by Carrier within specified sections of the city or by Mail) j 1 Year I $4.00 3 Months $100 6 Months .$2.00 1 Month 36c (Subscriptions Payable in Advance) Subscribers desiring the Daily News discontinued will please notifly office, otherwise paper will be continued at regular subscription rates. To insure efficient delivery, complaints should be' made promptly to the Circulation De partment, No. 315 Evans Street. Telephone No. 70. Tuesday Afternoon, August 7, 19l7 EXEMPTION The draft mill for Pitt County is now working steadily in its taskof grinding out Pitt County's quota for the new National Army. Pitt County's number as revised by the Governor is 359, and to secure them 1344 men have already been summon ed to appear before the local Board for examina tion. They are being called in batches of 224 each day, and all day long in the Court House the doc tors are kept busy separating the fit from the unfit. Of the number so far examined, about 25 per cent have Been rejected because of physical dis ability, while about three-fourths of the others ask for exe mption on various grounds. The Board will probably take up pleas of exemption this afternoon and it is estimated that by tonight probably fifty men who have not filed claims for exemption and who have passed the physical test, will be certified to the District Board as soldiers for the new army. t It is probable that a large number of claims of exemption on account of dependents will be dis allowed, in accordance with the latest ruling of the Provost Marshal, who says that since a sol dier receives $30.00 per month and all expenses, if he has not been contributing more than that amount to his family each month, then he should not be exempted. In other words, a man who makes less than $50 per month cannot claim ex emption on the grounds of dependents, since he will make that much in the army. The doctors report that many of those being examined seek tc mislead them, but that their clumsy attempts at deceit are easily detected. One instance of this was a negro who said that he couldn't see the table, he couldn't see the walls, he couldn't see the street, he couldn't see anything. But when the doctor sneaked a cigarette box out of his hip pocket and made an effort to hurl it at the negro, he made a mighty dodge to get out of the way. "Eyes normal," said the doctor on the blank. Another was so "bad" about the chest that every time the doctor put an instrument against him he would jump nearly across the room. "Nor mal," was his record on the examination sheet. Others would contort their bodies fantastically when ordered to hop across the room on their toes. Still others would be perfectly deaf when they were being examined for their hearing. After trying in vain to get an answer from one of them, during which he went up and shouted in the dar key's face, the doctor turned to his assistant and remarked in a casual tone that he was convinced ol the negro's deafness, and that they would ex empt him. "You are excused, John," he said, and thereupon the subject of the examination grabbed his belongings and started to the door. Just as he was going out the doctor halted him. "Just a minute, J ohn. How long did you say you had been deaf?" he asked in a rather low tone. "I been deef ten years," he answered without hesitation. "Hearing normal" was the notation on his ex amination blank. -o- THE POLITICAL POT GETS BLACK With the news that Kitchin has attacked the Senate War Revenue Bill comes the rumor that the fiery Congressman from Scotland Neck is trimming his sails for the Senatorship of North Carolina, and will 'ere long launch; out his boatfon the uncertain sea of Senatorial politics with Sim mons as his opponent. Also that the would-be governors of the State are already lining up their forces in the Capitol City, preparatory to getting their start earty. All of which shows that the last thing one may expect to find in Washington is patriotism. We have no patience with those who seek to make political capital out of the mistakes of his opponent, instead of giving him the 'needed help in this time of national peril and distress. The peo ple of the State will not stand for such tactics, and Cam. Morfison or Claude Kitchin or Max Gardner or any other would-be political leader bf this State will make more headway by lending his help than by criticising an opponent who may be hon estly trying to give faithful service to the community. Defective German Aircraft Warning for America BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, (United Press Staff Correspondent) WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN THE FIELD. (By Mail) There's a lesson to the United States not to make haste too precipitately, in recent air battles here. The structural defects of German aircraft have been strongly illustrated of late. They were of ma chines hurriedly built as a result of Germany's "speeding up" of aeroplane construction. Now that America is go ing to hustle up and build great fleets of such craft she will do well td note some of the rsults of too much speed and not enough precaution. In one week recently seven German planes were seen literally to break up in the air, the pilots and observers being hurl ed to the earth below. These accidents were unmistakably the result of faulty construction. Two other Prussian bi planes suddenly burst into flames in the view of British , fighters for no accountable reason. Moreover, the new German planes are exceedingly vulnerable, probably due to faulty material and rush work. One British lieutenant the other day fired 40 rounds at 25 yards range rand broke the German's wings clear off. Another British fighter turned his ma chinegun fire at the tail of one of fif teen Prussian machines, from a dis tance of 60 yards. The Boche's tail slid clear off and the machine crashed to earth. On the same day as this last incident, five British flyers attacked a fleet of Albatross scouts among the clouds. The fighters got separated shortly in the fleecy clouds and then it was every man for himself. One Brit ish captain, after driving off three Germans, hid in a cloud and awaited the fourth, whom he saw approaching. At the correct moment, the British div ed out, got his enemy, and fired 58 shots. He broke the German plane completely in two. On the following day a British airfighter, battling with nine planes, broke one into several pieces with a few shots, and then saw two other- of his enemies burst into flames. One fell, like a comet, the se cond burned slowly. On this second one the pilot, unable to bear the agony of the fire, leaped out. The observer, left with a pilotless machine, crawled out along the fuselage, but fell off as the plane reared and plunged. Once again, six British flyers attacked twelve enemy planes. One of the Ger man machines burst into flames, one was crumpled by gunfire, and another just simply collapsed after 18 rounds of fire. The moral is that Americans will need the best machines and their best men against the Germans. Eveii then it would be foolhardy to expect a walkover. Right now the German high command is grouping his flyers, aware f the British areial supremacy, just as a year ago he grouped artillery into traveling "circuses." The idea is that since the Germans are unable to main tain, equality of the air everywhere along the front, they can concentrate a .flying "circus" at some weak spot, or at some place in the , line which is threatened. German U-Boat Intelligence Office is Located BY ARTHUR E. MANN (United Press Staff Correspondent) STOCKHOLM, July 11 (By Mail) Allied secret service and intelligence officers, with the cooperation of the police of the Scandanavian countries, have recently succeeded in unearthing and dispersing a large and well organ ized German submarine intelligence of fice headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden- In their investigations the offi cers discovered a naval intelligence map of the waters surrounding the British Isles and the North Sea. The water area on the map was divided in to small -squares, each one numbered. An elaborate code was also found for use in conjunction with this map. Mes sages based on this code, although ap parently reading .like private merchan tile telegrams and cablegrams, could in reality be deciphered in accurate de scriptions of Allied warships or- of bel ligerent or neutral merchantmen. From the spy headquarters in Gothenburg, agents were sent to Scandanavian ports and attempts were made, whether suc cessful or not, to get them into England. These agents were supplied with the code and map mentioned and were re porting to headquarters on the sailings of merchantmen. It is supposed that in some way the headquarters in Goth enburg communicated the information to German submarines at sea, probab ly by wireless stations hidden along the coast. One of the chief "branches of the Gothenburg office was in Chris tiana and a Norwegian was actually engaged there to go to England on this espionage service, being supplied with the code and map in addition to pro cess of invisible ink writing for all mail reports. Another branch was in Mai mo, Sweden. It is" believed that many of the agents of the German spies in Gothenburg were Scandanavians. At about the same time of the dis covery of the Gothenburg office, a Ger man giving the name of Klein was ar rested in Sweden, charged with a plot to murder British Ambassador Buchan an in Petrograd. Klein was afterward released but deported from Sweden. CHAP TATtfS , UUV1 liMJtu The Fashion wants to sell you some of their specials this week. Look up their ad. till Greenville Banking & Trust Co., have omething of interest to tell you in their ad today. ! ; mi Proctor Hotel Cigar Stand handle the leading State nd Northern daily pa pers. Leave your order with them. 1 ' 1 1 M Pitt Lumber. Co., 12th & Railroad streets, have ari ad in the Daily News today that is cf interest to you. 1111 Quinn-Miller & Co., sell the Leon ard Cleanable Refrigerator. It is like a "clean china dish." Ask them to show you. 1111 Superintendent Coltrane of the new Pitt-Lenoir High School at Grifton has an announcement on this page that will interest you. ' 1111 Drink Chero-Cola, "there's none so good," in bottles only. Try one to help along with this hot weather. 1111 The Willard Service Station have an ad in today's paper. Read it. LOCAL MARKETS. Old hens, per lb 12 l-2c Young chickens, per lb 24c Eggs, per dozen 25c Corn, per bu $1.75 Dressed beef, per lb 12 l-2c Dressed Pork, per lb 17c Live Logs, per lb lit" Live cattle, per lb 5c to 6 l-2c Green hides, per lb 18c Green salt hides per lb 21c Bees wax, per lb 25c White wool, clear of burr, per lb 50c Country Hams, per lb. 27c Country Shoulder, per lb 26c FREE OF CHARGE Any adult suffering from cough, cold or bronchitis, is invited to call at the drug store of J. W. Bryan, and get absolutely free a sample bottle of Boschee's German Syrup, a soothing and healing remedy for all lung trou bles, which has a successful record of 50 years. Gives the patient a good night's rest from coughing, with free expectoration in the morning. Regular sizes, 25 and 75 cents. 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You won't have to lay up your car, for we have a rental battery for your use while we're work ing on yours. And while you're here ask for your Willard Service Card. It entitles you to free testing at any of the 950 Wil lard Service Stations. Enlist! IjL In the growing JKyk army which is jllPINi enjoying daily T ViF Ehsra-Cola Ifj Through a Stravt?" . . Pleasing to the palate Hi p mm no A combination of delicious fruit flavors, with a full proportion of the refreshing and exhilarating Cola Nut as the base, all blended so exactly that there is no feeling of depression. ' (3) WILLARD SERVICE STATION 5th & Gotanch Streets Greenville, N. C. We have a rental battery for your use if yours needs repair amm Mfloiriimg TPhat Wears a lifetime is not made of shoddy lumber. It must be made of carefully selected stock properly cut and seasoned. When you are ready to buy flooring ILet HJs Show You why it is an economy to buy the best quality. Gome and explain your needs to us. We will explain how you can avoid waste and get sat isfactory service. Alt Our Building Material Is Kuurunreea to tfuyers THE PITT LUMBER COM 12th & Railroad Sts. Greenville, N. (' TRY DAILY NEWS WANT ADS FOR RESULTS V - ; 1 " -2- T J"?1
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