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- THE $$8jjSnaj - ar O'clock M -EDITION4 i i Full Teleff rap hie Reports of the United Press 1 VOLUME I. GREENVILLE, Nr 0, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 10 1917. NUMBER49- i ' 3 r ... . UNCLESWSW it if lis COAST AHmiEHY OFFICE AT WAR 6AE Mraiiitl:i BY GEORGE MARTIN, (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON.-Bearing the President's apt proval, together with the pleai that it be made in t on law in justice to America's fighting men and their families, the long expected War Compensa tion Indemnity Insurance Bill was today intro duced into both branches, of Congress, The bill represents America's first attempt to be fore handed in providing for those whose homes will be wrecked by the war. The outstanding feature of the bill is the author ization of insurance for every fighting man at $8 per thousand dollars per year, up to as much as S10,000. The bill provides for the assignment of a part of each man's pay to his family, for a separate allowance paid by the government, for a graduated scale of payments for total and par tial disability, and for death indemnity insurance. If a man fails to make application on the $7 and $8 per thousand plan and i killed, the govern ment presumes him to have made application for a S5,000 policy, and pays his widow or his estate that amount for the support of dependents. It provides that $15 of a man's $33 per month shall go to his wife, and if there are as many as two children the government pays the wife $32.50 additional, making the minimum income $47.50 per month. Five dollars additional is added for each additional child. The father may give more than $15 from his pay if he desires. If a man's dependentss are father and mother, he gives $5 of his pay ;to them, and the government gives $10. Thus a private with a wife and three children and mother dependent upon him can by allowing $20 of his $33 get $47i50 from the gov-ernmenVi3frakih-trt dents. - - --7" It also provides that aman without dependents or one who doesn't alloW half .his pay may be com- salary with the government with interest at 4 per j I The total compensation as a result of disease or , ininrv nine frnm a minimum of 9?A0 to a rnavirnnm i of $75 per month for enlisted men, and up -to $200 per month for the higher officers. The officers will j not receive this disability allowance if they are re ceiving retirement pay. If a man does his funer al expenses are paid up to $100. If he leaves a wife : and two children and a month in addition to $500 he may carry at $8 per thousand. Under the old j pension system tnis iamny wouia receive oniy $it to $24 per month. All soldiers' insurance is non-assignable, and free from the claims of creditors of the insured or the beneficiaries. THEN TY SIX THOUSAND OFFICERS 8E COMMISSIONED ON AWUST 15 (By United WASHINGTON. Twenty-six thousand men, trained at the Plattsburg, N. Y., camps during the , , , ' fY 1 Past three months, will be turned out as omcers on ; August 15th. Fourteen thousand, others will be j disappointed in their ambition to become officers ; ftnd hold commissions in the American army. It ; IS th announced, however, that more than 2,000 of I OSG Who failpH t.hlS t.l'mP Will have an ODDOrtUnitV ! ' vopeat their courses during the next three j "."Z numths, and thus win their coveted stripes. j success that every fighting machine in The whole group will be ordered into active ser- the Lafayette Escadrme wm be like vice at once, though they will have until August mX ZZJLZ -fth to report. ance in America. pkocKm I DDITICU AMn rPCMPU MAKIMR White's Theatre TONIGHT THE JAGUAR'S CLAWS" featuring MSSSUE HAYAKAWA FRIDAY "RETURN OF DRAW EGAN" featuring Wm. S. Hart. mother, they get $60 per or $1,000 insurance that! Press) MORE GAINS m? United PHI I lull HIW I lllalwif iiimiiiiM . I ! ' V"-. ; LONDON. Renewed adyahces by the - British and French f orces in Flinders, including the com pletion of the capture of West Hoek, is reported by General Haig this morning. 1. SSf -1 : ; gfese J .... Coast artillery officers playing the war "game ar Fort Andrews, near Boston. A large relief map represents the Boston harbor. A naval expert maneuvers the "enemy fleet" while the curtain, shown at the right, Is drawn. The curtain Is pulled aside and each officer, who represents a -battery commander, Is asked to give a decision on nis course olSaction within a certain nnmhAr of mlnntoa British Labor to Participate in Conference (By United Press) LONDON'. The British Labor Par ty has decided to be represented at the series of international conferences which are scheduled to be held in the city of Stockholm in September. Fayctteville IIay Land Divisional ( United Pitss ) (iOLDSBORO. The War Depart ment is investigating the practicability of locating a divisional catnip at Fay-" etteville. according to ' information re ceived here. The supervising engineer of the Department of the East arrived j in Fayetteville this morning to survey j the reported water facilities tor such a camp. DamshBark&ink By Gunfire ( By United Press) WASHINGTON. The Danish bark, Atlantis was sunk on July 5)th by sub- i ed iy a British destroyer, according : to State Department advices. ! TLfD ort 1J11D1 lIHvC 3l6 1V1116Q by Shrapnel at Ft. McPhersoni MAKIrllA, Ua. lurce persons were killed yesterday and two serious ly injured when shrapnel from the ! field pieces of three batteries of ar- tmer from the officer's reserve train- 2 pa ss- ountain and sprayed deadly fragments over a part of its north side. The dead are: Mrs. Seth Harris. 55. Charles Harris and Jim Holloman, negroes. The injured : Jim Coleman, negro, and an unidden tified negro. French Aviator Photographs His German Victims (United Press) ; PARIS. (By Mail) Probably the , most marvelous collection of war avia i tion photographs in the world are in possession v ay Lttiu iiu.iiiciijci, mc noted French-flying -champion;' who takes a photograph every tW .he HhtlXu tTxKh nyM chine., gun is a camera a repeat" rrlT The novel idea for procuring war ALONG THE COAST PrassHft '-r! f Ji1 GIGANTIC PLOT TO TO GERMANY BEEN 0ISC0VERE0 (By United Press) NEW YORK. Nine people were arrested by the police in the first swoop against what is be lieved to be a gigantic plot to smuggle rubber and platinum into Germany. Six of those seized were sailors of the Red Star Line Belgian relief ship Gothland. More arrests of those higher up are expected to follow. - Conspiracy to Corner Tomatoes (United Press) WASHINGTON. Evidence point ing to a conspiracy t. corner the out put jof tomatoes on the Pacific coast 1? the lafge .flickers was placed ii Vtiio hands of the Federal Trades Oom- mission today More Bonds to Be Issued Soon (By United Press) YORK. Following a NEW confer ence with the House leaders it was learned today that Secretary McAdoo will ask for an additional bond issue at this session of Congress. It is un derstood that the issue will run into millions. Germans Attack the French Lines (United Press) PARIS. Violent German attacks from Pantheon to Epine De Chevrigny are reported by the War Office, while the French have made advances in Belgium. Contributions to the Ambulance Fund The following donations to the Red Cross Ambulance fund came in this morning : S. S. Williams $2.00 Cash 2.00 Drink Chero-Cola, "there's none so good," in bottles only. Try one to. help along with this hot weather. WAR PROFITS NECESSARY FOR BUSINESS,;AUTHORTIES ASSERT BY LOWELL MELLETTE, (United Press Staff Correspondent) LONDON. "You can't take profits out of war without disaster to the normal business structure. But you can commandeer that profit for the uses of tjie State after it has been made. That is what the English government is doing, and the present fiscal -year will show that a billion dollars liave thus been commandeered," Government financial authorities today told the United Press corres pondent. . -:vro' During, the year ending March 31st, the British government claimed to' have received "as its share of the excess business profits" $700,000000, or 60 per cent of the gross prof its. Business shows na signs of discouragement over this huge sum taken from it. GET RUBBER Woodrow Vilson, Var Presiisnt (By United IVoj-ij Washington. President Wilson's name will go down in hostory among the score or more great war statesmen in the annals of the world. n Here are some of the facts o his life your "children -nd gXMdchiMreu tlylir learn from -tfielir schbbrboolks: j isorn uec. , 4.000, ac siaunton, v a. r Ancestry, Scotch-Irish an both sides. Educated by his father, a noted scholar, and at Davidson college, S. C. ; Prince ton College, University of Virginia, John Hopkins University. Practiced law at Atlanta, Ga., 1881 83. Served on teaching staff of Bryn Mawr College. Pa., Wesleyan Univer sity and Princeton University. ' President of Princeton College 1902 1910. . Elected President of the United States, 1912. Author of "Life of George Wash ington," "History of the American People," "Constitutional Government in the United States" and other historical and political works. This Sounds Fishy, But Who Doubts it? (United Press) LONDON. (By Mail) The Pall Mall Gazette is responsible for this : Flying low over the German lines, a British aviator was soon in the midst of a whining storm of German bul lets. The Germans in the trenches were firing straight np, hoping to wing the flyer or pierce the gasoline tank. The aviatop--a cool youngster look ed down, saw a bullet slowly ascend the last few feet of its maximum height. It stopped dead still for the smallest fraction of a second. The aviator reached quickly, grabbed the bullet and put it in his pocket. '.Al-.Tfll (Special Bulletin, United Press) HENDERSONVILLE, N. C Addressing 1,000 Confederate veterans at a reunion hre today, Governor Bickett of North Carolina predicted the end of the .European War dur ing the fall of the year 1918. He told the sons of the veterans that they must measure up to their fathers' achievements. The Governor was given an enthusiastic reception each of the several days that he has spent here. INFANTILE PARALYSIS EPIOffl! STILL SPREADING IN IRiffl (By United Press) RICHMOND. The northwestern Virginia in fantile paralysis epidemic, which was first report ed less than two weeks ao, has spread to eleven counties, and at least 70 cases have already been reported. The State Health authorities lbelieve that there are many other cases in the mountain sections which have not been reported. The af fected counties are in a state of virtual terror over the spread of the fatal disease. mm, COME TO CLOSE SATURDAY NIGHT No More Bonus Votes, But Members Can Secure Thousands of Regular Votes. Big Cer tificates Issued and Dropped in ! Ballot Boxes Tomorrow night at 9 o'clock marks the close of the Daily News Auto Club circulation eampain and the distribu tion of more than $2,347 big cash and merchandise rewards. Just one short day and the big race will be over, the task finished, and everything settled. To the workers who are out' after one of the many big prizes this last day will pass all too quickly. In spite of the fact that the territory has been thoroughly worked over in most places, most of the members are waking up to the fact that there are still many votes and subscrip tions which could be secured if the right party goes afer them. The extraordinary value of the prizes to be distributed, ranging from the high power Buick six-cylinder automobile down to a Packard piano, etc., has created uujreceedented in terest in the campaign f both among the actual workers' tnemselves and the general public. Everywhere in Green ville, as well as in all the surrounding towns, the question "who will be the winners?'' is the question of the hour. The answer depends in nearly every case the effort put forth between now and the close. Never before members run so close, or proved so nearly equal in their popularity and ability to secure votes. A single subscription may de cide the issue when the judges make the final count. No one can tell. But it will pay every worker in the race to have in several subscriptions too many rather than one too few. Now is the time to do your "catch ing up" if you are "behind with-. your hauling" as the Missourians say. No matter how you have stood in the pa!tet there is still time for you to go out and secure enough business to lift yourself over the heads of the otner .worxers .anu watue; a piave " ? yourself, at. the top anong the- vtixir ners qfeutontobfle piano and (other prizes. It's hard gaine for some to play.r this catching p,i but; 'it's easy enough forlJie - member with energy ;and ambition. The Daily News would regret to see any member of the Club rl9se 5a BHigl vote vex some 'small misunderstand ing and; if the, workers ,wil ireadj'tfid few 5simple ' rules published below,, all confusion can be avoided. The Closing Rules. 1 All reserve votes must be polled in the ballot box at the Daily News' - - - - - . - ' v - .- .'' IS DIG AinO CLUB I'JllL office in order to be counted for the awards. 2 All business and reserve . votes must be inside the Daily News'--office not later than nine (9) o'clock Sat urday night, August llth.f Jpors will be closed at that hour aAdpt)se inside the door at that timf 0 bCl lowed to turn in their business.. 3 All votes and;'cptions must bear a special deliverfiuifeC mailed after noon Friday .Tigurio. Busi ness received by mail later than the closing hour, will not be counted. 4 No personal checks will be accept ed rn payment for business on the clos ing dav. Remittance for aU, hiiskMiss must be in cash, cashier lpligBmJ)n ey order or draft, if :th 'cafm-' bers.will remember this rule there will-' be no disappointment -Please do not present personal 'checks on the' dosing night. - :. ; ; ,- - 5 No votes will be issued without the name of the member for whom they are to be voted appearing there on. Any Vote ballots marred or defac ed in any manner will be thrown out of the count. 6 All subscription orders must be filled out with the correct "name and address of subscribers when turned in. No money will be accepted of votes is- sued on any money that is not accom- panied with order .giving full address I of subscribers. . .K t The Judges. s After careful consideration, the Daily' 1 News has selected the following! well- -known men of Greenville to' act of judges of the campaign. These' nien will count and check the ballots end award the prizes. Their work will, be t done just as soon after the close as t '' is possible to do so. The judges are as. follows : " R. C. Flanagan, j-eal estate and in- su ranee r - i : IN. O. Warren, jpashir r Gree le Bankin2 '& Trti'stS1o5 -. :J- f J. C. Gaskins, Register of Deeds for Pitt County. ' ' , These men are' alf well-known and thejnembers JCay ffejeTVassure)4;?hat they, will get every vote that they ar,e entitled to. " ' '"" " - The Big Certificates. , f The membera are hard a workl mak ing these last few day count big in votes. The big certificates will Jbe awarded to the three members who have turned in the most money since (Continued on page four) - .1 i d cj -. I 4e 71 V y h t "11 4 4t T v w 4? v- -'. .: -.: .-----r . ;1
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