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ALLIES Oft IUEAW FIGHTING ON A LONDON.- Belgium, north of Ypres. .At 4 :45. this 'morning the British and French struck simultaneously on a wide front, and extremely heavyf ighting was reported, but substantial progress Was made at all poin ts despite stubborn resistance. Haig-'s Canadians still hold the positions dominating- the city of Lens, despite desperate German counter attacks throughout the night. UNITED S TATES TO PROPOSALS OF THE PONTIFF (By United Press) WASHINGTON. President Wilson is expect ed to answer the Pontiff's peace offer with a state ment showing the world why the Allies must fight on so long as German autocracy exists. Unless the present signs fail he will re-stare more emphatically than ever .that the Unitod States is warring against the autocratic system in Germany its intrigues and its horrors rath er than with any aim of crushing the German people. His statement is expected to be a bid to the German Liberals, to cast off the cloak of Kaiserisih - -5""" It is ncelv regarded'as ment wiirrejejt the Pope's proposals, Training Camp Graduate be Sent to France Soon ( I'nitPd Prpss WASHINGTON-. More than 200 eratluafps (.f the first series of Offi cers' Training Camps h:ive been as M?ned to go to France. They will re wive fuiih?r intensive training there, ami will ultimately be used to fill up the gaps caused by promotions and ca mkiIih's. The assignments are from all the acmps. Plot to Restore Czar is Nipped; Sent to Siberia i By t'niied Press) i FETR xiRAD. A counter revolu- tifnary plot, having; as its object the re- I sforatirn of the Czar to the throne, was ili-covcicil and scotched in its ineep fi'ni. it was learned in connection with j lepirtaton of the Czar and Czar-! and their family to Sileria. I UNITED STATES DEPUTY HERE TO TAKE CHARGE OF SLACKERS ' nitod States Deputy Marshall came tf ;ivem in,, today and immediately proceeded to get busy by arresting IxK,. wh, failed to register for the se lective draft. The first one who was aright in the drag-net was Heber Hil 'ianl. m.jr,.,, fr(llll swift Creek town 11 ' '- I!,- was given a hearing before r "nmnssioner King, and bound "ver io the Federal Court at Washing ,(' under a S100 bond. He was also rw"ired to present himself before the lal KxeniiMion Hoard. Hhers will e arrested as fast as ft"' warrants can be served, and many "f those who were slackers will regret hat they did not register. PROGRAM White's Theatre TONIGHT "A ROADSIDE IMPRESARIO" Featuring Geo. Beban. Friday "VAGABOND PRINCE" Featuring H. B. Warner, sup:. Ported by Dorothy Dalton WIDE FRONT H BELGIUM i- " v.-U- .-: . t . ... --v; . .... v- -- -: (By United Press) VI - ' Haig.has struck agaiifjltiis time in REJECT THE certain that this goyfi3ji?5 Pope's Proposals to be Rejected, Say Italians (By United Press) j ROME. Pope Benedict's peace pro- ; posals seem certain to be rejected by j the Allies, according to the opinion of the Italian press. J British are Still Making Attacks (By United Prens) WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES. The British today swung another ter rific blow against the Germans, at tacking on a six-mile front. FRENCH MAKE AN ADVANCE PARIS. The French made a con siderable advance west of Dlxmude last night, the War Office announces this morning. . ; -visile Objectives Gained, Attacks Checked (United Press) PARIS. Attacking in concert the British and French attained their ob jectives in a strong assault upon the German lines in Flanders. Four heavy German counter-attacks were thrown back. Filling "Jackies" (Jty United Pcojii -; GREATSyiKES iTBAlNlNG STA TION, Illinois taramels, 100,000 packages. Milk-'- chocolate 100,000 packages. Sweet chocolate, 12,000 packages. l(Hlt'W.;vwMuvj , Sugar-coated peanuts, 60,000 pack ages. . , -." ' i'- ' That reads like an order fflr all the" girls' seminaries in the worid tiutoafj is all intended for the Jl.OOOJackieri 1d training; here. . " " , . - In addition, they eat 240 "gallons jot 'ice cream, In cones, daily, . NEWYORK'S LAST s vxs.":'.. i The last horse car In New York made its- last run at noon a few daya ago. The start was from Bleecker street and Broadway, the eastern termnui of the line. Members of the public service commission, representatives of th :ffew York railways and reporters were In the old car, making the biggest load of passengers it had carried for a long time. A week "before it earned 15 cents in one day. Ethel Lee Released By . n U . The trial of Ethel Lee, the woman whose house m the Red Light section was raided some time ago and approximately a thous and bottles of beer were seized, was held in the County Court yesterday, and resulted in an acquittal by a jury of twelve men. The case was an open and shut case, as plain as a wart on a red nose, but in the face of the evi dence, and contrary to law and justice, the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty. Following are the jurors that brought in the verdict of "Not Guilty" against Ethel Lee: M. B. Tripp Jas. H. Edwards J. J. Clark W. H. Harrington J. R. Buck J. L. Nobles G. M. Smith J. R. May A. A. May N. W. Tyson J. H. Burney J. A. Williams It is passing strange that such a condition exists in this County that the efforts of the community to rid itself of this evil can be thwarted by twelve men who were sworn to give the State a fair trial. It is a sad state of affairs when a body of twelve men will, in the face of such evidence as was offered in this case, fling their verdict in th face of the citizens of the town and tie the hands of those who are working for a clean Greenville, They have upheld the hands of justice, in that they have held them up and tied them, and stabbed justice in the back. ' If this case is a criterion by which court house justice is measured, then it would be well to change the name pf the court house, make it a first-class I bar room, place brass and name it an answer to Greenville's efforts to clean up. Wherever jurors will bring in a verdict of riot guilty and then some of. them publicly state that they knew the defendant was guil ty, it is time for action by the Grand Jury for m violation of their oaths as jurors. Paris a Seaport Followin . . (By United -Press) PARIS (By MaJD-Paris as one of the worlds great seaports of, the fu ture is today more than an idle dream. S Eyet since the 17th Century the idea of seaport Paris, has been occasionally th H0RSEIf QUfS .of? o5 fC , rails around the bar, discussed by learned Frenctimen and. approved as highly advisable. But it has taken the . big war to develop the- plans ads ttgHdftj it is- ajpoteht ptft: sibility. The: -flrhas demanded-lh absolute- Biefeistty"!" p'royiTiiis with a navigable waterway direct to the -sea, Iso that ocean-going steamers might bring their cargoes into dock at the -French. metropolis. " '- The "Paris Seaport"' sdheme t.'has .nan "VvSS&B . I Hostile Airmen v Raid VetiidCj Italy ROME. Four ,we; killed and 27 wounded, by ;an. aeroplane squadron V Uich raided:s Venice .Tuesday. A hos pital". was? struck by.ja? .b&tob .and : two" of the -patients were $fll&Ca4i& 21 in jured. "Several of .ihsrjttAdeff'weie re potted to have beeirjShajajS-foUow'- ing How Tyros Cobb Entertained Yanks ' -BY HAMILTON; (United Press StafEKJorrespontient) NEW YORK, Whether Ty Cobb is los ing h!s batting title ts king of base ball players isn't entirely demonstrated by his tremendous batting average for the year. On a recent, visit to the New York Cobb, besides doing most of the baseball hammering, 'pulling a play or two that by sheer audacity ' .simply stunned Yankees and spectators alike. Ty had driven out a home run and then had singled. He went to second base, and when Veach reached first base the two of them worked a double steal, leaving Cobb on third and Veach on second. On a ball hit to the infield by Burns, Cobb sprinted for the plate and Veach for third. Cobb saw that he couldn't make it and easily beat Walt's thro'fr to third.only to find that Veach was there also. Walters completely, lost his head and, dashing to third, he tagged both runners, putting Veach out. Then he saw Burns wildly footing it for sec ond, and, forgetting the plate was un occupied, whipped the hall to second to get Burns. That waf tJ&Ws cue. Like a flash he js up anS$n. He was Y within tea feet of thfep&te- bef ore"WaK ters knew what was going pn, and scored with no trouble. Sam Crawford, the Detroit veteran, did not make the last trip east. Hugh Jennings has decided to keep him out of the game for all time, reserving him only for pinch hitting duty. Connie Mack recently declared that Cruise and Hornsby of the Cardinals are the finest looking young players in baseball. He predicted that Horns by eventually would attain the same degree of excellence voted Jack Bar ry. Dave Robertson is back as a regular in the Giant outfield, in spite of the good start made by Joe Wilhoit who was sent in to fill Robertson's place. N .C. Men in the 81st Division (By United Press) WASHINGTON. The War Depart ment has assigned the following num bers to Divisions of the new National Army: The 81st Division will be from Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina, and the 29th Division will be from Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia. Lloyd George to Reply to the Pope (By United Press) LONDON. Premier Lloyd George is to deliver an important address in the House of Commons this afternoon, at which itme it is regarded as likely that he will make England's first pro nouncement on the Pope's peace pro posals. The National Bank invite your at tention to their ad in this paper. 1111 Star Warehouse, Smith & Sugg, in vite all farmers who want highest prices, courteous treatment and - a square deal to sell with them this sea son. Read their ad today. been handed down from generation . to generation, with additions and modi fications off paper. Then came the great floods of 1910 when whole quar ters of Paris were inundated and traf fic was' suspended for days. It was then definitely decided that a canal system must be built to relieve the main., stream- in case of new' floods and the idea of widening and deepen ing .the Ekfri also considered. ; i TthffJfect of the Seine has IssuS Circulars ffr the municipal au thorities, outlining at definite and new scheme for ren dering the-Seine navi gable for- big' shipping - from.' Paris to Rouen and proposing that a port be built at Gennevilliers, outside, of Par iswitb'easy access to the capitbL", nniTAiM nriO!ri-nn"irnJXTAjronp Dill I HIN HIJSUtHo m I h, ii, OimiilE IEK OF PEM BASIS i (By United Press) . Y - Ljurtuvr. wirn aaaea.empnasis, ioiiowing' the publication of the official text of the peace pro posal of Pope Benedict, the British press answered "No" to his plan of ending the war. The conditions outlined by His Holiness is re garded as indicating a stronger German trend of inspiration than the unofficial outline indicated. The messages made public last night by the Foreign Office suggests the following principal points as conditions upon which an understanding can be reached which will guarantee a durable peace: The substitution of arbitration for armies the substitution of the moral force of right ;foj Jhe material force of arms, and the reciprocljctimuhi tiori of armaments, leaving only endull&nicient for the maintenance of public order,; r Each nation must accept international decisions according to established rules, and -must" be sub ject to punishment in refusing to submit to arbi tration the decision of the Arbitration Board. True liberty of the seas, the restoration of all the occupied territories, the evacuation of Bel gium with guarantees for her full political and economic independence are demanded. As for Italia Irredentia, it is hoped that the disputing countries will be willing to examine each question in a conciliatory spirit The questions of the Bal kans and Poland should be examined in the same spirit of equality and justice. . 4 ; " England is frankly surprised 'that the, Pope should place the armies of Germany and the Allies on an absolute plane of equality, there being no word of censure and no protest against the Bel gian horrors. . "The whole world recognizes that the honor of the armies of both sides is safe," he sayis in his message, which is 2,000 words long, f RED CROSS APPEALS FOR HELP NEEDED DURRING THE 1' A cabled appeal for the immediate shipment of supplies to France reach ed the American Red Cross from Ma jor Grayson M. P. Murphy today. Major Murphy, as the head of the Red Cross Commission in France, has been making a survey of conditions in the war zone and the districts which harbor refugees. The cable received today emphasizes the urgent need in Europe for vast amounts of hospital and knitting supplies. Major Murphy cables : "Begin shipping at once one and a hal million each knitted mufflers, sweaters, socks, and wristlets. These are desperately needed before ' cold weather. In view of the shortage of fuel and other discomforts they will be of incredible value in both military and civilian work. "Last iwnter broke the record for cold and misery among the people here. They inexpressibly dread lest the coming winter find us without supplies to meet the situation, I urge you on behalf of our soldiers and those of our allies who will suffer in the frozen trenches. Thousands of Belgian and French refugees and re patriates are being through Switzer land to France." The woman's Bureau of the Red Cross, under the direction of Miss Florence M. Marshall,, has prepared Chmese-American mote Oriental Trade (By United Press) CANTON China (By Mail) Re lation between China and America, 'Which have registered many evidences lately of their increasing importance now and after the war, have been giv en impetusl ih. the formation . of the Chinese-American 'Association here. Chung Wing-kwong, vice-president of the Canton Christian College, heads the new organization which aims to pro mote trade and other forms of , inter course between the two nations. " Returned students are taking ari ac tive part in the , work. .. .- - Association to Pro - . . - .. . ... . --.i- directions with complete. ' inform tluTi as to the knitted articles asked for by Major Murpby. The -circular which will be available to any "woman who applies to the nearest Red Cross chap ter, tells exactly how to obtain yarn, where to send garments for immedi detailed knitting instructions, and ate shipment to France. That the work should go forward as rapidly as possible, and with "no chance of "falling down," an allot ment of the great task is being- made by the national authorities to the thirteen division managers of the Red Cross who direct its administration under the new decentralzation plan. The division managers, when they have "been informed of their terri tory's total share,- will divide the work among the chapters in their divis ions. The allotment system follows the general spirit of theiberty ;3tpan and the Draft Army. ;-Bkon of the country will hare its specified part to do. Every (chaswMVf the number of" woolen sweaters land other articles that mustf be knitted by the women whose willingness to serve has been registered with them. v The work must be done with all possible speed. Finished articles will be ship ped from the chapters to th neaiest point of trans-oceanic shipment under national direction. EyeiyTwenty-Nuitli Person Owns a Car ( By United PressXTf. t WASHINGTON. Withjone automo bile for every 14. person in the State, Iowa led the country, in 1916- in the number of motor carsper 'capite-a" cording to official figures in the' goy California was second w'ltii'o'ni c&inf every 12-persons. ' t r Nebraska and South Dakota had-one -for every 13. Arkansas stood last ln the list of States with only one car for every 116 persons. 'rj. The national ; average was one f or--every 29. By sections the. South had relatively, the fewest :cars iri: propor tion to population.- '. ; '.iv -
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