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..V .v.- r ... ... v . - . . '. . ' ',- - v ' - -. - v- ilrvl Full T eleerr a p hie Rjelor ts ojEgtlii 1U riite d Press PCS;.-.-- VOLUME I. GREENVILLE, N. C. MONDAY AFT , AUGUST 20, 1917. NUMBER 57 - ! TMI fidiirmfc Mg TERRIFIC BATTLE OPENED TODAY BETWEEN FRENCH AND GERMANS (By United Press) PARIS. A terrific battle is now reaching its Iciiuax around t lie Moody -nnmd of Verdun. According to the of ficial statement "the fighting is devel ping in our favor' on a front of 12 miles from Av.nioiuirt wood to liezen x aii. G. A. R. Reunion Boston This Week HUSTON. Between S.000 and 10.00O ; A. K. veterans are here today for 'iioir National Keuui.-ii and Encamp i'it ni. Members of the Nay Meiat Honor I i a;;iie. which wil! no' 1 its Ctnven- A iu . "-' iir arriving yesterla- niiwt ." ,l :m are here :. n ornii: i i Kvery arrangement fr the comfort f ihe veterans has been made. Boy' Scuts will act as guides. Among the j)nminent veterans arriv-! in today were Commander-in-Chief of the (""rand Army. Wm. J. Patterstm of Pittluiru. Pa. : Senior vice-commander W. H. Worstead of Kansas City. Mo., ami Junior vice-commander E. A. Kuss ! .f New ( rleans. La. Th' veterans will be officially wel--oqP'1 to the city tonight at a get-j together meeting. With this country on the eve of ac- j tive military partcipation in the war.; the ('rand Army reunion has taken on a iimw and serious significance. It N probable that some plan for co ordinating the work of the Grand Army! in ai.ling 'he conntrj 'in Hbeiila-:ef11ittl. lo .feHJtS6 derided on will be one Important result f t lie gathering of the veterans. Improvements at Office of the M!?!KaiSer Shoots T. ('. Raskins. Pitt's popular Regis- fpr of i ( Is. has just added a complete m if steel files in his office to take are f the County Commissioners' pro ' I in's and other records that for lntjly had no regular filing place. They liavr been installed and arranged in a '"tivenient place where they will be easily accessible to any one desiring to through them. With the installation of these files, the Pitt county records are probably the best kept in the State. Every detail "f their keeping is modern in every re-ect. and the office is a credit to the 'ii nt y ;md to rhe men who are respon sible for irs condition. It would be ""II for the citizens of the county to pay it a visit when they come to town see for themselves the pains that are taken to preserve the comity records. British R R Men to Strike' fSprrial Bulletin United Press.) LONDON. A strike of 40,000 rail-. ay engineers and firemen of the Eng-1 bsli railroads is declared certain this afternoon following a mass meeting "f the I nion Leaders, the President of the Board of Trade and the Labor .Ministers. America to Make Sepai irate Answer IRt United P.--.r.i WASHINGTON. America will pro bably only speak for herself when she answers the Pope's peace offer. It is "HiHalh- staled that the Pontiff's com "inni al ion js such as to require in 'bviiiiiiji replies, which however, will l"J sent only after the government has rhausiively exchanged views with the other Allied governments. ; The State Department said that the note was "under careful consideration,' PROGRAM White's Theatre TONIGHT "PKAKL OF, THE ARMY" Featuring Pearl White "SAFETY FtRST AMBROSE' "HIS FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS" Moinday "PATRLV' Featuring MC Verrion Castle- Twenty Kflled in Explosion By Uniteil Press) MOXTREAL. At least twenty were killed, according to the latest estimates of I he explosion iu the Harvey Ammu nition ltant. geores are missing, but are lwlieved to be safe. Mctcd nder Anti-Trust Law (Unites I Press) j WASHINGTON. Charging them with conspiracy to suppress competi tion, the Federal Trades Commission j filed complaints against the Wholesale ; Saddlery Association and the National Harness Makers' Association. The two have a membership of 159 firms. - rl fPflPn I ftflf'lt'1110 1 U VU IUUIUIUC Flanders Advance (By United Press) PARIS. The French continue to ad vance in Flanders, capturing strong positions east of the Steenbecke. and progressing also along the road to I.ange-mark and north of Bixschoote. Exemption Board Sentenced to Jail (By United Press) XW. TOBK. Pleading iruiltv ta the draft law. Dr. Samuel J. Bernfield and Louis I. Cherry were ousted as mem bers of the Exemption Board No. 01). and sentenced to two years in the At lanta penitentiary, ami fined $1,000 each. The fines were later remitted at the request of the government because it "didn't care to accept tainted money." More Thanks (By Unitel Press) AMSTERDAM The Kaiser ex-; pressed his formal thanks to the Ger- j man nary "for preventing the enemy breaking through the Flanders' front" j during his recent visit of insiection of j Heligoland. Japan Selling Ships to the Entente i Hy United Press) TOKIO. (By Mail) Japan has made $."i0.000.000 from ships since the outbreak of the war. Thirty-two mer chantmen, aggregating 200.000 tons, have been sold to England, France. Italy. America. Spain and Norway for 42.500.000. The money obtained from the sale of ninety trawlers is estimated at $7,00.000. Pope Reads all Peace Comments (By United Press) ROME. Pope Benedict is so inter ested in the world's attitude towards his peace- proposal that he has over turned a Vatican precedent to arise an hour earlier to read the press com ments from all the capitals. The Holy Father instituted this plan today. Edison Visits the President Today (By United Press), WASHINGTON. Thoa. A. Edison will see the- President this afternoon. This news was given out today at the wwta House, and -lias launched the j query : "Has Edison got something?" I For weeks the famous inventor has been closeted with his secrets in his I New Jersey plant. !. The, object of his visit to the Presi- dent Is as yet unrevealed. ATTENDS DEMONSTRATION AGENTS CONVENTION RALEIGH County Agent B. Troy Ferguson left for Raleigh today to attend the State Demonstration Agents' Conven tion and the Farmers' Convention, the former of which opens tomorrow. After an absetice of two weeks, Mr, Ferguson will Return, to Pift county to resume hi&'wrk 'as tCounty Agent. " GREEKS LEAVE U V 5 ' ill h if f - J J1 am - 4 .. ' p. c V' te 'ft" teSnAakv 11 Xg.JgW.'.'!'.'.'. ?'i0'--'- i ...i 4 i .i i -iiiiiin. i ... f f, iu!??). .fegr-'-..' Oreek battery of T5 starting for NEGRO MURDERER EXCHANGES SHOTS WITH OFFICEfJS, ESCAPES negro murderer who some time 1 gradually Closed" in on it, but upon The negro murderer who some time ago shot and killed Simp Vincent, a white man near Vanceboro, came near Wing captured Sunday night about four miles over the river, but succeeded in eluding the officers and making, good his escape. During his near capture several shots were fired at him and he returned the fire, but no one was struck by the flying bullets. Word reached the officers here late Sunday afternoon that he had been seen at the house of his father on the Pactolus road, and that he would prob ably spend the night , there.. ' Acting m :th3nriui cltlzens armea tnemseives ana quietly left for, that vicinity to surround him. Arriving near the place where he had been last seen, they found out that he had left home and had gone to the house of a negro woman near-by. They immtHliately started towards that place, leaving Aide McGowans and one or two men to guard a lane that led from the house to the main road. They surrounded the house and Allies to Confer Over Peace Note (By United Press) LONDON. The Allies will confer be fore a reply is made to the Vatican peace plan, according to a statement made in the House of Commons today by Lord Cecil. Minister of the Block ado. British Talk of Everything But War While Fighting (By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS) (United Press Staff Correspondent) WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN THE FIELD. (By Mail) Peo ple can get used to anything, even to this business of war. Were it not so, those who have to keep on killing Germans month in and month out, would go, mad and bite somebody. Today I was out among the guns poundjhg the Germans to pieces in the neigtnSorhood of Lens. It was ,tea time. Overhead seven British planes were winging past on their way to a wrestling-match with the enemy in the clouds. Now and then a six-inch shell exploded in the vicinity of the British batteries. ( Under a scrap of canvass serving as a shelter from the midsummer sun, sat a Canadian major, commander of a battery of howitzers. He was bare headed. On a wooden hand-grenade packing case was a cup of tea. By ft lay a slice of buttered bread. The major was in his shirt sleeves. In his hands was a book and a copying leadpeucil. Jotting something town in the book the major laid it face down on the case and took up the slice of buttered bread, bit off a mouthful and chewed away for some thirtysec onds, then called out to one of his guncrews nearby: Number Two! Four seven five nine!' No. 2 crew lifted a huge shell into the howitzers breech, closed and locked the breech lock ; sighted and stood by, one of the men holding the' laniard taut the major picked up hiaunnery book and casually order ed: 'Number One! Fire!" The how itzer next to No. 2 bellowed so the country -round about echoed and rock ed Jto its thunder. The major set down-some flfures" and; refreshed him - MACEDONIAN the Macedonian feont to fight side by muuaiiy ciosea, in on it, but upon rustling undiscovered that the man had 'Spst cbangedjhis clothes and left. Before tWy jgot around to intercept him a volley of ishots from the lane warned them that he had already been discov ered by the party left there. They soon arrved at the spot only to find that he had escaped. The partjr of -men were lyng along side of the path when the negro came walking al6ng.!tjThey ordered him to halt, but inSteadlfef doing so he whipped out his pistflS. and began a shower of bullets hihx guns ana pistols, nut ne ga and pistols, but he gained a dense slump of bushes and from there van- ished. A few minutes later bloodhunds ar- afu,r following him for two or three j miles rhe 8Cent was jost in tne main j roau wnere many negroes had passed i from a nieeting. A further search prov ed fruitless and the posse were com- ixdled to return without their quarry. I self with more tea and bread. "Hey. i Bill !'' sang out the gunner of No. 1 ': crew. 1 "Watcher want now?" an ammuni tion tender growled. He was busy J chewing and opening a can of some : sort of tinned food. "Where's that ijam'.'" said the laniard chap. "Jam?" I queried Bill as he worked away. I "What's jam?" You mean the rhu- i barb jam?" "Naw ! replied the lau- iarder. "not the rhubarb jam:-the strawberry jam. I'm fed up on that stringy rhubarb jam."' ' "Number One !" bawled out the ma jor. "Six O five three." Then after i a swallow from the enameled cup : I "Number Two ! Fire !" O. I I ltl ill U il V tlj (Hill tL llKAfrTT iUt U flew through the air screaming in stupefying fashion and likely enough it found its mark and tore to shreds a dozen dupes of the Kaiser. "Yes," said the Canadian gunner, who had pulled the trigger, "that was i wrtninlv some same' Two men out, ! mau on tnird, score tied in ninth in ning. Ota xy i;onn was ar rue uai with two strikes on him. Ty whaled away at it and " "Number Two !" shouted the officer. "Four seven five eight !" Then : "By Godfrey !" he murmured to himself, "wonder where'n the devil they got this butter!" "Number One! Fire!'' Again the howitzer shivered and leapt, and. as the second recoil' threw it back into position, Bill came up with a tin plate in his hand. "Here, sourface," said the lainard puller, "here's your bloomin' jam. Shall I fetch you a finger-bowl?" And so the manslaughter went on. Dispassionately and as coolly the-e men feed and fire their howitze".. When lunch time comes they may knock off for a time and eat it com fortably, sitting on a pile of shells any one of which contains enough ex plosive to blow up the Woolworth building. Or if, for any reason, it is necessary to keep on firing, the gun ners eat and , talk and fire the guns without a pause. They seldom talk about the war. Rather they tell their experiences the last time they went on leave. They talk about, the shows -they saw, the good things .they- had to- eat, the pret ty girls they"'; met, what, they are: go ing to do when the war is over and the rest.u;-;.V:,- - In the trenches it is precisely the same. Between' "raids, -dodging trench morta ; stuff theyVplay ; checKers. ' and "other ganiev wrtti letters, have thelj: y : rv - - d ', -'" -fo FRONT side with the entente allies. American Navy to Be Supreme in Destroyers (By United Press) WASHINGTON To make the Am erican navy foremost of the navies of the world in the matter of destroyers, Secretary Daniels has gathered repres entatives of twenty-five firms to study the means for more than doubling the number of destroyer contracts. If the plan succeeds, the United States will have more destroyers than any other nation, including Great Britain. J'kAdoo's Signature (By United Press) WASHINGTON. The largest check ever issued in the world has been re turned to the United States Treasury, paid and cancelled. The check for two hundred million dollars was signed by Secretary of the Treasury Wm. G. Mc- Adoo and represented the first payment on the Loan the United States made to Great Britain. Other large checks which have been signed by Secretary McAdoo within the last six months are one for $100,000,000 to France and one for $100,000,000 to Italy. Numerous other smaller checks ranging from one million dollars to $75,000,000 have been signed as loans to our Allies. Previous to January, 1917, the larg est check that had ever been signed by a Secretary of the Treasury of the United States was one for $40,000,000 in payment for the rights of the French Panama Canal Company for the privi lege of constructing the Panama Canal. The next largest check was for $25,000, 000 in payment for the Danish West Indies. When the treaty ceding the Islands to the United States was signed, it contained a clause calling for pay ment of the entire amount in gold. When it came time for the Danish min ister to collect for the islands, the Treasury was ready to make the en tire payment in gold, but the perplex ed minister found that there was hard ly enough .wagons in Washington to haul $25,000,000 in gold, and finally, after much cabling between officials, he consented to take a draft for the amount, to be- placed at the credit of his government. (By United Press) LONDON Many tons of bombs have been dropped upon the Ghent railway station and the great Brugges docks by British seaplanes, the Ad"miralty announces today. Much damage was done. (United Press) LONDON. Further advances in the Ypres sector southeast of St. Jans holk, and vigorous fighting is reported in Haig's statement this morning. McKAY, WASHINGTON & CO. This popular store is receiving their fall line of merchandise. Read their ad on page three today. tea and talk about food and girls and shows and things. Of course these men do not love the war. Nobody loves the war. But they are game, and, the Prussians having commenced the war, are going to see it through. And the way to see it through is'-to make the best of things, to get used,, to it all and quit worrying. Sprinkle the enemy with shot with one hand and . pass the jam with the other. That Is the only way. The Frencfi have found it. So have the British, The Americans will : have the British, The Americans will have fond ,wm. - - . : v. : . .-; .: -.'V; " ' THREE GREAT ATTACKS OPEI AGAINST THE BY JOHN H. HEARLY, y (United Press Staff Correspondent) ROME. Italy opened a determined offensive;:: against the Austrians today from the Adriatic to t the Alps. This is probably the hardest blow that Italy has yet struck, and fighting of great magnitude is in progress. Early reports tell of initial successes of the Italians under Gen. Cadorna. The assaults were launched simultaneously on , the Carso, Isonzo and. Julian fronts, and were welled into one great offensive. , v BY HUGH BAILEE) (United Press Staff Correspondent) AN ATLANTIC PORT. America's war zone begins at a spiked iron pick et fence, skirting a water-front street in this hustling seaport town. On one side of that fence movie shows with gaudy posters, peaceful groceries, motherly housewives doing their marketing, women in bright summery clothes, wheeling baby car riages. And on the other side vast fields of parked artillery caissons, grimly shrouded cannon, their snouts point ing skyward, ambulances, military motors, swarming; men in khaki, a gray atmosphere of war. This was the picture unfolded on a trip to the unamed port. Sentries march up and down out side; the picket fence. One half the street belongs to the town, the other half to Uncle Sam's and those who Uncle Sam's side find cold steel thret ening their vitals. Once beyond the guarded gates the civilian who is permitted to pass, if armed with the necessary magic pa pers, finds himself in the midst of militarism. A silent Sammy, with a big automatic hanging at his hip, is always just two paces behind him. He sees a row of huge warehouses, piled to the lofty roofs with moun tains of boxes labelled "hard bread," "beans," "soup." These boxes will be opened in France. He sees a great court-yard, crammed full of artillery, all painted battleship gray. In per fect order, each pile numbered, he be holds thousands upon thousands of tenst-polea, tent-stakes, tent-floorings', and canvasses. There are ranks of army wagons with kahkl tops like those of old prairie schooners, ranks of ambulan ces with stretchers swung from their roofs, battalions of motor trucks, sup plies of every conceivable kind. In a small open space, one com pany had hung its wash khaki shirts flapped in the breeze. At an other place, a long file of men, armed with tin plates and cups, marched past the cook. Occasionally a whistle shrilled orders. On one -transport the sailors had rigged' a swing and were taking turns in it like schoolboys. An officer walk ed down a narrow lane between walls of boxesi, a gray-haired woman on one arm, a girl, perhaps THE girl on the other. Their faces were ser ious. Another officer stood at a window and looked out over the scene at long lines of men trundling crates marked with the spread-eagle, at interminable mountain ranges of munitions, steady processions of heavily loaded motor trucks, at the peaked roofs of this wonder city, at throngs of fighting men. "And this," he said, "is only the beginning." READ EVERY AD ON THIS PAGE! FRENCH H GIGANTIC AIR RAIDONGERTlNAfiffWIflN DEPOTS, 117 PLANES! WICK (Special Bulletin United Press 40 P. ML) PARIS. A gigantic air-raid in which 117 French airplanes participated, dropped 1000 kilograms (35,100 pounds) of projectiles on Ger man military establishments, is reported. Seven German machines were downed and eiht others and a balloon were badly damaged. Only . fwn Frpnh machines failed to return " "I" V , n K ;Thaf ight occurred in ID AUSTRIAN LINES Fire Damages Vessels inK. Y. (By United Press) NEW YORK. Two steamers and ten smaller vessels, were seriously dam aged by fire while , docked at the foot of Congress street in Brooklyn today. The fire is believed to be of incendiary, origin, and did damage estimated at $1,000,000. The fire followed two explosions. ARE YOU PLANTING TODAY? Now is the timeto sow for early tur nips, plant for late beans and to pre pare to have green vegetables on your table this Fall. LIEUTENANT PEELE HERE Lieut. JiJ. s. reeie, wno iorsyerai years held the position of Principal of the High School here, is spending a few days vacation with his friends in this section of the State. He will soon leave for Columbia," SJ1 C, where he will take up his duties1 as 2nd-Lieut, in the new National army. ,... ' -4- Claude D. Tunstill left Saturday, night for New York, to tmy his fall merchandise. He will be away the greater part of the week. To Stew Pears for Winter Use Pare and cut them in half, take out the cores; put ' them in a kettle and pour on enough cold water to . almost cover them, and let them boil until very tender; then pht on: them half their weight in light brown. 'sugar and a teacup of molasses to every ten pounds of fruit ; coekthem. several hours until the syrup is rich and thick. Put them in large jars and when cold cover closely. These are very good on pie crusts or. for luncheon. Fox-Grape" Jelly Fill a kettle with the grapes picked from their stems, put on them a pint of water, and boil them until their skins burst ; then mash them and strain the mthrough a seive and to every pint of jjuice allow a pound of sugar., Boil together half an" hour ; put the jelly in glasses, and next day cover them closeiy- You may either use green or ripe fox grapes. . ' , Tomato Sauce One peck of green tomatoes and a quarter of a peck of white onions slic ed thin, sprinkle them with salt in al ternate layers. Let them stand vail night, then strain off the water, cover them with vinegar and let simmer gent ly twenty minutes. Mix together half a tea-cup of ground mustard, a quarl ter of a pound of mustard, seed, half a cup of brown sugar, a quarter of a cup of ground ginger, half a cup of good sweet oil, and any other spices you please. Stir these into the - pickles when half cooked. xi - - , t 1 , ' 1 III Jthe German Bigbk.v , 1 V t3 . ! j v-4 I ' il 5 i S n 4 V 51 ' 'I H J 1 1 ) 5 e ' 4- f T 1 H
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