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VOLUME I.
Greenville,' N.lC Saturday Af terngon, Auusr 15, 1917.
carries
death-.
a penalty "of
MflKETOVER
nOTnllllKS
RE DISARMED
IN DISGRACE
i Bv I'nited Press)
HOUSTON, Texas. .
Houston is still under
martial law as a "result
f Thursday night's riot
ivr bv 150 negro soldiers
0f the 24th U. S. Inf an
lr., hut practically all
participants have been
rounded up and order re
stored. There is a possibility
that some of the rioters
may have been executed,
although the casualty
list included fourteen
whites and three blacks
killed and twenty - two
wounded.
All but eight of the
rioters have been arrest
ed and the police believe
these eight may be dead
and their bodies hidden
in the negro quarters.
Thirty-four negro sol
diers are under indict
ment by the civil authors
ities while the enttfOO
mem hers oi the Inf an -t
ry troop basJbeen dis
armed in disgrace.
Preliminary steps to
ward charges of court
martial, involving muti
ny and murder, are un
der way,CkiryicJaiHi JnntajStftffig.
The first. week of- the . Creenville
Tobacco SlRrket cloWl yesterday with
lrd-bil.sales botlx1 in pounds
sold and prices received." The five
warehouses sold in rouqd" numbers, one
million pounds of the golden weed,
which averaged aromid 30c per pound!
This means thai ahput $300;000 was
'wH out to tne farmers at:4he ftrst
week's sales.. This is a record of which
ireeuviUe should. and does:feeUprbnd,4
; aeaever the farmer is prosperous,
Hie county as a whole is prosperous,
and taking the opening week as a cri
terion, Pitt County is today in a more
prosperous condition than at any time
in its -history.
The Greenville warehousemen are
second to none in the State and the
farmers make no mistake when they
bring their tobacco to the Greenville
narket.
Every farmer owes it to himself to
patronize the Greenville market be
cause the'progressiveness of Green
ville's warehousemen has made Green
ville one of the largest markets in. the
State and the country.
The mere fact of its being" a large
market attracts more buyers, and the
best buyers for all the larger concerns !
and you will, therefore, make money
by selling your tobacco in Greenville.
EX-PRESIDENiT'S DAUGHTE&ISrA- "CANNETTE"
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Helen Taft, daughter of Major General Taft, is a professor at.Bryn Mawr and has also volunteered to do her
bit for UAcle Sam. Together with a number of students, Professor Taft is cultivating several acres of land near
the college. She is seen in the straw hat with her assistants stringing beans which they, have Just gathered for
canning. . . - : . ' ."'
GOKOMF
(By United Press)
-AUSTIN, TexW. JB.
Hdbby, formerly Lieu
tenant Goverhor of the
ernor oi Texas-s toaay,
following the impeach
ment last night of Gov
ernor James. E. Fergu
son by the Texas Legis
lature on 21 counts.
President Wilson
Soon to Reply to
! Theatrical Season
Opens at White's
on September 12
1 By I'nited Press)
Washington president Wilson's J
I' l'ly m Tope Honedict's peace propos- !
ii vili z,t furwanl as soon as his ex-j
ij.i 1 iir- i.f views with the Allies has i
1 1 liH' Pn'sident lias been abl
1 ! vuic iinicli time to the peace note.
'ii rumplt'teil.
Wirli ino-t of the price-fixing out ofj Tne 1917 theatrical season will be
" v;iy. ii mi th- tonl work on the 1 Vried open at White's Theatre Septem-
'h-y f Controllers Garfish! and 1 12 when A. S. Stern & Company
of New York will offer Salisbury
Field and Margaret Mayo's irresistably
human play, "Twin Beds."
"Twin Beds" comes with a record of
one whole year in New York Gity, six
months in Australia and is now in its
second year in London..
The story is a rollicking tale of life
among apartment house dwellers. The
suspicions and amazing adventures of
fhree married couples who occupy
apartments in the same building in a
fashionable section of New Yqp k, af
fords much wholesome fun. )
The attraction comes for one night
only Wednesday, September 12. With
the company comes a clever cast of
finished players who have adequately
caught the spirit of the authors.
Greenville will no- doubt give the
operatic season a fine send-off, not
withstanding the war.
PA
TRIQTIC DAF
SEPTEMBERS
FAMILY HEADS
ARE EUPT
SAYSl'JILSOt!
(By United Tcej-u
WASHINGTON, P. C.
Pres. Wilson today de
clared that first draft of
687,000 citizen - soldiers
should consist of men
who are not heads of
families.
In a letter to Secretary
of War Baker, he said
the only exception to the
rule should be in the
cjjejgjigecins ex
emption through mar
riage or a case where
dependents had suffi
cient income to support
themselves.
The President's action
is expected to result in
a modification of the
rule recently promulgat
ed by Provost Marshal
General Crowder.
Railroad Employes
Granted a Large
Wage Increase
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON. A wage increase,
aggregating $8,000,000 annually, has
been granted to the 2,600 shop employ
es of the railroads of the Southeastern
territory, it is announced.
Settlement was effected by Secretary
of Labor Wilson, who was called in as
mediator last month' after repeated
efforts, since last February had failed
to bring about an agreement.
iPEACETREATT
BETWEEN LABOR
(By United Press)
U A I.kjch. Governor Bickett to-
'i:i.v issued a -proclamation calling on
i"i)l' f the respective counties
: ' .'"in in "Patriotic Day Celebration"
"!' Sejiteinlier ."'nl, in honor of North
1 ; 's citizens who will be leav-
i"i the cantonments on the fifth.
AM ministers are asked in the pro-
''-im.-i! ion to preach patriotic sermons
1 lie second.
M iss meetings of each county at the
''"iiiiy scats on the third are called
for.
Mrs. Carl Shaefer
Died this Morning
Mrs.' Carl Shaefer. mother of Mrs.
W. L. Rice, died at the home on Dick
inson avenue this morning at 10 o'
clock. The body will be shipped to New
York City this afternoon on the A; C.
L. for interment. Mrs. Rice will ac
company the remains.
Mrs. Shaefer lived to be 81 years
of age, leaving seven children, six of
whom are meur the oldest, George, be
ing 61 years of age. The others are
Edward, Carl, Alfred, Edmund, Adolph
land Mrs. Emma Rice, all of whom
reside in or near New York City with
the exception of Mrs. Rice.
41st Division Vill
Train at Charlotte
(By Unitedfress)
WASHINGTON. The War Depart
ment ruled today that its orders send
ing the Forty -first Division of the Na
tional Guard to Charlotte, N. C, In
stead of the Palo. AKjieamp. Califor
nia, stands despite protests from the
West aud Northwest.
German Aviators
are Deliberately
Dropping Bombs
on Hospitals
(By United Press)
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD. Proof that Germany is
deliberately attacking field hospitals
in aerial raids has been obtained.
A German aviator, downed behind
the French lines, was found to be car
rying a photograph of the Vadelain
court Hospital, which plainly showeed
the Red Cross insignia on the roof.
To date the Germans have bombard;
ed four hospitals in the Verdun region,
killing 44 nurses and patients and
wounding 55.
Most of the bonnns were inceuctfaTy.
In nearly every instance the aviators
machine-gunned the fleeing nurses.
AND THE GOVT
RED1VISI0N
avid R Coker
is Named S. C.
Commissioner
1 I'nited I'ress)
A ';r u XfSTON. President Wilson
' "!!' approved the selection of David
t; '"!;er ,,f Hartsville, S. C, to be
'"I administrator of South Carolina.
i! "nker is president of Coker Col:
at Hartsville.
There ;,,e now 32 State food admin
m 1 aims, whose names will be an
' iced soon.
PROGRAM
White's Theatre
TONIGHT
"Pearl of the Army," featuring
PEARL WHITE
"Kutrher Boy" Fatty Arbuekle
and a Bray Cartoon ;-.
Randolphsright
Wedding Yesterday
1
SAHLATED
BY THE FRENCH
Mr. L.. A. Randolph of Greenville7 and
Miss Ella Lee Wright pi vvasningiou
were happily married iit tlie home of
bride yesterday .morning.
The home was decorated in ferns and
cut flowers for the occasion. ,
The bride came in with her maid
of honor, Miss Stella rnunps. cue
wore a blue going away gown and car
ried a shower bouquet of brides rose$
and valley lilies. Miss Phillips was
gowned in white georgette crepe and
carried pink Killarney roses.
The groom, attended by Mr. Luther
Stancill of Sill; met the bride at the
altar, where they were made .?nan and
wife by the Rev, Mr. Reade of tlie
Methodist Church.
Mr Randolph is a popular and well
known young business man throughout
ekstern North Carolina, while Mrs.
Randolph is one of Washington's most
charming young ladies,
Mr. and Mrs. mndolph" wiU be at
hnmr in Greenville after the fifth "of
September, when they will return from
their -honeymoon in the Western partf-.
PITT'S QUOTA
NBV ARMY TO
(United Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C.
First "peace treatv"
f
between organized labor
of the country and the
government, was signed
today.
It provides for a com
mission of three to ad
just the wages, hours
and conditions of labor
in all private ship-build-in.plantejire-
coun
try; : ?r .ti
Pres. Wilson has nam
ed Everett Macy as rep
resentative of the peo
ple. The Shipping Board
and the Federation of
Labor have not named
theirs yet.
Dealing In Diamonds.
There is no other form in which hu
man wealth is so compact and bo dura
ble as in diamonds. VA paper three
inches long and an inch and a half
wide will hold a king's ransom in a
form that a million years will not
harm and that not even fire itself, ex
cept the heat of the electric furnace
and of the Bunsen burner, Will de
stroy. You would think that anything
so precious would be hedged, about
with a host of precautions. Just the
opposite is true. Men go into the of
fices of wholesale diamond dealers, slip
packages of uncut stones worth thou
sands of dollar into their pockets and
go away with no-ecord of the transac
tion except a "memorandum." Half
the business of many dealers in pre
cious stones is done by letting goods
go out "on memorandum." The one
thing that the men in the trade guard
more carefully than their diamonds is
their credit Youth's Companion. .
;v-At this time when people are-being urffedtp,
make, every ;etT6rt to Conserve thohysical and;
jrhaterial resources of pur country, to nialtpely M
effort to conserve the manhood and the womah
hood of the nation- to the "end that the world'nla
be made safe for Democracy for you, for me, for
?yqur home, for my home the miscarriage of jus-
lice m our vounty iourt last weeK-is startling m
its sigmf jcance. ; s ' .- . ' .
Itmeanstfiatf
o,be no check oh immorality and illegal liquor?
selling m Greenville and Pitt County. - r
It means that the same damnable; influences
that have been actively at work on the liveis of
your boys and my boys may continue and tHatltliefe
may uegin ana continue tneir eaucation mimnpr:
ality and dbbauchery right here in GreerivinHiaj
Pitt County. ; ' ' ; mm:-
It means danger for our daughters, sorrow and:
shame in our homes.
It means lowering the standards of 'physipai
health, of efficiency, of manhood, and womanhoor
of community and national life. K t ' J E
This verdict was a slap in the f ace of erifijpj
thinking man and woman in Pitt County; aslgii
at common decency; a slap at all that makes fora?
law-abiding community and we want those: re
sponsible for this situation to know what saiie
men in Greenville think about it.
f ...liy!kv
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Herbert E. Austin
T. A. Person
E. S. Parker
Hoy Taylor
R. L. Humber
J. F. Starnes
S. B. Currin
; James Browh : v ''
W. J. Gay
G. E. Harris
W. H. Norris
A. G. Holloman
J. M. Daniel
O. C. Holmes
D. F. Thomas
John W. Murphy
A. B. Ellington
W. D. Pruitt
: Wiley Brown
Chas. Cobb
D. S. Smith
J. J. Walker
J. Long
Robt. H. Wright
J. R. Moye
K. W. Cobb. :
R. A. Bishop.
E. B. Thomas
E. B. Allsbrook
S. G. Wilkerson
D. J. Whichard
M. W. Wallace
Edw. Batchelor.
J. J: Gilbefer
W. C. Vincent
W. E. Hooker
C. L. Perkins
E. G. Flanagan
Frank Wilson
J. L. Horn.
J. C. McLeod
Chas. H. Forbes
J. G. Moye
Hr A. White
R. B. Kittrell
E. L. Baker
A.-M. Moseley
W. J. Hardee
T. M. Hooker v
R. L. Smith
Jno. Ayscue -
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LEAVE SEPT. 5
Capt. J.- J. Laughinghouse, chairman
of the Pitt County Exemption Board,
Informs the Daily News that he has
just been notified that Pitt's quota of
the National Army will leave on Sept
5th for, Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C.
. BY HENRY WOOD
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
ITH THE FRENCH
A R M I E S AFIELD.
France took 7600 prison
ers, 200 of them German
officers; in the great
Verdun drive, it is an
nounced by the Svar of
fice, o
The Sixth German Di
vision of -Reserves, for
merly ranked as one of
the strongest enemy un
its, was literally wiped
out. ; :"v-'1
SAVE RICE THROW BRICK-
BATS AT WEDDINGS, HE SAYS
FORT COLLINS, Colo. The average
food ration of a Sammy in the field is
4.ono ralnries a day. Rice has a food
value of 1,60 calories per pound.
Therefore, according to C. E. -Tail,
statistic clerk of the Colorado Aggie
College, who estimates an average of
three pounds of rice is thrown at each
newlv married couple,, one Sammy
eould be maintained for a day on the
waste. He advocates suDsntuiion
atones and brickbats for the food product.
vegetables and fruits.
No. 3 60. . J. Rv.&J.
8 25, Sat-Wed-c . . ,
No. 2, 4 l-2c;
G. MOYE.
LOST OR STOLEN A STERLING
silver card case, engraved "C. H.
on one side; on; the other.
Please return to Mrs. W. A. FauA:
ner or Daily News office and receive
Taft & VanDyke have an ad in to-
5,000 TIN CANS FOR- CANNING day's paper and it will be to your in
terest to read it. Of- jou need anything
for the home see rthem.
is "everything for the home.'
Their slogan
Lions Fear Mice.
Large beasts of prey have a strong
antipathy to "rats and mice, says the
London Tit-Bits. When a mouse was
thrown Into a cage where there were
two lionf the ' animals leaped away,
roaring, apparently with fright, and
making efforts to get away from the
tiny creature. A tiger roared with rage
when flrst introduced tOmoHseT Then
he lowered his muzzle to smell it, but
would have no more to do with it and
made Violent efforts to break from his
cage. - ,
Elephants screamed and trumpeted
when mice were Introduced, shrinking
from theta as far as their chains allow
ed. One elephant, however, more
knowing than the rest, when a couple
of mice were placed on the ground be
fore him quietly placed his foot on
them.
Steel 8hips.
Steel shins differ from those of wood
in that their hulls are made of steel,
plates riveted together Instead of the
old method of using woodeB planking.
They are enabled to float because, being
hollowr they have what is called buoy
ancy. A steel ship displaces volume
of water equal in weight to Its own.
The principle of buoyancy may be test
ed by bating an iron pail In a bathtub
fall of water.
a high stool, he fell, striking his back!
across, the edge of the counter, injur
ing himself as. stated above.
He was brought to Greenville On this
afternoon's A. C. L. train. At this
writing the exact extent of his injur?
ies have not been ' learned, but' It is
reported that his back is' broken.
Mr. and Mrs.- Askew' have . ..many
friends here who are shocked and
grieved to hear of the terrible accident
and hope that it is not as serious as
it is now thought to be.
Sense of Seeurity.
;"Doyou flritf that your constituents
agre th"y"ou?'Vi5fe- .- ;
"No," replied Senajtor.Sqrghum. "But
that doesn't cause me any apprehen
sion. If they refuse to be guided, there
Is plenty of time for me to come around
and agree with them." Washington
Star. h
SAVE FOR RED CROSS.
The Ways and Means Committee of
the local Red Cross, will within the
next few days place in all public places
such as drug stores; hotels, etc, boxes
in which everybory is requested to put
their cigarette and chewing gum cou
pons, xnese coupons are www irum
a cent to a cent and a half each. In
this way a number of dollars can be
easily raised with little trouble. The
pennies make the dollars. Keep your
eyes open and when the boxes appear
drop in your coupons every time you
pass.
"Rambow Division'
at
CampJiQiii
IIr. J. A. Askew
is Badly Injured
Mr. J. A. Askew of this place was
seriously, if Tiot fatally injured early
this morning in Scotland Neck.
While engaged in some kind of work
which necessitated his standing updot flanked by milUonaires-' estates,
sy nuuu isAixia
(United Press Staff Correspondent.
HEMPSTEAD, N. T On. a rolling
.NOTICE.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Meth
odist. Church will meet Monday after
noon at five oclock In the ladies' par
lor of the church. '
The Daily. New"s carries full United
J Press etlegraphic reports so that its
readers may keep Informed,; v ,,
with army aeroplanes constantly inaV
neuverng higher overhead, 20,000
American boys The "Rainbow Divis-.
ion" are today mobilizing for war.
They will be the first citizen soldiers
to reach the . trenches.
Camp Mills, where this '42nd division? -of
national guardsmen from all parts "'-V '
of the country will be quarteredaitil f
Ut starts for, France, is sprfngiiigV;i9to ,:
exlstance like a magic city conjured up"4-
with Alladin's lamp. A week ago, the .'."V
400 acres over which it is sprekdiug, 'A
were pasture lands. . -' ( y '
Motor trench diggers, devourng' the tJJf ,
ground at the rate of 3 feet a mindte, ' -V'j
cut ditches for two miles of ater '" I
pipes. A thousand soldiers in the 22nd -j'i ' f
infantry laid out streets, made" roads, . ,
and with the aid of civilian laborers, ' , ' ' '
built 300 shower-baths. . Pits for the - ' V
disposal of refuge were dug. ; . V1"!
The vanguard of-th&, troops .now J""
flocking here from all: parts of the
United States, pitched vthtertents at , .
one end of the reservatUmnpprary ; -postofSces
sprang:uthDa.to
ki marched in, "sHSrtfted. -women
: came . runnmg; wi bucpfe jf , ;
lemonade, and Campills was;born, ' T.
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Today, the damp -routine is ;n;;fu1I
swing, where the 69to regimentTo New "v ' fc
York is stationed, and a' nSilk . Tialf .
away, where ambuiance rttilery.',; "
and sanitary corps willlr-' vtidclvfl , ,
lari workers are stiir iumtAerjuig aa!y -.
t field kitchens -nd. guttering . trit, 4
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