Newspapers / Greenville News (Greenville, N.C.) / Nov. 5, 1917, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Greenville News (Greenville, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
iiier. . lit. J Three Reported Dead, Five. Wounded and Twelve Captured as a Result an Attack on the Part of Germans. War Department Gables for Details. i liy United Press) j WASHINGTON The first casualty i,t, a a result of the land fighting be- i hveen the Americans nnd Germans tuhtins, w France caiue back to the homes and hearts in this country today, j The war department has given out thoe ivountled and mising, as a re. ! suit of the sudden thrust into thes American training salient by the Ger mans on November i. Among the captured or missing is Sergeant Edward Holyburton, whose father is (ieors;e H. Holjburton of Money roint, .ortn laroiina. j WASHINGTON Three American iufantrj men dead, five, wounded and twelve captured is the result of a harp attack on the part of the Ger- niaifc. on the salient of the front line trenches held by General Freshing men : . OU .)eilll)er .1. "" lt biiu urj in jlu. This i the brief report given out ! by the War rfcpartmetit, and brought FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION A hon.e to America- today the first wsu- f WARDED LEGION OF HONOR - a'.tie!. of the dead and captured result- By HENRY WOOD in? from the -t,i fio4,f,w h.hr..n the "Sanimio and the "Huns" j ' Attackin.u at daylight and being pn- tcited iiuder a heavy barrage fire, the i (rt-nm.w amMi.. i.t - apparently completed their' "Iterations before reinforcemnets could h'lp...No word in General Pershing's! statement indicates to what extent the Americans took part in the fighting. An ordinary trench sailent holds be icen twenty-five and thirty men, so wcuid appear that the little force ,f "Sammies" were practically wiped The wounded Germans, captured, wvevpr shows that actual fighting oc- ! ; It j fiirrpfi iu.r,... .1. .... . .... ! Americans yielded. The war department has cabled for full details ! , W. CONHUTES DEATH SENTENCE ' I:; t.!wanl L. Keen i I:aI.LK;h ch;ili,. Walker, cf Cas- j ''"IK; f.:- is under death sen 1 1,' his sweetheart Flor - received from Gov- ('!:. Si "ri:, ,r l;j ! "inuiutatiou to life i-apri hint i. 1: - Hi.- (iovernor's de. Wi-y, '" youth of the prisoner "i -...Mi renutation The i'i. was unp Ti. 1 iiys that a nineteen MioiiM .suffer the ex iin. lor certian circunu ers "III.. s prisoners: TA nr ..i. 1 '"liitej Press) 1 Xf;T"N" The American prisvh '"riiiany will be well fed' - - - -. - i.. ' ' the rations provided t tie American Red j w :i re. '!! c. 1 '''''111.- ..a U rT?? 4.5 ft z'llan.i. The1ire now"'i Ai ""'- prisoners in tne I 431 miLMiLiunnniT 1111 I' i i iii if iin iii k ai ii hi v i: win ri KEEN (United Press Staff Correspondent) LONDON The arrival of Premier Lloyd George of England and Premier Painleve of Jf'raucS, arriving iii Rome is taken here as evidence that the Ital ian situation is still serious. Preliminary reports hdWever, . indi- cate that the Italians have been suc cessful and they have fully repulsed the first blow of the Germans m the Trentino. , It is expected that the enemy offeu. j sive Jld lso that of the Talgimento j D i : . . n.:n i, . . : i i 4 1 (United Press Staff Correspondent! l WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES I Mail) The 1 famous ' t 1 x 1 : .. AFIELD (By French Foreign bo. 01 Americans, mciuuing upiam Sartoris grandson of General Grant, are still fighting, has ujst been award ed by General Petain the supreme recompense of the Legion of Honor. is the highest honor that a French regiment of division can obtain. In the case of the foreign Legion the j distinction is all the more noteworthy - - owing io: the" fact that the Legion was won allof the intervening grades and distinctions since the beginning of the war. Its banner has already been decorated with the Croix . de Guerre. The members of the regiment have also won the, honor of wearing the famous fourragere in th green ad yellow "colors of the Military Medal, while the regi-' ment itself has won six citations i to the order of the day -With somewhere between fifty and si.yynationalities af'sll times repre- sented in its" ranks, the Foreign Legion , has participated in every big ocensive ! on the western front. With" the outbread at the hostilities . . .- . ' .- over SW Amertcansr . to. snow tneir sympathies j Bhe3.'ifli -cs-o?fese" were killed later in" the . severe fighting, that en sued. Many others were forced from JJy EDWARD L. -iservice because of wounds. otiiJL othi, ; were trapsferlfed f& other iancnes of the arjuXrt notably the afiatton, the; fcaFayet&! Ikjuadron dmwing; many of Its best pilots, from the Legion. StiU fffthdrew their terms of enHstrand a uaarnsers, were delightr 0IIHAHI A IC f.ftnW M flHlt ' LUiii- ' . t; . i nv - uuitcu A. a ar- - WASH INGTON The tThlted Stf8, lis extended a -Credit of $5,00000, ls en0Ugh for a niohth's w !'4 WbWtASD MOMIAUX UKAU,-- "J YORK? Rdwland B MoUneiux ' , - w".;- mv. I ? . -ii. 3f .1 iii old mmmi ' GREENVILLE DEAD j Mr. A. J. Outerbridge, one of Qreen j vllle's oldest, citizens passed away to ' day about noon at his home. The de i ceased was between seventy and seven I ty-five years of age. lie was takn 111 last night and though everything was done by the .skilled physician and those near and dear fie fell peacefully on sleep. Mr. Outerbridge hd been in feeble health for some little time and while his going was expected neverthe less it came as a thunderbolt to friends and relatives. He leaves a wid- i r . .... . .- . i j ow and several children to mourn their I losfi. Th ftinml wT tnk nlo Tnorrow aTternoon at two o'clock from Ym - tv h .n, ha Klnance which o"ht to segregate the I the Rev. J. J. Walker, pastor of the , . . -1 ". cnristian unucn and tne interment : ! will be in Cherry Hill Cemetery. The following will act aspa 11 bearers rt ri 1 -w tt - w o. opuin, j. o. lunsian, n, Pruitt, T E Hooker, P. L. CarpeT, J. ; S. Boyd Sri, IxjnJDientoh R. L. Smith, f J, L. Moore and J. L. Lang. ; etatiiishrdlucnifwyjfhr(IetaQiiisrcLlucmf lITU fill III UI1 U LAW OF LOVE" The "Law of Love" was the subject taken by Mrs K R. , Beckwith at the Y. W. C. A, services at the Training School last evening. The scripture reading was taken from the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthenians. m this connection she read a very . j impressive sermon by the Rev. Charles j i.. Wood D. D., pastor of the church of the Convent, Washington, D. C. From MRS DFPIM DLulilf 1 this sermon her listeners were able tojbrin?iog h fQrces to the bank . .aB jntfniflfled h,s prOHsart ou QUr ,eft way, the'Law of Iove" and the "Love ; Wjnjf - of Law". ' The music of the evening, which was ( very niurh enjoyed, consisted of , three , special numbers; a piano solo, by f uss ess xmef a vocai soio. oy . lss Sue Be8t Morrill, and a selection by Paderewski, was played on the vie-! Jrola. Address Enjoyed The address delivered by Professor C. W. Wilson, of the East Carolina Training .School, in Washington yes- terday "Bihg .at the First Bj church, his subject being "Chri Baptist Christian Leadership,',' was greatly enjoyed The address was both interesting aswell as profitable, "!- LIBERT: WAREHOUSE Another great -week was pulled off at the Liberty - Warehouse 'last week ed withhe 'irJcea fheyreceiftidp-.for tht theiberty and the n. Th Liberty bears;a most enviable ' reputation for fair dealing and honestier. I -" 1 treatment." It has always stood the test and wUI ever sfrive so to do, in the i future. ' " Mr, Hooker the. manager, was delighted with last week's les and says that he Is looking for ' greater " . - X things to" happen this week.-" - - ' J? coming to Qivme iaaeUlsh goxildst heaf. so one of the - their tobacco should . remember thatlmen went out to bring him in out of j vr k-i if ' 4.: (By United Press) ' i NEW KENSINGTON, - PA 8imul- taneous explosions in several seetions of the American Ainmninm Company plant has caused the death and Injury of several employees- and partially wrecked the plant. ' Early reports state that six were killed -outright and forty injured .as n rocn SAYS COURT (By Carted Prw) WASHINGTON The United-Sutes , c5 xi a j ine innea-atates j I " " "V vLi-, Jtnlional th I.nivtnP TCtn.irT whites and negroes into different dis-' tricl ricts. ; A similar ordnance has been in effect ' t in Baltimore, St Louis, Richmond and t ! j other cities, all of which are affected xne court of Kentucky reversed the I court and held it as invalid because I it was a straight out arbitrary viola- . .1 ton of certain rights of citwens. There exists a serious situation how ever which the law i.s powerless to remedy says the court. TEUTON PRESSURE ON THE LEFT WIND ROME An increasing Austro-Ger- i man pressure on the left wing of the (Italian army is now drawn up th j Tagliamento River is the statement H. Il - t Dounced officiaMv thj ,lftltrnnim uouncea omcmiiy this afternoon. The statement says: "North of Pin. I 1 zano the enemy who has succeeded in ' FRENCH MOTHER REPlARS SOLDIERS OLD CLOTHES (BY HENRY WOOD) (United Press Staff Correspondent) WIXH THE FIlEXCH ARMies AFIELD (By Mail) This the story of the "mother" of the French Army , the "Mother" who dames the socks ! washes the linen, and mends the cloth- ing of the millions' of "poilus. of the French military family. When - America finally has a,bhijirmy on the western front, she will be ov bliged to establish a "Mother" of her own to perform precisely the same; duties as the French one If. with all ! I the genius of the American race- for organization she succeeds -in estab lishing a more practical and a more - i LAW m i eTficient "Mother" than has France, j Tbe term ..8toc.ks- a8 aa mstrument she will have performed a Twentieth of punishment Is applied In the author century miraele ) I zed -version of the Btt4e-te two differ- 1 ent articles, one of whicb-auswers rath ' er to the pillory. The' other answers BRITISH -TANK"' CAPTURED BOSHCHE. (By United Press) LONDON ( By Mall)- -Thisis the way a1 British taiik crew took a prison 'Out tank mired down In the . . . mud between the lines" said tne Lieu-- tenant "and we skipped out into ai neajby abandoned trench. We saw j.Fritz wandering around all alone, ' parently dazed,and yelled to him to!: Lcome in. There was .an.cn a -row of thefr es v -J r- GETTING M BEST TREA (By J. W. PEGLER) (United Press Staff Correspondent ) AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUAR TERS (Delayed) There are a few wounded American soldiers in a. cer. tain big base hospital. They are get ting the very best of treatment that the American nureses. nnd American sur geons can give them and also by the extra visitors THE OFFENSIVE (By United Press) PETROGRAD The Russian trrtontf . , . are assumuig tne onensive agauist tne RUSSIANS ON , " AU1KS 18 rne omciai sratement l.ssuea h t bere- Aue siaiemt;ni 8as u ine ciacK Sea co1 ln Kalket-Tchiefiix sector the Turks have bn eJoctod from tneir first line trenches. " "Sini IIKRSJ I IK ART" V R WEST MirL . - LAD (By United Press.) LONDON (By Mail) "'Soldiers' heart," the newest malady of the trenches, is caused partly by excessive. smoking of cigarettes a m, .- - - 1 . 1 ; . . . 1 k viier a cureiui inquiry into tne suo- 1 jt-ct the Medical Research Committee ' lias reported the cigarettes are a con. 1 tributory factor" to the disease Ex- 1 amination of scores of soldiers sucer-! ing from "sodier heart" convinced the j investigators that heavy smoking sup. j erinducee it. The malady is- characterized by ab- j normal blood pressure and pulse rate.,' Thtt nurrmid tnnalin rvv man In fV , t , . Itronehes is another factor, the investi- gators found. A(.STRIA PREDICTS PEACE THIS YEAR (By United Press) PARIS (By Mail) "Peace before las Harris, to mohrn her loss, the year has ended." That is the firjp The funeral services Was largely at- conviction of Herr Von Rosenburg, anjtended. showing the high esteem in ! Austrian financier, who is said to be I which the deceased was held. The "in the secret of the gods." A Good Reason. "Does your wife begin complaining bout your coming home late?" "My wife never begins complaining about anything 1 do." "You are fortunate." "Not at all. She doesn't begin com plaining because she's never stopped." Baltimore American. - i V--?' All tb Sam. "Are "ou SUIe that ho te cn?. doo- tOT?" you are his wife. You ought to know." But I've been married twice before,': i and I thought he acted about the same S the othets." Life. ; ... , I M IK. CtUn I to the stock,; the eet alohaubelrtg cot : fined in it - ' - r Hop Quick Wit. Be iour.new hat is cnarming. out i fancy it doesu't go-weU with that dress, j She (enchantedtrrOb. you dear old hub, by. so yoii really: mean to buy "me a 1 Irff rang "o a .or a II.? .... - - t , r"" - - ' ' - " - : " Love. ' Obedience, we must remember, is a iiart rf tvaliclrm m1 -th&rtrr mrt Ala- - orpeace.bnVlove; which Jnclode. obedience, is the" WboleJ. - . - .--54- , -. - . " . rr. Johnson sad "&if Joshua Reynolds founded the fiet IHerary club. It wa Willi ON WES BERLIN "North American soldiers were taken prisoners in the' reconnoit ering by our forees on the Rhein Marne Canal" is today's official statement; "North American'" may mean eitizen1 I of the United States or Canada. If it mean3 United states Soldiers, Ibis is: the . first time thatthe "German War Office has ever mentioned the" presence of the United States fighting' men". IDADIII AD I AnV ' died yesterday 1 . . u i j.. i a-L ' a li-ugeiujg iues uvcr a j ; Vpar. but durln? it n without mnr- mur or comDlaint. the sDirit of Mav 1 I Winnifred Kittrell, aged thirty three j entered God's chariot Sunday morning : at 4 o'clock and under the escort '.of i Angels, went, to meet her Lord. All i that wa8 mortal of tnia mu tene- ment of clay wos committed to earth sunaay arternoon at 4 oqiock ua t;ner ry Hill Cemetery, the services being ; conducted by the Rev. J. Walker, ' jMstorof the Christian hurch. The deceased was born October 23, j auv-ti in luio wuuij , auu nao Line uauju ter of Mr. and Mrs J. H. Kittrell. She bas resided in Green vile practically nil of her life, and when death called her ! resided on Cotanch street. When only two years of age she was ; afflicted with infantile paralysis, and since that time has .practically been an invalid, but was able to get about until a year ago. For eighteen years she has been a consistent member of the Christian Church and did what she could for those less fortunate than she She had no fear of meeting her Lord and there was no moaning of the bar when 8he put out to Besides a heart-broken father and mother, she leaves one sister, Mrs Cor- following acted as pallbearers : J. H. Starkey, W T. Forrest, E. H. Evans, J. G. Congleton, J. R. Moye, J. G Moye, Fab. Haskins, JForbes. D. C W C. Vincent, C. H Beach and Thomas Beach oul, 'has' Confessed all his past love affairs-to: ae- Polly Pickles Ha JV-T-?-. . ' . . ; . . I wasn't confessujg; he was boastihsfT ' New York Globe. HelpfulnetA. The truest help, we can render to aa amlcfeU man is not to take.bis hurdeJ froin hfm, but to call out his best -streagth that be may be able to bear the burden. 'EstbfHd a Record. j MWbot did ijjother say when yoo ': proposed to her.. daddy?" "She hting her head and was silent . l-or several miuutes. And that is the only time I luve ever knowh her to be j silent for. joyeral minutes. Detroit ' I Pree Press. " ; - Discouraging. "I'm alwavs first. at. the oflBce and have beei)Tr a long time. " "Anybody noticed It etr' ""OuIy the . janitor. He says. . that won't get me anything." Excbaug- Pcm.istion. ' Fond Nfother My son. did yourf ther forbid or learning to rtaokel 4 Toung Amerl-a No. ma. When I asav d htm ifj might smoke he said. "Not 40'clocfc MaU EDITION -I f T- f ?h&tJifct&i&i are allfod to hit atfitcSexT a troop tram on the Westera -raeiK. Railway tn the Feather River cay . They ' succeeded in cuttfe.Jfeyo coaches from the train, and wjf!foefy beaten off by the soldiers usins clubs , aftef a stubborn fight. ' Tbe. attack occurred Sunday. It wa jf ltnoOi until today. After the a5ic$'?fK-Al- tackers fled to the hills J (By United Press . , BERLIN Six thousand mora; Ital- . inas were captured when theGersian and Austrian forces succeeded to cro- ing the middle of the TagUamehto River, according to today's war omi statetnaiit. ' "" A number of guns tured. wore also cap- Mr. Howard Cotton spent Sunday with relatives in Tarboro. NEW YORK MARKETS. (Reported by Speight 4 Od-jihany) Monday, NovfiBSber 5. . . , Open January 26.31 . December 27.20 27.45 Greenville Spots 27 to 27 1-4 EXECUTOR'S SALE ' -?9 Pursuant tp the statute in thicBcst ter provided, and at the direction of the Clerk of the Court ofKttrCeraty the underiigned will, on Wednesday November re-open the sale vf l following described tract of laad, ly ing and being in the totff-Farmville, : Pitt County, State of drth Caro- lina, the ame being palt of the estate of the late W. Ri tr deceased which wis kaX&Ai J tion acco: rdjng to t' dlrf the will of said W. R. Fiekjgff on October 18, 1917; and Sfll signed will on Wednesday'frf 21, 1017, re-sell the same tothh!hV est bidder for cash, to-wit : ' One house and lot in tlM(..wl oj . Farmvllle, lying ra Wilsosl, being the residence of the late rV Fields T. C. TURN AGE WALTER G. SHCTPARD, AtoJ4eyf 0. . ; Oct. 30, 1917 tj4vn Aoll Mk.. 111 'tllU'lia.J- trucks on hand and can ?spar e ons' aujuiue. OXXiii.1 .11 OCX LlJAuAiVT 10 25 (t. t o . Vhjte'sThcat: I - ' - Jit - TONIGHT Sumafi Jabe, featuring Jackie Saunders.. ."The Great SeflnpVf featuring Bushman and Bayne .'. Tuesday; . . .Matrhnorial Martyr also Vau deville for benefit StottesO Jackson Training School, dn.y 10 and 25 rts. -:- .v.v. Ypur Job. Priruing Buancsr ikir vve . an t r lezsz. ou finnniTAiiP uuuuiinu; i '-! - 4 m . -''Iff. iK- ' . . .; ; . " - ...i-:"; ' iwful states Ml f. 1 r Mrs Oscar Green Of .t end withhnothl n Third seetj - ' . ceuirui uuic 111 d. tuusuw - x-cavaBarV-tt rettjMiags;re!ttii gf5daf-
Greenville News (Greenville, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 5, 1917, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75