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.- J: - . 4 OIER- G$ENILLE-0P!R IF YOU COME i J err .. ; 3 l !: j ' The Weather Report 2nd Mid Showers tonight and Sunday. Not much change in temperature. , . i - '-- S a. " f - Full Telegraphic Reports of the United Press 1' Jv I - . . . . - ,1;J,:,.,,- T;,wr -Av.V-, .,r'.--- - ' . V . . - . . -...,'.-;--' . .. ,. . ' '- . ." -. 7. : 1 . . mmmil 1 . . i . . - " " ' : . 1 1 - , 11 i " T ' ' ' yOLUMEH. ; Gre NUMBER 72 .... yDM Ujijjy wtfi " - i-i - 'i .- ' - -j-:. i : . .- .. -' , -. .. '.t- ..U1 .... r-jfr . -r- v.- .... . . : ON FRjNCOERiCAHHOSPrf 23 HUN AIR (By The United Press) PARIS. Eighteen bombs were dropped by low flying- German airplanes on a Franco-American hospital twenty miles behind the lines Thursday, it was learned - here today. The bombs were planted squarely on a huge Red Cross hospital, which was-distinctly visible on the, ground. Pa tients were carried to the cellars uninjured. For more than twenty , minutes the German raiders circled and swooped low over the hospital making several direct hits on the stone buildings. At the beginning of the attack many American and French wounded were picked up and carried to places of safety. As there was nothing of mili tary value in the city the raid was obviously and intentionally directed towards the American and French wounded. Enemy Planjes Downed LONDON. Twenty-three enemy airplanes I were destroyed and fourteen driven down out of control on September 5th, the British air ministry announces. - The, enemy airemft-J on the German side of the line are most active at times, especially so iii the Cambrai region. Three German balloons were brought down in flames. Thirteen of our planes are missing. Dur ing the day twenty-one tons of bombs were drop ped by the British airmen. R 1:1 PROCLAIM t citizens to i Spicial to Daily News.) Wneiici has taken her place with tli" Allies of humanity. Her ideals, T lainifMl by our President and li ik'il by the civilized world as a new 'liartcr of liberty, have been hal ami consecrated by the blood of h r sons shed on the sacred soil of Fiance. In order that these ideals may be sustained and the principles "f liberty and humanity which we have with our Allies made secure, the fulf military man power of the nation is called to the colors. Un challenged freedom is to be achieved for the world by the unlimited power "f American manhood. declaring that we "solemnly pur Ioh a decisive victory of arms," the President of the United States, by vir tue of authority imposed in him by '"litrress, has by Proclamation called 'i '"in all men of America between the s:cs of is and 45, inclusive, to regis i r tJ Thursday, the 12th day of Sep tember. 1018. On that day all men vho iave reached their 18th birthday "l have not reached their 46th birth ('ay. are required , to register, unless thf.v are already registered for mili tary service. The usual precinct vot '"!' places will be the places of regis tiarion. The hours for registration "ill be fron 7 a. m. tQ 9 p. mi -'ith Carolina will not lag in the f ifoniianco of this duty. Nearly a hundred thousand of her sons are now ' the service, and back of these stands a loyal and united Common health eajjer to serve. When the first f;dl for military registration was made fifteen months ago, more than 'i hundred thousand North Carolin ians registered for service. In the 'mint: registration it is estimated that -'0,000 men will register in this stat- In order to handle so large a registration, more than 3,000 men have cheerfully responded to the call to serve as registrars in the various l'l-eciiicts ()f tne state. The proportion a wof as the purpose of this occa- si"ii challenges and compels the loyal ""Uport and co-operation of every citi zen. Vw- therefore, I, Thomas Walter tun OUSTER !'.x-kett, Governor of North Carolina, 10 hert;by call upon every man in the tate who has reached the age of 18, and has not reached the age of 46 on Thursday, September 12th, 1918, and who has not heretofore registered for military service, to present himself on that day at his voting precinct for registration in accordance with the act of Congress and the Proclamation of the President. I earnestly hope that not even by mistake will any North Carolinian on this epoch-making day fail to do his full duty. Upon the - whole citizency of the state I also call for a proper recog nition and observance of this day. Let every civic, moral and religious agen cy and institution join in making this a day in which full obedience to the letter and spirit of the law shall be at once a duty and a glory. The press of the state, with its usual zeal and loyalty, can render invaluable assistance in getting fully and clearly before all the people the purposes and requirements of this registration day. Preachers and church leaders, teachers 6nd public officials should count it a duty and a privilege to help in mak ing effective this registration ; am business men, employers of labor, should offer every facility for the reg istration of their employees. Red Cross societies and other women's or ganizations will be able to perform innumerable services that will count in making the day a success. It is our privilege as citizens of the great state and nation to participate in the events of this day, which his torians will mark as epochal. May the spirit of our boys at the front, the flaming zeal of those who flaunt democracy's banner in the face of mankind's common foe, inspire all of us to a glad performance of a glor ious duty. Done at our city of Raleigh, this the 6th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine, hundred and eighteen, and in the one hundred and forty-third year of our American Independence. T. W. BICKETT, ' Governor. By (By United Press LONDON. Hancourt, which is near ly seveji mles east of the Somme riv er, where the present British offensive started Thursday, has been taken by the-British in their advance towards St. Quentin, Field Marshal Haig re ported to the British war office today. Field- Marshal Haig wires further : "Yesterday evening and last night eastward and northeastward of Pe ronne we progressed capturing Han court, Soreltecgrand, Mete en Cauture, northward. At the latter place we penetrated "the western positions at l,Iavrineourt wood capturing a number of prisoners. GHETTO SODA BOY RIDES CZAR'S AUTO By JOSEPH SHAPLEN (United Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK. He was a bolsevik commissionary and hLs name was Gold- stejn. Fate played a grim joke on Nicholas Romanoff whent deprived him of his job ant substituted in his place in numerable little Czars named Gold- stein or something like it. Apparently fate had in mine some of those Jewish j pgr ams of which Nick was such a 1 'd7oted ptro- B " ft may the. nfWmpntionPd Ooldstfiin ws nno of Lenine's chief lienteuants and a real power in Petrograd. His main jobj s to rule it high-handedly, over thg UuP&wsST v?fkj-Uiij a of the Bolshevik censorship. poor editor went to jail or suffered heavv line-at the word of this guardian I learend about Goldstein when I , first arrived in Petrograd. I was told he was . a terrible individual and in addition to his job of watching all lo- cal editors also kept an eye on the dispatches of foreign correspondents. ( At last my chance came. I had the 1 . - , , Vi. i fci wi rorrniip or frnzinir 110011 111s iaiv. It was sterness itself. He wore a warm Russian "tojourka," high boots and tall, fur soldier's hat. Dantou, Robespierre, Marat haw insignificant they were in comparison with Gold stein. U e ime rushing down the steps of Smolny, portfolio in hand, at break neck speed toward an elaborately fur nished automobile, flanked on both sides by heavy guns and red guards standing almost at attention. I came up closer. He looked at me. He off ered me his hand. I recognized him at once. I w;as my old friend Goldstein, who used to draw soda at a soda foun tain in New York's East Side. "Step in," he . said, pointing to the machine! "I am going to the foreign oflice and can .drop you at your hotel." On the road he told me all about him self. "Kerensky and Chefnoff are after me," he said proudly. "They vowed to get me first if they ever have the chance," I noticed that his East Side English was still good. "By the way;" he added. "This ma chine used to be the Czar's own." There was a smile of satisfaction on his face. Shades of Ivan the Terrible ! Goldstein riding in the Czar's machine. I could hardly keep from laughing, and had quite a job to control the muscles of my face until we reached my hotel. Goldstein was still talking. He was finishing his fifth speech on the social revolution. "And say," he asked, as I was bidd ing him good bye, "how can a feller get back to America?" "Hock the Czar's machine, I an swered. J. M. Arrington, of Richmond, is shaking the hand of his many friends in the city. A RECORD BREAKER Gorman's warehouse beat its own record Friday, selling 257,384 pounds, which is the record for this market and yet they were not fjolL They lost a number of leads which could not get in the house owing to the con gestion caused by their late sale Thursday. , This sale of tobacco being on the floor untit eleven at night, however, its an ill wind, etc." and their overflow helping out the other first and second sales. Prices were full up except on mixed (colors) to bacco. adv. Captuted Big Attrition HercHAt 5 . Manager S. If,: .. White of the White's Theatxeere received the following wire from the manager ' of the opera house injTarboro last night: "Soldier Who Came Back" was played here last night to a full house and the audience was delighted With same. It pleased every one. It is a very good show." ;r The Scotland Neck Commonwealth has the following to say of this play, which will be seen at White's theatre Monday night next. - If the President has seen "The Sol dier Who Came Back" it is a wonder to us that it has not been secured by the government and? shown as an edu cational play in every town and vil lage throughout the;United States, for, f as it appeared to us last night when shown at the Dixie Theatre, it would stop for all time all ignorant gossip as to why we were" in the war and what was America's object. A well filled house greeted the com pany, but it was the usual cold hand that wasj given to a new aggregation, but this enervation lasted only as long as it tookv to get the second character upon the stage, for the dialogue in tllis Pla-V is so Dri8ht: and invigorating the audience is Spontaneously drawn into' the -life, of the play, the responsive applause; peing a natural outcome of patriot, feejtag. Te Plot wa? welj defined" and W.to "e backer, dprp3eSmMi, who J howrforn Would &ST tfi ,i:os?t uncomfortable two hours of hi llfe witnessing the true American WMt demonstrated through the chan nels 01 an American nome. rue aepic tion is so real, so true to every day life, and the secues enacted could easily take place in tbousantJs of t-uuuwj. OLI TIME SOLOIER nrcs as hit OTisiran By WEBB MILLER (United Press Staff "orrespondent. ) PARIS, Aug. 19, (By Mail.) There'll be many moist eyes among the "Old Army" men who are now wearing gold and silver leaves and silver stars on their shoulders when they hear that "OU' Sergt. Jim Payne of the the Infantry fell, riddled by machine gun bullets, on the first day of the Soissons fighting. Sergt. Payne was one of the oldest and most experienced of the old-time non-coms, and had seen service in every land where American shoulders set foot for the past twenty years. He 'soldiered" and fought Moros in the wilds of. Mindanao under Capt. J. J. Pershing, and helped Pershing chase the Villistas into the interior of V f xico. In many a headquarters, dugout and mess shack they wil say "Poor ol' Jim' God bless him," when they hear that Payne is gone. Probably no other man in the army had as many close friends among the officers. For the last twenty years Payne has been train ing second lieutenants and seeing them gain their first lieutenancy, then cap tains' bars, majors' gold leaves and so on toward the major generals' double stars. A good many of the youths that Payne "mothered" are now generals , in the new army. But' no matter how high they went in rank, they always retained their love for the leathery faced, grizzled old sergeant, j Year after year Sergt Jim has been taking "shave-tails" fresh from West Point, and nervous as. cats about their first commands, under his arm and teach ing them the fine points of handling men, as only on old first sergeant can do. But Payne remained always a first' sergeant. In the old days there wasnt much chance for a man to rise onfc,of the ranks to a commission especially if he hadn't had much schoolin'," as Payne would teU his friends who urg ed him to try for a commission. At the outbreak of the war Payne was offered a captaincy, but; refused it. ' "I want to win my shoulder bars on ,the field with my boys," he told them. Last winter he served as a first ' ser gea.nt, but this -spring asked to be re-' duced to a sergeant, so he could go Cut and lead a platoon. . Only a few Fleeing Huns; Destroy All Villag es (By United Press) WITH FRENCH ARMY AFIELD. Acting under orders the retreating Germans' have demolished everything. All the villages which tha French are now occupying were found complete ly destroyed. Even the cellars were dynamited. Huge bonfires of furniture were seen blazing in the "streets. Im portant buildings were blown up with mines. The Allied troops have only two words, "Vengeance and Reprisal." CASUALTY LIST Morning List Killed in action, 14. v Missing in action, 7. Wounded severely, 78. Died of wounds, 9. Died from accident, 2. ' Wounded, degree undetermined, 35. Total, 145. Afternoon List Killed in action, 13. Missing in action, 8. Wounded severely, 86. lid of wounds, 6. Wounded, degree undetermined, 34. Wounded :i; hi!y, 1. Total 1 . :. Woun.U .1 ; ..ticlj-: Vester L. An drews, Piney Creek, N. C. : Charles H. Schneider, Rutherford, N.. C. French Take From Enemy (By The United Press.) (By War Expert Decandt.) Cheniin Des Dames is under cross fire from the Allies. South of the Aisne river to westward the German occupants of St. Gobian forest are en dangered by the French advance, ac cording to hattlefmnt dispatches. General Mangin's troops are filter ing through tie wooded and hilly country towards Ainzy Le Chateau, which is seven and one-half miles southwest of Laon. The French are reported to have reached the southern extremity of the Crozet canal, which places them at the gates of St. Simon on the road to St. Quentin! Further westward the Allies are marching on Vermand, which is- six miles northwest of St. Quentin. On the Aisne the French and Amer icans are near the valley. One hundred thousand German shells were captured in the bumps by the French. 20,000 Slight Casualties Are Not Reported (By United Press.) WASHINGTON. Twenty thousand plight American casualties hd not been - reported to the war departnient to August 20th, according to informa tion given out by General 'March. All have been listed in the medical rec ord as light and not worrisome. STAMP PURCHASES Purchasers of war saving and thrift stamps on Sept. 6: Miss Lucy, F. James. B. G. Abyounis. f Metropolitan Life; Insurance Co Mrs. RutS R. Wyatt. Miss Nellie Denny. Johnstone Dees. William S. Tyson. 648,377 Pounds Sold , There was 648,377 pounds of tobacco sold on the Greenville market yester day, according to official figures given out today. This was a record break ing sale. ' - weeks before he was filled the rec ommendation went through - for "his promotion to a lieutenancy. Within a few days Sergt. Jim would have been wearing the coveted silver bar, won as he wanted to win it. But he died as he wanted to die "with the boys." And there will be many misty eyes along the lines when they hear about "Of Jim." flf JE MORt TOWNS FRENCH Ef J ftOUTETO ST. QUEtJTIM, ME AVERAGE (By The United Press) PARIS. The French have progressed towards St. Quentin, Eafere and Laon, the French war of fice announced today. Nine more town were taken. Passing, Ham the French are nearing St. Simon, which is eight miles from St. Quentin. They have fought their way in to Tergnies, which is three7 miles west of Laf ere. The whole of the Coucy Low forest is seized. Barisis, eleven miles west of Laon, has been captiired. From the Somme and Oise the French continue their progress, breaking local resistance of the German rear guard on both sides of the Somme. ; South of the Ailettc Nr.-.rl heuil La Fosse, Fort Leconde on theAisne has been taken. Noifth of the Vesle the situation is unchanged. The French have advanced an average of two miles on a twenty mile 'front. At some places they have advanced more than four miles. Huns Building New Defenses BefdreWmter ( By The United Press AMSTERDAM. On the Belgian and Dutch frontier German troops con sisting of Landstrum Sappers today are building a new line of defenses. It is believed that the German com mand proposes to make this conform to the Meuse line in the event that a retreat Incomes necessary before win ter sets in. ROYAL FAVORITE NOW WAITRESS PAL ,By JOSEPH SHAPLEN (United Pres Sta'f Correspondent) NEW YORK At least one member of the former's Czar's household en- joyed the respect and good care of the bolshevik i. He lived comfortably at the hotel Astoria, opposite the Ger man embassy ,in Petrograd, hostelry that at one time was the rendezvous of fashionable Petrograd and has since the bolshevik revolution leen occu pied by bolshevik officials. The afroementioned member of the ex-Czar's family lived in one of tho flnest rooms of the hotel. His food was carefully attended to by a wait ress who showed a particular likink for him and called him "her own." I once had a long talk with her about him while she served me some bad fish and cabbage soup for dinner. There was a soft fondness written all over her face and she said that her Roman off friend would yet bring her a lot of money as a foundation of her fortune. As I was working away at the fish he came in, rather tall, graceful, the aristocrat per excellent. There was a deep melencholy look in his eyes and he' seemed o be demanding not sym-' patby but recognition. Then I under stood the waitress" fondness for him. I realized that many an American society woman would have lost her heart to him, for it was the former Czar's favorite Russian wolf hound. Americans Wipe Out Gun Nests As They Advance (By The Onited Press) (By War Expert Mellett.) V Americans on the Tight line are continuing to advance towards the Aisne river at some points. At pther places heavy machine f'gtm fighting is in progress. Between Glennes and Romaine, where the line runs north and south of the Aisne to the Vesle the Americans are wiping out the gun nests. J. S. Mathews, of Washington, is a business visitor, today. CAPTURED BY ADVANCE 2 MILES General Pershing Commands 93 . (By United Press) ' - WASHINGTON. Ninety-three , .per cent of the 'American troops now in France are under the direct command of General Pershing, so the senators of the war conference stated they had been informed. This is taken to mean s that a distinctive A mcrica n -force is alont to be used for some big purpose. . ' i( CmCAGO WINS SECONP GAME OF WORLD SERIES Chicago, Sept. & The tjhicago Na tionals defeated the Boston Amer- icans today b? a score of 3 to 1 in a good old-fashioned game of baseball. Both teams have one game each to their credit. Tyler, pitching for Chi cago, was the hero of the contest. He pitched a steady game throughout and capped the climax by getting a Hn ,le over second base that scored two runs. All of Chicago's runs were iu;;de lb the-second inning, while Boston's lone tally came in a desper ate and spectacular rally in the ninth. Despite the warm and pleas ant weather today's attendance was only 20,040. Score: R. H. E. Boston 16 1 Chica .3 7 1 Batteries: Bush- and Agnew, Schaug; Tyler and Killifer. NO AUTHORITY TO. FIX PRICE CjOTTON WASHINGTON. Plans of Southern senators to protest to President Wilson against the proposal xi Chairman Ba ruch, of the War Industries Board, to have a commission appointed to inves tigate the feasibility of recommending stabilization of cotton prlcjes . were abandoned late today, ''t ' - ' After a meeting of Southern ' senators Sena-tor Smith, of South;' Carolina," an nounced that a sfatpaient whfch was prepared for presentation to Jlr. Ba ruch would not be made public . at present, but that a conference with Mr. Baruch would be sought." Efforts are leing made to hold it tomorrow. The statement was understood to ex plain that its makers believe there is no authority for fixing cotton prices, that no act giving, that power will be passed and that prices can only be fixed through agreements with the producers. PeFCentMnut: Supllies for use in the Graded Schools are now ready for delivery. Please remember that we can not charge School Books, as' the .margin of profit is too small, they will be sold only for Cash. A. B. Ellington & Co. Thur-Sat-2t . r, , . Mi i ! ' it it i-. i ) O i - i i.'.i i 1! . . . ' JV .
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