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ii GET READ A v -. -"w-v-----. oiii, o i ari. ajti xx in, XS7XO .V ECORD i r ii ill i i k. t . Ji HICKORY, N. C. SATURDAY EVENING AUGUST 31, 1918 PRICE TWO CENTS ,at t WBA OUNTY FAIR " nrmorD qtptli vol. ' KEMMEL, STORM flTER, IS NOW BRITISH German Huge Me: V Retire From Hill For Which They Paid rice And It Is Occupied by Haig's Progress of Allies Slow JFxcept at Two Points ... Y. A 1 : r,i' i ' la ' iT.'y :' Pross. ilu he"ght domi- ii :.! . in,' tioriiu'in siuc Th.t !: - ft . . I A K-l Ai-!,' Oil) .'I 1 " is again in the i-h. Dispatches :imou. hill. fr ,, pail a tremendous ; ;,. svh ifii the allies : : i nt h. is in the i-.al Hair's men. i mi reports, hovv- luinir made on - .ins probable that : i t'lvm it and that :, moved in. This German rcttre- rated, the IJrit ; and Bailleul, . ..o (f the Lawe , :. tu I.estrem, on the salient. ,,! vtora on this have gained i,:;U: during the to !. every ev ; .- uire against fi,:n Sobaons to . deP'U'ute ef :. ,:;4 to hold the , kvi't'diny:. : : southwest of ,,,-t anl north of . ; ;,d forces mov- . tt north of the , tae British have . r. r.s farm close , . ! rvt'd into the :.; , t ) the north - . is on the west ri-.'r and its cap ; .-;i;e of that .-..a. waterway at : .1 statement says i ! fy. which is lo : M. north of Per-' ... ! tiy the Uritish. ,ay that Mount , a half miles . ' .i. been capture'.' i I ..rem to indicate ;.. l.i." surrounded by : i , i'h tl Haiff hav a ! . a: i'cs yesterday. '(.! f.yr on north !;.;; a and Frencu i i . .i jit Lire the hijrh rai-iat'js the Vesle - a a i to force their i . .vau. The Gor- h'sperately to hosu V. PAPEN W A FANTASTIC BOO il E FEATUR ES SPAN WAR REVENUE MEASUR E By the Associated Press. :Vj!th the American Army in France, Aujr. 31. Capt. Boy-Ed, for mer naval attache at Washington, who with Captain Franz von Papen, former military attache, was accred ited with engineering German propo ganda designed to keep the United States out of the war, and was ex pelled by the United States, has come out with a book containing a fantastic account of his "investiga tions" in the United tSates. Onep fthc captain's most strik ing "disclosures"' is that the United States entered the war because of a secret treaty with Great Britain. He contends that had it not been for this alliance America would have kept out of the conflict. The prisoner was morally convinced, as he said other Germans were, of the truth of this assertion. Mi,. John Bohannon has arrived :a the city to spend sometime with his parents,' Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Riddle. Washington, . Aug. 31 Completing its task of framing the $8,000,000,000 war revenue bill, the house ways and means committee yesterday agreed to report the measure to the house Monday. It carried greatly increased income taxes beginning with a normal tax of '6 per cent, on all below $4,000 a year and abvve the exemption limits. To reach war profits a flat war profits tax of 80 per cent is levied, with an alternative plan of excess profits taxes ranging from 35 to 70 per cent. The minimum sur tax of incomes is raised to 65 ver cent land the normal tax on all incomes over $4,000 is made 12 per cent. The bill which will affect either directly or -Indirectfy every person and business concern in the United States, probably will be taken up in the house for consideration next Thursday, with prospects that it can be disposed ef within a week or 10 days. Treasury experts have estimated, Chairman Kitchin stated, that the bill as finally agreed upon will pro duce an annual revenue of between $8,100,000,000 and $8,200,000,00o, thus making the measure by far the greatest revenue producing proposal wh.ch congress- has ever been called upon to enact. The outstanding features of the completed bill are: It does not impose consumption taxes or a higher tariff. Every person and every business concern Jin the United States and every American portion of income of foreign corporations operating in the United States is reached by the provisions of the bill. Rates of existing tax laws in the main are doubled. A distinctly war profits tax as an alternative to the excess profits tax, embodied in the present law, is levied. The war profits tax is a flat 8n per cent of the net income above a specific ex emption of 3.000 and deduction of 10 per cent of invested capital Pdded or withdrawn since the close of the per war period. The war profus tax is not to exceed 35 per cent in the (Continued on page 4) SH VESSEL 5B"Y By the Associated Press. Paris, Aug. 31. Another Spanish ship, the Alevaudriene, has been torpedoed, according to a Madrid dis patch to the Journal. WILL ELIMINATE : THAT LYS SALIENT By ij-e Associates Press. Washington, Aug. 31. Elimination of the Lys salient, the only German wedgo in the all.ed line which miht offer a favorable starting point of the 'enen.y should, he regain the ihitiativt in tie west .front by a Major coun ter attack, will be the next phase of General Fochs strategy, according j to military critics here. ,hut active steps are already un der ;vay to acctmpiish. this was in dicated in dispatches telling of the apitujre of t,. Kemmel and Lac onture on, . the south. Continued stiffening of the German resistar.ee on the Sonime and Pieardy sectors is seen by many army oSicers, v'ho do not exvpect the allies to va?;te men in an attack at these points. VOTER Many Hickory people today receiv ed circulars from Chas. A. Jo.'.as, and at least a dozen of them, in men tioning the subject to the Record man, said they were particularly in L::j:'c;1 ir. hc.v Jcnas lrmself i stands. Is Lonas appealing to the disloyal element with one hand and the loyal element with the other? is the ques tion that is of interest just now, they say. j Can Jonas afford, if he is patri otic, to cater to men who have been the. most vigorous objectors to Am erica's protecting the rights of her citizens and who have left the Demo cratic party because President Wil son dared to do right? ! Many men who received the Jonas circulars said they willingly admitted . that Wtebb had erred, but Webb wat, right now, Is Jonas playing square? they ask. i Is he appealing to one class to sup- i port him in the belief that he wih try to hamper the government in the prosecut on oi the war, with the con CAN HE ANSWER AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD THESE LOYAL IS PANORAMA OF FIRE S7 Shells Burst Like Surf Against German Lines 1ft n... ana Americans Busy in Most Vital Sector of Line The French Advance Proves Dangerous for the Enemy. By the Associated Press. Washington, Aujg. 3L President Wiilson today signed the manpower act, bringing all men in the United States from 18 to 45 of age within i sequent loss of many precious lives?! the army draft and immediately af- terwards issue da proclamation fixing PRESf DEN T HAS SIGNED DRAFT MEASURE Mt Kemmel Now British by tne i French mm START S By the Associated Press. London, Aug. 31,-1 P. M.-tMt. Kemmel, the famous stronghold southwest of of Ypres which was the scene of terrific fighting late in April, has been captured by tht British. Mont. St. Quentin, a mile and a fcnlf of -Tcronne, has been captured by the British also. French troops have maue a &nw' :e on the Ailette river anu m ;,,v,whood. occupying a small southwest of Coucy-le-Chateau. ATTEMPT MADE ON LIFE OF LENINE MM OUT OF LIS B7 the Ass..:;.-1. Press With tiv !:::: Lya U i i ( r , . y have (.'iii.f.ii "toMt fr-.ri, Fifc'll M;,, Weir t..,i 'wmo, v,!, , Forces in France, t U' ce.iies in the i- hf the battle front '.crmans to start a 'H::SJ.'hl)orhood GREETINGS FROM T11E KING Mr. John S. IsTnhour has received a letter from abroad conta.nmj King George's fine greetings to the American soldiers when they landed in England. The Hickory man has a brother, Mr. Jonas Isenhdur, in the service, and he is in France now, but he did not enlist until June and went to Oklahoma and threw in h.s lot with a western regiment. Mr. Isenhour appreciates the letter, whether it was sent him by some cas ual friend or by his old pal, George, R. By the Associated Press. London, Aug. 3L Criminal at tempts have been made on the life of Lenine, the bolshevik leader at Moscow, according to a Russian wire less received here today under date of Aug. 30 from the Russian capital. Lenine was wounded. SHOWERS PROMISED Todays Casualty Lis t Washington, Aug. 31. The second section of the army casualty list today shows: Killed in action 55 Wku vied severely 55 Total i1j0 TL- first section srows 11 killed In actio.:, 1 missi;;g in action, 65 wou: :! ed, Vd died cf wounds.. 0 wouiviod degr.--3 undetermined, and I prisoner. HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE IS REPORTED By the Associated Pres3. :Pris, Aug. Zl. Ilc-avy artillery ifire fcrth of Noyon ar.d between the Ailette and the Aisno rivers is reported in the official statement from the war offbe today. HEAVY SENTENCES FOR THE I. W. W. LEADERS Is he playing what the Statesvil'.e Landmark; -telalls "Cheap Politiqs?' they want to know. If he is not trying to ride two horses, how can he account for the fact that certain individuals, who are known to have been thoroughly committed against this great coun try's doing its duty, deserted Wilson and Webb after the latter had lined up with the president of the United States after Webb has helped to pass legislation urged by the one man in the world whose voice is a trumpet sounded for liberty? The question, they say, is up to Jonas. Threatening the editor of the Rec ord for doing his duty is not an ans wer, these voters say. AT HUB TODAY Thursday, September 12, date of registration. as the BAKER MAKES STATEMENT AS TO f'LIMITED SERVICE" The program at the Hub theatre today will be "Official Government" war pictures -and a Lonesome Luke Comedy Admission 5 and 10 cents, war tax included. I i 11 Washington, Aug. 31. Men clas sified uriier the selective draft as qualified for. "limited or special' ser vice will not be called unless thereby ablebodied men will be released for service abroad, Secretary Baker an nounced. The only exceptions now in force, he said, were the cases of a few limited service men who are as sisting the construction of a termi nal at Charleston, S. C This was considered a temporary detail and the men will be assigned to other work now being done by men eligible j for full military service. Mrs. H. D. Clayton, Jr., has re turned to Salisbury after spending a few davs with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Icard. , By the Associated Press. j With the American Army in France, Aug. 31. Between the Ail ette and the Aisne and far to the southeastward along the line to the Vesle the battlefield is one vast panorama of fire. Here at the mo ment the Germans are offering the most desperate resistance, since the issue in this sector became of vital importance. With General Mangin's men al ready across the Ailette on either side of the village of Champs, the enemy's hold on the village of Coucy-le-Chateau is threatened. Coucy-le-Chateau is highly important as a dis tributing center of troops falling back from Noyon. From the crest bf the pleteau north of Noyons shells can be seen bursting like surf against the Ger man lines. American troops in the center are jstiU fighting to clear the difficult entanglements in ravines. There has been no close fighting in these val leys as yet. A philosophoic wounded prisoner was encountered today on the side of a road He said: "They told me that the Americans murdered their prisoners." When asked if he believed that statement, he replied: "One does not make a great na tion out of men like that." STEFANSSEN IS ON HIS WAY TO NEW. YORK Mail's men are at tr Murrians wood and the lion is of river vital of.IMi. SPILLMAN WILL rtAV Dr. B. W. Spillman of Kinston, well known Bible lecturer and auth mi .,. Vio riiimt rf the r irsi Or. Will OCCUlJf !' - . Baptist church at the morning ser-, vice tomorrow. Dft Sp.Hman de serve a fine conation nd 1 have it. The pastor wm benight. C 1 -n '. -;JJ ' K DUB Hit emy A BY MIDDLE OF WEEK By the Associated Press. , Washington, Aug. 31. Showers about the middle of the week and temperatures about normal in the South Atlantic states were forecast for the week beginning tomorrow by the weather bureau today. aim Press. '"Mi,:;, v ' I. German troop:, from their posi- ' 1. vj dri tVm Rnmme. r,ijr.u ' ' ;"vt-'s' I': -v.unu ,and the Brit ish M. II.! 1 fA t;nirt ' ' '! locai.xy is cnn is,,1' u'',M'r,i: to the official war v;na' J' have entered the tr(! " of I'lai oiiir,,, gouth of Lo ' n th side of the Lyb salient, according to the official state ment issued at the army headquar- ttTS,. On the south side of the Lys sa lient the British have occupied the village of Couturey, northeast of Bcthune. The British have captured a strong point known as the St. Servins farm and the village of Etertigny, north or the'Arras-Cambrai road and southeast of Arras. Bv the Associated Press. Paris, Aug. 31. The positions won J yesterday by the Amer.can forces northwest of Soissons, La Liberte .point out, give them a fine view .along the Chemin des Dames. The Americans can now see the tower3 of the Laon cathedral. Chicago, Atijg. 31. William D. Haywood, ''uncrowned king" of the Indue trial Workers of the . World and 14 of his chief aids in the con spiracy to overturn the American war program wre sentenced to '10 years at the federal penitentiary at Fort 'Leavenworth by Feceral JiKe LancV:3, here late yesterday. Tt 'i yea? sent mces wei-e imposed upon 33 of the crganiza Lion's lead ers, five-year sentences cn 33, one year and ne day on 12 defendants and 10-day sentences on two others. Cases against Benjamin Schraeger, Chicago, vriter, and Pietro Nigra, Spring Valley, 111., weie continued. All sentmces on the four counts in the indiitmenl will run - concur rently. Tines ranging from $20, 000 on Karwood and his chief aides, down to 5,)00 were imposed. Ninety lays is grafted in which to fi:e a bll of exception, and a stay of seven diys in which :o petition for bail. "It is thi closing chapter in Amer Vq's biggest qr.minal case,'' said Frank K." Nebeker, chief prosecutor. "We ire confident a' new trial will be g-anted," . said George V. ,1an;7:rveai chief counsel for the defense, ; "In timts of peace you have a le gal right ;o oppose, by -free speech, prep-iratiois for war. But when war has hen declared that right ceases," vas the court's closing le marks. j WEATHER FORECAST "k Register eptember 1 RED GUARDS ARE DRIVEN A BY ALLIES By the Associated Press. Vladivostok, Monday, Aug. 26. Entente allied forces and Czecho Slovak troops have attacked the bol shevik": red guards on the Usurri river front and have driven the enemy back a distance of 15 miles. Prisoners were taken and much booty taken. E ARMERS CONVENTION WAS WELL ATTENDED ' Presbyterian Rev. J. G. Garth, Pastor Sunday school at 9:45, G. W. Hail, superintendent. , The pastor wiil preach at - the morning and evening services. Christian Endeavor meets at 7:io Miss Margaret MeComb, president. Miss Ruby Satterfield, junior super intendent. , . All are cordially invited to attend these services. WANTED At once four girls to work in sewing room, one boy over 16 years, apply at office. Hickory Overall Co. 8 31 tf nv iTortfi Carolina: Showers tonight, ffcept'f iir on the coast. Sunday prtly cloudy, probably show ers in eajT portion, moderate west to south-weS .winds. There were 13 different tractors on display and the farmers were impressed with them. In addition, mang good lectures were made by experts on farming and the dele gates were told to ask questions and they put them at the experts. Among those who attended 1 from this county were Mr. Hewitt, vMiss Mary Rowe, Misses Myrtle, Mittie and Bell Rockett, Mr. Homer Mask, Mr. Obie Cloninger and Henry Bar-ringer. By the Associated Press. Washington, Aug. 31. The United States cargo ship Joseph Cudahy was torpedoed at sea about 700 miles from the English coast August 17 and 62 members of the crew are re ported missing. Thirteen were res cued. 1 Two submarines made the attack and two torpedoes struck the ship, the first striking the fuel tank and the second the engine room. The captain of the Cudahy reported that he was taken on board the subma rine and questioned. BILL IS SIGNED By the Associated Press. s Wkshincton. AuA 31. Speaker f.lnrk and Senator Saulsbury, speaker nf the senate, signed the bill Rhortlv after noon and a waiting messenger carried the bill to President Wilson for his signature By the Associated Press. Washipigton, Aijg 31. Thursday, September 12, was set today by President Wilson for the day of registration for the army draft of all men in the United States between the ages of 18 and 45 inclusive who hive n,ot already registered ' or who are not in military service. In a proclamation issued immedi ately after he signed the new man power bill authorizing extension of the draft ages, the president called upon thp younger and older men t c register on that day. "We solemnly propose a decisive victory of arms," said the president, "and deliberately to devote the larger part of the military manpower of the nation to the accomplishment of that purpose. It is the call to duty to which every true man in the country will respond with pride and the consciousness that in doing so he plays his part in vindication of a great cause, at whose summons every true heart offers in supreme sacri fice." The hours of registration will be from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. and all state and local officers are urged to make preparations. All men within the new ages, whether citizens of the United States or not, must register unless they are diplomatic or consular representati ves of foreign governments. (In case of dllness, arrangements ( Continued on page 4) Dawson, Y. T., Aug. 31. En route to Esquimalt, B. C, and thence to New York, via Ottawa, Vilhjalmur, Stefanssen, Arctic explorer, outfitted himself with "store - clothes" here his opportunity in five years. He arrived yesterday wearing moccasins and other rough garments. Stefanssen declared he is anxious to help the allied cause and believes he can do this best by giving lec tures in the United States for the Red Cross. He expects it will be many months before he regains his former physical endurance and is able to re sume artic exploration. Following his illness from pneumonia and pleurisy, at Derschel last January, he traveled four weeks with dogs ovet snow covered mountains to Porcupine river and thence to Fort Yukon, where he took treatment for 10 days. The exploror will leave here Sun days or Monday. Miss Louise Jones arrived in the oity this afternoon to jspend the week end at home. HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN MONDAY The Hickory public schools will open at 8:45 Monday morning. Preparatory to this event, Super intendent Carver and his 26 princi pals and teachers held - a meeting this morning and made final plans for the event. Everybody was en-, thusiastic for the coming year's work, the children are ready to proceed to school with bright morning faces and eagerness to make their marks. Th3 principals this year will be: High school Prof. J. E. Baib. North school Mr. C. E. Reiabardt. South school Miss Ada Schencki. Prof. L. L. Ramseur is principal of the coiored school, and the same teachers will be there again this year. Yankees Join THneiir Army By the Associated 3H-vJ the impression was given that the program of concentrating the army for action under General Pershing has seen no let-up. General March said that the latest figures on the arrival of American soldiers show that 1,220,009 have Washington, AU8V 31. American troops brigaded with the British- and French forces are being withdrawn as rapidly as possible to join the first American field army under Gen eral Pershing, General . March said today in his weekly conference be- j reached France. Several hun for the senate military committee. ( dred thousand have been landed, since, The chief of staff threw no new however, and last week General light on the part Americans are playing in the present offensive, but March announced that the mark had (Continued on rvag V
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