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Close your place of business to-morrow. 9 to 12, and sell Liberty Bonds is the request of Chairman W. B. Love Monroe jo PUBLISHED, TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY 1 H VOL.24. No. 72. MONROE, N. O, FRIDAY; OCTOBER 11, 1918. $1.50 PER YEARSH. URNmL aft:: BAKERS RECOMMENDED FOR RADIO NAVAL STATION SITE Coiiunittce Returned Thin Morning With Favorable Report Secretary Daniels Hu Recommend I ;o rres- klent Wilson Tliat This Site Be Pur. c Jul scd. Secretary of the Navy Josephu Daniels has recommended to Presi dent Wilson that the land near Ba- kers be purchased under the Nation al Defense act for the establishment of the huge radio plant. Messrs. J C. Sikes. G. B. Caldwell and T. L. Riddle, the committee who went to Washington Monday to present the question for Union County's site, re turned this morning and gave out the word as above. The Navy Department has appro priated to it ten thousand dollars to be expended in the purchase of radio sites. About three thousand dollars of this has already been expended leavlnz onlv seven thousand at its disposal. There are two ways by which more money could be obtained for the purchase of a site, by a spci al act of Congress, which would re quire sometime; and under authority vested In the president in tne Nation al Defense act. Following three con ferences with the Monroe delegation Mr. Daniels agreed to recommend that the proposed site be purchased under this act. This now leaves the matter In the hands of President Wil son. Mr. J. C. Sikes stated this morn ing that a telegrdm might be expect ed any day accepting the proposition advanced by the Committee while In Washington. Government Officials with whom the committee conferred expressed the opinion that the price on part of the land offered was rather excessive Several towns are clamoring for the radio station and offering to give the site. Members of the Navy Department Informed the Monroe men that the material for the plant was ready to be shipped at once. If Union Coun ty lands the station work then would commence at an early date. The con struction of the station will require the labor of two thousand men for period fo eighteen months, so men connected with the bureau of docks and yards In Monroe sometime ago said. The average wage of the men will be about seven dollars a day. A good sired town would spring up around Bakers and a postoffice will have to b.e established there. When this Is done it has been suggested that the name be changed from Bakers to West Monroe. This suggestion will no doubt meet with the approbation of all. The members of the committee who returned home this morning Speak highly of the courteous manner they were treated by every member of the Navy Department with whom they came in contact. One of the commit tee gave It as his opinion that the Navy Department was the best regu lated department In the capitol. BRITISH TEX M1I.ES EAST OF CAM BR A I I M AT EA U TA K E X (ieriimn Army Which Held the Hin- rienburg Line Is Faring Eastward In Retreat British, American and French lresinK Onward. London, October 10th. LeCateau has been captured by the- British, Field Marshal Halg announced in his renort to-nleht. The British have advanced rapld- Iv alone the whole battle front. They now hold the line of the Selle Riv er from St. Souplet to Solesmee, which represents an advance of about ten miles east of Cambrai. Many civilians have been found in the captured towns and villages two thousand and Ave hundred neing hd erated In Caudry alone. (Bv The Associated Press.) Th men of the once formidable Gerraan armies holding the Hinden- burg line from north of Cambrai to St. Quenttn are facing eastward, de feated and In retreat. Their backs are the targets for the British, American and French troops, who bitterly fought them, atep by step, out of supposedly Impregnable defenses and now are harrying them across the open country toward the German border. Nowhere U the en emy attempting a stand In force. True, the German border is yet a Ions; distance away, but the past two dava of chase which materially de creased the width of the area sepa rating the Invaders from their own Rhine line. LeCateiu, the Important iunctlon point twelve miles southeast of Cam brai, represented Thuisday night the point of deepest t-enctrRtion by the Allied troops, The British were ;he masters of It. All along the front, however, the British, French and Americans have been steadily press ing forward their infantry forces, tak ing numerous towns and villages, v -while far In advance of them the hoof beats of the cavalry homes interming led with the roars f tho whippet - tanks and the staccato barking of the machine guns Inside the moving forts. So fast has been the retrost of the enemy that at various polnt3 the Al lied orces afoot lost contact with him. , ' OVER 35-M1LK FRONT. The retreat, which is over a front of about thirty-five miles, from the south of Douai to the region east of ( St. Qucntln, has been lort In the hands i of the Allies, in addition to the I towns they have taken valuable ' lines of : communication and st rat- egic positions of very high im portance and driven in a wedge that seemingly will force the ueimans everywhere from the North Sea to the vicinity of Verdun to tall back. South east of Douai, one of the remaining strong points in the Jennan line in the north, the British are standing In Etrun, twelve miles southwest of Valenciennes, the pivotal point in the enemy's known next defense line and ten miles to the south of the city is out-flanked at Solesmes. Meantime, the French and Amer ican armies on that part of the line running from northwest of Rheh.is to the Muese river are still pressing foi ward in the converging movement with the armies in the west and grad ually are forming the entire war the ater into a huge sack. The Americans continue slowly to advance up the eastern side of the Meuse, while west of the river, in conjunction with the operations of the French, they have all but obliterated the great Argonne Forest as an enemy defense position. To the west of the Forest in the Aisne valley and still farther westward, the French also have made further gains. Throughout this entire region the Germans still are offering stubborn resistance, mainly with machine guns. Realizing the Importance of holding bark their foes while their armies in Belgium and farther south make good their retrograde movement. RAPIDLY CLEARING ALBANIA Doth in the Macedonian theater and In Palestine the Allied forces are pressing the enemy hard. Albania is fast being cleared of the Austro-Hun-garian troops, while in Serbia the enemy Is nearlng Nish, harrassed by the Serbians. At last accounts Gen eral Allenby was still driving the Ot toman troops northward In Palestine. So lightning-like are the maneu vers of the Allied Armies on the var ious battle fronts from the North Sea to Verdun, in Macedonia and in Palestine that except to the war ex- pert and his military maps constant ly before him, it is almost impossible to visualize tne situation and real lie the swift strides the Allies are making In defeating the common en emy. In France and Belgium In three weeks five important cities which had been In German hands for four years have bc-?n recaptured, Dlxmude, Ar mentieres, Lens, Cambrai and St Quentin are now In Allied hands while Lille, Douai and Valenciennes seemingly are all but captured. Ser bla shortly is to be fully reclaimed and the Turks soon will know the Holy Land no more. Farmeri Should Select Now. Seed Com To insure an ample supply of the very best seed corn for planting nexT year's crop. Union county farmers will need to select about nineteen thousand and six hundred bushels of seed corn this fall. About two thirds of this amount will have to be dis carded when re-selectlon Is done. Every farmer should go through his fields and select before he gath ers his crop. It is absolutely Impos sible to secure the best seed If the selection Is deferred until spring and the selection made from the crib Thp hpxt wbv is to secure the seed corn from the standing stalfcs in the field, taking from those stalks that have not been specially favored and which show by their larger yields that they are of superior worth. Gener ally speaking, one can tell by going down the rows in a field whrNi are the best type of stalks, and which ones are yielding the largest amount of shelled corn per stalk. The Be lections should be made from good healthy stalks that are bearing the ears at a uniformly convenient height for gathering. Ordinarily, It Is not wise to select from stalks that are bearing more than two good, well developed ears per stalk. It is impor tant that the corn be well matured before gathering. At least three or four times as much corn should be gathered in the field as will be needed for planting next year. When the corn Is gather ed It should be husked Immediately and hung In an airy place to dry, When thoroughly dry, place the corn In a dry place and protect from rats and mice. A few Jiours spent In the selecting or seed win De tne means or great ly Increasing the corn yields per acre next season. It Is safe to say, that by careful attention to the selecting of seed in the field and properly car ing for the seed afterward, next year's per acre yield will be Increased twen ty to twenty-five per cent. T.J. W. Broom County Agent. 1,480 Aineriransc Are Prisoners In Germany. Washington, D. C. October 7th. Members of the American epedition- ary forces who have been Identified as prisoners of war in Germany num bered one thousand four hundred and eighty on October 6th, said an an nouncement to-day from the office of the adjutant general of the army. In addition, two hundred and twenty civ ilians interned in Germany have been Identified as have sixty-one Bailors held in Constantlnope. , Do Your Part Don't Be a Slacker. The campaign Is on! There are many difficulties In our way, but we can stop for none of these. Our task Is set It must be per formed, and not only our Government but our soldiers on the battle fronts are relying on you to accomplish it Foch, Pershing and Halg stop for nothing. They keep the Germans with their faces toward Berlin, We must keep jace with them! Every man, woman and child, this means you. Stand behind the boys! THE BOND CAMPAIGN - - The Bond Campaign lags In Union county. If the pace is not quickened at once, the result will be an everlasting shame to our people. The time for subscription closes next Saturday, the li)th, and the bonds thus far sold are a mere bagatelle of the quota which our government expects us to take. If this were a give away proposition to a doubtfu cause, there would be ample reason to hold aloof, but when we know we are investing in the safest securities on earth at a fair rate of interest, without any taxes whatever on the money involved, and when we know, f urthermore, that this investment is necessary to bring the war to a speedy and successful close, then our ter to the best of our ability can never be explained by any reasonable excuse. The fact is, the Six Billion Dollars now needed has almost already been spent in the maintenance of our armies and the conduct of the war through the sale of short time Treasury Certificates, and these certificates must now be redeemed by our Government, because they represent maturing obligations. It is very true that previous bond sales and our stamp purchases have subjected some of our people to some in conveneience, but the fact people have not yet invested ability, and many, though able, have not invested at all. We are told that these bonds are not popular as an invest ment with some because they mature 20 years hence, and they prefer to buy stamps because they mature at the ex piration of five years. In reply to this we say that the stamp campaign is over in Union county and it was never intended by our Government of investing small savings fixed at $1000.00. As a business proposition, the bonds are better, because they are easily transferable; the interest is payable semi-annually, and,' if we do what we think we are soon going to do in this war, all the authorities agree that the bonds will go to a premium and we may sell out at a profit over the principal and interest. Another good feature about these bonds lief in the fact that they are the best security you can offer to a bank as collateral to a loan in any emergency demanding casn, and wnere is ine dus iness man who would not excjyinge real pr personal prop ertyf or bonds where such property is for sale ? ' This can not be done with stamps, because they are not transfera ble and the Government does not expect people holding stamps to cash them in even quired. Far seeing business men this county for generations a grievous burden, especially as liquors and railroads will and that is why 'they are investing heavily in these bonds which can never be taxed. If there are any people in the world damaged by a Government bond sale it is the bank ers, and especially country bankers such as we have, and yet the Government calls on these very people to take the initiative in doing these things that will take away their deposits. Our faith in humanity is increased by the knowl edge that these bankers nearly everywhere respond un selfishly to this call, because they feel that it is their pa triotic duty and because they are sensitive to the needs of our Government and wish to make sure the perpetuity of our civilization. We are now on the eve and we would be blind to cur ourduty in this Bond Campaign. No section, and none of our people, can escape tne think of what our bovs are France and how bravely many lives in this cause, we, who firesides and in the peaceful tempt to shirk our responsibility. I repeat what I said in a former bond campaign: ajar in this cause and the people should eagerly flock there with their money and consider it a blessed privilege in stead of a thing to be avoided. Respectfully yours, W. S. BLAKENEY, District Chairman and Central Committeeman RECENT EVENTS EN CHANCE IMPORTANCE OF M)AN. Over-Subscription of Iioan of World IniHirtance, Says Wilton Mnt Buy Bonds and More Bonds. Washington, October 10th. Over subscription of the six billion dollar Liberty Loan was declared to-night by President Wilson to be a matter of world importance at this1 critical time. "Recent events have enhanced, mt lessoned, the importance of this loan," said the President's statement. "The best thing that could happen would be that the loan should not only be fully subscribed, but very greatly over-subscribed." Accordingly, Instructions will go forth to-roorrpw to Liberty Lsan com mitters eveiwhere to do even more than in t." last eleven days to get vet jioa. woman and youtfi in America to hold up the hards of the Government by buying Bonds, and more Bonds than they have already engaged. Americans in the next nine days ending Saturday, October 19th, must participate Id the biggest out pour of individual resources ever failure to help in this mat is that the great bulk of our in bonds to the extent of their to be anything except a way and that is why the limit was under the 30 days notice re already know that taxes in to come will run high and be since such revenue producers probably go off the tax books. of a great victory in this war interests if we failed to do responsiDiniy, ana wnen we doing on the firmer lines in of them are offeringup their are left at home by our own marts of trade, should not at The doors of the banks stand recorded In any Nation. Two billions already have been raised -one-third of the minimum now sought. To barely touch the six billion mark, new subscriptions at the average rate of five hundred millions a day are needed. An excess over that will be required to fulfill Presi dent Wilson's appeal for over sub scrlptlon. In the results hereafter will be read the Nation's answer. Managers of the loan campaign are counting strongly on the harvest of pledges nex Saturday, Liberty Day, to swell the total. Secretary McAdoo to-day decided to go to Chi cago to address a meeting there Sat urday evening in the interest of the loan. Richmond district's subscriptions amounted to 187,176,550 31 per cent, of its quota. TO.OOO.tMNl Mark Stolen From Em H"ror William? (By The Associated Press.) Berlin, Ooctober 10th. (Via Bas el, Switzerland.) A postal sack con taining seventy million marks of se curities and treasury bonds addressed by the postoffice to the Imperial cha teau was stolen the day before yes terday. " WILSON SAYS OVER-SI B SCRIPTIOX IS NOW OK WORLD IMPORTANCE Washington, Oct. 10. Presi dent Wilson today issued this statement on the fourth Liberty loan campaign: Recent events have enhanced, not lessened, the importance of this loan, and I hope that my fel low countrymen will let me say this to them very frankly. The best thing that could , happen would.be that the loan should not only be fully subscribed, but very greatly oversubscribed. We are in the midst of the greatest exer cise of the power of this country that has ever been witnessed or ever will be witnessed or forecast and a single day of relaxation in that effort would be of tragical damage alike to ourselves and to the rest of the world. Nothing has happened which makes It safe or possible to do anything but push our effort to the utmost. The time Is critical, and the re sponse must be complete. (Signed) "Woodrow Wilson." Every business house, office, Bank, etc., is asked to close Sat urday from 9 to 12, and every body is requested to aid in the sale cf Liberty Bonds. W. B. Love, Chairman Union County Liberty Loan Committee. - A (iltEAT AIR OFFENSIVE " IS MADE BY AMERICANS ReMrted as the Greatest Raid At tempted mi Western Front ;WO Machines Went Over the (ieriiuui Canips. Washington, D. C, October 10th. Word of the first great American air raid against the German camps north of Verdun sent a thrill through the War Department officials to-day, al though no official report had been received to furnish details of the ex ploit. So far as could be learned, however, the participation of three hundred and fifty machines in this om enterprise marks it as the great est air offensive yet undertaken oa the Western front in point of the air forces employed. No record could be discovered, here to-night showing either Allied or German raids on any thing like a similar scale. No official comment could be ob tained pending the receipt of form al advices. There Is every reason to suppose, however, that a consider able portion of the bombing planes used weift Dellaviland dav bombers. built In tne United States and equip ped with Liberty motors. Shipments of these machines to France have now reached considerable proportions and recent performance reports from France have been encouraging. The language of the account of the raid permitted to pass by the Amer ican military censor is taken here to indicate that the operation was a Joint enterprise, with French and possibly British aces aiding in the protection of the Americans. The references to fifty trl-planes as included In this great air fleet found no explanation here. If they were operated by Amer ican pilots, they are French built ma chines and no details of the equip ment obtained abroad by General Pershing have been released for pub lication. The fact that only thirty-two ona of bombs were dropped by such force struck some air service officers as surprising. The ordinary bomb capacity of a fleet of the kind deserib ed for such a short trip probably would be ten times that weight of explosives. It was said. The most significant feature of tho first great American raid, outside of its possible place in the great strate gic game that is being played on the Western front, Is the fact that Is In dicates that the United States now has taken its full place beside the Allies In the air as well as on land and sea. The bombing squadrons which made up this fleet probably represent the first definite Americau unit of major importance In the In dependent air forces which are be- Inb built up by the entente powers, The British and French Governments now officially describe their bombing operations as the work of this Inde pendent air force. Purely Personal. Miss Mary Covington, who ha as a civil service position in Washington, is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. M. Se- crest. Mrs. C. M. A. Helms and daughter, Ruth, have returned from Paris, Tex., where they have been visiting Mrs. Helms' brother, Mr. John R. Secrest, and other relatives. Miss Mae Garmon Is confined to bed oa account of Spanish Influenza. Mr. Curtis Helms, stationed at Camp Sevier, arrived -omo Wednes day night to visit hid parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Helms. Mr. T. B. Stinson of Leesburg. Fla.. is visiting relatives and friends In the county for a few days. Mr. Harold Flow, who has a posi tion with the traffic department of the Government, spent Wednesday with his parents Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Flow. Mrs. R. V. Houston Is confined, to her home with Influenza. Mrs. John Gulledgo of Washington. C, arrived this morning to visit her daughter, Mrs. John Vann. All 100 per cent. Americans are making good th'-ir War .. Savins Pledges. Are You? GF.ItMAN DEFENSE BROKEN AT CAMBRAI AND ST. VI ENTIN. Cambrai and Numerous Villages Cap tured -Enemy Being lu.sht-d Buck Northwest of KheiniH, In Macedonia and Turkey. , . . (By The Associated Press.) The formidable German defense system between Cambrai and St. Quentin has been utterly demolished and British, American and French troops are out in the open country eastward in pursuit of the retreating enemy. Cambrai, the pivot point in the for mer line and over which there has been so much bitter fighting, la in British hands; numerous villages and hamlets to the south have been over run by the allies, and thousands of Germans have been made prisoner and hundreds of their guns captured. The victory seemingly is a complete one, and with General r ocn s strate gy working smoothly, the German line in one great converging move ment, the Germans apparently are in a'serious predicament. From the re gion northwest of Rheims to the .Meuse river, north of Verdun the French and Americans are slowly going backward toward the Belgian border. In Macedonia and Asiatic Turkey the troops of the entente still have the tnemy on the run. Nowhere is the enemy abll to do more that fight retarding battles, giving ground when Ihe pressure becomes too strong. FORCED TO FLEE EASTWARD. Under the avalanches of steel hurl ed against them on the Cambrai St. Quentin sector the Germans could not live and were forced to flee eastward. Heavy casualties were inflicted on those of the enemy who had the temerity to endeavor to make a stand. On the other hand the casualties of the Allies are declared to have been relatively small, those of the Amer icans being less than half of the num ber of prisoners taken by them. Where the enemy proposes to make h'.i next stand can not be foretold. but probably an effort for a turn about will be attempted along the Valenciennes Sedan front. After this line the only known German defen sive position west of the Rhine Is the Meuse river. The Americans already are threatening to make this line un tenable, having Btarted an advance up the valley on the east side-, of Uie stream toward Sedan. The maneuvers of the French northwest of Rheims are cutting more deeply into the German line, despite the serious resistance that Is being offered by the enemy to postpone the fall of tho great St. Gobain massif and the highly Important strategic position of Laon and La Fere, which seemingly are likely to be pinched out of the battle front by the success ful operations around St. Quentin and Berry au Bac. HUN RESISTANCE STRONG. Strong resistance alno is being Im posed by the Germans against .fur ther advances by the French and Americans in Champagne and east of the Argonne Forest. Particularly heavy counter attacks have been launched by the enemy on various positions, but without results other than increasing his casualties. Along the Suppe river the fighting Is furi ous, but the French have been able to make further crossing of the stream, St. Ellienne has changed hands several times in bitter combats. West of the Argonne Forest the Americans have driven their line for ward to the region of Cornay on tho Aire River, where they have effect ed a Junction with the French troops and seemingly th Argonne Forest soon will be in Allied hands. On the eastern side of the Meuse the Ameri cans have advanced and taken sever al small villages and also straighten ed out their line which was being en filaded by the German guns from the cast. The reports persist that the Turk ish cabinet has fallen and that the new grand vizier w ill be Tewflk Pas ha, whose sympathies are declared to be pro-ally rather than pro-German. Rumor also has It that the Turks have dispatched a peace note to the Allies through the Spanish govern ment.. Colored Soldier Writes to Ills Mother. Elizabeth Hough, colored, who lives in the Mineral Springs community, has received a letter from her son, Roy Hough. He is with the American Expeditionary Force in France and says he is well and happy. The letter Is as follows: Dear Mother: This Is to Inform you that this leaves me well at pres ent and I trust when this you receive will find you all well. I have landed sae and sound, enjoying good health and not worrying one bit. And, mama, I don't want you to worry about nie. because no one will die until his time comes, matters not where he Is. The only thing Ih to trust In God. He will cany mo through. I feel like tiy time has not come yet. I feel like thcie is a work for me to do after this war Is ended and that I will see you r.11 gaain before long. So I am trusting in my Jesus who Is able to bear my burdens. Tell Rev. Thomp son I laid "hello." I will be back Just as soon as this Is over. How Is your crop this year? I hope you will make plenty this year and maybe I will be there to help you all work by next year. So I will close, with love. I want my name to go up as a brave American soldier but not as a slacker. Your son, Roy. Your War Savings Pledge la the Mo;t S-ere1 Prnmire You evet Sign ed. Make it Good.
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