1I. WEST DRUG CO. MAIN STREET MOUNT AIRY. N. C. RECRUITING OFFICERS START TO WORK HERE. Lieut. Edward Dennis Makes This Point Headquarters for the Entire State. (ireensboro News* 'iHth. («reensboro now liecomes headquar tmm for remitting in North Carol inn. I.ieut. Rdward B. Dtfidtl, in charge of recruiting in the state,-will work from here no le»n than 76 men. who will ranvaflH every section. In addition to th« headquarter* for the work throu the state, a local office hut been opened here with Sargt Julius Wet zel in charge. A car load of equip***'' arrive*! yesterday from ltaleigh, and line work will begin im media tel., Nin* room* ovri ."VJ.—Approxi mately 123,000 men have applied thus far an«I been found to meet the neces sary requirements for membership in Colonel Roosevelt's proposed army division, it was announced here to night at enrollment headquarter , which were opened sometime ago with the former President's approval. 1 Sixty per cent of the v?>lunteers are from Virginia, North and South Caro lina and other southern states. Only fifty of the applicants, it was said, were under 25 years old. None be low this age are now being accepted. Of the total. 10,000 are negroes. German Losses in Recent Desperate Fighting Heavy. Paris, April 27.—The extent of the | German losses in the recent desper ! ate fighting along the Aisne is par | tially disclosed in today's official I statement on the capture of 130 guns, of which a considerable number were of heavy caliber. The German losses in men are esti mated at more than 200.000 with the probai'ility that the total reached 235, 000. These figures include killed, wounded and prisoners. The number of German prisoners aggregates approximately 20,000. Look jo. the m&n oil the roll There are two ways of telling the real RU BER-OID from its 300 imitators: 1. Genuine RU-BER-OID has the "Ra-ber-oid Man" on the wrapper of every roll. 2. Genfaine RU-BER-OID gives )bng and satisfactory service. Many RU-BER-OID roofs laid' 20 years ago are still giving perfect service. Genuine RU-BKR-OID, made by tie Standard Paint Co., contains *o tar, sand, wood fibre, or other cheap substitutes that quickly wear J out. , The taleM way it to look for the / ru-bek-oid M^oau,.,^, J IAR MT. AIRY C. li-Jfti-iM) MM. / ih»i last*. F. L SMITH HARDWARE COMPANY MONGOLIA F1RE5 FIRST GUN OF THE WAR THAT IS WAGED ON GERMANY C*ptaui of the ViMtl Tall* of Tha Achievement. London, April 25.— Captain Kiev, of! the American *teum«hip Mongolia, j which Km urnvtd at a British port.! told the Afcsociated Pre»» today that! the Mongolia ha*Je*ty, hut could not quite • eai the pride he felt in the achiev** | rnent of hut *hip. Jle paid high tri-1 , hute to the gunners and e*p«r tally toj I the manner in which they were handl-. i ed by the officer* who directed the! firing of the telling shots. "For five dayN and night*," Maid i Captain Rice, Ml had not had my clothe* off and we kept a big force of' lookout* on duty all the time. It wan I »;20 o'clock the afternoon of the 19th j that we sighted the submarine, The i officer commanding the gunner* was with me on the bridge whe»-e in fart I we had l»een the most of th** timei 'throughout the voyare. Tierr wa« a haze over the *ea u the lune. We| had just taken a sounding fdr we were getting near shallow water and j we were looking at the lead when the I fir.it mate cried: There's a submarine I off the port Imjw.' Hit I'eriecope at 1.000 Yards. i The submarine was close to us, too ! cldfe in fact, for her purposes and she; wa.f submerging again in order to maneuver in u 1 >etter position for tor pedoing u a ben we sighted her. We >aw the ptriafope go down and the* wirl of the water. I quickly ordered a man at the wheel to put it to- star-1 hoard and we swung the nose of the ship toward the sp< t where the sub marine had been seen. "We wero going at full speed ahead1 and two minute- after we first sight ed the U-lw at it merged again about 1,000 yards off. -It* intention prob ably had been to catch us broadside on, but when it appealed we had the te n gun : ained i ull on it, "The heutenant gave the command* and the big gun: boomed. We saw the periscope shattered and the shell r*nd the submarine d isap pea red. "Teddy** Fired First Shot. "I assure you we did not stop to re I cwinoiter after the incident, but i steamed away at full speed, for it wa« not probable that there was an other submarine about. The one I got undoubtedly had been lying on the i bottom of this spot waiting for the -hip and came up when it heard our ; propellers. ! immediately *ent a wireless message stating that a sub-, 1 marine had been seen. "That's about all the story, except ing this: The gunners had named I the guns on Board the Mongolia, and the one which got the submarine was ' > a!!ed Theodore Roosevelt; so Teddy I fired the first gun of the war after jail." < apiain nice recalled mai ne came, from AII is ton, Mass., and th»t the en counter with the suomarine occurred j on the date when the Bay State was celebrating the anniversary of the; battle of Lexington. Fine Exhibition of Efficiency. "I can't apeak too highly of the cool1 manner in which the lieutenant hand)- j ed his crew and gunners," he said, j "It was a fine exhibition of efficiency of American naval men. The lieu-, tenant knew before the shell struck the submarine that its aim was ac curate. There is no guess work about it, but a case of pure mathe matics. Taking the speed at which the Mongolia was traveling at the time and the speed which the sub marine undoubtely would make and computing these figures with the dis tances we were from the submarine i when it was first sighted and when it appeared the second time, it can be shown that the lieutenant had his gun sighted to the inch. And it must be remembered that the whole affair took only two minutes." A pertinent fact, as regards the ultimate fate of the submarine, was( that the shell disappeared immediate-1 ly after the hit was made. The cap tain stated that a shell always rico cbets in the water and can be seen. again unless it finds the mark. Oil also was seen on the water after the i submarine disappeared. The Mongolia was going at full. speed and was a long distance away When the spray and foam subsided1 but frt;m the bridge the officers ob served the spot through their glasses and they are confident the submarine , w a < sunk. Sydnor& Sparger Insurance Agents MOUNT AIRY, M. C Office in Merritl Building. | WE MUST PAY THE PRICE. Tho Only Way to Trnia Mm For War Flying i* in Actual | Fighting. British hMulquartiiri in t'raiiu from > Correspondent of th« Alwcl •tad Pre««, April 3.—Wholly infor mal but deciiladly interesting ronvar iation* between British ami French flying c«jrp* officer* aa regard* the possibility of Karly American partici pation in thi» fashionable pha-a of tha war have lieen doing on behind the line* h«ra. It is grn^rnlly agreed that tha service ha* proved o attractive to the young men of both England ami France, the youth of America will be drawn toward it. Already plan* are making to in crease the number of Americans now flying for Franca, while all tha mem ber* of the Biitixh royal flying corps are ready to welcome and aid in th training of American* in all tha arta of flying, it i* realized that the l-nited State* army is not on a war basis rega'.iing the machincK, hut it i* under tood that both the British, and French service* are prepare)! to, furnish them just a* the two services now exchange machine* a* nece**ity demand*. America, of cour*e, is expected to i throw her manufacturing ability to her flier*, but. the modem airplane with it* tremendous power housed in a very compact, very light engine, with delicate instrument*, and sensi tive control*, is an extremely compli cated affair and its construction ,s a matter of month*. Ju*t now the ingle seat fighting scout i* the machine of the hour. Such mmhii c. must tind the terrif ic strain of fighting tactic*, rolling, j looping, nose diving, side dipping. It. i* no unusual thing nowaday* U> see a, pilot eemingly fali out of control, 2,'MMI feet or nn ••, then flattening out arid sail -erenely away. The strain of thi* maneuver u tremendous. The A->oeiatcd Press correspond-] ent ha talked with many British fly - . .ir o'ficei • o d: • .i-ti .. anil all agreed that the only way to train men for war flying in actual fighting.1 They frankly *ay that in thin way many men may lie lo.t. hut th;it those | who (turvivc are worth their weight in gold and prove brilliant flight and j squadron leauer.i. Officers of the British flying corps, say that America must bo pri pared to pay such a price. She mu t under stand they point out, that the losses will come, and that these men will re flect glory upon her colprs and lend brilliance to the brighter pages of her history. men far from the battlefield. They may become proficient to every trick of flying known to the science in this training- Their real service, however only begins after they have prove I themselves "over the line". !he British have developed brilliant flier:'| at their training grounds in England, men who have mastered ».?•■> tech nical point i f aviation and who ' tandl out clearly as potential leaiieis. tljti each one of them upon reaching France must be attached '1 a squad ron as an ordinary figh'er and win his way upward through :'ne soul searching .shock of actual battle. Some of these men succumb, but the survivors more than repay the cost. America, it is said, can render a great service to the allies by sending over pilots at the earliest possible moment. They can join the British corps at once and as thty prove them selves, can be reclaimed by America for organizing and training her squadrons as these become available. The care and maintainance of air planes requires the constant atten tion of skilled men. If America would render an immediate service, according to the view here, she might send over 5,000 fitters, riggers and mechanicians to take up this branch > of the service now and learn every j phase of the work of grooming and j handling the delicate machines. The air service does not stand stili. Almost each day brings changes. It is the feeling here that America should lose no time in gettting machine's un der way and men in training. The al lies hold the hard fought mastery of the air, but they must be in a position always absolutely to overwhelm the enemy and ke*>p him on the ground. The youth of Ar-eri -a and Britain, it is thought ' •! "it the lines here, j should with ti r i union ideals, com- j mon language, common love of sport und common courage, skill and dar ing. find ideal companionship in this hazardous but romantic uar in the air. 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