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RISP fti F.I! 7, 'CCfTST!!? " 'CO WMrSLrthFi ybLCXIX ANi.W . f ; SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N.C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21," 1918 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS -F1VK CENTS ON TRAINS OF RUSSIAN CAPITAL; ALLIES PREPARE HAKE Teutons Give Out Proclamations Advising Russians of Futility of ResistanceOutposts of Kaiser's Armies 20 Miles Beyond yitebsk Much Excitement at Petro grad Split t in Bolsheviki Forces Patriots Declare They Will Start Civil War Unless Government Stiffens Up llkrainians' Eyes Thoroughly Blinded by Teuton ic Wool, Rada Lets New Nation Become "Protectorate" of Vienna arid Joins in War on Russia (By the United Press) Washington, Feb. 21. Germany can reach Petrograd practically unhindered, is the general military belief here. Russian attempts to get to gether an opposing force are too late. Germany intends to make even stronger peace demands than heretofore, it is considered probable from the fact that her armies are driving on despite Leriine and Trotsky's statement of readiness to sign a, peace pact. . , , i London, Feb. 21. German detachments 20 miles East of Vitebsk, have distributed proclamations declaring re sistance to uermany iutue. ine tierman iorces are pre paring to occupy Petrograd, according to an agency dis patch from the Russian capital today. ' Ambassadors Get Ready! to Leave. iPWrosra4, Feb. 20 ; (Delayed). American Ambassador Francis and the Allied envoys at nwln today were preparing for a quick departure from Petrograd. . Russian Forces Conceal rating. Petrograd, Feb. 20 1 (Delayed). The Russian airmiies are concentrat ing in Vitebsk under '"General Don cHbruyevltoh to halt, the German in vaders.. The commissioners : of the Russian army : ! on :thf whole front have rdcred demnbilipaltion halted .and wired the aoldiersjin Petrograd: "Do your duty; defend the revolu tion!" ' I The( Bolshevik! amdf revolutionary socialists of the left in the Central Executive Committee have voted to defend Peggrad at all costs. The ; mobilization of orkers is being con-, sidereo. ; Infotroatiori has been flash-, .ed to iSmolny Institute that if the majority socialists do not break with the German government the in dependent socialists will start a civil war. ' . ( Ukraine Joins Teutons. The Germans have occupied Paps al and arrested all the officials and members of the soviet. The Austrot Germans are concentrating along the Southeastern front while the forces of the Ukraine rada are concentrat ing at Bresit-itflftoViak under German generals. A report Received from Kieff rs that the rada has proclaim ed acceptance .of an Austro-dlun- garian protectorate. MORE VAGRANTS. Officers W. S. Hamilton and J. O. H. TayJor, ' constituting the police squad detailed to look after vagrants, took in five more Thursday morning, a total of 13 fat two days. In the Po lice Court the prisoners were taxed iwiht nominal fines and costs, etc., ana aamonisnea to secure work or (prepare to join the chaihgang. It's coming Spring, said the court, and cold weather cannot longer be plead ed as an excuse. FOR N. C WATERWAYS. Washington, reto. Zl The total of $014,200 for North Carolina riv ers and harbors is incorporated in the final draft of the appropriation bill of the Rivers and Harbors Com mittee. ' - L - 1"' I - Buy Thrift btamps LL BE AT GATES AMBASSADORS OF PERSHING WILL BE IN ON 20-MILE FRONT American Army in France Important Factor Now 6,000 Men to Mile Ger- mans Have Had to In- crease Forces in Lorraine I By J. W. T. Mason (Written for the United Press) New York, Feb. 21. Secretary Baker's announcement some time ago that the United States wiH soon have half ' a million troops in France, r means that General Pershing will be able to conduct offensive operations on a front of 20 miles, which as ap proximately the maximum desired in trench operations. 6,000 Men to Mile. iA (properly conducted offensive re quires the use of, 6,000 troops per ! mile, for the first series cf forward j movements. A major advance along a front of 20 mniles should necesai tate an army of 120,000 men, with more in reserve. Uenerai fersning coulii undertake operations of this magnitude if he had 500,000 men un der him, and allow at the same time for the, adeqaatte holding of the trenches on both sides of the offers ive area, with a atrong reserve force to make good casualties. Army Won't Grow Fast. After fhe fin 600,q00 Americans get into action, it is not probable that those actually engaged in fight ing will exceed that number for at feaat a year. ' The newcomers will be used to fill up depleted ranks, and to act as reserves. France has not more than 2,000,000 men actually in the ttenches and this number can be accepted as the probable maximum of her present fighting strength. For America to send an army across the Atlantic equal to 25 per cent, of the French forces and keep that army op to its full strength would be one of the most remarkable attainments in military history. . Trouble- for C LJUu, . At tie same t.me, it will ta neces sary for America's 500,000 to co operate intimately With the French forces m the sectors near the Ameri can zone if the chances of full vic tory are not to be thrown away. In Lorraine, . opposite the American trenches, the German general staff is concentrating a new army to op pose the Americans. Germany Afraid of Americans. Germany had not more than 1,000 men to the mile along the Lorraine front previous to the artivaJ of Gen. Pershing in France. Since fben. Von QUICK GET-AWAY POSITION ADVANCE RMY OF TWO AND A HALF MILLION MEN i at- 1. t! (By the United Press) Waehingon, Fob. 21. -Nearly 2, 500,000 men physically fit will form America Is tfiirat line reserves, Pro vost-Marshal General Crowdor's of fice estimated today. This re-pre sente the approximate numllwr of draft regiatoants of class 1 fit for military service under the question naire system. Goff Stffl 1 Lives; ' Patterson to Prove Himself Innocent Eddlie Goff, white, shot Tuesday night by Fred Weldon, colored, as the result of a dispute in which the men engaged a short distance from the City Hall, Thursday afternoon was still living. There hod been no materiaH change in the condition of Goff, who! was badly wounded. He has a slight chance to recover, it is thought Weldon has made no state ment other than remarks at different times that he shot Goff because the latter annoyed him and that Goff was about to; attack foim with a knife when he fired. Goff in his formal statement locked in the safe at po lice headquarters states that he had no knifef. The white man alleges that the1 altercation occurred over a small sim of money which Weldon was to pay him for bringing him here from the country in an automobile. The shooting occurred near a house In which was Wetdon's wife. Goff had been in the house. Weldon wai gone from the premises a short time and the irihooting folkwed his re turn. Weldon's alias is Douglass, which was derived from the -name of brand of shoe, and was given him by a former employer. Albert Pat terson, charged with aiding in the escape of the assailant, who was af terward captured and Jailed, is ex pected to iprove that he was an i i noccnt party' to Weldon's got-away. Ite' is a chauffeur. His car was usfcd by Weldon in escaping. Forms Being Mailed Out to Income Tax Payers This District . , : ;- ; I Raleigh, Feb, 21. Collector J. W. Bailey, of the Fourth District 'of North Carolina, in which Lenoir County is located, is now mailing out form 1,031, on which all corpora tions are required to. file their an nual net income returns for the year 1917 . to his office. He k also mailing forms 1,006 and 1,099 for the use of corporations in reporting the names of enynloyees to whom was paid $800 or more during the year .1917. These last named forms should be Bent to the Com missioner of Internal Revenue, at Washington, D. C. Collector Bailey states that in view of the fact that the blanks for ex cess profits tax have not yet been released by the depaMment, it will be necessary for all corporations whose annual net income during the year 1917 equalled $3,000 to with hold: their report on form 1,031 and make request to his office for ex cess profits form 1,103. ; The cor po rations liable for excess7 profits lax must make out that report be fore making out the income tax re port on form 1,031, as the excess profits tax due is a deduction in computing the corporation income tax due. ... , The time for filing these reports has been extended by the commis sioner until April 1, 1918. It is de sired, however, that al reports "( be filed as soon as possible, as no furth er extension of time will be allowed. Hindenburg his given deep attention to the problem of defending German soil agahiBt an American offensive. For this reason, there must be inti mate. Franco-American cooperation, despite General Pershing's ability to take "the initiative alone. A sustain ed , offensive is necessary to wear down Germany's new forces in Lor raine, and that is possible only if French and American troops work together, ' . ' ' '; , ' '., SENATE VOTING ON li'NTSTOR;t ",,.1.1. V.' ''ft' t L BILL Expects to (Jet llirough With Measure by; ; Thursday Night CHANGES WILL BE FEW - .. !: To President for His Sig nature Next Week Pre parations to Speed Up Other Big Rills Being Made in Both Houses (By the United Press) Washington, Feb. 21. Congress to day put the finishing touches on the railroad control bill. The Senate be gan voting on the, amendments with strong hoipe of 'geHiting a final vote on the bill itself tonight. : . Sure to Pass. ! From i p. m. today the ddlxaite jwIU be unlimited, , There is no doubt that the bill will pass," J , Senator Smith; of South Carolina, who has cluufta Of it, pmf icted to day that it will not be greatly amend ed. Indications today were that President W'lknon will get the meas ure late next week. Prepnratbns iwerrtj on apace for speeding up other war measures. BATTLEPLAN1SS ON WAY. Washington, Feb. 21. The j first merican-buHt batfleplanes are now en route to France, five months' earl ier than scheduled. ( ' f : CONTRO NOW Utidei m Intimate War Experiences and Observations of IJOWELL (United Press Staff London, Dec. 21. Lookbd in at No. Victoria Street today. That's an address American readers are likely to. became familiar withi if all that is predicted for Uie amplified Lnlwr Party proves true. Found AJrthiiir Henderson, secre tary and executive head of tJhe party, in a big attractive room that had the appearance of a board of directors' room, such as one might expect to find in a big, prosperous, long-estab-li'hed business concern. Tho re semblance disappeaired on closer ob servation, however, for the furniture is scarcely the sort usually occupied by a (cloupan-diinping gathering of that sort The chairs grouped about the big table, for example, are more .like those one finda in a police court; they are well" wbra, too, as is the table itself. 4)ne can imagine, the table has been well pounded, by very solid fists and the chairs badly twist ed by sturdy, earnest fdrtms during tho 17 years of the Labor Party Is life. 'J;:;; .-:-'-S.y---'' Henderson,. Himself. Henderson himself is the sort of looking man one woukl expect him to be, having in mind he once was an iron moulder and has been many years a labor leader and political war rior. He is true to one type that at tends American Federation of Labor meetings. He speaks in the same vig orous manner, with voice calculated to over-power by Hs strength' (f not by its argument. Whvdh is not say ing that it lacks argument in his case, any more than in the case of the A. F. of L. speakers. ., Recollections of American labor leaders came hack instantly. First there was bis instinctive silence aj the outset, the pulling of - his head down and the cool challenge in his eyes, while, seemingly, he sized up his interviewer. Then the abrupt lunge into assertion, after the man ner of one who says to himself, "Well, we're in the right and there's never any harm in speaking the truth." He Talks. X. '. -;V '. I Having made the plunge, the Lab or Party's leader let himself go with out reserve. He became eloquent.' As he- talked the vision arose of a great political force working great chan es in England and the Ertk& Em- FINISH EQUIPPING HEN. NORWN'CAMR (By tho United Press) Washingiton, Feb. 21. Reorganiza tion of the methods of equipping and supplying men embarking for France has . been instituted by Quartermaster-General Goethnls. . Under the nw pfcin men for overseas service will not he fitted out & Wiefr reapect ive camps btit wiTl le sent to Camp Merritt, near Now York, where they will he fitted out Iro the Wt button and sent to the ships. Booze Doesnt. Drown . Your Troubles,. Says ... Itorton: It Floats 'Em. lwfeiRs Urtrton, iwsstant nuper intendent of the Washington AnM Swloon League, will deliver a prohi bition address alt Queen Street Meth odist Church this evening at 7:30 o'clock. During itho past 11 or 12 years Reformer! Horton has gone through more thn 175 different loc al option, legislative and prohibition cnmpaiignfl. Liljeraiture written by him has found its way into every state. .Horton Is desrtHibed as, "el ,oiuent, fnacinatihg, with both humor ami ipathos a I hard hitter." The enrtiro pu11ic isj invite! to hear him tonight, ;. His a dfdresB will be the first shot here tn (he campaign In the State) now several weeks old, in the interest of theNationai amontlment. 1JEATII OH MRS. TAYLOR. Mrs. Rachael Olive Taylor, 28, wife of J. E, Taylo of Pink Hill, died at that plnce- Thi rSdsy morning at 8:15 o'oIockJ She i survive by her husb and and eveM chaWren. The fun era! and burial will take place Frl day afternoon i 1 irt MEtLfcTt Correpondtnt) pire-ffor the! Labor Party's aims are not doneerndil merely with this one iHlaiu). The k,500,0000 men and wom en wjtih whith it starts was aeen to grow) pinito a majority of the coun try's elcctoiA, with young . Hl)erals flocking to lit from offices and com 4oTtable homes; with. England's "in tellectuala" finding in it a machine capable of translating their ideas in to facts and this "machine" gather ing to itself the brains to safeguard its interests. It was to be not mere ly the organized labor party but the true democratic paltty in British pol itics. : '.r,'7.'.-"-:. "We'll Prove Our Case." 'The Labor Party is anchored to the trade union movement," he con tinued. ITho things it will work for are things this movement has Bought to obtain has worked for conscious lyfor a long time. We are mak ings. Sound (political economy is the they've wanted and always will want until they gat it an equal oppor tunity to share in the world's bless ings. Sound political ecnomy is the basis of our program. Given the votes wc'M prove our case." A Mystery. London, Dec. 21. There' a mys tery at No. 10 Downing . Street There's been a strange disappear ance from the Prime Minister's res idence. . Ha vent been able'ito get to the bottom of it yet, but can offer certain facts that furnish, at least, a clue. ' .-; :,'; ' ? , When I went in to see Sutherland, Lloyd-George's secretary, this after noon' a strange doorman opened the door. I asked what had become of the boy who always had opened the doar. It was as eunprising to find a stranger on that Job a k would have been to find No. 10 wearing a new coat of paint, Something which the house never has done, judging from its appearance. I ' - The new doroman looked mysteri ous, but said he didn't know. " I asked Sutherhnd, with the same result, including the look of mystery. Human Door-boy. Now the former door-boy wa not an ordinary door-boy at all. For one thing be was never ' very serious", while a regular door-boy U always Ca wMm BRITISH ANQ GERK1ANS WARMING IIP. FOR BStsf FIGlit EVER' STAGED AH Olirtil SIDES CONSTANTLY ON Tftt fiO English Flyers Bring Down Average of More Than 10 Duns a Day Activity on Great Scale-MGiln Pit'Madd Untenable, Ammunition Depots Bombed,-Columns o( Troops Itaked With Machine Gnns Ice in Shell Crat-. era Bears Up Struggling Men Vho Test Out Enemy-M Allies, Not Boasting of Certain Victory, Admit They Arc in Fine Trim Raids All Along Haig's Part 'of FrohtClashes All the Time . .. . , - - (By the United Press) i . With the British Armies Afield, Feb. 21. The a!H cavalry has been extremely busy and successful the past few days. Von Hindenburg's aerial uhlans are attempt ing to hold off Haig's cloud of hurdling lancers, who are daily observing the preparations' for the German offens ive. : (By the United Press) NOT ALL WEEVILS CROAtvED. . Washington, Feb. 21. South ern. farmers are warned against , being , over confident that the cold weather has exterminated the boll weevil by the Agricul-, ture Department. A report day" statW thut no matter how cold' It Is, there- are always enough boll Weefrts left In eacn field to pfomice enough offspring to destroy all but the earliest ' crop. - ' ' Not Much for Court to Do Wednesday; a : i'Xy Single Case Tried. C4Upeor ortt (civil) Wednesday tried lit one cwuse, Gallagher vs.),. BETTER DISTRIBUTION PhelpR,, iiKdving an account, ThVi jury rendered a verdict fpr flG1.66 and , interest f ivm i Seijitember 14, 191(1, for the )intuT. The court was in recesa Ithe greater part of the day because' no other matters wore ready for trial. '" Receipts Thursday were between 35 and 30 bales, prices ranging from 29 1-2 to 30 1-4. Futures quotations were: ; Open. 30UO 30.04 28.00 28.73 Close. 80.90 30.58 30.10 28.91 28.S7 .llarchTTrTTr. May July October 'December TRAIN GOES THROUGH BRIDGE. New Bern, Feb.1 21. Seventeen cars of logs went down with a trestle over White Oak River on the logging railroad from this city . to. Camp Pcnty, when the bridge collapsed from the weight of the train. " The crew escaped injury. . , : . , terribly serious. " i The boy was inordinately fond of sandwiiche Often he had one in his hand or concealed somewhere on his person. . "V. ''V;': I come to the due. One day for my amusement he took from the hat rack a shining 811 k hat and adorned himself in it. Parading , back and forth across the : ante-room, . he whispered: "This Is Lord Rhondda'sr Aha! Aha! v .There was a sound of important personages t coming down ' the hall. The boy got 'the hat back on the rack Just in time for Lord ithondda to miss seeing h5m do it. Now, oecoTling to tlie law of aver ages. Lord Rhondda was bound to catch the boy at it sooner or later, wasn't IheT. Then suppose he caught him not only with the silk hat on, but with a sandwich in his cheek! Lord RhoirdJa is food controller and under the Defense of the Realm Act he has 5mot unlimited powers. I don't say I've solved the mys tery, but there are certain logical de ductions that seem almost, unavoid able, ' ' '., :,, COTTON Thirty-five German war planea have been destroyed in the last threa days, 19 of them driven earthward uncontrolled. The coat iwaj 10 Brit ishers. , , Damnge to nuns.. . lUrltfctf airmen have dropped huge, quantities of , explosives on .billets, ammunition dumps, railway stations nnd aerodromes, have machine-gunned! marching columns, disrupted trans port trains and wrecked big gun pita. Fine'": freezing weather . has Aided! them. Mtiny Raids. . t -' The. British troops are busy . raid ing and ' repulsing raid.,. ( Short, sharp clashes are constantly occurr ing. 'The Ice in the shell holea is ntrong' enough to support the death grappling men.- The 'British are in fine fettle.'. . - IMK ETT ADVOCATES ' . OF LAND IN AMERICA f , ' j , . mhm'. f.i,,.., f;. Washington, Fe ,21. Addressing ... the National conference . on. coun- ' try . life and irtrral education hera yesterday, Governor E'kkett jpf orth Carolina declared that after the war the Government' big iprobletn will be in kecgnnig'the way open for th ' average' citizen to rise to a higher plane of living. He referred to ft as a eupev-tproblem. The solution, ha said, will be "land." "Population without tend in a mob," he declared. The population of the United States must he diverted as much as possibla to the land, and the land most ba made ea sy of acquisition. ' DEATH OF JOHN 6R0ADHURST. John Broadhurat, 47, died at his residence in the Eastern part of tho city Wednesday. Mr. Broadhurst had been ill for some time from a com plication of troubles. He was a nat ive of Craven (County. He was a carpenter by trade. Mr. Broadhurst Was well-known In the city. He is survived by his wife and the follow ing ehihken: Fred, Charlie, Etta mae and Elta BroadOiurst, all of Kin ston; Mrs. Alma , Cannon, . Jones County, and Corp. Jennings Broad hurst, 316th Field AlrttHery, U. S, A. The funeral will be nald (ate Thurs- ' day. Pastor B. P. Smith of Gord on Street Christian Church, will of ficiate. Burial will be in Maplewood Cemetery. 4.. CATCHING SHAD. f New Bern, Feb. 21. Shad are be coming quite plentiful in Neusq and Trent rivers now, according to A. J. Gaskins, looal fish ami j oyster in spoetor, :. , , Save . rv . Wheat And, Meat
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