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C - - . . . VOLUME XXXIII lTi TO t SERS OP GASOLLXE iKEBVE SPECIAL ECOXOMY j TO Administration Asks, Among F .v Things, That All Sunday Af.tor KMIng Be Cut Gas Need- j " i Vor the Allied Armies ThP United States Fuel Adminis Jiop considers it necessary that a ration consiaeis, 11 Ripken, in view of the increasing nu,nVd for gasoline for war purpos deIi the paramount obligation of Retire "promptly and fully all over seas retirements. fWofr ;ft - .-v ri ' I I 1 vT A- f .--.- -- ? ; nPonle to exercise rigid econo- (i yt'-'irJ- j.;.n..c i: as a nec-patriot- ism' So Hiding On Sunday. m -ew of the difficulty, if not the Vibility, of differentiating be "Sen the various uses to which au lV are applied, the United SFuel Administration believes rhe greatest measure of econo- r Von effected with the least m Sifence with the business of the JountVv through the discontinuing of tiip use ol an -ioo,- --;; cies. motor boats, ana motorcycles, on Sunaajs? Exemption. T.A forowin'ff exceptions are made i i Trictors and motor trucks em ployed in actual transportation of fre.5glv'ehicles of physicians used in T,M:f'ormance of professional duties. p nbulances. fire apparatus, po lk4'pauol wagons, undertakers' wa gons, and conveyances used for fun- eraS,Railway equipment using gaso- llUr Renair outfits employed by tele phone ard public-service companies. 6 AIotor vehicles on errands of nec p-Mtv i" rural communities -where transorTation by steam or electricity is'rot available. - Appeal to Patriotism. m m The United States Fuel Adminis trarion believes that all consumers of Ue'oline will observe the spirit of thi request. In that event no man datory order governing the use of gasoline will be necessary. WIFE OF BROKER T. E. HICKS KILLED IX AUTO CAPSIZE The Sunday edition of the New York World contains the following: "Mr Thomas E. Hicks, wife of a member of the New York Cotton Ext chanee, was killed when the automo bile her husband was driving skidded and overturned on a sharp curve near Crotonon-Hudson yesterday, after noon. Mr. Hicks, his father-in-law, Arthur W. Roundtree, and Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Martin of No. 175 Lafay ette Avenue. Brooklyn, who also were in the car, were injured, the first two seriously." Air. Hicks owns a handsome home in the outskirts of Oxford and the familv is well known here. THE GRANVILLE COUXTY FAIR. Get Your Hocrs. Cattle , Sheep and Poultry Ready. Do not let anything overshadow vour efforts to lay aside something to exhibit at the County Fair. The fair this rear should be the great est sLow ever pulled off in Granville county, and will if our people will begin now to select their plants for exhibit. An exhibit cannot be a cred it Tn the. ,T."ntv iit1pcs it "hrinSTS OUt The W.r -r.ipr.Ti Hp. nainstskine effort I ! W Tn 1 i - v " I ;:v fn the consumy uuu u i v- o- the next few weeks gary aSd practical act of on the rsrt of the exhibitor.- - j George Thomas. - The m mium list is in the hands j Very much in need of a good sten of the miriers and will be ready for osrrapher and typist, the local exemp dbTrihnnnn nhnnt -Spntemher 20. It ! is mnrh larcpr nnri nffpra a much greater variety of premiums than ev er before. Get your hogs, cattle, sheep, etc., in grood show condition, and bring them to the fair October 29-30. BEN MUSE OX A FARM. Durham Young Man, Captured by Germans, Is In Xorthern Germany. Een Muse, one of Durham's young men and formerly reporter on the Sun, who was taken prisoner while fighting in the british army in France last November is now working on a farm in northern Germany. This information was contained in a letter received from young Muse by f is father, Mr. W. H. Muse, of Peters burg, va., who resided in Durham until two years ago. V. S. SLDTERS NOW HOLDIXG OVEIt 30 BILLIOXS IXSURAXCE About 3,400,000 Applications Receiv ed by War Risk Bureau up to Tv Rate. . , . ,e treasury Department -authori- ze tne following: :Iore than $30,0.00,000,000 of Gov to I11 ?nt msnrance has been written aate to protect America's fighting lorces and their families, Secretary -ucaqoo announces. HAXYILLE COMMERCIAL CLUB. To Take Pp An Important villi r.01 the niembers of the Gran- be p ut! LOmiTlPrpinl r1,iK Qra nrcxod to iesent sf -rv, --. i . 1,- -iiiVk rooms next Friday night at 8:30. (Signed) SECRETARY. ,ml)01tant Meeting, r.ecrtit Roman's Club will meet Wed Thpr September 4th at 4:30 p. m. . f ls FOme very important busi-th-r! QSme before the club and so The I mbers are urged to be present Th! 1!ftef:ln will b hid in theET brarv tlng wiU be held in the Li" CW -. : THURSDAY. SEPT 12 v,,t . INJPBOC'RSm 1 OCLAIATidx BY PRES WILSON AS "REGISTRY TON" About .----r-nects j .Final Demonstration of fi? and the Will to Win . -" (Washington Special.) -AU meji from 18 to 45 vears to the continental Uiii2 ed States, except those in the '"SJJS r navr;or already regis tered, were summoned by Pi5si dent K ilson Saturday last to register f or mUitary sei-vice on - Thursday, September 12. 3Iachinery of the prorost marshal general's office was set in motion to caiTy out the sec-" ond great enrollment under a -presidential. proclamation issued soon after. the President had sign edr the new manpower act ex tending the draft ages. . ioio-S"1111 that at -east 12,778,758 men will register this time, compared with nearly ten million on tho first registry--tion of men from 21 to 31 on June 5, 1917. Of those who en roll now it is estimated that 2, 300,000 will be called for gen eral military service, probably two-thirds O f the number com ing from among the 3,500,000 or more between the ages of 18 and 21. In France Next June. General .March has said all regis trants called into the arrav will be in France before next June 30, swelling the American expeditionary forces to more than the four million men ex pected to win the war in 1919. The last to be called will be the youths in their eigthteenth year, buOriose of that age who desire and who have the necessary qualifications may be inducted into service on October 1; for special technical or vocational training. The Questionaire System. -Registration this time will be con ducted as heretofore by the local draft boards, All federal, state, county and municipal officers are called upon to aid the boards in their work to preserve order and to round up slackers All registrants will be classified as quickly as possible under the questionaire system, and a draw- ing wrill be held at the capitol to fix the order of registrants m their re spective classes. Our Great Cause. - In a proclamation issued immed iately after he signed the new man power bill, President. Wilson said: We solemnly purpose a de , cisive 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 with the conscious ness in doing so he plays his part in vindication of a. great cause at whose summons every true heart offers in supreme ser vice. Hours 7 to 9 O'clock. The hours, of registration wilFbe from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. and all state and local officials are called on " to make immediate- arrangements for maintenance of registration places on that day. FIXE SPECIAIi SERVICE MEX. T,ocal Kxemotion Board Calls Mr. tion hoard has laid a heavy hand on Air. Georee Thomas. Mr. Thomas took nn the work in the office of the local eexmption board Monday, but he will probably go to Camp Green and get his uniform and rank before the government assigns him to the local office. He will probably wear the stripes of a first sergeant. . :, Mr. Thomas comes from Warren ton. He was appointed to the mili tary Academy at West Point some time ago and failed to standHhe phy sical test. He was formerly with the R. G. Lassiter Construction Company and is - a. young man of fine parts. THE PEPARTIXGSOX. He Was Xever a X'ight Away From His Mother. - It is the habit of most people to suDpose that all wisdom is to be found in exalted places. Thus it is usual to assume that President Wil son or Generalissimo Foch or Lloyd George or Pershing know ail that is to be known about the reactions and terrors of war. . A few" days ago at the local Sea board station an old oma1T.k5 her son goodbye and waved her hand kSchief to a blot of smoke far down the track ' as the train departed with a coach full of drafted men. Then sh huddled her hands and prayed for thS safety and return, of gher son. - "tto wq. mv one lad, sne baiu, "and he wm never a night away from meisbeittroo,,much to say that such a one is in some of the matters related ?o wlK wiser than any mere states man? " - ': " ' n'v hoS SlS IS his ol her boo8 this week and HALL'S Sept. 4. 2t. v. . , , V... w-. ,.- Bors and Girls! this paper. - . - , VLiV.! Ufl'Ji'KRH TsTTT T a - - - "-liuiajx , - FOEDr NORTH CAROLINA WEDNEay, Septr . ALL ALOXft wtistppv 7 FROXT GEIIaVs Co"4 rrr and Picardy Sectors Vilnall - AU Reclaimed Americans Take P;art in Their First Battle on Bel gian Soil, v . (Associated Press.) American troops advancing a longside British have had their first battle on Belgain soUTThey captured VoOrme2eele Sunday and joined with their allies in the important 'operations which , were carried out aU along this sector. : Peronne, the railroari p , bend of the River Sox; Taken bv IS? in their offensivS of last March, was. recaptui-ed todaV hi forces of FipW Ar., .J00 y The British have reached the snh urns of Lens. Large fires arwS ing in the neighborh1od of lSlSJS Amientieres. These are reglrdd ?ltfrent?ti0n f U fUrther All aioi the western battle front the Germans continue to give sronuod ?riehG entfnte allies' DaflyThe trend of events accentuates the in iZl of tbe Gwn lSS and the mabdity of the jGerman high com mand to nold back the aggressors, u here two months ago ereat ?nt mo4ect too the Slied tront, these have either been fiatten- f? are m the Process of being blotted out, and in some instances the allies themselves, have driven in Avedges that seriously menaec the enemy. : With the Marne and Picardy sec tors nowvirtuaUy all reclaimed, the wmgs of the present allied offensive are moving -in a manner that bodes ill to the Germans. In t&e north,-fhe wing on the Lys salient southwest of Ypres is Jbeing advanced under vol untary retirements and the pressure of Field Marshal 'Haig's forces. Fol lowing the faR of Kemmel, the allied line has been moved farther forward until it now rests almost upon the Estaires-LaBassee road, less than seven miles southwest of Armentiere By the wiping out of this salient the menace to the channel ports has been overcome. The British have pierced the Dro-cOurt-Queant Line. In a fierce bat tle which has been raging since early Monday morning and which wiil probably prove to be one of the most important of the war, Canadian and English -. troops, - at last reports, had at one point driven, in about five kil ometers, or ; a little mre than three miles," and were, still goingp"; ""ir The fighting was as furious-as any since the war began and increased in intensity as the British battled with their way forward, meeting the ever-growinT resistance v of the ene my, who had put in every available man and was rushing up reserves at the rear. Thousands of prisoners have been captured, the roads to the Britisn rear are literally jammed with them. Ther has been fierce fightinsr in Durv. -which was taken by the Brit ish, and Mount Dury which the Ger- I mans held in great strengtn, was stormed. The British went on. af ter killing enormous numbers of the enemy. The Germans died fighting here as elsewhere. TO 'launch, y. w. C. A. CAMPAIGN IN GRAXVILLE. Miss Nette Gregory Has Accepted the Chairmanship and There Will Be An Informal Recital September 6. The big co-operative drive to be carried on during the next few months by the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. is claiming the interest and at tention of every one Granville county is fortunate in having as chairman for the Y. W. C. A. campaign, Miss Nette Gregory, who has accepted the appointment nrtnnt work and it is ex pected that the people of Granville r "vi mnt.h I- m3fpr-i rr, if. JiT,,rj;j oonrifina mir men are maKing vx,y r-mnville To the Rescue. North Carolina's quota is $680, 000. Granville will not fail in what is expected of her! The women of Granville will do, all in their power to help Miss Gregory make the cam paign a success. . . Mrs T. W. Bickett, of Raleigh, is State chairman of theY. W. C. A. War Work Campaign, and is now m war work there. She expects to re turn about the middle of September and will call a conference of all coun gn-Kand! It conte?! lnmebMrs2.yckett will telLol f the stu pendous field of work the 1. W. C. a rarrving on in France and the detailed Slant for the intensive drivfi fo be madl during October, will be mMiess Gregory and her committee will attend this meeting. . .Informal Recital. -" There will be an informal recital for the blnefit of the - coming; Y. W. C A drive, at the home of Mrs. A. TT Powell, on Tuesday evening, Sep M. oweivti: -1 8-30 o'clock. Miss oratory, y of DOems, patriotic sev,era,lfre SheP will be assisted lndi welen Royster, and Miss by '-.WQh?mfSrger of Weldon. This Londa ShamDur eni0vable ev promises to be very enj be received at the door. - - - - i: UHH.UKTIJNITJT'SH ATT. JTmirTP TTrrm - -! , - 1918. AN OXFORD SOLDIER Sergt. Winfield Taylor Has Not Been Heard From In Four Months. - On3 of Oxford's splendid soldier boys, Sergt. Winfield Taylor, a mem Der of the American Marines in J? ranee, has not been heard fisom for more than three months. It is pos itively known that he was in the company of Ool. Hobards in the bat tie uf 9?ateau-Tnierry historic . spot on the Marne where the United'Stat- a troops eiecirinea the world by meeting the Germans on the direct road to Paris with such a stream of rifle fire that": the enemy dead itself stopped the kaiser abruptly and turn ea tne entire tide of the war. To theJ nortn is ueuau wood, where the kai ser's picked troops were 'rushed' into battle to "teach the Americans a les son." In a few hours that picked division was put out of action and had to go to the rear for a restr call ing -the American marines the "dev il dogs" after their, experiences. Iearby is Vaux, stormed and captur ed by the Americans in, one of the smartest operations of the war. This was purely an American undertak ing, carried out along American lin es, for whih . Americans received great praise from the French. To A mericans Chateau-Thierry will be an artistic monument marking Persh ing's road to Berlin. The last word heard from Sergt. Taylor was to the effect that he had met Lt Cooper, of Fayetteville in the trenches. The fact that neither his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arch Tay lor or his friends, have not heard from him causes deep concern. We have searched the casualty lists from day to day, but hisname has not oc curred among the wounded, missing or dead. It is purely surmise on Our part to advance opinion to the where abouts of Sergt. Taylor, but knowinsr the young man as we do, we are sure that if he is in the hands of the Ger- mans he will not perjure himself for! the sake of having a letter transmit ted. : Col. Churchill, chief of the milita ry intelligensce branch of the general staff, dericts the attention of Amer ican editors to recently published let ters from American prisoners of war in German camps in which the priso ners speak of the excellence of the food and general treatment of the prisoners. -'. An officer of the military ,intelli gance branch, who spent two years of the war in Germany, reports that there are certain rules laid down for all prisoners in letter writing. The price they pay for the transmission of their letters, is that . they ;must state that they arewell -treated, also that the food is good and that they are contented. The letters of the prisoners are carefully censored at the camp, and any statement made contrary to the rules laid down for letter writing simply means destruc tion of the letter. It is, therefore, concluded, that any information coming from Ameri can prisoners in Germany is absolute ly unreliable and should not be pub lished in American newspapers -- or magazines as in any way authentic. THE BANKHEAD HIGHWAY WTLL BE A MILITARY, ROAD Tt Will TrOhjihlv Be Built Bv Ger- man Prosiners. Mr. J. A. Rountree, secretary of the Bankhead National Highway As sociation, issues a letter to the press, as follows: . . " The official route of the Bankhead Highway from Washington to At lanta is via Greensboro, Durham, Ra leigh, Neuse, Franklinton, Oxford, Soudan, in North Carolina, Clarks ville, Baskerville. Skelton, Grandy, Lawrenceville, Warfield, South Hill, Petersburg, Richmond, Ashland, Spotslyvania, Fredericksburg, Dum fries, Occoquan, Accotink, Alexan dria, to Washington be designated as the Military route of the Bankhead TTie-h rav. After considering all phas es of the report it was the unanimous decision of the directors that tne M;i;tnT- route from Washington, Prorioririfshnr-. Richmond. Peters- burg, Raleigh route should be adopt ed Secretary Rountree reports the greatest interest, and keenest rivalry in building the Bankhead Highway from Washington to Atlanta, also the strongest influences at work to have the Government to take over this great national highway as a mil itary road from the fact that it is a militarv necessity in handling troops, ammunition and. supplies from one military post to another, as it passes through the military posts at Fort Meyer, Accotink, Richmond Peters burg, Raleigh, Charlotte, Spartan burg Greenville, Atlanta, Anniston, on through Birmingham to Memphis There is talk in some Places that the highway will probably be built by German prisoners. , Announcing Fall Showing The Anchor Stores Company, Henderson, announce on the f iftn page of this paper their fall showing featuring the latest styles. U - There will be a lawn party at Tabb Creek Saturday evening at 8 o clock. Everybody is cordially invited to at tend. The proceeds will be given to the Red Cross. Sound Advice. Again the Long Company advises their customers to make early pur chases and thereby save money- New goods and milinery have arrived, and elsewhere in this paper the Long Company invites inspection. : . x x.z.v jl . NUMBER 70 THESE FIFTEEN RULES -MUST. BE STRICTLY OBSERVED. Read What the War Industrial Board . . Hands Out to the Neswpapers. 1. No publisher of a weekly, semi reekly, or triweekly newspaper shall use in its production any paper ex--cept newsprint and of a weight on the basis of not heavier than 30 1-2 v4 50rpound (basis 24 by 36 32 pounds). All stocks now -on .Hand may be used whether newsprint machine-finished, or sized and super calendared .and regardless of weight. 2. No publisher may continue sub scriptions after three months after date of expiration, unless subscrip tions are renewed and paid for. 6. sso puDiisner may give free co pies of his paper, "except for actual service,, rendered ; except -to camp li braries and huts-or canteens of or ganizations recognized by the Govern ment, such as the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., or K. of C; except to the Li brary of Congress and other librar ies which' will agree to bind for per manent keeping; except to Govern ment departmental libraries which use said publications in their work; and except for similar reasons. 4. No publisher shall srive free co pies to advertisers, except not more tnan one copy each for checking pur poses. 5. No publisher shall print extra copies, for stimulating advertisers or subscriptions, or for any uses other than those specified in these regula tions, except not to exceed: 1 ner cent of his circulation with a minimum or iu copies. 7. No publisher shall, send free co pies in exchange for other publica tions, except to such other publica tions as are printed withiTf the coun ty, or within a radius of 40 miles 8. No publisher shall sell his publi cation at an exceedingly low or nominal suoscription price. 9. No publisher shall sell his publi- cation to anyone below the published subscription price. 10. No publisher shall offer prem iums with his publication unless a price is put upon, the premium for sale separately-and the combined price is at least 75 per cent - of the sum of the individual , prices. 11. No publisher shall conduct vot ing or. other contests for-the purpose of obtaining subscriptions; subscrip tions obtained in this way will not be considered bona fide subscriptions. 12. NO publisher may issue holiday industrial, or other special editions., 13. Publishers shall, so far as pos sible, procure paper arid all other materials from the . nearest available j sistent with price; quality, and ser vice. :;;.-t--- - ' - 14. Publishers of papers of more than eight pages in size will reduce the pages in excess of-eight pages 25 per cent. This reduction shall be an average reduction ver one month's period. ' 15. Any publisher of a four or eight page paper will be considered to have fulfilled the requirements of this order if he immediately puts in to effect paragraphs numbered 1 to. 13, inclusive, and in addition there to reduces to the lowest possible point all pressroom waste. No newspaper may be established during the period of the war, except those for which arrangements had been made and plants purchased pre vious to the issuing of this order, or unless it can be shown that a new newspaper is a necessity. A sworn statement will be requir ed from each publisher on November 1, as to how many of these rules hdve been put into effect by him, and what results in the matter of reducing pa per consumption have been obtain ed. SPAIN BREAKS WITH GERMANY. Decides to Take Over All German Steamers In Her Ports. Madrid, Saturday, ' Sept. 1. The Spanish Government has decided to take all the German steamships in terned in Spanish ports, in accor dance with Spain's recent note to Ber lin, because of the torpedoing of Spanish vessels by German subma rines. " TOBACCO BARN BURNS. ----" Came Near Catching Large Pack House. One of the tobacco barns of ' Mr. Geo. W. Currin, filled with high grade tobacco, burned to the ground Satur day afternoon at his place two miles east of Oxford. The loss is -heavy. By heroic efforts a pack house was saved from the intense heat of the burning barn. BRITISH TOOK 57,318 PRISONERS IN AUGUST London, Sept2. The British cap tured in the month of August 57,318 German prisoners, 657 guns, more than 5.750 machine guns and 1,000 trench mortars. ALLIES TAKEN 100,000 - PRISONERS SINCE JULY 15 Paris, Sept.2. The allied forcesr on the western front have taken, a total of 128,30 prisoner since2 July -1 T V.. . O Afl ... 1,734 mine-throwers and 13,183 ma chine guns were captured. . 'A Fine Slogan. .'" Trade comes where invited and stays where well treated," is the slo gan strictly observed by Horner Bros. Company, See announcement else-' where in this paper. -