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? 1 VAlffiY yam r" Howe VOL. 3. NO. 63. $1.50 A YEAR AND WORTH IT SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA,', TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1917. $1.50 A YEAR AND WORTH IT PRICE TWO CENTS II MOT IHTTf Ik?- A t TTft i THE EXTENDED RUSSIAN FRONT SEETHING WITI GREAT ONSLAUGHT Germans Rushing Up Troops From the Italian and French Fronts and Re-Arranging Their Positions Town of Dilona Captured by the Russians Who Continue to Make Advan ces Under General Korniloff Great Efforts to Throw the Austrians Back is Meeting With Success. (By Associated Press.) Washington, July 16. The whole Russian front from the Gulf of Riga to Rumania is re ported in official dispatches today from Petrograd to the Russian embassy here to be alive with battle. The Germans ore said to be rushing up troops from ihe Ital ian and French fronts and to be entirely re-arranging their posi tions. On the front near the Riga region reinforcements are being rushed up by sea transportation. On the Lemberg front the troops are being shifted back and forth by means of heavy automo biles to prevent a further advance by General Korniloff. On the south front in the Car pathians the Austrians are said ti be in full flight. Although the movement of Russian infantry engaged in Gen eral Korniloff 's big offensive in Eastern Galicia is being hamper ed by bad weather, the Cossacks appear to be able to keep up their dashing' tactics. This is in dicated by reports from Petro grad through Rome that the town of Dilona has been occupied by Russian forces. If this announcement proves accurate it means an advance of more than thirty miles for the Russians since the opening of the drive .tbe Pneisteir a week ago. The official reports, have placed them nearly two-thirds of the distance from the starting point as Kalucz, taken by General Kor niloff's troops last week, is some twenty miles from Stanislau. which virtually was their place of departure. At Kalucz the Russians are es tablished on the westerly bank of the Lomnica, from whence the Austrians have not been able to drive them, although heavy at tacks have been launched against them at this point. The route lies along the Stan- islau-Tryj railway line. An ad vance here means considerable nrosrress in the movement now 1 o under wav, and intended to throw the Austrian army back against the Carpathians. Kome reports declare this has alreadv been ac complished. Hard fighting marked the Inst few days along the French trout in Northern Franco. vhich still continues. Last night the Germans mad a desperate attempt to regain an important observation post lost to the French Saturday night when they took the strongly for tified position in the vicinity of Mont Hautemont and Teton in the Champagne. The attacking forces were able to matoe no im pression on the Teton position and at Mont Hautemont recover ed only a narrow foothold on the edge of the disputed ground. The French in local operations made some progress south of Ail les on the Ainse front and repuls ed several strong attacks near St. Quentin and south of Codeny. On the British front only raid ing operations and artillery and airplane activity are reported. RUSSIANS MAKE A CAPTURE. GREAT Petrograd, July 16. The Rus sians yesterday captured 16 offi cers and 000 Austri-Oermans in 1ho fighting in Eastern Galicia, says the official statement issued hy the Russian war department. 1 lie itussians alsi tooic a numn-r of machine guns. From July 1st to 13th the state ment says, 834 officers and 35,809 men were, captured by the Rus sians. General Brussiloff's forces also captured 93 heavy and little yuns, 28 trench mortars, 403 ma chine guns, 43 mine thriwers, 45 bomb mirtars, three fire throwers,, two airplanes and much other equipment. Speech By New Chancellor. Copenhagen, July 16.. Dr. George Michealis, the new German chancel lor, will deliver his maiden speech in the Reichstag Thursday. The ad dress is expected to contain an an nouncement of his forthcoming pro gram and - is awaited with a great deal of interst. SOUTH'S PATRIOTIC RESPONSE. This is Shown by United States Ag ricultural Department Forecast, Says President Harrison of the Southern. (Special to Post.) ' Washington, D. C, July 16. "The patriotic response of the South to the appeal for food and feed stuffs to meet the crisis brought about by the war is shoan ty the United States Agricultural Department's forecast of the yield of corn this year," said President Fairfax Harrison of the Southern Railway System today. "For the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Ken tucky, and Tennessee, this year's corn crop is estimated at 601,262,000 bushels, as compared with 495,236,000 bushels last year, showing an in crease of 106,026,000 bushels, or 21 per cent." GOETHALS POSTPONES COMMANDEERING TODAY Plan to Take Over Privately- Owned Merchant Ship Construction in United States Put Off Until a La ter Date. (By Associated Press.) Washington, July 16. 'Major Gen eral Goethals has postponed the plan for "ommandeering today of private merchant zhip construction in the United States and contracting im mediately -r to government ship building plaT Is. He acted at the request of Chair man Denman of the Shiphliuding Board, who wants to lay the matter before the director of the emergency fleet corporation. MEMPHIS WOMAN KILLS HUSBAND. Dr. Harry Woolridge, an Artist of Some Note is Slain When He Kicks Down Door to Room in Which Wo man Had Taken Reruije. Memphis, Tenn., July 15. Dr. Har ry Woolridge was shot Knd killed here early today by his wife Wool ridge, according to the police, who are holding the woman on a charge of murder, went home intoxicated and the shooting occurred after he had kicked in the door of a room in which his wife had sought refugs. The fourteen-year-old son of the couple saw his father shot. Woolridge was an artist and his paintings adorned the principal hotels of the city. His vife is sad to have relatives m Vir ginia, iney naa Deen marriea twen ty years. LABOR DAY COMMITTE MEETING Will Be Held in the Spencer Y. M. C. A Tonight Annual Methodist Pic- nigc m tirove rsear air. byncn s Tuesday Afteroon. Spencer, July 1G. There will be an important meeting of the Spencer Labor Day committee this evening at 8 o'clock in the Y. M. C. A. All mem bers are urged to be present, and members and representatives of the various crafts are invited and expect ed to attend. Plans will probably be formulated for the holding of a cele bration in Salisbury and Spencer on the first Monday in September. The Sunday school of the Spencer Methodist church will hold its annual picnic and outing Tuesday afternoon, beginning at 5 o'efcek, in the grove near Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Lynch's resi dence, on Second street. This outing is expected to be largely attended. Wheat Trading at Minimum. Chicago, July 16 Assumption that wheat would be brought under absolute government control kept trading in that cereal at a minimum with prices of no great change. The first transaction varied from 1-2 de cline to 1 cent advance with July at $2.05 and September at $1.95. WINSTON-SALEM 10 HEAD THE LIST Twin-City Will Furnish Greatest Number of Men for the New. Draft Army. CLAY COUNTY TO SEND ONLY THIRTY-SEVEN. State Officials Busy Figuring Out Quota to be Allotted to Each District in the State. Raleigh, July 16. Officials here, ! having figures on the quota of men North Carolina is to furnish for the draft army, are busily engaged in ap propriating each district in the state its quota. The figures are far from completed and no official announcement has so I far been made, but some officials in terested in which sections will furn ish the largest and which will furnish the smallest number of men have worked out this tentatively. Winston-Salem, it is said, will furn is the largest number. Winston Salem having registered 5,116 men and the gross number to be drafted totals 604. From this number cer tain deductions for enlistment in the national guard an( regular army will be allowed. Clay county, which registered only 299 men, -will furnish 37 gross. This number will also be derceased some what. Raleigh, after all credits are allow ed for enlistment, must furnish 127 men, according to the unofficial esti mates. The city . registered 2,654 men. HICKORY BOY KILLED. Paul BQyd, Aged Thirteen Years, Falls From Wagon Loaded With Straw and Liyes -Only a Short Time. Hickory, July 14. A very, dis- tressing accwenx esunine in tnc death Friday evening of Paul ToyU o,, V,;-fr, nn,m-ro l Ur Paul who lives with hi3 uncle, J. E. Wil fong, in the country, was sitting on a load of rye straw in the yard of P. A. Setzer's barn on Tenth avr-nue. AnotVer load of straw was just in front of the wagon on which the boy was riding, and when the first wagon started off the team which Paul was holding unexpectedly started and the young fellow fell under the wheels, two of which passed over his body. He was taken to a local hospital and lived several hours after the acident. Lewis H. Asbury, of Charlotte, is diowing plans for the new Carnegie Library building here. tie was au-1 thorized to proceed with the work at a meeting held with Mrs. J. W. Worth Elliott several days ago. NITRATE FROM AIR. Secretary Baker Announces Plants Will Be Construced Immediately at Cost of $4,000,000. (By Associated Press() Washington, July 16. Secretary Baker announced today that plants for the production of natrate from at mospheric nitrogen would be con structed immediately at a cost of $4,UUU,UUU and tnat water power , woud be not be used. Sites for the location of these plants have not been selected. AN AMERICAN STEAMER SUNK. The "Grace" Goes Down and Three Men Are Killed, One of These An American, State Department An nounces. (By Associated Press) Washington, July 16. The sink ing of the American steamer "Grace" and the killing of three men, one of these an American, nd the injury of two members of the bark's armed guard, was announced today by the State Department. U. S. May Go Down 10,000 Feet for Oil. Grafton, W. Va., July 12. Already drilled to a depth of more than 6,500 feet, the oil well on the farm of Mrs. Martha O. Golf, near here, may be the deepest in the country before op erations are ended. When oil was not struck at a depth of 3,000 feet pri vate interests decided to quit. The Government then took over the well for experimental purposes and it is proposed to continue the drilling which will no stop unless oil is found until the tools are 10,000 feet under ground. Dr. B. W. McKenzie, who has been spending some time here with his father, Deputy Marshal J. H. Mc Kenzie, returned to Philadelphia last night. Dr. McJtCenzie has volunteered for service in the army in France. I T w 1 NW "SAUSAGE BALL This new observation balloon called "the sausage," was photographed in its hanger on the deck of a warship MOBILIZATION OF Some Units Regarded as Now Beady to Board Transports For France and Front. APPROXIMATELY HALF GUARD ANSWERED TODAY Estimated That One Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand State Troops Were Called. Washington, July 16 1 Mobilization of the National Guard for war service begin today. While no orders far the embarka tion State troops for Franco will be H given until after August 5th, when the entire force wijl be formally drafted into the United States army, j there axe. indications that some di- i visions will hejrf gdj j:..; siroV fWo NATIONAL GUARD ' :;T " .Tff,rV iHti, m mil whhh KS rttluo1 tunteiimniwi MX uwp 01 ine nome armories iur wranspuri.ai.ion to state camps began today. Ap proximately half of the total strength of the National Guard, or more than 125,000 men, -were included in the force answering. AIRPLANES ARE i Kaizer is Turning His Workmen from Zeppelins to Airplanes. (By Associated Press.) London, July '16. It is reported in an Exchange Telegraph Company dispatch from Lousaane, Switzer land, that no more Zeppelins are be ing built in Germany, and that the workmen who have been employed on these at Freidricschaven are now said to be employed in building airplanes. SOLIDER TOOK HIS BRIDE TO FRANCE Hair Cut Short, Dressed in Khaki, Posing as Soldier She Went Over On a Transport. An Atlantic Port, Jvdy 15. "Some where in France" is a sergeant in the American army who was married just before he left the United States and ventured to take his bride with him on the transport which carried his regiment overseas. She was with him as a soldier, dressed in regula tion khaki and with her hair cut short. Today the young wo nan returned from France, her efforts to pose as a "Sammy" having failed. Her hus band, it was said abroad the steam ship, was a member of a regiment formerly stationed at Arizona. AGED WOMAN ENJOYS RIDE. Grandmother of Mr. B. H. Isenhower Motors Over From Conover With Her Son, Mr. P. E. Isenhower. Mrs. P. E. Isenhower, oi turnover, sDent the week-end in the city, the j guest of her son, Mr. B. H. Isenhower Mr. Isenhower came over ana speni Sunday with his son also. He mo tored over in his car and was accom panied by his mother, grandmother of Mr. B. H, Isenhower, who is eigh tr.iv vpars old. The aged woman is hale and hearty and enjoyed the trip from 'Conover 'here fine, not being the least fatigued on her arrival. The entire party returned home Sunday afternoon. An artificial cork lege invented in Sweden is made of cork waste and a binding of paste. BUILDING GERMANY OON ON DECK OF WARSHIP. of the Atlantic fleet. It is perhaps the first one to be used by the Amer ican navy. DRAFTING WILL BE DELAYED AGAIN Indications Now Are that the Drawing of the Army Will Begin By Saturday. AVIATION BILL IS NOW WITH SENATE COMMITTEE Food Bill in Senate for Final Con sideration and Passage on Saturday is Expected. (By Associated Press.) Washington, July 16. On a basis of advices received from a number of states that have not reported full organization work by the exemption boards, the war department today an nounced that the work of drafting the arihy could not begin before Saturday a$ the earliest, Vava Znmni'&kA v QniTotmno -"i ....oo. ..w final reports will be received. The speedy passage by the senate Of the $640,000,000 aviation bill, pass ed by the house on Saturday, is pre dicted t y Chairman Chamberlain to j have quick passage by the senate. There is little doubt of this measure passing and becoming law by the first of August. It is expected that the measure will be taken up and quickly disposed of after the food control bil lis passed. The senate today entered upon its fifth week of considering the food control bill, this will in all probabil ity te the last week, and leaders pre dict that it will pass and go to the conference and then be agreed on in such measure as to meet the approv al of the President. Under its agree ment the senate is to vote on the bill Saturday and rusth it to confer ence. PRIVATE RIDGE ADVANCED. Adjutant General Makes Announce ment of Man Formerly With Per shing in Mexico. Raleigh, July 16. The adjutant general announced today that Private lEdney Ridge of the First Infantry has been commissioned 2nd lieuten ant and assigned to a gun cmpany in the first infantry. Ride was a private in the regular army and was with a machine gun company under General Pershing in Mexico. He was granted a discharge from the army in order that he might enlist in the guard and become eligible for a commission. LEAVES LINOTYPE FOR GUN. Mr. E. P. Lyons Ceases Banging the "Merg" for the Post and Will Shoulder a Gun Gun Againt Ger many. Mr. Edward P. (Ned) Lyons, who has been operating one of the Post's linotype machines for the past five or six years, gave up his position Sat urday and is spending some days in Durham, Winston-Salem and other points. He leaves the keyboard to shoulder a gun, having several months ago enlisted in the local military company, 4th Co., C; A. C, N. C. N. G. Ned did not wait to be drafted but when the call went out for volunteers for enlistment in the various units of the national guard and regular army he immediately joined the home com pany and wll go "somewhere" with the boys when they are called into service on te 25th of this month. He quit the "Merg" Saturday in order to take a little vacation before shoul dering the gun. The boys in the shop regret to see him leave but sincerely hope he will return safe and sound when the fray is over. Americans Got Four Big Submarines (By Associated Pres.) London, July 16th Four of the largest and most modern German submarines were destroyed by Ameri can war vessels which convoyed the first detachment of American troops to France, according to a report from German sources received in Berne, Switzerland, and forwarded to the Central News Agency. IS NOW AT HOI The Mission Headed by Prince Undine is Home After a Very Happy Trip to America and Urged the Extra dition of Cocchi, the New York Murderer. (By Associated Press.) Rome, July 16. The Italian war mission, headed by Prince Udine, which has just returned from the United States, today called on Pre mier Bosseli and other cabinet offi cers and gave a very highly sat isfactory report of their trip to Ame rica, where they arrarged many things of interest to their country. Prince Udine brought to the attention of the King a message from Presi dent Wilsor in reply to one from the King to the President. Members of the mission are vrglr.g on the Italian oincia.ls hat the gov ernment grant the oxtraditiort of Al fredo Cocehi, the murderer of RutbJ Cruger. The mission says that such actio nwoud he appreciated in Ame rica and would strengthen the bonds of sympathy between the two nations, and tha tthe same can be drae to ac cord with the spirit of, the law if nqt of it, c- GOLDSBORO YARDS. Shifting Engine oi Atlantic Coast Line Runs Into a Freight rrain Engine Damaged, Cars Demolished and Several Hurt. Goldsboro, July 14. A railroad wreck here today demolished three freight cars, badly damaged a switch engine of the Atlantic Coast line and tore up the track of the main line for a considerable distance. The smash up occurred at the Smithfield crossing of the main line the Coast when a local shifting en gine pulling a otk string of cars crashed into the middle of a freight train going north. When the engineer of the switch engine which was going down grade applied his breaks, they failed to work and realizing his engine was going to smash into the outgo ing freight, he and the nsgro fireman jumped. Two negro trainmen wercr hurt, but not seriously. Traffic, was not delayed due to the fact that the Coast line has a spur track running through Lhat part of tha city. HEAVY GUNS USED IN PONTA DELGADO ATTACK Indicating That German U-Boat Mak ing Attack Was of Unusual Size. Paris, July 15. Advices from Pon ta Delgada in the Azores, regarding the recent attack upon that port by a German submarine decline the shells fired were of fifteen-centimeter cali ber, indicating that the U-boat prob ably was of unusual size, possibly 1,1000 tons. The vessel is said to car ry two or three guns. The submarine attack on Ponta Delgada occurred on July 4, the re sult in casualties being a girl killed and several persons injurl An American transport joined the land batteries in replying to the fire, ac cording to a Lisbon dispatch, and the submarine was forced to withdraw out of range. Bandits Escape While Police Fight Fellows. Chicago, July 14. Two automo biles occupied by police, mistaking each other for bandits they were chasing, staged a running pitched battle on the South side last night, in which Charles Peterson was killed, Policeman Claude Christollo shot in the hand and leg, and James Mooney hit in the leg. The bandidts escaped. Christello commandeered Peterson's auto to chase bandits who robbed I. C. Kashner's saloon of $175 and Mooney went along. Meanwhile De tective Lieutenant Mooney's "rifle squad" started out in another ma chine, and when it overtook Christel lo,'s car opened fire. GEN. WOOD CONSENTS 10 GO TO FAYETTEVILLE Commander of the Southeastern De prrtment, With Headquarters in Charleston, Will Go in Person to the City on the Cae Fear, Regard ing Array Camp. Fayetteville, July 14- Major Gen eral Leonard Wood, commander of the southeaster depanrtment will visit Fayetteville in the near future. Thi? announcement was made by a commit tee of prominent Fayetteville men who went to Charleston this morning to invite General Wood to Fayetteville and telegraphed this afternoon that they were delighted with their inter view, and that the department com mander had positively 'promised to visit Fayetteville at an early date. The interview with General Wood was arranged by telegraph prior to the Fayetteville delegation's depart ure for Charleston. The Fayette ville men who called on General Wood are N. A. Sinclair, John Under . wood, Joha-H. McFall, A. B. McMil Ian, H. T- Drake and W. F. Clayton. tks austIia SHoetftW DETACRfcD FROM GERMANY. Zurich, July 15. The Austrian reicbstrat was thrown into an up- roar on Saturday when formfcr Czech minister, Herr Praschek, declared the hate of the entire world was not direc ted Against Austria but against Ger many, and that Austria should detach herself from her ally, says a Vienna dispatch. "How are we to obtain peace," demanded Herr Praschek, "if we cling to the German side? Must we continue tj sacrifice our interests to the expansion of Germany? Must we continue to submit to the German militarism that has drawn us into this wa r ? " The speaker declared that Czech deputies had been imprisoned for at tempting to bring about an alliance of Austria with Russia and France, and added that if they were to be stigmatized as traitors then all Czech who believed similarly should be so stigmatized. NEW KING OF GREECES HAVING HIS TROUBLES. Serious Differences With Premier Venizelos Are Said to Have Arisen. Paris, July 15. A dispatch from Athens says: "Serious differences appear to have arisen between the new king of Greece and Primer Venizelos. One indication of this is the postponement by the king of the signing of a de cree to resummon the 1915 chamber of deputies which was illegally dis solved by the then premier. Steph anos Skouloudis. "M. Venizelos demands that the king openly ceased to carry out hi fa ther's internal and external policies, but the king is postponing action or has refused to give approval to such categorical repudiations." Uses Monkeys to Kill Troublesome Snake. New Castle, Pa., July 14. To clear the site of an old hotel of Neshan nock Falls, a summer resort north of here, of blacksnakes, which have been infesting the place since the building was .destroyed by fire some year? ago, the owner has turned loose two monkeys. According to the owner the monkeys will catch and kill the snakes. Philip Scheidemann, leader of the majority faction of German Social ists, says th."re is but one way to stop this endless murdering of nations and that is "the sweeping democratizing of Germany." And the concensus of opinion is that it would help some if the German Socialists would each grab abroom and get busy. Macon Telegraph. f
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