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VOL. 24. No. E3. HIGH POINT, N. C FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 25, 1917. Ieer cf the Associated Press. On TTTvi -AIM HEW ,.M I J II HEW 0FFE1ISIVE Oil FHAIICO-BELGiAll FRO riT STARTED , French Trches On a Front of D . Three Miles Near Verdun Are I Stormed By German -R- ' van Attacks Repulsed. ' ; (Bt the Associated Press.) , In what appears to have been the . most important offensive movement undertaken on the Franco-Belgian front in several i - months French trenches on a front approximately a mile in the re - gion of Hill 304, northwest; of ; Verdun, were stormed by the German troops, yesterday, -the Berlin war office announced to v day. ' ,- " 1 V : A counter attack delivered last .night by the French failed.to drive out the Germans who took 500 prisoners and 10 machine guns. The Paris account of the offensive re - ports it was launched on a rather wide Jfc front, the attacks being delivered at .four points between Avocourt wood, on the extreme left of the French lines about Verdun and Dead Man's hill, a distance - of more than three and a half miles. The attacks were repulsed, the French statement says, except that the (er penetrated advance trenches near1 Hill 304. The German statement mentions , the fighting in other sectors as-center prises on Dead Man's Bill and north west of Avocourt wood, which brought f the desired results." Fighting in the Riga region, the north . ernmost Hector of the Russian front, con- tinues to show advances for the Ger mans, according to Berlin, which reports additional Russian . positions gained on both sides of the river As, southwest of Riga, bordering the great Tirul marsh. The fighting in , this region Is made possible by the .freezing of the swamps. A Russian offensive early in the month' was taken to be aimed at Mitau, the German base south of Riga, but it failed - The Germans now apparently have not only regained such ground as they lost, but are striking north toward Rigs. The Russians are offering strong re sistance and delivered a counter attack tf0 on the east side of the river Aa.They dr A failed, according to Berlin, which reports H the capture of 500 prisoners. . , ' . Operations in the other war areas have been of unimportance. Minor attacks by the Russians in west ern Moldavia have failed, Berlin says, as did a Serbian attack in the Moglentia mountain region on the Macedonian front THAWS MENTAL CONDITION ; IS DESCRIBED AS "CLOUDY." Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 26.4-Physicians who today examined Harry K. .Thaw, now in a local hospital suffering -from self-inflicted wounds, found his mental conduton "still cloudy" and said it would be difficult to predict when the "haze" would clear up. Thaw's condition was held to be a re suit of the loss of a larcre amount of blood when he slashed his throat and wrists recently in s West Philadelphia rooming bouse. Detectives are constant ly at Thaw's bedside, armed with i bench warrant for his arrest on charges of kidnaping and asulting Frederick Gump, a 19 year old youth In a New xorfc hotel. ELEVEr MEN INDICTED FOR ELECTION FRAUD ARRESTED . Cincinnati, O., Jan. 26. Eleven men, among them two Republican city coun cilmen, an,, assistant clerk of the city - council, ande Ilamilton county deputy V jvj, sheriff, named in indictment returned ': by the federal grand jury yesterday in ' connection with alleged frauds at the : last presidential election, were ' taken into custody last night. The names at least of two other Cincinnati officials are ' mentioned in the six sealed indictments against 99 men returned by the grand jury, it became known today. . These latter: two and others are ex pected to be brought into court thfl aft- ernoon. ,. - '' " Y ' ( : NEWTON REJECTS PLANS FC2 A WOODEN STATION Newton, Jan. 2flv The mayor, board of alderman and citizens in a mass meet ing last night unanimouslT rejected the Southern railway's plan lor a wooden depot and demanded a brick depot with shed at landinsr nWi. L. F. Lone. J. P. Yount Sad O. IX WcCorkle, were ap pointed a committee to go to Kaleigh and press- Newt nn ' claims ne'w th invw. tij c ?,;..!ca f;r a tLtlri ei t tion ol me xume size as uut proponed wooden building. Paris, Jan. o tor the third successive day Lieutenant Geo. Guynemer is men- tioncd in" the comnmnicatimt." Today's statement credits him with having brought down another ,alrj!?o. TLis rir" on to 28 the number destroyed 12 V FIRST REGIMENT TO LEAVE FEB. 1. San Antonio, Jan. 26. Dates of departure for or ganizations in the first group of 25,000 guardsmen order ed home from the border are being fixed as rapidly as possible at General Fun ston's headquarters here, additional schedules an nounced today included: First North Carolina infan try, from El Paso, Febru ary 1. Company M, of High Point, is attached to the First regiment. North Carolina in fantry, and according to the above schedule, should ar rive here about February 8 or. 10. CHICAGO PUBLISHERS DISCUSS PAPER PROBLEM Want to Find Out Jnst What Problems , the Manafactarers art Facing and How Relief Can Bo Secured From the Pres ent High Prices of Newsprint (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, Jan. 26. Paper manufacturers and publishers met today for an infor mal conference. An invitation to the members of the federal trade commission was extended and it was expected the various problems of the manufacturers and the newspaper publishers over the supply, would be discussed. ... LaFayette Young, Jr., of the Des Moines CanitaL one of the newsDaner men, said the publishers desired to give the paper manufacturers an opportunity to explain the reason for the high price. "The manufacturers undoubtedly nave their problems to meet and we want to find out in an informal talk just what the conditions are," said Mr. Young. "The commissioners have been invited to join in thU discussion, . ... THOMAS KITE APPOINTED POSTHASTES AT HARTNETT Washington, Jan. 26 VC. Davis is ap pointed letter carrier at Goldsboro; Thos. L. Kite, appointed postmaster at Hart- nett, vice John W. fiyrd, resigned j Felix L. Wilcox, appointed postmaster at Stony Creek, vice W. JP. llendrtx, resigned. Civil service examinations will be held on February 24 for rural letter carriers at South Mills and Teacheys. Contrasts Priviletes of Clerry. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 26. Cardinal Gibbons, speaking at the dual celebration of the tercentenary of the foundation of St. Vincent do Paul of the congregation! of the mission, and the centenary of the arrival of the Vincentian fathers in the United States here yesterdat, contrasted the privileges of the clergy in this coun with those in Europe. In Russia for ex ample, he said, no priest may preach a sermon until it has been sanctioned by government official not connected with the church. . ' . :'; " ' Liquor Manufacture Prohibited. Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 25. By a vote of 70 to 28, the lower branch of the state legislature late today passed : a bill prohibiting the sale, manufacture, distribution or advertisement of liquor in the state after January 1, 191&V The bill now goes to the senate. , Fifty -two Republicans and 18 Democrats voted for the measure, while 12 Republicans and 16 Democrats opposed it. - C B. WuHams is Honored. New Orleans, Jan.' 26. -An investiga tion into the methods used in various parts of the south to control and check the. disease of anthrax among livestock was ordered today by the annual con vention of the Association of Southern Agricultural workers. G. B. Williams of the North Carolina experiment sta tion was elected chairman of the division of agronomy of the association. . Wheat Chicago, Jan. 26. Announcement of an embargo on east bound shipments over the Pennsylvania west of Pittsburgh, put wheat today on the down grade. Opening prices which ranged front the same as yesterday's finish to lower were fol lowed by a setback all around and then a reaction. - '. t : .. ' Federal Dill Passed. Washington, Jan. 23. A bill providing for the appointment of an additional federal district Judge for southern West Virginia was passed yesterday by the senate. It is designed to relieve pressure of Judge Benjamin F. Keller and pro vides that when a vacancy occurs it shall not bo filled. .University Laboratory Destroyed. Charlottesville, Va., Jan. 26.--Fire de stroyed the chemical laboratory of the University of Virginia today. Includ ing a valuable collection of chemicals the loss was estimated at $80,000. . Ur. Hanson la City. i - R. J, Ilanaon, Jr. land and industrial agent of the Southern Railway company, is speniiBg the afternoon in the city in consultation with officials of the indus trial department of the Commercial club. uiiiiTP pniiurimniip whii to uuiiich i miioiiir w dill iiuulu dcim ruim nno nattMULLtuiuii ur TO BE VOTED 2 Legislature Debated Today on Three Statewide Measures But No Actkm Was Taken On Them. (Special Legislative Service.) Raleigh, Jan. 26- Machinery for a constitutional convention to be voted for two years hence at the regular election was offered in the house today by Stubbs, of Martin. Representative Stubbs, in the pream ble to the bill, declares the state con stitutional convention to be "the only sure and besides the speediest and most economical mode oi altering or amend ing the constitution." He declares that "a great number of discordant and conflicting provisions in the present constitution makes it un suited to the wants and conditions of our people." His plan would submit this convention to the 1918 election and 120 delegates will be sent to the convention. "The said convention shall not discuss or adopt any amendment or provision rela tive to prohibition," he provides. 'The house debated three measures of statewide interest but declined to take a vote on any of them. The repeal of the 1915 act imposing a tax of $25 on all artificially bleached flowers was fav orably reported Thursday but an effort to put it a $20 was made in the house today. The bill was referred again to the agricultural committee after the house refused to take a vote. Two Superior court judges, Webb and Kerr, were in the house when the act making discretionary the imposition of life sentences upon all convictions of capital offenses when juries recommend mercy. It was postponed after an hour's debate. The woman suffrage debate was set for February 6. In the senate. Gates, of Cumberland, Siresented another education bill which ndicated, according to opponents of it, the defeat of the Turner bill, providing for appointment of a central education commission which in turn would appoint county boards, leaving the cowity su perintendents to be elected by the coun ty board. Senator Oates would have county boards of education nominated in the Democratic primaries. Jones, of Ashe ville, asked if the author of the bill con templated the governor's appointment of such boards. Senator Oates replied neg atively. The issues will be threshed out Wednesday. Senator Gough introduced the state merchant association bill proposing the amendment of the constitution which would repeal the homestead exemption. LITTLE PROGRESS MADE IN THE TEXAS MURDER CASE San Angelo, Tex.,' Jan. 26. After it had introduced testimony to bear out the story told by Henry J. Spannell yester day and to show that Lieut. Co. M. G Butler was known among his soldiers as "bull" Butler, the defense in the case in which Spannell is charged with killing ma wue rested today. . j The state in beginning its rebuttal esti mated that it could not conclude until to morrow. ' , The first witness for the state on the rebuttal contradicting evidence given by the defense declared that the colonel's reputation regarding his attention to women "was good." t GERARD AGAIK ASKS ABOUT . AMERICANS AS PRISONERS. Berlin, Jan. 26. Via London, Jan. 27. James W. Gerard, the American ambas sador, today renewed , hia inquiries at the foreign office regarding the possible, presence of Americans among- the war prisoners brought to Germany by the captured uritisn steamer xarrowdale. Mr. Gerard also asked . whether there were among the prisoners nationals of countries whose interests the United States is looking after In Germany and their place of cinfinement in order that arrangements may bo made for for warding food parcels to them from their "homes. .' ' ' - ;. RULES COMMITTEE WILL NOT LEARN WHAT PROFITS RESULTED New Jan. 26. If any persons profited by the alleged, leak on the ' President's peace note the rules committee will not learn how much but merelv which aids of the accounts they traded on prior to the publication ox the note. This appeared to be the crux of the changes in the third demand made by the committee upon the stock exchange for data when the new communication was made public today. ; Representative Dead. '.Washington, Jan. 28. Private tele grams received - today at the house of representatives announced the death of lUpresentauve David IS. 1 mley of South Carolina. He was in a hospital at Char lotte,?. C. iinif nn i iirnm n nr s PREVENTSTR1KE It Would First Necessitate a Con ference On the Differences Be tween the Men" and Their Employes. (By the Associated Press.) 'Washington, Jan. 26 Railway strikes and lockouts. are not forbidden by the terms of a bill to supplement the Adam son law which the senate interstate com merce committee virtually had completed today. President Wilson had suggested that provisions be included to prevent strikes or lockouts pending investiga tion of differences. The new bill, however, would make it a criminal offense punishable by fine for a railway employe who had quit work to trespass cn property with a view to preventing by violence; intimidation or threats the operation of trains. Another important provision would au thorize the Presidetn "to take over and operate" such part of a railway or its equipment as is necessary to move troops or munitions in time of war, threatened war or insurrection. IK LOST MODE mill IS BUILT (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 26. Loss to the ! world's shipping in 1916 through war causes exceeded the total tonnage con structed, according to estimates pre pared today by the federal bureau of navigation. Vessels sunk were put at 1.14P, of 2,082,683 tonnage and those bttift at 2,506 of IfiWfiiS toner - The figures were gathered from an unofficial Bource but are declared approx imately correct. Great Britain led in building with 510 vessels of 619,000, the United States was second with 1,213 vessels of 560,000 tons. Ships built by other countries are given as 782 in number, of 720,368 tons. The entire -world merchant marine ves sel tonnage at present, according to an estimate by Lloyds, is 48,683,000. WINSTON-SALEM MOTOR SERVICE INTERRUPTED Owing to Bad Road Between High Point and Winston-Salem, "Jitney" Service is Temporarily Called Off, But Will Be Resumed at the Pint Opportunity. The operators of the motor line be tween lliirh Point and Winston-Salem 'yesterday announced that owing to the condition of the highway between ine two cities it had been found necessary to abandon the schedule usually observed bv the severa lmotor cars and that the service had been discontinued pending the arrival of eood weather and im proved condition of the roads. The line between High Point and Winston-Salem enjoys very brisk patronage from travel ing men especially as it saves the long trip by GreenBboro and the operators oi the cars are nopeiui oi Deing aoie o re sume the service in the very near future The regular schedule between Greensboro and High Point is being observed. FIRST INFANTRY ORDERED TO ASHEVILLE FROM BORDER San Antonio. Tex.. Jan. 26.-General Vim-fan Usfe nicht announced the mus tering out station to which the national guardsmen, designated in a recent war department order to be relieved or roroer dut, will be - sent. The list includes: South Carolina A troop cavalry, . A company engineers and field hospital or dered to state mobilization camp Stvx, near Columbia. S. C Tennessee Ambu lance corps No. 1, Memphis field hos nif.1 Vn 1. Knorville. First North Carolina infantry ordered! to Asheville and from there to be distrib uted as follows: ' Field and staff headquarters company, supply company and G company to Shel by; machine gun company and D com- Eany to Charlotte; sanitary detachment, utherfordtonj A company, Hickory; B company, Gastonia; C company, Winston Hlenn E company. Statesvillet F and TC mm mi n tea Asheville! H. company, Waynesville; I company, ;. Mt.' Airy; L company, uoncoro; m , company, iu Point. , The destination of second Virginia in fantry has not been announced,- ; Villa Dnrttes Tm Back. El raso, TexV Jan. 26. Posters were circulated today inviting owners of for eign properties to return to the part of Mexico now held by Villa and offering guarantee to all and protection ior meir properties. The circular was signed by an American ajrent of Villa and was headed: "Villa Is the strong man of Mexico." Persistent rumors are that Parral had been captured by Villa forces and were in circulation today. iiipii nnniT iup i A local business man who is vitally in terested in the proposition to locate the Methodist hospital in High Point, today made the following statement in regard to it: "There is a story of a psychological ex periment conducted on one of the most crowded streets of London. A man stood out on the street with a basket heaped up with genuine gold sovereigns, in full view of the passing throng, and offered them to the public for sale at a half -penny each. He stood there from dawn until dusk, and at the end of the day had sold but two sovereigns. One of these was bought by a half-witted fellow and the other by a nursemaid for a plaything with which to amuse the child placed un der her care. Probably few of us would have bought the sovereigns, for the bar gain did indeed look too good to be true. "At the present time High Point is of fered a remarkable bargain, which how ever good it may be, is not too good to be true, for it is backed by an organized body of over 100,000 Methodists, the financial ability and standing of which is unquestioned. The purpose of this note is to show what we will get in cold cash if we put in $40,000 and a site, and suc ceed in securing the $150,000 hospital here. "If anyone of unquestioned financial rating should offer to build a factory here worth $100,000 for $40,000 and a site, those interested in the development of the town would expend every effort to get that factory as soon as possible. "A public general hospital is. of as much value to the town as any factor. 'But,' you may say, We already have a orivate hospital here, and we don't need anything more. The private hospital has done, and no rigni-minaeci ciuaen town, and no right-minded citizen wants . - inluu it ' This vina proceeds from a lack of understanding of the relative functions and responsibili ties of a private and a public hospital. "A private hospital is, or saould be, a business enterprise, pure and simple. It is as much the right of the physicians owning a private hospital to, exclude other physicians from practicing there, as it is their right to exclude them from nrnetirinir in their private offices..-.' A private hospital must have a guarantee that the hospital bills of its patients will be paid, or it will go into bank nmtcv. Of course, like every other bus iness the private hospital often fails to collect its charges and often the owners themselves have to pay the hospital bills of their patients in addition to furnish ing their sevices free. It is not only a duty but a pleasure for the right-minded physician to give hiB services free to the worthy poor, but he should not in addi tion be compelled to bear the hospital enensea of such patients, and he can not do it indiscriminately without facing financial ruin. Often the man's employes has to guarantee the hospital bill and this is placing too great a burden on him, in many cases, inese poroiems wwe only in those localities where the pri vate hospital is the only kind of a hos pital available. Where there is also a (Continued on Page 8 ) t pw LOCAL RESIDENT DIED AFTER LONG ILLNESS Nathaniel Michael, aged t Years, Died ' at the Home of His Parents on English Street Early This Morning Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon at a O'clocjt Nathaniel Michael, the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Michael, of 700 English street, died this morning at 7:10 o'clock, after a lingering illness, death resulting from lung trouble. The deceased was 22 years of age and in addition to the parents, is survived by four brothers and three sisters. He was a member of the Junior order and was very well known and liked by a number of people or the ciiy. Funeral services over the remains will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Mechanicsville church, and following the brief services interment will be made in the burying ground av Mechanicvtlle. v '' NATIVE OP BANDOLPH DIED HERE TODAY OF PNEUMONIA Garvia Crisco, aged 20 years, died this moraine at 10:30 o'clock following a brief illness with pneumonia, the disease having been contracted last Saturday. He was originally a native of the Sea grove section of Randolph county, but had worked here oonsioeraDiy as so em ploye of the Snow Lumber company, nav ing been employed by them the last time for about two monins. n w iuuu ried. The remains will be carried to Sea- Sove, Randolph county, tomorrow morn g, where funeral services will bo heM and interment maoe. THE HISTORIC WESTMINSTER CHURCH REACHES ITS END Baltimore, Md., Jan. 26. The historic Westminster Presbyterian church, in tne graveyarwd of which rests the body of Edgar Allen Poe, has apparently reached the end of its days as a self-supporting institution and a meeting of the pres bytery, of Baltimore has been called to consider it'- Its membership and fands have run low, and it is understood that the church will be maintained as a chapel by the tiptown congregations. prnrnni i rnTinii nr PAY SLAVES WOULD Supreme Court Asked to Deckle if Government Shall Pay ' $65,000,000 to Former Slvrt and Heirs. Washington, Jan. 26. The Supremo court has been asked to decide whether the federal government shall pay sixty sight million dollars to former slaves and ueir neire lor cotton picked in slavery ' times. Their claims are presented in an appeal by H. N. Johnson of Muskogee, Okhv, and other former slaves and their heirs and "all others similarly situated." k The suit is directed against Secretary McAdoo as custodian of the government funds and recites that the slaves were hell in involuntary servitude and forced to g&tehr the state's crops. They re ceived no return for their labor while the government collected the money in taxes on raw cotton. In accounting for. the labor and a pro rata distribution of the money among those entitled to pay for the labor are asked. The District of Columbia court dis missed the suit. - - PUT OF COMMITTEE Owing to the absence from the city of A. E. Tate, chairman of the industrial committee of. the Commercial club, the meeting Of the industrial department, which .was called for this evening at 7:30 o'clock, has been postponed until tomorrow, baturday evening at the same hour. The meeting will be held in the offices of the industrial department lo cated on the fourth floor of the Bank, of Commerce building. ' ' ' The attendance of all members of the committee is desired at this meeting as matters of more than passing interest are slated to come up. First and fore most the report of the hospital com mittee is to be received and final decis ion is to be made as to whether or not the movement is to have the undivided backing of the commercial organization. This matter is of considerable interest as a glance at the columns of this paper for tije past few days will show. In addition to the hospital, there are other matters of interest to the commit tee that are slated to com up for dis cussion making it essential that as many of the committee as possible be present. (By the Associated Press.) , Washington, Jan. 26. Elihu Root's avowed sympathy with President Wil son's plan to establish world peace and his denunciation of Germany's course ex pressed in an address before the National Security league congress of constructive A . A . 1 - - A 1 A ..Ml 11. iiai.riui.iKrn muu mgnt was nun me suu- ject of discueaion today. Mr. Koot's speech drew from Spanwood Menken, chairman of the peace congress,, the explanation that the gathering is. intended to be neutral "regardless of ex- f ressions of individual speakers who are ree to say what they please." Universal training advocated by Mr Root also was urged by many speakers today although the topics were "Ameri canization" and "governmental and indi vidual efficiency." (iERHAN VESSELS SHELL THE i COAST OF GREAT BRITAIN a , (By the Associated Press.) , ., London, Jan. 26. An unidentified Ger man vessel shelled the Suffolk coast of England last night. There were no cas- , ualties. ' : - The following official announcement . was made: "A . small unidentified German vessel approached the Suffolk coast last night and fired a number of shells. There., were no casualties and little damage.".,, '. Cotton. ' ..V , . , ; . , - New York, Jan. 26. The cotton mar -ket was quiet but showed renewed firm ness today, and after opening steady at an advance of 12 to 16 points sold 14 to 18 points above last night's close. This made. new high ground for the move ment, May selling at 17.39 or $4.20 a bale above the low level of last Mon day. .v.-V, v...: . . Cotton future opened steady. March 17.15; May 17.33; July 17.33 1 Oct 1140; Dee. IMP.-', ;' --; ' --' - Fair tonight and Saturday; jjotv much change in temperature:, moderate west winds. 1 VE RECEIVED MEETING HOOT SPEECH CAUSES MUCH Discussion
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