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I i Is M Tlti Associated PreM U excJtuive ly entitled to ths dm for reput'J. cation of all news dispatches cred ited to it or not otberwiM credited la this paper and alao tin local aews polished herein. - . . , . T f H I ii Weather For North Car. Una; Rain tou!!, a!Thur. day except east portion 'to night j cooler Thurku.iy, ' . ' t -1 . VOL 25, NO. 244. HIGH POINT, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBERS. 1918. THREE CENTS. on? Em k m w j. jk. .A. a .'.. . j 1 mm ID) An)ARTF.HMr T7 V jpi yH'; HI LOCAL OLD HICKORY DIVISION HELPED BRITISH ADVANCE IN FLANDERS GENERAL MARCH American Chief of Staff State Today That Unit Composed or Southern Troops Aided Brit ish to Scot Advance in ., Flanders 1,600,000 OVERSEAS This Includes Men On All Fronts and With Siberian Expedition. 250 000 : Men Landed in ' . Franca During the Past Month i Washington, Sept. 4. General March announced today that the .total embarkation ' of American , soldiers for all fronts including the' Siberian expedition has pas ;aed ;the 1,600.000 mark by (August 3 !.. Th ecttief of staff identified the American units which participated . in the Flanders advance, as ..the Thirtieth divisionjconaisting of troops from Tennessee North - Carolina and South Carolina. This is the ;"01d Hickory", division, In answer to a question General ; . Maiyh said it was estimated that more ' than 250.000 troops had been landed in France during - August. The record for a month shipment, he added, was 285,000 ,- 'General March did not know who was assigned by General Pershing to command the thirtieth division which went' over nnder Major General George Reid, who has since assumed , command of the fourth army corps. . For-,the past three of four weeks since the start of the allied counter offensive and its rapid spread over ' a great front, people of this city have Deefl wondering whether High Point boys' were engaged In the battle. The . statement of General March today ; verifies the belief that many citizens have entertined; hat the members of the unit High Point contributed to the' army , were la action The High Point company went to Camp Sevier where the thirtieth - division was trained and .there' It was scattered throughout the different units ' of state troop organizations. ' Letters have been received in the , city Just' recently from High Point :,;. soldiers by relative and friends which ; stated ..that tbey had taken their - training course in the front line and ' "felt ready", for any and everything the Huns bad to offer. Develop ments of tho fighting tend to prove . that the Old Hickory division was of material aid t othe British in their .. advance eastward, whlph Is in the , direction of Germany. BERLIN . OFFICIALLY ADMITS. J - THAT ALLIES ARB GAINING ' ' 1 Berlin, Sept. 4. British troops operating in the Lys salient yesterday ' worked their way forward as far as v the line of Wulverghem, Nieppe, Bac St. Maur, Laventre and Richebourg- ' fit: Vaast, according to the statement Issued by the German staff. ' ' 1 On both sides of Noyon . French troops carried out .. strong S attacks especially directed against tba high ground between Campogne and Buls- y- - ' , . "' y'r-'y'' Between the Ailette and the Alsne rlveia the French 111 cooperation Vtth Americans and Italians launched re newed attacks after the strongest fre preparations. . They were re- SOLDIERS ARE M ACTION STATED TODAY AMERICAN GENERAL LANDED IN SIBERIA Washington,1 Sept. 4. The arrival of Major General Wil liam S. Graves and bis staff at Vladivostok to take command of all American force fighting on the new eastern front was announced today by General March. '' General Graves, took With him from the United States 43 officers and 1,388 men who will Join the regiments ' from . the Philllppine Islands already on the ground. 1 :li LIST FROM STATE Two Men From Winston-Salem . Wounded Severely as is Walter - L. Jones, of Franklinville. ToaU List is 808 The following casualties are re ported by the commanding general of the American expeditionary forces In the list issued for today j.,-' MMnv.M.mMr4jri . .-.,...v. .-' : Killed W actipu, "1 1 0 mlseina- in action, 170; wounded severely, 309; died of wounds, 21; died from ac cidents and other causes, 11; wounded, degree undetermined, ICO; died of disease, 23; died from air plane accidents, 4; total, 808.' . The list includes the names of 14 North Carolinians as follows: Killed in action Private Jona than Taylor, Windsor. Died of wounds Private Lola L. Owensby, Fletcher, route three. Wounded severely Corporal Les ter R. Wall, East Bend, route two; Privates James L. Cushing, Rose mary; Walter L. noJcs, Frankllns ville; George Houck, Baldwin; Clarence L. Waters, Winston-Salem; George Holder, Winston-Salem; Joe M. Parker, Stem, route one; James F. Shoemaker, New Hope. Wounded, degree undetermined Lieutenant Robert Bailey Kephart, Charlotte; Private James P. Hicks, Canton. ' Missing In action Corporal Mitch ell O. Huffman, Reddles River, route one; Mechanic James E. Swangune, Ashevllle. A summary of the marine corps casualties to date shows: 60; missing, 1; total, 98. Enlisted men Deaths, 875; wounded, 1,895; in hands of enemy, 10; missing, 123; total. 3,001. The following casualties ' are re ported by the commanding general of the American expeditionary forcos for the marine corps, they being in cluded in the above summary. Killed : ' In . action,, 3 ; ' died of wounds received in action, !; wound ed in action, severely, 1; wounded in action, degree undetermined, 2; total, 7. . Is Port of Miming Men. , Jaurez, , Mexico, Sept 2 This IS the port of missing men. , Many Americans have crossed the shaky, wooden bridge to this little abode, town who have never been seen nor1 heard of again. The files of the United States . Consulate , here are filled from mothers, wives and 6ther relatives asking for 1 information a bout men who have 1 disappeared somewhere in Mexico. ; ( Many were killed fighting with the various revolutionary forces during the six years war. f Others V were murdered , for their money ' oh the. CalleDlabolo-street of the Devil or werg killed ty banditC wharrove dver the country enforceing the law of the six-shooter. Still others are living out their lives In some mountain set- FEN MEN ON SECURE FIRM HOLD British Take Good Position On Western Bank of Canal by Cap hiring the Town of Rumau court Gains Continue Along the Wida Front , 97- HUN DIVISIONS Since Start of the Franco-British Drive August 8 97 Enemy Di visions Have Been Used to Stop the Advances. More Towns Captured London, Sept. 4 -The British have secured t hold on the western bank of the Canal Du Nord by taking Rumaucourt to the north of Suins lez Marquion, according to advices from , the battlefront today. Further south along the canal they are reported to have captured Inchy- En-Artois, Demioourt to the east of Doignies, and Hermles, three miles northeast of Bertlncourt. Nearer the Somme the British have advanced steadily, having? crossed the canal at Raut-AUalnes, slightly more than, two miles north of Peronne. . ; . -. From Hermies southward the line runs to the west of Ruya'ulcourt, a mUe ajd a iajtjm J3edirt: . Midway between Nieppe and Sailly on the Lys salient the British have captured the village of Croix du Bac. Since the, opening of the com bined Franco-British operation on August .8 no ; less than 97 German divisions have been engaged on the battlefront, In their push beyond the Dro-court-Queant line the British have reached the line of the Canal Du Nord says Field Marshal Haig's of ficial statement today. North of the Arras-Cambral road they have oc cupied the town of Ecourt St. Quen tln. - - - j North of Peronne the advance has carried the British through the Vaux woods above Molslans. Slight ad vances have been made at other points. Continuing their advance In Flan ders the British are approaching Neuve Chapelle and Leventis. In the same region they have gained pos session of Sailly Sur Lallys and Nieppe. FRENCH TROOPS CONTINUE TO PUSH GERMANS BACK Paris, Sept. 4. French troops yes terday an dlast night continued push ing back the Germans east of hte Canal du Nord and between the Ailette and the Alsne, says today's war office announcement. n hti 'sadvance the Frnech took Chlpttre wood, "northeast of Chevilly an dapproached the town of Crisolles three miles north of Noyon. North of the Ailette river the French rached the v'outBkirts i of Coucy-Ie-Chateau and.Juvencourt an dsouth of the riv er rthey drove further east from Leulily an dattacked the subprbs of Ciamey and Braye. 'On the Alsne the town of Bucy-le-Lfcng wai penetrated. Prisoners to the number of 1,500 were taken.'; - 'Along 'the Vesle parties of French troops crossed the river at several points. ' ; REPORf OF CAPTURE OF U LENS TRIFLE PREMATURE ' London, Sept. . 4. Informafjfon from the front today is that the coal mining city of Lens is still remaining In' German hands. British patrols, however, "are reported to be In the western part o fthe town. .There . were wide f spread reports yesterday that Lens had been evacu ated by the Germans and occupied by the British. This report emenat od from authorltives sources in Lon don and. was generally eccepted as eoitedfntlltha of hteofflclal British communication which failed to confirm this. 'J.' Mrs. Mollle Lowe, who went to the ON BANKS OF CM INPHW DEAS01EM German Idee of Victory De fined "Hold Lines and Not It Sdvea Be Vanquished". De nies That He Is Real Fare Eater HOW WAR WILL END Mies WOI See Uselesaness of the Struggle He Opines. . Talk a little Concerning the Part America is Now Taking Amsterdam, Sept. 4 The German Idea of victory as defined by the crown prince in an interview pub lished i nthe Budapeth Azeft is an in tention to "hold our lines and not let ourselves be vanquished!" The crown prince denied he was a "fire eater" and continued: "If Germany had wanted war we would not have chosen this moment. No moment could have been more unfavorable to Germany." In reply to the question as how he thought the end of the war would come he replied iyv t; . : j "Through t,he'f enemy perceiving that they are not equal to the win ning of. .their collosal ; stake, at which tbey, are not . able, and that they are not blet and that tbey can not win as muek-a they are bound to lose." ' In discussing tba present . opera tions on the western front the crown, prince said: v ; "the enemy attacks and we with draw at several places which causer the wrong interpretation in some circles. Some of pur people are toe accustomed to a continued advance and when a battle occurs whereh the enemy makes the attack we have to defend ourselves. In judging the situation, military and political mean ures, believe the foremost one Is we are waging a war of defense The war is one of annihilation foi the enemy but not for us. We wis). to annihilate none of our enemies. We mean to hold our own." Regarding the American forces In France the crown prince said: "I've found that the majority don't know what they are flghtiim for but we feel of course the effects of the entry of America. They have sent over much material and now are sending over much human material." Men of City Asked to Give Up Smoking oa Each Thursday this Month and to Give Money to Feed French Orphans . So that a French orphan may be fed for one year the men of High Point are asked to go without to bacco for one day, each, week during the month of September, Thursday being the day chosen as the tobacco less one. In . devising ways and means to support a 'French orphan the W, C. T. U. is asking the men of High Point to deny themselves to bacco on one day in the" week and to contribute . the : price that ' a hungary child may be fed. ' Tobacco boxes have been '", placed. In 'drug stores convenient for these contribu tions which are to be asked for on each' Thursday, In September, tomor row being the first tobaceoleas day.; The local W C. t. U. hopes by this means to receive the $3. 50, the cost of; feeding a. French orphaned child for one year during jibe month of September, la other , cities the plan has worked splendidly and sums sufficient y to f care tor . numerous chTIdrefl "tta vfl-teeflTeceived-hen a smoker goes to' to , buy his weed he is asked , to pass up the . purchase and drop the coin or coins in the TOBACCOLESS DAYS TO FEED ORPHANS TEN STORES MORE THAN SELL : THEIR ALLOTMENT OF STAMPS As Whole, However, Merchants Have Fallen Be behind in Sale of War Savings Stamps. Total of $25,421 Has Been Sold Of their allotment of 48,700, the merchants of High Point have sold war savings and thrift stmps amount ing to Just $26,421, according to the report made, today ' by the chairman of the merchants' organization, E. W. Freece. Of the 85 merchants handling the government securities, 10 have more than-sold their allot ment while 22 have failed to make any; report whatsoever: to Mr. Freexe. The stores selling more than they bargained to and continuing in the drive are Allen Brothers. Allred Brothers, Amos Furniture company, E. M. Brower, H. Harris and Brother. Jar ret t Stationery Company, Rim; Drug Company, A. C. Staley, Wel- born Supply Campany and Wood Brothers. Some of these concerns greatly oversold their allotments, go ing as high as 600 per cent over the coveted mark. ' ' Ther seems to be a disposition on the part of some merchants to permit interest in war . savings and thrift stamps to lag. There are many yet to De sola, .it is stated and for. tue purpose of putting the county well over the top a finat drive is to be staged within the next few days. Merchants can take advantage of the Irlve to sell out '-'their supply of itamps by starting out today and per mitting no one to enter their places of business without giving them an aptahTtfwitlrf-briidd- to ffieif collection of atsmps. , Merchants who have stamps and who hate ao far failed to notify Mr. Freeze as to the sales made are urged to communicate with him at nce. He is compelled to file stated ments regulary with treasury officials' concerning the quantity of stamps sold and unless the local merchants keep hlra advised the correct infor-! mation desired by the government cannot be supplied. The following table shows the re sults of the sales of stamps in tho stores of the, city: Quota . Amf sold Allen Brothers, 12.000 13.140. Allred Brothers, 400 2,146. Arctic I. & C. Co., 200 25. Amos Fur. Co. 600 1,679. A. E. Alexander 800 ' W. F. Austin, 400 ' Art Fur. Co. 400 164.2ft Atlantic Stores, 800 10. ) Burtner Fur.: Co., 400 v 85. : Blair-Hosklns Co., 400 195. E. M. Brower, 600 , 620,. M. T.' Barker, 200 W. C. Beavans, ' ' 600- 265. J. A. CHnard, 400 255. Cannon-Fetzer, 600 368. Commerce Co. 400 ASK TO BE ALLOWED TO BUILD HOSIERY PLAi Citizens Request PernilHNlon to Erect New Mill At Corner of Elngllsh And Clieatuut Streets". Xerj little business was transact ed by the city councilmen during their meeting last evening. Thomas J. Gold, representing a number of citizens, appeared and presented a petition asking that the council per mit a hosiery mill to be erected at! the corner of English and Chestnut streets. One of the gentlemen In terested in the proposed plant also spoke In behalf of the petition. After hearing the arguments the councilmen voted to refer the matter tothe city attorney f orchis opinion and to notify Mr. Cold of their de cision at the. next meeting, Route the Bolevhevlk. : London, Sept. 3 Entente ; allies troops In northern European Russia aided, by Russian forces on August 31 captured enemy positions north of Obozerskaya, 76 ' miles south " of Archangels according j to an; official report Issued today " by the British war offlce-v; iUi ::tv;;V Kk:'s -,'''.(.". -PariB, .-Sept. aArtlllery-actlons on the Somme front and 'further south between the oiue and the Alane are reported in the offlclnl IN FLAN Dixie- Milling 600 J. A. Dalton, 400 Elm Grocery Co. 400 W. M. Evans 400 Eflrds 2,000 W. W. Ellington, 200 W. V. Evans, 200 Fowler & Pickett, 400 The Globe, 600 Gilmer Bros., 2,000 Green Drug Co. 400 2. 10. 1,644.75 2. 30. 280. 671. 65. 609. Grier & Taylor, 400 Hart Drug Co., 1,200 J. M, Hedrlck, 400 G. O. Hayworth, 200. . A. B. Huff, 200 H. Pt. Hdw. Co.. 600 G. E. Hutchins, 600 H. Harris & Bro. 1,200 V. W., Idol & Co. 600 E. K. Ingram, 600 Jarre tt Co. 600 P. H. Johnson, 600 S. R. Kress, 2,000 J. C. Kwett , 200 yC. A. Li wis, 400 Joe Levine, 400 Lashmlt's Store, 400 . J. London, 400 R. L. Loflln, 400 D. L. Lapp, 400 B. E. Moore 200 20. 135. 1,269. 140. 72.75 1,463. 359. 100.25 ?;oo. 88.25 80. . 60. 10. ,22. L. W. McCauley, 400- 111.25 . Matton Drug Co., 800 820. Mann Drug Co. 800 630. Moffltt Furn. Co;,: 600 26. v E. S. McLead, ,. 400 i-ftv'";' McLellans Store 20Q 25. H. B. Merritt, 200 N. C. P. S. Co., 400 106. ' Peoples Furn. 1,000 " 913.50 " WrD. Poor, 200 ' 10. R. T. Powell, 200 J. E. Perryman, 400 60.00 J. P. Rawley, 200 D. Rones ft Son, 400 Ring Drug Co., 800 2,231. S. R. habinawitz, 400 239. A Ribertson, COO 627.25 ' A. C. Staley, 200 250. So. Harness Co., 400 J. M. Southern, 400 34. Miss V. Smith, 400 189.25 Z. M. Stillman, 400 287. ' G. J. Steed, 400 8$. W. D. Stroud, 200 15. Shelton Bros. 400 75.75 Siceloff Hdw. Co., 800 , 165. . O. Y. Stone; 400 ' 40. N. H. Silner & Co. 600 470. W. M. Thaliker, 200 2. Tannenhaus, 400 J. H. Vestal; 400 . 49. Welborn Co. 400 1,220. Wilson Motor Co. 400 10. Wade ft Welborn, 200 Ed Wills, 400 Wood Bros. 600 949.50 R. W. Younta, 200 210. HURT IN AUTOMOBILE MISHAPS OF WEEKEND Three Persons Known To Have Been Hurt In Accidents Thnt Oc curred Near This City. Automobile accidents happend in Mocks in and about the city during the past week end, according to re ports received from different sources, William Ellis, a well know reaident of the section, wrecked his automo bile late Saturday and sustained several bruises, none of which, how ever, were of a serious nature, , The young son of Ed Hill, of th'a city, received an injury to his back in an accident Sunday. The young man is a patient . at the local . hos pital. He is not seriously hurt, William s Day's car turned turtle on the Archdale road Sunday after noon ''with the result iha't Mr. Day's thigh,, was . broken Mi:, he sustained other Injuries, chiefly bruises. He Is a patient at the local hospital. ' , Several other accidents have been reported but little details such as names, v places nad I causes were in i some manner omitted ' from tha re ports.' ' - .Postpone Opening Game. !:'vv Chicago,TSepjU, 4--Today's. garna of tfi eworld series between the Chi cago National league champions and the Boston American leugue champ- DEES iiiili Important Railway Centers ;oif Douai and Cambrai Are Threatl i cried Seriously by the Late V Gains of Hai,' : Forces ARfc unorganized, There is Report Current That Ih Germans Are Disorganitad aa Result of the Continued ' 1 i Poundings Given by ' if the Allies 'V: 1 The British have drlvStt homl their push through -tha Wotaa line as far as the Canal Du Nord aa as', et the! progress''- la not'- reports4 checked. - Tre allied wedge ' drlVea into the Germari defense in thaf see- (i' tor between the .railway' centers of4. Doual and Cambrai , ! a, jnenaclnt; '- one to the enemv who inuat-.Btan'th British on the'canal lln if-fie" hopes to save these bases-Wvital jtolxtla .of interest , to ;the Gerinaa ('fsnsivV system tn the west. v. Au' ; Disorganizatiqn' ln .- tha, ..German ' ranks is reported., anofflclal , vices from the front and jit seqma. co be more than a possla1iltyfbAti fa:a ' snemy command is not abis ,te rs- l organize his defensive ;t Qrces.. evan. 'In tlmtf' tit 4,l d 'l.)l',iri; '! pbrarily along the canar posiUoss ,The main force of the. British pulh seems to do in the.airectfon of th canal along both -the Bapajame-Cara-; brat and. Arras-Cambrat , roads-and the terrain ' Tying between those; roads. They are reported ;to have captured : Inchy . En Artols and, Moeurves. This represents an a-' vanco-of betweon three and a RajfJ',J J and 4 four miles, since yeslerday' b- .' yond the southern section of th t famous "switch" 11k at Queant. J.' ' Further south the British .llki-r.;! wise have reached " the ',ltaa of .tBe ' canal well down to Peronne on the' Somme making tho front along thaV ' art flcial waterway cover ai , extent I of more than 20 miles.;- As a matter -of fact they are reported ' to have ' crossed the canal alohg lis southerin, length just north of Peronne.. Tha. monuce to both Cambrai-and .Doukt may be indicated by the fact thar1 the British are wlthin''flve and a half miles of the outskiru of the former' city and not mo're"thansli miles' dU ' taiice from Douai. , ' J In Bvnff'n -drive- 'palna ,fan'hr2t " last year, the Brit'sh approached thkd . city on only a nat row 'front when the Germans counter, attacked oa ths. Dunk, ousting them dlastrousty, wheieas at present the advance is 6ar a. far wider front and offers no alK parent opportunity for fan effective counter blow especially tn the prea ent reported state of German dladr' ganizatlon from the constant pound,, lng the enemy armies have received, all along the entire - - - front - from Rhe-zins to Aifas s.' nee mid July. ' ' To the north the Germans Sre still " tn retreat and the' British hare oo-. cupled additional territory ' In th Lys salient. Th enemy's' reported retirement in the Sector south of tk Basnoo has not been CQnflrmsd, how- ' ever, and ttieGormans are spparenlly still holding the greater osrt of the edal mining city of Leas Ift this area, although the British are r under " stood to be in, the western taction of tho'.town' & '4i : p" - On the French front General Min. gin's army has made Important pro gresa In the direction of tha forest tt SL Gobln which defends Laott. ' ills forces have" reached the. Important town of Coucy e Chateau and hare pushed further east In a fisnklug movement to tils north of SoIisols. (Vtttua Market., . New York. Sept; 4, -A renswal : realizing and southern hide ie': : caused a further sharp reaction itt v cotton murkea during today's trading Th owclriz j i so advance of 5 t 70 i ' i r Ings were tic ivy, J . ' soon -''' ' ' "1 f'-r treatment Mor.-2.iy, I boeg 'thit !
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