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c C Il -LI is e:.'. Li ly e.u;UJ to tit e tor r!:",.;.i citioa cf til tfvo d.. rstJ.ti c.1 i'.tl to it or rot tiert'.e creZ.til ta t.:i prrer ci Co Jii lool 0, , A .. -,. 1 , p ; - l.'u.i, I"ii.r rv, , . SJhtlr col W li tioa e :.:t, j .. '- 1 1 i i 7.(1- fl , i , - f 1 6 -if tl VOL. 26, NO. 5. HIGH POINT, N. CV SATURDAY, AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 30, 1918. FiVECEOTS. 11- v r j THIRTIETH DIVISION IS NOT TO RETURN; IT NOW BEING ONE OF THOSE IN PERSHING'S ARMY AMBIDED CASUALTY I nu Total of More Than 57,000 Men Died in France From Wounds', Commander' of American Forces Overseas Hat i - Announced . 150,000 MEN WiLL BE BROUGHT HOME SOON ' Three DiYuions Are to Return Home at Early Date, But 30th x and 27th Are Not Designated for Any Early Traveling ' Gen. March Explains. Washington, -Nov. 30. (By Associated Press.) - General Pershing has designated for early convoying to the United States a total of 3,45 1 officers and 79,663 men, General March announced today. . The units ineluded will be made public later -.: Included in the troops to return immediately are the following en tire divisions) . s : Thirty-ninth, .76th. and 87th ( ArkanjaB, .Ijouisiana, Mississippi and." southern Alabama national army troops and Arkansas, Mis sissippi "and Louisiana ' national guardsmen. Tlie other troops comprise artillery units and artil lery corps troops. h : General March gave out an amend ed casualty list rom General Persb lng. ftving the official total to No vember 28 as' 262,723,' ecluslve of prisoners. The figures on prisoners were unintelligible,- but General March said- the great total was not much larger, apparently, that was announced in the totals given out last Saturday.; s v . General Pershing reports the fol lowing official casualties to November Killed In action, 28,363. , Died of wounds, 12,101. Died of disease, 6,034. . Died of other causes, 1,980. Missing In action, 14,290. ' 1 . -I- ... , (...,...., ..... .... , ... t - Prisoners, unintelligible. f . Wounded, 189,55, divided as fol lows; ' ' ' ' ' , Severely,' 64,751. - . j , Degree undetermined 43,168., 1 Slightly undetermined, 43,168. Slightly, 92,036.. v Thewar department t expects to .bring home in the monh of- Decern-, ber between 150,000, and 17,000 men, General March sai(U. To accom plish that it will use In addition td army transports, and converted cargo i ships both old ships and cruisers, j which have an additional carrying capacity of 25,000 men. - Shipping experts expect to handle 300,000 men ' monthly when the demobilization is under full speed. A ; Revised estimates for the coming year resulted in cutting the $19,000, 000,000 of ? army appropriations to less than. 13,000,000,000 General March announced. 1 ' i ' General Pershing has been directed by President Wilson Nto jsonfef the distinguished service medal on Gen- eral Bliss, Lieutenant General Lig gett and Dullard and Malor Generals DJckman,.Mc Andrews and Harboard. Genera,l March corrected an erron ous Impression that the 27th (New York troops) and the 30th (Tennes see, North Carolina, South Carolina and District of Columbia troops) di visions, rpeorted as withdrawn from the Brjtjsh lines, had been designated ' for early r.turn to the United Stat w The two divisions, he explained,-have been returned to General Pershing's command and have not yet been - assigned tar -transportation.. home. isiisiiira PERSHING TELLS OF ' - THANKSGIVING GIFTS v : American Headquarters in France, Friday, Nov. 29 (By Associated Press) . Victory won by the American (tpldiera t ia hard fighting and at the cost of groat sacrifices waa ' the Thanksgiving day gift to the American nation and ; th American army General Persh ing declared In a Thanksgiving addrwa at general headquar ters today; The debt of grati tude to TLaFayette nan been '. paid and 1 the Invader driven ; bank In 'defeat. ;;. , ' ': 'The American commander In. chief paid tribute to the dead and wounded, urged ' the sol diers to thank God for the Anal victory and declared that a' new visionof duty to God and nation had come to all. Amer lean motlters, he said, awaited . with open arm the home com ftig of their gallant sons. C.E. Private Charles E. Grant in Let. . ten to i His Parents Describes t How John GranlTMade the , ' Supreme Sacrifice. The following letters were re ceived by the parents of Charles E. Grantrone of which la dated October 28 and the other November 1. Jolio Grant, the brother of the writer, was killed in action some weeks ago and the writer in letters, to his parents (ens or me sacrnice 01 ois Dromeri ; "It almost kills me to tell you John was killed in action October 17. I saw bis grave about an hour aftre he was buried. Please try to bear up under ; this as it was the Lord's .wlll to take John away.- I know it will be an awful blow to you all and wish it ha dbeen me instead of John,' But he died for his coun try and no one can say that a Grant was ever aslacker. ' " . "Privates Whitehearf and ' Mac Bryant were killed in actio nand a lot more High Point boys wounded, but such is war. - -"t received your letters with four stars on it the day I found out John nie was dead. I want you all to look on the bright side and remember there are still three of us left. "I had better close for this time." "Field postofflce, Nov. 1, 1918. "I am writing you again to try to cheer you up. I guess you all know about Johnnie's death by now as they sent' his personal effects home and I wrote you about it besides. f 'I was talking? to ' a boy itfthe He said Johnnie didn't say machine gnn company who,, saw him word after he was hit., with a shell and I don't . think he suffered as death was almost instantaneous. Ws should be proud of our youngest boy for he gave his life on the altar of freedom that others might live.! 1 want you all to remember that there are three mor of us and try not to take it so hard as it-will maki it harder on the rest of us. I got to see his , grave about an hour, after he was burled, but' had to go with my company as we were going out. is in the field artillery and has Just gotten"., oat ' of ; ; the hospital in Blighty. , : ; ' "Try to bear npv ander this as the Huns can't get u$ all." s-N V ;; Londoh, Nor. '30. A labor party manifstoi demands a peace of in ternational ?3-operatio:. witiidraw al of the allied forces from Russia, home rule In Ireland, abolition of conscription, land- nationalization, betetr housing, free trade, a levy on capital ia order to pay the war debt, GRANT OF BROTHERS DEATH T VHEIff TO GET OFF In 1917 Foreign Minister of Ans-tria- Hungary SSought General Ludendorff and Told Him Dual Monarch Waa. About Exhausted. Wanted Peace . HUNS WOULD DECLARE WAR ON CHIEF ALLY So Ludendorf Informed the Mes senger of Emperpr Charles, the Very JDay That Seperate Peace Waa Sought . Vienna Has .' Binding Proof. Copenhagen, Nov. 30.- (By Asso ciated Press.) -people, of promi nence in, Vienna, who were in touch with developments, assert that in 1917when Count Csernln, then Au st re-Hungarian foreign minister, sought, by Emperor Charles' order, to" induce Emperor William to con clude peace he was referred to su preme headquarters. , " . When Count Czernin, pointed out that Austria was exhausted and might be compelled to make a sep arate peace, General Ludendorf, striking theWable, exclaimed: ""The same day Austria concludes a separate peace it will receive a de claration of war from Germany. That will be our only answer t osich a breach." ' . ' Count Czernin thereupon returned io Vienna and told the emperor that Jiothing could be done' as Austria's injure was' knit with thatof. Ger many.'"' 1 '". 4"li ER Records to Be Sealed on Decern ber : All Men Between 18 and 36 Classed as Delinquent Will be Deserters.' The work of the local exemption board, is practically over. - The first report ia to be sent in today and the final report on December 9th. After that date the office will be closedand the records sealed. There are still some men between, the ages ot 18 and .46 whowere so overcome wltb joy at the dawn of peace that they forgot to fill out and return theii questionnaires and have continued to forget for the past several weeks, although they have been warned several times that they would be classed as delinquents if their ques tionnaires were not n by November 30 and as a number have failed to heed this warning they have accord ingly been reported to the adjutant r general as delinquents. However, ii they return their questionnaires be fore the 9th day of Dcember their names will be taken off the delta quent list. But if the questionnaires are not in the office of the local board by December 9 'they will be reported td the adjutant general, nos as delinquents, out as deserters, and as the records of the office will be sealed that day there- wilt be no chance after . then to . keep their pames from going down on record as a deserter and .more than that there will he a reward of $50 offered for the capture of any man classed as a deserter.', It captured,' the doserter will not have the choice of either go J J A - . A A AAMM W 'Pou "r, . uh. u.v, but- wIU hT t0 Mrve sentence rne lonowjng men nave peen re ported to the adjutant generaf as de linquents and are in danger of beiug classed as' deserters If their , ques tionnaires are not returned by De cember 9.: C. i E Elledge.t Earl P. Hughes, Edward M. Brown, Walter Coleman,' John B. Kidd, William ft. Hayworth,: Herby I. Smith, E. W. Norman, Peter S. Legion, Joseph O. Cook and William Miller, The fol lowing negro men, also: Thomas W. Bobbins, amuel Ellis, Wesley- Uob inaen, James Connorr Jamas Gooden, TOLD AUSTRIA LXFMPTIOi BOARD WOfiK ALMOST OV Malce the Germans rebuild the :pwnsthey WILLIAM H0HENZOLLERN FINALLY STEPS DOWN AND OUT, RENOUNCING ALL CLAIMS ON THRONES OF PRUSSIA AND GERMANY Amsterdam, ! Nov. 30. (By Associated Press.) i William Hohenzollern has definitely re nounced all future right to the crowns of Prussia and Germany and has released all officials and officers from their oath of fealty, according to the text, of a docu ment signed by the former em peror and which is quoted in a Berlin. 14 v v ' "Regent" Cause iTalk. , London, Nov. 30. -(By Asso- GERMANY WILL RETURN j PRISONERSS CORRECTLY ! Tiireats of Briiili i Armistice Com mittee' Apparently Carry Con victlon as Hliown by Results. Amsterdam, Nov. 30. (By Asso ciated - Press. ) - In response to threats by the British armistice com mittee that hostilities would be re sumed . unless conditions' under which prisoners are arriving in al lied ..lines were remedied, a Berlin telegram declares that evrything il being done by Germany to insure the Orderly return of the prisoners. The regular transportation pf returning prisoners has now become effective to a considerable extent, it is stated. GOOD BYK KITDS; YOUR i CAREER IS .NOW-HALTED ' Washington, Nov. 30. Brew- ' ing ot - beer and other malt . drinks will stop at midnight to night In the United States. T: special presidential, eojhmlttee which recommended that 'the - provision prohibiting brewing , -v as a war conservation measure deildd nilsv to make -no re-' tBm'mendatloa to tha. President u ,uftA.utiia iLat . produc- - - tlon should . be resumed in view ot the; signing of the ar- . mistice. Btrrtey Miller, Alexander White, Jr., and. James Conard. ..... ., , ", , ciatedl Press.) Former! Emper-I or William signed his abdication at Amerongen, Holland, yesteri day according to a dispatch to the Wolff bureau of Berlin, transmit ted by the Exchange Telegraph correspondent at Copenhagen. The abdication decree, accord- mg to the message, expresses the; day report that Admiral, von hope that "the new regent" would , Hintze, formed head of the Ger be able to protect the Cerman man navy, was in Holland to ob peogje against anarchy, starva-' tain from the former kaiser a for tion and foreign supremacy. ' mal proclamation of abdication. RADICALS GET FULL ESS CONTROL Liebknecht's Followers Take Ov er All Wireless Stations in Germany, Whereupon They . .'; Scatter Warnings Borlin, Friday, Nov. 29.(By As sociated Press.) A group of Inde pendent socialist democrats closely identnied with the Spartacus ele ment of Dr. Lllebknech has seized control or all wireless stations In Germany ' and now' is transmitting propaganda and other news, the Ber lln Tageblatt says it si informed. , Chancellor Ebert and Herr Haase on behalf of rfe government, the newspaper adds! have warned the prs's at home and abroad of condi tions and' declare further that the government will not assume respoifc siblllty for wireless information which is being sent out of Germany. Cotton closed barely steady. De cember,' 26.50; January, 25.30; March, 24.45;' May, 24.05 July. 23.1S. ;.v. -:- A"-y 1 destroyed. By Morris! ijfo U85 0f the word "regent jn the message ia cnnArA . possibly significant. Hintze Was There. Washington. Nov. . 30. -(By 1 Associated Press.) State depart ment advices from The Hague to LODGE OF SORROW OF ELKS HELD TOMORROW I Principal Address by Rev, James A. j ('larks, Eulogy of W. I. Kxan j By J. J. Farriss The annual lodge of sorrow of the High Point lodge of Elk will he : held at lie high school cuditorlum j tomorrow, Sunday, afternoon at 1 3:30 o'clock. The principle address will M delivered by II;. James A. Clarke, pastor of Hie Fit st Baptist church. Th eeuljgy Tor the occa ilou will be delivered by J. J, .Kar risa'on W. P. Raiti. mayor of the c:ty and officer of the lodge, who died a few weeks ugo. . The ..memorial -services ..-of Ui9! Elks are always Impressive and un. usual care has bean taken this year to. make them of more t'uan passing! stenlficance to those who will at-i t.nnfl. : Thn nutilln la entitl.l and In vlted t oattend this lone yearly pubs' lie ' session of , the Best Peoplo on 1 Earth. GERMAXV "TURXA OVER ! ' ' GATlit TO THE ALLIES Paris, Nov, 30. (Havas "Agency.) ( North Carolina Public Service co:r The first of 150,000 hallway cars, ' pany, takes effect iomofrow. f which Germany must deliver to the when the business man starts for fi allies under the terms of the arm Is- up town office in the inornlng t tice,' arrived at the front yesterday ' will have to fork out two ttrt , and were received 'by military au- per cents. The gss rate will ' i thoritles, according t othe Matin. ;take a correspondlos C' .t. DDCCIIICMT Pfl"'P 10 SPEAK HEM Will Address Joint . Session of Congress Monday Afternoon at 1 O'clock Instead of Waif ing Until Tuesday After noon as is the Custom WIU TELL CONGRESS AND COUNTRY PEACE PLANS Will Discuss the Great Problems Ahead of the Nation W Read justing the SSituation From War to a Peace Basis. VZ1 t , Go Abroad, Then., Washington. Nov. 30. (By ,Asor elated Press. Present rWJIsoo" will address the new session of Con gress Monday afternoon Instead ' of ' following ae usual cusitm of dellv- ' ering the audi ess on ihe second dsy ' of the s'Mdon. . , , ' . 3'j'iate'anu house lealcrs' wsre , asked tdav ut arrange Cer' a Joint i iwioa at I o'clock Mopduy after- noon so n, hasten the President's' departure icr. Europe io" itUml tha peace conif rence. It bai been, stated tbat he would sail from Kew- York the day after the address was' deliv ered. t' V ' " "y( - ,ijk- The President's appearance' before " v Congress is awaited with intepie la terest. - Besides discusslbg the (real X,t problems ahead ot the country In re-( . adjusting the situation from a-war' to jeaca hasis heja expected ..toteU 1 - ingress and ' the euntir some' of vT1'",; the plans for the peace conference tft ; : which hi is 'going In person. at the) i head of the representative's ot tki O United States. ' .,"." OHN HORN TELLS OF Former Company M. Boy Npw In the Fighting 30th Division., Tells of Bullets Cutting Win- dows In His" Clothing The following letter (rvas received , here by a friend of Corpjoral John C. Horn, formerly a member of Com pany M, serving with the 30th divi sion In France: ' "Guess you have seen in the pa pert? what we have been doing over ' here. ., Our . division has . . been in about the biggest drive that has. been made so far. Everybody seems proud ot what we have done and I am myself, for I was in all the drives and cam out safe. We have beea.. over the top- several tinies and al ways reached our ebjestice. - Jt is jreat-sport going oyer the top, bat. it is hin'd to see your friends fall at, your side when you ' can't, stop to help them.' Only four of the boys from our company have been killed, one of them "being John Orant. I could tell you a lot mors f.bout the war if I were allowed to write it, - ."Guess It , Is . sotting . rold over , there by this time. We, are having, s6me cold weather over here.. I have had lotstof excitement since I have been over here, the bombs ha fallen close enough to ' knock me down several tinies and the bullete have made some windows Jo r4y clothing," but t am i use tq that niose. ' ' . ' " now that it does not frighten uie any "As everything is looking bright over here now, I don't think (t will be ,0"g bet6r! ' o"! ' 0" way back t0 the .U . i . ! INCREASE IX CAR FARES TAKES EFFECT TOMOP.r.OW The raise in street car fares and gas rates which was granted to lbs CLOSE IVES
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