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Ths Associated Press is txchurivs , ry entitled to the as for republi cation of all news dispatches cred ited to it or not otherwise credited ia this psper and also fit local news publiihed atrein. welitiier FAIR VOL. 26, NO. 33. HIGH POINT, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 4, 1919. FIVE CENTS. O A Sv) 11 ill GENERAL PERSHING DESIGNATES THE OLD HICKORY DIVISION FOR EARLY CONVOY HOME AND DEMOBLlZATION LOCAL HEROES Two Other Combat Divisions Are Mentioned for Early Convoy at the Same Time, Totalling in the Neighborhood of 83,000 Men. DEMOBILILATION Troops in the United States and Abroad Designat ed for Early Demobilization and Already Out of Service Total 1 ,379,000 Men. WASHINGTON, JAN. 4. (By Associated Press.) Three combat divisions, the 30th, 37th and 91st, have been designated by General Pershing for earlry return home from France, General March announced today. The thirtieth division includes national guard troops from Ten nessee, North Carolina and South Carolina; the 37th Ohio and West Virginia guardsmen, and the 91st Pacific coast troops. These three divisions and the second army corps headquarters, .'hich operated with the British army, in Flanders under Major Gen eral Georee W. Reed, have been added to the Drioritv list and will De returnecr nome aa snipping becomes available, i he three divis ion and the1 headquarters comprise about 83,000 men. ; Units abroad assigned for ear ly convoy in addition to those aready embarked now total 292, 000 men. 1 Troops in the United States and abroad 'designated for anooAinqpt a,l , 1,37.9.000 napiv, DeCriobiliratifen' : oi l the-H army at horn hils 'n$w'chd' th last units already n4ynflha.k-w)l j?fqcd, .grad-, ualrx,,uiderKithe c,weeirteweek plan .Uetting, thft;meftIIpuTlof service. ; The process of demobilization is being maintained, official re ports show and the incomplete to tal gives 630,369 men and 40, 961 officers discharged up to Jan uary 3. 4 The army reorganization bill to be presented to Congress early next week will contain provisions giving authority to the war department to InonrnAvotA In tha naw incrii1op fnrnaa those temporary' officers who- have m!sdtf'go6d in the war, General Mtrion' said; There are no Vacancies lrt"thellOia 'regular army, all commis sibtfed'taakB telng Blled. ' - Officers1 whd have- indicated their deWtttf'td maintain their connection with' the permanent forces are being hefd I'd' tamp and not discharged as their terms In reached. General Pershing :$eir.QCd,.tp .use in, the army of occupation officers of similar status abroad.' Jn reply t oa query regarding per slatont rrnnrtn that batteries B and n '.. a Aiainn h.rf hnn ...'"i,- n i vo,nl, said that General Menoher, former- ly in command ofthe 42nd who is now in Washington had stated spe cifically that these reports were un founded. These units, he said, had not suffered any unusually heavy losses. ' : f-The t oresolng news , story con firms the 5 Information''; gfven in The Enterprise yesterday, secured from Wftntfeersi of , the machine , gun corps of tbs lOUi division, that, hg re mainder of the famoua,. .pit. would be returneduhoms shortly The. news will, be the source . pf much joy. Jin the xsity slce a majority, pt High Point's soldiers are members of thl division. , , I(' . t , tiJ , Previous official announcements . stated that the 30th division was with the army of occupation, which made It seem certain that it would , be several months before the men would be returned for . demoblliza tlon. Recently word reached the city . that the division had been moved to a point near a port of embarka- tion in France and on top of this members of the machine gun corps have been aent out passed through the city Thursday eniafternoon and will conduct services ' route to South Carolina camps to be I at the Bethel Reformed chuich at mustered out. . - 6:45. " WITH THIS UNIT IN FULL SWING SEA OF VflRE WAS Mi' sergeant Chester 'Greer, " Who Was Wilkl' S0ihf Divlin, ia. i mi Digit iaiu ,f?e vyas , in. r .n,,1 Tho following 'excerpt floii a let terr ' wrtttfear by 'Sergeant Chester Greer just received in this city will be ready with interest by the many friends of the local soldier, who left High Point early in the war with Company M: "On the second of October I got a promotion from a corporal to a sergeant and on the third of Octo ber we went in the line they called it a line but it was Just a big whole in the ground that you could hidu in. While iii there Old Fritz would send his big shells over at us and I was covered up two or three times with them. "On. the' eighth, of October we 'went oyer.' and Jt was 'some' trip, too, I must say. We had gone about 2,000 yards when we were held up by machine gun fire by the enemy. It took us about half an hour to knock out the post. before we could advance any further, and while I was helping knock them out I was shot in the arm by one of them but I went on through the village with my company and we captured about 100 Germans and several Frenchmen who had been prisoners. Then I came back to the aid station and they sent me to the hospital. "I could tell you lots more of the times we have gone over the top, but that was one 'battle' I was m , and lV; .was ;that way every day. I have heard 2 5 0 machl ne guns firing at once and . have heard out cf the largest barrages - the allies have ever put down. The: big guns were lined up, wheel to wheel, for' miles and miles, and, they all fired for 2 i-2 .hour and that was some hL of' a fuss you can bet.' The big shells fell every two feel apart and thiey,; didn't leave anything ."""'alive. And I have seen wire just as thick as it could be for a halt mile square that was at the Hlndenburg line. The! old 30fh division helped : to break that and put Jerry on the run and he hasn't stopped yet." Rev. Bowers Here. ' Rev. D. E. Bowers, of Waugh- j town, wllITue in the city tomorrow Plan of Preceedure of the Peace Conference Is Clearly Outlined Paris, Jan. 4. (Havas agen cy) The peace conference, ac' cording to the Petit Journal, will proceed as follows: First, ! a conference of the four'ireatj powers. ; Second, representatives of Belgium and Serbia to be ad mitted for a study of the gen eral situation. Third, admission of other al lies for conferences on the problems interesting them. Fourth, presentation of con ditions successively'' to Ger many, Bulgaria, Turkey, German-Austria and Hungary and the signing of the peace pre liminaries. Fifth, a general conference concerning 'the questions of :hc league of nations, freedom of the1 seas, limitation of arma ment and related topics. y. ; n Further Slump In Pride Oh Cotton ,Mait Tnii Morning New York, Jan. A .The cottoi market; opened steady at a declint of 15 to 40 points under overnigh selling orders brought in by th break: of yesterday .whit there !wa; also southern and Liverpool telling Offerings were ; pretty well .absorbe around the ; initial figuro by; buyer eovering' for the week 'end : twhih there waa. alsol somg scattered buy tng 6n reports of lb wefpiag tredi tlons in ocean, freight ratea-ii botJ, from Atlantic and Pacific portsi -' Cotton futures opened BbeadV January ,28.50 ; March, i Ef .lOjIiMay 26J0O; July, 25.10; Ootober, 22.80 Nerw York cotton closed ibarel 1 steady. January 28.50; March 27.01; May 20.00; July, 25.15; Oc tober, 22.50. Great Yank Armada Is Now Dispersing In New York Harboi New York, Jan. 4. The great American armada which has beer anchored In the Hudson river " here since the arrival of the overseas fleet on'December 26 will be entirely dispetsed wfthln a few' days, navy officials announced today. : Th dreadnaughts Wyoming, Florida and New York left their berths yester day and proceeded to the New York navy yard for repairs. All the other 17 battleships are under orders to proceed to their home yards for re pairs, it is said. SPECIAL SERMON TO THE YOUNG BY MR. LAMBETH Fred N. Tate announced at Wes ley Memorial Methodist church last Sunday morning that the pastor, Rev. W. A. Lambeth, will preach tu the young people and Children a special sermon next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. There will be re served special seats for the young people at the front. The older mem bers, excepting those who cannot hear well, are asked to leave room at' the front for the children. Chil dren who have horse-shoe magnett of their own will be especially inter ested in the pastor's "talking" mag net.' ' ' CANDLESTICKS PRESENTED - TO GENERAL BALFOUR Southampton, Eng., Dec. 18 (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Colonel Swalm, the Ameri can consul here .has presented to General Balfour, the military com mander of the Southampton docks, a pair of handsome sword-handle can dlesticks on behalf of the American troops who have passed throug-h this port on their way to France or to camps in England. . General Balfour, the consul said, bad been uniformly courteous and kind.' RATES WILL STICK r ROADS GO BACK Director-General McAdoo Gives It As His Opinion That Return to Private Control of the Lines Would Not Mean Cheaper Rates. COMPETITION NOT AN "UNALLOYED BLESSING" Wants Five Year Test Period, He j Tells Senators, to Ascertain Just How Much Competi tion is Necessary to Bring Good Service. Washington, Jan. 4. (By Asso rted Press.) Existing rate stVuc urcs would continue If the railroads vere turned back to private control intil the changes were made by or lerly, legal proceedure even where tatcs had specific rate laws in the pinion of Director General McAdoo, pressed today at the resumption of he Benate interstate commerce com iiissions' hearing on railroad prob ems. The interstate commerce commis sion has the power to prevent dis rimination in rates and this powor :ould be invoked to prevent Inequal ties between,; intra and interstate ates, Mr. McAdoo stated. He called Utentlon to the fact tha ttho courts lave power to. annul 'rates which night be confiscatory In. view of the resent high cost of operating. The director general sIbo express d the oplRtejii.ife.jLj, ralgs; 'cjefc tf"prty niu maintain Jolpt IcKet efflees without violating the,! pti-trust laws. ! )i . Senator Miellog, of Minnesota, pallenged this conclusion-.r f. v Ut 1 j 4'D0Bt u know,'' the senator, in tjulrea,' 'fliat when a eominlttee..of allroiid presidents tried to unify the oads1 before the government! tppk told that' the attorney general ln juifed by what authority they wr ictlng and Intimated that they were iolating the law? -t -., "Ho you believe in the elimination f all competition between railroads? )on't you think that the competition ias been the principal factor In pro moting good railway service?" Mr. McAdoo replied: "I don't enow yet whether It would be best o eliminate all competition. That s why I want a five year test period, do not think competition is an un alloyed blessing, but a longer trial vllt show horn much of it is neces ary." Confiscated Syrapv Is Sold At Public :0 Auction By Neil The three large barrels of mo asses which were seized by Deputy Sheriff J. E. Wagner, at an illicit jtill captured by him several months go, were sold at auction yesterday afternoon by J. S." Neil, deputy col lector. After inu-h lively bidding ; the irico of the home made cane syrup vas fixed at 75 cents per gallon, J. VI. Hedrlck, Tom Kivett and Mr. Plummer all buying a barrel. This syrup was used by the blockader In ho manufacture of the so-called su ?ar head whisky ': IMPORTANT MEETING OF MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION The Ministerial association of the city will meet Monday at 10 o'clock at the Commercial club. AH. the ministers tin the ctty are members of this association,, and : they are urged to be present at this meeting. The program committee . will make a report, outlining the work of the; association for the year, and such Other business will b transacted ao comes properly before the meeting. MRS. M. L. SMITH OF DEEP RIVER DIED YESTERDAY Mrs. M. L. Smith died yesterday at the home of her daughter near Deep River, She Is r survived by threo thl'.dien and one brother, S. B. Perryman, of Louisville, Ky. The deceased was well Renown in this city being a sister of thelatelrs Y. A? Burns. The remains' will be car ried to Mt. Pleasant. Sunday morn ing at 11 o'clock for intrment. MILITARY PROELFhl III RUSSIA IN HAND i General March States American! Troops Are Fed and Clothed J Properly for Wniter Cam- j paign There Only 86 Cas- J ualities in Force in Russia. JAPANESE TROOPS HAVE WITHDRAWN FROM NATION 25,000 Japanese Troops Recall ed, Leaving "Smallest Force Possible" in SiberiaDis unity Arises Front Mutual Jealous, Says Report. Washington, Jan. 4. (By Asso ciated Press.) An official report received from the American military I attache with Ambassador Francis in Itusaia, announced today by General March, shows that deaths from all causes hi the American forces in the Archangel rtioi. up to November 25 totalled 86. Of this number nine were killed in action, seven died of wounds, three were drowned, two died as a result of accident and 65 died from disease. Later official reports, General March stated, Know that the mili tary situation in Archangel Is entire ty fn hand and that the troops are adequately fed and clothed for a winter campaign in that section of Russia. WITHDRAWAL JAP FORCES CAUSES MUCH CRITICISM London, Jan. 4. Announcement t&at '-2 5,0 00- J apanese troops would ie withdrawn from 'Siberia Is . re ported by i a Tokio dispatch to The Express i quoting an official state ment Issued: by the Japanese war of fice on December 27 The statement, according tc the. dispatch, says that Japan' intends to maintain hence-. forth only the smallest possible force in Siberia, u i n "Public opinion here,", says the dispatch, "deplores the withdrawal. Allied; observers, American as well as British, speak bitterly of Inter vention being relatively a failure, owing to th "i disunity among the allies and their mutual Jealousies." AFTER WEEK'S ILLNESS CLYDE SMITH SUCCUMBS Clyde Smith, Popular Young Man of the City Died From Pneumo nia Today at Noon. ; Clyde Smith, age 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Smith died at noon today after an illness of sevreal, days from pneumonia. He is survived by his parents, one sister, Miss Nessie Smith, and two brothers, James and Harold. The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the home. The deceased was one of the best known as well as one of the most popular young men in the city. For the past several months he has been employed by the Climax Upholstering com pany. BUSINESS MAN SAID TO BE ASSAULT VICTIM Thurlow Kcarns, superintendent of the Crown Hosiery mills, it is al leged was the victim of an assault early this morning at the hands of; John Sanders. It seems Mr. Sand ers had become involved in some dis pute regarding his time and as a re sult had been discharged from the employ of the hosiery mill of Mr. Kearns. Mr. Sanders early thl3 morning assaulted Mr. Kearns and it is said he Inflicted rather painful, al though not serious Injuries about his head and face. The officers have not yet appre hended Sanders, but a warrant, charging assault has been issued for him . GIVE HUNDRED MILLION TO RELIEVE STARVING Washington, Jan. 4. Congress was asked today by President Wil son in a ' message transmitted through the state department to ap propriate $100,000,000 for relief of famine sufferers In Europe. It is unoOTsToTlKTlneSIen chieBy to send food into the west ern sections of Russia, Poland and Austria-Hungary, v w 7.KRO WEATHER OX HAXD AT A'-KKVll,L.r3 MATl'ItDAY Aahevllle. Jan. i. The co d waye struck Asheville a severe blow thia morning, the r.nr cury at the official station re gistering zero at 8 o'clock, the coldest weather the city has experienced since Docember, 1917, when it waa four below. Telegraph companies and tele phone coiporations are having' trouble with wires. F ED Assistant Secretary of War Crow ell Would Buy Sites for Big Camps at Fayetteville and Two Other Points. I Washington, Jan. 4. Government acquisition of all 16 national army cantonment sites with the decision for their future use to be made later was urged today by assistant Secre tary of War Crowd! before the house military committee. He also advo cated the purchase of land for es tablishing three big camps at Co lumbus, Ga., West Point, Ky., and Fayetteville, N. C, for future train-1 ing of the army regardless of its peace time strength. The total cost was estimated to exceed (66,000, 000. Efforts of the members of the com mittee to obtain a statement of the war department's policy tor peace tlmtTf nrartntf' ef;--flef' testis iertattfci? Ttwm quT-kioAefl answered fh'a the drain ing camps would be necessary re gardless of future policiea. ) ; J. a COPPLE DIED THISf MORNINP. IN T HAM AS VIII R Father of; J. fe Cple'totl'hisft'it.v ' Died This Morning From Inju ries Received Tuesday,, J. H. Copple, of Thomasvllie,, fath er of J. E. Copple of this city, died at 2.30 o'clock this morning from in juries sustained when he stepped off trarin No. 43 at Thomasville last Tuesday, on which he was return ing to Thomasville from Burlington. He was on the steps of the train waiting to get off and thinking that the train had stopped jumped down and received the injuries which re sulted in his death. Surviving are a widow and five children: J. A. Copple, of South Carolina; J. E. Copple, of this city; Everett Copple, of Richmond, Va.; Mrs. E. L. Cramer, of Winston Salem, and Miss Effie Copple, of Thomasville. ALL PLANES SURRENDERED ARE BRAND NEW ONES Coblenis, Thursday, Jan. 2. (By Associated Press.) Sixty more Ger man airplanes were accpeted today by the Americans. One hundred more which will be turned over to the Americans have arrived here anil are being given trial flights by German aviators preparatory to (heir accept ance. So far all of the machines have been accepted. All wer- brand new. PURCHASE m I NI MCAl WOUNDED SOLDIERS IN NEED OF ; - j BOOKS AND GAMES; MISS FISHER FORMER RESIDENr ASKS FOI AID The people of High Point are ask ed to make the lot of the wounded soldiers returning from France to the cantonments in this country more pleasanat by providing them with amusements. The pica is made by Miss Maryllly Fisher, of this city, now In the Y M. C. A. "hut" service at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga. Books, games and donations, either one or all, are wanted and are nead efd immediately, according to a let ter received by The Enterprise from Miss Fisher. The. men returning from France to Camp Gordon are of course incap- leltatedTscfarRs military life is eon4pecpleof the city" msy be corned and use the Y. M. C. A. "hut" at the camp as a heme and seek something to 1 amuse them.; Mis MENABOARD VESSEL IE ALL TAKEN Off I i . f i j Removal of the 2C0 Wounded Veterans of European, Battle-' fields on Board Northern Pa cine Begun Early This Morning. LITTER CASES CAUSED WORK TO BE DIFFICULT Clearing Skies and An Even Sea Made the Work Muck' Easier Than it Was Yesterday When Most of Men Able to Wai 'i ' Were Taken Off . ' H Fire Island. N. Y., Jan. 4,-Re moval of 200 wounded, the last of the army transport Northern Pacl- fic's soldier passenger list . aboard I the stranded liner, was begun early today under clearing skies and on an even sea. Submarine chaseri mrf naval launches carrrylng the men to the hospital ship Solace werer ex pected to complete tha operation be fore noon. i Powerful wrecking tugs made aa effort at high tide this morning to free the vessel. ' '., s, Four naval launches drew alons sme tne ship, - which developed a heavier seaward list during the night land the hospital ship Solace took" 'position closer' in shore in preparft uon ror the rescue of the- wounded" -veterans of European battlefield. Many of those remaining on board are litter cases; much ftdd'ng td' tn ' difficulties of rescue. ' " , . . ' a a.. J i jt- .- - . , vi.'- ,'', ' . i w . n 11. 1LI7II . v . j l l km m wm will H VFn v workers perron the beach with lup plib'bf,Sbamrtf!Mee rekay-for'Sny1 etneKgency. Coast ! giiaVrf rt6ri)ftmd' ft oldiers sought trellef from. the bidfig wpaerron jteabonHftrBs,,,. lfl NEW C.PUMXfi WAtJCHTP ,PSL3 ( WILL at. SUKKtJNDEKED ' :' '" A.vfiii snou Baden, Cbnipleted After'' ,'thl"JU,a: Started,' Soon to Be 'Given; Vp-Xl'" 170 Submarines Are FtiunA London, Jan. 4. Germany's new est battleship, the Baden, will be" surrendered at a British port within a few days, according to the tterms of the armistice, ' V - The Baden has a displacement of 28,000 tons. Owing to the fact i that this ship was completed after tho war began little is known as to its armament. , i Hubs to Be Given U , London, Jan. 4. One : hundred and seventy, submraines, aliunder; construction, were found whan the. ;; Interallied naval commission -visited, r , Germany to arrange for the carry ing out of the terms of the armla- tice, according to newspapers -. here. These U-boats, it is said, will .be turned over t0 the allies. , . NO ULTIMATUM IS SENT 'V ' ' i TO GERMAN COMMANDER London, Jan. 4. The foreign of fice denies that a Zrltlsh ultimatum has been sent to the German com mander In the Baltic region as re ported. It is also declared' that it has had no report of a large British force in the Baltic province, , Fisher suggests that tha ministers of the city call to the attention of their congregations at the 'services tomorrow . mornlg the need of the soldiers and ' urgs the - tending of them at the earliest possible date. : "You have no idea writes Miss Fisher, "how much It will mean Id the. boys." : ' ,' '" . Ank kind roadlsg matter U otfoded at once, current magaslnss Included. The incapicltated mts wilt probably bo kept; at tha esmp for months, but right now, with thougM of homo foremost In their mind, tSi need for amusement' and rerfit!o.i Is paramount. Donations of t" rect to Miss Maryllly F!'. r, Y. C,'-' A.- administration fcui:. :. ( Gordon, Atlanta, Ci.