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WEATHER REPORT FOR North Carolina; cloudy tonight and Saturday; Probable l'ocal rains; gradually to moderate shifting winds. COMMOWWI SALT VOLUME XXXV. AFTERNOON DAILY SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY ll, 1917. TELEGRAPH SERVICE NUMBER 12. PAY INDEMNITY BY INSTALMENTS TO KEEP ECORATION DAY !:lHJs WORLD KEY Constantinople and Dardanelles Straits to Be Under it; Government CONSIDERED LEAST DANGEROUS (By UNITED PRESS) Paris, May 11. By the end of July, 1917j Germany will have in- ,i i : i i .: j j. .Li ah; e ! t - , - uxxtu uaviLiiy to me Aines ior ; pians were launched today to an after the war indemnity of make American Decoration Day one hundred and sixty thousand million dollars. This figure comes today from the pen of Jean Finot, well known French editor, author and statis- by J. W. Pegler (United Press Staff Cone London, May 11. Definite i ! t ! (By Wilber Forest) (I'niteil Press Staff Correspondent) Paris, May 11. Belgium's flag t fly over Constantinople, and that Belgium should control the Dardenelles is the revised plan for its stated war aims respect in? Turkey. On high authority the change of program has been thoroughly discussed in high official circles of the allied governments. Since ne wRussia has renounc ed the old Russia the dream of dominating the straights channel of Turkey is a problem that has been forced upon the allies, and that to grant arbitrary control to any one o fthe world's great nations might engender jealousy and endanger the future world peace. Neither would it promote peace to give the straights and con- trol of Constantionople to any of the Balkan states, so that Bel gium is considered the most log ical, and less dangerous, of all nations to assume control of that much wanted, and fought for, territory of Europe and Asia. NEWS FROM STATE CAPITAL Raleigh, N. C. May 11 Of such great importance does Governor T. W. Bickett consider? the cul tivation of tenantless and vacant farms in this time of stress and danger that he has addressed a second letter to the boards of county commissioners of the coun ties of the State urging that there be no delay in this activity. The Governor's letter tells its own story. It is as follows: "In the emergency we now face not only patriotic duty but the necessity of protecting the people of our own State from want demands that we increase our acreage and production of staple food and feed crops by ev tician writing in the current num ber of La Revue, of which he is editor. A peace of a hundred years is the title of ' the article. This is only possible the author argues by forcing Germany to purge her self of future militarism. The reme dy the only remedy he points out, is an "Installment indemni ty" to the allies from Germany of about two billion four hundred million dollars a year. On the theory that German mili tarism was responsible for the world catastrophe and the Ger man people were responsible for militarism, the author says that the German people should accept the lesson of future peace by pay ing every cent of the damage. Germany's national wealth be fore the war was placed at eight hundred millions of dollars. The Strong Commission Chosen to Aid Provisional Government May 30, a general memorial dav! throughout the allied countries of the world. already forwarded to President ULIFIU KUU1 IU HKAU KAK Y Wilson such a, proposal, together! with definite Dlans for making! the idea a reality. The suggestion first came from Lieut. Col. Bullock, who hopes President Wilson will take the in iatative informally inviting the allied countries to join. Consul Skinner is enthusiastic in backing up the movement and LANSING WANTS A PRESS GAG (By UNITED PRESS) Washington, May 11. A muz- if the plan is carried out, May 30 j zle is on the press, in the. State will be a day of general mourning throughout the countries fighting for liberty and democracy. Department. Secretary of State Lansing has ordered that no officials shall tall on Flags of all allied countries will j with the newspapermen even t t-i a i i i . i . De piaceu on tne graves ana our-1 minor news matters. All news i i c -i-i.i i - t ? r mi pus oi an tnose wno cueti m , must comc from him or from the j i t i r -i i me worui war ior democracy. deparmental publicity bureau. American organizations in Lon- j Even interpretative matter from don have already lined up in fa- i expert chiefs of the department vor of the plan for the world to i is barred give over a day of mourning for Lansing does not trust the jud its dead. They will be invited ' o-m0nt, of den art out snhmVliiin- (BY UNITED TRESS) "Washington, May 11 The pres ident has completed the personel of the commission to go to Rus sia to assist the provisional gov ernment, and same will probably be announced todav as follows: Root, Cyrus McCormack, C. R. Berton, New York Bankers: Chas Edward Russell, socialist leader ; James Duncan, vice president of the federation of labor, Dr. John Mott and Charles Crane, of Chicago. . -a , 1 t to decorate the graves ot the nun-: tps ;n matters of mddieitv. , i -r , ii j n !x - j.1 i ! i-,7- installment -indemnity is mere -j crects 0f American soldiers who; fore the way for the Allies to ex-, i ffiven un their lives for Eng-! ery means at our command. As act their tolL The ailthor adds: r land's cause. D EA El Pi E' Fl 'hi What might have been a seri ous accident, but which only re sulted in a few scratches to the occupants of the car, and no in considerable damage to the car, happened last night 'half a mile this side of Halifax, when a Ford car, owned by Mrs. J. C. Mullen and driven by Mr. Ed Tillery, skidded in a rut in the road,; the constituted authority in vour county, upon you rests the respon sibility of doing everything possi ble to protect your people from threatened hunger and deprivation.. The farmers of the state rallying to the extent of their a bility to the demand for increas ed food and feed production, but they are handicapped by a short age of labor and work-stock and they are not going to be able to "The German people are solid- arized with the Emperor and his soldiers. Having committed tin unutterable crimes t the instig- nation, the people should parti-1 cipate in the reparation for these ol crimes." ' . . . D'YA SUPPOSE IT BURNED ISABEL? GATE TAX ON BASEBALL FAN 'EACE MEETING man mak: by H. C. Hamilton Lansing's only answer to the charge that he was establishing an iron system of suppression was .that, in his opinion, it was quite the contrary that he wel comed criticism and would see that all proper announcements ! were made to the press. There was no effort to conceal he fact that lie lias made himself I the absolute dictator of the news - last December ry Mann (United I're.s Staff ( nvspoMlont) Copenhagen, May 11 The (ii'r nr.m newsj)aiers are beginning enthusiastically to "pressage" the so-called socialist conference at Stockholm this coming Jum. The propagamla of the scheme is regarded as convincing proof tiiat it is of (iernian character, and in fact is taking the place of the scheduled- conference set for (By United Press) London, April 22.-4By Mail) supply the deficit of food and! Isabel Reid, a munitions girl, was before the Germ- united Press Staff Corrcspoiides'tj j 0f tjie reati(ms of this country an Chancellor liethmanndlohv New York, May 11. Ameri-! and aji foreign nations. He de- j egg launched his peace proffer, can fans probably will have to lxiet that he was paving the way ' when the German papers sndde:: pay baseball's share of the war j.for secret diplomacy but his state- ly predicted "approaching p- feedstuffs we shall face. It imperative therefore that steps betaken to increase acreage and of our road forces of men and ! the evidence. whereat the driver lost control, workstock in the cultivation of the car turning over two or three times and landed against a tree half way down to the .swamp. In the car were the driver, Mr. Ed Tillery, Mr. Albert Madry and Mr. Sherrod Harrell. These gen tlemen were brought back to town idle and tenantless farms, many of which exist in practically ev ery county in the state. The pro duction of foodstuffs is more im portant in this crisis even than the building of good roads, and I am again writing to urge that tax. ; ments all showed clearly that ma- Magnates in all leagues are I chinerv for the maintenance of is I sentenced to six weeks' imprison-j bending their energies toward en-j such secrets has been completed. Close tabs have been kept on newspapermen. Embassies have been told to keep quiet and say nothing. Conversations of news paper men in s. far as they af fected the State Department strangely enough got back in a shortlime to department ears. It has been suspected by press mem bers that a real spy system was ment for smoking a pipe in a mu-1 actment of a federal law which nitions factory. Isabel ditched will require the payment of a production by other means. The j the boiler in her stocking when ' stamp tax before a fan passes the great est opportunity we have j the inspector came to her bench, gate. They claim the requirement for doing this is through the use! but a woman detective recovered of a tax on a club's gross receipts (By United Press) Berlin,' May 11. A sanguinary attempt to storm Bullecourt by j as has been suggested, would ruin j many clubs. Baseball in fact would have to go out of business in some sections. President Tener, of the Nation al! encircling movement of the! al League is one supporter of the j on their trail, though this has nev British was repulsed. j plan to tax single admissions last night apparently uninjured, 1 you take up in your county with out the car was left where it fell j out delay. until this morning when Mr. Ed Tillery drove down to pull it back to town. IA HEAD FOR ALLIANCE By William Shepard Sainted Press Staff Correspondent) Petrograd, May 11. The Sch ei.elberg munitions district re volted todav. Workmen and citizens of t-.e district announced their inten tions or organizing a separate republic. Ivepresentative of the workmen ami soldiers committees left here immediately to dissuade the revol tosr from their announced pur pose. ftie provisional president of munitions district has been arrested by the rebels. How serious is the revolt is not. cl?ar at this time. Thereapparently has been no violnece. i'liis appears to be another in- i on nave ample autnority, ac-1 coiding to the Attorney General j to use the road forces tor this purpose and you should not only raise sufficient feed for your stock and food for your workers but a surplus for the market, the proceeds of course to be added to your road fund." TO A MP1C lUMrra k TCT v! i er been fully established. Some diplomats have been pra ctically reprimanded for discuss- ! ing business involving a state de ! partment tangle. py event. Today the same sort of move ment is under way, Ihe .same words "approaching happy ev ent" are being used as an infer ence that a separate peace wit it Russia is forming. The direct mention is this is carefully avoided however of any such hone in connection wi!h the "happy event." expected. RUSSIA NOT BETRAY ALLIES (BY UNITED PRESS) Paris, May 11. Another ad vance on the German positions in the region of Chevreux, and the capture of further ground, was announced. The gain was held despite vio lent counter attacks. at once. This places an opportunity be fore the citizens of North Caro lina to be among the first to go a- stance of friction in the Duma ! broad. To these who are desir government and is planned as a ! ous of joining this organization world "International" project ! which will have the honor of ren to embarass the meeting of alldering first aid to the allies in varieties of socialists in some nett-' their task of driving the Germans tral nation to discuss world pro- from France, immediate action is blems. j necessary. All those believing The backers of the plan insisted j themselves to be qualified shoould at a conference that this was un- j communicate at once with Major identified in the slightest degree Waldron. It is thought that with the June Meeting of social- there will be a nation wide ans ists ito be held in Stockholm. I wer to the President's call for these troops, and North Carolina should furnish her quota. The troops to be collected for this expedition will be entirely Engineer Reserve troops, and while they will be essentially rail way troops for service on the lines of communication in Franc? all of the men need not necessar- it is proposed to send to France J ily be railroad employees, but the latter are preferred. The Secretary of war has ap nroved the following rules I'm Wilmington N. C, Mav 11. Major A. E. Waldron, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, the dis trict engineer officer for eastern North Carolina, received instruc tions today from the war depart ment in Washington to assist the department in securing men for engineer organization which COTTON MARKET Open. High. Low. Close. May 10.60 V.).- V.)."j 19.7.'I July 19.40 l!Ur. 19.40 l:.0o Oet. , 1S.67 1H.0 1S-0.5 Dec. 18.7.5 l!).S 1S.7:J 19.0 S Jan. 1S.S0 19.c9 ls.SO 19.09 Loeal Market IS -j-S. j t, ... Hie :f VPMANQ H Aim (By United Press) (EY UXJTi:D PRESS) Petrograd, May 11.-Only the complete, defeat oi Germany vviil assure the worlds happiness, and peace now would only be an ar miti:e. "Russia cannot betray her al lies with whom she has been fight- r-' ing tor three years."' Thus president Rod.i;tnk( of he Russian Duma , force! ully deaded v.!lh the Russian govern ing body for the unswerving con tinuance of Russia's part in tin war. lie warned against the insidu- nis peace move inspired by Ger many and point-d out that Ger man workers, however socialistic and who might express themsel ves as a recently desiring peace, would naturally support their German government in its impera listic aspirations. -Vigorous IT mm sobs SUNK BY ITALY 'London, May 11 troops collected for this expedi-! German attempts to shake HaigV tion: grip on Arleux, and all lines south (a) The enlisted men will be of Souchez river, were all repul- j given their discharge at the end sed the British commandcr-in-, of the war. ! bief reported today. j (b) , They will not be subject! The British artillery machine; to draft in other forces while ser-: gun fire stopped the enemy's as-j rinnr in tliocp rpofinipnts. i T-aultS. i M au.o Mm-m,nt ,vin hP enll-! Around the Souchez salient the Austrian submarines have ed into active service at once. I attack was repeated a second time : sunk m the Jlcl.tcrran.an sea Any additional information de-iwith liquid fire employed by the dunng the past three weeks by sired will be furnished by Major! Germans. This attack was al.; Itl.n.. desr oyers ,t was learned (By UNITED PliKS.S) Washington, .May 11 Thirteen been Waldron upon request. repulsed.
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