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HE VOLUME XXXV. OVATION E AMEMCli THE SHIP CARRYING PERSHING AND PARTY MET 100 MILES OFF THE IRISH COAST BY BRITISH FLOTILLA SPECIAL TRAINS Iiy Frank Getty (Tinted Press Staff Correspondent) r.riiisli Port, June 8 .Major (Jeneral John J. Pershing, com u.uimltT of the first American ex peditionary force to France, ar rived in England this morning, accompanied by his staff. A tremendous ovation was ex tended to the American officers upon arrival. Special trains were waiting the noted visitors to wiiisk them away to London. Included in the party were nur ses and engineers. Distinguished British officers were waiting to offer the warm est welcome. The ship that carried the Am erican officers was met oue hun dred and fifty miles from the Irish s coast by a sels. flotilla of British es- BRITISH USE CAVALRY NOW (By UNITED PRESS) London, June 8. Across the blunt wedge driven into the Ger man front lines, five miles abroad j tlie British are still forging ahead -smashing (ermany's steel grip on Belgium. During a night of intense fight- nig the German line bent far back i "i the initial shock of vast mine explosions, the fire of artillery and the dashing blows of the infantry. An apprjsal of the tremendous strength of the drive is shown in the great reserves of the enemy diat were called up, fiercely op posing every step of the British il('vance, and still the German llll( had to give way. Nix thousand .prisoners up to date lave i)een taken in the great Hinders offensive. S( complete has been the suc with which the drive is still Pt'oirressiiio. is shown by .the fact I hat the British artillery etaoin that the British cavalrv is in ac T!,;", and nothing so clearly 'in dicates the breaking down of the (:('.lman trench lines that this u t ligation of the cavalrv. COTTON MARKET courtesy of the Western Union, (B Tarboro) High. Low. 22.95 22.69 22.30 21.98 22.70 22.09 Close. 22.69 21.98 22.09 22.12 ' li!V (), t. i) 22.95 22.:;o 22.70 22.55 22.12 22.72 WEATHER REPORT FOR North Go AFTERNOON DAILY fflENDED IN WAITING Tonight Chicago's Fighting Parson Some idea of how Dr. E. L. "Williams, third day lecturer at the Chautauqua, came to be known throughout the country as "Chicago's Fighting Parson,' may be gained by the following statement which he worte and which was published recently in j bold type on the front page of one of the leading newspapers in the Wirrdy City. It was made at the time Dr. Williams was engaged in one of the fierecest fights against vice and when the entire city was stirred by some of his exposures of crime and lawlessness. He said : "I'm only one man, but I've a thousand eyes. They are better than an arsenal of revolvers or 10,000 axes in the hands of as many desperadoes. Let the vici ous and the ungodly take warn ing, for I can see through the walls of the devil's own citadel. If the eyes are not in my head I direct their gaze." He is a councillor of the nation- al committee on prison labor, of which Thomas Mott chairman. He holds Osborne is many imp- ortant offices in national reform leagues and receives invitations almost every day for addresses in all parts of the country, whi'di he has not time to fill. He headed the parade of 5,000 civic welfare allies in Chicago, who marched through a drenching rain as a protest against vice con ditions. This was one of the most notable vice crusades ever known in the New World. He is a mem ber of the Chicago police force and has made several important arrests. One lawbreaker whom he arrested was worth more than $4,000,000 in Chicago real estr.te He saw this man convicted and sent to prison. THE PROGRAM FOR THE JUNIOR CHAUTAUQUA Tomorrow morning will be the last play hours of the Junior Chan tauqua, and all the little folks who have friends they would like to bring will be welcomed Saturday the same' as Wednes day. Saturday from 7 to 8 p. m. Ves- Carolina; Probable local thunder MMQIW SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 8 1917. GOETHALS LOOSE AWRY OFFICIAL ' (By UNITED PRESS) Washington, June 8. Differen ces among the men who are build ing United States ships to keep the allies supplied came to a head when General Goethals relieved from duty F. A. Fustis, assistant general manager of the United States emergency fleet corporat ion and F. H. Clark, consulting engineer. The two officials issued a state ment last night charging Goeth als with delaying the construction of the wooden fleet. GUERILLA WAR IN MOUNTAINS (By United Press) Roanoke, Va., June 8. De sultory warfare developed in this section from harbored resentment against the federal enforcement of the draft. Mountaineers for two nights have been firing from ambush up on the national guard patrolsand agents from the department of justice have arrived in the section to quell the disorder. There ap- pears to be a wide spread plot to resist conscription. TODAY Afternoon Recital of Chamber Tscaikovsky Quartet. An Afternoon of Southern Readings Josephine Chilton. Evening Concert The Tchaikovsky Quartet. Lecture, "The City and the Soil Dr. E. Ii. Williams. E J, 1 Ml : Wlf II I ir T II if H 1 7 1 1 117 3BS ';r, S' vi n I i i I ii ii it it if ii I II ir II 5i if j ii HI " Z Z ii. S ' ' ' '"f 'f : Kerr -- ' ' ' showers tonight and Saturday ; WANTED; STRONG MAN FOR RUSSIA! by H. Shepherd (United Press Staf Co'-iespondcnt) Petrograd, June 8. Russia is hanging in the balance between Czardom and mobism. America and her allies must face the fact squarely. Under the present conditions Russia will not fight. Conditions j however may change, and the pos-j sibilitv of order come out of the ' govermental chaos. There is that this time nothing to indicate the approach of or der and there appears to be in Russia no man strong enough on whom hope is centered, though the provisional government is working day and night, with the American mission, in order to eli- minate, as much as possible, the danger of anarchism. PHIUPINES WILL HELP IN ARM' (BY UNITED PRESS) Washington, June 8. Militia rnd other armed forces of the j Philippines may be called into United States service under an amendment of the National De- SATURDAY Afternoon Royal Blue IIus- Evening Grand Double Concert The Royal Blue Hussars and Irving F. Joy, Lyric Tenor. 4 a sars. Community Chautauqua Moderate south winds. EAI LTH . i- . . .. TELEGRAPH SERVICE 1 7 1 MEETING BABBECUE GIVEN THE EIGHT HUNDRED DELEGATES AND FRIENDS MAYOR STONE WELCOMES THEM Mr. Knox, The Expert Pleases Yesterday afternoon, after a j prelude by the Boston Musical j Entertainers, Mr. James S. Knox, j the foremost lecturer to business j men on Community efficiency and . business development, took the j hoards and for more than an hour kept his hearers closely interest ; ed as he rapidly epimized the uni j versal need, for co-operation, es pecially among business people. If his sketched improvements should be take hold of heartily by the business men of this communi ; ty there would he said, be such a transformation that the resid- ents themselves would wonder j how they had done with their eyes shut so long. j He was not in the least explo (Continued on last page) SUNDAY Afternson Lecture," "Salubrities" John Ken drik Bancs, America's foremost man of letter. Evening Instrumental and Vocal Concert In troducing the Sacred Hula Dance, the Steel Guitar and the Ukolele. This if the most talked of attraction in Amer ica. ? r m l NUMBER 36 D W.W. The tenth annual convention of the Eastern Carolina biur.eh S of the Woodmen of the World met yesterday in Henderson and 'was attended by a larger crowd of delegates and friends than ever i before. Tliose representing Scotland AecK included . B. Strickland Jr., and J. II. Applew hit d I gates, C. 1). Brown and Geon.- The meeting transacted the bu siness by about five o'clock an 1 this was followed by some social functions at night. Rosemary, is the place selected for the next meeting to be held October 11. NEWS FROM STATE CAPITOL Raleigh, JimcS. The you Mir men of 21 and '11 who are today registering their names with c!e Sam are enlisting in self de fense in a larger sense than many people seem to realize. While we are helping the Al lies, we are the more surely help- i mr ourselves and defending our own. It is now cominir to be more generally understood in this coui: , try that the European Allies could not much longer hoped for sn -! cess, certainly not soon, if the Uni ted States had not entered upon tlif) cause we have marked out for ourselves. If the absolute monarchies of tlie Central Powers bad prevailed over the European countries or Allies, one only has to ie-ur what has transpire:! in Ielrinin to jud ge of the character of the horrors that would lu-.ve desolated Krair ' and England. And lh"n what? After our kinsmen and hislori frineds had been laid low imperial (lermanv and its allies .would hav had the combined navies of all those countries to use in making the war upon the I idled States ami America generally ihe sch eme already planned to make thi ; hemisphere intv for the old world i l wa r. Every man signing up with Un cle Sam should realize This grea truth and thereby more fully ap preciate the necessity of the sel ective, draft law and not linger under the delusion (as many have been doing) that they were being drafted to fight another country's battles. It is for home and native land first. And while there is no discount on our benevolent desire (Continued on lat pngj 22 7'' 22.35 Per play hour for all young peo- L al Market 21 1-2. i Pie. U'J UWUMWIKtff Tf nniTh-ITT-lflTr- ,f" " i i r
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