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Weather Report for North . Fair and not quite so cold tonight except snow in west portion. Wednesday snow or. rain. Not quite so cold to moderate N. E. wind. ALT AFTERNOON HA II V SLOGAN: "EVERY ONE FOE EACH OTHER AND ALL TOGETHER FOR SCOTLAND NECK. VOLUME THREE. AFTERNOON DAILY SCOTLAND NECK, N. 0, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1917 TELEGRAPH SERVICE. NUMBER 26 UOMMONWE A IM INC. li I II n H a II I li A A Kl 1 II Y 1111 il n si fl H H X S rs. - a bLMlAKS rKtrAKL r ! AN AlDfc TURKS MURDERS New HEAVIEST ATTACK BY ENEM Y SINCL TVASION OF 1914 IS SAID TO BE IN PROC ESS OF PR, RATION BY THE G ERMANS. HINDENBURG MAKE POILUS OPPONENTS (By United Press. York, Dec. 11. German ! army officers aided the Turks in their wholesale killings of the Ar menian christians, declares Henry Morgenthau, former Ambassador to Turkey. He states tnit Germ any was principally to blame. IlESnONNAl! OFFICIAL NO' (By United Press.) London, Dec. 11. German ar tillery is roaring on the whole western front challenging the' French and British. j It is believed that, Germany is preparing to make the heaviest' s attack since the invasion in 1914. j North Carolina,. Airmen report that the bom-! Halifax County: bardment is being made from! Having been notified by the Lo masked locations, and from these 1 cal Exemption Board of Halifax postions the enemy is impartially j County that " on December 15th, scattering shells over every sector ; 1917, said Local Board expests to of the British and French lines. ! receive instructions to mail ones-1 Recent reports indicate that tionaires to all registrants under! Ilindenburg has chosen the Poilus the selective draft in Halifax! as the opponents for his massed county except those who art al armies, which have been rein-! ready in camp, and being request- forced by divisions transferred . ed bv said Local Board to anno wt, ! I K . . , COAL NEEDS k e 'By United Press.') Cleveland, Dec. 11. Eight American steel wire companies plants have been closed down to day due to the lack of fuel. Ten thousand hands are thrown out of work temporarily. 11 Lit i SENA INVESTIGATI (By UNITED PRESjSi Washington, Dec. 11. A sear ching investigation into the whole military situation, particularly that of organizing, training, and equipping the national army has been ordered by the senate mili tary affairs committee. The in vestigation will start in a few days. SH OFFFLi 8 is. Mi m WANTS SIGHTSEER! from the Russian front. (By UNITED PRESS) . Halifax, Dec. 11 Those in fe? (tri 1 OVER PAI committees throughout the county whose duty it wiJLl be to assist the i postal aumormes m ithe questionaires and to assist ; ter Halifax this said registrants in anwsering said j confronted by armed guards and questionaires, I haJe appointed hurriedly shipped out as special mor- ! i -t-i delivering uiaiv curious, who sought to en- morning, were (By UNiT.nn T'ltESS) Savannah, Dec. 11. A fourteen foot shark was caught by fisher men in a shrimp trawler at the south end of Amelia Island, Flor ida. I Owing to the enormous size the shark was carried to Fernandina to be dissected. A guesome find was the discov ery of; a man's head and hands in perfect condition, also the body of a whole marsh hen. PRE BELITTLE 0. CIRCULATES DOUBT OF THE UNITED STATES EVER PUT TING FORCES INTO THE BATTLEFIELDS OF EUROPE. IMPOSSIBLE FOR MILLION TO ARRIVE mn Viz 1 m: 1 iLl ( By Maxwell Gorman.) ;ta' Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 11. Good morning: Did vou have "Shark . t?,,,i.. steak" for breakfast? Smoked shark, a new substitute (BY UNITED PRESS) Amsterdam, Dee. 11. The Aus-tro-Hungariun press belittles the power of the United States, when it states "America's warfare against Austria is important only in the preparation of the number of troops she can send-" From jpeste, Lloyds send the fid- lowing from the North German Gazette: "It will lu iirmfwciM for beef, is being placed on the ; for one mi. Anipril.lllls tfl nn. v-f pear upon the battlefields of market in the interest of animal meat conservation. A representative of the United States Bureau of Fisheries has been, in Raleigh several days "in troducing" the new dish. Many who sampled it say it is good and jvarope. No;ccideiits have been report- ! Palatable and the experts declare ed from the two hundred boats j 11 is nourishing as any of the j fishing off Fernandina the following committees Odessa, Dec. 10. A great Jew ish demonstration was held here Boanoke Rapids : on the receipt of news of the Brit-' w- Tj- Long J- Murphy ish declaration in favor of the son e0 . Hayes. Jewish national home, being Pal estine. The procession included ddon : 100,000 persons, who marched to the British and American consul ates, vvhere there were speeches. The attitude assumed in certain social revolutionary Jewish cir- Jack- A. B. Stainback, A; "V?. ton, Wm- L. Knight. i Littleton : Jos. P. Pippen, J. ; trams were made up readv for j deportation. The dead are being buried as rapidly .s possible. Volunteer grave diggers are hard at work j day and night. j The storm hampers relief work. f " Xliievhip"are"v'' 'reported dam i aged when the Monte Blanche ex- ploded. r ORTUGUESE i ACCEPT REVOLT Lisbon, successful higher priced fish. Raleigh, having lost its Com mission of Public Safety, E. M. Uzzell, who died when only seven -j months of his two year term of of- ! fice had expired, is now enjoying the usual scramble of seekers for the job- The two remaining com- x- Portugal 's ! missioners have the selection of a COSt the ; Tvrnllpr! crnp stoonrfMutcr to the 1T TT. cles and in "the Jewish Bund JA- v msU11- . shoves a hostility to the British decree, Great Britain being ac- Scotland Neck: cused of insincerity and a desire . Dunn, F. P. Shields, to create a diversion in the Jewish c- F- Burroughs. ranks in order to weaken the rr.iii! ilpmoer.vtie. effort for rjeace. This ndiuax. - - ' - attitude was doubtless inspired by Bolshevists' German influence. S. M. Gary, Swain Norman. F. M- Gregory, Hobgood : L. W. Leggett, "W. N. Herring. NtbKo PA' JUST PENALTY (By UNITED "BESS) San Antonio, Texas, Dec 11. Thirteen negro soldiers were hanged this morning for partici-; pation in the Houston riots on Dec. revolution C UIW -0ne nunclrecl deafl ancl new charter (to the surprise . of five lpfee -wounded, in clashes the puhlic) and some of the seek- oetwen tne rebels and tne old . were busy p;ishiiig their government forces. oi;" hofnr thp hnH nf ihr Complete order has again been former incumbent was cold. .There restored. 'is a growing feeling here for a The colonel in command has is- change to the city manager plan, sued orders for execution of all or a return to the old board of al those caught looting or rioting. dermen system, because the "com- i mission plan" has failed to meas- ure up to what the citizens de : mand of it. ! Esrc nearer will be a scarce ar- ffM tide of diet, in Raleigh this Christ AlV j mas with "bottled in bond" i whiskey, or brandy, fetching UGHAN AT AUCTiON Mr. AV. L. Vaughan, of Wash ington, N. 0., an old Scotland Neck boy, but now a prominent lawyer in our sUter city, was in town today to arrange with an (ff fieial of the Atlantic Coast Realty Company for the sale of the old Vapughan farm, two miles from town, on the Tarboro road. Mr. Vaughan states that Iher are but he and his brother.-1, Vaug'iari, also prominent in ANGWIL JEWISH Tillery: J. O. Applewhite, rick, G. C. Howell. SHORT SEASON FOR BASEBALL (By H. C. Hamilton.) New York, Dec. 11 Because of Gov. Tener's calm and firm stand against requesting the Gov ernment for special exemptions for ball players, the National League began its meeting here to day more firmly entrenched m favor of the public than for many a day. - . Some argument will be brought to the fore perhaps a test of Gov. Tener's strength, for there is a certain amount of agitation p-Sgwood: for a shortened schedule next j. e. Avers, Leon Shields, i Palmyra : Charles Staton, W. H. Newell,! L. J. Baker. (By United Press.) London, Dec. 11. Israel Zane-I$7.50 a quart and hard to get ac August 24, and forty one were will saw the dream of the Jewish ' that price. sentenced to life imprisonment, 'republic cominsr true, and such a; The federal anti-shipment (Reed j The sentences of others were separate independent state as bone dry) law has well nigh shut for eighteen months, two and Palestine, such as Jewish leaders! out importation of "spirits" and three years, and five were ac- boned for the future, as she ex- sales on the sly are reduced to quitted. pected it. N- Fitzpat- Aurelin Springs: John Taylor, W. P. Harris, A. E. Carter. Airlie : S. T. Thorne, Patterson- COSSACKS GETTING -HOLD' ON i i j RUSSIA the minimum by reason of( scar city of supply. The only recourse of the lean purse dement is the "moonshine corn," which the tig ers dose up with lye and demand $6.00 per quart for the poison. So its sheaper and much safer to have a "spiritless" Christmas this year. . G. Daniel, J. R. WITH CONTROL OF COUNTRY'S FOODSTUFFS AND THE RAILROADS BOLSHE- VIKI FEAR FOR THE FUTURE S. 0. S. ANSWE UNAVAILING Jr., B. M. Nichol-j vcar. "Business as usual," how-' ever, is a slogan, Gov. Tener has adopted for the National League. He wants to play the usual 154 games and is in favor of that plan for both big leagues. In view of the fact that Ban Johnson of the American League has declared Jn favor of a curtiled progrm call ing for only 140 it is probable there will be some opposition in son, C. A. Williams, Jr. Hillister : A. B. Schlister, Dr. Palmer, Or in Schlicter. j (By United. Press.) TnATPIU iTTiTV PAPP k fTT TmiTH7IH k TPi An Atlantic Port. Dec- 11 iKUiah.1 ai lfl vuoMiuumnRAiD Ingals of the steamer c. A. Canfield, which arrived here to (By United Press.) Isack generals, which also includes day from Tampico reported that ijonaon, uec. xx. aiic jluxuc ii the practice of lav.- in Nashville, Tenn., and they have conic to the conclusion that the farm should be subdivided and let smaller fanners get the la;d and culti vate it more intcnsivelv. The sale of the Vaughan farm will take place on the nronertv 1 A s on ednesdav net. December 19. ITALIAN FRONT IN JEOPARDY With the French Armies in It aly, Dec. 11. British and French troops on the Italian front arc duplicating the impregnable de fense of the west front. Germany and Austria on the other hand are preparing the greatest assault to break through- geographical advantages are with the enemy. Ke occupies the crest of the southern slopes of the Alps, positions that dominate the mi tire Venetian and Lonibardy plains. Brenta, Piave, Adiago, and other valleys known to travellers in the alps, furnith invasion exceeding defend. . French and Bluish veterans have taken over the vulneiable sectors on the Italian lines. ! T doorways ;t difficult to Enfield: J. C. Branch, J. F. A-. M. Atkinson. Essex : Whitehead, the National's meeting to clinging! . . Cr. L. Knight, B. C. Hamlet, H. j to the old form. Gov. Tener's strength, it is be Heved, will carry the league once W. Quarles. vikigovernment is beginning to get panic stricken over the grad ual grip of the Cossacks acquired over the Russians' food stuffs and railroads, and forsee an iso lation of Petrograd and other Bolsheviki centers if the revolt continues. The Cossacks are mounting guns on top of houses for the purpose Tt will be the duties of this com more into the old number of mittee, first, to see that the reg-of terrifying the people. pQ ,0aioco f wt fh'itwmt. receives the ouestionaire; Trotsky charged General Du (Continued on Last Page.) 'toff, that the Trimvirate of Cos- Korniloff and Laledine, "was last Saturday when dO miles r"irirli:tting acts of violence and southeast of Cape Hatteras he re- oppression 1 nthe rural sections. : ceivea a wireiess irum Deduiiun. Moscow feared .an outbreak, i saying that the Hanson line presumably an open revolt - freighter Mundale was reported against the Bolsheviki. j in a sinking condition about 20 Moscow, the stronghold of Cos-(miles from the Canfield 's -position, sac kstrength, is being put into 'Captain Ingalis immediately al the posture of defense. Bolshe-1 tered his course and hurried to viki have mounted quick firing , the position given but found no guns onJiouses, but the troops in j trace of the Munclale. He said he the garrison refused to obey the cruised in the vicinity for about Bolsheviki commander, Private J three hours before giving up the Mnranoff. 'search. OHON MARKETl Open ITigh Low Cloze 3e. 29.55 3f.CG 2:55 Jan. 28.98 23.72 2s.! 29.51 Mar. 28.75"" 48 2H.75 29.3 May 28.60 .29.23 2.J) 29.15 July' 28.22 28.9 2f-22 25.78 Local Market 27 cents. COTTONSEED MARKET. $1.05 per bushel ia wagon loads. (Continued on Last Page.)
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