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VOLUME THREE.
AFTERNOON DAILY
SCOTLAND NECK, N. O. TUESDAY MARCH 12, 1918. TELEGRAPH SERVICE.
NUMBER 98
1 HE
NWEAl
XL,
95,000
MM
HEN
FOR
CA1PS THIS MM
REPRESENT THE LAST INCREMENT OP THE FIRST DRAFT
INCLUDES 28,000 NEti ES INTO THE NORTH-
ERN . MPS
-4
WILL TAKE FIVE Di S TO COMPLETE
0
U-BOAT SHELLS W(M
FOUR ENEMY
PLANES DOWNED
Paris, Mar. 12. Four German
dirpianes were brought down
last night in another air-raid
over Paris, it was officially an
nounced. No reports were made regard
ing casualties.
London, Mar. 12. The unarm
ed Irish schooner, Nannie
Wig,
D DRAFT COM
PRISE 800,000 MEN'
nail, was torpedoed and sunk by DATE OF DRAFT DEPENDS UPON LEGISLATION
submarine. The submarine then
1JM UUJMUKESS, BUT DRAFT WILL BE IN SMALL
(By United Press)
Washington, Mar. 12 Ninety
five thousand more have been or
dered today by the war depart
ment to prepare for induction in
to training camps. This is the
last increment of the first draft.
The movement will start March
29 and continue for five days.
The government includes the
mobilization of, twenty eight
thousand negroes into northern
camps.
Because of peculiar camp con
ditions some districts that have
completed their quotas wjftl be
asked to furnish more men and
he given credit for same under
the second draft.
Deputy provost marshal, Gener
al, General Johnson, stated that
the first contingent of industrial
workers, drafted recently, have
been sent to France.
The following state allotments in
the south have been given out
from the provost marshal's of-
Xorth Carolina, 5,174; Virginia
2,178 ; South Carolina, 343 ; Tenn
essee, 2,753.
Ret Cross
Dinner Thursday
There is nothing better for the
people of a community than
sociability of the right kind, and
when this is coupled with patri
otic effort the occasion should be
doubly welcomed.
Thursday the ladies of the lo
cal Red Cross are giving a din
ner and supper at the New York
Cafe, at which everyone is invit
ed and expected to be present at
some time during the day or evening.
PRES NOMINATES
;EDERAL OFFICER
shelled the survivors who were
picking their comrades from the
sea.
10,000 TROOPS
PENDING
GROUPS
150,000 SKILLED WORKERS ALSO NEEDED
Washington,
Mar. 12. Presi-
REACH FRANCE HEWS FROM
STATE CAP
-o
Paris, Mar. 12. Secretary of
war, Newton Baker, came to
dent Wilson today nominated FranCe 0n a cruiser convving ten
tnousana troops, a portion oi
of which were aboard a former
TMf?
Richard H. Mann, of Petersburg,
as United States district attorney
for eastern Virginia, and Rich
ard Evine, of Roanoke, for the, The voyage was enlivened
German liner.
m
western district.
eastern district is to be John G.
Saunders, of Richmond, and T. G.
Burch, of Martinsville, also for
the eastern district.
By Maxwell Gorman
Raleigh Mar. 12. The politi
cians who largely start, or speed
up, their 4 'careers" by coming to
the legislature and who, for a
generation or two, have skillfully
that the 44 periscope" was oniv a I dodged or ran away from the
j mid ocean by a ;ubmari'ie alarm,
United States Marshal for the ! constable cannonading tcok
place before it was discovered
CUBA ASSAILED
PRO-ALLY
floating spar. j"dog issue" will have the race
It is expected that Ambassador of their lives when the next Gen
Sharpe will formally present '' eral Assembly convenes indeed,
Secretary Baker to President j some ofthem may be left at the
Poincaire.
Good things to eat are being
prepared for your edification and
mastication ,and every penny of :
tbp rpppints arp tn crn tn thp looal ;
t, , - , m, , man propaganda is running ram
the ladies have exerted themselves
no little in arranging for
' feast, so patronize them generous-
Washington, Mar. 12. Ger-
an propagan
pant throughout Cuba according
SPOTLESS OPENS
IN R0
CKY MT
i starting point after the legisla
tive primaries are held in the var
j ious countries.
For the "dog law" issue" is
ito be pressed to a finish next
; winter. The state sheep and dog
control committee, which held a
! 1 "I j j "IT r
largely attended conierence in
FRANCIS SAFE
V0L0C0
N
HALT SPENDING
,UXU
this .
i government quarters today.
German literature is being dif,-
fused broadcast among the peo- .
pie.-.
j Anti-Americanism is being prea
! ched on all sides, while an insid- j
RES
DA1
ment.
turn of moving from there.
NORTH CAROLINA
IS PAT
I Mr. Stephenson 4 4 some fight a
i broad, others work at home. The
army in Europe is only the cut
ting-edge of the battle-axe;
Richmond. Va. Mar. 12. Presi
dent Milton Cone, of the Spotless Raleigh, decided upon that and
Company, dealerss in general appointed a special committee to
merchandise announced today draft the Proposed dog law, in
tW his mmnv wnnlrt nnon . the effort to brmS the veiT feasi-
branch house at Rocky Mount Jble Plan of more sheeP and wool
N"CT " : '' growing in the state, where r- a
rm ,,r nfion. large percentage ot territory is
X lie Vivjini7a.il v VUuuv.uiuiaito
1 i: Jl J a J j. j- 1 x
ious movement is afoot to under-! getting started Monday as sev- KPnumiy auaptea to mat money
mine the existing pro-ally govern- j eral carloads of goods would making industry, especially at
leave this week. i inis nme 01 W001 snorTae ana
j the high prices woollen mills will
pay for it.
The worthless variety of dog,
known as the 4 4 cur", a sheep kill
er, largely because he is always
hungry, can be eliminated by a
strictly enforced dog tax, which
the owners would not pay because
it. And it is high time., that
j every county in the state made it
1 its business to bar out of the leg
j islature every cheap politician
i whose career might be interfered
with if he voted for such a law.
Settle it in your primaries this
summer and lets get down to real
sheep raising on a big scale in
North Carolina.
The republician state committee
Washington, Mar. 12. Eight
hundred thousand men Avill con
stitute the second draft, fed in
to the military mill in small
groups, from week to week, as
needed, according to an official
announcement today.
The date of, the draft depends
upon legislation now pending in
congress.
One hundred and fifty thousand
skilled artisans will be called this
summer for military service.
Class one will be exhausted be
fore the deferred classes are
drawn upon, but industrial and
skilled workers in other classes
besides class one will be tapped
if needed.
A special training course will
be created in many parts of "the
country to develop those whoso
early training has given them
special technical qualifications.
Men will be drawn in rela
tively groups throughout the
year in such a way as to create
the least possible interference
with industrial and agricultural
activities.
I TM mm A MlTh PCTD A 1 1 ICC
Winston-Salem, March 12.
Judge Gilbert T. Stephenson,
Director of Service for the State
(By United Press) War .Saving Comittee, is calling
Washington, Mar. 12. The a halt on people's spending money
state department received a cable- for luxuries and playthings while
gram from Moscow today, which the country is waiting for ships!
had been delayed, which stated to be built to take the soldiers to j
the Russian srovernment would the battlefield, for airshins to take I
move to Moscow on March 9, and them into the heart of Germany j ALL THE BALTIC COUNTRIES ARE FEELING THE HEAVY
would move further east if the across No-Man's Land and for;
Herman continued their advance, munitions which will be the only!
A message from Vologoda from thing that will make their going j LY OBJECT THEREAT
Ambassador Francis reported that to France and all that they en- j .
no misfortune of any-nature oc- counter worth while. I
cured to himself or any of his, "Everybody belongs to FINLAND A VASSAL H0HENZ0LLERN STATE
party, and that he had no inten- army one way or the other, ' ' says j '
HAND OF PRUSSIAN ARROANCE ALL STRONG-
New York, Mar.
: real force of the blow struck by
the army is wielded by the peop
(BY UNITED PRESS)
12. Reports far more conservative than it is
the from Japan that Prince Lvoff is Intervention by outside forces to is meeting here tonight. Some of
contemplating the establishment put Lvoff back in power would the party bosses and maclime ma
of a stable government in Siberia not curb Russia's runaway gallop nipulators express disgust at the
democratic state
i o TiQr,AOC Q An nnt anp-o-pst the lierman men- ior democracy uui wuum piuua- xnm i
. time on the part of any ablebodi- ace against Siberia has reached bly result in a far more contused committee wmcii met nere last
(By United Press) ' j ed man or woman, rich or poor, ' formidable proportions. ; revolutionary condition week, to take up the Bickett pro-
Washinton, Mar. 12.-The com-' biack or white is not only unpa-! Prince Lvoff was the first pre- Von Hindenburg's creation of; position and divide the offices
mittee of public information sent triotic but is akin to desertion mier of, Russia after the Czar had Finland into a vassal Hohenzol-! with them this year. They would
to the executive of every state from the army and should be been overthrown and, he directed lern state is causing a strong re- be the gainers by such a process
in the union onestions to how 0,i o Tf ;e t pnnn.h" Rtrono- anti-German policy at action in Scandinavia and Hal- of 4 distribution , hence their
their several states responded on laws' and put to work loafers who Petrograd during his tenure of land that must result in Ger-! disappointment. But the Bicket
tVm -i i o . . ..... . , monv'c Hiearlvmitfltrp! durini? tlie idea never had the shadow ot a
war uemanas oi tne govern- have no 'visible means ot support office. mx ,.v 0- - - o . , A, , '
ment. : ,11 . ti,p (Wmans would strongly rest of the war. Scandinavia and chance with the democratic com
Replies hav h.Pn voo.WoA from 1 mi a tUr'n ft Lvoff government in Holland have shown much rest- mittee, and the republicians who
West Virginia, Maine, Wisconsin have a 'visible means of support' Siberia. So, however, would the lessness under the necessary reg- defined the governor's premature
and North Carolina, the latter be-! to nroduce something for their Bolsheviki. ulationsof America and the suggestion as ; a disposition to
ing from Governor Ricktt, as ! country. , I Lvoff is a liberal of the old allies. ! avoid a political, hght this year
follows: I regime but Russia is now experi- Germany's blundering arrog- because they were afraid has
t n.rn . , . ... I" '. T . , .. ' 4?Q morp pxtreme atipp in Finland, however, must all spring to revise and form a
i nave not been in a position ; it up ever since. I think our mentmg with tar more exueme ance mruiiiuu, , i e,
heretofore to answer the several I Ced a campaign of information in principles than are approved by cause the other Baltic countries n.w xuenmuon
questions in your letter. -1 now regard to this law and have kept him. A Lvoff government, there- to realize that the merman iue c ",r Z Z
W to advise that the subscrip- ituP ever since. I think our fore, while anti-German would has become permanent for them here and all over the state in the
tions to the two Liberty Loans people are beginning to under- be also anti-Bolsheviki. unless the allies win the war. .case of Majjor George L Pater-
of Vni-v. n i: .iP, P, , f. - re T. a h restored as Even Sweden, after all that son, who is slated to be tried m
v ai wLina amuumeu iu stana it ana to tnoroutrniy au- 1. xjvuu. m
36,907,700. The Red Cross con-1 prove it.
--wiiu i i i i i i iiiv r- i b in - iviir 11 - 1111 vv i 1 1 1 i i i,-jaa i, v i .
wvivv v i X OUXXXVy tlllilSi Vi ' . ' 1 I A X? CTfcT f If U I
. . . -j . . i , fY. Vip TTiTmih spttlement. " oi emDezzeiemeiii oi kouic ;pi,uw
with respect to public sentiment vigorous directions, but, for this m the Finnish settlement ,
in regard to the war. All oppo- to be possible the new spirit of Von Hindenburg has done a of the North Carolina State Guard
m regara to me war yP y g moneV) whlle paymaster. But
sition to the war is oasea on lg- aemocracy uuw iamFaUu b - , A,
WILSON OH PI
Dll
m SOVIET
for Ger- the Wake county criminal court
premier oi itussia, uic wuaaiau, ui- , , A . Ai i v.
1 -, J i "U XTataar 110 lact rt trie wppIt nn tnp phnTCP
have The same thing can be said would re-enter the war unuei man, i igcu y - - -
amounted to $318,000.
The selective service law is ap
proved whereever it is understood
and long before it was enacted ; norance or misinformation. si a would first have to become Finland.
UU
Washington, Mar. 12. Presi
dent Wilson telegraphed to the
American consul at Moscow a
symphathy to be presented today
at the Russian congress of Soviets,
as follows :
4 4 May I not take advantage of
the meetinsr of the ennoress of
the Soviets to express the sincere
sympathy which the people of the
United States feel for the Rus
sian people at this moment when
the German power has been thrust
in to interrupt and turn back the?
whole struggle for freedom and
substitute the wishes of Germany
for the purpose of the people
of Russia. Although the govern
ment of the United States is, un
happily, not now in a position to
render the direct and effective aid
it would wish to render, I beg to
assure the people of Russia,
through the congress, that it will
avail itself of every opportunity
to secure for Russia once more
complete soverignty and inde
pendence in her ov.-n affairs and
full restoration to her prreat role
in the life of Europe nrA the mod
ern world. The vholo heart of
the people of the United States i
with the people of Russia in the
attempt to free themselves for
ever from autocratic government
and become masters of their own
life.
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON
ICOTTON IAMET
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