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5' -;;-- WEATHER EEPORT-Probably local rains tonight. Cooler in west portion. We&tafcW cooler in east portion... Light west winds. .0 AFTERNOON DAIW SLOGAN: "EVERY ONE FOR EACH OTHER AND ALL TOfeC JEB IfOtt SCOTLAND NECK. a ,c VOLUME FOUR, AFTERNOON DAILY SCOTLAND NECK, N. C.: TUESTC APBIL 30 1918. TELEGRAPH SERVICE. NUMBER 34 WAR FINANCE -BOARD AFFIRMED DAH3PJ HEADS C am ma I I I N fri mlf m 1? Snip caiiiitso ESTIMATING THE FULL STRENGTH OF ADMINISTRATION FORCES HE REJECTS ALL AMENDMENTS AND WINS BY VOTE 63 TO 13. REED OF MISSOURI VOTES AGAINST BILL the Vote (By United 1'ress) ft "Washington, April 30. Senator Overman displayed greater gener alship late yesterday when he re jected all amendments in the sen ate to the Overman bill, giving the president power to co-ordinate and reoganize government depart ments and other agencies during - - -i i , war, and forced the bill to a which netted mm a viciury of 03 to 13, Senator Keed, ot Missouri, being the only democrat to vote against the bill. The bill which will be given an early consideration by the house authorizes the president to make such redistribution of. functions among executive agencies as he mav deem necessary and to util- co-ordinate and consolidate executive or administrative commission, bureaus, agencies, offices and officers now existing by law. to trans$?r any duties or powers from one existing depart ment or to transfer the personnel thereof, these powers, however, shall be exercised only in matters relating to the conduct of the present war. CONGRESS PLAN PRICE nxiN AGRICULTURALS G OF (By United Press) Washington, April 30. The United Press) Wfl ftbtfeffnTv; tvril r.'Sn T ,ioV, Senate finance committee report-1 Colonel bert if ; Danf ort has ed favorable the nomination of been ordediitd Camp Jackson, the directors of the War Finance ColumblsgKSo Organize and Corporation, submitted yesterday 1 assumfir'rth fiolrf ar. oy resident vvnson. CHINESE EGGS 50YRS. OLD (By United Press) Phildelphia, April 30. Eg from China not China eggs, but ?gs j tillery replacement depot there. VAllLROADS incHerates (By United Press) Biekmdndv V a., April 30. Vir- ginia raitfoads have been granted ize, anv Of u ilWP ATI! m mt ft i ii wen OBGO Washington, April 30. A bill fixing the maximum price of farm machinery and fertilizer is being drafted by Chairman Lever, of the house agricultural committee, the introduction this week o this proposed measure is another step toward increasing Americas food supply and encourging farm ers to greater production. Preliminary investi gations showed rank profiteering a mong agricultural implement men and some manufacturers are reap ing as high as forty percent, ac cording to members of the com mittee. Two bills of the fixing of cotton prices, one to fix the price at at twenty cents and another at forty cents, were introduced, while Representativve Heflin, of Alabama, proposes to stop cotton price fixing by congress. heirs eggs from the Orient fifty fifteeu petefit increase in freight years young have been seized by rates ursfof -the State 0 Ilohgood, April 30 War brings its sorrows, and sometimes joys, for it often hastens marriage, which was the case today when Lieutenant Joseph Mason, of charlotte, who had just completed his furlough, was married to Miss Marion 0. White, of Hobgood, at the home of the brides parents Mr. and Mrs. W. P. White, the Rev. P. L. Vernon officiating. It appears that Lieut. Mason had just completed his course at Fort Oglethrope, and received commission, and before going into camp at Camp Jackson ob tained a furlough to visit his sweetheart. On last Sunday, as time for his 7 MEG FIGHT U-BOAT (By United Press) Washington, April 30. M. S Edwards; of Augusta, Georgia, a member of the gun crew and two members of the ship crew, were itooert bimmers, agent ot ttie Corporate ; Commission, which oiaie una r ooa commission. order fppthevhearing of a Eggs is eggs, but fifty-year-old ; few weeipligo: at -which the rail eggs, although still eggs are not roads shodowhard they had the proper kind of hen-fruit for been hirwar conditions. Phildelphia, in the opinion of Mr. j ' Simmers. The whole proceeding ' y?yy- ran in fifties. There were fifty U lg il-H I cases of the eggs, they were fifty , years old, and it took Simmers just about 50 seconds to taboo them. The consignment was packed in air-tieht-cans and was to have HINDENBURG RECEIVES GREAT SET-BACK OP THIS OF FENSIVE ENEMY TROOPS POWERLESS TO ADVANCE ORDERS MEN FORWARD REGARDLESS LOSS A SCRATCH (By UNITED PRESS) ir naon, April 3U. The -Ger- SE5 (By -United Press) Washington, April 30. Fifty been put in cold storage at the eight casliitieS were listed by the Keaainj? Terminal plant until bakers needed They were " them for cake. canned ' ' allright. ALIEN PROPE 7 DI? ;TY 1! wrar department today showed 2 deaths iriV; action, two fatal ac cidents sixt died from desease, five severely wounded and forty two slightly wounded, with one maninnftaction. I ! "LIBERTY LOAN i : $2,400,442,400 (By United Press) Washington, April 30.- CIT X K isi !j s' n-oa- HUH S k cm 1 t tt:i...i t-s -v Washington, April 30. The Alien Property Custodian has been given power to sell, at pri vate sale without advertisement, enemy-owned livestock, feed or Washington, April 30. With food stuffs, hides and other ani- four days to go after the Third mal products, agricultural pro- Liberty Loan the total has touch ducts, fertilizers, chemicals, drugs ed the two billion four hundred essential oils, lumber, cotton, to- million and forty two thousand ha ceo. furniture, books, glass and four hundred dollars at ten 7 . ' china ware, wearing apparel, thirty o'clock today killed on March 21 when the jewelry, precious stones, pictures, The increase over the last of- American steamship Chincha had arnoments, bric-a-brac, objects of ficial report lajit night was $130. a running fight with a large en- art, raw or finished textile ma- 040,000. emy submarine. ' terials, trunks, boxes, partially or EDITOR If every town had After an exchange of about completely manufactured metals come over the top as magnificent thirty shots the fire of the Amer- fabrics, rubber and rubber pro- as has Scoltand Neck, with other ican sh'ip was too hot for the ducts, ad all kinds of merchan- applications coming in every day, enemy U-boat and she submerged dise, in lots having a market val- and showing already more than according to advices to the navy ue of not more than $10,000. , j twenty per cent above the epiota, department today. ; Such sales may be held at the loan would now be nearly The Chincha had her first ex- places and under conditions pre- touching five billion dollars in perience with U-boats when she scribed by the the Alien Property stead of being more than half a induction into camp was drawing was attacked on January 18 last. Custodian. billion short. I ; near, it was arranged that the - two young people should rhrcw in their lot together, the result was the marriage took place this morning at eleven o'clock at the home of the bride, and the happy fouplo are now on their way to visit the groom's people in Char-, lotto. The bride is the eldest daugh t of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. White, of Ilohgood, and had been teach J,jr this year at Braswell's wdiile die groom had just completed his training at Oglethrope. hieut. Mason is a graduate of A- and E. college and wras for Some time connected with the tex t'e department of one of the mills at Hoanoke Rapids. Of those who wprp nrpspnt nt (By Ued Press) London, April 30. Three full years and sevven months of con tinuous fighting in the infantrv without a day's leave of. absence or sick-leave is the record of Ser geant Dodkinson of the middlesex Diehards, a famous English regi ment. The Sergeant has never been wounded. Until a few days ago he thought his record must be the record of the British Army but a few have turned up since his was printed which make Sergeant Hodkinson look like a recruit in a training battalion. There's Corpal J. White of the j Royal Fusileers who went out with the Contempt ibles," fought in all the big battles that Hodkins fought in and these besides Goiillemont, Arras, Beaumont Hamel, Monchy, Bullecourt, the battles of Cambrai and in the present Kaiser battle. He has never had so much as a cut finger. mans were completely halted in a desperate attack over a wide front in Flanders, which was de signed to force the evacuation of Ypres. "General Haig in a late report states that the northern battle front is comparatively quiet fob lowing the heavy repulses in flicted on the enemy yesterday and again last night, showing that the enemy is exhausted by the terrific pa-(je and the casualties. enormous With the British armies in Flanders, April 30. llindenburg has had one of the worst days since the commencemoTit of his last offensive, for repeated on si an ghts yesterday and far into the night the allied line is intact save between Montsrouge arid Scheperonberg, e known as Hyde Park corner, where the situation is somewhat obscure. London April 30. The village of Lucre remains in the hands of the French according to dispatch es from General Haig this morn ing, which states as follows:' "East of Villers-Bi-etlonneux we advanced our lines slightlv on EVERYBODY PUSH the niarriage, the immediate fam- included: Mr. and Mrs. W. H. j Jpute; Sheriff and Mrs. R, B. j att, of Tarboro; Mr. Arthur j puffin, of Lewiston; Mr. and Mrs. j ;H. Gray; Mr. Hunter Price, of , Uiamston and Miss Helene I VNhlte, of Rocky Mount. , ' ' ' , ' i - ' ' " '' '4 -rl SV , - the northeni battle front, forcing And Sergeant W. Willis, High-:the nemv back alld pulsincr his land Light Infantry, a kilted lad-, attaeks with ll0avv ()S,0S to his die, also a "Contemptible" and fort.es Last nilt was (M)!linara his four brothers, all of them j t jvejy luQf still m the fight. 'iheir only sister is in khaki, too, a Waac. Corpal J. Baker of the Garrison Artillery, went out before Mons, at the age o 15, having run away from home and enlisted in the name of his uncle. Some of his battles are Mons, Le Ceteau, the Marne, the Aisne, the Somme, Ypres, the Cambri Battles, Vimy and the Kaiser Battle. On the other, hand, Fate duels "Sucessful counter attacks by the French in the neighborhood, of Lucre yesterday afternoon and evening drove the enemy from the remainder of the ground he gain ed during the morning and" they took a number of enemy prisoners cruelly with some fighting people. families of With the British armies in Flanders April 30. Gorman artil lery is roaring" from Ypres and Meteren. Low flying aviators report an attack less furious that yester- L. G. Sutton, deputy mayor of j (av morning when w.-ave after Reading, has just one son left of Wavc of the enemy forces broke five big lads each of whom join- down. ed as soon as eligible.. A few The German high command days ago he received his fourth of those dread letters from the war office, this time announcing that Lieut E. M. Sutton, of the Royal Engineers had been killed in action in France. RUSSIA TO RE-ENTER WAR Petrograd April 24 (Delayed) Russia is preparing in the most tremendous manner to re enter the war, so far as irr:y:... under present circustances. The Pan Executive Committee of MoscowT, on the eve of the re ceipt of. the forty-second ultima tum from Germany, adopted a war commisary, on the lines of Trotsky's plan, for universal mil itary training of all men from sixteen to forty, which means the conscription of all workers and peasants. . ordered its men to take the first hills from Kcmmen Descats, five and a half miles east of Loos, at any cost, also Ypres. As this is cabled ' neither the British nor the French have yield ed ground despite one of the most serious onslaughts of the war. Plant seeds in your war garden, plant your dollars in Liberty bonds. You will have to take care of the garden, but Uncle Sam will take care of the bonds, for vou. COTTON MARKET. Open High Low vHose May 25.65 25.86 25.00 25.S6 July ! 25.46 25.84 21.80 25.84 Oct. 24.78 25.15 24.38 25.12 Dec. 24.78 25.00 24.38 25.00 Jan. 24.55 24.84 24.25 21.84 Local Market Normal
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