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WEATHEEREPORT Partly cloudy tnigH Saturday A wes, Moderate N. E. to east M- UQM MONWEAL VOLUME FOUR. AFTERNOON DAILY SCOTLAND NECK, N. C.; FRIDAY VUci 17, 1918. PRESIDENT WILSON WILL TOMORROW ADDRESS NEW YORK ON THE NEED FOR GREATER SACRIFICES IF THE WAR IS TO BE WON PLANS TO FOIL HUNS DESIGNS ON WORLD 0 FRENCH TAKE FORTYPRISONERS (By United Press) Paris, May 17. Violent artil lery fighting in the Hailles sector southeast of Amiens ,is reported by the French war office. A German raid was repulsed at I Canny sur Matz, two miles north west of Lassigny, during which French detachments took forty prisoners including one officer. (By United Press) Washington, May 17 America mst prepare for further great .aerifies to meet the demands of ie gigantic effort now assuming shape i nthe war which the gov- eminent is determined m irustra- tina the Teutonic designs on the i-orhl. This message President Wislon nil deliver tomorrow nigkt when ie opens tue ieu ross arive m New York . With the serious situation fac- mjr an ironts as Germany pur sues her ruthless drain upon the conquered peoples of Russia and the Balkans America is preparing for a mighty stroke before the close of 1919: That this great participation demands greater sacrifice at home the president un doubtedly will show, at the same time he previously has assured the nation that he stands ready to listen to anyyhonest proffers of piilCf . Indication of the size of Ameri cas program may be found in the fact that the war deepartment is failing on the shipping board to increase its 1919 plans by sixty per cent. RESNATI, FAMOUS ITALIAN ACE KILLED TODAY (By UIied Press) Hempstead, New York, May 17 Capt. Resnati, the famous Ita lian aviator, was killed today when his aeroplane fell. TELEGRAPH SERVICE. - 1 owtin a irfi NUMBER 49 MURPHY MAN -AMONG DEAD (By United Press) HAIG REPORTS ARTILLERYING IS DEVELOP!! (By United Press) London, May 17. Both allied and German artillery developed great activity in Flanders, re ports Haig, as follows: "Great artillery action devel oped on both sides in the Picautf woods sector and north of Hinges," the statement said. "Increased activity has been shown by the artillery between ( .Locon and Haiges and from Niep pe forest to Meteren. COTTON MARKET. LASTING PEACE SAY NOTABLES (By United Press) Philadelphia, May 17. Deter mination to have permanent world peace, even at the cost of water war sacrifices than any nation- yet has rnnde w pv- -v ni-:-. speuKcr at ine v''''!llil and final session of the 'J'-ventiou of the League to En Peace, ia Witherspoon hall j)r. lii'm'- v,., .... y k ii j v ivii .)UlvC Oil 'hliliii- for IV.a,.,. " m,1 T ... 'owell, Charles S. Med- ad man p and (diaries S.- Ward -mi tin- morning session. -eru-a should take the in the formation of a Wi.l i "'-ik' or nations to keen !"hee 1 er oivver after tins war !i(,'iH S (.'(illfoi'eili'P iddv,-c-orl v j UAIVU LOOVAl Jams; Herbert S. Ml. .!( in Ql,,,,,, .. '.'iimc v iJilcllllS, T. d. Shall an. and' Wil. II..,.. T , ' ' ' 'II IJ1 Wil aft, Tab- English Walling- WEKERLE ADMITS GERMANALIANCE By United Press) r Amsterdam ,May 17. Premier Wekerle responding. to a query of M. Karolyi in the Hn Bi,u house of deputies declared that the new Austro-German alliance, liscussed by Kaiser Wilhelm and Emperor Karl, does not affect the gary, according to dispatches from 3udapesth. "The existing alliance has been strengthened a n d extended lengthily." Wegerle said. "Hostile raids were rpnrdspd f Washington, May 17. Tolavs night near Moventville. south V v - 7 VOBUailJ' contains one hundred i 01 Arras and si xnames including fifteen ! - 1 n - . . . i Kniea m actiOxi, six deaths from I wounds, four from desease, one from poison gas, twelve wounded ! severely, sixty slightly wounded1 and eight missing. who died of desease- Open High Low dose May 25.40 25.40 25.22 25.22 July 25.35 25.59 25.06 25.06 Oct. - 24.45 24.80 24.12 24.12 Dee. 24.35 24.65 24.08 24.08 Jan. 24.26 24.38 23.92 23.92 Local Market Normal LIVES WEffiSJNlELL-" - HOLE UNDER FIE (CANS ON FOUR FRONTS (By United Press) , With the American armies in France, May 17. American troops have arrived in the area of northern France controlled bv the British. The arrival of the Americans troops in northern France places Pershing's forces in at least three probably four sectors on the of fensive f.ront. Already it has been officially announced .as being brigaded with the French between Hailles and IJangard en Santerre, and at Montdidier. These sector southeast of Amcins. LURID EPERIENCE OF A WOUNDED SOLDIER WHO, WITH BROKEN LIMB, MANAGED TO" SUBSIST AND FINALLY CRAWL TO SAFETY - OPENING GUN TO BE TC1ED. NIGHT AT DIXIE L0CAL DEIVE FOE PRO-RATA OP RED CROSS f! ATVTP A mw SPEAKER IN UNIFORM OF CAMP DIRECTOR - o QUEER ACCIDENT UNCOUPLES SPINE FEIGNING DEATH HE AVOIDED CAPTURE f.iTED PRESS) London, May 17. If you have been thinking that "distinguish ed service", on the battlefield means one grand dash, and then a quiet room, an attentive nurse, and pleasant recuperation, con sider the case of Private J. Tay lor, whose valor is "briefly recit ed in a late issue of the official "Supplement to the London Gazette. This official list of soldiers cited lows were dropping like ninepins. I was knocked out. It must have been a couple of days before I recovered consciousness. I found myself in a shell-hole, with anoth er man who was wounded but could move freely. During the day and part of the nights the bom bardment kept up. Shells fell all around us but none happened to drop hi our shell-hole. At night Peters crept out and foraged a for decorations always carries j mong the dead for scraps of beef, a short description of the act of j iron rations and their waterbot: valor for which the citation is , ties- After two or three davs it made. These two paragraphs v Yesterday afternoon a verv strange accident occurred just out side of Palmyra wherein Mrs. William Thompson, while picking chips had her spine dislocated by a Ford car. The circumstance was one of pure accident and yet so serious that the injured woman has been taken to the Rocky Mount Hospital for treatment. Mrs. Thompson was in the yard of her house, whioh is opposite Mr. Enoch Cherry's place, Pal myra, and bending down picking up chips, when her husband, not knowing of her close proximity backed his car onto her, disloca ting the spine. Dr. Smith was hurried v called and he gave instant relief, and advised taking the lady to the hospital, which would have been done last night, but they missed the train by about ten minutes. She was conveyed to the hospital this morning however, and it is anticipated that she will recover. 100 TRACTORS FOR N. C. FARM! accom ny announcement of the award of the distinguished conduct medal to Private Taylor : "Having been cut off with his company, he received a bullej in the thigh, causing a compound are j fracture To avoid capture he crawled rained. We collected water in our caps. "That sort of existence lasted for over five weeks. I was getting weaker- One night Peter crawled out anl did not come back. That left me without aid. Next night a party of Germans came into my a ''llt'i'fciU'C I i ' ; i , . '"!"" !!a . II. of rvivf - nnrs rmrl ."Vi'i-nors vras presided ' K. Hughes, former gov- Mv York, at Independ-t-)day. ft have yelled but they thought I was dead. I was covered with mud and looked like the other bodies Raleigh, May 17. In response to n suggestion by the Federal Food Administration for North Carolina, reinforced by a personal letter from Governor T.' W. Bicket, Hen ry Ford allotted 100 Ford farm tractors for distribution in North Carolina. In harmony with Mr. Fard's personal policy of using all manufacturing utilities under his control for the furthering of war measures, the entire output of Ford tractors, for the present, is nit; luuiui.u iiii.uiii gnuii- j WWpnj Tit? ft mental agencies, without profits.! I j NS? ra g If A to dp?ihrs. in or dor to ho.t ir.0. ! J Uilal I MI1 idle efficiency. Mr.F. J. DcTamble, of Winston Salem, formerly manager of Char lotte Branch of the Ford Motor C has been assigned to surpervise the distribution of the allotment of tractors in North Carolina, up- Sunday evening at eight thirty the people of this and surround ing community are requested to be present a tthe Dixie theatre to welcome and hear Mr. J. F. Rooney, the uniformed Red Cross Camp Director of Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. who comes at the earnest desire of the local chap ter to give us knowledge of the great things the Red Cross has accomplished in the war- The purpose of the meeting and address is to elicit the inter est of the people in the second Red Cross campaign for Scotland Neck's part of the hundred mil lion dollars which will carry on this work for the coming year. So multitudinous is the work of the great society for the alle viation of suffering that it is im possible to epitomize what it ha? accomplished and how far reach ing is its work, but will be the story brought to us by Director Rooney. Mr. Ashby W. Dunn will intro duce the speaker to the audience since lie has kept in close touch with 'the affairs of the society, both local and national, and he is best fitting to introduce a man who is being brought here to fam iliarize us with the vast organiza tion which ha more than two hundred and fifty local members, most of whom have little idea of the honor it is to be thus asso ciated. The members of the choirs of the different churches will render music, and committees will be ins charge of the various features of the meet in r. What is specially needed is that all the people should lay aside everything for this one evening and make a point of being pre sent so that in the future they may assume their individual part in the local body that has so much to do in helping those who have gone across the seas. into a snellhole. where , . J , i o i r. ' luckily not my broken one or I'd i;c i t-umi u.i lur ci jituiuu ol over seven weeks, during the whole of which time the surrounding dis- 7H n A r;, , ... ... covering the around. Dnnno- thp L jLlKW'T T, by"11 , ; , the llext 'ortnfcW I managl to!01! recommendation of enmity i - - j . , r.p h f Pfl. uuuu auiumisuaiuro aiiu euumv jlected at night from dead bodies , , ... , . . ,. 1 !farm demonstration agents, t With President Wilson enroute and water he obtained in a to New York, May 17. Presi- waterproof cape, dent Wilson today authoriz- "After sonie weeks three of the 11 !M0Ni til- .1. invention tonight. ""il'iillo. speakers will be Lord '2i.v;,t '"iiU is!,;; 'it Britain: am- iserand, France; Vis- .7 'Pan - Gen. -1!'! Alt Guerlie- ed Secretary Tumulty to deny em-1 enemy visited his shellhole, but osed to by feij govern-1 capture and eventually succeeded Mff .:n i . i . . L j v.v. t loasTmaster j piratically that he is onnosed toibv feigninsr death Re avoided ' 1 ar aunicr wnic?1 any investigation of the a live on the reserve beef Ppfor had collected. 'Then - feelinr, that !.farm demonstration agents, nothing worse could happen I re- tIl0se are in best position to ab solved to try to get to our lines. comPJish the largest possible re sult, not only by work upon their own farms, but, when circum stances permit, by plowin It was an inky night. First I crawled by mistake into a German line. They didn't hear me, so I turned back and inched along for an hour- Then I got into some barbed wire. I was a mass of cuts ment's aircraft program. ! in -crawling back to our lines a He is however opposed to the j distance of 900 yards". pnvprt nnrnriiio nf f NVia-iviloY' ' Tn a li ncrntn 1 noar Tinnrlnn wliprf Cl , . , i i i t i i'i ' i.- mi Te blood and rags before I got lain resolution which he declared he is recuperating Taylor dit- . i i , , ' , i . , - . f . -t , i , c through. Just then a verev light ne Knows and iinnersTaii(i- o ennv amiiimea ine storv 01 . n B. Parker and i rn, ,xa a':. 1 u: " snot UP- 1 saw a man peering over i III- - lilt-- III t-t-lllt'ril i III! 'A I I I I v l--f t lll- --". if-" ill - f-- I s Hunav Butler ' j. n A , !. i D a trench. He was about to shoot uuv-1' impnt fit this rnmr is HflcimiaroH It -ttsic r nT-mo- nnp nr rnv flt- . , . A. , i xx- i t when I shouted. Three of them toclear up conflicting mterpreta tacks upon the Hindenburg line, , V i v qnil iimi , i - - i r- 'i -t (4ttt i ,, came oui aim uiaggeu me lino our j iv , aim tnen , tions raisen in eono-ress nn his tor- hp said. ''Vp nan oone over the nie late nV i,f -, , , ... V . - , w. OAvn trenches. 7 c,.. , 17 ' . lxyJil , mai rtna miormai communications top, two companies 01 us. we jto the senate on this point. 'were met by shell fire and the fel-, temyghrou jetaoinishrdluoininn and doing other work for neighbors. The new Ford tractors 'vill b-e sold direct to North Carolina far mers at $750, the price at which the British aid Canadian govern ments and a number of American Richmond Va., .May 17. The trial of Dr. Charles Lemuel John son, the alleged murderer of Alice Knight Johnson, hi young wife, began iin earnest this mouning in the Hustings court. Mildred Katherine Tavlor V 7 chum of the dead woman, wa" the initial witness callel to the stand. She stated incidents in the life of Johnson prior to the death of his wife- Cloyd Gill, rejn-fent ing the V,rasliiijgton Times, was barred from the court room on account of being a material witness in the case- as a character witness. His testimony has not b"en aseer- 1i ,l carl IV: iH h. states have paid for the tractors j tained through it is stated, he in- which have already been turned terviewed Johnson in the fit out of the Ford plant. Great Brit am having taken 6,000 and th Canadian Government having tak en 2,000 of the output to date. Jail. Russia is at present "the bourn from which no travel ors returns.7'
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