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WEATHER KBPTJW Wedaesday wanEEr. Pn I I K J m 1 f w 4M0M AFTCOMnrkTVT r a it v SLOG AH: "EVERY ONE ,0ttEA0H OTHEE 1x1 SCOtLim HECK. - VOLUME FOUB. AUSTRIANS DEVELOPING A ITALEAMS COMSOLIPATE mountain mmm$ FOINTS AROUND MONTE DI VALBELLA CAPTUR ED FROM THEM LAST WEEK. ENEMY LEFT DEAD (By United Press) With the Italian armies afield julv Further Austrian attempt to recapture Monte di Valbelle are developing. The Italian left at least fifteen hundred dead on the slopes after yesterday afternoon's assault and jnearly two thousand prisoners were taken yesterday and the preceding day. SHAVE SLIGHT LOSSES (TV United Press) Washington July 2 The mar ine report of casualties showed that three men were missing in actino of whom one was a Vir rinir.u, Cedrc E. Lyon, of Hope well, Va. Washington July2 A second marine casualty list totaling 29 nanus lias been issued. This con tain, two deaths from wounds one wounded in action and 26 bliss in in action. ENEMY ATTACKS AGAINST BRITISH ;.By United Press) London July 2 "The enemy attacked northwest of Albert in an effort to recapture the ground trained by us Friday night, but was repulsed with heavy losses 'xeept at one point where the en ''"i.v gained a foothold", states !ii:ish Fit-Id Marshal Haig in a dis pateli received this mornng. in' British armies in G ranee, 'uly 2. British counterattacks '!('liverel shortly after midnight ai' believed to have driven the ,Jniians froin some points where !ll,'.v had obtained a footing north w,'t of Albert vesterdav. ARMY LOSSES EIGHTY ONE MEN ahi-ton, July 2. The army ''laities reports eighty one men, fa,'i-'rdhig to advices received tcr M'loni the front. Klht were killed in action, ten ' irom wounds, one from de M'1. forty eight were severely 'i"m'l,,l two wo"uded to a de ,;'"ti" undetermined and ten miss in action. (,,)F the southerners Lieutenant l. -leffers of South Richmond Moss of ranklinville, N. C, H 'Hioinas ( ;. Gardner, of Rich l!lrid V., ' a., were severely wound- 'atlu 11" Report of week ending June 30, 1918. Tp ( J. Y .Savage) ran,ture highest 85" on 30 I Jowest 52" on 94 MARINE AFTERNOON DAILY STRONG ATTACK ON THE AND WOUNDED NEWS FROM THE STATECAPITAL By Maxwell Gorman Raliegh, N. C. July 2. The Su perior Court clerks of North Caro lina are assembling here in state convention today, the first time such a meeting has been held. It is more of a social gathering than anything else and no weighty questions of state or war will come up for their determination. ASHE COUNTY DESERTERS Governor Biekett did not return directly to Raleigh from Ashe county where he went Saturday to attemps a pacification of the serious trouble there arising out of the "desertion" of some forty men drafted for service in the war lie is filling engagements in the mountain section of the state this week. But a newspaper man who went there to report the situation, re turned today and he has doubts as to whether some of them will come in and get their letter (pro mised by the governor) to the mil itary camps, recommending leni ency. Most of them are expected to do so this week, but the indications are that others will continue to hide out and defy the law unfoi' tunately. Of course the latter will finally be taken by the fede ral authorities, and their punish ment is likely to be severe. On the whole the governor's vis it and speech did good and brou ght about a better feeling between two factions in the county which had been fighting each other. The widow of Robert L. Temple, the drummer killed in Memphis Saturday by the father of a girl he was about to marry, as alleged in the dispatches received here, has been located as a resident of Raleigh of late. She is now on a visit to Chapel Hill. Mrs. Temple was Mary Bond, oi Edenton before marriage & much sympathy is felt for her. Temple body, by her direction, is ber.ii. taken to Elizabeth Citv, his na tive town, for interment. Raleigh Bells Call to Prayer The fire bell and church belb of this city began their new dut yesterday of calling people t; prayer (whereever they are) n seven o'clock each afternoon. Tin special subject of prayer is, oi course, the success of America!; the allied arms in the great "world war" and the Christian's God, whose all-seeing eve knows what we have done and are doing for humanity, mercv, civilization and religion, as contra distingui shed from the record of the Ger man and other "Central Power" nations' will hear and answer our prayers. Never doubt it. . Average high 72 47 low 62 37 Rainfall 1.21 inches SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. TUESDAY JULY 2, 1918 SIXTY KILLED BY EXPLOSION! (By United Press) London July 2. Over sixty persons were killed in an explo sion of a munition factory in the midland counties. The women workers behaved splendidly. WILL LAUNCH (By United Press Washington July 2 The Beth-' lehem Union Plant at San Francis-1 co, launches eight of the fourteen destroyers to take the water on July 4, the navy department an nounces. The Newport News Ship Dry- dock company contributes three; - the William Cramp Sons Co, of Philadelphia, launches two and the Fore river Shipbuilding Com- pany, of Boston, will launch one. SECTY BAKER URGES CONTROL COMMUNICATIONS (By United f ress) Washington July 2. Advoca ting a permanent government con trol of; communications Secretary baker urged the house commerce committee to report quickly" as well a resolution empowering the president to take over telegraph, telephone, radio and cable systems "Military control is not nec essary at this minute but it may become so next minute", stated Secretary Baker. )P NOW LARGER THAN IN 1915 (By UNITED PRESS) Washngtoii July An increase of nearly four million bales of cot ton for the year is the forecast by the department of agriculture re AMERICAN AND ALLIED 14 DESTROYERSjAiERlCANS WILL COTT r : v " ' , , ' ! - " ' : Photo shows Aviation base, from several camps Allied aviators have flown to Italy, where they have been of great assistance to the Italian army, beating down the Austrians, bombing the ehoray supply warehouses, and attacking the infantry with machine gun fire. SANITARY AND HEALlij UNDER TREASURY DEPT (B r UNITED PKSSl Washington July 2 President Wilson has issued a proclamation placing the sanitary and health service under the:treasury depart ments LEAD PROCESSION (By UritM Press) London July 2 American sol diers headed by their band will be the first to crowd the new Wilson Bridge at Lyons durhlar the fourth i - . " i of July celebration. C I James Kearney, representative of the American committee on pub lie information, has arranged fori , 0 an exnibition of American war-J Tclv NV Stevens, U. S. Army re films in celebration. tired, has been detailed as profes .;' I sor of military science and tac- WILSON DEFINES AMERICA'S PLAN 10 END WAR (By L-iiea Press) Washington July 2. The world! will-mni know the cfefinate pur-! pose of the United States in itsj herculean war efforts, exerted to ! end the struggle in 1920. ! President Wilson has completed ' the formulation of his doctrine .' aid, and as a finished product , holds out America's hand not i only to Russia but also to all op - jpressed people under teuton mil - i itarism and to embattled nations! themselves now and in the future. . cording to conditions of tin ,,r0p June 25. Th.V, reprrsc-.it-; 8" "8 100 per cent, indicating a yield per acre o'r two hundred pounds, or a to tal of fifteen million three hun dred and twenty five thousand jbales, or nearly 200,000 bales mor than 1915 the last banner crop year. AVIATORS AID ITALY. - TELEGRAPH SERVICE. AlffilCANS IEAW BOM LOSSES OUR TROOPS ADVANCE OVER A TWO MILE FRONT WEST OF CHATEAU THIERRY AND MAINTAIN DOMINATING POSIITIONS ALL ALONG THE LINE. FOUR HUNDRED & FIFTY PRISONERS TAKEN NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSITY By Robert Madry Chapel Hill, July 2.ln accor dance with the order recently drafted by the War Department designating the University of North Carolina as a Reserve Of ficers Training Camp, word has just been received from Washing. ton that Lieutenant-Colonel Gus- J TIT -sj . tiees. He has been directed to procceed to Chapel Hill and report ; for duty. Bom in Virginia, Lieut col. S. Stevens was appointed from j Louisiana as a Cadet to the U .S. .Military Academy in 1882: and I since that time his rise in the mili j tary world has been rapid. I He will be assisted in his work !l,fWoi., T "j -j. oiurtiL ..'Alien, airee- tor of military tactics at the Uni versity during the past year, and - Whitfield a former coin, m"dant of the Horner Military School and Adjutant at the Uni- versit' during the past session, iwo University Alumni Die in rance- two University Alumni have r ce,ltI3 l)ecn killed in action 1 rHnc'e Je Orr. of Mathews, in action in of the class of '20 and David S. Gra- ain' ot Charlotte, of the OI class. j Special Engineering Course to ! be Offered - j In response to urgent appeals from the Government to speed up the training of teachnical men the University will offer beginning next fall, a sjiecial three year course in engineering, leading to degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering. Such a course has J. .A 1' -. nei-eroiore required tour years. . The course will provide three ways in Avhich a young man may l obtain a thorough, intensive train ing in engineering. In the first year all students will take the same courses in the fundamental scienses. In the second year spe ialization will begin, one group of courses preparing for service in the engineers' corps, another for the Signal corps, and a third for the steam engineering in the Navy. ; These courses furnish a fine op- portunity, it is felt, for young men having a liking for science to train themselves for immediate practical service in the Armv and Navv not only for times of war but for times . of peace. ! Professor P. II. Daggett, Head of the Department of Electrical . Engineering, is attending thi1 con vention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at Atlan- i tic Citv. COTTON MARKET Open High Low Close 27.67 27.67 26.98 26.98 24.75 24.75 23.98 23.98 24.40 24.40 23.48 23.48 24.30 24.30 23.36 23.36 24.33 24.33 23.50 23.50 i July j Oct 'Dee I Jan Mar . - NUMBER 88 IRICT (By United Press) . With the Americans on the Maine July 2 ( 10:55 a. m.) The American troops advanced along a two mile front west of Chateau Thierry last night to the depth of half a mile, taking four hundred and fifty prisoners and inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. The Austrians losses were extremely heavy. Our men took the village of Vauxhall , Roche wood and pene trated Clermbaut wood. Combined French and American attacks at Vaux were reported as successful alter a bitter battle These attacks are important as the new positions now dominate Chateau Thierry and much of the country to the left.. IMPLEMENT MEN CONVENE HERE 0 C 0 Scotland Neck will be the host lo seventy five or one hundred Im plement Dealers tomorrow who come here to hold their monthly coni'eence and it is hoped that the people will show how well they can entertain out ol town visitors. The Merchants Association will have charge of the social side of the affair and they will serve suit able refreshments during the day. By the courtesy of Mr. Ii. J. Madry the Dixie tiieatre will be the place, of meeti.., which will convene at eleven o'clock, and the meeting will be calie I to order by the president, ,Mr. J. Graves Smith of Goldsboro, after which an ad dress of welcome will he made, then the routine business will be proceeded with which is of inter est only to the members. This organization is known as Local No. 7 of the Implement Deaf, ers Association of America, and comprises the light leaf tobacco belt, taking in the counties of Sampson, Wayne, ViIson,GrMMie, Lenoir, Pitt. Martin, Beaufort, Nash, Edgecombe, Halifax, North ampton and Bertie, and from most of these visitors are expected COLORED PEOPLE CELEBRATE 4TH 0 0 0 Thureday July 4, Independen ce Day, will be celebrated by the colored people at the colored Hal! at one o'clock when the first part of an extensive program will be rendered and Professor Nataniel S Hargrave principal of the Higgs Roanoke Seminary, will deliver the oration. A musical program and some other speeches will make up the afternoon program. At eight o'clock in the same hall the exercises wrill continue, but mostly of a musical nature, and there has been quite a large pro gram arranged for the night event
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