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I HE
AFTERNOON DAILY
VOLUME FIVE
AFTERNOON DAILY
SCOTLAND NECK, N. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22 1918
TELEGRAPH SERVICE
NUMBER 97
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HEART OF HER (GREAT
HUN SOCIALIST j QUASH PROBE
STHBinfiMAMN 1 AC I Ami I ETTP
ft-LfiilC.il UVfiN MJI MiliO RESIGNS OFFICE
QUOTA -EXCEEDED AT
EXTENDING OVER TWENTY MILES, IN SINGLE COLUMN,
THE GERMAN SHIPS PASSED THROUGH A LANE
OF ALLIED MIGHTIEST VESSELS
(By Associated Press.") :i
Basle, Nov 22. Philip Seheiae
mann has resigned as minister, of
I finance in the new German govern
i ment and his place has been taken
'by Herr Landsburg, the secretary;
RlieRICAN DATTLfcdHIPS WERE IN LiNEi" and iitera,rc,e
j cording to Berlin dispatches.
( Bv Associated Tress rntYTr VT T A V f W
Washington, Nov 22.-" Until IVU ilUBGOOD
eve.y Germany warship covered
by the armistice is actually surren MCM REM AMnFft
dered , said Secretary Daniels to IflLllM iIjlflriilILl
day 'the navy department will con
tinue to operate under war regula- A trial that has caused nc, lit ; le
tions" excitement in this community
When ofiieial notice has been was ended, so far as the magis-
received that the naval terror ot trate's court is concerned.
the armistice has been accomplish en o'clock last nght when
ed I will remove many, if not all. McLemore and Lester James, both
restrictions placed on the navy per of Hobgbod. were bound over to
sonell." the next term of the Superior
j Court under heavy bonds.
London Nov 22. Twenty seven j The case aro5e out 0f sCVeral
Washington Nov 22. The hives
jtigation into the alleged dislov.i
speech of Senator LaFollette at St
Pau more than a year ago was a
bandoned tod-ay by the senate el
ections committee by a vote of
nine to two.
The committee members said
that however much the speech on
'which the proceedings-were' brou
jght might be depored but would
;iiot be a basis for expulsion from
the Senate."
LAST IfflTS 1
ng
MB. W. E. FENNER ,OF ROCKY MCUNT; MADE A ROUSING
ADDRESS AT MADRY'S OPERA HOUSE, WHICH
RAISED CONSIDABLE ENTHUSIASM
FUGITIVES CROSS
DUTCH BORDER! RADICALS WILL
RECALL POYERS
$4,000 ALREADY RAISED-MORE TO CONE
1515 U. S.
MEN
O
I
(Bv Associated Pres.'
- - ' "?
Iendhoven. Nov 22. Fugitives
are crossing the Belgian-Diiteh
I. at sev- j frontier it is reported.
?n B. . i "Vfvinx- Tln-ismc liavp heeii inin
ed bv explosions at Gheel. twentv
six miles southeast of Antwerp.
Tilt town has been completely; dc
troved. it is said.
m ; sweeping vessels passed out
of the Germans possession on Mon
day acording to Aniesierdaui Cen
tral News dipatehes.
Mr: W. E. Fenner last night self
j confessed he was not a speaker,
when he got up to address a good
I ill' I AMIAI IlllVlb' audience at the Dixie theatre
robberies in Scotland Neck and vi
cinity, the breaking in stores and
stealing from the Atlantic Coast
Line a quantity of Clothing, shoes
v mterneu.
Thy arrived in British waters j overf,ps alKi tobacco, which, whe
iruin Belgium and were mimciuate jratbered together may represent
i e vera! thousand dollars,
i
i . - . . ,-i
Since tae trial yesterday a spe-
j r-i-jl eenresemative of the Coast
Line has been making investiga
tions which has caused other war
rants to be issued for the arrest
of other people in this section char
ged with being guilty of buying &
selling these stolen goods knowinp
them to have been stolen.
It. is further stated that other
arrests will be made so that next
week will be a very busy one in
the court house at Halifax.
ENTENTE FORCES
MARCH ON. KIEV
iU 111 .Ml 1 . JV.UIIUHIM - " - .
Germany as a naval power ceased
to exist today.
The heart ofher mighty fleet,
including fourteen ships of the
line, seven light cruisers, fifty des
trovers, (besides other Auxiliary
ships, were surrendered to the ar
mada of British, American and
French vessels, the greatest fight-j
in? force that ever went to sea.
The German fleet when it came
in sight was strung out in single
column almost twenty miles long
and passed down a lane between
rli allied ships which overlapped
the Germans at each end.
Fiv American battleships. New
York. Texas. Arkansas, Wyoming
and Florida were in line inimedi
Ktcly behind the Queen Elizabeth.
Si.- David Beattie's flagship.
'BaseIe;;..Nov - 22. The entente ; ar.d th
troops are marching on Kiev, ac- se-Mon
cording to advices from Swiss j act: ii on
Washington. Nov 22 Republi
cans will demand the abrogation
of ia if presidential war powers
and insist that reconstruction pro
blems be handled largely by congress.
They see. they state, an effort
i will bo made v- hurry through the
luexf session which ends llareh 3.
j 1919. ;;11 neeessarv rev-onstruction
jlcgislaiion with a view of prevent
hig an estra session on March 4.
i That sesv?ioii if called, v:?. le. ecu
j trolled, by republicans hey ass-v:
X: x w.y win ma Re an "extr.i
iiuperative V-v dela vin-
tal measures or sucn
ong methods hei- ine neeessarv
Washington. Nov 22. The War
Department today gives the num
ber of casualties for the United
States army in two lists to be fif
teen hundred and fifteen of which
twenty nine are North Caroliu
ians, as follows :
MISSING IN ACTION
Sergeant Lux C Carver, of Ku
! tllOvf.-Tl
v'orporal Howard G. Oates. o:
ressen:er Citv.
Privates Jesse L. Kuffin, of Sev
en Springs :Laey Gaston of Sau
f.rd: Hedric Koark, of Ashland
and Joseph Wall, of Selma.
DIED OF WOUNDS
I'riv
Jvev
t. Fargis,
Eb
newspapers.
General Smoropaskai, the Ukraj without hesitating.
ian dictator, has surrendered and i Republieaji leaders state fha:
General Detikine. leader of the they will do everything in their
anti-Bolshevist forces, lias been j power at the coming election to
named his successor with the ec-i-j make their ideas, not in accord
j sent of the entente nations, it is " with those of the president, or ?
said. vail.
il'V
G.'lle-je and Alexander Hvusu,
"': :iitsna.
DIED OF DISEASE
Wa-jooei Bra:-k II. (Vanfovd. oi'
Ashe; 'oro.
WOUNDED SEVERELY
HERE'S A CHAPLAIN, PREACHING TO OUR BOYS
WHO HAS A RIGHT TO TITLE OF "SKY PILOT.
in the interest of the fund to pro
vide comfort and protection for
i ur boys in camp overseas, hut if
Le was nor an accomplished oraiov
he certain! v was something better
hejproved himself a convincing
straight -forAyard euthuiast, who
wi the phtok to te-il his h.e-.irers
ivhat he considered was his own
ir.ty and the duty of. every red
i-K-ded Anerieau ehi.ien, and in
. rc:;'j-r!-e he a.Jivimplishd mr
"han the most fluent ora.lnr - he
g-t the money.
Scot nut Neck people are if any
: t;ing. intc.isely iaiersted in th
-ral : nditious un'.miii',iiu'; in
b ys "ver tWnv" and they ar
iu'isu re-'il::oded patriotic citizens
who h-.-ve never siiirkcd their pari
wie n called ui)o?a pronely, so,
though the crowd was by no niear.s
as large as it ought i) have been.
four thousand dollars was raised,
which, is five hundred dollars over
the tpiota for this town. This sum
will als be augmented consider
CITED FOR A
BRAVE DEED
Second Lieutenant, John C. Duf
fy. Co.. F., 53rd Infantry was cited
"For extraordinary heroism in ac
tion near Landersbach, Alsace, on
October, 4. 191S. During an attack
by a German raiding party of a
bout :'0() men. Lieutenant Duffy
t"ok command of a post where 5
men manning it had been killed
or wounded by liquid fire. By
his coolness and fearless exposure
of hmself, he was able to hold the
post with a small reinforcement.
After the raid he. removed some
twenty grenades which had been
dengerously hot due to the. fire,
Mid were about to explode." Lieu
tenant Duffy resides at 28 Pollock
Street, New Bern.
DE CASTELNAU
FRENCH MARSHAL
Paris Nov 22. General De Cas
tahr.ui who will probably enter
Strassburg Sunday with the Fren
ch uriuv. according to the Echo de
Paris and who will probably at i
that time ""assume new dignity, j
Paris newspapers reported ear
lier in the week that the new mar;
jshal of France would probably be;
appointed soon and oru? general ,
would be promoted when Strass
burg was entered. Apparently the
one to he promoted will be Castehi :
an.
COTTON MARKET
Oi,fn Higli Low cio v? i sions and the. cause of th
GREAT EXPLOSION
OF MONITIONS
..London Nov; 22. An explosion ;
of munition trains in Belgium on
Thursday caused casualties extiiu.v
ted between fifteen hundred and
two thousand persons . ;V:vj
Gnr; hundred and fifty deadj;
have already been counted aecorr
ing to the Central News dspatch. .
es from Amsterdam. The nijip-ed
are beiug taken "to Budel, HoIIaiMl!
The reported cause of the cxplo-:
disaster .
4
" x If
1 A" JF:'
ggfQjgr-yffgjtf :tsXS&.y.
Privates Sylvester Green of Sui:
burst and John Hansen gale, of
Goldsboro.
WOUNDED TO A DEGREE XJNDE
TEKMJNED
Sergeant Eugene Jiiddie. oi
Afi'int i il'V
Privates VieJor Hugo Howard J hy i,ml Tho gentlemen in diarge.
of La Grange; Leonard Swansea M'rs Lewis B. Suiter and Sam A
of Ilayesville : John A. Smith, d iDuiin instructs the t! .mmonw ealtlr
Asheboro; Zachariar Tlmrnton, to state that the name of everv
.,-f Benson; Harry W .ihnson, : u Im subscribel t, this fund
' . iUlU I 11H. il'- 'i .Ivr.t ,, , 11' 1 1 mi i
miim oe puonsiieu in 1 lie i om-
mon ve;dth. as son a the list could
Ve compiled, therefore thev ask
(JasUnia and John y. Leader of j
Landis.
WOUNDED SLIGHTLY
Ba
re v
1" a !oii ni
Captain Joseph O
Clinton.
Lieu i en a u t J a m s L
Faison.
Corporal Coy L. Saunders, of
liuncan.
i
Privates William E. IFnig, of cord .at
fthat Tlitvse who subscribed to thi
, jfunrl and. were not oresnt las;
night and who "would like to hav
their names added to the honor
roll to be inscribed and kept on re
he court house ir. Halifax
Mount Airy ; Emery Roberts of
(irassv Creek and William - N.
Jovner of Murfreesboro.
KJLLED IN ACTION
Privates Eugene E. Moser of To
bacco; Rov Waller, of Durham;
Willie Sams, of Bull Creek and
L-e P. Sheffield, of Roanoke Ra
pids.
The list show that 404 men were
killed in action: 88 died of wounds
11 died of accidents and other can j
sfs ; 1 died of aeroplane accident :
IQo died of disease : 87 wounded se
verelv; .'159 wounded to a degree,
undetermined: 078 woundd slight-
!v: 69 missing in action and 13 are
prisoners.
should notify their wishes to eith
er of the two gentlemen named
before the local list is published.
Five thousand- dollars is none
too much for Scotland Neck and
this is the amount that is expected
to be finallv raised.
1
Here is a real "sky pilot." This picture shows a chaplain con-
r Children ; tuctmg Sunday-morning services at an aerodrome somewjiere u-
Gernnn France, from'1 a most unusual pulpit. Lacking a pipe organ ana n
ain and his congregation are doing very
iw-ew 2g.pr, ejus 28.7..28.75;was..a bonfire built by
Januarv 28. 1 8 28.70 2S.ar, 1 i u j , , ,
rhmh cnTA rlci tn t W
March 27.74 '28.15 27.40 27.43 ... 1 . surnliced choir, the chaph
May 27.48 -7 u Mil. o7 , i munition trams nearoy. ... flli -rl , a h-nil tt- llt tn thp title of sfev pilot'
.mty .. 27.27 27.60 27.0527.051 "The distruetion m the vicinity - v, for by several aviators with whom he made flights ar
Lo-al Market 2C.,Ji cents . tfee dispatches adds, was enormous the front.
KAISER'S FAMILY
LEAVE GERMANY
Amsterdam Nov 22. AU the
members of the llohenzollrm dyn
astv will leave (ermanv in the
'nar future, according to a Frank
fort dispatches to the Rotterdam
C 'ur.tnt.
Their destination, it adds, is not
:vet known.
WILSON ARRIVES
IN FRANCE CAP
ITAL DEC. 12
SMALL FIRE
-There, was a 'nuill fire at the Cotton
Oil aiM (linn'wip Tempany this afternoon
:u;I little or ho 'lair. age requite.
( ly A . in ted Pi e's. )
Paris Xr,v 22 President Wilson
is expected to arrive in Paris about
December the twelfth, aecordvng
to infoncation here today.
Plans are being made for enter
tainment of- the American presi
dent as well as the allied rale is
who will visit Paris in November
or December. Visits to the Presi
dent will begin at the end of this
month with the arrival of King
i George Queen Mary, King Albert
Queen Elizabeth will come on Dec
ember the fifth and will be fol
lowed.by President Wilson.