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: W'3 WEATHER KEPOBT : CluU.ly tea,. ,WiJfc' fai, Moderate wind,. EALTH AFTERNOON DAILY VOLUME VI NUMBER 82 FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLAND NECK. N C, TUESDAY MAECH 11, 1919. TELEGRAPH SERVICE PRICE TWO CENTS WHLEIELM COMMSMW K A MS IKM IBM AMDEID) FOE ALL ME ill jf IAN ARMY NOT OVER mm cmmmal ARMS AND MUNITIONS LIMITED TO EQUIP THIS ARMY, ALL OTHERS DESTROYED OR SURRENDERED; ALSO GERMAN FORTS ON THE RHINE CHANNEL TUNNEL AUSTRIA BE TAKE 5 YEARS! NEUTRALIZED ' By Associated Press Paris, March 11. While it is possible that the neutralization of Austria has not yet come forward VAI JNTZXBV FISil KTMFMT FMFnnrPh , 1 : v Tiie As oo i:reu I ress) n. March 31. "Whai will be ar,- f Emperor William' o- AMELIA BARR DIED IN N. Y. By Associated Pros- London, March 11. Five years will be required to complete the proposed, tunnel under the English channel from England to France, -as a 4 'big- feature", it is bein- dis jaecoramg to authoritative esti-! cussed here in an informal manner mates, ine cost will be nearly; Certain socialistic elements in one hundred million dollars. Austria are striving hard to nre- vent neutralization but other in fluences are anxious to see it ef fected as it would Austria a pro tection similar to Switzerland. LEGISIATI1 MJABS ED I BILL J - will be branded for all tinr; j :in atvh criminal by solemn dec-j Jar.rion by all the nations assem-j Bv Assoiated Pre5i I,! .1 ar the peace conference to Xew Y k M , ii4mpl. ?:lU'h e en ow n cuuuuv may ii nni, ,ii,f,,, wtmnusnr p,i hi; fnnm;iiH- tlnvM,fl.J, , Bmviv-,,, un.u Mil illlTIIl - - 1 , at her home near here at the aa-e'out tlld Argonne fight) arrived Hast nisrht from the debarkation I? called upon to subscribe to the ii-';u terms, aC'-ording to the pre'f en LIEUT SMITH GREETS FRIENDS MUCH VALUABLE LEGISLATION WAS ENACTED DURING THE LAST FEW WEEK;;, INCLUDING CHILD LA BOR BILL V IT" Lieutenant Norfieet S. Smith (who by the way was reported a Captain Smith m th casualties due of course to the -fact that he f :,1fus of Nvhat,is beUev5d H Amelia Barr was fifty years of hospital, Hampton, Va., on a thir he the judgement of a majority of commission on responsibility lfirst Jlovej age before she ventured upon her da.v furlough tne war. It i reported that this commis- Friend were delighted to see Tragedies cam-earlv in her lifr L,ieutenant mith but regretted Silift wo : tti j. x i to see his left arm in a. si ins- He sio-i will be re-idv to return ifql 111 ulVTOlun(i uan- , ' " , ,icwill be ead to return its in 1831, with the vas shot badly by machine-gun bul iindmcrs in the course of a few ' ' ' U1LU lIitiii r i i u da. ;name of Amelia Huddleston. As lets wliich splintered the bone, ja little girl she lost three young thonSa lt is hoped he may finally Pari. .March 11. Militarv GerJ brothers in quick succession bv!et tho Llse of hh left liaud- i - 'l TJ .. U,. 1. 4- .1? 1.1, liiaiiv will go out of existence asaeam- "ien ce straitened fi-1 ua;s luutu lu lcu ,,L "iea nances for the family- She set:llnnug ot the American boys at out as teacher to earn her own live'Sfc' Minerand in the Argonne and Mhitary Tt-nus .n German disarm. !lih,od- Finally settling in Scot-!we trust we wlU be Piieged to d married at th rel)ort ome or his experiences at t-v -i ! TOT It a noc rmmi tic 4- li ilo treat v. ;age or iy JtoDert J5arr, a voun ua ucwi' The t, rms provide a reduction Scotch mill owner. Barr soon lost PVe are ure our readers wish t( a i uk of tiie adoption by the Su- invuie Council last night, of the! .niifiit as they ro into the peace 'hind, she met and married at th his mills and money. Th e young couple came to A- j "f the (Jennaii military establish-ni-nt u one hundred thousand incn. this anuv to be raised bv a',nenca iu llS?3 to start life anew voluntary system for a period of They lived and worked in Chicago tw-iv,.. years. This limits tier- Memphis, Ilarrisburg (Texas) Gal nuiuvi militarv- strength to less i veston and Austin,, Mrs. Barr belo illan Vlt'cV hi Mi- i 1110" OUT IV tM(i inii .... v. . v i 7 . 1 ( r a ii Mvaooi. They were living in comfortable circumstances in Galveston in 1887 when yellow fever swept the city, and during the epidemic Mrs. Barr lost her husband and three ?sons all the male members of hpr know from first hand about these battles. ONE DAY BRIDE GIVES EXEMPTION By Associated Press Chicago, 111.. March 11. An im portant' extension of the exemp tion provisions of the income tax law, in a ruling by Commissioner Roper made public today, provid es exemption for wife and child ren covering the whole year of 1918 even if the wife is wed, or the child is born on the last day of the year. the most pvdi-d tilings you Will ( (." til,. 1)(,;I',I in th- House and tlier- will be no convcu ! ot know W Otlu-r rovisions limit amis and umintioiis Ciermany may possess ' a 'inantity sufficient for one auudred thousand men. All the v:n;nrider mils': be surrendered, ;,r '.lestr.u-ed. '-"TiuJn forts alone- the Rhine ;" must br .letroyed and the Imi'-i'hil Cieneral Staff abolished. if N. C. MEN IET CITATION family. She faced life anew for the third : time with three daughters and lit. '1H'!M I 1S11( , l-'hi'll t'ilvi.i-a1 .... 1 e lMOIli'V TTot ff nm rile? .if ' i ' imei,t as tin. '"'I'l.-t ii - Washington, Marrh 11. Tin commander in chief, in the-- name of the president, has awarded the 'istingnislied-service cross to the following North Carolinians for a -ts of extraordinary heroism as l:-si.ribed aft'r tiieir names: Sergt. Eugen. . Walker, Com. support proved fruitless in the'panv j) Seventh Engineers (A. S. Texan city. At the age of 40 she ( 914715) For extraordinary arrived in Xew York. heroism in action near Verdun, ll had sftf.13 in my purse," she France, November 4, 1918. When said, "and was absolutely alone in three boats in a platton bridge a the battle of life, but confident eros the Meuse river were destroy that God and Amelia Barr were a i , i multitude. volunteered and waded into the She turned to literature for a i-iWr under heavy shell fire, and living. Henry Ward Beeeber em- by holding up the deck until new ployed her on the staff of his new boats were launched and placed in journal, The Christian Union. This position, although under great led to an acquaintance with many physical strain, permitted the unin of the leading literary men of the terrupted crossing of the infan day. Working day and night to try. Home address, Mrs. Sally night to support her family sh -; Walker, mother. 132 Lindsev st., ' lu-h for formal sign- ;soon established a market for her Reidsville. N. C. literary Mares. Wagoner Da 'id U. Latham Com CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION LOSES (By Maxwell Wurman will be erected in the city of Ra- Raleigh. March 11 When these lf g'il i,,ld not il1 West Kh'ii?h cm lints appear in type the Legila- th' Statc (,lle pounds, ture of 1919 will have adjourned Owing to the efforts of Dough and passed into history as a "fair j!u f AJIe,laiiy (whose guberna ly good' average bodv, with nojionai actions are again moot distinguishing marks ,f Mipei - !f'd) tJi0 Soiiat? ,,5i! Km of Co greatness. Still, it -can be said (,tiiumbus f)rovi,lin- J meaii it that, durino- the hist tv- wL-.!for a t-'onstitutional convention one of the session, much Ood work ! . - - - - . a. uli nil VUlt,!. .'it 1 j The onlv measure maekinr oi uie seusatmnai aurmg tne it tew ; The submit.,, of Hie in-'om,? ua.ys oi uie session va.s rue cinhi i f.f,x amendment. labor law contention, whereby the State Commissioner of Labor, Mr Shipman, who for years had been laboring to secure the enactment of an effective law on. the subject, was not named as one of the threr officials designated to enforce the act. An effort to substitute Shin man for Beasley in the'Xeai so-enll ed "manufacturers bill." failed jj, the Senate, the vote having been 27 to 20, eight )f the majority of votes being cast by Repablieans The controversv was an unfo7-tn nate one, as orgainzed labor had representatives here who asked j that the Commissioner of Labor j be one of the commission named! to enforce the law, and they are! represented as being offended o-! ver the refusal to accede to their i wishes. The most important law of the sessioji was enacted Saturday! TROOPSJM AGAINST REBEIS By Associated Press Loudon, March 11 Government troops in Berlin made further pro gress on aturday and Sunday by demoblishing Snartaean strong holds in the northern and eastern sections of the' city, according t: a German wireless. To avoid unnecessary losses the troops used artillery anr mine h rowers, thus being able to force back the insurgents without ex "mg themselves. Dispatches say that terrorizing ethods of the Spartacans caused he revolution of feeling in f avor j f the government everywhere. Uir? complies with the exactions ishtture to help defray the expens- tion. o tne constitu tion at the next General appears, '.and the convention issue must step aside " in order that there be no confusion. ,r Rather a flim sey argument but they put it o ver and will '-get away with it." Some day. let, hope, a consti tutional convention will yet be he'd to work over our present crazy-guilt affair called a consti tution since 'way bark in the early ; following the war and "re construction." by the llolden reg. gime of sea la Wigs. Tar Heel Troops On The Sea Co!. Albert Cox of th,. 113th field artillery .'who piit the bench judge to fight the common cuts !. early in the war) cabled to Raleiirh Sunday that his troops re aboard ship an dare on th way home. Units of the 30th dC vision of infantry (N. C, Tenn- and S. C. troops) are expected to namely the Staie-wide road law. : ,,ul,ark Jl5s 1)IOHlll .,,so nnd qoo which among ity other good tea ;J)as )t.(M1 anoro.iriate.l bv the le'- conscrintion nlan 'l''vKlii;u two nundred thousand rviiiLf one year terms, would '"'niiiiny a trained annv of) ?vo, mill;,.,. " ! 1 "' ueu jjj i en year. . !""irresS jnade with fram "'-die j).-;KM. treaty ensures a eom by Mareh 20. i'!''s'iot v.urpose is t cal! egates to V-dsaii- tTt r this dale. The doeu then e delivered to the it. e;iS- they are" not pre- .'umediatelv. that ' given an opportunity ''iinany and eons id- HON H- S. WARD HERE TONIGHT necessary for this state to share in tiie Federal aid in good road construction. Major Graham won his fight "li the closing days and the new d -partment of nrk-n't ur- huildin-.: es in i-eceiving them at such places a thi-y are allowed to parade1. At least one regiment is exected, to turn out in Raleigh and there will be a hot time in the old town when they arrive. Hon. H. S. Ward, of AVashinu- vd by artillery fire, .Sergt. Walker ;t N c Q1 of he rine,t speak ers in North Carolina, is eomiiif: SIX STATE MEN DANIELS TALKS AMONG LOSSES BY RADIO PHONE ll.--lli the 1 war ue- are found the t:- tmucua 111 K Hi Abo- ! I y?7 TAWMS! 4-' 1U I! i iU j I i GERMANS STILL FAR FROM RIGA here upon the invitation of Mr. S A. Dunn to address the people j on the Armenian-Syrian Reliei at. the Dixie Theatre tonight. j p'.v -Wf,- He will arrive on the seven' thir j w;lsilini,t!11!, ty train and.it is expected the ) foul. Usts' issu.-d bv th. speaking will commence at eight jparllm.m t,v,;iy " nai or z-ir-i: names ot wnien .Nona : ,11. jii. nam to o - '"'j Carolina contributes six. a fwl-; interestinir talk. He alwavs does i i ... I . . . - - i lows ; pany G, nth .ammunition train, and it will be time well spent to! (A. S. No 14089(38.) For extraordi- j iear liim. therefore it is hoped the j Corporal Richard Adam nary heroism in action near Sept-j theatre will, be filled to overflow jAsheville d)od of disease. . ;sarges. r ranee, ucroner l.vio. ; mg m compliment to tins iiius 'When an enemv shell struck somejtrous orator. I pvroteehnics stored in the ammunC o it-ion dump of his organization, Wa Professor Manpiettt Private Zebulon Williams, o Venxon Avas wounded severely. Privates Cummin gs Smith. T'y As-i.x i.-it.-e; :'rt s Washington, March 11. Secre tary Daniels ta'Mcd by radio tele phone today with a navy airplaris enroute from Washington to Non communication was established at more than fne hundred and fif ty miles, the louir -st, transmission radio telephone signals with an airplane ever accomplished. COTTON MARKET ot :i I 1 J )lsni'( in i,;r under alli oC ' '""lit inning. -""t '!.!! COIHllls b:.ve fi"in Lake Con :" a.-eiMinl ,:' the ' i h " ! )e.;s;; ts ' ii, .j '"hawn B- Aociate.i Press .goner Latham assisted in remov- . lumbia University may Coienha!Mi. March 11. Tlo. re inir inflammable material and nlae i lowed to retain his cently reported reeajture of Riga ing the fire under control. Thru j conscientious objector: by the Cernums is denied in a Bet. his coolness and courage, the de,ean no longer pose as lin dispatch. rructioii of a large quantity ot' scieutious enough' Cermau troops it is now stated near-by amadinition was avoided, to teach m e jBear Creek and Jess Weaver, of be al-!,t.., . . . . , eieome were wouijoei to a o.e- status of -j . . ' gi-ee undetermined. but he ' Clo.-iM I fins C'ontr;e-t ;:.!! 1'4.."" Private Thomas Nixon, of Wii-. 'May J-.7- to lie allowed -nungton was wounded shgntly. Muly -2.r, reoresentative i Sergeant Lettw-eh Ka'.nsey. .r . o-tn!-r a con- t Xpw f Veitract 22.S5 2t.r,H iiliams. uu college and Cniver Asheville wa "vee umiei evi:!! wouiidf d a uc- e ll.er are still ;) from liig;i. considerable distance Home address, John e!e. Ashburg. X. C. A nierieau sit . I.o. x fiXAr,
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