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Ji , "I 4Fiw rii pim. sMS Buy Bonds, Talk Bonds and Sell Bonds ffiS 4TH LIBERTY LOAN r J 1 6 THE DAILY TIMES, the Advertising Medium That Gets Direct Results For Its Users The Daily -0 One O'clock Edition I B S V ' I ( I Price: Five Cents THE THREE EDITIONS Of The Daily Times Cover Every Section of Eastern North Carolina -0 ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES WILSON, N. C, THURSDAY, OCT. 3, 1918. VOL 15-NO. 125 GERMANS ARE-MOVING THE INHABITANTS OF ALSACE UN TED STATES N ANTICIPATION OF A E FROM SHE FRANCO AMERICAN FORCES . A PRINCE OF THE ROYAL BLOOD HAS BEEN CHOSEN CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY THE BRITISH AND THE FRENCH CONTINUE TO DRIVE THE GERMANS. LEAD WAR Big head Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 3 The German military authorities" have begun to remove the inhabitants of Alsace in expectation of an attack by the Franco-American forces in that section. Pruico Maximilian the New Chancel lor. Amsterdam Oct. 3. Prince Maxi milian of Baden has been named as the German Imperial Chancellor by Emperor William. Paris, Oct. 3. Heavy fighting continues north of Rheims andt the French continue their advance, and have captured Louvre, says the of ficial statement from the war office. The important railroad junction of Cholleroy has been captured by Gen eral Gouvand. West of Charleroy the Germans made a tremendous ef fort to drive the French from the woods southeast of Offereul but driven off with heavy losses. The French continued their attack in the Champagne today. dress Mrs. Wesley J. Creech, Lock Box 123, Bolton, N. C. Voundcl Severely Bon G. Davis, emergency address Mrs. Marie Davis, 512 Nunn street, Wilmington, N. C. William II. Hall, emergency ad dress Mrs. Sallie Hall, Thoniasvills, N. C. Henry Terrell, emergency address R. 3, Itoxboro, N. C. Marino Corps Casualties Summary of casualties to date: Officers: Deaths 40 Wounded 67 Missing 1 108 Enlisted men: Deaths 1043 Wounded 2033 In hands of ene.my 21 Missing 152 3249 3357 British Troops Advancing .North of St.. Qiieutin London, Oct. 3. British troops resumed their attack north of St. Quentin, according to the report of General Haig. The Germans con tiued their withdrawal movement on the front from Lens to Rrmieii tieres. They are evacuating high and important positions along a twenty-mile front. In pushing af ter the retreating Germans the Brit ish have reached Cete-St-Auguste, j Drouvarain east of La Basse, east of' Aubers, and west of Grenier wood the advance of the British contin ues. A German attack last night on the British positions to the north of Cambral was repulsed. Belgian Troops Taking Positions London, Oct. S. Belgian troops on Wednesday night captured impor tant positions according to the offi cial statement. General Plummer's troops have captured Ghleuveve near Menin and Leblzt just north of Armentlerres. CASUALTY LIST FOR OCT. 8, 1918 Killed in action 187 Missing in action 68 Wounde severely 212 Died from wounds ...... ..27 Died of disease 1 Died of accident and oth er causes 2 Total 497 The following are from North Point, N. C. R . ,tuthatyou-ba8c Carolina: KiUeVl In Action Reuben Davis, emergency address Mrs. Alice Davivs, D. F. D. 3, High Point. William C. Lowery, emergency ad dress Aley Lowewry, Cana, N. C. Guy Wren, emergency address Al fred P. Mustain, Middlesex, N. C. Wounded Severely Joe W. Thompson, emergency ad dress Mrs. Geo. W. Champion, Smithfield, N. C. James H.." Arnette, emergency ad dress James A. Arnette, Elsworth avenue, Charlotte, N. C. ', Killed In Action ; Edgar H. Combs, emergency ad dress Mn. Ellen Call, Call, N. C. Wesley J. Creech,' emergency ail l GOVERNOR PA KDONS WILSON COUNTY NEGRO CNews and Observer) Governor Biekett yesterday grant ed a pardon to Jim Reid of Wilsoii county, sentenced to terms aggre gating six years in the county jail luf ussuuit with a deadly weapon upon John Herudon, upon condition that lie pay one thousand dollars to Ilorndon ar.d pay the costs of the ac tion against him. In his statement of reasons Gov ernor Bickett quotes the letter of the Judge who recommends the par don as follows: "At the first September term of superior court of Wilson county i found upon the criminal docket three indictments against Jim Reid, to each of which he had entered a plea of not guilty at the May term of court. My attention was called to the disposition of this matter by Judge Kerr, Judge presiding at the May term of court, but, but upon it appearing to me that the defendant had failed to comply with the terms of adjustment, after hearing the ev idence, I pronounced judgment in each case, as appears in the record. "The defendant was unabble to give the court at that time any posi tive assurance that he would be able to comply with the adjustment ap proved by Judge Kerr. I am now informed that he has deposited the sum of one thousand dollars (11, 000) with the clerk of the superior court for the use of John Herndon and has paid the costs in all three actions, and now wishes the terms of the original adjustment carried out. "I beg to say that I know of no reason why this adjustment should not be recognized and that I recom mend that you grant to the defend ant a commutation in accordance with the original agreement." To this the Governor adds: "The clerk of the superior court of Wilson certifies that the defend ant has pedoslted a sum of one thousand dollars in his office. For these reasons a pardon is granted upon condition thatthe defendant pay John Herndon one thousand dollars, and that he pay the costs in all cases' against him." ing abroad for service there has arisen a large enough need for specialized workers in this country to make it necessary to organize a new branch of the department of personnel to superintend the recruit ing and placing of these workers. In the Southern Division ,this work is under the direction of J. W. Pearse, who has just received from Washington a list of positions now ope nto male workers in this coun try. The largest need at present is for high class men in the camps and the naval stations, 150 of these be ing wanted to act as field directors and assistants. These representa tives will be in direct contact with army .commanders and the heads of large hospitals. They must com mand the respect of and be fully fitted 'to mingle on a basis of inti macy with such men; and they must have tact, imagination, discretion and initiative In addition, a field director who speaks Spanish is needed at Porto Rico; and in the Canal Zone a field director and three assistants. These assistants must speak Spanish also, but in the case of the field director this is not necessary. He should be a man of unusual ability and charac ter who would practically represent the Red Cross In the Zone. A number of other men are needed in various departments. MARKETS New York Oct. 3. The cotton market was comparatively quiet (lur ing the early trading. There seem ed to be more selling on the rallies and the tone was somewhat easy. The market opened with nn advance of five points on August, but the gen eral list was from 2 to 40 points lower. Rallies of several points fol lowed on account of WTall street buy ing said to be due to the favorable war news. New York, Oct. 3. Cotton futures opened steady with October 33.00, Dec. 32.50; Jan. 32.30; March 32.25; May 32.24. COTTON STOCKS New York Wall Street, Oct. 3. Stocks, especially the specialties of the tobacco shipping and the oil group were lifted to higher levels in the first half hour the usual strong stocks showed little change. There were gains in the specialties extend ing from 1 to 6 points. United States Steel, Marine pre ferred, Texas Company, American Telephone and International Paper were conspicuous United States Steel advanced almost a point but later showed an inclination to react whenever there was any pressure. Union Pacific and Reading were the only rails to manifest any strength. THE CANNY SCOTCHMAN One of the most popular men at the recent Blue Ridge conference of the Y. M. C. A. physical directors of the Southeast, was J. Hume McDon ald, boxing Instructor at Camp Jack son, S. C. "Mac," a Boer war and Zulu , rebellion Teteran conducted a school of boxing and bayonet fighting for the "Y" men at the instance of R. C. Cubbon, Y. M. C. A. physical director for the Southeast His daily classes were largely attended and the work was enthusiastically entered Into. "Mac" put all of his characteristic pep into the work and no one in the class worked any hard er than the teacher. CLOUDY TONIGHT AND FRIDAY For North Carolina partly cloudy tonight and Friday with Hot much change In temperature, and north to northeast winds. RED CROSS NEEDS HELP In addition, to the numerous peo ple the Amerttiair Red Cross it send- L" vl LI , SWIMMING GROWING Swimming has become a most popular sport in the camps of the Southeast 105,691 men engaging in the swimming programs arranged by the Y. M. C. A. physical directors during the month of August. Base ball ,ln which there were 160,561 participants, was the only sport to exceed Bwimming In the number of participants, in August volley ball ranked thlnd with 96,106 partici pants. STEAMER TAMPA Has Been Sunk While on Patrol Duty in the Submarine Zone and CASUALTY LIST IS HEAVY Wnslifntrtnii. O.'l 5 TIio T'niteil States Coast guard steamship Talli ca has been lost in foreign waters and the casualty list is reported heavy. Details of te disaster have not oeen divulged by the navy de partment early today. The Tampa it is understood was on patrol duty in the Submarine zone. (iOO CASKS IN COCKY MOUNT Influenza I!. Fire in ' (f-'iv. Rocky Hex 600 case. ; and the p!:y. overworked. Clip on the Town. ' l''nnn KxeliaiiKe ;;i ;a Times) :t, OH. 3. There are ii;1 -n .i;:a in this city ei.v.u and nurses are Vv.o deaths are re ported, one of these, Mr. L. T. Moore, prominent citizen of the town. Fire occurred at 6 : : 30 last even ing in the telephone central office in this city the force of which lias been greatly reduced on account of the Spanish Influenza. The fire. was discovered when all the lights came in on the switch board and a hurri ' examination was made and it was found in the frame room where the wires come in on the cables. The alarm was sent in and the fire was soon extin guished but not until 1,000 of the 1,500 telephones in the city were disconnnected. All the long dis tance wires were burnt out except two, one to Wilson and Raleigh Long distance connection is now re sumed and the company hopes to have everything working in a short while. The .-tan age is estimated at S3.- 000 and is covered by insurance. THE PRESIDENT AM) SENATORS .inn iniioreiiee-i ovviv !:e n;::i Suffrage Question Washington, Oct. 3. President Wilson is reported as worried be cause of the failure of 20 senators to vote with him on the Woman Suf frage Amendment. He took the po sition that America must give suf frage to those who desired it and wore qualified to vrte, America iiiusr stand for Democracy as a principle. Southern Senators who opposed the measure felt that it would en franchise negroe women who would go to the polls and vote while southern white women stayed, at at home. IAIIAS South From Archangel Than Any or the Allied Troops in Russia PENETRATED 300 MILES Archangel, Oct. 3. American troops now hold the farest positions south of Archangel of all the nllierl forces. They have taken a small vil lage 35 miles south of Sehenkurst, 300 miles southeast of Archangel on the Vaga river, the Bolshevik! strong position from which their communi cations radiate is only 40 miles away EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA CALLS FOR MEDICAL All) Raleigh Oct. 2. Continued calls were made upon the state board of health today from the communities in eastern North Carolina for medi cal aid in combatting the epidemic of Spanish influenza, whic his exert ing most of its force in that section. Though no section of the State is free from the epidemic, according to advices to the state board of health, it has not reached serious nrnnnr- tions in the middle and western sec tions yet. A total of 41 physicians today ten dered their service to the state board of health, and a number of them were immediately assigned to eastern North Carolina, some of them going to Wilmington, where the ep idemic appears to be in most serious proportions. Dr. W. S. Rankin, secretary of the state board of health today stated that he was well pleased with the response of physicians to his call for volunteers, and he feels confident that there will be enough volun teers from the unaffected localities to care for the population in the communities suffering most. AUSTRIA AND TURKEY EXPECTED To Take Their Turn in Sueing For Peace. 250,000 Ger mans Massed in East TO RESIST THE ALLIES THE PEACE OUR SOLDIERS WANT THE PEACE OUR WAR MOTHERS WANT The Stars and Stripes, the official newspaper published by the soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, says editorially about the enemy peace offensive: "Let the weak hearted who are dreaming of a compromise; let the pacifists who are talking a peace by agreement; let the sldeliners who have had enough of war; let the se cretly inclined pro-Germans who think this war should nd without a decision let them one and all know once and for all that for the Ameri can Expeditionary Force there is no such word as 'Peace with the Huns unbeaten. The man who talks, of peace today, except through victory, is a traitor." The enemy peace offensive is lik ened to the action of German machine-gun crews in the Vesle fight ing, when they fought and killed Americans until they were surround ed, then shouted "Kamerad." The mothers of the American sol diers in France want the same peace their sons demand. All the courage of the ancient Spartan mother Is in the hearts of the women of America. The object of the Fourth Liberty Loan i sto bring that peace-Mi Just peace, a righteous peace, nn'rAmeri can peace. Help lick the Kaiser by feuyiut, War , Savings Stamps and 'saving agar sad torn. MEN IN WAR WORK NOT MO LESTED Labor's loyalty to the nation above all else, was strikingly illus trated when the workers went out at the great General Electric Co. plant in Lynn, for 200 men engaged in vital war wrok remained on the job At no time during the strike did the other workers attempt to get these men to come out. Although the sympathies of the 200 who re mained at work were probably with their comrades, not once did they suggest going out. The great plant, which normally shelters 14,000 workmen during the day, was prac tically deserted after the strike was well under way, but the 200 men on the important government order re mained. So important was the work on which these men were engaged that its nature could not even be made public. The realization of the Na tion's need and the possibility that these 200 men could do much to shorten the war and bring it to a victorious conclusion were the mo tives that led the men to stick. The strikers accepted the situation in a patriotic spirit, and although for some days a heavy loss of labor power resulted from the strike the most vital work under way at the plant ,at least, went on. London, Oct. 3. Germany, if re ports from a neutral centre can be relied upon is going to make a great effort to maintain communication over the Orient Railway with Tur key, and thus hopes tbkeep her eas tern ally in the war. According toa Hague dispatch to the Central News, 250,000 German and Austro-Hungarian troops have arrived at Sofia from Rumania, and while part of these will remain in Sofia as an argument favoring the overthrow of the Malinoff Govern ment, the majority will endeavovr to keep the allied troops from the Orient Railway which joins Germa ny and Austria with Constantinople, the capture of which was, a few years ago, hailed as the greatest achievement of the Central Powers. The emoval of troops from Ruma nia, however, is not without danger. A few weeks ago when appealed to by his colleagues on the western front (br assistance, Ffeld arshal von MMackenson reported that con ditions in Rumania did not warrant the transfer of a single soldier to that country. Now Rumanians are predicting that if the Rumanian ar my does not rejoin the Ailies, there will be at least a rising in htat coun try which will completely nullify the Bucharest treaty so far as it pro vides for the revictualling of the Central Powers. Gorman papers, too, express sus picion of the Crown Council held Sunday, ostensibly for a discussion of the Crown Prince's marriage but at which other matters might hava been discussed. The presence at this council of former Premier Bru tiano, who is strongly for the Afiies, is commented upon by the German prass. DIVER'S REMARKABLE WORK SAVES SHIP One of the most remarkable feats in the history of American labor, ac cording to Capt. Louis Turner, repre senting marine underwrites, was the submarine repairing Of a Rte.lmpr salvaged off the California coast by a diver named Theodore Wicks. The success of this man in his perilous work made it possible to raise the vessel for further important service I nthe government's war nroeram whee shipping is so urgently needed. There were fully 100 patches of temporary nature to be put on the shattered sides of the vessel while it was bumping about on the rocks, making It by all odds the biggest Job of. the kind ever attempted on the Pacific coast. The biggest patch was 10 feet wide and 16 feet longThree Tui-!i of Ai.-stria and Turkey Now Paris. Oc:. 3. The opinion is growing here that the surrender of Turkey cannot now be long delayed. The Temps Tuesday evening re marks that "Ferdinand, in being the first to capitulate, strikes a blow at Turkey and may perhaps have dona a service to Austria. For Turkey is now isolated, and Austria now has the excuse wh:ch up to now she has larked." It is reported here that the Turk ish Government is very uneasy at the persistence of the Germans in insisting on appropriating the Rus sian Black Sea fleet. It is asserted that Talaat, on a recent visit to Ber lin, demanded the handing over oi these ships to Turkey. The Turkish plea is that such powerful units in the bands of the Germans would constitute a perpetual menace for stantinople, and reduce Turkish in-, dependence to nothing. The question is only worthy of reference because it supplies vet an other reason for foreseeing a forth coming breach between Turkey and the Central Empires. between, were used in patching. This kept the water out while the ship was being pumped. Large numbers of shipping men visited the dry dock where the ship went after Diver Wick's exploits and were astonished that it bad been possible to salvage the vessel at all. The diver's work is viewed all along the coast as an inspiration to labor in its great task of winning the war. QUARTERLY FIGURES The quarterly figures of the Y C. A. Physical dnnnrfmnnf ihn' iha Immensity of the work accomplished by this department in entertaining the soldiers and sailors in the Southeast through athletics. There were 194,625 games, bouts, meets etc. conducted during the months of June July and AuguHt, in which 2,064,831 men engaged. These games were witnessed by 5,061,371 men, making a total of 7,202,602 total men reached either as particl- M. pants or inectflfim Wr th nhnini -wi. . u i. q , mica - - r layers of Inch plank, with canvas j 'ctlvlUes tor lis lh.ro months. ": Mi '.-.-,