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WILSON, N. C, FRIDAY, DEC. frffl918
VOL. 15 NO. 191
VON HINDENBURG
IS FORMING
A NEW LINE SIX MILES IN
: THE REAR OF THE ARMIS
TICE LINE AND THE GER
MAN GOVERNMENT
WANTS TO KNOW WHY?
OLD GERMAN LEADERS
FORMING TO TAKE CON
TROL OF THINGS.
Paris, Dec. 20. FieldM arshal
Von Hindenburg has notified the
Berlin government that he is fixing
a new front six miles behind the
zone designated by the.. Armistice
signed by the allies according to a
despatch to Zurich. The govern
ment has asked the Field Marshal
to explain his purpose in doing this.
It is also announced that two regi
ments will be sent to Frankfort-on-the-Main.
The dispatch announces that the
Prussian Minister of War and Von
Hindenburg are behind a counter
revolutionary movement. They af
firm that the existing government is
incapable of bringing about a resto
ration of stable conditions.
People's League Formed inGeroiany
London, Dec. 20. A eople's
League has been organized in Ber
lin says a - Central News despatch
from Copenhagen. The league is
composed of Prince Maximilian of
Baden, former Chancellor of the
Empire, Hugo Hasse Independent
a..i.u.t, count Von Bernstorff, for
mer ambassador ty Ameiiua,- Mat
thias Erzerberger the Centralist
leader.
WILSON COW
POULMI
HM!ZEK A LEAGUE
1.1 OKI 0
Points Out the Troubles of the
Farmers Union in the
Marshville Home
REPUBLICANS IN CONTROL
NAPOLEON PROTESTS
HIS INNOCENCE
Raleigh Dec. 20. Protesting his
innocence to the last Napoleon
Spencer, fifteen years old, was put
to death this morning for the kill
ing of Mrs. Harry Hester, a white
woman, last March. The offense
was committed in Surry county and
the North Carolina Supreme court
approved the findings if the lower
court. While the evidence was cir
cumstantial yet it was well connect
ed and a Surry county Jury declar
ed that he was guilty. Mrs. Hester
and her husband were killed at their
home near Winston last spring and
Hester was charged with the double
killing. He was tried on the charge
of killing Mrs. Hester.
TOSSIBLE SUGAR
FAMINE RELIEVED
Raleigh, Dec. 20. As a result of
an actual or threatened sugar famine
in a number of Eastern North Caro
lina cities and towns. The Food Ad
ministration has authorized Virginia
Jobbers and brokers to supply their
North Carolina customers with such
sugar as they may have on hand,
the, Virginia dealer' sto replace all
sugar shipped into North Carolina by
purchase of sugar .from Louisiana
from which territory all North Caro
lina merchants are required to se
cure their supplies of sugar.
Holds Its Annual Show in
Center Brick Warehouse
Beginnings Dec. 31st
SECRETARY'S STATEMENT
The Wilson County Poultry Asso
ciation will hold their fourth annu
al show from Dec. 31st to January
3rd in the Center Brick Warehouse.
We had about decided to pass it up
for this season but the Government
has requested that we do our best
to have one and we are going to
have it. They ask that we do all we
can to encourage poultry and egg
raising in order to save meat for
hungry Europe. Can you help?
Come to the show, brihg the family
and select the kind you want to
raise.
In order to get every farm stock
ed with good poultry, we have ask-
eu every Dreeuer wuu muiuuo
us to send a few of his chickens for
sale. Scrub hogs and cattle are a!
thing of the past, so why not doj
away with the scrub hen and get
some good stock? They eat no more
they sell better on the market, they
lay more eggs and look so much
better in the yard on the farm. Last
pyear we sold over $1,500 worth of
good stock chickens at the show,
and this year we want to double
mat amount. Your scrub stocKj
hcickens are not looked after and
the hens do well to lay 50 eggs a!
year. They aretreated " like the old!
Piney woods rooster was fifteen
years ago. They were large enough
for barbecue at 12-months, and for
the smoke house at from 2 to 5
years. When you got better stock,
they got better results. Whq then
do you neglect poultry? Your coun
try has called ard all who have
room for a few chickens should an
swer. If you don't know the kind of
chickens you want come to the show
and let us help you select some. We
will do our best for you and will
charge you nothing for our time.
We have asked the breeders to
price their chickens as low as possi
ble and I am sure you can find some
to satisfy you both in price and
quality.
Don't forget the date Dec, 31 to
January 3rd. Come.
G. T. Fulghum, Sec.
COUON GINN
LPv. . O
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President Wilson Still of the
Opinion That a League of
Nations Must Be
THE BASIS OF PEACE
MERCHANTS SELL WAR
SAVINGS QUOTA
Raleigh, Dec. 20. The merchants
of the Stajte have gone "over the
top" in selling their quota of War
Savings Stamps, which ' amount is
$2,312,093. By November 30 they
had sold $2,315,000, and by Decem
ber 31 they are planning to have
sold over $3,000,000.
MARKETS
COTTON
New York, Dec. 20. The cotton
market showed indications of an
easier technical position during to
day's early trading. The rcarket
opened steady with an advance of
37 points with December h ding
about as it did last' night. Later
the positions were from one point
lower to five points higher and soon
the months sold 25 points under last
night's close.
New York, Dec. 20. The cotton
market opened steady wit'' Jan.
28.00, March 26.55. May 25.65,
July 24.60, October 22.70.
OWEN H. GUION IS
NAMED FOR JUDGE
Raleigh, Dec. 20. Governor
Bickett last night announced the ap
pointment of Judge Owen H. Guion
of New Bern as successor to Judge
H. W. Whedbee ot the Fifth Judiciol
District, resigned.
STOCKS
! New York, Wall'3treet, Dec. 20.
Short coving exerted an unsettling
influence at the opening of the
stock market today. The poslrioji of
rails and other representative shares
selling down from yesterday.
The oils Improved and Br klyn
tapid Transit rallied but the Coppers
and Shippings fell back with their
affiliated shares. Liberty Bonds
4's, 4 1-4 's made a new low ".cord
Pay your bonuses and dividends
In War Savings Stamps and buy tb
Stamps this month.
Last spring after I had held a
conference with' my conscience and
better judgment and relieved my
self o afn excedingly undesirable at
titude some friendly critics gave it
as their opinion that I should have
stayed in the "council," , suggesting
that "it may be possible for the con
servative membership of the organ
ization to purge iiof politics." It
should be noted, however, that an-'
other member of the "council,"!
Prof. C. C. Wright, followed with
his resignation and two other mem
bers, W. H. Moore and C. T. Wea
therby, refused to stond for re-election
last week at Wilson. Things
had happened in "council" meetings
during the year to hemind them that
"whatsoever you sow that shall ye
reap." When Doc Alexander pro
vided for "vindication" at the mem
orable Winston-Salem meeting by
causing the defeat of the biggest
and bes: itgricultural worker in the
South. Dr. Clarence Poe, and de
scended to the other end of the
sliding soalea nd enlisted as chief
manager of his ring a sore-head
Butler-R.;publican it presented the
beginning .of the ned of the State
Farmers Union. Whatever may
have been its past achievemments
it was evident to any student of the
history of farmers' organizations
that its prestige and influence as a
potent force in this State were gone
forever.
When I suggested last spring that
there has probably never been a
more opportune time to begin to
organize a successor to the Farmers
Unlan, which should retain most of
its finances at home in the local or
ganizations I was severely and fran
tically criticised by the Alexander
Dixon machine, kept well oiled by
finances which under a better and
safer' pin, of organization would
have been kept at home in the Local
and County Unions where it has
been gre.'itly needed. The sugges
tion tha a successor to the Farmers
Union should be organized Btruck a
vital partt in the Doc's machine. It
was somewhat like throwing a mon
key wrench in the machinery while
it is in notion.
After the government authorities
had decided that Dr. Alexander's
"Bulletin" was an undesirable pub
lication to be transmitted through
the mails, Leader Dixon's "Co-operator"
at Wilson was chosen as the
Doc's campaign organ which was
sent unsolicited t all members who
had not dropped out of the Union
and to seme who had already with
drawn. Having plenty of the farm
ers' money in the Faries treasury
they found no difficulty in financing
this campaign sheet which Faires
himself f nnounced was to be issued
in defense of the "head" of the
State union. The first few issues
of Leader DIxon'b "Co-operator,"
following your humble servant's res
ignation, were almost insanely ffran
tic, and in character and tone it
ranked lower than any partisan pa
per that has been Issued in the State
within a decade. It was what you
might teim a typical campaign slan
der by wholesale denunciation of
everybody who opposed him. And
of course a liberal potion of It was
directed toward the ex-organlzer-
Lecturer, of Union county. So fran
tic and insane- were their charges
against him that they even denounc
ed the county in which he lived,
Doldly declaring that it was a
"slacker" county in the purchase of
Liberty bonds after it had Just over
subscribed its allotment by about
thirty thousand dollars. If nothing
else is finally saved from Doc's ma-
('-
If the . people of North Carolina
would invest the ten Million Dollari
that is estimated they wilnspend,
for Xmas gifts In War Savings
tamps.ihe State would sell itsquo-
itr
Paris, Dec. 19. The movement
for the formation of a League of Na
tions at the comnig Peace Conferv
ence gained momentum today.
Senator Leon Bourgeois, President
of the French Society for. a League
of Nations, and Count d'Estournelles
de Constant, also a delegate of the
society, gave the Associated Press a
brief account of a conference they
had with Premier Clemenceau.
A draft of the complete plan for
the constitution of such a league,
they said, was submitted to the Pre
mier, upon which an exchange of
views took place. The Premier de
clared that the principle of a League
of Nations would not fail to be in.
scribed in the preliminaries of a
peace such as would be decided upon
by the Allies.
M. Clemenceau agreed that the
Allies must resolve oil a common
plan of organization, and he invited
the delegates of the Society for a
League of Nations to confer with the
members of similar societies in the
allied countries, with a view to pre
paring a complete text which could
give the Governments concerned in
spiration and ideas.
After four days of gathering views
of leaders in France, President Wil
son's closest advisers say that he has
seen no reason to change his belief
that the foundation of a League of
Nations is inseparable from the act
ual peace treaty itself.
These advisers say the President,
in explaining his definition of "the
freedom of the seas," will reassure
Premier Lloyd George that he has
no intention of demanding a reduc
tion of the British Navy to a point
involving the unsafety of the empire,
but will emphasize his feeling that
the plan of a league would strength
en the empire.
King Victor Emmanuel, who is ex
pected to arrive here tomorrow, has
been fully advised of the President'
plans through conferences held by
the President with Count dl Cellere,
Italian Ambassador to the United
States, but the President will take
the opportunity to make personal ex
planations to the King, and also to
make clear his friendliness toward
Italy.
Dissipating Misunderstandings
The hope is expressed by those
surrounding the President that the
exchanges of views will clear away
any misunderstandings which may
eiist in regard to Mr. Wilson's atti
tude and prepare the way for the
assembling of the conference with all
complexities removed, so that it
will be ready to deal with princi
pl. s and any outstanding differences
cf opinion that remain.
ED
BALES
IPSElEfj
KUSRSBS
Is Not Going to Spend All of
His Time in Ceremonies
Jealousies
AMONG VARIOUS NATIONS
chine, copies of Dixon's "Co-operator"
ougt to De preserved as a
strange freak among North Carolina
publications, representing fully Doc
Alexander's Idea of what it takes to
make about the only pure-in-heart
paper in the State. Without dis
crimination he calls the balance of
the press "rotten" and unreliable.
Whatevere lse may be said of tho
Doc's manager, who has been pro
moted to te position as State Organ-
izzer Leader Dixon must be given
credit for enlisting a sufficient num
ber of Republican politicians of his
type to completely control the Farm
ers Union convention at Wilson and
mnde it absolutely safe for his chief,
Dr. Alexander. He had plenty of
"new blood" In evidence men who
had never been to a Farmers' Union
convention before. In their noisy
and hazy eulogies of the Doc these
new and sudden accessions made
(Clntlnued on Last Page.)
BE YE READY
The Red Cross campaign begins in the morning. The organi
sation desires that yon have ready when the members ot the
committee Tislt your home one dollar for each member ot your
family and as much more as you desire to donate for the great
cause that appeal! to tha heart of every soldier in the service
and err an who has anffered la Europe. . -
London, Dec. 20. There is undis
guised confusion in American centers
here as the result of the change in
President Wilson's plans regarding
his coming to London and the most
directly interested are anxiously
awaiting an official notice of the
President's early coming which not
to be had up to noon yesterday.
With nothing more definite than
the British official announcement to
work upon ,the aval represetatives
are making endeavors to reach
American naval headquarters in
Paris to learn what they can con
cerning the President's trip.
In the absence of such notification
it is recalled that the President i3
reported to have ceased to consider
himself an official guest of France
when the official recetpion ceremo
nies ended.
It was suggested in American
centres that the President might
come to England in a French or
British vessel although there is
nothing available at the British Ad
miralty to show that such plans are
contemplated at present.
All of the American battleships
that were in European waters have
sailed for home, but there are plen
ty of American destroyers for the es
cort of any vessel bearing the Presi
dent. The reception of the President in
London will not be participated in
by the American army to any extent,
according to indications.
President Means Business.
Manchester, Eng., Dec. 19. In
commenting editorially upon Presi
dent Wilson's visit to London, now
in immediate prospect the guardian
today regards it as signifying that
the "President means business which
the leisurely arrangements previous
ly contemplated hardly seemed to im
ply." "It is unnecessary to speculate,"
continues the newspaper, "upon the
precise causes of this sudden change
of plans but obviously the circum
stances of the moment are not such
as to brook delay. The news from
Germany shows that two things are
essential if order is to be kept and
a stable government maintained
the population must be fed and the
industries started by the returning
soldiers and munition workers
thrown out of employment, and yet
we hear of nothing effective being
done.
"Mr. Hoover has been here nearly
a fortnight. He has a vast task to
perform. Has he all the resources
and all the authority he needs? He
has immense experience and energy,,
but no man can make bricks without
straw, and we are not so sure about
the straw."
The Guardian refers to the im
possibility of an indefinite stay by
President Wilson who had come with
definite principles and policy, it says
which the alles had formally and
deflntely accepted, but the Presdent
could not have been long in Paris, it
add?, 'without discovering what it
calls the strange discrepancies be
tween "this professed acceptance and
the sectional and purely nationalistic
demands put forward by various
countries, not excluding our own."
The Guardian believes that Pre
mier Lloyd George desires to act
with President Wilson, but that ex
planations and the reaching of a defi
nite agreement are needed.
PRIOR TO DECEMBER 13TH
NORTH CAROLINA HAS
GINNED 715,648 BALES
OF COTTON. NAPOLEON
SPENCER INSISTS THAT
HE IS INNOCENT OF THE
CHARGE OF MURDER BE
FORE BEING EXECUTED
THIS MORNING. MRS.
MATT RANSOM DEAD.
Washington, Dec. 20. Cottoned
ginned prior to December 13th were
10,252,402 running bales including
139 074 round bales and 12,793
bales of American Egyptian cotton
and 3,160 bales of Sea Island cot
ton according to the Census Bureau
announcement issued today. Prior
to December 13 th last year the to
tal Winnings were 10,131,594 bales,
including 179,9,66 bales and 83,288
bales of Sea Island; The ginning
by states is as follows: North Car
olina 7144,648; South Carolina, 1,
329.207 and Virginia 18,297.
Mrs. Matt Ransom Dead
Hickory. N. C, Dec. 20 Mrs. Matt
Ransom, 88 years old, the widow of
the late Senator Ransom who was
also minister to Brazil, died hee last
night of pneumonia. She will be
buried at Verona in Northampton
county tomorrow.
RAIN TONIGHT AND SATURDAY
Washington, Dec. 20. For North
Carolina: Rain tonight and Satur
day; warmer tonight; warmer Sat
urday east portion, Increasing north
east and east winds.
CASUALTY LIST FOR TODAY
Washington, D. C.,. Dec. 20. The
following casualties are reported by
the commanding general of the Am
erican Expeditionary Forces:
Killed in action 'i.. .124
Died of woundsi 82
Died of accident and other
causes .... 26
Died of airplane accident ..253
Wounded severely 1,802
Wounded, degree undeter
mined ; 1,402
Wounded slightly 1,798
Missing in action 289
Total 5,784
The following North Carolinians
are included in the list for today:
Killed in action
Corporal Lewis- P. Vann, Wil
mington. IMcd of Disease
Private Ernest C. Bailey, Roxboro
Private Charles Clark, Aberdeen.
Private Brant Lewis, Creston.
Private Milan G. Price, Grifton.
Private John Lea Caswell county.
Private James V. Cox, Elm City.
Private John I. Fayssoux, Gosto
nia. Wounded Severe!
Sergeant Henryy C. Kearu"
Franklinton.
Corporal Lonnie A. Webster, Gib
sonville. Corporal Brack M. Kinney, Albe
marle. Lieutenant James W. Alston, Raleigh.
Sergeant William E. Green, New
born. Sergeant Ernest Hackney, Dur
ham. .
Sergeant Joseph E. Hulin, Greens
boro. Private George Bernard Reese,
Greensboro.
Sergeant Clyde V. Wright, Dur
hom. Corporal Hubert M. Ashley, Chap
el Hill. '
Corporal Jack Hicks, Canton.
Corporal John Bowen, Ridge
mont. Corporal Melvin Hutchins, Union
Mills.
Frank Dewey, bugler; Goldsboro
George M. Temple, mechanic;
Williow Springs. 1 t
Private Thomas J. Robinson, Fed
eral. " '
. Private Albert H. Wafeer, Blow
Private Adison Houck, Marion.
ey,
The government accepted your
pledge fn good faith and spent tha
money to bring tha war to a close,
now tha government Is ecu ting oa
rou to y tha stampa, " 7