North Carolina Newspapers

gix VESSELS SUNK BY U-'JOAT Total Tonnage for Fourth Day of Kuthlessness Amounts to 10,424. Submarines' Work Main War Fea ture. Hut little Activity Reported on Any of Fighting Fronts Except for Raids and Artillery Engage ments at Various Points on Lines. Five neutral vessels and one Brit ish steamer have been added to the list of victims of German submarines, according to lasting dispatches* Four of the neutrals were of Norwegian registry and the other was the Span ish steamed Ncuva Montana. The total tonnage lost, according to Fri day's reports, was 10,424. The Norwegian vessels lost were the Hanskinck, Storskog, Ida and Odin. Sailors on both the Ida and Odin were killed by sh?ll fire All except two seamen on the Storskog were lost when the submarine, to which they had been taken, submerg ed suddenly on the approach of a steamer, and left them to seek safety in the water. The one British steam er sunk was the Hanna Larsen, of 1,310 tons. Her captain and chief engineer were taken prisoner on board the submarine. Except for raids and artillery bom bardments on the northern end of the front in France, especially in the Somme and Ypres' sectors, there has been little activity on the battle fields of Europe. Berlin reports lively ac tivity on the Somme front, but the latest British official account men tions only small actions in the vicin ity of Ypres. French troops have carried out a successful surprise attack east of Rheims, returning with some prison ers. In the Eastern and Macedonian theatres all has tieeTi quiet, except around Stanislau, Galicia, which, Pe trograd reports, has been under bom bardment of Austro-German guns. A British torpedo boat destroyer of an old type has been lost in the English channel through striking a mine. The British admiralty says that all the officers were lost as were all the members of the crew except five, who were saved. ? Columbia State, 10th. PITTSBURGH HAS A BIG FIRE. Machine Shop of Union Switch-Signal Plant Destroyed. Allowed to Hun Its Course for Half an Hour Be cause of W ater Plugs Being Frozen. Pittsburgh, Feb. 10. ? The machine shop building of the Union Switch & Signal Companjf the largest plant for the manufacture of switch signals in the United States, and until recent ly engaged in filling munitions orders for the European governments, locat ed at Swissvale, a suburb, was de stroyed by fire early tonight, with a loss estimated at $4,000,000. The cause of the fire has not been determined, although officials of the company believe it resulted from spontaneous combustion. The blaze started in the packing department of the building and fanned by a high wind, gained such headway that it was necessary to call out the fire departments from the adjoining boroughs of Braddock, Wilkinsburg, North Braddock and Rankin and a part of the Pittsburg department. For more than half an hour it was impos sible to throw water on the fire be cause of frozen water plugs. According to the president of the company, A. L. Humphrey, no shells had been manufactured at the plant since last November. The Union Switch & Signal Company which was founded by the late George Westing house in 1861, was recently taken over by the Westinghouse Airbrake Com pany. United States Marshal Joseph How ley announced tonight that investi gation of the origin of the fire would be made by agents of- the department ?f Justice. Burma's Cotton Crop. The third forecast for the season 1916-1917 of the cotton crop in Burma *rives 212,007 acres under cotton in the 10 districts that make regular re turns, as compared with 185,827 acres actually cropped last year. Plucking began early in October, and the total yield for the Province is estimated at 43,504 bales of 400 Pound?, or 13,641 bales in excess of the estimate made at the same date in 1915-16 season. ? Consul W. Roder ick Dorsey, Rangoon, Burma, India, December 9th. INSTITUTE NEXT THURSDAY. 1 armors Will Meet at Pleasant Hill School House to Hear Live Topics Discussed. The farmers of the Pleasant Hill section will have an opportunity on Thursday of this week to hear some live topics discussed by those who have charge of the Farmers Institutes in the State. The institute will be held at Pleasant Hill school house, Thursday, beginning at ten o'clock. Mr. Lacy John, County Farm Demon strator, and Miss Nell Pickens, Home Demonstration Agent, will be with the Institute party. The farmers with in reach of Pleasant Hill should be on hand and listen to the discussions. KENLY HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. Kenly, Feb. 12. ? Doctor W. L. Po teat, President of Wake" Forest Col lege, delivered a powerful address to the citizens of Kenly in the High School building Sunday afternoon at three-thirty o'clock. Notwithstanding the extremely bad roads and the many cases of mumps and measles in Kenly, nearly two hundred public spirited citizens heard and appreciated the address. The program began with "Chimes," a piano solo, by Miss Bessie L. Sasser, head of the department of music of the school. The audience then rose and sang "Onward Christian Soldiers," after which the Reverend C. P. Je rome, pastor of the Methodist church here, led in prayer. The Kenly quar tette, composed of Mr. Henry Watson, Mr. Howard Watson, Mr. J. A. Stan di, ,and Mr. F. E. White, then beau tifully rendered "Beyond." In intro ducing Doctor Poteat Superintendent Andrews cnaracterizea mm as a man ,pf vision, a man of power, and a man of righteousness. Doctor Poteat, an eloquent speaker, and a fine specimen of manhood, spoke for forty minutes to the appreciative i audience concern ing the vital problem of community righteousness and progress. "I am not so much concerned," he said, "how much taxes you pay or whether your town is located in John ston or Wilson County; but I am tre mendously concerned about such ques tions as these: "How do your young people spend their evenings?" "What is your chief source of entertain ment?" "Are your streets, your homes ^nd your lives clean and wholesome?" Preachers quote Scripture; and, since I am not a preacher, it is all the more important that I cite to you the text that contains the heart of my message this afternoon. The words were spoken by Jesus Himself: 'The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent me to heal the broken hearted; to preach deliverance to the captives, and recov ering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.' " Doctor-Poteat then clarified and emphasized his ideas by naming how they may be remedied. After the quartette rendered anoth er selection the audience rose bodily and thereby extended to Doctor Po teat heart-felt thanks for his message. While in Kenly Doctor Poteat was entertained in the hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Bailey. II IT If Misses Carrie Dorrity and Nettie Mai McMurry, of Goldsboro, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Andrews. They returned home Sunday afternoon. ? Miss Myra Outlaw, a member of the faculty of the school at Elm City, spent the week-end visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Brickhouse. Miss Outlaw is sister to Mrs. Brickhouse. Mr. Yates Edgerton, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Edgerton, and a student at Trinity College, spent the week-end at home with his people. Appointments. Rev. Charles H. Stevens asks us to announce the following preaching appointments for him for the third Sunday in February: Hood's Grove, Saturday at the reg ular hour and Sunday at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon. Glenwood school house, Sunday at 2 o'clock. , Canaan church, Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Secretary Daniels plans to ask Con press for *800,000 for doubling the capacity oT the Government torpedo factory at Newport, R. I. OPPOSED TO JARVIS COUNTY. U County Commissioners of Johnstown ] County lio on Record Against the Taking Any Part of This County In the Formation of the Proposed Jarvis County. The agitation concerning the pro- j posed new county of Jarvis which the people of Dunn and that immediate section are asking the Legislature to form has grown much in the past few days. The people of Johnston County ' are opposed to having any part of this county sliced off to make anybody's new county and when it comes to tak ing from us Benson, one of our liv est and best tbwns, the people from the several sections are rising up and protesting against the move. At their regular monthly meeting held here on Monday, February 5th, the Board of Commissioners of John ston County passed unanimously the following resolution: "Whereas, there is a movement on foot to cut off a portion of the south ern end of Johnston County in the formation of Jarvis County; "And, whereas, in the opinion of this Board such action would be detri mental to the best interests of John ston County; "Therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Johnston County, in regular meeting this day assembled, That we are unal terably opposed to cutting off any por tion of Johnston County in the forma tion of Jarvis County or any other county, and respectfully ask the Gen eral Assembly of North Carolina not to interfere with the boundary lines of Johnston County or cut off any por tion of said county in the^-ormation of Jarvis County. "Unanimously adopted this Febru ary 5, 1917." BENSON AGAINST THE CHANGE. Opposes Any Cutting Off of Johnston County to Make New County. The Board of Aldermen of the town of Benson at a called meeting, Feb ruary 3rd, passed the following reso lutions: As it appears to be for the best in terests of the citizens of the town of Benson, N. C., to remain in the coun ty of Johnston, State of North Car olina, be it Resolved: First, That we are unalterably op posed to any change being made in the boundary line of the County of Johnston, by the Legislature of North Carolina, that would place the town of Benson in any other than Johnston. Second, That the representatives from Johnston County in the General Assembly of North Carolina be re quested to oppose any measure chang ing the boundary lines of our county. Third, That copies of this resolu tion be forwarded to the members of the General Assembly from Johnston County. Fourth, That this resolution be pub lished in the Benson Review and The Smithfield Herald. Appointments. We clip the following: list of ap pointments from Zion's Landmark: Elders B. L. Treech and W. R. Helm. Dunn ? Third Saturday and Sunday in February. Benson ? Sunday night. Hannah's Creek ? Monday. Cleinent ? Tuesday. Four Or.ks ? Wednesday. Smithfield ? Thursday. Union ? Friday. Bethany ? 4th Saturday and 4th Sunday. Little Creek ? Monday. Clayton ? Tuesday. Rehobeth ? Wednesday. F ellowship ? Thursday. Bethel ? Friday. Coats ? At night. Angier ? Saturday and first Sun- i day in March. Willow Springs ? Monday. Middle Creek ? Tuesday. ? Raleigh ? At night. ' Rubber From Brazil and Peru. The total exports of crude rubber from Para and Mannaos, Brazil, and Iquitos, Peru, during November 1916, amounted to 5,587,716 pounds, com pared with 7,540,908 pounds for the same month in 1915. Shipments to the United States aggregated 2,870, 044 pounds and to Europe 2,708,672 ? pounds compared with 5,66?,t)Q9 and 1,874,899 pounds, respectively, in November, 1915. ? Consul Geo. H. Piokercll, Para, Brazil. SCHOOL BOAR1) BILL KILLED. Mew Bill Would Have Commission Thresh Out School Matter and Re port to Next Legislature. Jarvis County Proposed. House Passes Bill * to Create Examining Board to Li cense Chiropractics in the State. Raleigh, N. C., FelJ. 10. ? Represon tative Page, whose bill providing ma chinery for enabling counties to elect county boards of education on ma jority petition ,was killed this week by the House, called up the Oates bill for primary nominations in the coun ties and commissioning of the nomi nees by the Governor as members of these boards, and moved to table. Mr. Grier asked that the bill go over to Tuesday as a special order because of the absence of Speaker Murphy, but this was voted down and the Page motion to table carried and the clinch er was applied. Straight away, over in the Senate, Senator McCoin, who had voted against the Burgwin bill to let Bertie County elect its board, moved to re consider and make it a special order for next week. This carried, the pur pose being to take up the fight again now for right of specific counties to elect. \ Meanwhile, Senator Oates, chair man of the education committee, intro duced a bill to appoint an educational" board to investigate and report with recommendations as to general revis ion of the educational system to the next Legislature. New bills were introduced as fol lows: Gray ? A resolution asking Con press to call a conference of the States with Representatives of the Federal government for distinguish ing between sources of State and Federal taxes and to authorize the Governor of this State to appoiht representatives on the part of North Carolina for such conference. Mr. Gray explained the bill as being es pecially to bring about an agreement between the States and the Federal government as to sources of taxation to avoid unjust double taxation. The movement, he said, is very general among the States. He told Senator Jones, of Buncombe, in reply to ques tions, that there was no purpose to restrain the Federal government from income taxation. The bill was put through immediate passage and sent to the House. McCoin (by request) ? Create the county of Jarvis. New bills were introduced out of order: Justice ? Amend the law relative to the sale of lands by the wives of in sane husbands. Everett ? Prohibit sale of adulter ated linseed oil and provide for its inspection. In the House, the Senate bill to di vide the State into two judicial cir cuits with 24 districts and 24 judges, two of whom wil be alternately em ergency judges in reaching the small est districts in the two circuits, was called up and set as special order for next Wednesday. New Bills in House. New hills introduce : Withrow ? Prohibit the showing of drinking scenes in the movies; Recon struct Hickory Nut Gap road. Clark, of Pitt ? Re-introduction of the bill to authorize the issuance of State bonds for security of county and township bonds of $400,000 semi-an nually at different rates of interest that liquidate the issues in 30-odd years. Coggins ? Provide for the inspec tion of public institutions. King ? Provide for the State De partment of Agriculture to erect a suitable building for its work. Next came up the bill to create a State board of examiners to license chiropractic practicioners, this being a measure that has been bitterly fought by practicioners of ^steopathy. Representative Gardner favored the bill. He had seen the profession practiced first most satisfactory in Alaska. The bill passed by an over whelming mapority. Bills introduced out of order: Brummitt ? Provide for the en largement of school districts in cities and towns. % Coggins ? Protect the morals of boys and young men. Grantham ? Create the county of Jarvis. McLendon ? Provide physical exam ination of children in the Stater The House passed the bill from the Senate to annex Kings Mountain TO CONSIDER JARVIS COUNTY. A Hearing Will Be Given on the New County Proposition on Friday, Feb ruary 16, in Hall of Hou^e of Rep resentatives. On last Saturday, Mr. Geo. K. Grantham, Harnett County's repre sentative in the House, introduced the Jarvis County bill in that body. On the same day the bill was by request, introduced in the Senate by Senator McCoin, of Vance. The proposed county of Jarvis takes part of Harnett, Johnston and Sampson. A bill to create Jarvis County was introduced in the Gener al Assembly of 1913, and also in 11)15 But each time it failed to pass. Thai it will meet the same fate again is the prediction of many who have studiec the situation. There would be no cal for "Jarvis County" were it not thai the live >ind wide-a-wake town oJ Dunn wants to be a county seat. Il has a number of very progressive citizens who want to see a court house in Dunn with the people in that sec tion doing their county business there Dunn now has a "Town Hall" whose supposed impe>rtanee has recentlj grown so great that it now is yclepl the "court house of Jarvis County.' Yes, the news is being sent out fai and wide that the court house is al ready built and that Jarvis County? if it ever should happen to be ? wil not have to go to the trouble and ex pense to build one. It Is well that the people understand that "that cour house" is none other than Dunn': Town Hall. - i5ut tne Jarvis County bill is al ready in the General Assembly. A hearing before a joint committee oi the House and Senate will be hac next Friday, February 16, 1917, a' 2:00 P. M., in the House of Repre sentatives. The people of Johnston County ar< opposed to slicing: off any of Johnstor County to form the new county of Jar vis. They see no need for a new coun ty and are going to fight vigorously against taking any part of Johnston. AGAINST TRAVELING AGENTS Farmers Union Wants Increased Li cense Tax to Protect Farmers Fron the Baser Sort. (News and Observer.) The State council of the North Car olina Farmers' Union in session Feb ruary 8th, vigorously denounced th< traveling agent business in rura North Carolina, asking the legislatur* to greatly increase the license tax oi such agents and take other steps foi their control. Following is the resolution adopted "Whereas, we find that a very large portion of our rural districts are in fested with traveling agents of th< baser sort, there are men who sell foi $500 pianos costing $100 to $150 There are men who sell for $65 to $71 stoves and ranges that cost not ovei $25. The sick and poverty-strickei are also robbed of untold thousand! by sellers of absolutely worthies: medicines. In the case of firms of na tional reputation or in the case o: established firms doing business ii North Carolina, the people are pro tected because such firms do not wis! to ruin their reputation for the hon esty and fair dealing, but these trav eling agents usually represent houSfei of no standing, and after once rob bing the people and cashing thei] notes, such agents never risk anothei appearance. And, "Whereas, such robbery is not onb unfair to farmers but to honest tax paying business firms in North Caro lina, whose trade is diminished by th< sums lost on such robber-agents Therefore be it "Resolved, That we hereby petitioi the present General Assembly o: North Carolina to impose heavier li cense taxes than have ever befori been required of such agents, and als< pass some statute that will insure thi people protection against the mori flagrant frauds now practiced. "Resolved 2nd, That copies of thi; resolution be sent to Governor Bicket and the chairman of the proper leg islative committees.*' township, Cleveland County, instev of Gaston County. A long list of bills were passed oi second reading, being roll call meas ure iequiring a day for eech of thi second i nd third readings. Tnen thi House p&ssed a bill to amend thi game laws of Pender County. NEW ARMY PLAN PRESENTED. Universal Training Measure Favor ably Reported In Senate. To Give Large Force. Would Put Nation, at Fnd of Nine Years, in Possession of Over Three Million. Washington, Feb. 10. ? The senate military committee reported favorably today a bill framed by a subcommittee creating a military and a naval citizen reserve force based on universal mili tary training and service, While the committee report does not ' indicate any belief that congress will 1 act on the measure at this session, the * bill offers a specific plan on which ? public sentiment can crystalize. Ther ' bill requires six months' training without pay for all youths during ' their 19th year. Exceptions are con ' fined to the members of the regular "m army and navy, those physically un fit, those who are the- sole support of dependent relatives and those afflicted with religious creeds which forbid them to bear arms. The latter class are liable, however, for training in ? the non-combatant branches of the army. It is estimated the bill would pro vide for the training of 500,000 boys annually, each of whom would be fur r loughed into a reserve for nine years after his training period. -With allow ance for shrinkage of classes, this ' plan v^ould give a toAl force of 3, 1(55,000 men who had had six months' training, at the end of the first nine 1 year cycle all subject to call for ser 5 vice only in the event of a "defensive" war or its imminence. The committee measure, which is based on that prepared by Maj. Mose ley, formerly of the army general staff, fixes military training as a duty of citizenship, denying naturalization until such training has been at least begun or exemption granted. All gov ernment and private employment would be closed to those who could not produce certificates of training or exemption. A blanket penalty with a maximum of $1,000 fine and a year's imprisonment for each offense is pro vided for the violation of any section of the act except that those who evade training when liable for it must serve a longer time. ^ For nine years, or until he has pass ed his 28th year, each reservist would be required to report in person an nually to the registration authorities of his military district. In case of war the youngest classes would be called first. After his 28th year a reservist would pass into the great body of the unorganized militia sub ject only to the general laws. Loss of Life on California Is 41. Forty-one lives were lost when the Anchor line California, /bound from New York to Glasgow, was torpedoed last Wednesday morning off the Irish coast. The liner sank in nine minutes. The only American on board, John A. Lee, quartermaster on the vessel, was among those saved. Two torpedos were fired. The first 5 struck the liner just as the gunner was training the 4.7 gun mounted on the stern aiming at the spot where oil bubbles on the surface of the sea betrayed the presence of a submarine. The second torpedoes went wild. Five persons were killed and a score injured by the explosion that followed s the first shot. Both torpedoes w^re fired from a distance of about 300 yards. The U boat was not visible. / - BALTIC SAFE AT LIVERPOOL. - Liner Passes Through "War Zone" Without Mishap, Carrying Munitions. i f New York, Feb. 9. ? The steamship - Baltic, of the White Star Line, has b arrived safely at Liverpool according > to a cable message received here to e night by officers of the company. The e message, besides announcing that the Baltic had reached her "pier, said "all s well." t The arrival of the Baltic removes - from the danger zone another British vessel carrying United States citizens. - There were two Americans among her j 44 passengers./-The steamship took to England a full cargo of munitions. i Senator Weeks has introduced an e amendment to the naval bill to name e the six new battle cruisers John Paul e Jones, Mac-Donough, Decatur, Perry, Farragut and Dewey.