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GERMANS RE-OCCUPY FRESNOY. Teutonic Attacks Finally Drive Cana dians From Hard Won Position. Assailants Suffer Heavy Casualties. Terrific Fire, However, Fails to Stop German Drive Against Ham let and Wood. Fierce Assault Against French at Bery-au-Bac Fails. The Associated Press war summary for Tuesday, published in Wednes day's dailies, says: After days of extraordinary hard fighting between the Canadians and the Germans, the little village of Fresnoy, lying southeast of Lens, and the adjacent wood are again in Ger man hands. In the retaking of these positions, where the Canadians had stood for days holding the most ad vanced salient in the British line ad jecting toward Douai, the Germans evidently paid a terrible price. Pre ceded by a heavy artillery fire in which asphyxiating gas shells also were used in large numbers, the coun terattack was launched in the early morning. The machine gun and rifle fire of the defenders met the Germans as they threw themselves forward, but they would not be denied and finally penetrated the trenches northeast of the village and even entered the out skirts of the village itself. Their tenure of the position, however, was shortlived, for the Canadians soon af terwards returned to the fray, drove out the German and again held full sway. Reforming later and reinforced by two fresh divisions, the Germans again made a bid for victory along the entire front before the village and wood. The right wing of the defend ers held steadfastly and inflicted heavy losses on the Germans. The left, however, notwithstanding its stubborn resistance, was compelled to give ground and to evacuate the vil lage and wood, leaving them in the hands of the Germans. Berlin reports that 200 prisoners and six machine guns fell into the hands of the Ger mans. There has been a continuation of the violent fighting southward in the Bullecourt and Roeux sectors, but no notable changes in positions have been reported. Although the latest French offi cial communication reports no in fantry action during Tuesday along the line held by the French in France, the Associated Press correspondent with the French army tells of a des perate German attack south of Berry au-Bac, which was sanguinary re pulsed, the Germans leaving behind numerous dead on the battlefield and 120 prisoners. These prisoners, with others taken in small raids, have brought the cap tures by the French in the latest of fensive since April 16 to between 29, 000 and 30,000. The artillery activity along the en tire Macedonian front continues vio lent, indicating possibly the near ap proach of a general offensive. Small engagements between entente forces and Austrian and Turkish troops be tween Lake Ochrida and Lake Presba and between entente and Teutonic al lied troops along the Cema are re ported. GOVERNOR BICKETT'S APPEAL. Protecting the People From Want at This Time by Planning for More Food Crops Is the Patriotic Duty of Every Citizen. Raleigh, N. C., May 10. ? Of such great importance does Governor T. W. Bickett consider the cultivation of tenantless and vacant farms in this time of stress and danger that he has addressed a second letter to the boards of county commissioners of the counties of the State urging that there be no delay in this activity. The Governor's letter tells its own story. It is as follows: "In the emergency we now face not only patriotic duty but the neces sity of protecting the people of our own State from want demands that we increase our acreage and produc tion of staple food and feed crops by ?very means at our command. As the constituted authority in your county, upon you rests the responsi bility of doing everything possible t? protect your people from threaten ed hunger and deprivation. "The frrmers of ou# State are rally >?? to the extent of their ability to the demand for increased food and feed production, but they are handi capped by a shortage of labor and work-stock and they are not going to be able to supply the deficit of food and feedstuffs we shall face. It is imperative therefore that steps be taken to increase acreage and pro duction by other means. The great est opportunity we have for doing this is through the use of our road forces of men and workstock in the cultivation of idle and tenantless farms, many of which exist in prac tically every county in the State. The production of foodstuffs is more important in this crisis even than the building of good roads, and I am again writing to urge that you take this matter up in your county without delay. "You have ample authority, accord ing to the Attorney General, to use the road forces for this purpose and you should not only raise sufficient feed for your stock and food for your workers but a surplus for the market, the proceeds of course to be added to your road fund. "Many landowners of the State are offering tenantless land for cultiva tion in food crops free of charge. A statement in your county papers requesting the owners of vacant lands to communicate with your board will no doubt result in the offering of all the land you will be able to take care of rent free, or at a nominal rental." GENERAL NEWS. The Crown Prince of Germany, now in command of the German forces in France, was 35 years old Monday. Congressman Joseph G. Cannon, former Speaker of the House, cele brated his 81st birthday last Monday. Failing to secure satisfactory bids on the $72,000 bond issue offered by Wake County the County Commis sioners on Wednesday postponed the sale of the bonds to some future day. Raleigh police officers seized ten trunks of liquor at the Union station in that city Wednesday. The trunks contained 719 pint bottles of whiskey. No parties claimed the stuff and it was carried to police headquarters. Soldiers' Field, so named when it was given to Harvard University as a memorial to Harvard men who served in the Civil War, came into use this week as the training field for nearly 1,000 college students under the direction of French and United States army officers. Governor Bickett has appointed Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon, State Home Demonstration Agent, to be a member of the North Carolina Food Conser vation Commission. Mrs. McKimmon is the only woman member of the board of which John Paul Lucas is the Executive Secretary. The Canadians defeated eight Ger man divisions and captured nine vil lages and more than 5,000 prisoners between April 9 and May 3, accord ing to a dispatch from Canadian Ar my Headquarters in France. Their booty, the message adds, comprised 64 guns and howitzers, 106 trench mortars, and 126 machine guns. Privates Ransom Merritt and An thony Spileno of the Mineola avia tion training school were killed Mon day near New York, when they fell from a height of 1,000 feet in an L. W. F. biplane. Neither Merritt nor Spileno had ever handled a machine or had any instructions in flying, though both had been up as observ ers. The United States Steel Corpora tion will subscribe $25,000,000 to the liberty loan, the largest single sub scription yet announced. Officials of the corporation in making known their intention to subscribe for this amount, intimated it probably would be increased by an aggregate of sub scriptions from the employes of the corporation. Marshal Joffre paid tribute to the memory of Lincoln at the emancipa tor's tomb at Springfield, Monday, and, with the other members of the French Commission, received an en thusiastic welcome to the capital of Illinois. Marshal Joffre silently plac ed a wreath upon the Lincoln sar-coph a-gus. With bowed heads and doffed caps, the French hero, Rene Viviani, Vice President of the French Council of Ministers, and the military and civil officials who accompanied them filed into the tomb, paid honor to the civil war President, and left without a word. At the State Capitol, however, where an official reception had been arranged for them by Governor Frank O. Lowden and the Legislature, both Joffre and Viviani spoke. NORTH CAROLINA GETS CAMP. Will be Established on 300- Acre Tract in Mountains in Western I'art of State for Interned Germans. Ger man Officers and Sailors From Seized Ships to Be in First Des patch ment. Arrangements for placing all in terned alien enemies in permanent de tention camps, where they will be housed and given work at fair pay, have been completed by Secretary Wilson, of the Labor Department, says a Washington dispatch. An offi cial announcement Tuesday says the first camp will be established on a 500-acre tract of agricultural land in the mountains of North Carolina, and that the 1,800 officers and sailors taken from German merchant vessels in American harbors will be the first aliens to go there. The statement adds that Secretary Wilson expects the necessity will soon arise for the establishment of addi tional camps. In addition to enemy aliens the department plans to care for other aliens who cannot be admit ted to this country under the immi gration laws and whoso deportment is impossible on account of the war, as well as for feeble minded immi grants. Those placed in camps will be segregated in three classes ? ene mies, other aliens and the feeble minded. BILLION DOLLARS FOR SHIPS. Shipping Board's Program Proposes to Build Fleet of 5,000,000 to 6,000, 000 Tons. Bill Would Divert Steel Mill Products to Government Use. Wednesday's dailies carried the news that the government is planning in earnest to combat the submarine menace by calling for one billion dol lars for the construction of a great American merchant fleet of 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 tons of steel and wooden vessels during the next two years. Congress will be asked to furnish the money and the plan contemplates the diversion of government uses of the products of every steel mill in the country, concellation of existing con tracts between those mills and private consumers and where necessary dam ages to be paid by the government to the parties whose contracts are can celled. The administration has prepared bills for introduction in Congress and hopes to get them under way so promptly that the first shipbuilding operations may be in motion within two weeks. Co-operation of labor al ready has been pledged. The only exception to the general cancellations of private contracts with steel mills will be those of rail roads. BENTONSVILLE NEWS. Bentonville, May 9. ? Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Barefield, of Goldsboro, spent the week-end in this section with friends and relatives. Messrs. L. G. Westbrook, Norman and Harvey Westbrook and Conley Langston motored to Smithfield Fri day. Miss Julia Rose is at home again, after an extended visit to relatives in Wilmington. Mr. Asha Flowers returned to his home in Mt. Olive last week, after spending several weeks in this sec tion with friends and relatives. Our farmers have cut off their cot ton acreage and are planting to food and feed crops and up until now we have had very unfavorable seasons due to cold and rainy weather. Our County Demonstrator and County Superintendent were to have been at Mill Creek school last Fri day t organize a Canning Club for this district, but on account of the rain failed to come. So we ar? looking for them at an early date. The farmers of our section met at Mill Creek school house some time ago and organized a Federal Farm Loan Association. We consider this one of the best things for the farmer in the way of money matters. While the people of Johnston Coun ty are organizing different organiza tions, why can't we people in old Bentonsville have a Community Fair? It is one grand opportunity we have, while the State of North Car olina will help us financially. Get busy, people of Bentonsville, and let's do something while we have help offered us from both County and State. KENLY HIGH SCHOOL FINALS. Commencement Sermon by Itev. C. h. I'roctor. of Selma, and Literary Address by l)r. J. E. Abernethy, of Monroe. Six Members of Graduat ing Class. Other Class and Grades Present Interesting Exercises. Supt. Andrews Re-elected. Kenly, May 10. ? "The best in the history of the school." These words are frequently used upon the streets of Kenly in characterizing the com mencement exercises which came to a close Tuesday night. The commence ment sermon was preached Sunday night by the Reverend C. K. Proctor, of Selma, one of the foremost of the younger preachers of North Caroli na. The Literary address was de livered Tuesday mqrning by Doctor J. E. Abernethy, of Monroe, than whom there is no more sensible or eloquent speaker in the Southland. Diplomas were granted to six of the choice young people of Kenly and all the exercises were of exceptionally high order. Sunday evening at eight o'clock the Reverend C. K. Proctor delivered a most masterful sermon on the ap propriate subject: "God's Suprema cy." Few men have ever made more clear the need of religious faith and allegiance as did Mr. Proctor. The large auditorium was packed and the music was especially good. Monday morning at ten-thirty o'clock Special and Class Day exer cises were held in the auditorium. Again the house was packed. The program was begun by a large num ber of the small children from the music and expression classes, and was completed by the members of the senior class. Each senior appeared on the program twice. First to read his or her graduating essay, and second to take part in the Class Day exer cises proper. The seniors and their subjects were as follows: Senior Essays. Ola Moore? "Some Thoughts of Sci ence." Hal Gilbreath ? "The Social Standing of Literary Men." Mildred Godwin? "The Drama in English Literature." Earl Southard? "The Short-Story? An American Product." Howard Grady? "American Citizen ship." Dobbin Bailey? "Our Good Old Home County ? Johnston." Senior Exercises. Dobbin Bailey? The President's Ad dress. Earl Southard? The History of the Class. Hal Gilbreath? The Class Poem. Howard Grady ? The Last Will and Testament. Mildred Godwin? The Class Prophecy. Ola Moore ? Prophecy for the Proph etess. Monday afternoon hundreds of peo ple witnessed a base-ball game be tween Fremont and Kenly. The score was five to two in favor of Kenly. Monday night the program was rendered by the students of the pri mary school, assisted by some few high school students. About eighty of the little folks took part in ren dering the program, and the little folks did remarkably well. The pro gram was as follows: 1. Welcome: (a) "Hear the Glad Birds Sing."? First, Second and Third Grade Children. (b) "Garlands of Daisies"? First, Second and Third Grade Chil dren. 2. "Snow-Whitq" Dramatized 3. "Let's Play Postoffice"? Jesse Watson and Francis Godwin. 4."Goodnight" Drill Sixteen Girls. Though, because of heavy rains, the exercises Tuesday morning were not quite so well attended a stronger or more appropriate address has never been delivered in Kenly. Doctor Ab ernethy spoke for nearly an hour on the greatest need of the world to day ? "Masterful Leadership." In his address he separated all the peoples of the world into three classes: those who did not care, those who dream without acting, and those who dream dreams and make them come true. "The greatest need of the world to day," said the eloquent speaker, "is for masterful men." The May Pole exercises, scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, were, on ac count of the rains, postponed until four o'clock Friday afternoon. To many the program Tuesday ev ening in the high school auditorium was the crowning achievement of the entire commencement exercises. No less than six hundred people crowded into the large auditorium to witness the dramatization of "The Pennant," one of the most delightful and enter taining musical comedies on the stage to-day. The detailed program was as follows: 1. "Last Rose of Summer" (Panto mime) Nine Little Girls 2. "II Trovatore Fantasia" ? Beyer Sadie Morris, Inez Watson, Adna Lee Bailey. 3. "Elixir of Youth" Stanage Agnes Watson. 4. "Napoli" ? Jewel Edgerton and Mildred Darden. 5. "The Pennant" (A Two Act Com edy) High School Just before the play began Super intendent M. B. Andrews, in a few brief and well chosen sentences, thanked the people of the community for co-operating with him this year; thanked the members of the Faculty and the students for making the achievements of the school possible; announced his re-election and inten tion of teaching here again in the Fall; and also announced tho Mon day, September tenth, as opening day for the fall term. "If you have chil dren," said he," or know of children who should be in school here see to it that they enter the first day, and remain until the closing exercises of commencement next Spring." So far as is known at present but few changes will be made in the Fac ulty. The following compose the present Faculty: Miss Bessie Sasser ? Music and Ex pression Teacher. Miss Rcna Edgerton ? First Grade Teacher. Mrs. E. L. Brickhouse ? Second and Third Grade Teacher. Miss Gladys Wallace ? Fourth and Fifth Grade Teacher. Mrs. II. P. Johnson ? Sixth and Sev enth Grade Teacher. Mr. H. P. Johnson ? Latin Teacher. Mr. E. L. Brickhouse ? Principal. Mr. M.. B. Andrews ? Superintendent. The Senior class and Doctor Aber nethy were entertained for dinner Tuesday by Mr. and Mrs. M. B. An drews in the dormitory. Among the number of visitors who attended the commencement exercises were: Mrs. J. D. Daniels, and little son Clarence, of Goldsboro, who were the guc.its of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews. Mrs. Daniels is mother to Mrs. An drews. Mrs. Herman D. Andrews and two children, of Mount Olive, were also the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews. Mrs. H. D. Andrews is sister-in-law to Superintendent An drews. The students of the Athletic Asso ciation, directed by Mr. E. L. Brick house, gave a most delightful negro minstrel in Sasser's auditorium Sat urday night of last week. The exer cises were largely attended and the program was a splendid one. ARMY TO GO TO FRANCE SOON. Force to Be Composed of Nine Regi ments of Army Engineers to Ik? Raised at the Nine Great Railway Centers. Nine new regiments of army engi neers, to be composed exclusively of highly trained railway men, will be the first American troops to be sent to France. They will go "at the ear liest possible moment," the War De partment announced Monday, for work on communication lines, but speculation as to exactly when or to what points they will be sent is for bidden because of the submarine menace. The new forces will be volunteers, raised at the nine railway centers of the country. Each regiment will be commanded by an engineer colonel of the regular army, aided by an adju tant. All other officials will be railway engineers or officials. The expedition will have a total strength of between 11,000 and 12,000 men, each regiment being composed of two battalions of three companies each. Every branch of railway work ers necessary to the building or op eration of lines will be represented in the ranks and the War Department expects a response to the call that will permit n careful selection to be exercised and insure a force already trained to the minute, an army of ex perts in railway operation. The Carnegie Corporation has ad vised the town of Murphy that the Corporation will give $7,500 for a library building as soon as a suitable lot is secured. THE CANNING CLUB WORK. With a Membership of 7,00# Clubs Last Year a Profit of Ninety Thou sand Dollars Was Made. The Or ganization Is a Great Factor In the Present Emergency. Raleigh, May 10. ? "Canning Divis ion, Home Guards, General Jane S. McKjmmon, Commanding." That is a suitable title for one of the greatest forces working in North Carolina this year in the campaign for increas ing the production of food supplies. It is a thoroughly live and enthusi astic division with an" alert, wise and practical directing officer. "Our people don't know how fort unnte they are in having such an or ganization in the field at a time like this," declared John Paul Lucas, the Executive Secretary of the State Food Conservation Commission, who is working in co-operation with all organized forces, as well as creating others, for increasing the food and feed production of the State this year and during the period of the war. "The effectiveness of Mrs. Mc Kimmon's organization and its im portance as a factor in the present emergency may readily and accurate ly be judged by past performance. The canning clubs of the State in 1012, when the work was just start ing, cleared $2,500. This was doubled the next year. In 1014 the girls cleared $25,000, an increase of 500 per cent over the previous year. There was an increase of 300 per cent, to $75,000 in 1915. Last year, in spite of, as Mrs. McKimmon said, 'the poorest garden year since Noah's flood' 700,000 cans of vegetables and fruits were put up and the girls cleared $90,000 above all expenses, including an allowance for their time. Considerably more than a million cans would have been filled with nor mal garden crops. "The membership of the cluhs last year was 7,000. It has passed the 10,000 mark now and will probably be little, if any, under 15,00? before the end of the season. This means, of course that the girls of the State are preparing to serve their communities and their Nation in thin time of need to just as praiseworthy an extent as the boys who enlist in the army or in agricultural pursuits. If they can seeure cans, which are very high, but in all probability will be avail able, the canning of perishable prod ucts will be a very important factor in feeding our people during the coming fall and winter. "There are Home Demonstration Agents in more than fli counties in the State at present and it is well to note that their work is by no means confined to work among the girls. Assistance is given to all com ers and housewives of the State have been perfected in a large measure in the art of canning, preserving and preparing food, with the result that the amount of vegetables and fruits put in glass jars for home consump tion has been very largely increased and will this year reach an aggregate that would have been astounding a few years ago. The agents in the field are instructed to instruct ear nest negroes in the art of canning for home consumption, tho object be ing to make every family in the State as independent of the food markets as possible. "Realizing: the importance of this work at such a critical time a number of cotton mills and other industries in the State are employing experts through Mrs. McKimmon's office to teach employees how to can, dTy and preserve vegetables and fruits. Tho Patterson Mills Company at Rosema ry took the lead in this activity, ap propriating $75 per month as the salary for a trained worker and al lowing her to give her spare time to the people in the country adjoining the mill village. Other mills are fol lowing suit. "Too much credit cannot be given Mrs. McKimmon and he? efficient force of field agents fo? the work they are doing. Extension Circular No. 7 prepared by Mrs. McKimmon should be in every home in the State! Housewives and others can secure it by writing to the Agricultural Ex tension Service, Raleigh, N. C., and asking for it." Work will begin in South Atlantic and Gulf shipyards within a short time on possibly fifty wooden vessels as part of the Government's fleet of merchantmen for the war, according to J. E. Rhodes, secretarj of tho Southern Pine Association.
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