DEATH OF MAJ. HENRY LONDON Leading Lawyer and Editor and One < oft the State's Distinguished Citi zens 1'assed Away at His Home in Pittsboro Sunday After Short Ill ness of l'neumonia. I 1 Maj. Henry A. London, Confederate ' veteran, able lawyer and legislator, editor and historian, died at his home 1 in Pittsboro, Chatham County, early 1 Sunday morning a#tcr a short illness of pneumonia. ? 1 Maj. London was born, in Pittsboro i March 1, 1864 and lacked only a few weeks of being 72 years old. At the age of 18 he entered the Confederate army and served until Lee's surrender at Appomattox. He returned after the war to Chapel Hill where he was graduated in 1865 at the age of 21. He studied law and secured his licenso in 1866 and for more than fifty years was an honor -to tfie profession. Maj. London was active in politics ; and in 1872 was Presidential Elector for the Fourth Congressional District. He was cl^osen a member of the State i Democratic Executive Committal in < 1872 and remained a valuable member until his death. He had?ever been ac tive in the councils of his party and was a wise and trusted leader. He rep resented his Senatorial District two ? terms in the Senate and was one of 1 th19,000.000 a day. The estimated cost of the first year of this war to us is $12,000,000,000. The Napoleonic wars (1793-1815) cost England and Francc about $0,125,000,000. The cost of the present war to the Entente Allies to August, 1917, was more than $50,000,000,000. Although marked progress was made Friday night and Saturday bunkering cargo steamers and coal carriers, shipping records at Norfolk, Va., show 127 vessels still awaiting service at the local coal piers. FARMERS TO GET NITRATE. Government to Sell Nitrate for Ferti lizer Through County Agent. Washington, I). C. ? Notice has been given to A. M. Johnson, Agricul tural Agent 'or Jonhston County, that the U. S. Department of Agriculture will sell at cost a supply of nitrate^ of soda to farmers in Johnston County. The nitrate was purchased thrwugh the War Industries 13ftard under the authority o'f the Food Control Act as part of the program for stimulating agricultural production. It will be unloaded at Atlantic ports and the price will be $75.50 a ton, free on board cars at port of arrival. Far mers* arc to pay in addition freight from port of arrival and the State fertilizer tag fee. Applications for a part of the 100, 000 tons of nitrate bought by the government will be received only fiom farm owners or holders of farms for use on their land, and may bo mr.de through County Agent A. M. Johnson or through any member of a local committee consisting of T. S. Ilagsdale, Preston Woodall, and C? W. Home. No money will be required with the application but upon notice from the County Agent farmers who have signed applications must deposit with a local bank, association, or individ ual, designated by the Secretary of Agriculture to act as the farmers' agent for that purpose, money to cover the cost of the fertilizer except the freight charge. After the money is transmitted to Washington "the ni trate will be shipped to the farmers. If applications for the nitrate exceed the supply of about 100,000 tons the government will allot the supply on a pro rata basis among those who ap plied. Applications must be received by February 4th. Those who have spoken for it must sign an applica tion. ~ JOHN E. It AY DIES SUDDENLY. Superintendent of State School for Blir.d for the Past 21 Years. Had Been a Leader in His Denomination. (News and Observer, 18th-) Prof. John E. Ray, for twenty-one years superintendent of the State School for the Blind, died last night at? his home just a few minutes be fore the stroke of midnight. He had retired, as customary, a short while before ten o'clock and his death two tiours later came without any herald save the unusual breathing that at tracted the attention of his wife in an adjoining room. The Qnd came bt^ore she could^re^ch his bedside* Professor Ray had suffered for some time from high blood pressure, but lately his health indicated that this condition had been relieved to some extent. Prof. Ray was perhaps best known throughout North Carolina for his labor for the betterment of the blind children of the State, the work he un dertook in preference to entering the banking business after graduating from Wake Forest College in 1875. Soon afterwards he came to Raleigh and for several years was a teacher in the State School for the Deaf and Dumb. His next work, in Colorado, ivas as superintendent of the Colorado Springs School for the Deaf, where lie remained for seven years. Leav ing there, he went., to thfc Kentucky School for the Deaf and Dumb and for two years was superintendent of that institution. In 1896, he returned to Raleigh and became superintendent of the State School for the Blind and DeAf. In the succeeding years, he has devoted his energies and powers to making this institution a place where the blind children might learn to feel that life field something for them, too. Professor Ray had been active in Lhe work of the Baptist denomination, and for ten years from 1877 ot 1887, le was corresponding secretary of the Baptist State Convention. He was a member of the board of trustees of Meredith College, Thomasvilje Or phanage. The Durham Hosiery Mills Cor poration, constituting a chain of ten mills, three operated by steam and seven by hydro-ek-ctric power, em ploying 3,500 hands, have shut down ill of their plants, paying their em ployes in full while the, mills are standing, patriotically complying with he request of the Fuel Administra tor. FINE SUPPER GIVEN AT SELMA. Superintendent of Selma Cotton Mill Entertains Overseers and Their Helpers. On Saturday evening, Jahuary 12, Mr. George F. Drcitz, Superintendent of the-Selma Cottuji Mill, gave a sup per to his mill overseers and helpers. The supper was given at the home of Mr. Robert Ethered^e, and Miss Margaret Ethexedge and Mrs. Robert Etheredge acted as hostesses on this delightful occasion. The supper was given in three courses and was thoroughly enjoyed by all present. A correspondent in reporting the event says : "1 don't think the crowd could have spent two hours with more enjoyment and more comfort than those we spent through the kindness of our beloved superintendent who never does things by halves, and especially when he can get such help as Misa^ Margaret Etheredffe. I can say I think all left for home happy if the weather was standing close to zero." Those present were: N. E. Edger ton, W. H. Call, George F. Bfeitz, Eli Taylor, E. C. Winston, Joe Mor gan, Oscar Creech, C. O. Morris, Adrian Carter, R. D. Grice and James Kemp. . Stay in School. From all parts of the country corne reports of a great decreased school attendance in all grades above the grammar. The older boys have left the school and gone to work. No doubt the temptation is strong. Jobs have never been so easy to gfc* or wages so high, even for unskilled labor. Voluntary enlistments and the draft have drained the country of great numbers of young who Tvere at work, and the necessity of manufac turing immense quantities of supplies in the shortest possible time h?s used up the surplus of unemployed older men. No wonder the boys say, "Now is my chance! Let me make hay while the sun shines!" But tempting as the opportunities seem, they are more or less deceptive, for they wear the cloak of an inflated prosperity. While the boy^ of gram mar school or high school age is at work, other young men, but little older, are getting in the army and the navy a training that teaches them the value of discipline, that gives play to all the energy and ambition that they have, and that offers splendid rewards for resources and initiative. Many of them are already highly trained in chemistry, mechanics, engineering, transportation, manufacturing or some other branch of industry, and others are getting the training the hardest but greatest of masters. Then, by and by, will come the end of the war; and when the fields of peaceful industry begin once more to turn, the cry will go up for highly trained men ? educated men and those who have technical knowledge. The shaking down process that will follow will set the law of gravitation at naught, for it is the light weights that will go to the bottom and the heavy weights will go to the top ? and stay there. How will it seem to the boy who leaves now, and who in five years has cooled and solidfied in some industrial cranny, to find himself forced out by younger man who knows more be cause he has had a better education? What are the poor immediate dollars worth beside the larger altogether later success? The best advice that anyone can give 4i boy today is, Stay in school and work as you would work if you were in the trenches! ? Youth's Companion. Price For Flour Has Been Fixed By Page. The following rujing from Food Commissioner Page has been receiv ed and is of more than passing in terest: "State Food Administrator Henry A. Page announces that from this date the marimum price that may be charged for flour at retail sale is $12.50 per/barrel. "Merchants are forbidden to sell flour to town or city customers in quantities in excess of one-half barrel and to rural or farmer customers in excess of one barrel. "Any Violation of these rulings upon the part of the retailers will in vite prompt action by the food admin istration." SUNDAY'S WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. Russian Constituent Assembly l)i> sol\i*d. Dele gates at Brest-l.itovsk Cannot Agree. Germany'* Subma rine Rase At Ostend Bombarded. The Russian Constituent Assembly was short-lived. Convening Friday in the Tauride Palace in Petrograd during street fighting, it was dissolved early Saturday morning by the Bol sheviki after a vote had shown con clusively that the government headed by Lenine and Trotzky was greatly in the minority. Thus, for the* moment at least, has passed away at its inception the leg j islative body through which it had !?een hoped order would be brought out of the anomalous situation that has existed in Russia since the revo lution which resulted in the imperial family and tfio bureaucrats being thrown out of power. Likewise the delegates to the peace conference at Brest-Litovsk again are at sixes and sevens and the pourpalers have ended. As on the other occa sions when they ceased the stuinblng iMock is the German demands and Iheir refusal to withdraw their troops from the occupied portions of Russia. After an adventurous carqter of I nearly three and a half years in fight ing and raiding operations in the Hlack Sea, the famous former German I cruisers Gocben and Breslr.u have ! net thejf fate at the hands of British J warships in afight at {he entrance to jihe Dardanelles. The Breslau, re | named Midjjllu, was sunk and the i ' loeben, rechristened Sultan Yawuz jSelim, was beachec^ The two cruisers i scaped into Turkish waters shortly . fter the outbreak of the .war and were purchased by the TOrks. Evidently the Geimrni Censors are | keeping a strict watch over the Ger man newspaper situation, for even the most meagre reports concerning the doings of the militaristic and anti militaristic parties were missing Sun day. The latest accounts of the con troversy coming by way of Amster dam and forwarded by the semi- of ficial Wolff bureau, were to the effect that the military party had gained a victory over their opponents with re gard to the settlement of the question of annexations in the cast. French troubles are reported to have broken out throughout Austria. General strikes have taken place and in Vienna and Neustadt all the war manufacturing plants are reported to have been closed. In these towns 100,000 men are said to have quit their jobs. The movement is political and economic and has as its basis the desire for peace. Anti-Germanism is declared to be especially prevalent throughout the country. On the western front in France and Belgium the military operations ap parently are increasing all along the line, as compared with those of the past few weeks, when little or no fighting, except artillery duels and minor raids, was carried out. Entente Allied warships have bom barded Germany's submarine base at Ostend, on the northern Belgium coast, while around Ypres, between Lens and St. Quentin, on the Chemin des-Dambes, on the St. Mihiel sector and north of the Rhine-Marne canal there has been a notable increase in the operations by the infantry. The probabilities are with the return of good weather the expectcd big bat tles may take place. One indication of the probable early commencement of fighting is the re sumption of aerial activity on a la^ge scale, especially on the French front. Saturday the French arimen had a good day operating against tbe^Teu tons, sending down eight enemy ma chines in fights in the air. On the Italian front the fighting again has turned to the artillery wings of the opposing sides, the in fantry keeping to their trenches ex cept for small patrol engagements. All along the northern front the ar tillery duels are of a violent character and at several points along the Piave river a like condition prevails. ? As sociated Press in News and Observer. State Food Administrator Henry A. Page announced in Raleigh Satur day morning upon authority of United States Food Administrator Herbert Hoover that all manufacturers of fer tilizer bags and other trades con cerned in the production of foodstuff are exempt from the order of Federal Fuel Administrator Garfield., This exemption applies to all bakeries, flour and feed mills, creameries and similar establishments. HON. MINOR WALLACE AT KENL Former Member of Congress to Make Address on Prohibition Tonight. Kenly, Jan. IS). ? The Honorable Minor Wallace, formerly a member of Congress of the United States, has consented to deliver an address in the Presbyterian church here Tues day night at seven-thirty. Mr. Wal lace is a speaker of national reputa tion; his subject is: "The Call of the Water Wagon." The people of Kenly are manifesting much interest in the subject of prohibition, which is now pending before the Congress. The following men constitute the special rally and program committee: J. H. Kirby, chairman; M. B. Andrews, newspaper publicity; H. P. Johnson, telephone publicity; Henry Watson, special music; L. Z. Woodard, usher; A. J. Broughton, entertainment; and the Reverend C. E. Clr.rk, presider. Owing to the continued illness of the Reverend C. P. Jerome, Professor M. B. Andrews prachd at Buck Horn Sunday morning. People Must Not Hoard Food. In some instances it lias been learn ed that hoarding of foodstuffs has been practiced %in North Carolina. In a lotter to dealers Fqod Administra tor Henry A. Page, says: * "I luive information that a number of people, no doubt through ignorance of the lav/ and possibly following the custom of years, are purchasing larger quantities of foodstuffs than they require for a reasonable period, and I am writing this letter to you in their interest an^l also for your protection ? becausc * any merchant who sells excessive amounts of food stuffs with knowledge that they are in excess of the requirements of the purchaser for a reasonable time is aiding and abetting the violator of the law and makes himself liable." NEWS IN KENLY. Kenly, January 18. ? Messrs. Wiley Narron and Son, who live seme fifteen miles northeast of Kenly, have pur chased the rails and rolling stock formerly owned by the Dennis-Sim mons Lumber Co. The property was bought for thirty-three thousand dol lars. It is the purpose of Mr. Natron and his son to repair the railroad track, puichase new equipment, and establish in the very near future freight and passenger service from Kenly to Narron's Store. This ar rangement will open up a large sec tion of fertile farming land and will benefit hundreds of- Johnston County farmers. Mrs. B. F. Greer, formerly matron in the Kenly State High School Dor mitory, has opened up a sewing room in one of the local hotels here. Her many friends wish her success in her new enterprise. The literary societies of the Kenly State High School elected officers Friday afternoon. The following were elected bo the Rollins boys: Floyd Wellons, president; J. Bryant Hinnant, vice-president; and Lester Godwin, secretary and treasurer. The Thalian girls elected the following: Nellie Hardison, president; Nellie Ballance, vice-president; and Jewel Edgerton, secretary and treasurer. The school library has just received a new installment of books from the State Library Commission. During the week, more than sixty of the. stu dents and teachers have borrowed books from the library. Alice Grice and Nellie Ballance are acting as library assistants. It is indeed inter esting to observe while they hand out books to scores of eager minded school folk. Material for the triangle-de bate to be held at the University in April has at last arrived. Several of the students have gone to work on their speeches. The regular mooting of the Prfccilla Club was held Thursday afternoon in the beautiful home of Mrs. C. F. Dar den on Maxweltcn Heights. The guests were met at the door by the hostess and immediately usheVd into the parlor which was decorated with holly, mistletoe, hyacinths, and nar cissus. After an hour of fancy work and merry chatter, the hostess, as sisted by Mrs. J. W. Darden, served refreshments consisting of fruit salad followed by coffee and cheese sand wiches. The invited guests were: Mrs. C. E. Clark and Mrs. J. F. Foster. After a short business meeting, the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. J. W. Darden on the thirty-first of Jan uary. DR. GARFIELD IS OPTIMISTIC. Sees the Freight Jam Clearing and the Coal Situation Better Two Days After Drastic Order In Effect. Coal Moving to Tidewater. Washington, Jan. 19. ? Definite pro gress in the movement of coal in large quantities to ships at tidewater points on the Atlantic Coast and to famine districts was anr,ounccd to night by the Fuel Administration as the result of the forty-eight Lours shut-down of most industries east of the Mississippi River. The freight jam which had para lyzed the railway systems^ it was stated officially, was slowly opening up to let through the essential car goes, so that shipments might be rushed to the Allies and our troops abroad and domestic necessities re lievi 1. This analysis of the situation was based to some extent on reports received by the Railroad Administra tion. Dr. Garfield assumed practical con trol of the situation today, and took the position that he was ready to win or fall on the result of the course he had outlined. He felt that all the indications ? pointed to its success. His official announcement stated that the antagonism, which appeared when the drastic closing "order was firr.t made known, had given way to a spirit of general co-operation, and that many of the industries affected were assuming in large part the financial burdens incident to the shut down. One of the first accomplishments of i the closing order, it was stated, was a steady movement of coal to tidewater for bunkering ships, loaded with sup plies for the American overseas forces and the Allies. Nearly 300,000 tons were reported on the way to Southern ports, and 150,000 tons to North Atlantic ports. The railroad administration re ported that thirteen ships in New York Harbor received bunker coal during the day and that the situation in that connection was easier. Con ditions in the East were reported gen erally improved, with freer movement of cars, but zero weather had retarded the work of breaking the freight jam in the Middle West, ? New York Tim?. a NO RELIEF FROM COLI) IN SIGHT % Temperatures Far Below Normal Pre-* vail East of the Rockies. ? Washington, Jan. 20. ? Over the grer.ter part of the country east of the Rocky Mountains temperatures far below the seasonal average con tinue t<^ add to the winter's record ? the severest in recent years. Slight increases in temperature are forecast generally for tomorrow and Tuesday, but the Weather Bureau said tonight restoration of normal conditions was not yet in sight. The upper Mississippi and Lake regions with New York and New England today reported intense cold, the mer cury at many points falling consider ably below zero. The cold area ex tended into the South, where freezing weather generally was accompanied by rain or snow. With the exception of the South, fair weather prevailed from the Rockics tc'the Atlantic coast. Brief cold spells of greater severity have been reported fftr previous years, but according to the Weather Bureau's records the duration of the present cold wave exceeds all records. After, two days of stirring debate, the United Mine Workers of America in biennial Convention at Indianapo-* lis, Ind., lato Saturday by over whelming vote ratified the Washing ton agreement of Oct. 6, which grrnts substantial wage advances to bitu minous coal miners and provides penalties for violation of contracts. This agreement remains in force until April 1, 1920, unless the war ends be fore that date. Pomona Defeats Brogden. The hasket ball team of Pomona School played the team of Brogden School last Friday. It was a very sprited game resulting in a score of 20 to 3 In favor of Pomona. The players of Pomor.a were as fellows: Jasper Hamilton, *center, John Tal ton, right forward, Dessie Talton, left forward, Ruffin Hill, left guard, Irv ing Talton, right guard. The game was won by Pomona's all round good playing. ? X.