VOLUME 37.
SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1918.
Number 59
CRITICAL PERIOD OF WAR
SAVINGS CAMPAIGN REACHED
Many Counties Attacked by Canker
Worm of Content. Satisfied to
Stop With Near Success. State
Headquarters Says It Is Just As
Important for North Carolina To
Raise Her Quota as Holding a Sec
tor in France.
Winston-Salem, July 20.—North
Carolina is now at probably the most
critical period of her War Savings
Campaign. She has waged what has
been considered a more or less suc
cessful pledge-drive in which ten of
her counties pledged their quotas in
full, and twenty or more rgised over
three-fourths of their quotas. All
of the counties, with a few exceptions
did well and it is the splendid show
ing made by the State as a whole
that is probably accountable for the
precarious condition into which sev
eral counties have apparently fallen.
The cause of this unfavorable con
dition, State Field workers have said
is caused by the insidious canker
worm of contentment. Not a few
counties which raised only one-half or
three-fourths of their quotas appear
to be satisfied with the work they
have done for the reason that they
secured a larger percentage than
their leaders predicted for them
Others are satisfied on the grounds
that they secured a larger percentage
than some adjoining county; while
others are finding satisfaction in the
fact that the county did wrell in the
recent Liberty Bond Campaign.
State Headquarters is today call
ing attention to the fact that to sell
North Carolina’s full quota of War
Savings Stamps is her objective in
this w’ar, and that she sell this amount
and does what she has been asked to
do, is as important as the holding of
any sector or point by the American
soldiers at the front. In other words,
North Carolina must not let up in the
work of securing pledges, until she.
has secured her full quota. No
county or township must let up unti1
it has secured its full quota. Like
wise no individual must stop on this
side of reaching his quota. To do
less would be as ineffective in the
success of the War Savings Cam
paign as for the American soldiers
in the present offensive counter-at
tack to drive on until they w'ere with
in full view of the lights of Berlin
and then be repulsed and driven off
of German soil. Nothing short of
actually entering the gates of Berlin
can be success over there; nothing
short of every county, township and
individual taking his full quota of
War Savings Stamps will be success
over here. Near-victory will not suf
fice for the struggle neither there
nor here.
Huns Put Bombs in Bodies to
Kill Foe While Burying Dead.
Lieutenant Frederick Timothy Mur
phy, who enlisted in the regulars of
the United States Army and left
America for France last winter, tells
of German trickery that engenders
only hatred. He said: “Summed up
this show over here is ‘kill or be kill
ed.’ I ran the gamut of all sensa
tions from fear to hatred, and the
latter was what I carried away. Any
nation that fills the bodies of the
dead with bombs in order to kill the
chaps that come out to bury them
has no consideration for me, and
that is what the Huns do, among
other things.”—Washington Post.
War Plants Need 25,000 Men.
Shortage of 25,000 unskilled labor
ers is shown in the first 600 war
plants to report their unskilled labor
requirements to the United States
employment service, and it is esti
mated these plants will need 40,000
more men during July and August.
The reports were in preparation for
centralizing labor recruiting under
the Federal service.—Washington
Post.
A Princess Plows in England.
In England this season, 300,000
women have engaged in farming and
many of them have made all sorts of
money. Many have worked on the
farm themselves, even a princess
having done the plowing on her po
tato farm all summer. She says it
doesn’t hurt a princess to plow for
victory.—Wilmington Star.
VISIT OF THE GOVERNOR
PRODUCED DESIRED END
Solicitor Graves States That Only
Two of The Ashe County Deserters
Failed to Return.
Winston-Salem, July 19.—Solicitor
Graves, of Mount Airy, was here this
afternoon, returning to his home af
ter conducting the docket in Ashe
Superior court.
Mr. Graves stated that the visit of
Governor Bickett to Ashe county in
the interest of enforcing the draft
regulations fully accomplished the
desired end. There are now only two
men known to be deserters from that
county and they are not in the state,
it is believed.
“The people of Ashe county are
very strongly patriotic,” said Solicitor
Graves. “There is no doubt that there
was a delicate situation there to be
handled just before the governor visit
ed Jefferson, but I don’t think the
newspaper correspondents were war
ranted in their charge that there was
any form of concerted action among
those who were ignoring the orders of
the board, nor do I believe that they
were very large in number. The peo
ple of Ashe county as a whole are
manifesting a fine spirit of patriotism
and there appears now no indication
that there is disloyalty in any part of
the county.—Greensboro Daily News.
SENDS SON TO BATTLE FRONT
Secretary Wilson, First of the Cab
inet to Have One of Family Abroad
Secretary Wilson is the first mem
ber of President Wilson’s official fam
ily to send a son with the American
army overseas.
A message from France yesterdav
announced the safe arrival of Private
James H. Wilson, youngest son of
Secretary of Labor.—Washington
Post.
MUNITION WORKERS ON STRIKF
Many New England Plants Crippled
Through Demands for Higher
Wage.
Boston, July 20.—The close of the
first week of the Franco-American
counter-offensive finds 30,000 worker®
—more than equal to an American di
vision—idle because of labor disputes
at ten industrial centres in Mass
achusetts and Rhode Island. Virtu
ally all had been engaged on muni
tions of war, and the disputes over
wages, shop conditions or recognition
of the unions.
The most serious situations were at
Lynn, where a strike of 10,000 work
ers had tied up the plant of the Gen
eral Electric Company, and at Brock
ton, where an equal number of shoe
operatives were out. James A. Sulli
van and R. H. Leslie, Federal Inves
tigators, went to Brockton today.
Nothing new of importance was re
ported from Bristol and Woonsocket,
where rubber makers are on strike, or
from Warren, R. I., where 750 textile
workers are out The Smith & Wes
son revolver factory at Springfield
continued in operation, but with its
force depleted by about 900 men, ac
cording to strike leaders.
The lesser troubles of the paper
makers at Holyoke and weavers at
Easthampton appeared no nearer ad
justment.
BROTHERS DIDN’T KNOW
THEY WERE ON SAME SHIP.
Benjamin L. Martin, Jr., of the
United States marine corps, and his
brother, Edward V. Martin, water
tender, both of the United States
steamship Arkansas, traveled on the
ocean aboard the same ship for nine
months, neither knowing that the
other was aboard.
The boys met recently when they
were leaving the ship at the same
time to go on a furlough.
The brothers had not seen each
other for nine years, prior to board
ing the Arkansas—one as a marine
and one as a sailor.—Cumberland.
Md., dispatch in Greensboro News.
Horse Meat High in Vienna.
Zurich, July 20.—Five hundred dol
lars is the sum paid recently for
horses for slaughter in Vienna mar
kets. This is the highest price on
record for horse meat. All horses
sold brought prices ranging from the
top down to $375.
NO GERMANS SOUTH OF MARNE
Tremendous Fighting In Progress All
Hay Saturday on Line From Fossoy
To Oeuilly. French Report Says
20.000 Prisoners Taken and More
Than 100 Guns. German Reserves
Sent In.
London, July 20.—“Not a German
remains south of the Marne tonight
except the prisoners and the dead,”
say the Reuter correspondent at
| French headquarters in a message
filed this evening.
Tremendous fighting was in prog
ress all day yesterday and today on
the stretch from Fossoy to Oeuilly, a
distance of eighteen miles, and early
in the day the Germans, outfought
and outgeneraled, already had begun
to retreat across the river. The
French night report says that more
than 20,000 prisoners and more than
400 guns have been captured up to
date, and the entire southern bank
of the river has been cleared.
The Germans have sent in enor
mous numbers of reserves in an at
tempt to hold the Franco-American
advance on the western side of the
o ldMarne salient long enough for the
Crown Prince’s army to extricate
itself. That it will succeed in doing
this is not clear; the probabilities are
that not all of it will be able to pass
out through the neck of the pocket
fast being narrow d by Gen. Foch’s
telling blows, and that the Germans
are on the verge of a great military
disaster. There is still a chance,
however, that the bulk of the Crown
Prince’s army will get out.
AMERICANS LAUNCH ATTACK.
Many Prisoners Taken By Our Forces
In France.
With The American army7 in France
July 29.—The Americans were check
ed last night by the counter attacks
of the German reserves, hurriedly
thrown in to hold the battle line, but
this morning our soldiers launched a
new attack south of Soissons, simul
taneously with French attacks on
other parts of the front, which are re
ported to be progressing favorably.
The prisoners captured by the
Americans now total 133 officers,
5,691 men, of whom 123 officers and
5,027 men were taken on the north
part of the front.
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.
Township Boards of Agriculture
Meeting Date and Place.
The County Farm Demonstrator,
Mr. A. M. Johnson, and the County
Home Demonstrator will be at these
meeting places at the appointed time
to take up the Farm And Home Prob
lems, with the farmers, the men, wo
men and children. Through this or
ganization the U. S. Department of
Agriculture distributes its informa
tion to the farmer. Take advantage
of it and if you have anything good
to offer it wants it.
Meadow Township, meets 1st Tues
day, 10:00 A. M. at Meadow school.
Bentonville Township meets 1st
Tuesday, 3 P. M. at Mill Creek school
Banner Township meets 1st Thurs
day. 10 A. M., Banner school.
Elevation Township meets 1st
Thursday , 3 P. M. Royall school.
Clayton Township meets 2nd Tues
day, 10 A. M. Baptist Center school.
Wilders Township meets 2nd Tues.
day, 3. P. M. Archer Lodge school.
Micro Township meets 2nd Thurs
day, 10 A. M. Micro school.
Beulah Township meets 2nd Thurs
day, 3 P. M. Glendale school.
Pleasant Grove Township meets
2nd Friday, 2 P. M. Pleasant Grove
Court House.
Boon Hill Township meets 3rd
Tuesday, 3 P. M. Stevens Chapel.
Cleveland Towaship meets 3rd
Wednesday, 3 P. M. Polenta school.
Oneals Township meets 3rd Thurs
day, 10 A. M. Dixie Town Hall.
Selma Township meets 3rd Thurs
day, 3 P. M. Pleasant Plains school.
Pine Level Township meets 4th
Tuesday, 10 A. M. Micro school.
W'ilson’s Mills Township meets 4th
Tuesday, 3 P. M. Wilsoa’s Mills
school.
Ingram Township meets 4th Wed
nesday, 3 P. M. New Hope school.
Smithfield Township meets 4tli
Thursday, 3 P. M. Court House
Smithfield.
County Board of Agriculture meets
1st Saturday in August at Smithfield.
FORMER CZAR OF RUSSIA SHOT.
Bolshevik Committee Says Counter
Revolution Move Justified Execu
tion. Death Sentence Passed By
President of Ural Regional Council.
London, July 20.—Nicholas Roman
off, former Czar of Russia, was ex
ecuted on July 16, according to the
text of a Russian wireless eommuniea
tion received here today. The former
Empress and Alexis Romanoff, the
former heir apparent, have been sent
to a place of security, the statement
also announces.
In making public the fate of the
former Czar, the Central Executive
body of the Bolshevik government re.
poi*ts that it has at its disposal ma
terial documents, concerning the for
mer emperor’s affairs, his eorrespon
denee, including letters from the
Monk Rasputin, who was killed short
ly before the revolution. These let
ter.' will be published later.
As a pretext for the execution of
the former emperor, the Bolshevik
committee asserts that a counter
revolutionary movement, which had
for its aim the wresting of Nicholas
Romanoff from the authority of the
Soviet council. The President of the
Ural Regional Council then decided to
execute the former ruler and the sen
tence was carried out last Tuesday.
BRITISH CASUALTIES INCREASE.
16.981 Killed, Woudned or Missing
Listed in Week’s Report.
London, July 20.—British casualties
reported in the week ended today to
tal 16,981, compared with the aggre
gate of 14,911 reported in the pre
vious week. They are divided as fol
lows:
Killed or died of wounds—Officers,
91; men, 1,411.
Wounded or missing—Officers, 291:
men, 15,188.
FORECAST SHOWS BIG
CROP OF SUGAR BEETS
Largest Crop Ever Grown in United
States Now in Sight, Also Beans
and Peanuts.
Washington, July 19.—The largest
crops of beans, sugar beets and pea
nuts ever grown in the United States
are in prospect for this year’s harvest.
Forecasts of production issued today
by the department of agriculture show
an increase over last year of 19,500,
000 bushels in the peanut crop with i
total of 79,704,000 bushels; an increase
of almost 5,000,000 bushels in the
bean crop with a total of 19,791,000
bushels and an increase of 267,000
tons in the sugar beet crop, with a
total of 6,247,000 tons. The hop crop
promises 32,494,000 pounds, an in
crease of almost 5,000,000 pounds
over last year; broom corn 70,500
tons, an increase of 8,500 tons; kafirs,
etc., 110,005,000 bushels and sorghum
(syrup) 33,817,000 gallons, a slight
decrease.
Peanut acreage shows a 19 per
cent, increase in Alabama where a
crop of 23,148,000 bushels, of 7,000,
000 more than last year is forecast;
in Texas the acreage shows a 10 per
cent, increase and production is fore
cast at 21,196,000 bushels, an increase
of almost 5,000,000 bushels; in Geor
gia a 23 per cent, acreage increase
and 12,422,000 bushels, or 3,000,000
bushels more than last year’s.—
Greensboro Daily News.
Loans To Our Allies.
The United States has now loaned
to our allies $6,091,590,000. The ad
vances average about $400,000,000 a
month.
These loans to our allies are an
alogous to lending weapons to friends
who are aiding you in the defense of
your own home. The money is being
used to defeat our enemy, to maintain
armies fighting side by side with our
soldiers, and fleets patrolling the same
oceans with our sailors.
Berlin Postoffice Now Bina.
The anti-Hun offensive extended to
Berlin, North Carolina, last week
when the postofficei departmient at
Washington announced that the name
of this postoffice had been changed
to Bina. In giving a list of fourth
class postmasters appointed, the de
partment recorded the fact that here
after Berlin, in Ashe county, will be
known as Bina. Albert S. Eller was
reappointed postmaster there.
! CARPATHIA TORPEDOED
AND FIVE ARE KILLED.
Splendid Discipline—Survivors Pick
ed Up After Two Hours—All Pas
sengers Are Saved.
London, July 19.—The British
steamer Carpathia was sunk off the
Irish coast after bein gtorpedoed
Irish coast after being torpedoed
ship and all hit. Splendid discipline
was maintained. The survivors were
in the water two hours, the Exchange
Telegraph company says, when picked
up by the steamer which brought
them into port. The Carpathia dis
appeared very quickly.
Five persons were killed through
a torpedo entering the engine room.
Tht> remainder of those on board took
to the life boats.
All the passengers on board the
Carpathia were saved. They include
TO saloon passengers and 21 from the
steerage.
SIX MILLIONS WAR STAMPS A
DAY INTO THE TREASURY.
—
The Treasury Department at Wash
ington has issued a statement that
the sale of War Savings Stamps from
July 1st to llth inclusive amounted
to $60,789,657.59, or an average of
about $6,000,000 a day. This amoui t
exceeds the Treasury receipts from
this source for the entire mo *tli of
June. It calls attention to the fact
that beginning with the week of June
24 a new weekly record was made of
War Savings Stamps, and it is certain
that this record will increase each
week as the War Savings Campaign
advances.
U. N. C. MEN TO PLATTSBURGH
In The Lot Selected Is Mr. F. O. Ray
of Selma.
Chapel Hill, July 20.—Call has been
made for sixty-nine additional men
from the University to be sent for
sixty days intensive military training
at Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y., making
a total of one hundred and sixteen
men from the University. These ad
ditional men are to report not later
than August 10. They will be under
temporary enlistment for the sixty
days and will receive the pay of a
private ($30 a month) and an allow
ance of three and a half cents per mile
for transportation. The government
furnishes uniform, equipment and
subsistence while in camp. At the
end of sixty days they will be dis
charged to resume their work at the
University where they will act as as
sislants to the military instructor^
sent there by the government. One
faculty member for each one hundred
registrants for the past year will be
included in the number sent to the
camp. The minimum age limit is 18
with no maximum for the students
while 45 is the maximum for members
of the faculty. Men of the highest
type mentally and physically and with
the greatest capacity for leadership
are being selected.
Among those selected so far is Mr.
F. O. Ray, son of Mr. R. L. Ray, of Sel
ma.
Allotments to Soldiers’ Dependents.
Allotment to dependents of United
States soldiers have increased from
10,000 at the beginning of the war to
800,000. For the month of May these
allotments total $5,000,000. Thirty
thousand commissioned officers are al
lotting $1,000,000 a month to their
families; noncommissioned officers
and privates, $4,000,000.
In addition nearly $50,000,000 of
Liberty loan bonds of the second Lib
erty loan will have been paid for by
members of the Army and will be
turned over to the purchasers during
August, the payments having been
made out of allotments made for the
purpose.
5,355,000 SOLDIERS MOVED.
Railroads’ Share in Handling Troop
Mobilization Reported By McAdoo
Railroads moved 5,355,000 soldiers
to and from camps between May 1,
1917, and July 1, 1918, the railroad
administration reported yesterday.
These were classified as follows:
National army arrivals, 1,395,000;
by special trains, 2,880,000; by reg
ular trains, 1,079,000. Many of these
were duplications, covering move
ment several times of the same men.
MAJOR ROOSEVETL WOUNDED.
Third Son of Ex-Persident to Fall.
News Comes When House Is In
Grief Over Heroic Death of Quentin.
Injury Not Serious. Theodore,
Jr.’s. Wife Cables Reassuring Word
To Sagamore Hill.
(New York Sun, 21st.,
War wrote its horrors deep into the
heart of Theodore Roosevelt yester
day. Within a few hours the one
time President had wrested from him
the last vestage of hope that fate
might have spared his youngest son,
Quentin, from death behind the Ger
man lines, and then was summoned
from the side of his grief stricken
wife to receive a cable message which
announced that his eldest son, Major
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., had been
slightly wounded in action and had
been taken from the firing line to a
hospital in Paris.
Now only one of the Colonel’s four
sons remains untouched by the
scourage of war. This is Capt. Kermit
Roosevelt, recently transferred from
the British to the United States
army and who is on his way from
Mesopotamia to join the American
Expeditionary Forces in France.
Though Capt. Kermit Roosevelt has
yet to feel the sting of a Hun bullet,
he wears on his breast the British
Military Cross, awarded to him for
gallantry in action. Capt. Archie
Roosevelt, the Colonel’s other son, is
recovering slowly from wounds which
he received in action last March, but
which, it has been reported, are likely
to render him permanently crippled.
Word that Major Theodore Roose
velt had been wounded was received
early in the evening from young
Theodore’s wife, who is in Paris en
gaged in Red Cross work. This
message said:
“Ted wounded. Not seriously.
Here with me. Not any danger. No
cause for anxiety.”
When it came the announcement
of Major Theodore Roosevelt’s mis
fortune found his distinguished father
already plunged in grief as the result
of early cable dispatches from Paris
which had informed him that German
aviators flying low over a sector of
the battle lines in France being held
by American troops had dropped
notes announcing that Quentin
Roosevelt had been killed in the
spectacular plunge of his battleplane
from above the clouds during a battle
with a squadron of Hun airmen. Un
til those messages were received at
Oyster Bay both the Colonel and Mrs.
Roosevelt still were buoyed with hope
that the uncertainty which marked
previous messages regarding Quentin’s
plight might yet yield the announce
ment that he had not been killed.
The wounding of Major Theodore
Roosevelt is the second time he has
been put out of the big fight on the
western front. Three weeks ago he
earned a citation for gallantry afte’*
being gassed while standing heroically
with his men during a severe bomb
ardment of their positions. He went
abroad with the first contingent of
American troops under Gen. Persh
ing and has been in the thick of the
fighting ever since the Americans
moved up to the fighting lines from
their training camps.
Death of Mrs. C. M. Wilson.
Mrs. Nova K. Wilson, wife of Mr.
C. M. Wilson, of Wilson’s Mills, died
suddenly Sunday morning July 21st,
at about 1:30 o’clock of organic heart
disease. She had an attack five weeks
ago which threatened to be fatal. The
second attack lasted only about twenty
minutes before it took her away. Sho
was in her sixty-second year.
The burial took place late Sunday
afternoon in the presence of a large
number of friends and acquaintances.
She was a member of the Wilson’s
Mills Christian church and her pastor
being away, the funeral services were
conducted by Dr. Smith, President of
Atlantic Christian College.
The pall-bearers were, R. N. Ay*
cock, L. G. Stevens, W. C. Harper,
Ed. Parrish, Paul Youngblood and J
M. Vinson.
Mrs. Wilson leaves her husband and
two sons and a daughter. Mr. Will
Wilson, Jr., Mr. W. C. Wilson and
Miss Lottie Wilson. She wa3 well
known for her kindheartedness and
good deeds and had many friends.