VOLUME 38.
THE SMITHFIELD HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1919
Number 4.
BILLIE SUNDAY
NOW IN RICHMOND
The Great Evangelist Going to Hold
Six Weeks’ Meeting in Virginia
Capital City—He Received Warm
est Reception Ever Given by Rich
mond—Three Sermons Sunday.
Billy Sunday, with not one whit of
the fire and the dashing personality
which has made this centre-rush
evangelist the commanding figure ir
the religious life of the nation h^
captured Richmond and his six-weeks
engagement here is already an as
sured success, says a dispatch from
Richmond dated Sunday and publish
ed in Monday’s papers. He closed
today, the first of his meetings, a
strenuous one, with a sermon tonight
at <he auditorium on the subject of
the “Sins of Society.” The great
building was packed with a mass of
humanity and the preacher with his
burning epigrams and inimitable
stage gestures and postures swept
the feelings of his hearers as nevei
a preacher in this city had ever done
The great song service was also a
wonderful feature. It was a wonder
ful scene.
The doors of the great auditorium
swung open at 9 o’clock this morning,
Long before the hour great crowds
had gathered and the building was
soon filled. At 10:30 the meeting was
opened and a service of music and
prayer for 30 minutes was held which
prepared the great audience for the
sermon w'hich began at 11 o’clock,
The subject of this sermon was, “Have
ye received the Holy Ghost?” This
was a strong sermon and the great
audience was swayed by the powerful
effort of the little evangelist.
He preached in the afternoon at 3
o’clock on “God’s Grenadiers.” This
sermon was also preceded by a 30
niinute service of music and prayer.
Upon the arrival of Billy and Ma
Sunday at the Broad street station
yesterday afternoon a choir of 300
strong began singing “Hallelujah.”
The great crowd at the station gave
the snappy little evangelist the warm
est welcome that any visitor ever re
ceived here.
At the street curb, just before en
tering an automobile, he was greeted
by “Pop” Tate, a policeman who
played ball with the evangelist when
they were members of the big league,
and he and Ma Sunday were forced to
pose for the newspaper photogra
phers. Then the automobile with the
visitors headed by automobiles con
taining the committee put out for the
Richmond Hotel, where the Sunday
party occupies a suite on the sixth
floor. Along the way the evangelist
was given an ovation by the crowd
that lined the streets. A reception
was held upon the arrival at the hotel.
DEVELOPMENT OF AVIATION.
Whft the nUited States Has Done
Reads More Like a Faify Tale.
No Autos for Burleson and Glass.
New York. Jan. 10.—Marvels of
aviation development in the United
States during the war “more like a
fairy tale than the statement of hard
facts which it is reality” were de
scribed here tonight by Major Gen
eral George O. Squier, chief signal
officer of the United ^States army, in
an address before the American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers.
Attributing to causes, “some mili
tary, some civil,” the'fact that the
United States had “only a handful of
fliers” when war was declared, Gen
eral Squier asserted that, 600 aviators
had been trained in this country when
the armistice was signed, with a toll
of fa+alities “astonishingly few,”
about ore for every 3,200 hours of
flying. At the same time, he stated,
350 firms, employing 200,000 persons,
were engaged in the production of
airplanes.
Another Navy War Secret.
The theoiy most generally held is
that impulses hurled into the air from
a radio transmitting station and de
flected earthward became dissipated
as does lightning when they strike
the ground or water. Rogers, the Ma
ryland scientist, hrs corrected this
view by proving to the Navy that im
pulses flow through the earth as
through the air and that it is only
necessary to trap and measure them
in the ground. He has demonstrated
the correctness of his views and they
have been accepted.
Care of Sick Soldiers.
Richmond, Va., Jan. 10.—Special
trains bearing 600 sick and wounded
overseas men pulled into the grounds
of debarkation hospital No. 55 at
Westhampton today and the work of
classifying the men preparatory to
sending them on to permanent hos
pitals, started immediately.
BAD WRECK IN NEW YORK.
Twenty-One Killed When Fast Train
Runs Into Rear Coach of
Another Train.
Batavia, N. Y\, Jan 12.—Twenty
one persons were killed and several
injured, three seriously in a rear-end
collision on the New Yrork Cen
tral Railroad near South Byron this
morning at 3:40. The Scuthwesterr
limited, westbound, crashed into the
Wolverine limited, also westbound
which had stopped to take, on an extra
engine.
Every person in the rear Pullmar
coach of the W'olverine was killed
Onlyr a few of the dead have beer
identified thus far, most of the bodies
being mangled beyond recognition.
Up to a late hour tonight only s
few of the 21 dead had jieen identified
and the manglgd condition of the bod
ies and the absence of clothing mak
ing the work of identification slow
and difficult. All of the fatalities oc
curred in the last car of the W'olver.
ine.
The rear Pullman, a steel car, was
reduced to wreckage. When the en
gine hit the upper part of the second
coach from the end was torn from its
trucks and, lifting slightly smashed
directly through the center of the reai
coach for its entire length, sweeping
the berths and seats into a compacl
pile of wreckage. Into this debris
the bodies were tightly Wedged. Not
a sleeping passenger in the car es
caped death or serious injury.
BERGER DECLARED GUILTY.
Congressman-Elect and Four Others
Convicted in Chicago on Charges of
Conspiracy to Violate Espionage
Law—Appeals Taken.
All of the five socialist leaders tried
for conspiracy to violate the espion
age law were found guilty by the jury
at Chicago Wednesday afternoon in
Federal Court.
The defendants found guilty are:
Congressman-elect Victor L. Ber
ger, publisher of The Milwaukee
Leader.
Adolph Germer, secretary of the
national socialist party.
William F. Kruse, editor of The
Young Socialist.
Erwin St. John Tucker, writer and
speaker.
J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The
American Socialist.
The defendants were charged with
conspiracy to violate the espionage
law by delivering speeches and circu
lating published articles with the
wilful intent to cause insubordination,
disloyalty and refusal of duty among
the naval and military forces of the
United States and with interfering
with recruiting service and enforce
ment of the draft.
The convicted men face prison
terms of from one to twenty years, a
fine from $1 to $10,000, or both, at the
discretion of Judge K. M. Landis, the
trial judge, who will fix punishment
later.
Attorneys for the defendants im
mediately presented a motion for a
new trial. The* five defendants were
taken in custody in the courtroom but
a few minutes later released on their
old bonds of $10,000 each. Seymour
Stedman, chief counsel for the defend
ants, declared that the case will be
appealed to the United States Su
preme Court, if necessary, to keep his
clients out of prison.
The jury deliberated five hours and
fifty minutes before agreeing on its
verdict.
DISTURBANCES IN BERLIN.
Many Spartacans Are Reported Kill
ed, Karl Liebknecht Among
the Number.
According to the latest advices fcrbm
Berlin several hundred Spartacans
have been killed and street fighting at
n’ght has been of the most violent
nature. The complete defeat of the
Spartacans has been reported and ac
cording to a Copenhagen dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph Company,
Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacan
leader in Germany, was killed during
street fighting on last Thursday
evening.
Republicans for Woman Suffrage.
Chicago, 111., Jan. lO.^Declaring
for Universal Female Suffrage by
constitutional amendment and ap
plauding speeches condemning Social
ism, Bolshevism and government own
ership, +he Republican National com
mittee today conferred on Chairman
Will H. Hays, who opened the meet
ing with prayer, what was taken to
be full power to conduct affairs of the
party in ?fs efforts to defeat the Dem
ocrats at the next national election.
Resolutions, laudatory of Theodore
Roosevelt, were adopted and plans
were ir^de to erect a permanent
moMunr’nt to the decedent by popular
subscription.
ANOTHER CABINET
MEMBER RESIGNS
Attorney General Gregory Asks to Be
Let Out, Gives Pecuniary Respon
sibilities as the Reason—Resigna
tion to Take Effect March 4—Suc
cessor Not Yet Named.
Washington, Jan. 12. — Thomas
Watt Gregory, Attorney General ol
the United States since 1914, has re
signed because of “pecuniary respon
sibilities’’ and will return to the prac
tice of law. President Wilson has
agteed to his retirement next March
-fourth.
Mr. Gregory’s letter of resignation
dated January 9, and the President’s
reply, cabled from Paris the next day,
were made public tonight at the
White House. The Attorney General’s
letter disclosed,that he had long con
sidered retiring from office and had
discussed the matter with the Presi
dent before Mr. Wilson went abroad
Mr. Gregory’s successor has not yet
been appointed, and there has been no
official intimation as to whom he will
he. In speculation today the names
of Frank L. Polk, Counsellor of the
State Department, and Acting Secre
tary while Mr. Lansing is in Europe,
and Senator James Hamilton Lewis,
of Ililnois, were mentioned.
Other Problems Interest President.
Paris, Jan. 11.—Problems of great
importance have been occupying
President Wilson ck:nag the time
he has waited: for the oner'tig of con
versation with the pn» ,s of the
allied nations. He has ten devoting
himself to close study o* Pe food sit
uation, the acute quest ■ of demob
ilization and the extent to which he
will support the claims it is expected
Italy will make at the peace con
press. American participation in
"Hied intervention in Russia and Po
’and or other countries and the Bol
shevist movement are problems also
considered but they are not looked
upon as paramount at this time.
Demobilization Proceeding Fast.
General March, chief of staff, said
Friday that the demobilization of the
American Army is proceeding at a
rate which comparative figures show
to be more than twice as fast as the
British Demobilization. Actual fig
ures up to January 10 of men dis
charged from the American army
showed a total of 693,389.
Big Dirigible is Late Reaching
Hampton Roads.
Rockaway Beach, N. Y., Jan. 12.—
*ed by a 30-mile-an-hour wind,
the navy’s biggest dirgible, C-l, left
the naval air station at Rockaway
Point at 9 o’clock this morning on the
first leg of a 1,500-mile voyage to
Key West. The first step scheduled
was Hampton Roads, Va.
Will of Theodore Roosevelt Filed.
Mineola, N. Y., Jan. 11.—The will
of Theodore Roosevelt, filed today,
divides a trust fund of $60,000 into
equal shares for each of his children,
bequeaths wedding presents given at
the marriage of his first wife to his
daughter Alice, and the residue of his
estate to the executors of the will in
trust.
University Opens.
Chape] Hill, Jan. 11.—A rousing
welcome was given to both the old
and new students of the University of
North Carolina at a well-attended
mass-meeting of the student body
held in Garrard Hall. The regular pre
war schedule has again been adopted
at the University and things have
been started all over, the majority of
the men have discarded their uni
forms, the only remaining evidence of
the S. A. T. C. regime.
Many new men have just entered
the University for the first time, stu
dents returning is surprisingly grat
ifying to the University authorities.
And registration has not been com
pleted. The various aspects and
phases of life at the University were
introduced to the students last night
by representative college men. Al
bert M.-Coats, who has charge of the
reorganization of campus activities,
presided over the meeting and intro
duced the speakers.
House Naval Committee Lecides on
225,000 Men.
Washington. Jan. 10—A temporary
naval force of 225,000 enlisted men
for the year beginning next July was
decided on today by the House Naval
sub-committee, in beginning the
work of framing the naval appropria
tion bill for the next fiscal year. The
force is 25,000 less than was recom-J
mended by Secretary Daniels. ^
WALKER HINES
SUCCEEDS MCADOO
' he New Director General of the
Railroads Was Mr. McAdoo's As
sistant—Plans to Carry Out Poli
cies of His Former Chief.
In a statement issued Friday by
William G. MeAdoo, Director General
of Railroads, the appointment by the
President of Walker D. Hinek, who
has been Mr. McAdoo’s assistant, to
succeed the former Director was an
nounced. It is believed that Mr.
Hines is eminently fitted to fill this
place.
His policies will be advocation of
a five-year continuation of povern
ment control or early relinquishment
of the roads to private control unless
J (’onpress promptly enacts remedial
I epislation.
“Mr. McAdoo’s policies are my pol
icies and I intend to carry them out
:brouph the exlstinp railroad orpan
ization,” he telepraphed today to
repional directors, immediately after
announcement of his appointment,
which was made by President Wilson
by cable and on recommendation of
Mr. MeAdoo. The- new director pen
eral also declared for “a square deal
for labor,” fair treatment of rail
way owners and patrons and closer
understandinp between the public and
the povernment on railroad ques
tions.”
BILLY SUNDAY WILL
COME TO RALEIGH.
Richmond, Va., Jan. It.—Billy Sun
day stated here this afternoon that he
id promised Secretary Daniels in
•'ashington that he would visit Ral
• .'h on. Sunday during his campaign
i» Richmond, the exact date to be
-fern-iined later. He stated that he
had an extended conference c, ith lVfr.
Daniels on yesterday and that the
Secretary insisted that he visit Ral
eigh while the General Assembly is in
session there. This he promised to
do, stating in Richmond today that he
anticipated the trip to Raleigh with
,jrreat pleasure, especially as the in
vitation came through Mr. Daniels.
Mr. Sunday was greeted at the new
Million Dollar passenger station in
Richmond today by a crowd of not
less than five thousand people.
Fifth Liberty Loan.
Washington, Jnn. 12.—Opening of
the fifth Liberty Loan campaign April
6, the second anniversary of the de
claration of war against Germany, is
under consideration by treasury offi
cials, but no decision has been reach
ed. The third Liberty loan drive
started on April 6, 1918, the first an
niversary. It is planned to have the
campaign run for three weeks, and
to ask for between five and six bil
lion dollars.
Whether the interest Yate will be
higher than the four and a quarter
per cent borne by the last issue de
pends partly on the movement of the
market "price of Liberty bonds during
the next two months. The bonds will
be of short maturity—in the neigh
borhood of five years.
Lloyd George’s New Cabinet
Criticized.
London, Jan. 11.—(Via Montreal.)
—The comments in the morning news
papers on the new British govern
ment are not very warm in approval.
Most of the papers are disposed to
criticize the new cabinet for its lack
of “new blood.”
Another Loan to Belgium.
Washington, Jan. 10.—A credit of
$3,250,000 in favor of Belgium was
established today by Secretary Glass.
This makes a total of $256,145,000 in
loans for Belgium and a total for all
the Allies of $8,588,773,702.
Week’s Weather Forecast.
Washington, Jan. 11.—Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Monday issued by the weather bu
reau today are:
South Atlantic and East and West
Gulf States generally, fair, normal
temperatures.
Sherman President State Bee Keepers
Asheville, N. C., Jan. 10—With
about forty delegates present, the
North Carolina Bee Keepers’ Associa
tion concluded its sessions here yes
terday, electing Franklin Sherman,
State entomologist, president for an
other year.
Judge Frank A. Daniels was taken
sick with influenza upon his arrival
home Friday night to be with sick
members of his family. We are glad
to report that his condition is not
serious.
BIG HARBOR STRIKE IS OVER.
Entire Force of 1(5,000 New York
Marines Went Back to Work
Yesterday.
New York, N. Y., January 12.—
With New York's harbor strike
ended today by the decision of 16,000
members of the Marine Workers Af
filiation to return to work pending ar
bitration by the National War Labor
Board, Joseph Moran, president of
the New York Towboat Exchange,
announced tonight that private boat
owners would attend the hearing of
the board here tomorrow /nd under
certain conditions would “receive
with the utmost respect any sugges
gestion it may decide to offer.”
The, four government departments
—Army, Navy, Railroad Administra
tion and Shipping Board have
agreed to abide by rulings of the La
bor Board.
Virtually a normal Sunday force
manned the tugs, ferries and lighters
operating in the harbor today. Union
leaders said that the entire force of
1(5,000 men would be on the job to
morrow morning and would continue
work pending the War Labor Board’s
decision on their demands for higher
wages and an eight-hour day. A re
sumption of the strike was threatened,
however, in the event the boat owners
refused to abide by the findings oLthe
board.
CO-OPERATIVE EXTEN
SION SERVICE.
Why Farmers Did Not Get Nitrate of
Soda Last Year.
(R. W. Kilgore, Director.)
Now that the war is over, it is pos
sible to state why the Department of
Agriculture was able to distribute
only (hi,778 tons of nitrate of soda,
father than the 109,000 tons whieh.it
contemplated distributing: It will be
remembered at Cjuj^ress appro
priated $10,000,000 IrT the fall of
1017 i.o l>3 used,in importing nitr.te
of soda from Chili for selling to farm
ers at cos' This wa:; made mto a
revolving fund under which the War
Industries Board purchased 100,000
long tons of nitrate of soda during the
winter and spring.
Director B. W. Kilgore, of the Ag
ricultural Extension Service, has re
cently received a letter from Wash
ington explaining why all of this soda
was not made available for the use of
farmers. The greatest reason was
that a little over 42,000 tons was di
verted to other uses by the War .In
dustries Board, because there was a
critical and real need of nitrate in
making munitions to meet the spring
drive of the Germans in 1918. There
fore. every farmer whose order was
not filled completely can well feel that
he made a personal sacrifice, and that
he surrendered his nitrate in order
to win the war in the most critical
time in the world’s history.
Owing to military necessity, of
course, publicity eould not be given to
the reason for the non-arrival of the
soda, and many farmers criticized
the county farm demonstration agents
who took their orders. However,
there is no doybt but that the gov
ernment will be ftble to procure all
the nitrate of soda needed Jhis year,
and that there will be‘tonnage enough
to import it in time. The restrictions
have also been removed from private
importers and fertilizer manufactur
ers, so that all agricultural users
will probably have no difficulty in ob
taining their full supplies.—State Co
operative Extension Service.
Flu Again in Goldsboro.
Goldsboro, N. C.. Jan. 10.—Four
deaths have occurred in this city dur
ing: the past ten days caused by
Spanish influenza, which is again
spreading throughout the city to such
an extent that it is causing much
alarm among citizens and local health
officers, who have tried every means
possible to stamp out this dreaded
scourge since it first made its ap
pearance in Goldsboro several weeks
ago when a large number of people
in this city and throughout the coun
ty died after contracting the disease,
which either developed into pneumo
nia or other serious complications re
sulting in a speedy death for its vic
tims.
Three Transports Sail With 6,000
Troops.
Washington, Jan. 10.—Departure
from France of three transports, the
Huron, Bel^ic and Atenas, with about
6,000 troops, including many sick and
wounded, was announced today by the
Wiy Department.
Dr. I^enjamin D. Gaw, the popular
pastor of the First Baptist church of
Durham, died in Washington City
Friday of influenza. He went to
Washington to spend a few days with
relatives and was stricken with the
flu and lived only ten days.
THE OLD NORTH
STATE SECOND
Shite in the Union in Consumption of
Cotton—Massachusetts is First and
South Carolina Third—Crop Fast
Year 11,302,375 bales of 500 Pounds
Washington, Jan. 8.™ Final statis
tics of the American cotton crop of
1917, announced today by the census
bureau, placed production at 11,248,
242 running bales, equivalent to 11,
•>02,375 bales of 500 pounds, gross
weight, and worth $1,532,690,000 to
the growers. Production of cotton
seed amounted to 5,040,000 tons worth
$33,550,000.
For the “cotton year’’ ended July
31, 1918, consumption amounted to
6.566,489 bales, exclusive of linters;
exports amounted to 4,288,420 bn'es:
net imports 217,381 bales; stocks on
hand at beginning of year 2,720.173
bales and at the end of the year 3,
450,188 bales.
For the entire world the production
°f lint cotton destined for factory use
was 17,410,000 and the mill consump
tion 17,701,000 bales of 500 pounds
net weight.
Massachusetts still retains its su
premacy in cotton manufacturing, the
report announced, with a mill con
sumption during the cotton year of
1,493,113 bales including linters.
Next in order were North Caroh'na
with 1.186,314 bales. South Carolina
with 892,532 and Georgia with 880,
395. The mill consumption of those
four States alone represents near'y
three-fifths of the total for the coun
try. •
CASUALTIES IN FRENCH
ARMY TOTAL 4,762.800
Figures Cover War Period to No
vember—Killed in \e1ion or
Wounds, $1,028,000.
Casualties in the French army, ex
cluding colonial troops, up to Novem
ber 1 'tax 4,762,800, ( cording to offi
cial fi i ares made public by the French
high commission to correct conflicting
reports hitntiAu published.
tvfciii kdled in action or deac},
wounds numbered 1,028,000
this total must be added 29b,000 list
ed as missing and given up for lost,
making a total of 1,327,800. The
number of wounded was 3,000,000,
with 435,000 listed as prisoners.
Three-fourths of the wounded have
recovered.
Slightly less than 700,000 aore abso
lutely unable to work and have been
pensioned. The French government
estimates the totrfl number of unfit
and pensioned may finally be between
800,000 and 900,000 men. The losses
among the native troops coming
from French colonies or protectorates
were 42,000 killed or died of wounds,
with 15,000 missing and very probably
dead.—Washington dispatch.
Dr. H. Q. Alexander to Attend Peace
Congress.
Washington, Jan. 12.—Representa
tives selected at the Farmer’s Na
tional Reconstruction conference here
last week to attend the peace con
ference at Paris were announced to
day They are G. H. Gustafson, of
Nebraska; H. A. Fuller, of Minneso
ta; Grant Slocum, of Michigan; H.
Alexander, of North Carolina; Dr. F
F. Ladd, of North Dakota; Arthu~
Lesuer, of Minneosta, and George P
Hampton, of Washington, D. C.
It was announced that the deleg"
tion is now arranging for passports
Bodies Yet Unfound.
In so far as we have been able fo
learn the bodies of the two aviato—
which were drowned in the Cape Fe~
river near Fayetteville recently ha' -'
not been recovered. The river has
been and is being dredged and the ur-*
of dynamite is being employed in th
ardent search for the men.
Submarine Nets Removed.
-/
Norfolk, Va., Jan. 10.—Local nav- ’
authorities today issued pul lie noth
of the removal of the submaiine nei
and marking buoys, guarding t1
entrance io Hampton Roads and th ~
ports of Norfolk, Portsmouth Nev
port News and Hampton. The hcav
steel net at the outer entrance we
re moved some days ago.
What the United State's Fas Dor
Washington, Jan. 10.—Secretary r'
the Treasury Glass and Potmasx"
General Burleson prefer the tim’
honored horse-drawn vehicle to tv'
automobile, and in deference to the"
wishes the House Appropriation
Committee amended the k-’slati'"
bill today so as to provide carriage'
for their personal use instead of ant"
mobiles, which will be furnished 0th'
members of the cabinet.