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VOL. XXVII.
NINE REGIMENTS
10 GO TO FRANCE
ENGINEERS WILL BE ORGANIZED
BY WAR DEPARTMENT FOR
SERVICE IN FRANCE.
RAISED 8Y VOLUNTEERING
Will Go to Europe "At the Earliest
Possible Moment" Each Regiment
to Be Commanded By Regular Army
Colonel. Composed of Railroad
Men.
Washington. Nine new regiments
of array engineers, to be composed ex
clusively of highly trained railway
men, will be the first American troops
to be sent to France. They will go
"at the earliest possible moment," the
War Department announced, for work
on communication lines, but specula
tion as to exactly when or to what
points they will be sent Is forbidden
because of the submarine menace.
The new forces will be volunteers,
raised at the nine great railway cen
ters of the country. Each regiment
will be commanded by an engineer
colonel of the regular army, aided by
an adjutant. 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 opera
tion of lines will be represented in
the ranks, and the War Department
expects a response to the call that
will permit a careful selection, to be
exercised and insure a force already
trained to the minute, an army of ex
perts in railway operation. The De
partment's statement follows:
"The War Department has sent out
orders for the raising as rapidly as
possible of nine additional regiments
of engineers which are destined to
proceed to France at the earliest pos
sible moment for work on the lines of
c ommunication. It is requested of the
press that no speculation or rumors
regarding this force be carried other
than thst given out. All details re
garding the force will be given out as
fast as compatible with the best pub
lic interests."
Recruiting for the regiments and
the organization of each force will be
directly under the colonel of each
regiment. The recruiting points will
be New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Bos
ton, Pittsburg, Detroit. Atlanta, San
Francisco and Philadelphia.
HERO OF MARNE LAYS
WREATH ON TOMB OF LINCOLN.
French Commissioners Honor Memory
of Emancipator.
Springfield,. 111. Marshal Joffre,
hero of the Marne, paid high tribute
to the memory of Lincoln at the eman
cipator's tomb here, and with the oth
ers of the French commission received
an enthusiastic welcome to the Illi
nois Capital.
Marshal Joffre silently placed a
wreath upon the Lincoln sarcophagus.
With bowed heads and doffed caps,
the French hero, Rene Viviani, Vice
Premier of the French Council of Min
isters, and the military and civil offi
cials who accompanied them, filed
into the tomb, paid honor to the war
President and left without a spoken
word.
DOUBLES TAX ON WHISKEY
OTHER SOURCES OF REVENUE.
Washington. In an extended ses
sion the House Ways and Means Com
mittee wrote new and drastic liquor
and inheritance taxes into the war
revenue bill, but were still in dis
agreement over many sections and
about $200,000,000 short of the $1,800,
000,000 it has voted to raise. The lead
ers hope to complete the measure Im
mediately, and a proposed retroactive
income tax amendment, which would
yield $140,000,000 during the coming
year, and other far-reachinr proposals,
are held in abeyance to be inserted at
the eleventh hour, if necessary to make
up the desired total.
Several members of the House, in
cluding at least one member of the
Ways and Means Committee, already
are planning to carry their fight for
changes in the bill to the Senats
Finance Committee as soon as hear
ings on the Senate side begin, prob
ably this v
Proposed taxes on whiskey were in
creased by the committee from $1.10
to $2.20 a gallon and on beer from
$1.50 to $2.75 a barrel. The amount
of exempt liquor in a dealer's pos
session at the time the law becomes
effective was reduced fro man unlim
ited quantity to 50 gallons.
T
IS SAFELY PASSED
CONTROVERSY BETWEEN WORK
MEN'S COUNCIL AND GOVERN
MENT SETTLED.
PREPARE NEW DECLARATION
Government's Foreign Policy Explain
ed In Definite Terms and Is Accept
ted by Soldiers' and Vorkingmen's
Delegates.
Petrograd, via London. The contro
versy between the Council of Work
men's and Soldiers' Delegates and the
Provisional Government that, for a
short time had threatened such serious
consequences in which, in fact, the
fate of the nation and possibly of the
war were involved has been settled.
Prince Tseretelli, speaking before a
tremendous assemblage of soldiers and
workmen, declared that the govern
ment had prepared a new declaration
concerning its foreign policy, which
was in definite language and corre
sponded to the proclamation of April
9. and embodied the views of the pro
letariat. When the speaker declared that the
temporary government had acquitted
itself of the charge brought against it
by explaining in concise terms what
it meant by the vague form of yester
day's declaration, a great cheer arose
from the assembly and lasted for sev
eral minutes. It apparently voiced
the relief which all present felt at the
solution of the utmost serious diffi
culty which had confronted the country
since the revolution. .
Prince Tsertelli then read the new
declaration sent the council by the
government, and explained that the
trouble was over and that the provi
sional government would remain in
power. Democracy, he announced
amid continued cheering, had won a
great victory.
GOLDEN FLOOD POURS IN
FOR "LIBERTY LOAN OF 1917."
Small Investor Not Yet Been Heard
From. Payments on Easy Terms.
Washington. The golden flood of
subscriptions to the "liberty loan" con
tines to sweep in upon the Treasury
without abatement. Officials estimat
ed that since the books were opened
for subscription money had poured in
at the rate of $7,208,260 per hour and
the first three days business showed a
total of about $500,000,000 or one-tenth
of the total.
Thus far only the banks and weal
thy individuals have been heard from.
The small investors voice has not
been heard, except Indirectly. Offi
cials believe that a great army of men
of moderate means are willing and
anxious to invest in the bonds, and to
this end a program is under considera
tion which will enable virtually every
one in the country with only a small
amount to spare to buy at least one
bond.
"It Is intended to make the bonds
of such denominations," Secretary
McAdoo announced, "and the pay
ments on such easy terms as will give
every inhabitant of the land the op
portunity to help. Announcement as
to the denominations and payments
will be made in a few days."
Consideration of this and other de
tails indicates that small investors
will be permitted, in tome manner
yet to be formulated, to pay for bonds
by installments lasting over a consid
erable period of time. In this, Treas
ury officials have the support of many
banks, some of which have offered to
accept payments as small as $5 a
months. Department stores and other
agencies also have offered to co-operate
on this plan.
MORE ENROLL THAN
CAN BE ACCOMMODATED.
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Tabulation of
the enrollment for the reserve offi
cers' training camp here Indicated that
thirty-eight more Tennesseans and
Carolinians have qualified for admls
misions than the camp can accommo
date. GREAT BRITAIN SECONDS
FRANCE'S REQUEST TO SEND MEN
Washington. Great Britain formal
ly Joined Franc in expressing the
hope that an American expeditionary
force would soon take its place on
the western front in Europe. Foreign
Secretary Balfour told the Council of
National Defense that the British
would be overjoyed to welcome an
American force in France, and that
its early dispatch would have an enor
mous psychological effect, both on the
Allies and their enemies.
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FOR QOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
PLYMOUTH, H. C,
UNITED STATES DESTROYER JACOB JONES
SERVICE RESERVE APPORVEO
IS TO BE COMPOSED OF MEN NOT
SUBJECT TO DRAFT AND OF
WOMEN.
Would Perform Military cy Civic Ser
vice Not Performed By the Enlisted
Men. Will Maintain - Headquarters
at Washington.
Washington. Plans for a great Na
tional service, made up of men not
subject to draft into the army, and
of women, already approved by the
War Department, were submitted to
the Council of Natione.1 Defense at a
conference of the council with State
Governors and representatives of state
defense councils.
Members of the reserve would be
available for any service they could
perform for the Government.
The plans were presented by George
Wharton Pepper, a representative of
the Pennsylvania State Defense Coun
cil and chairman of a NationalCom
mittee of Patriotic and Defense So
cieties. The reserve would be headed by a
board of nine Nationally known men,
which would operate through a Na
tional committee of members from all
the states. Under the National com
mittee there would be state and dis
trict committees, and in Washington
a permanent headqua-ters committee
would sit to carry on administrative
work.
ADMINISTRATION SEEKS
CONTROL OF FOOD SUPPLY.
Lever Introduces Sweeping Measure
in House.
Washington. Absolute authority to
regulate, in its discretion, the pro
duction, distribution and prices of
food and other necessities during the
war was asked of Congress by the
Administration.
In a sweeping bill introduced with
Administration approval by Chairman
Lever, of the House Agriculture Com
mittee, it Is proposed to empower' the
President under the war clause of
the Constitution, to take these meas
ures wherever in his opinion the Na
tional emergency shall require:
The maximum and minimum prices
for food, clothing, fuel and other ne
cessities and the articles required for
their production;
To prescribe regulations to govern
the production of these commodities,
and, if necessary, to requisition the
producing factories, mines or other
establishments;
To compel holders of necessities to
release them in amounts insuring
equitable distribution;
To regulate exchanges in such a
way as to eliminate market manipu
lation; To compel railroads to give prefer
ence to the movement of necessities;
To levey such importation duties as
he finds necessary to prevent exces
sive "dumping" of foreign products;
and
FBIDAY, MAY 11, 1917.
PI?S 1111 11
SAYS DISASTER EAGES US
U-BOATS HAVE MADE ENORMOUS
INROADS ON ALLIED
SHIPPING.
Secretary Lane Tells Governors' Con
ference That the Very Existence of
Great Britain and France Are
Threatened.
Washington. The enoromous in
roads on the world's shipping made
by German submarines within the last
few weeks has brought to American
Government officials a full realiza
tion of the disaster that faces the
United States and the Allies if the
undersea warfare is not checked.
Governor and state representatives
here for a national defense conference
will take home to their people a mes
sage from the Government emphasiz
ing the menace to America and urg
ing that there must be the fullest co
ordination by the states in war perp
aration if Germany is to be defeated.
Secretary Lane told the conference
that the great destruction of ships
was threatening the existence of
Great Britain and France and menac
ing the United States. No one, he
said, knew the exact number of ships
lost recently, but estimates put last
week's submarine toll at four hun
dred thousand tons. Later, he ex
plained that this estimate probably
was too high.
Secretary Lansing, in a statement
during the day, declared the serious
ness of the submarine situation could
not be exaggerated. Reports to the
State Department give a total of ,80
vessels lost in one week.
The British mission announced that
the rate of destruction in recent
weeks had continued unchanged, and
that it showed no alarming increases.
All its members agree the situation is
critical.
Announcing the Government's pro
gram for exercising a more direct
control over the country's shipping
and shipbuilding facilities, Chairman
Denman, of the Shipping Board, said
estiamtes had reached the . board of
300,000 tons of shipping sunk in one
week.
A Bureau of Navigation report pre
pared recently estimated the world's
ship construction in 1916 at slighthly
less than 2,000.000 tons. If the Ger
mans keep up their present rate of
destruction, officials admit without
hesitation that their campaign threat
ens to sweep clean the seas.
MARSHAL JOFFRE IS
CALLER AT WHITE HOUSE.
Washington. On the eve of their
departure on a tour of Middle West
ern and Eastern States, members of
France's war mission held further im
portant conferences with representa
tives of the United States Govern
ment. Marshal Joffre went to the
White 'House and spent an hour talk-:
ing with President Wilson discissinp.
among other questions, the despatch
of an expeditionary force to France.
Thho marshal was accompanied by
'"ol. Spnecer Cosby.
PLANS FOR H
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NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA
AND TENNESSEE IN SIXTH
DIVISION.
FORM EIGHTEEN DIVISIONS
Each Will Be Complete In Every Arm
of Service. All Details For Raising
New Army Completed By the War
Department.
Washington. The full strength of
the first war army organized under
the selective draft bill will be 18,538
officers and 528,659 enlisted men, mak
ing up eighteen war strength divis
ions complete in every arm and sup
plemented by sixteen regiments of
heavy field artillery equipped with
large caliber howitzers.
Virtually every detail of plans for
raising, training, equipping and or
ganizing this force has been acrefully
worked out by the War Department,
and the selection ot the men will be
gin as soon as the draft measure be
comes law. Conferees of the Senate
and House hope to agree upon disput
ed features at once so as to send the
bill to the President for his signature
early this week.
A revised list of officers' training
camp districts issued by the Depart
ment indicat' that the divisions of
the first half million new fighting
men will be formed as follows:
First division Troops from all New
England States.
Second New York Congressional
districts one to twenty-sixth, (includ
ing Long Island and New York City.)
Third Remainder of New York
State and Pennsylvania Congression
al districts 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 21, 25
and 28.
rourth Remainder of Pennylva
nia State, Including Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh.
Fifth New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land, Virginia and the District of
Columbia.
The Carolina.
Sixth North and South Carolina
and Tennessee.
Seventh Georgia, Alabama and
Florida.
Eighth Ohio and West Virginia.
Ninth Indiana and Kentucky.
Tenth Illinois.
Eleventh Michigan and Wiscon
sin. Twelfth Arkansas, Mississippi and
Louisiana.
Thirteenth Minnesota, Oklahoma
North and South Dakota and Nebr;
ka.
Fourteenth Missouri, Kansas
Colorado.
Fifteenth Oklahoma and Texas
Sixteenth Montana, Idaho, Wi
ington, Oregon, California, Nevr
Utah, Wyoming, Arizona and
Mexico.
In addition, there will be two
arate cavalry divisions which
ably will be situated in the Soutl
near the Mexican border.
!er. J
nslon.
n will c
i of inr.
Strength of Div
Each infantry division
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three regiments of field artillef
regiment of cavalry, one regiJT
engineers, one division hospf
four camp infirmaries. Te
strength of the lixteen will f
officers and 439,792 men. V
The two cavalry divisions
will have 1,214 officers aniL
r iJr a f li 1 1 roomanta
fighting men, including mount
gineers and horse artillery un
y un
rtsloS
Q nf
each will have also its divi
pital and camp infirmaries.
The proportion of coast
troops to be provided out
000 will be 6b6 officers an
men, with requisite medical
Supplementing these tat
will be the sixteenth re
heavy field artillery, strei
fleers and 21,140 men;
squadrons,' or one new
each new infantry divisio
loon companies, ten fle
ten ambulance companie
field bakeries; six teU1
ions, sixteen pack comp
munition trains and six
In preparation for t
task or training this gre
existing regular
establl?
the National Guard is
beV
to full war strength. Th
when all five additional
provided for in the NatlonaPr.
act have been added, will total iL
officers and 293,000 men of all arms.
Upon the President's approval of
the army bill, the first increment will
be added to the regulars. As soon as
possible thereafter, the remaining in
crements will be created, existing reg
iments being divided and expanded
to form the new units.
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01 FOOD CROPS
SECRETARY LUCAS RETURNS
FROM CONFERENCE AND
TELLS OF ACTION.
DEPARTMENTS TO CO-OPERATE
Labor and Tin Can Situation Are Prob
lems Being Given Serious Consid
eration by Commission.
Raleigh. More than ever convinced
of the absolute necessity of the
South's raising its own food and feed
stuffs this year, John Paul Lucas, ex
ecutive secretary of the State Food
Conservation Commission, has return
ed to his office after attending the
conference held at Washington at the
Instance of the Federal Trade Com
mission for the consideration of the
production, transportation and distri
bution of food and feei products. In
formation brought out at that con
ference will be used not only by the
Federal Trade Commission itself, but
will be passed on to the Department
of Agriculture and the' Interstate Com
merce Commission. Acording to Mr.
Lucas all departments and commis
sions at Washington are co-operating
as never before in securing prompt
action in matters especially that have
any bearing upon the proper conduct
of the war and the production of
foodstuffs is recognized as one of the
very important factors, in the war sit
uation. "One of the country's greatest handi
caps at present is Its lack of adequate
transportation facilities," stated Mr.
Lucas. "This was strikingly manifest
in our conference. It was the concen
hus of opinion that the present prices
of wheat and iour and some other
products are due as much to inade
quate transportation facilities as to
crop shortage. The South will not
only save itself from hunger and suf
fering by raising its own food and
feed stuffs this year, but it will to a
considerable extent relieve the rail
road situation by releasing for other
purposes the tens of thousands of cars
that have heretofore been necessary t
bring us the $700,000,000 of food and
feed products that we have bought
from ftmi,.
"Of cV56 tBe Bame
stejp situation,
wit) (&ny states
r appro-
y on the
idTtwhere
the
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34.
s.
Jaae
that
wed, in
the
vanference.
tincreased
arso to labor.
Jfheti
JY ser
tin can situa-
RArlmiA. All of
being considered
diO. by the proper authorities
dical steps, if necessary, will
tfijkea In applying remedies."
Discharge 500 Guardsmen.
4Raliegh. Full five hundred men, it
X estimated, wiliV.iave.been discharg
rf I from the National Guard service
fo North Carolina when the last of the
E"v charges are issued. Practically all
thel,ese are on the basis of the Dro-
JJflowe., for discharge of men with de-
fit. icLUAiiica. x ilia ickiicocuia
than fifteen per cent of the en
Js.ard. Vugh this condition was suffl
ri warant a discharge, if asked
alle the National Guard was in
Y 0Hion quarters at Camp Glenn
.mer, the discharge was purely
A with the men having depend-
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'VV'w such dlscnarges are man-
UlUft
Life
scnarges leavi
W pers
tj.
i ispect-
this week tcW ..Aae llee
and graduating president Tur
rentine feels efan-rt. over his success
In securing such splendid speakers for
he baccalaureate sermon and literary
iddress. The commencement will
,pen Saturday evening. May 19, at
j:30 o'clock.
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