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YM0fUXHf N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1917
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CALLED 10 SERVICE
PRESIDENT ISSUES PROCLAMA
TION CALLING GUARDSMEN
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TO SEE SERVICE IN FRANCE
Guardsmen Will be Mobilized July 15
and 25 and Will Enter Federal Ser
vice August 5 Then Available Fo"
Fc.-cign Duty.
V.ih!ngotn. The last step neces
sary to make the entire national guard
available for duty in France was taken
jy r':riident Wilson with the issu
of a proclamation drafting the
.-.ale troops into the army of the Uni
ted Stales on August 5. To make cer
tain that the purpose of the national
det'e.isi act is carried out, the proc
lamation also specifically declares the
men drafted to be discharged from the
old militia status on that date. Ia
that, way, the constitutional restraint
upon the use. of militia outside the
country is voided and the way paved
for sending the regiments to the Euro
pea:: front.
Prior to the application of the draft,
regiments in the northern and eastern
beoiion of the country are called into
the federal service as national guards
men in two increments, to be mobil
ized on July 15 and 25. Many units al
ready are- federalized and presumably
they will be mobilized with the other
torops from their states. The guard
from the other states will be mobilized
ou the day of the draft. The arrange
ment was necessary to provide for
movement of the regiments south to
concentration camps without conges
tion, and to the same end the division
of states into these increments was
revised from the original schedule.
The operative date of the draft was
delayed until August 5 so that all reg
iments can be taken into the army
simultaneously to avoid inequalities in
the relative rank of officers.
Fourteen Camps Selected.
Fourteen camp sites for the sixteen
tactical divisions into which the guard
will be organized for war purposes
' Itave been selected and the militia bu
reau is preparing the railway routing
'.( the troops to the camps. Seven of
the sites selected are in the southeast
ern department, five in the southern
and two in the western. The two oth
ers will be in the southeastern depart
ment, and until they are approved.as
aigunient of regiments to camps and;
f'ivisi-ons cannot be fully worked out.
The only two divisions positively as
signed are the nineteenth, including
the California guard, which will go to
Lynda Vista. Cal., and the twentieth
including Oregon, Washington and oth
er states in the northwest, which will
go to Palo Alto, Cal.
Dates Call Is Effective.
.On July 15, 1917, New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Michi
gun, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota,
South; Dakota and Nebraska.
dn'juiy 25, 1917, Maine, New Hamp
shire. Vermont, Massachusetts,-Rhode
Island, Conecticut, New Jersey, Dela
ware. Maryland, District of Columbia,
Virginia. North Carolina, South aCro
lina, Tennessee. Illinois, Montana, Wy
oming, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
CROP FORECAST SHOWS
BILLION BUSHEL INCREASE.
Tremendous Gain Over Last Year Is
Indicated.
Washington. A billion bushels in
crease over last year's production In
the principal food crops is the re
sponse American farmers have made
to President Wilson's mid-April ap
neal saying that upon them "rests the
rate of the war and the fate of na
tions." The extent of the farmers' response
was disclosed when a production of
6.093.000,000 bushels of principal food
crops was forecast in the department
of agriculture's July crop report. It
shows this year's corn crop will be
the largest in history, except one, and
hat four, and possibly five, other
c 4ps will make new high records.
'he corn crop, which, with favora
ble weather from now on, may equal
the number yield of 1912, shows an
increase of 541,000,000 bushels over
last year, with a total of 3,124,000,000
bushels. The acreage Is fourteen per
cent larger than last year.
The combined winter and spring
wheat crop will be 38,000,000 bushels
more than last year's with a total of
678,000,000 bushels.
Barley, with prospects of the third
largest crop ever grown, win exceed
last year's production by 33,000,00r
bushels with an output of 314,000,00
bushels.
GUARDS
MAJ. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Maj. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., of the
Officers' Reesrve corps In training In
the Plattsburg camp. Major Roosevelt
is only one of the Roosevelts in camp.
Kermit, another son of Colonel Roose
velt, and J. A. Roosevelt are also train
ing there.
COOPERATE IN HUNTING SPIES
PERPLEXING PROBLEMS THAT
MUST BE MET IN STAMPING
OUT EVIL.
Have Come to America In Effort to
Run Down German Agents. Many
Schemes Set on Foot by Detectives.
Washington. More complete and
efficient co-operation of United States
secret service agents with those of
its European allies is recognized as
the great problem that must be met
in stamping out' the spy evil. ;;
While it was stated that operatives
of the state,, war, navy, and justice
departments , ,are co-operating wth
good results in running down actWe
alien enemies, it was strongly iHiifat
ed that much remained to be cconf:
plished in relationships with .the ser
vices of foreign countries. ' , "
Representatives of the 'allies al
ready are in this country, it is under
stood, and are working to bring ab$ut
the desired co-operative action. This
work, for obvious reasons, could not
be' considered seriously before the
United States entered the war, and
the working out of the ramifications
of a co-ordination scheme require un
usual discussion, as well as time for
setting the actual machinery In mo
tion. The secret service of the United
States was confronted at the entrance
of America Into the war with a pro
gram of discouraging magnitude. The
machinery of the departments, built
up almost entirely for the handling
of domestic problems, was suddenly
required to shoufder the immense bur
dent of coping with thousands of plot
ters and spies.
Many schemes set on foot by enemy
plotters have been thwarted and it is
said that the archives of the depart
ments contain records of activities,
which would, if made known, be of
startling nature..
That the attacks upon American
transports were the result of the work
of spies is accepted generally In
Washington without surprise. The
sailing of transports, although not
mentioned by the newspapers, was
known to a large number of persons,
who witnesed the transfer of troops
from points in the United States and
their departure.
WASHINGTON GRATIFIED
OVER NEWS FROM CHINA.
Washington. Belief here that the
monarchist coup d-etat in China is de
stined to failure, .was increased by
each new item of news which came
to the attention of the state depart
ment. Minister Reinsch reported that
several, at least some of the northern
military leaders, who are felt to' hold
the country's destiny in their hands,
have taken the field In opposition to
Gneral Chang Ilsun's attempt to de
stroy republicanism In China.
LONDON IS AGAIN
RAIDED BY AIRMEN
OFFICIAL REPORT SHOWS THAT
THIRTY-SEVEN WERE KILLED
AND 141 WOUNDED.
THREE RAIDERS SHOT
Most Daring "Raid Yet Made by per
man Airmen Contingent Larger
and Descended Lower Than on Any
Previous Raid.
London. The second descent upon
London by a squadron of airplanes
was made between nine , and 'jten
o'clock in the morning, when the
business section of the metropolis was
most crowded. It was officially an
nounced that thirty-seven personsJ
were killed and 141 injured by the
raiders.
Although the German contingent
was larger, more daring, more delib
erative in its methods and descended
much lower than on the visit of June
13, the number of killed and wounded
was, according to the first official roll,
roughly, one-third the previous casual
ty list. This destruction of property
may have been greater, but that it is
impossible to estimate. m .
The flight of the Germans over Lon
don lasted about twenty minutes. Eng
lish airmen engaged the enemy for
several minutes over the metropolis,
and anti-aircraft guns "were firing
briskly, but without destroying any of
the twenty or more invading machines.
The admiralty was able to report
however, that naval airmen who fol
lowed them to sea brought down three
machines. A British squadron sent up
from Dunkirk to intercept the return
ing raiders did not encounter them
because they had taken a more north
erly route, but the British airmen met
and destroyed seven other German
machines.
WILSON dRQERS EXPORT
PROVISION INTO OPERATION.
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Becomes Effective July 15. Complete
Embargo of Foodstuffs Considered.
Washington. r (government control
of American exports authorized in a
provision of the espionage act, was or
dered put into operation July 15 by
President Wilson in a proclamation
putting under license shipments to all
countries of.tke most important ex
port commodities.
Ih a statement accompanying the
proclamation, the President declared
thel government's policy will be first
rto lve consideration to American J
neerjs; -next, to meet as far as pos
sible the requirements of the allies,
and lastly to supply the neutral coun
tries wherever practicable. It is
made clear that every effort will be
made to see that no supplies reach the
central powers.
The commodities named in the list
put under control are coal, coke, ful,
oils, kerosene and gasoline, including
bunkers, food grains, flour and meal,
fodder and feeds, meats and fats, pig
iron, steel billets, ship plates and
structural shapessCrap iron and scrap
steel; ferro manganese fertilizers,
arms, ammunition and evplosives.
The Inclusion, of Xoodstutfs in the
proclamation lends color to statements
that the administration is considering
the advisability of a complete embar
go for sixty day on all food, ship
ments to give the country time to as
cribe the amounts of its supplies" and
to glve allied and neutral countries
opportunity to present a full program
o ftheir requirements.
CHINESE REPUBLIC IS. ' .
REPORTED RE-ESTABLISHED.
Washington. Official dispatches to
the Chinese legation here said the
republic had been firmly re-established
at Nanking with Feng Kue-Chang, the
former vice president, as president of
the new provisional government. Re
publican troops were reported con
verged toward Peking to drive out the
Manchu forces remaining in posses
sion there in the name of the imper
ialists, j
GERMAN DOES NOT
KNOW WHERE TO GO
Richmond. Va. Asserting that he.
does not know where to go, and that j
he does not want to go to Mexico, E. j
K. Vietor, erstwhile German consul ,
here, could not tell what he would
do as a result of the report from
Washington, requesting those who
were in charge of Gefman consulate?
in this country to leave tho Un:te:l
States. He recently disposed .f hi?
tobacco warehouse property Ur S100.
000. '
SEWARD PR0SSER
Seward Prosser, prominent banker
and director of many big business en
terprises, is chairman of the Red Cross
war finance committee.
TROOPS ARE SATE IN FRANCE
GERMAN UNDERSEA BOATS MADE
ATTACK ON THE TRANS
PORTS. Last Units of the American Expedi
tlonary Forces Have Arrived In
France. Not a Life Was Lost Dur
ing the Transportation.
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Washington. American destroyer
convoying-- transports with troops .for
France fought off two submarine, at
tacks. Vtfhe first news of the flgJitaf
was give-out by the committee on
public information, with formal an
nouncement of the safe arrival of the"
last of the transports with their con
voys. "
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At least, one aubmarine was sunk
Both of 'the attacks were made in
force, showing that the Germans had
Information of the coming of the
transports and planned to get them.
.This announcement was issued:
"The navy department at five
o'clock this afternoon received word
of the safe arrival at a French port
of the last contingent of General
Pershing's expeditionary force. At the
same time information was released
that the transports were twice attack
ed by submarines on the way across.
"No ship was hit, not an American
life, was lost, and while the navy gun
ners report the -sinking of one sub
marine only there is reason to believe
that' others were destroyed in the first
night' attack."
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fitATyeAND ENGLAND
'CtiltB RATES FOURTH OF JULY.
iTeb States Soldiers Center of Cele
bration In France.
4jqjerican IndepejideiiAttea'y. was cel
ebrated, enthusiastically in'.. England
and. k'rnce as well as on The battle
fronts. . In Paris, 'a battMton of the
first American expeditionary force on
its way to the front was the center
of -the celebration. The soldiers of
revtlutionary Russia maintained their
attempts to break through the Aus-tro-German
lines in eastern Galicia.
Cheered by the results of the fighting
during the first three days of July,
GenerafBrussiloff's men continue their
efforts, especially in the region of
Brzezany and are throwing fresh forces
against the Teuton positions.
During Sunday ana 7Ionday the
first two days of the new drive, the
Ru3ians captured 300 officers and j
18,000 men, and on Tuesday and Wed-j
nesday probably added several, more I
thousands to the total. Twenty-nine
guns and thirty-three machine guns
were taken from the Austro-Germans.
- Violent artillery duels have been in
progress on the Konluchk-Ziochoff
sector, on the Stokhod, in Volhynia j
and at Brody, on the Galician-Vol-hynian
border.
In the Champagne on the western
front the German crown prince has
made another desperate and fruit
less effort to break the French lines
northwest of Rheims. Attacking in
force along an eleven-mile front, the
Germans made especially strong ef
forts around Cerny and Ailies and
against the Californla-Plateou. The
French repulsed all attacks with
AMERICAN VESSEL
SUNKBYSUBIH
FOUR MEMBERS OF THE CREW
WERE LOST WHEN THE SHIP
WENT DOWN.
ARMED NAVAL GUARD SAVED
The State Department Announced the
Sinking of the ' U. S. Steamship
Orleans, But Withheld the Place
and Time of Attack.
Washington. The American steam
ship Orleans, of the Oriental Naviga
tion company, has been torpedoed and
sunk by a submarine. Four of the
crew were drowned, but all members
of the armed naval guard were saved.
The state department, announcing
the sinking, withheld the place and
the time of the attack.
New York. The Orleans, a vetsel
of 2,808 tons gross, left here June 18
with a cargo for France, commanded
by Capt. Allen D. Tucker. Of her
crew of thirty-six, ten were American
citizens.
After Germany announced unre
stricted submarine warfare, the Or
leans was the first American steam
ship to reach France from an Ameri
can port. She was formerly the Avel
laneda and later the Menaptha, under
the Argentine flag.
SELECTION OF NEW"
ARMY NEAR AT HAND.
Officials Are Silent But Drawings Will
Likely Take Place This Week.
Washington. Selection day for the
new national army is approaching rap
idly as the local exemption boards in
the various states complete their or
ganization, give serial numbers to the
registration cards and . forward certi
fied copies to Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder. Indications are that
the drawing will be held this week, but
no official statment has been made as
to the war department's plans.
Administration officials still main
tain strict silence as to the method to
be followed, but the recent statement
by Secretary Baker that the drawing
would be held in Washington, coupled
with the stres laid upon the serial
numbering of registration cards, indi
cates the general outline of the plan.
It is understood that it is- proposed to
place in a single jury wheel in Wash
ington one complete set of numbers.
When a number is taken from the
wheel, the man in each exemption
district whose card bears that serial
number will be drafted. Thus as
each number is drawn, approximately
30,000- men will be drafted, or one in
each exemption district. If 1,200,000
men are. to be. calle.d before the ex
emption boards in the first selection,
which seems highly probable, only
forty numbers would need to be
drawn.
There are numerous complications
which must arise and the method of
solving them can be known only when
the plan in detail is made. For in
stance, the number of registered in
dividuals in each district who are lia
ble for military service will certainly
not be the same. Aliens are regis
tered, but not liable for duty.
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS
PLOT TO DESTROY CROPS.
Soux Falls, S. D. Regular army of
ficers in South Dakota claim to have
reliable information that Industrial
Workers of 'he World leaders in the
state have maps of- the agricultural
districts of the state, and have mecj"
will make simultaneous attempts
burn this season's crons.
Federal officers have been
praised of the plot, and every ei
will be made to apprehend those
nected with it. it was said. The r-
lations were made public as a w
ing to the farmers of the state
euard aeainst the activities of th n
ters. Y
WORKING OF SPIES
DISCLOSED BY NORTHCLIFFE
Washington. Lord Northcliffe, head
of the British mission in this country,
authorized publication of parts of a
confidential speech on spies and cen
sorship made to the National Press
club July 4. He. described the work J
of spies in England and the flood of !
fatal information that pours over the i
cables through neutral .countries to
Germany, and spoke of the dangers of
any except technical military and
naval censorship of the press.
PREDICTS IRE END
OF KM NEXT YEAR
GOVERNOR BICKETT SPEAKS TO
BAPTISTS MEETING . AT
WRIGHTS VI LLE BEACH.
PRUSSIANS TO SCRAP-HEAP
Makes Masterly Address on Subject of
"Decent Respect to the Opinions
of Mankind."
Wilmington. Predicting that the
end of the world war will come not
later than autumn of next year and
that Prussian militarism Is on the
way to the scrap-heap; that the "di
vine rights" of kings is tottering, and
that the close of the war will see the
organization of a tribunal where rep
resentation of the governments, puri
fied by suffering, will sit together set
tling all differences by diplomacy and
logic and not with the sword and fire,
Governor Bickett In speaking before
the closing session of the Baptist Sea
side assembly In the Harbor Island
auditorium at Wrightsville beach, de
livered a patriotic address that swept
his audience completely off its feet
and sent his hearers out into the sun
light with a new feeling surging in
their breasts.
It was a masterly address. The gov
ernor was at his very best and held
his audience spellbound until he con
cluded with the ringing statement that
North Carolina would continue to do
her part in every way.
Young People Attend Conference.
Montreat. The first young people'
conference ever held at Montreat has
been largely attended, the personnel
of the attendance being among the
representative young people of the
Presbyterian church U. S. The
courses in Bible study, home and for
eign mission study along with meth
ods of practical efficiency are con
ducted during the forenoon by Dr. W.
W. Moore of Richmond, Va., John
L. Alexander of Chicago, Dr. Gilbert
Glass and Mesdames Winsborough, E.
C. Crook, S. N. Burts and Miss A. B.
Binford.
Sunday, July 1, Dr. W. W. Moore
addressed the conference on the three
fold need of spiritual, mental and phy
sical culture. It was a most helpful
and pointed statement of the necessity
of symmetrical development and
training On Monday, July 2, the ad
dress was given by Dr. James Lewis
Howe of Washington and Lee univer
sity. During the present week the
splendid gathering of young people
will hear addresses by Dr. James I
Vance of Nashville, Tenn., and Dr.
John S. Lyons of Atlanta. Charles
M. Alexander, a world-renowned con
ductor of music is on the ground with
his able corps of assistants and has
entire charge of the music.
The afternoons are spent in swim
ming, boating, tennis and "hiking."
On Saturday at the hour for the even
ing meal at the door of the Alba ho
tel a package of lunch was handed
to each one of the young men and
girls, who forthwith, under the leader
ship of Richard Crozler, the director
of sports, took the trail to Lookout
Mountain, where they ate supper in
sight of a glorious mountain rhododen
dron. Later they returned, making
the mountains echo with songs of
patriotism and youthful glee.
Call Out Ambulance Company.
Greensboro. The Greensboro Ambu
lance Company, which has enlisted its
full quota of men, will be called out
about July 15, according to the tele-
im received by rfenry Foust, the or-
;er, from Major Jeunemann. This
iktlon was not so cheerfully re-
by members of the company.
been exacting to leave ear-
several days the men have
in expectation of being call-
it was not thought that the
ould remain in Greensbor
e so long as it will. The
b camp for Red Cross am-
,nies at,, Allentown, Pa,
and until more room
A new companies Gftn-
'or. yf-'
. -w.- Tnt . inn haws r
Asheville. The corn club (
Buncombe county are going f
a week of fun, instruction and
tion beginning July 23 and conk
through the 27th. Under the carS-it
County Agent E. B. Weaver, the boy
are going to encamn near ABbeville
possibly on the Biltmore estate. The
outing for the 260 members of Bun
combe county's corn clubs has been
made posible through the courtesy and
co-operation of the Asheville Board of
Trade, of which Mr. N. Bucker is sec
. etary.
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