l l I E I
mm
1.O0 a Ym- In Advanoe
'FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
VOL. XXVIII.
BUYERS ARE PAYING
l LIBERTY BONDS
MORE THAN SIXTY PER CENT OF
ISSUE HAS ALREADY BEEN
PAID.
ONLY 20 PER CENT 00E
Out of the Proceeds The overnment
Has Redeemed Certificate of Indebt
edrfess Financial Activities Break
Records.
Washington. More than sixty per
cent of the $2,000,000,000 liberty loan
already has been paid into the treas
ury. The treasury statement, the first
issued in twenty-four days, shows pay
ments June 30 on the liberty loan ac
count of $1,385,024,456.
Only twenty per cent, of the loan
or $400,000,000 was due June 30, the
two payments of two and eighteen per
per cent, respectively, being due June
15 and June 28. The amount thus vol
untarily paid Into the treasury by sub
scribers ahead of time totalled but
$15,000,000 under a round billion dol
lars. , ;
Out of the proceeds and other reve
nues the government has redeemed
treasury certificates of Indebtedness,
issued in anticipation of the loan,
amount to $626,000,000 June 30. The
balance was deposited in federal re
serve and national and state banks
and trust companies throughout the
country in accordance with Secretary
McAdoo's plan for distributing the de
posits among as many institutions as
possible. A total of $560,662,218 was
deposited in banks other than federal
reserve banks June 30.
The heavy payments on liberty loan
account ran up the government balance
of cash on hand June 30 to the record
figure of $1,064,086,250. This was
after the treasury department had re
deemed certificates of indebtedness
amounting to $626,000,000. The last
day of the fiscal year also ranked high
in ordinary revenue receipts, the total
being more than $20,000,000.
Hundreds of thousands who bought
so-called baby bonds, those of $50 to
$100 denomination, availed themselves
of the privilege of paying in full at
once.
GOVERNMENT WORKING
ON INSURANCE PLANS
Washlngtonj The federal govern
ment's plan for insuring officers and
men of the army, navy and marine
corps against death and injury while
in service, broadened into a complex
program which would provide gov
ernment allowances for families ol
soldiers and sailors, and the rehabili
tation and training of injured men
to fit them for making a livelihood
after the war.
The program was discussed at con
ferences among officials of the war,
navy, treasury, commerce and labor
departments, the labor committee of
the council of national defense and
the presidents and othler .high of
fleers of leading insurance compa-
nies of the United States.
Issuance of insurance policies from
$1,000 to $10,000 on officers and men
at ordinary peace time rates, the gov
ernment paying the extra cost, indem
nities for total or partial disability,
and administration of the entire
scheme by the government's war risk
insurance bureau, which is at pres
ent insuring officers and crews of
American merchant vessels, are
among the outstanding features of
the proposed program.
Three Young Ladies Drowned.
Mobile, Ala. Misses Gussie Riley,
Dora Nelson and Ethel Watodman
were drowned while bathing in a
river near Moss Point, Miss., ac
cording to advices received here. All
were members of prominent families
In that section. The bodies were re
covered. Luther Burbank l Seriously ill.
Santa Rosa, Cal. Luther Burbank,
noted horticulturist, is seriously 111
"at his home here from overwork and
a cold. He is 68 years old.
SUBMARINE IS SUNK
BY AMERICAN GUNNERS
Paris. An American steamer re
cently sank a large German subma
rine according to a dispatch to the
Temps from Havre.
While on a voyage from the United
States the steamer was attacked by
a submarine, and replying to Its Are,
sent thirty-five srells at the underwa
ter boat, which assumed a perpendic
ular position and disappeared beneath
the water.
BRIG. GEN. J.E. KUHN
V x , ,
A new portrait of Brig. Gen. Joseph
E. Kuhn, president of the Army War
College in Washington.
RUSSIAN SITUATION BETTER
GOVERNMENT FORCES CONTINUE
TO PATROL ALL PARTS
OF PETROGRAD.
Estimated Result of Two Days' Con
fusion in Russian Capital Special
Commission is Formed Patrol to
Watch All Automobiles.
London. A Reuter dispatch from
Petrograd says the number of killed
and wounded in the two days' disor
der there is estimated at about 500
The government controls the city
as completely as the bolshevik! ap
peared to control It.
The First machine gun regiment
which had its headquarters in the
villa of Mademoiselle Kahesinska, and
the men manning four armored cars
which buarded the entrance to the
villa, have submitted to the author
ity of the soldiers' and workingmen's
council.
Cossacks and other mounted troops
are patrolling the streets and all
thoroughfares are guarded by infan
try.
Particular attention was given to
automobiles. All over the city they
were subjected to scrutiny and any
suspects were arrested. One automo
bile attempted to dodge the patrols
It was caught and found to be occu
pied by persons who wered Istributing
anarchist handbills. The occupants
showed fight and were beated sound
ly by the Cossacks and then taken
into custody.
NEW CHANCELLOR UPHOLDS
GERMANY'S U-BOAT CAMPAIGN
Asserts That It is Lawful Measure,
Justifiably Adopted to Shorten
the War.
Conenharen. Dr. Michaelis, the
new German imperial chancellor, ,in
his address to the reichstag, declared
his adhesion to Germany's submarine
campaign, asserting it to be a lawful
measure, justifiably adopted for
shortening the war.
Dr. Michaelis opened his reichstag
speech with a hearty tribute to Dr
von Bethmann-Hollweg, the retiring
imperial chancellor, whose work, he
said, history would appreciate. The
chancellor declared that the war was
forced upon -unwilling Germany by the
Russian mobilization and that the
submarine warfare was also forced
upon Germany by Great Britain's Il
legal blockade starvation war.
The faint hope that America, at
the head of the neutrals, would check
Great Britain's Illegality was rain.
Germany's final attempt to avoid the
extremity by a peace offer failed and
the submarine campaign was adopted,
said the chancellor.
The submarines, the speaker contin
ued, had done all and more than had
been expected, and the false prophets
who had predicted the end of the
war at a definite time had done a dis
service to the fatherland.
SUFFRAGISTS SERVING IN
PRISONED PARDONED BY WILSON
Washington Sixteen women sent to
the workhouse for their part in the
suffragette demonstration at the white
house accepted pardons from Presi
dent Wilson and were released after
serving two days of their sixty day
terms.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1917.
AVIATION SERVICE
MEASURE ADOPTED
THE SENATE PASSES HOUSE BILL
WITHOUT AMENDMENT ON
RECORD VOTE.
640.U00.000 APPROPRIATED
Only Dispute In Upper House Was
Over Amendment to Strike out
Draft Clause Provides for About
22,000 Airplanes.
.
Washington. The House bill ap
propriating $640,000,000 for the avia
tion service was passed by the Sen
ate without amendment or a record
vote and with less than one hour's
discussion. It now goes to the Presi
dent. The Senate's only dispute, with
many members expressing a desire to
pass the bill immediately, was over
an amendment by Senator Hardwick,
of Georgia, to strike out a clause au
thorizing drafting of the men for the
aerial service. The amendment was
rejected sixty-seven to twelve after
Senators LaFollette and Gronna made
brief speeches opposing the draft.
Details for plans for expending the
huge sum appropriated have been
withheld, but it is known that it pro
vides for about 22,000 airplanes and
nearly 100,000 men.
The President is expected to sign
the bill Monday, and the work of
building one o fthe greatest air fleets
the world has seen will be pushed
with vigor. During the first year of
ficials hope to produce at least 3,500
machines, with a great increase the
next year. For the ftst few months,
virtually the entire attention will be
centered on construction of student
planes, and ' there has been talk of
bringing British and French aviation
student officers to the United States
for training.
Opposed the Draft. '
In rejecting the Hardwick amend
ment, the dozen senators voting to
strike out the draft clause were: Bo
rah, Broussand, Curtis, Gore, Gronna,
Hardwick, Kirby, LaFollette. MsKey
lar, Norris, Owen and Vardaman.
In a vigorous speech opposing the
draft clause, Senator LaFollette said
that any war prosecuted by democ
racy ought to be without compulsory
service.
"Democracy ought never enter a
war that it cannot prosecute with vol
unteers, he said, particularly object
Ing to compulsion for the extra haz
ardous air service.
OFFICERS TRAINING CAMP
PLANS ARE REVISED
Forts McPherson, Logan H. Roots, and
Riley Abandoned.
Washington. A complete revision
in the plans for location of the sec
ond officers' training camps to open
August 27, has been decided on by the
war department as a result of a re-in
spection of the sites previously chosen.
Under the new arrangement, there
will be nine camps instead of eight:
Fort McPherson. Ga.; Fort Logan H.
Roote, Ark., and Fort Riley, Kan., be
ing dropped from the list and Platts-
burg barracks, New York; Fort Nia
gara, New York; Fort Snelling, Minn.;
and Fort Sheridan, 111., added. The
Fort Myer, Vo... Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.,
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., Presidio
at San Francisco and Leon Springs,
Texas, designations remain nuchanged
and a reassignment of state personnel
among the various camps has been or
dered. Some of the locations originally or
dered are objectionable for various
reasons, said a report on the subject
transmitted to Secretary Baker by Ad
jutant General McCain. "Fort Mc
Pherson la already overcrowded and
fcaa poor facilities for training camp
work. Fort Logan H. Roots is decid
edly unsuitable and Fort Riley, Kan..
is objectionable because of the scat
tering of the building; furthermore
It Is to become a large cantonment."
ENGLI8H COAST AGAIN
RAIDED BY GERMAN AIRMEN
London. Another daylight raid, car
ried out over the east coast of England
resulted in the repulse of about twen
ty German airplanes after they had
dropped a number of bombs over
Felixstowe and Harwich.
An alarm was sounded in London,
but before the Germans could reach
any point near the city they were at
tacked heavily by defending squad
rons of aircraft, which speedily caus
ed the mto retreat.
MARION CLEVELAND
"f$r Vxf ' "i,:i'M
! ', v ' ' -- ff' ?'
Miss Marion Cleveland, youngest
daughter of the late President Cleve
land, is engaged to marry William
Stanley Dell of New York City.
ATTACKS CEASE
EFFORTS TO OVERCOME FRENCH
GAINS AT VERDUN HAVE
FAILED.
On the Russian Front General Korn
oloff's Army in East Galicia Is Stub
bornly Holding Back Reinforced
Austro-German Armies.
After having tried ineffectually to
overcome the French gains in the
Verdun sector between the eastern
edge of the Avocourt wood and Hill
304, the Germans have ceased their
costly enterprise and are now con
tenting themselves with throwing
shells into the positions which Gen
eral Petain's men forced them to
evacuate. Likewise, along the
Chemin-des-Dames the violent infan
try activity of the early week has
ceased and artillery duels Instead are
taking place.
The British and the Germans con
tinue their violent artillery duels in
northern Belgium and Field Marshal
Haig's forces are keeping up their
harassing patrol raid3 on numerous
sectors of the front. One of the most
successful of the enterprises was
carried out east of Monchy-le-
Preux in the Arras sector, in which
the British gained ground and took
prisoners.
On the Russian front. General
Korniloffi's army in East Galicia is
stubbornly holding back the rein
forced Austro-German armies, which
at various points are endeavoring to
wrest from them the positions re
cently won in the Halicz and Kalusz
sectors. In the latter region, near the
village or Novtca, tne enemy won a
vantage point from the Russians but
mediately afterwards, in a counter
attack lost it again. The Germans
are violently bombarding the Rus
sians south of Brzezany and near
Halicz.
Late reports from Petrograd are to
the effect that the disorders have
been quelled. In Tuesday's fighting
in the streets of Petrograd, six per
sons were killed and 238 wounded.
The weekly British admiralty state
ment shows that last week fourteen
British ships of more than 1,600 tons.
of under 1,600 tons and eight
fishing vessels were sunk by subma
rines or mines a slight increase In
tonnage over the previous week.
UNCLE SAM'S SOLDIERS
BEST FED IN EUROPE
American Training Camp In France
By the Aaeociated Press The busi
est of all the American troop depart
ments these days is the quartermas
ter, which Is working almost feverish
ly to perfect its system of supplying
the men with all the necessities. The
work has gone ahead no fast that the
quartermaster already has a three
months' supply of all foods within a
short distance of the camp, and a con
stant ten days' supply here. The
troops are still eating the dark French
bread which Is being paid for with
American flour, but within three days
bakeries will be established and white
bread will be baked here for the sol
diers. The Amerlaan army will then
be the only one in Europe eating
white brea?
SELECTIVE DRAFT
POT INTO EFFECT
VAST MILITRAY LOTTERY IS CON
DUCTED AT NATIONAL
CAPITOL.
10,500 NUMBERS DRAWN
Every Registered Man In Country Has
Been Given Definite Place In Lia
bility for Military Service 687,000
Called to the Colors.
Washington. Selective conscription
was put into effect when a national
lottery fixed the order of military lia
bility for 10,000000 young Americans
registered for service.
To accomplish the result 10,500 num
bers had to be drawn, one at a time,
a task which began in the morning
and lasted far into the night.
The lottery was held In the public
hearing room of the Senate office
building, with war department officials
in charge of the actual drawing and
with members of the Senate and
House military committee as wit
nesses. Through the day there were
a small crowd of spectators, tut alto
gether probably less than a thousand
persons saw any part of the process.
As a result of the drawing, every
registered man is given a definite place
in the liability for service list. Already
687,000 have been ordered to the colors
to fill to war strength the regular
army and national guard and to con
stitute the first Increment of the na
tional army.
To secure that total, 1,374,000 men
will be called for examination within
a few weeks, officials estimating that
two registrants must be called for ev
ery soldier accepted. These 1,374,000
will be taken from the head of the
liability list, every local furnishing a
fixed quota. "
The drawing was conducted with
ceremonies as democratic as the ideal
of citizenship it embodied.
It was shortly before 10 o'clock
when Secretary Baker, entrusted by
the President with the carrying out
of the draft law, rapped for order,
and on a small table stood the great
lottery jar .sealed with brown paper
and showing through its transparent
walls the heap of number-filled cap
sules that must be taken out one by
one. In front of the table a row of
army officers waited with the official
tally sheets before them. Down one
side of the room ran another table
where the two score press represen
tatives waited to send out the num
bers as they were read.
Secretary Baker briefly explained
the purpose of the drawing, then
stepped forward to be blindfolded and
draw the first number. Major Gen
eral Duval broke the seal and with a
long wooden spoon bearing a ribbon
of the national colors, vigorously stir
red the capsules.
The secretary reached into the jar,
picked up a capsule and handed it
to an announcer. It was number 258.
Then in quick succession other num
bers were drawn while camera and
motion picture machines recorded the
scene.
The only interruptions were the
frequent changes of tired announcers
and tabulators and the removal for
cleaning of the blackboards where
the result was publicly displayed as
each number came out. When a
group of 500 number has been writ
ten the first section of the board was
taken out to be photographed to es
tablish an absolute record, while
second section was submitted.
By the taws of chance, the serial
number one was drawn from the jar
as number 4,269 in the liability list.
while number 10,600, the top number J
among the capsules, came out numbe
233. The serial 13. fabled bearer ol
itl luck, was drawn In the 7,890th placO
Registrants will receive no officir
nrnri) rvf Ihalr nvAmr nt lUKIIItv imf
their local board summon them
examination after official record
the drawing have been transmitted
ed
them by mail.
WHY NORTHERN TROOPS
.V
WILL TRAIN IN SOUTH
Washington. In response to pro-
teats against training northern na
tional guardsmen in southern states,
a letter from Secretary Baker said
the arrangement had been made for cli
matic reasons and that the guardsmen
probably cannot be sent to France be
fore cold weather. He said It was
planned to send divisions of the
guardsmen to France, probably during
the winter ,as soon as they are
trained and tonnage Is available.
NO. 4
NUMBER ftRE KILLED
III THREE ACCIDENTS
ONE RAILROAD WRECK AND TWO
AUTOS HIT AT CROSSINGS
BY TRAINS.
MANY PERSONS ARE INJURED
Train Wrecked Near Charlotte Auto
Struck by Train at Smithfield and
Another at Raleigh.
Raleigh. Two men and one woman
were killed and two other women seri
ously if not fatally injured, when Sea
board train No. 34 crashed into their
automobile on a crossing at Method, a
station about three miles west of Ral
eigh. The dear are:
H. K. Harris, Raleigh; E. N. Elam.
Raleigh, and Miss Alice Harris, For
estville. Those injured are Miss Eliz
abeth Harris of Raleigh and Miss Lena
Luther of Fayetteville, N. C. J
According to an eye-witness, the
automobile wtih curtains down stop
ped directly across the Seaboard track.
The train running fifty miles an hour
splintered the car and scattered the"
occupants, badly mangled, along the
track for a distance of sixty yards.
Three Killed at Smithfield.
Smithfield. A horrible accident oc
curred in front of the Smithfield cot
ton mill when No. 83, the Florida Spe
cial of the Atlantic Coast Line, smash
ed Into an automobile driven by J. G.
Greenlee, instantly killing v'JreenIee
and his son Dewey aged about 18, and ,
fatally injuring Ray Crump, 18 years
old, son of E. F. Crump, young Crump
dying about five hours after the acci
dent. Greenlee and son boarded at
the hotel and young Crump drove the
car after them to go to worn in the
mill, where J. G. Greenlee was super
intendent and young Greenlee was em
ployed. Mr. Grenlee bought his machine laat
week and was not familiar with It.
The car choked on the track fifty
yards in front of the train, which
was approaching so fast none of the
occupants of the cear could escape.
Greenlee came here from Fayette-
ville last October as superintendent of
a mill. He has a wife and five chil
dren at Fayetteville.
Two Killed In Wreck.
Charlotte. Fireman Ernest Kistler
of Barber's Junction was killed and
Engineer J. C. Lanyce, of this city,
badly injured at Caldwell's Station, fif
teen miles from here, when Southern
passenger train No. 26, Charlotte to
Winston-Salem, was completely over
..amed, the engine and three cars be
ing hurled over an embankment.
J. E. Walker, colored passenger,
head of printing department Straight
University of New Orleans, was also
killed.
Dr. Adam Fisher, of this city, and
Walter Sloan, of Statesville, were seri
ously injured and other occupants of
the first-class coach were shaken and
shocked to such an extent that medical
aid was necessary.
J. Choate mail clerk, was badly
bruised on hips and legs.
Eleven Spikes Removed.
Washington. Removal of eleven
spikes by unknown persons caused
the wreck of Southern Railway pas
senger train No. 26 at Caldwell's Sta
tion, N. C, with the loss of two lives.
Paper Mill Near Wilmington.
Wilmington. Erection at an early
date of a giant paper mill on Smith's
creek, just outside the city limits,
is proposed by the North State Pulp
and Paper company, having offices in
the Murchison National Bank build
ing. If the present plans materialize
and It is highly probable that they
M'K a plant of sufficient proporttens
f Jibe erected to provide for a week-
""yoll of $13,000 with $3,000 to be
d weekly for wood. If estab
plant will be on a site late
d by the city, county Tlde
tr Company and business
Vblch they propose develop-
suburban manufacturing
H. i;rocKer is presmeai
y and Mr. W. K. Worth
id treasurer.
ea of 44 Counties.
rge N. Lamb or jr
lit".Vv r Forestry Service
5
Starts Forester J. S. Holmes, of C," I
HllL are on their home stretch il
lag stock of thd timber reeourcl U
45 counties, embracing Pied. 4 j
North Carolina. . Union county V-v-H
Just been completed and Moore wilt
be subjected to the timber inventory.
Anson, Stanly, Montgomery and Rich
mond are the counites In the un
touched territory. A 'bulletin will be
published affording an estiiaate of the
timber In the various counties.