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VOL. XXVIII.
PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1917
NO. 9.
YEARS WAF! FUND TO
BE S2IJ11I1I1
TREASURY DEPARTMENT ASKS
THAT TWO BILLION BE AD
DED TO TOTAL.
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CORPORAL J. N. HALL
FRANK E. COMPTON
O.S. IKES ANOTHER
LOAN TO THE SLAVS
TO DRIVE RUM OUT
OF MOORE COUNTY
ON DRAFT MEASURE
SOME NEW RULINGS
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SEEKING LIBERAL MARGIN
Present Indications Are That $19,000,
000,000 Will Meet Expenses of Con
flict During First Year. Extra
Amount is Wanted For Emergencies.
Washington. Two billion dollars
may be added to the total of bonds to
be authorized at the present session
of Congress, making a total approxi
mately $21,000,000,000 available to the
government during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1918.
Democratic Leader Kitchln said
that estimates submitted to him by
the treasury department made it ap
pear that the additional authorization
probably would be necessary. Secre
tary McAdoo will be asked to explain
the situation when he appears before
the ways and means committee to dis
cuss the forthcoming administration
$11,538,945,460 bond and certificate
bill.
Present indications, according to
Mr. Kitchln, are that $19,000,000,000
will meet the expenses of the fiscal
year, but it is thought best to have a
$2,000,000,000 margin for emergen,
cies. He said "this estimate covers
about $7,000,000,000 for loans to the
allies, $3,000,000,000 of which already
has been provided; $1,300,000,000 for
current expenses, exclusive of war,
leaving about $10,000,000,000 for war
expenses. Included in the war esti
mate is $176,000,000 for the new in
surance bill and $1,000,000,000 for the
shipping board.
Methods of Raising Money.
The $21,000,000,000 would be raised
as follows:
Bonds for allies loans $7,000,000',
000; pending revenue bill $3,000,000,
000; war certificates $4,000,000,000;
bonds for domestic purposes already
authorized $2,000,000,000; proposed
new bonds $2,000,000,0000; war sav
ings certificates $2,000,000,000 and
regular revenue $1,200,000,000.
Approximately $11,000,000,000 of
the foregoing amounts are Included in
the bond and certificate bill which
the ways and means committee today
began to consider. The bill would
authorize $7,000,000,000 for allied
loans, $3,000,000,000 to be used in re
funding 3 1-2 per cent bonds already
authorized; $2,000,000,000 in war cer
tificates and $2,000,000,000 in war
savings certificates. It also contains
a re-authorization provision for $2,
000,000,000 in war certificates and
would provide for taking over other
previously authorized bonds.
SENDING MAIL TO SOLDIERS
IN NATIONAL ARMY CAMPS.
How Letters Should Be Addressed to
Give Boys Best Service.
Washington Before long several
thousand young men will be in the
various cantonment camps of the Na
tional army, and their relatives and
other friends will wish to write to
them. In order to expedite the de
livery of their mail and give the boys
the best service possible, the post
office officials instruct their corres
pondents, if they know in advance
the company and regiment to which
the soldier is assigned, to address
mail according to this samDle:
PRIVATE JOHN JONES,
A Company, First Infantry,
Camp Dodge, Iowa.
If the company and regiment aro
not known, the mail should be ad
dressed thus:
PRIVATE JOHN JONES,
of Minnesota,
Camp Dodge, Iowa.
When all troops are organized the
mail for each man will be distributed
direct to his company and regiment.
Until then It will be delivered through
his state section.
ASK WITHDRAWAL OF ALL
NEGRO TROOPS IN TEXAS.
Washington. A. petition asking
withdrawal of all negro troops from
Texas, signed by all the membera of
the Texas delegation in Congress, was
presented at the whtie house by Sen
ator Sheppard and laid before Presi
dent Wilson. White house officials
did not indicate what action might
be expected from the President. An
official report to Secretary Baker
said that the situation at Houston
wax normal.
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Corporal James Normal Hall of Col
fax, la., member of the Lafayette fly
ing squadron, who is now in Soissons
hospital after a single-handed battle
with eight German warplanes.
41ST DIVISION TO CAMP GREENE
ARE TO REPLACE NEW ENGLAND
TROOPS OFFICERS EXPECT
ED TO ARRIVE SOON.
Between 30,000 and 40,000 Soldiers to
Train at Charlotte Men Coming
From Washington, Oregon, Wyom
ing and Montana.
Washington. The Forty-first nation
al guard division, comprising troops
from Washington, Oregon, Montana,
Idaho and Wyoming, has been ordered
to train at Camp Greene, Charlotte,
N. C, and Camp Fremont at Palo Al
to has been abandoned because the
California state health authorities
have decided that a latarine sewerage
system such as the war department
proposed would be Injurious to the
health of the community.
Secretary Baker, announcing the
change, said that the war department
could not see its way clear to spend
half a million dollars for such a sew
erage system as the state health
authorities thought necessary in a tem
porary camp. Decision to transfer
the division to Camp Greene caused
much speculation as to the possibility
that the troops would be sent to
France at an early date. No confirma
tion of the report could be obtained in
any official quarter, however.
"It would mean a month's delay to
build a water carried . sewer system
and the camp at Charlotte is now prac
tically ready. The transfer of the di
vision to Charlotte, Secretarly Baker
explained, would make it possible to
get the division under training with
out delay and bring it 2,500 miles
closer to its point of embarkation.
Reports that the Forty-first division
might soon follow the Twenty-sixth
and Forty-second divisions to France
apparently we founded on the' fact
that the far west is not strongly rep
resented in the Forty-second or "Rain
bow" division and the Twenty-sixth
is composed entirely of New England
troops. The Twenty-sixth and the Forty-second
are in process of concentra
tion and both probably will be ready
to go as soon as shipping is available.
SITUATION IN RUSSIA
GROWS ALARMING
Washington. Russia's critical inter
nal situation, aggravated by the new
German drive against Riga threaten
ing the capital, is watched by officials
here with grave concern. It became
known that official advices are closely
in accord with press dispatches de
scribing grave political conditions.
The outcome of the forthcoming
extraordinary national council to be
held in Moscow is awaited here with
interest scarcely less keen than in
Russia itself. The immediate fate of
Russia, it is felt, depends upon it.
Out of the great gathering, in
which the conservative elements of
all sorts are expected to unite in an
effort to compel the provisional gov
ernment to throw off the socialistic,
control of the soldiers' and workmen's
council, one of two results is expected:
"The formation of a strong central
ized government capable of rapidly
reorganizing the army and resuming
the offensive against the central pow
ers or open civil strife."
SHOULD NOT FORCE WIFE TO
WORK TO SUPPORT SELF
AND CHILDREN.
WILSON MODIFIES RULES
Clears Up Contested Points. Orders
For Mobilization of First Increment
, Changed and Experienced Men Will
Be Taken First.
Washington. At the direct sugges
tion of President Wilson, , Provost
Marshal General Crowder telephoned
to all governors a supplemental ex
planation of regulations governing the
status of merried men under the draft
law. No change in regulation is
made, and the purpose of the state
ment is to clear up misunderstand
ings. In a letter to Secretary Baker,
quoted by General Crowder, President
Wilson states his opinion that the
regulation directing local boards "to
establish the fact of dependents in
addition to the fact of marriage ought
not to be abrogated." This leaves
the regulations as they are and the
supplementary statement is designed
merely to make the application of the
rules uniform.
While the statement regarding mar
ried men was in preparation orders
were issued changing entirely the
mobilization arrangements previously
made. Congestion of rail traffic and
the necessity of making better pro
vision for receiving the men at the
cantonments dictated the changes.
Under the new orders, five per cent
of the white men, preferably those
with military experience, from each
local area, will be started forward to
the camps September 5 instead of
thirty per cent. They will go in five
daily detachments of equal size and
form skeleton company organization
and set up a going concern into which
the remander of the total quota can
be absorbed without confusion as they
reach the contonments.
The next forty per cent of the quota
will go forward September 19, when
the second thirty per cent originally
was scheduled to go; a second forty
per cent will go forward October 3
instead of the third thirty per cent
and the remaining fifteen per cent
will be called up as soon thereafter as
practicable.
Local boards are directed to disre
gard order of liability numbers to
some extent in selecting the first five
per cent as men of experience such as
cooks and former soldiers are desired
t that time. Warning is given
against getting into this levy by reas
on of his experience, any man who
might get otherwise have been includ
ed in the first increment of the dis
trict at all.
GREAT VICTORY CROWNS
ITALY'S NEW OFFENSIVE
With Austrian Line Broken Italians
Pursue Enemy.
The battle along the Isonzo has de
veloped further brilliant successes for
the Italians, who it is now plain are
making one of their greatest efforts of
the war thus far.
General Cadorna's men. who at the
beginning of the offensive effected a
new crossing of the river north of Go
rizia, at a point where the Austrlans
believed such a feat was impossible,
have won another spectacular victory
by scaling Monte Sano, 2,245 feet high
and placing their flag there.
Farther south, on the Carso, fight
ing continues violently and incessant
ly. Austrian efforts to win back lost
positions were defeated.
New gains have been made by the
French in the Verdun front, rounding
out the victory won in the offensive
begun on Monday. The French ad
vanced last night north of Hill 304,
Paris announces, and captured three
fortified forts near Bethincourt, the
official German statement however,
says French attacks between Malan
court and Bethincourt, as well as near
Hill 304, east of the Meuse, were re
pulsed. COULDN'T LOCATE LAND
PEARY SAYS HE FOUND.
Sydney, N. S Donald B. Mac
Mlllan's Arctic expedition arrived
here after four years spent In. the
polar regions. MacMillan, who was
one of Rear Admiral Peary's lieuten
ants on his successful dash for the
North pole, confirmed dispatches
that there was no Crockerland such
as has been reported by Peary.
Peary's mistake was due to a mirage
so real that the MacMillan party had
been deceived by it for four days.
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Frank E. Compton of Chicago and
Glencoe is engaged to marry Mrs. An
nie Howe Cochran, a niece of President
Wilson. Mr. Compton is a widower
and Mrs. Cothran was divorced some
time ago.
MISSION IS WARMLY GREETED
AT WASHINGTON MOST IMPORT
ANT PROBLEM FACED 18 DIS
POSITION OF SHIPS.
Mission Here to Greet American As
Brother Nation Fighting For a Com
mon Cause How Best Two Nations
Can Co-operate.
Washington. Japan's mission to
the United States with a message of
congratulation and appreciation to
President Wilson from the emperor
and people of Japan, was welcomed to
Washington with warmth and enthu
siasm by the public with the highest
mark of courtesy by the government.
Passing through streets -thronged
with people, past long lines of school
children dressed in white with the red
sun of Japan on the fronts of their
gowns, the distinguished visitors were
escorted by cavalry to the residence
of Perry Belmont, where they will be
the guests of the government during
their stay. They will make the formal
calls which must precede the official
conferences being arranged for them,
and they they will dine with the Pres
ident. Viscount Ishii, the special embassa
dor, spoke to the newspaper corre
spondents of his gratification at the
welcome given the mission here, at
Honolulu, San Francisco and at all
stages of its journey. He said:
We Are All Delighted.
"To say I am pleased to be in
Washington would be too convention
al. I am delighted we are all de
lighted with the cordial reception.
"In speaking to the gentlemen of a
newspaper press which wields such
enormous power in this great country,
I am well aware that purely conven
tional utterances is worse than noth
ing. But at the same time, what can
I say? Obviously it will be improper
to anticipate the message I carry from
the emperor of Japan to your great
President.
"My last visit to America was Just
ten years ago. Since then many
things have changed and now that
Japan and America are brothers 'in
arms fighting for a great common
cause I have every hope and confi
dence in success, victory and for per
manently continued international
unity."
The mission, it Is authoritatively ex
plained, has not come here on a com
mercialy or political errand, but to
greet the United States as a brother
nation fighting for a common end to
decide after a consultation how best
the two nations can co-operate both
in an economic and military sense, in
carrying on the war.
Among the most imoprtant prob
lems is that of the disposition of Japa
nese shipping, with the view to mak
ing it of the greatest assistance in the
conduct of the war.
ITALIAN DRIVE CONTINUES
ON OTHER BATTLE FRONTS.
The great offensive of the Italians
from the region of Tolmino to the
head of the Adriatic sea is going on
despite the stubborn resistance of tha
Austrians and the difficulty of the
terrain.
AMERICA REAFFIRMS FAITH IN
FUTURE OF NEW RUSSIAN
DEMOCRACY.
LANSING IS NOW OPTIMISTIC
Secretary of State Makes Public Note
Renewing Wilson's Sympathy and
Confidence. Money for Supplies
and Equipment.
Washington. The United States re
affirmed its faith in the new Russian
democracy and gave concrete evidence
of its confidence by loaning another
hundred million dollars to the provi
sional government.
Announcement of the loan came
from the treasury soon after Secre
tary Lansing at the state department
had denied formally that reports from
Russia were of an unfavorable nature
and declared that on the contrary con
fidential dispatches to the government
were the basis for his belief that the
administration at Petrograd was
strengthening its position.
"I regard, the government of Rus
sia as stronger today than it has been
for a month," Mr. Lansing said. "I
mean in general, both from political
and military points of view. This opin
ion is based upon reports more or less
confidential that we have been get
ting." So far as the military situation is
concerned the secretary said he felt
little concern over the advance upon
Riga by the Germans recalling that
the place had been evacuated five
times during the war. Major General
Scott, chief of staff, who wa3 a mem
ber of the Root commission, agreed
that the capture of Riga would not
be an important strategical loss. A
German advance upon Petrograd from
Riga would be followed by removal of
the seat of government to Mobcow,
seat of the conservatives upon whom
the allies are counting to maintain a
firm republican government and the
city looked upon by million of Rus
sians as the natural capital of their
country.
In addition to his statement Secre
tary Lansing made public a note he
had just sent to Ambassador Bakmet
eff replying to a message of assurance
from Foreign Minister Tereschtenko.
NEGRO TROOPS WHO KILLED
MANY CITIZENS DISARMED.
Houston, Texas. Negro soldiers of
the Twenty-fourth infantry, who shot
up the streets of Houston, were be
ing entrained to be removed to Colum
bus, N. M.
Capt. L. S. Snow, commanding the
battalion, said that the action of the
negroes was "practically mutiny."
A scene probably unique in the an
nals of the United States army was
enacted at Camp Logan during the
afternoon when the six hundred sol
diers of the battalion of negro Infan
try were disarmed.
Flanked by a full bataallon of the
Nineteenth infantry under Col. Mil
lard F. Waltz and three companies of
the coast artillery from Fort Crock
ett, the negro soldiers were marched
four abreast to the parade grounds
where their arms were stacked. Army
trucks then loaded the rifles and am
munition and conveyed them to the
camp storehouse, where they were
placed under heavy guard.
FIFTY-THREE CASES OF
PARALYSIS REPORTED
Richmond, Va. Fifty-three cases of
infantile paralysis have been reported
to the state health department during
August, according to figures secured
from Dr. Ennoid G. Williams, state
health . commissioner. During July
there were forty-eight cases making a
total of 101 cases of the disease since
the outbreak of the epidemic in the
valley of Virginia. While the disease
has not been entirely confined to the
valley and northwestern 1 NCf tne
state, It is believed by i alth
authorities that the infe fadl-
aiing irom ttocMiisuiui:
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taken the lead in numbed
EARLY REGULATION
MEAT INDUSTRY
Washington Early regu'i
mpat industry was nredi.-
ing the departure of HerbeHITicr,
the food administrator, for Ch'-ago to
confer with meat packers and with
federal trade commission representa
tives who are investigating packing
methods. Government supervision of
meat packing and distributing con
cerns, with the institution of a licens
ing system, may be the next move ei
the food administration.
FOOD ADMINISTRATOR PAGE OUT.
LINES PURPOSES OF COUNCIL
OF DEFENSE.
SENT OUT TO ALL COUNTIES
Folder Used By Moore Council la Sent
Out All Over State. Conserve All
Food.
Raleigh. Food Administrator Henry
A. Page, of Aberdeen, chairman - oC
the North Carolina Council of De
fense, has put into the memorandum
of the purposes of the Council, a
clause declaring "it is the special pur
pose of the Moore County Council of
Defense and the Committee on Law
Enforcement to drive liquor from tha
county." The aims and purposes of
the Moore County Council have been
tabulated and distributed throughout
the Sand Hills, and Secretary W. S.
Wilson, of the State Council, thought
them so good and so clear in their
definition of the purposes of both state
and county councils that he mailed
copies to every county council In the
state.
The Moore County Council is com
posed of Chairman Page, H. P. Mc
Pherson, Cameron; J. M. Brown,
Hemp; H. F. eawell, Carthage; Dr.
M. E. Street, Glendon; J. R. McQueen,
Pinehurst, and J. N. Powell," of South
ern Pines.
The folder Issued by the Council
says: "Our actions now, and our atti
tude toward our country's need will
determine what shall be recorded of
us, whether of praise and appreciation
forever, or ignomy and shame. Let
us not forget that we are now making
the history of our home county. Al
ready, Borne of our citizens have laid
down their affairs and consecrated
themselves to the service of our home
land; some are just ready to step out
from General Pershing's training camp
into the fighting trenches; some have
left their Moore county homes and ar
training with the National Guard for
early service at the front; others are
hearing the call for re-enforcement
and are busy arranging their affairs to
answer that call."
Praises Exemption Boards.
Of the Moore county exemption
board the folder says:
"The three citizens who have long
ago throw their own private busi
ness over and given themselves to the
high duty of service on the board of
exemption should receive, as their ser
vice merits, the appreciation, appro
bation and sincere gratitude of every
Moor.e county man. Let us sustain
them and support them in their labors,
and express our appreciation of their
sacrifice and service."
Continuing, the memorandum ex-,
plains , that the business aid commit
tee will attend to the business inter
ests of any and every man who finds it
necessary to leave home, who has no
near relative to look after his affairs.
"Or, if you prefer the committee to
some relative or friend, it will be glad
represent you," it says, "rather than
to do so. They will take charge of
property for you and conserve it while
you are away; they will answer any
business demands that may be made
on you; handle suits at law, if you
have them, and represent you and take
care of your interests during your ab
sence." Committees on information and his
tory, on agriculture and food and on '
law enforcement have been named and
are ready to continue the program ot
work.
Away With the Rum Evil.
"It seems to be true that there is a
tendency to lower all standards of
conduct during war-time," says the
folder. "It is the purpose of this
committee, composed of forty-seven of
the leading citizens of the - county,
with the assistance of the members of
the county council to so organize and
agitate throughout the county that
respect for law shall be supreme and
good order prevail everywhere.
"It is the special purpose of the
council of defense and the committee
on law enforcement to drive liquor
from the county."
Will Speak to Farmer.
Raleigh. Governor T. W. Bickett,
who has shown interest in the agricul
tural development of the state and
especially in increased food produc
tion and conservation during the pers
ent emergency, has won the sobriquet.
"Agricultural Governor," has promised
to deliver an address at the farmers
and farm women's convention which
will be held at the A. & E. College
the 28-30th inst. The convention has
secured a very noticeable lit of pub
lic speakers and lecturers.