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REIDSVILLE, N. C TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1917
ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FBTDAYS
VOLUME XXX No. 18.
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WOUNDED
A EUROPEAN BATTLE
CHATHAM MAN IN VIMY BATTLE
LIEUTENANT PAN N ILL TELLS
OF FIGHT IN WHICH HE WAS
WOUNDED AND OF THE AMERI
CAN LEGION.
OUR FLAG
GIVES OUT INTERESTING STORV
The "Lost Legion" of Americana in
the Canadian army got its chance at
Vimy rfUge and made good. A lot of
the fellows will never tell about it be
cause some of the Gorman machine
guns held out to the last and peppered
the advancing troops. But Lieutenant
A. N. Paanill, of Chatham, Va., de
soeendent of President Zachary Tay
lor and of Confederate General Jas.
E. B. Stewart, told it with enthusiasm
bays a London dispatch.
Pannill is convalescing from a shrap
nel wound in his left arm. Here is his
fctory told with occassional reference
to a imap of V imy ridge that was
ameared with rain and mud the same
map that he carried over with him:
"Our batallion, the 38th, contained
a-bout 10 per cent Americans. The
Legion has gone to reinforce other
batallions so that there is no all Amer
ican force remaining. We were in the
re-serve trenches, sliglhtly back from
the first line, when the time came, t
didnt notice the tine slipping by. I
was busy issuing rum to the men and
everyone was taking a last look at his
tools.
"There was just one danger about
waiting for the zero hour.of 5:30. Fritz
had been throwing over quite a heavy
load of stuff every morning and we
waited in the shallow reserve trenches
without dugouts. We kept as low as
we could, while the whiz-bangs came
over whazz-bum! whizz-buiffl ! some
plunked tin to the mud harmless .
Others gave us .a few casualties while
we crouched.
"Down to my left was Lieutenant
Frank E. Hinda of Minneapolis a
former teleprapheri " He was hit and
died of his wounds. He used to be in
the 19th company Volunteer signal
corps In the Philippines. Ahead of us
were some of the 78th batallion in the
lirst line. They were to take the
iirst German line in our sector; we
were 'to take the second and the com
pany behind us the third.
"The artillery strife was the most
dazzling thing I ever witnessed. I look
ed behind me and saw rows of guns
go off, each in turn, yet so fast that
the flashes seemed like a tooth-edged
iibbon of flame.
"The signal to advance was the ex
plosion of a mine down on our left.
It was not so terribly loud; the ground
trembled and a big flame shot up
but I was surprised by the mildness
of the notss.
"I stood up and waved imy hand
and said 'Come on fellows:' Over we
went. We walked ahead. It was no
Uf e hurrying. The guns played on the
German first line for about three min
utes, giving our first wave a chance
to get up there and drop in the min
ute the shelling lifted to prevent the
Germans frou bringing up their ma
chine guns from the dugouts.
"The first wave took their trench
and we passed through them, follow
inig the barrage, to take the second
ing. We were losing some men from
our own shells, but only a small per
centage. We always figure on a num
ber of defective shells in a big strife.
Our shrapnel was breaking over our
WILL DRAFT ALL IN
21 10 30, INCL
USIV
E
The following named young men
lrcm Rockingham county will fight
under "Old Glory," they having al
ready entered the officers' training
camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.:
P. HOLT BURTON, Reidsville,
N. R. CARTER, Ruftin,
JNO. M. MOOREFIELD, Reids
LONG DEADLOCK OVER AGE LIM
IT IS FINALLY BROKEN BY CON
FEREES ROOSEVELT GIVEN
AUTHORITY TO RECRUIT VOLUNTEERS.
y ARE TO BE EXEMPTED
ville.
ville.
WM. J. PENN, Reidsville.
F. REID RAV, Spray.
JNO. Y. STOKES, JR., Reids
DAVID M.' MORRISON, Reids
ville.
jor Harripson's thigh tiad been smash
td by a chunk of high-explosive shell
They had put him in a shell hole
where h" was comparative safe
W hen the job was finished ! wnt bn.rk
to report, being now in comma d On
the wav I got hit with a pnje of
shrapnel.
"That was aoout C a. :m. Monday.
At 3 Tuesday afternoon. I was relieved
to go to a hospital.
"A great many of our dead we.re
flittered everyway as i caru.v back.
In one shell hole I saw four or five
w Mo had crawled then- wounded ami
d:ea. Their heads hil sugt'ed under
the waters and "otU.fr- wounded fel
lows kept away from thorn One dead
it an was split wide open, apparently
having been hit sqarel.- by a sholl."
Pannill went to the n i itn! before
the casuallty lists csutw out lint oth
ers "of the legion have, aeard . that t?or
reant Abe Walters, formerly of the
i2nd U, S. infantry was killed and
private P. D. Gossan of r Council
Bluffs. Iowa, seriously .vcunded.
Pannill was formerly manager of
the General Acoustic company, in
Pittsburg. He enliste in Toronto. Ar
riving In London he received a mes
sage from his mother, Mrs. Augusta
Pannill, of Chatham, - Virginia, -.''who
had been notified by the war oilic?
of his wound. He told her he wasn't
fighting. Pannill went to school in
Martinsville, Va.
LLOYD GEORGE NOW OPTIMISTIC
The situation in Russia, the allied
hid3, continually, but that's all right ; offensive la the west, the entente ex
England is lineeting a success in her
anti-U-boat campaign.
There is no ground for fear of star
vation in Great Britain.
In 1918 If present plans materialize
the country will be self-supporting .
These, in substance, were the out
standing statements- made by Premier
Lloyd George in a speech at the sec
ret session of Parliament,
So encouraging was the premier's
n piles to the questions propounded
at the secret session principally by
Colonel Winston Churchhill and so de
void of danger to the public welfare
were these replies that Premier As
quith suggested that there was no
reed of secrecy and urged that the
greater part of the prime minister's
speech be piiblished
for shrapnel, because It throws for
-: ward.
"The trip over No Man's Land is
comparatively safe during an attack,
because our fire Is on their trenches
while theirs is directed at ours. We
could see same of our staff' as it
Whizzed by on a flat trajectory just
a gold blur and hear the friction in
the air
"We took the second line without
much of a fight. The Boches came run
ning up out of the dugouts In swarms
holding his hands shoulder high shak
ing with nerves and calling 'Mercy
.Kamerad! Mercy, Kamerad ! '
"They emptied their pockets, trying
to give us presents, pipes, knives, but
tons, watches. One Amercican corporal
eame running to me in a traverse and
aked 'Seen any Fritzes yet?' He held
sis bayonet ready, but hadn't found
any of the enemy where his bunch
went in.
"Our prisoners were mostly mem
bers of the 11th Bavarian regiment.
Their officers had ducked back along
the communication trench.
"With 30 or 40 men I went ahead
to establish that strong point to get
it done 60 In case our third wave
ihculd have trouble In taking the third
lies. 'Justaswe got started digging
a runner cane up with word that Ma-
podition In Maceodnla and the strength
.it the United States as a belligerent
were among the subjects discussed
at the secret session in regard to the
U-boat menace and the food problem.
In answer to inquiries regarding ship
ping losses the premier gave a list
of sinkings since last August. He
touched upon the internal situation in
Austria and as the entente casualties
at the front, said they compared fav
orably with the enemy losses .
Devised to Photograph Rather Than to
Kill; Fine For Practice.
"Camera" rifles devised to photo
graph rather than kill are being used
by army and navy aviation gunners in
training. With them the flying corps
officers are developing deadly accuracy
in gunnery. .'-.'-.-'
The machine operator and observer.
the latter equipped with the camera,
ire pent up in squadrou formations di
vided into hostile and defensive units.
After the laiMe the fi'ws re exam
ined, nml the iiin;i!r "killed" Is re
vealed o;i the films. Wherever the neg
ative develop blank the "shot" is
ueHintcd as a miss, but where the pho
tograph shows the machine or opera
tor a hit ia allowed.
The long deadlock of Senate and
House conferees on the selective draft
military bill was broken with agree
ment on a compromise measure under
which a great army wouId be raised
by selective conscription of men from
21 to 30 years of age, inclusive. '?
The conference report is expected
to be approved by both Senate and
Houe in a few days, and within two
weeks after the President has affixed
his signature registration of those eli
gible for conscription will be under
vay throughout the country. The
war department has erected ' a vast
and intricate war machine for assign
ing and organizing the conscription.
They will be assembled at training
camps in September.
The compromise bill is understood
to be generally satisfactory to the
administration and to the army gen
eral staff.
The most Important change made in
Congress was in the age limits,' fixed
by the staff at 19 and 25, inclusive.
The Senate made them 21 to 27, and
the House 21 to 40. The ages named
-'n the conference agreement nnakes
(he drart applicable to all male voters
under 31.
With the Roosevelt's proposal, tne
conferees also threw out a Senate
amendment under which three regi
ments of volunteers could have been
enlisted for service on the Mexican
border.
The section dealing with, exemptions
from draft was written in part by the
conference committee, and provision
was made for hearing in exemption
applications before local civil tribunals
with the fight to appeal to second
tribunal and finally to the President
Republicans in the Senate who have
avored giving Colonel Roosevelt au
thority to raise and take American
troops to France, declared that an
effort would be made on the floor to
have the Senate Insist on the retention
of this feature. The general expecta
tion, however, is that the inference
decision will prevail.
The prohibition provision as agreed
o exclude liquor, beer and wines from
any military post, but does not forbid
selling or giving these beverages to
boldiers except when In uniform.
The conferees put Into the bill an
amendment giving the President pow
er to organize and equip for each in
fantry and cavalry brigade three ma
chine gun companies, and for each di
vision of these services, four machine
gun companies in addition to those
comprised in each organization of
these units. He also was given au
thority to organize one armored motor
car machine gun company for each di
vision. Exemptions form the selective draft
were left virtually as originally sug
gested by the general staff. These
absolutely exempt include officers ?f
the United States and any State or
territory; ministers, students of recog
nized divinity or theological scnools
and imembers of "any well recognized
rel-jjiou? sect or organization at pres
ent orgnaized whose 'existing cr?ed'
fcrWds participation In war" The
atl. class are not etenipt from non
combatant service ;
:p addition, the President is author
ized to exc'.'.idc T -Ik,: '",,' from -:r. ::
tflf .'following: County aid munition
( fficer.? custum hous clurus; poi.'i.l .
employes, workmen m navy yards or
arsenals or armories; others in the
f deral goernment's '"iip'ii w hom the.
f nsident may dcsUt-nte; pilots anil
mariners actually employed in sea ser
vice ; "persons engaged in Industries.
i' eluding agriculture, fjin 1 to be :t-'
. essarf to the maintenance of the mil ;
fl arv pfitahliahmont ,ir flirt oft'ofitK-n !
operation of the militatr forces or the
maintenance of national interest dur
ing the emergency: ' those bavins;
ir?on3 dependent upoi tne-n f"r sup
port ; and those found 'O be physically
ct imorally deficient.
THE U BOAT MENACE
IS GREArWAR CRISIS
ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE CON
TRARY HAS PROVED PREMA
TURE GERMANY MAY SEND
SUBMARINES TO OUR SHORES
AND ENDANGER TRAFFIC.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE
Displacing the telegraph, the tel
ephone is to be used for dispatching
Southern Railway system between
Washington and Atlanta, 649 miles.
The little town of Andrews In
Cherokee county, In four days enlist
ed 87 men far a troop of cavalry. Of
; these 76 paused physical examination.
L IS NOT VET
The menace of the German subma
rine grows more serious daily. It has
now developed into the crisis of the
conflict. Unless some means are found
within the next three months of com
bating or circumventing it the cause
of the allies will become imperiled,
U boats are performing ou a grand
scale what is equivalent in land op
erations to cutting an enemy's lines of
communication and supply in the rear.
Military history shows that, while this
strategy is not necessarily fatal, It In
volves grave danger and requires rad
ical realignment.
So far England, France and Italy are
the sufferers, but if submarine warfare
develops in the next six months as rap
idly as It has in the past six months
then the United States If certain to
feel its effects. The range of Its ac
tivities can be extended from the pres
ent limited Eoues around England and
in the Mediterranean to the American
coast This possibility is causing con
cern to our own naval authorities.
Secretary Lane s warning on the
gravity of the situation was not lightly
uttered nor without reasons.
: Many Suggestions Offered.
It Is now known that the announce
ment of W. L. Saunders in New York
that the problem had been solved is
more of a hope than a reality. His
statements were not supported or con
firmed by government authorities in
Washington.
A large number of suggestions and
plans have been submitted, and more
are coming in every day, but hone of
them has yet passed beyond, the theo
retical or experimental stage!
The proposals may be roughly divid
ed Into, two general classifications -namely,
devices for destruction of, U
boats and methods of circumventing or
minimizing their destructiveness. In
the first claas are Innumerable inven
tions for offensive weapons and arma
ment, including deadly electrical ap- i
paratus. A sample of the second class
Is the plan for constructing large num
bers of wooden vessels to run the block
ade. -. - '
Secrecy very properly surrounds all
these proposuls, and the government
intends to maintain strict silence about
them until actual results are obtained.
Germany would like nothing better
than to know in advance just what the
allies have up their sleeves or intend
doing. Severe cnlip has been im
posed on any f urfter official or semi
official utterances like that of Mr.
Saunders.
Losses May Soon Be Felt Hers. .
Submarine destruction of merchant
ships even if confined to the Euro
pean barred zones will soon be felt
indirectly in the United States. The
loss so far has fallen only on England,
France and Italy through sinking of
supplies consigned to them;
Within a short time, however, com
merce throuRhout the world will be
curtailed. England will be obliged to
draw In her ships now engaged in for
eign trade for the greater necessity of
directly supplying herself and her ar
mies. This will reduce the tonnage 1
now employed In carrying cargoes of
certain commodities which the United
States imports, such as wool from Eng-
The Marlae Corps has been recruit
ed to 18,951 aien. Its authorized
strength is 17.400 but a bill is pending
Congress to Increase the crops to 30,
COO.
A bill prohibiting the manufacture,
sale, transportation or exportation of
beverage alcohol in wartime has been
introduced in the Senate by Senator
Ken yon.
Two months of campaigning for a
million gardens in the United States
are estimated to have turned the at
tention of more than 30,000,000 people
to the task of producing food.
Gov. . Bickett has commissioned
Mrs. Jane S. McKinnon, head of
the State canning club work, for the
Conservation of Food Supplies, and
she will take an active hand in the
shaping of the work of this commis
sion. -
News is no longer given out by
bureau chiefs In the State Department
at Washington. It must cotme through
Secretary Lansing or through the new
ly created bureau of Intelligence. All
of which means censorship on ac
count of war.
Emperor Wilhelm recognizes no
state of war with the United States
so far as his personal comfort Is con
cerned. This is shown by the fact
that he has sunumoned his American
dentist, Arthur Newton Davis, of Pi
qua, Ohio, to visit him at great head
quarters this week, and attend to the
necessary repairs to the Imperial
teeth.''--'
3RIIISH REOCCUPy A
PORTION
BULLECOUR
T
ALONG THE SCARPE TO EAST OF
ARRAS THERE IS A MIGHTY
STRUGGLE GERMANS MAKE
STRONG ATTACK AGAINST THE
FRENCH BUT ARE REPULSED.
PUSH THE GERMAN LINE BACK
After days of intense fighting, in
which positions have changed hands
numerous timesthe British troops
have recaptured the greated portion
of the village of Bullecourt and re
pulsed counter-attacks delivered by
the Germans east of the village.
Along the Scarpe river to the east
of Arras there also have been san
guinary encounters, but again the ad
vantage rested with Field Marshall
Haig's forces . Portions of the vil
lage of Reoux have been taken by the
British and another step forward has
been gained by them on the Western
slopes of Greenland hill.
There has been no let-up In the air
fighting which has been going on
eince the spring offensive began.
Eleven Genaian airplanes were ac
counted for Saturday by the British
ten of them in air battles and one
by an antl-alr gun. The British them
selves, lost six machiens.
On the Southern end of the Una
held by the French, the Germans Sun
day morning made strong attacks on
the plateau of Craonne, on the section
north of Rheims and in the region of
Malsons de Champaigne. Not alone
did the French put down all three at
tacks with the fire of their artillery
and rifles causing heavy causalties,
tut they pushed back the German line
and in addition made prisoners.
There is still no Indication of the
approach of any fighting of moment
between the Austro-Germans and Rus-
elans on the Eastern front from the
The United states ipivll Service BalUc Bea to Rumania. Along ' this'
Commission announces" an open com- entlr9 Un0 the operatton consist
petitive examination for income tax merely of small skirmishes and recon-
aepuiy collector inspector ana agent uaissances.
ior men oniy Approximately 700 va
cancles In the internal revenue ser
vice, for eputy in the field at entrance
salaries ranging from $1,400 to $L600
or over per annum, with necessary
travelling expenses when absent from
headquarters in the discharge of offi
cial duties, are to be filled. Applica
tions may be made to Civil Service
Coommiaslon at Washington.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's fight
for congressional authority to raise a
division of volunteers for service in
France is won. By a vote of 215 to 178
the House, after a vigorous debate,
recummitted the conference report on
the conscription bill with Instructions
to its conferees to agree to the senate
amendment authorizing acceptance of
the colonel's offer. A few minutes
later when the house action had been
reported to the senate, Senator Cham
terlain, head of the Senate conferees
on the conscription bill, asked permis
sion to withdraw the report submitted
Thursday. He received penmisslon
without objection and the report went
back to conference.
In Macedonia violent artillery duels
are In progress along the entire front,
with the preponderance In the gun
power apparently on the entente side.
Sunday saw no Infantry movements
there.
Ten million men in the United
States will be subject to selective
conscription on July 1, within the ages
agreed upon in the conference report
on the war anmy bill, Director Rogers,
of the census bureau announced. This
number of men between the ages of
21 and 30. inclusive, renresents nearlv
land and her possessions, hides from jm per cent of the total estimated popu-
Argentina, tin from the Straits Settle
ments and rubber from the far east
and South America. A very large part
of this trade is carried in British bot
toms. "; - .
If German submarines should dasli
across the ocean ami raid commerce
along the American const there would
be a panic In these particular commodL
ty markets. The effect on our exports
of foodstuff., cotton and munitions
would be equally disastrous.
Read the pa pet regularly.
To Salute the Flag.
Every citizen of the United States i
to he asked to stand motionless and
liarehoadwl a minute at noon Memorial
lay as a salute to the flair.
Grocers Refuse to Soil More Than Giv
en Amount to One Person.
Chicago retail jrrocers are enforcing
one of the most drastic food regula
tions In the history of the city. Fal
lowing a eoiifprtod pl:m, dealers have
placed snp;ar, t'.our, soup and canned
goods on a 'restricted li.st. Consumers
are allowed to pim-hase only enough
for Immediate use. Stocking up or
hoarding will U dis;ourn?od.
The lnorenict.t was made necessary
by the excessive 'demand' for these
four couiiu'xiiti. s since the declaration
of war. Demand has trebled In many J
instances, and prices MiIiseijueiitlT j
soared. Ai.ticipntiic: higher prices. I
many housewives have put by enough
l ition of between 103.000,000 and 104,
fMHI.OOO on July 1, 1917. Of this con
script ion eligibles the bureau esti
mates Alabama will have 209,900; Ar
kansas, 156,600; Florida, 95,300; Geor
gia, 255,400; Kentucky, 202,200; Louis
lanna, 17,000; Maryland, 121,500;
Mississippi, 175,000; North Carolina,
194.000; South Carolina, 137,100; Tenn
essee, 195,000; Texas, 420,000; Virgin
la, 186,000. -
Three hundred' and cijrhty-one aldl
tional newspapers have been canvassed
on permanent universal military train
Intr by the National Security league
since the result of the oriclnal poll
was announced. Of Uicso "4'Z advocat
ed universal training. 1-1 were non
committal and 17 were opposed.
In all W7 newspapers have been can
vassed. Of these Zri'l favor universal
training, .-232' are still uoneouiinitta'
and "t are opposed.
Sin e the first canvass twenty-sevei
ttiTs which were iioncoiiiuiittul now
advK-ate univrsul training. -
Dick Norman Takes a Perilous Ride
Dick Norman, aged two, is qualify
ing for the aviation corps of the Unit
ed States to fight the Germans. Yes
terday for his first lesson he rods
about four Imiles on the running board
of his father's Ford, and that father.
Dr. G, W. Norman, of Pomona, does
not lose any time In moving about.
The youthful adventurer traveled
fiom the home pf the facnlly beyond
Llndley"park to Fordam's drug store
in South Greensboro, with nothing to
hold to and nothing but the narrow
running board of the machine to sit
upon. Dr. Norman didn't know he
was aboard, but when he found Dick
the imperturable youth was still
munching the biscuit with which he
left home provisioned.
Dr. Norman said he didn't know
what good fortune had kept the young
ster aboard, There was absolutely
nothing to which he could cling. The
doctor maybe would have noticed the
ourden he carried but for the fact
that the car was curtained on the left
side and he had entered and left the
machine from the right. In the trip
downtown the car turned directly to
the right twice, and rather speedily
at the intersection of Mendenhall
street and Walker avenue, but Dick
Icept on all right.
The adventurer celebrated his sec
ond anniversary the day before yester
dav and he evidently decided he was
getting along and should be trying
cut the world. Greensboro News.
Watch Your Eaas.
More than 1.'!,OUO,OijO,0.'0 dozen eggs ! to last tbeni for months.
have been spoiled in cojd storage, the
department of agriculture announces.
Subscribe today
So treat la the scarcity that In some
localities canned goods arc being re
fused to nil but regular customers.
Substantial advances In bread and
bakery products will be announced.
- Followed Sweetheart's Regiment.
When her sweetheart left Woodlawn
Pa., with bis rcjjiiuent an eighteen
year-old j.iil disguised herself as
oidier and refused to be "the girl 1
left behind me." But she was detect
ed and Sent home.
On Making Errors
It would be enlightening to the read
ers of a newspaper if they could all
serve for a time in a newspaper office
and hear the different criticisms that
cc-me In concerning the errors that
have crept into print. Occasionally
these errors are purely typographical
sometimes a bad use of English;
again they are due to incorrect re
porting. And these errors occur in the
best of papers. One f the leading'
(leilies of the State, in reporting the
sickness of a lady, said that "grave
hopes were entertained for her recov
ery." Just recently another noted
daily carried a news Item to the effect
that a certain painter had been se
cured to paint the portrait of a dog
belonging to Mrs. R. J. Reynolds
cf Winston-Salem. It turned out that
the painter was expected to paint the
rortralt of Mrs. Reynold's son. It 13
needless to say that the error was cor
rected the next day. Albemarle Ea
ttrprise. '