VOL. G
tlkin.N. C.( Thursday, Feb. 14, 1918
No. 40
TRANSPORT TUSCANIA CARRYING U.
S. SOLDIERS 13 TOKPLDOLD
A story of disaster nt sea, af
fecting the hearts nnd hopes (if
American?, although tlioy Imve
been schooled to expect il ever
ttince the first contingent of their
fighting men leTt an Atlantic port
to become brothcrs-ln-arms to
'' tente warrior who are on
icd against the German
hordes, fortunately linn dwindled
in the tolling. Ono hundred and
one lives were lo.t in the toqwd---
yt the Uriti-th troop ship
Inia off the Irish coast (it
i.Us'k Tuesday evening, according
to the latest rport.
She carried 2,:H7 souls, includ
ing L,170 United Slates army for
esters, engineers, supply train
men, miliUry police and aero
units, and the lirst meager do
talU Wednesday night indicated
that the death list due to the
steamer's sinking might he up
proximately 1,(XX. A later esti
mate that night, however, gave
'JU7 as the. number of men miss
ing. Thursday morniiig the tig
ure was reduced to -10 and this
in turn wan lowered to 101 thru
information obtained by a cor
'respondent of the Associated
Press in Ireland, con tinned by
the American embassy in Lon
don. The rescued, therefore,
number 2, '-. Among the Am
erican survivor arc 70 American
officer.
The Tuscania, a liner of I
gross tons, was one of a stiongly
guarded convoy and proceeding
eastward off the north coast of
Ireland, when disaster overtook
her. The shorn line was vis.ible
from the starboard ide through
the dusk of oncoming night, and
it was from this direction that
the lurking German submarine
discharged a torpedo that tound
its mark in the boiler room of the
steamer. A second torjvdo was
men to pass harmlessly astern.
Apparently retribution at once
befell the enemy underwater
boat. According to the testi
mony of an American othcer,
who was one of the last
men to
leave the Tuscania, a British de
stroyer dashed toward tin
i-1
dent location of tin attacker and
dropHd depth bombs that re
"Vsu'ted, in thy expressive phrase
of the submarine hunters, in the
enemy U ing'dono in.'
The explosion of the toiMdo
had Immediately caused a tre
mendous list and made launching
of lifeboats and rafts extremely
hazardous in the heavy se.i ami
darkness. Almost all the loss of
life and the sustaining of injui ics
occurred because of this condi
tion a there was no panic a"iong
the Americans or the crew, and
the stricken liner remained afloat
for fully an hour. Many patrol
Istats assisted the destroyeis
th work of rescue and the ur
vivors were landed at various Ir
ish and Scotch puis, w here
prompt meoteai attention was
given the injured and the others
wctc made comfortable.
Washington, Feb. ".Official
advices to the war department
Wight accounted for all except
113 of the 2,y Americun sold
iers w ho were on board the Brit
ish liner Tusennls e, a siibtna
line t.ont her doU; Tuesday iv
rning off the Irish coast.
This was. not tinal, and high
hoes that the loss of life would
prove much smaller were built
upon cabled press dispatches
saying just 101 men, most of
them members of the crew, were
missing among the entire force
of soldiers, sailors and passeng
er. No attempt was made tonight
to prepare a list of the lost or
missing. Only a few names of
survivors had been received and
tho indications wero that it would
bo iniposHiblo to announce them
all before tomorrow at the earli
est. Tho rescue I were landed at
widely separated Irish and
Scotch ports and while all re
ports tell of elaborate arrange
ments for their care and com
fort, urgent instructions to rep
resentative of the war, state and
navy departments that full de
tails of tho dijtt.tar and a com
nXTENttON OF 4 DAYS CHANTED
Washington, Feb. U.Four
days' extension of tho time In
which the German aliens must
register thruout the country was
announced today by Attorney
General Gregory. The exten
sion changes, the closing of the
regis tern from today to Wednes
day, February 1.1. The, attorney
general said ho desired to Rive
those required sufficient time in
which to comply with the Presi
dent's proclamation.
The time for registration of
German enemy aliens was ex
tended, department ofllclaU ex
plained today, to xrmit enroll
ment of many western farmers
who could not reach town this
week on account of bad roads
and of thousands of .German
who had taken out tirst naturali
sation papers and were in doubt
whether they were required to
comply with such a request.
plete record of the saved be sent
at the earliest ssible moment
tonight had brought but meager
resjKjnse.
According to tho war (!epai t
ment's official re tonight tho
total missing f...ui tho 2,S'J7 per
sons aboard the liner is 210.
The latest dispatch to the War
department gave this recapitula
tion: Survivor United States troops
2,01:'; crew and passengers, 141;
total, 2,1" I.
On loariI United States troop,
2,Ui; crew and passengers, 241;
total, 2.3U7.
Missing United States troops,
Il;t; crew ami passengers, 17;
total, 210.
Ofikials assumed that no error
hi transmission uccounted for
tho discrepancy in this dispatch's
ligures of crew ami passenger.
The total tiumbur of missing
among all iKjrsousou beard, 210,
accords with a statement of the
British admiralty issued early in
the day, to the number of pas
senger and crew survivors prob
ably should have lie-en Ml instead
'of HI.
Virtually no story of the sink-
ing of tho Tuscania has reached
the government through official
channels. Dispatches from the
embassy in I union and other re
source mi far have b"cn confined
to terse statements and an
nmineement of the number
saved.
Press accounts consequently
have Im-oii read with more than
ordinary interest by everyone.
Annv uilU'i'i are proud o( the
way the t roups behaved, and
Hint to the story of how tho par
tially trained buys lined up on
deck singing national airs to
await their turn in the boat as
evidence of what may be cxptM-t
ed of American soldiers.
To this absence of confusion
ami the fact that the vessel re
maincd afloat for alout 2 hours
ina (aim sea is attributed tho
urn nil loss of life. The Tuscania
was a part of a large convoy nnd
immediate relief was at hand.
There had been no mention in
official messages tonight of a re
port that a convoying destroyer
sighted and pursued the subma
rine that made the attack. The
desli oer plobably Whs Itiiti.sh,
and loo British admiralty re
ports on the Incident will be
awaited with the keenest inter
est.
On hoard the liner were engl
neers, military police ami re
placement detachment eomios
ed of former Michigan and Wis
cousin national guardsmen and
three hoio squadrons, one w hich
was recruited almost entirely in
and around New .York Gitv
Members of tho other two squad
rons t amo from nearly every sec
tn of tho couutry.
Uindon, Fob. 7. The serge
ants say that tho Tuscania took
a tremendous list to starboard
almost as soon ns she was hit
Almost all the lifeboat on that
side wre either blown into the
air or otherwise rendered use
less.
The soldiers were immediately
lined up and while. standing at
attention as one man began to
sing My Country 'l is of Thee,
and The Star Spangled Manner
the crew, which lined up en the
opposite side, sang "God Save
the King."
D0C1 INFORM TEUTONS OF PATROL'S
APPROACH.
With the American Army in
France, Feb. f. The Germans
are using dogs In their front
lines to warn them of the ap
proach of patrols opposite tl"
American sector. A German
dog "listener" early this morn
ing prevented onoof our patrols
from executing a daring stroke.
Two corporals who were con
cerned in it have, been mentioned
In official reports for their spirit
and coolness. j
Accompanied by two privates,
the corporals left a largo patrol
In a certain place in an abandon
ed trench In No Man' land last
midnight and went on to the Ger
man lines. They first found a
smooth wire barrier which had
been shot to pieces by the Amer
ican tire. Fifteen yards further
on they camo uon the German
wire entanglement The men
were inspecting an opening in the
wire when a dog apparently
chained on the other side began
to bark. A dugout door opened
quickly In a trench and a gruff
voice was heard to say "Fertig,"
meaning ready. Suddenly a bril
liant rocket went up nnd the
Americans threw themselves flat
on the ground jual a a machine
began to spit bullets in their di
rectioo. A few feet away a heavy
object ktruck the ground This
waa fuuud later to bo a bomb
which had been hurled from the
Gormen trench.
The corporals stayed where
they weii for sometime anil lis
toned to tho German soldiers talk
among themselves. One of the
corporals knows German and
speaks it so that what tho Ger
mans said was understood. After
tho Germans retired again to
their dugout, the smaller patrol
rejoined tho large one, which
Koon after was the target for 15
or 20 German shells, but no one
was hit.
DUTCH YOUTH DIE3 AFTEK GERMAN
PKIS0N ORDEAL.
Oe.idringen, Netherlands, Jan.
2'. A Dutch youth of 17, who
was released from a German jail
after undergoing a year s im
prisonment for smuggling, re
turned to hi relatives here the
other day a complete physical
week. He died of exhaustion
two day later. He declared that
during tho whole term of his im
prisonment ho had boon given no
other food hut cabbage and root
turnips.
RALEICH UTTER
(lly Mi-il (lot man)
Italeigh. Feb. 12. Tho public
school of a number of counties
are likely to havo an enforced va
cation bocau so of tho scarcity of
teachers, unless steps are taken
at once to provide letter salaries
for them. This Is especially true
of tho country district schools
where tho teacher are paid such
low salaries that they have to
draw on thol private means
(when thev huvo any to draw on)
to meet the baro necessities
with everything from 50 to UK)
per cent higher than when tho
"salaries" were fixed and in
most cases not a cent added yet
to meet the increased cost of li?
ing.
Negro barbers here in Italeigh
get more money in wages ($18 a
week) than many public school
teachers in -the graded nchools
draw in in so-called "salaries,"
and 50 jer cent morethaa 1 paid
the average teachers In the coun
try districts.
Girls who wail on the tables in
hotels and cafes command more
pay than the teacher gets on the
average and all the trades pay at
least double tho amount paid tho
school teacher.
Stenographers (more slips of
girls who have had no experience)
are in demand at $75 to $100 per
month and tho country school
teacher is expected to live on half
that sum. No wonder they are
planning to quit and tako up bet
tor paying work.
ONE PLRS0N KILLED IN ACCIDENT
NEAR HAMLET.
Hamlet, Feb, 10. -One person
was killed and three seriously in
jurcd when an automobile, owned
and oik? rated by Mannlc Shaplrio,
of Marlboro county, South Caro
lina, ran off tho bridge crossing
the Seaboard railroad thruo miles
cist of Hamlet, alout 2 o'clock
this afternoon. Tho bridge is
approached on a heavy curve and
tho driver evidently-' lost control,
going mf the sidetif the bridge
and the car and occupants falling
Sj feet to tie' railroad track bo
low. G. Iv It jbcrson, It. F. D.
No. Malloiy, S. C, was instant
ly killed, his, wife seriously In
jured. Mai 'lit; Shapirio is para
lyzed from his waist down, and is
not expected to live. The young
sister of Mr. Itoberson was se
riously injureti, but is expected
to recover. Mrs. Itoberson'
two children, ago about three
years and three months, were in
jured. During the brief time the car
hung over the edge of the hi idge
U-fore taking the fatal plunge,
Ma'irice Fleshman, of Italtiiuore,
nephew of Shapiro who was on
the front seat with tho driver,
jumped out on the bridge and es
caped injury. Tonight the rela
tive of tho parties had not been
located, and no disposition had
been made of tho body of Mr.
Robertson. All of tho injured
were taken to the Hamlet hos
pital immediately after the acci
dent.
Columbin.S.C, Feb. 1 1.- Wear
Admiral Samuel McGowan, pay
master general of the navy, a
South Curoliulan, in addressing
tho general assembly of South
Carolina tonight, declared that
tho success of tho war depart
ment in meeting difficult tasks
has been remarkable. Tho few
mistake made, ho said, are far
overbalanced in the record break
ing accomplishment
Admiral MiGowan said that
the navy is ready for its work in
tho war.
Better Farming in the South
to W: u
J V'u, lis A
111
THREE HUSKY FELLOWS READY TO
HELP OUT IN THE
Common labor If
OsIhjt tb noil
wniiht iflr com
tnodity la Atn'rtc.
It U rry rirc
throughout ll mi
ttr country, farm-
fn ot the 8onh
art tipwlally wor-
ricd or th itu
lion. Durlot war
tint tb frntcr
J N. IIAnPER taluibla com
Biuillir Ubor. It muni not b wsnt -
,t No la not tho lima to tmoloT
labor lo rlfan out fanca corncra, and
tn ilit other fclnda of lh letia produc
tlp work Thr ul b no lot mo
tion. i:i-ry lick ui ml b madn to
rotitti In annwrrlni Iba call of our na
tion and lirr ulllf who are calllDK out
lo tb- famipr "Gle ua brid: GIt ua
Clit lilUR ! "
Tlx brut way to economize Ubor
n ih farm toda la to produce more
per acre. The aouthera farmer will
act moKt unwisely If ha the to eulli
taie too murh land with the present
aopiily of latw. A better plaa would
be not to Ittrreane the acreage deotel
to nillWitled cropa, but to produce
mote n-r arre, by the ue of f "it 111
er, manure., good aeed and Improved,
mni hlnrry, all of whirs will aave U
tmr. One 'on of ood f-illllzer will do
mora work la growlag croya tliao wiil
RECORDS MADE BY U. 5. TROOPS
Washington, Feb. W a r in
praise of il,e uto of effici-'iicy
reached by American gunner
in their training with the famous
French 75 centimeter guns was
received today from it French ar
tillery officer who has just arriv
ed In Washington to join an olli
clal mission. He paid many of
the American batteries have ex
ceeded the best records made by
French gunners who have been
Uiing the "seventy lives" since
that weapon was adopted.
"''ho officer declared the work
of one squad which several times
tired thirty rounds per minute,
as being the subject of admiring
comment through the French
armies. Four men composed
this squad, one working the
breech, and one tho lanyard,
while tho other two were occu
pied in passing ammunition and
loading. So perfect were the
movements of each member, the
French officer declared, that it
was impossible to distinguish
the slightest variation in the in
terval between each shot over a
stretch of several minutes.
GERMAN PAPERS COMMENT ON THE
SINKING OF TUSCANIA
Amsteidaiu, Feb. 10. In their
comment on the sinking of the
Tuacauia, the Merlin newspapers
Germania and Deutsche Tage
Zeitung affect surprise that the
big transput only carried ap
proximately 2,400 men. Thus,
as "according to reports," lf
transport have arrived in France
they calculate that only about
40,000 American troops now are
there. This, they assert, agrees
with indeMiident information at
hand on this subject
Germania add to this the as
sorlion that tho Kinking of the
Tuscania gave tho United States
a hard blow which for a moment
"threatened to imbalance" Sec
retary of War Maker.
"F.ven so," it concludes, "we
do not underestimate the import
ance of America's assistance,
but wo shall nevertheless lixk
for further U-boat successes."
LABOR SHORTAGE
!i MtM t ' S:nini f npf m
n ixl.-a lu ,b-r. l'ir fuuuil, on
- ' ton ef mii fi-rt !i r ll n. -v t
' nbmti Sotun Th- ilani fool i,i
qunntiijr when tui!.i-i to tlirn' nrtc
- jot In ii J will R.vr an iiir:r.no vf mI"ii
TSO iiuitU i.f Itm cottun nnd I.&ihi
1 ponnil't of m-H. 'l'h lmt nl S''c i-i
pound nmnuni to f j.'jno. nnd th
if4 at IHOUO ton anmiinf t
160 00, ninklna iolsl ef J.ijoO.
w bulni'K tonTrn m-l 00 pot
bould b doulilyicpnl lnrrr on inonr InTcairJ In
wonon)lcl of so'lsbor, but, stunting i!mi ihP frmr
- l wll Ofl 100 r .-III on hU Intent
jnient In labor, end cupi ofiiig that t
ly lM per Jhv t.r labor. t9
14600 Invi'Hled in (tlilUer, whin ln
vetted In labor, would net hint $46 00
whareaa. wlii-n Invi'-lrd In feilil(a-r, It
given him a net liirri-tme of $i';i00
Thua It can be ae--n the treniendouj
advaniace of a .uinliMiirntlng labor
with liberal arP'i' '"lor" of plant food
Llkewlne an Improved piece of ma
cbtnery that make poanlble to cul
tlvate an ac re of col ton or corn wl(h
perhaps balf the labor ordinarily em
ployed, and cultivate It belter, ahould
be hoiked to at til time as a eource
of help In faring the Ubor ahortugii.
(loud need of a atraln known to do
wt-ll In a community will do much to
ward Inrrranlng yliUU. without an In
crease of acreage.
U thU not a (line when tha farmer
ahniild be Dure to me tkeae three cro
tiinkera, lo (he f'lllent eitfnt, t
t the labor ahortagtf
ITALIAN PPI0Nt:Ra AKD DYING Of
STARVATION
London, I'cb, 10.- Ki'iit.'1'x,
iinited, luis received copif-i of
arefnlly vciilli'd sworn state-
nients from llritish soldiers who
hive returned from (irman pi is-
on camps and hospitals regaril-
ing systematic brutality pr.ic-
ticod by the (lermnns upon Ital-
l.tn prisoners. I bene reports
inanate not from one particular
center only, liutcome from more
than a doir.cn different parts of
(iermanv. They have been con
tinned by independent testimo
ny. 1 lie reports all are of re
cent origin, as the soldiers who
gave the testimony lelt (Jennany
only recently, a ni.tj ii ity of them
laving been released from pris
on camps altou a month ago.
Regarding the camp nt Lang-
pnsate.1. Saxony, testimony has
been received from more than a
lozen indejsmdent sources. In
November about 2,(KK) Italian
risoners were brought in and
placed in a separate part of Ibe
amp Is hind barbed wire. Ac
ording t't the reports they were
unnecessarily knocked about by
nnderollici.ilH nnd guards who
struck them with ritle butts and
scabbards.
The Iialii ns appeared famish
1 and usi-d to rush for their
soup. 1 bo derinans, however,
tabbed them with swords and
bayonets, killing or wounding
many of them. Seven or eight
talians were dying from starva
tion in tho camp every day. One
Lilian testified thai he h id been
5 days on the journey t" the
cutnp uinl liail had only three
meals during all that time.
There is a strong feeling among
tho English prisoners that some
thing should he iloii for Italians
who are dying at the rati, of six
or heven a day through starva
tion or dysentery.
l-'roni the lnlin-n. Westphalia,
camp there are reports from
many independent witnesses
that the prisoners were marched
all the way from Italy with no
other food than bred. They al
so were knocked about and starv
ed and otherwise treated with
inhumanity. Kuglish prisoners
gave them their German ratio1..
One w itness said that three or
four weeks before he left Dul-
men IX) or Italian prisoners
an ivetl there. All of them were
virtually starved. "I saw a tier-
mau sentry draw his bayonet
against these men md beat
them," s.iid this witness. In
Cussel it is reported that the
Italians are treated worse, than
the Itrilish, living pushed about
orsttuc'.by Oerti.an corporals
At Mauuhetm tho same bruUlily
Is regularly practiced. One wit
hess said the Italians rushed
madly for tho fotnl ami some of
the in were bayonetted. The
Germans, this rert said, were
giving them only half rations.
NLCR0 HELD AT WILSON rOS
shooting ornccjt.
Wilson, Feb. il.-Jim Iter J, the
Baltimore negro who shot Police
Offlce J. H. Mcrndon last Thurs
day night, is behind Wilson jai
bars, badly wounded, having been
shot by Oilicer Uerndon after he
was seriously wounded by the
desperate black.
Whennekcd by Mayor Klllette
why ho shot Mr. Herndon, Ki im
is baid to have replied: 'There
has been a bunch of blind tigers
hanging out at tho Green street
crossing for &ome timo and when
parties arriving from Haltiinoro
get off there ono of the bunch
would command them to halt. It
being dark at that crossing and
parties transporting; liquor rath
er than being arrested with tho
goods In their possession would
drop their grips and tako leg
bail. When I went to Baltimore
I took my gun along with mo and
made up my in i Lid that I would
not be robbed of tho stulT so hard
to get. W hen Mr. uerndon ask
ed me hat I had tn my grip I
thought he was onoof tho whis
key thieves and I shot him."
To what extent Mr. Uerndon Is
wounded Is problematical. Some
aro of the opinion that his leg
may have to bo amputated at tho
hip.
T) MAM! TKAiWoRTS UNSINKAIil.i:
IS CLAIM
New York, l-'eli. '.I--Means
have been Innn.l lo mnke trans
P'irls nnsii .loibl.' by Mibmii ine,
siceordin;; in ,t statement made
tonight by William I,. Saunders,
vice t hai i tn.in of Iho naval con
sulting board, in an add rest atu
dinner of the University of Penn
sylvania iihimnl in this city.
Mr. Saunders said that nno of
the ships recently commandeered
by the government "now lies nt
an Atlantic jhji land in such shape
that she cannot bo sunk by an ex
ploding torpedo."
"1 can conceive of no reason
why this information should ho
withheld," he added. "On the
contrary, I believe it is well that
the enemy may come to realize
that the time has been reached
when American transports are
ready for the transportation of
our troops which that enemy
cannot sink. This hhip may havo
aholelJOor 10 feet In diatnoter
blown in her side, and she will
remain nlloat. Such ahole would
vaterlog but one tenth of tho
loney -combed nirtight cells."
Mr. Saunders described in de
tail the plan to keep ships nllont
after they had been torpedoed
and the manner in w hich it had
been develood by William V.
Jouuclly, a New Yoik marine en
gineer, working under authoriza
tion of the naval cuusultiug board.
"Of coui'bo it will tuko some
time to equip bimilarly tho large
number of transistrts wo have,"
ontinued Mr. Sautders. "It is
my belief, however, that nothing
will be left undone by the admin-
stration to safe guard tho lives
of the large rontinejenU to he
moved across the Atlantic."
Mr. Saunders, in A statement
credited to him last May, assert
ed that a solution of tho subma
rine problem had bocn proba
bly found by tho board and In
the opinion of the board mem
bers, the schemo ns approved,
would put an cud to the subma
rine menace Ho did not enter
in'o details. Other members of
the board, including Thotnasi Ho-
bins, its secretary, nnd Frank J.
Sprague, a member of tho com
mittee on submarine, took issue
with Mr. Sannders that tho solu
tion of tho U-bont menace had
been reached.
TO STOP L033 OF 1 30.000.000 ECCS
Washington, I). C, Feb. 11.-
Over K,n(Ml,tM)eggs will bo lost
to tho food supply of the United
States if tho old prartlct of send
ing hens to market at thlsforunn
Is continued. Figures compiled
by the oultry specialists cf tho
United States Department ef
Agriculture show that moro than
VwnyxX) hying hens, each capa
ble of producing IH) eggs, m
sent to market from the South
ern States in the winter and ear
ly spring. '
F.very effort, therefore is be
ing made to encourage farmrs
to keep their hens until after tho
spring laying season, theroby
getting a dividend for keeping
tho hen through tho winter. Tho
specialists point out that when a
lien is sold for meat early in the
spring, tho farmer gets no egg
return for feed in sj nnd keeping
hor through the worst months of
tho year.
Moreover, tho hen is marketa
ble as poultry after sho has pro
duced her spring eggs. Poultry
in May may bring 2 conta a pound
less than it does in February,
but, they point out, tho 3u egjs
produced by tho hen, largely
from waste, moro than offaftt nuy
reduction in the prico offered for
live poultry.
An energetic egg saving cam
paign to prevent early slaughter
of tho hen that "lays tho golden
egg is now being conducted
throughout tho Southern States.
North of tho Ohio river, farmors
havo long appreciated tho ad
vantage of gutting tho spring
crop of efg? and marketing their
hens after the laying KuAitcnor in
the fall. They believe that'adop
liun of ibis piau by southern
chicken raisers will bo profiUbio
and will materially add to tho
food supply of tho nation.