North Carolina Newspapers

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.