L'lkin.N. C, Thursday, Nov. 21, 1010
No. 3D
STVE KILLED AND
MANY INJURED IN
WINSTON-SALEM
THANKS OFFICERS
AMERICAN ARMY
MOVES TOWARD
GERMAN BORDER
AND MEN OF ARMY
IN THIS COUNTRY
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Vin.ston - Salem, Nov. IK.
tie fleath toll in the riot here to
night, which followed efforts of
ii mob to storm the city jail ami
lynch a negro prisoner, had been
increased at midnight to five a
girl spectator, a city fireman and
three negroes. The police be
lieve that a detailed search to
morrow will show that at least
seven persons and maybe more
were killed.
Upwards of a score of persons
are believed to have been injur
ed, five or six of them seriously.
They are mostly white persons
and include two members of the
.home guard, which was called
out when the mob made its
second visit to the jail after
shooting a negro and accidental
ly wounding a white prisoner in
the afternoon.
Winston-Salem, Nov. 17. At
least two persons are known to
have been killed and probably a
score of others injure'!, several
seriously, in a riot hero tonight
which resulted from the efforts
of a mob of several thousand
men to storm the city jail and
lynch a negro accused of shoot
ing J. I'. Childress and Sheriff
Flint and attacking Mrs. Child
ress last night.
I,ate tonight firing still was
going on in different parts of
the city, the mob finally having
broken into small g.oups. Ft
forts of the home guard and the
police to restore order were un
availing even at that time and
Governor Lickctt was asked to
intervene, lie ordered home
guards from GrcerisUtro and ar
ranged to have a company of
regular soldiers sent from Camp
I'olk, near Ualeigh.
The known dead are:
Lachacl I,evi. a young woman
bystander, and PoUit Young, a
f.reman.
The more seriously injured in
clude Marge-ret George. 1 .in wood
Heeler. Johr. ifJjmpler. citizens,
and Frank O'Lrien and K. T.
Hawley, members of the home
guard.
Itachaci Ixn i, a young woman
bystander was shot through the
lung, and Robert Young, a fire
n.TW. al o was shot.
Number Injured Unknown
Five of the more seriously in
jured, including two members of
the homo guard, were taken to
hospitals, but many others were
treated at their homes. I he
total nnmlwr of injured was not
known and the polic would not
even ha.ard an estimate.
Tin liloh lust formed litis
afternoon aliout 3 ::'.) o'clock and
stormed the jail. Three shot
weiv fired and the negro accused
of shooting the two men and at
tacking Mrs. Childress was seri
ously wounded, while a white
prisoner named Tragg also wa
hit in the arm by a stray luillet
After some difficulty the po
lice succeeded in clearing th
crowd out of the building and
the mavor called out the home
guards. Quiet reigned for
time, but later the report went
around that the negro shot was
not the man that had Ihtii
sought. P.y nightfall the mol
had re-formed and starlet
inarching to the jail, which was
surrounded by home guards.
Hai dwarf Stores Lrokcn Open
Hardware stores were- broken
into and revolvers, shotguns nn
other weapons and ammunition
taken. As the mob marched, it
increased in size and when its
objective was reached it mint
bored several thousand. The
mayor sought to address the
crowd, but could not be heard
.In the meantime fire companies
had arrived and when the mob
broke for the jail the fireman
turned water on them.
Firing immediately followed
and Young was shot dead.
bullet hit Miss Ixwi, who was
watching nearby . The home
guards answered the volley but
he mob quickly ovci"powcre
'in and went into the jai
Two members of the guard were
badlv huil by being thrown
bodily down a stairway whic
they were guarding.
Apparently the mob did not
find the negro it sought, for no
Washington, Nov. 1(5. Sec-
ctary Laker today formally ex
pressed his inanKs lo onicors
ttid men of the army in the
'nited States for the zeal shown
in preparing for overseas duty.
Mr. Laker expressed confidence
tat the standards of discipline
mil bearing will be maintained
y the men in training until de
mobilized. This statement fol-
ows :
"The signing of the mili
iry armistice enables us to sus-
end the intensive military pre-
aration in which the country
as engaged. It does not, how-
ver, signify the formal end of
le war and it w ill, therefore, be
nece.-sarv lor us lo keen under
inns a substantial army until
e are certain what the military
needs of the country will be. The
men in service in the I'nited
States will be demobilized a.s
apidly as is consistent w ith the
needs of the government.
"In the meantime, I desire to
xprcss lo these officers and
soldiers under arms in the I'nit-
1 States the appreciation of the
epartment for their patriotic
tl and service. That they were
not called upon to go abroad and
not permitted to participate in
the historic struggle in France
ave.-. them none the less a part
f the great army of our nation
md entitled to the thanks of
th
e nation for their readiness to
eive. .Ml officers and men can
ely upon the sympathy and
tiityofthe department in
their early return home. Loth
officers and men w.'l realize that
is their duty to continue with
th i raining and v. oik. and to
maintain in the highe t degree
the discipline and soldierly bear
ing which is the great glory of
the army, of which they are a
art."
AERIAL MAIL ROUTE TO
CROSS NORTH CAROLINA
Washington. Nov. 10. The
Histt.ffite department will es-
abash an aerial mad route
irro-s North Carolina to the far
south. At least one step will
ie made in the state.
This will give North Carolina
connection bv air with New
Yik and make possible for im-
it.it.int mail and registry letters
o Ik- delivered several hours
Kilter.
The dcpait merit plans to tw
aldish then routes over the en
tile count iv so that all central
mints will be connected.
From New Yolk to Chicago,
to San Francisco: from New
Yoik to Jacksonville, Fla., and
New Orleans, military truck
mail service, to make lor speed
ier delivery in remote sections,
is to be expanded. This will be
especially important to the rural
sections and require thousands
of armv motor trucks and driv
crs. North Carolina will have
truck routes.
more of the prisoners were fired
i'lon. After an hour or more,
the mob left the jail and started
marching through the business
section of the town, (irudually
it broke into groups headed for
the negro quarters. ltte to
night, however, there had been
no cl.ish between the whites anc
blacks.
Iite tonight the following
names were added to '.he list of
wounded :
tliarles. White, shot ami mi
ously hurt ; Jules Stith, Cecil Al
ley, J. J. Adams.
Troops on Special Train Leave
Charlotte .
A special train left Chai lotto
soon after midnight for Win
ston-Salem with !"." troop
aboard for service in connection
with riot conditions there. The
troops were ordered to Winston
Salem by Col. A. C. Malcomb
commander of the camp, at the
request of Mayor L. W. Gorrel
made through Mayor F. II. Mc
Ninth, of Charlotte, by long dis
tance telephone.
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21 AMERICAN
DIVISIONS TOOK
PART IN BATTLE
Paris, Nov. 17. (Ly the Asso
ciated Press.) Out of the con
fusion and ''az'. ol the crowd
ing military eve'its on the v e. t-
rn battleline since 'ate in Sep
tember, when btltie fo.'ewctl
Verdun there was ceaseless ra
tion, it is now peiTtiissilile to out-
inc to a certain extent the p u t
played by the American armies
in the final decisive battle of the
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war, winch ended wun me arm-
stice of last Monday.
Mililarv reasons heretofore
tave prevented accintuatirtR the
accomplishment. of the Amen-
an -, except in a most general
tt i i. l f
manner, ine tu.spaicitcs noni
the field have been necessarily
ragmen t a ry and possibly were
oversh:u!tiwed by the accunts
of the more dramatic operations
over the historic battlefronts to
the west.
Lut it now may lie stated that
two American divisions, totaling
more than 7"iW00 American
ombat troop.s, participated in
the action beginning September
known furiously as the battle
of the Argonne and the battle
t f the Meiisf, but which history
mav call Sedan the battle that
rotight Cermany to her knees
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and as tar as numan loresigni
goes ended the world's bloodiest
and costliest war.
Crux of the War
In order to understand the
military situation which made
the Argonne oeration the crux
of the war, it is neccs,iry to go
iack to the reduction of the St.
Mihiel salient in the middle of
September. This brilliant Ameri
can acliievenunt is still fresh in
History. It cut otT at one stroke
a menacing enemv s oeienstve
nojection toward 'cldun and
weakened the enemy's defensive
v threatening Metz. and of
Germany's two greatest advance
railway centers for distributing
tumps and supplies along the
Montmedv-Sedan line.
Metz nKo was the pivot on
which the enemy swung through
Lelgitim into France and there
fore obviously it wrts the pivot
on which his retirement must
hinge. The Argonne, the next
step below here, threatened the
great railway arteries running
westward from McU.
(in man Power 0crcome
With the conclusion of the St.
Mihiel action, the steady inflow
of American forces caused a dis
placement of power as between
the allied and (iciman armies.
Thus it no longer was necessary
to pursue a jnilicy of reducing a
saiientor nibbling at it. The
American troops had shown
what they could do.
A broader policy of general
attack along the entire line was
then adopted and the high com
mand called upon General Per
shing to take the Argonne .sec
tor, admittedly 0112 of the most
if not entirely the most, diffi
cult on the whole front. The
broken terrain, the topography
and the lack of roads made a
problem difficult to describe.
Germany had in four ) ears forti
fied it to the last degree of mili
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tary skill, with superb roads,
lotli rail and motor, connecting
up to the rear positions and
bases.
The outstanding feature of
the Argonne forest is a long
chair of hills running north and
south, covered with a dense
growth of trees and under
growth, making an advance dif
ficult and offering superb defen
sive qualities. Virtually no
roads exi. t in the forest except
for a few transversal passes run
ning e.t :ind west. The soil is
such that the least rain covers
it into a slippery, miry mess. In
other winds the physical condi
tion is Mich that the line of at
tack for an advancing army is
limited to valleys, chief among
which is that of the Aire river.
Montmedy-Sedan Line Taken
From the edge of the forest,
where the resistance was vici
ously strong, the enemy possess
ed innumerable flanking posi
tion's. Lut bl'NOIld this ilifikult
legion lay the Montmetly-Sedan 1
line, which was recently caplur '
ed. A German order dccribed
it as "our life artery." It repre
sented one-half of the German
rail supply on the western front.
It meant death if cut.
The hih command told Peih-
ingtocut it. The American first ! many instances from other por
army was put in motion from St.ltions of the line, in an effort to
Mihiel. In nine days it was on 1 hold an enemy which he deri
the Argonne ready for an at- sively said lat spring, could not
tempt, the failure of w hich 1 1 e broiight to Furope. and if so
might mean disaster and the j would not light, and even if he
success of which would give tin-tried to fight would not know
told results.
This quick movement of
enormous Unly of nu n, the
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tabli.shment of a ii"W line of sup-j morning of November I. which
ply and a!! the complicated mili-j l-egaii the second phase of the
tary preparations, wr.s regarded j Arognne battle, was the death
with pride by th- Amet ican blow to the German army. Le
commaitdeis. twe-n September 2t) and Octo-
The American kin -w uhatjber :U, enemy divisions t the
confronted them. They realized j number of :'.(' were identified as
that this was no second St. Mih- being opposed to the Americans
iel. but an cfiteipii.se at w hich
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other armies had balked for four
years. They knew tint their
was to In fought a fight to rank
with the first battle of the
Maine, with Verdun, with the
Somme and the Chemin IVs
Parties, and they knew that on
them depended the fate of the
great attark on the rest of the
front. If forrod back here the
enemy must give wav to the
wot. If he held he could hold
elsewhere.
Leg an at Ia break
It was at daybreak of Septem
ber lit w her the Americans went
in. t'sing nine divisions, for the
preliminary attark and under
vigorous artillery support they
advanced five kilometers the
first day. Lut the enemy was
not taken wholly by surprise.
The second day he threw into
the line five counter-attack di
visions he had held in close re
serve. They were his best
troops, but they failed not only
to push the Americans back, but
they failed to check the gradual
advance of the Americans over
the difficult terrain.
The first phase of the action
ended October .11, during which
the Americans' gains were not
large but they compelled tho
enemy to use a large number of
divisions, which became slowly
exhausted and thus were unable
to parry the hammering he was
receiving from the French and
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Lritish on the west.
Fighting in Woods Litter
It was bitter fighting in the
woods, brush and ravines, over
a region perfectly registered and
plotted by the enemy where his
guns, big and little, could be
used with the greatest efficien
cy. The original nine American
divisions in some cases were
kept in the line over three con
secutive weeks.
The Ameiican reserves then
were thrown in until every divi
sion not engaged on another part
of the line had been put into ac
tion. It i.s a fact commented upon
with pride by the American com
manders and complimented by
the allies that seven of these
divisions that drove their way
through this hard action never
before had been in an active
sector, while green troops, fresh
from home, were Kiurcd in as
replacements.
The Associated Press dis-
patches from day to day told
what these men did; how the
(iti nty was slowly pushed back
from his strongest and most
vital positions, through one de
fense system alter another, us
ing his finest selected troops,
which had been withdrawn in
'how to n so
Death Llow to II tins
The attack delivered the
dl this sector. Le
?tween Novem
ber 1 and Novemer G the enemy
threw in 1 1 fresh divisions, but
all in vain.
Fighting every foot of the
way the American advance aver
aged five kilometers daily over
terrain constantly grow ing more
difficult, with the lines of com
munications and supply daily
lengthening and attenuating,
while road maker. for the trans
port and other supply organiza
tions woiked day and. night at
their ta.sk..
Day by day the official com
munications and the telephone
even to the farthest advance
line told the Americans that for
every mile the Germans gave
way he I ore them they were
yielding another mile to the
Lritish and French on the left;
that the American pressure wa
felt like an electric current
throughout the line.
American Lroke Through
On the morning of November
2 the German official communi
cation told the Americans they
had won, because for the first
time in the war the enemy offi
cially admitted that the Ameri
can attack had effected ft break
through. The Americans knew
that what finally happened on
the morning of November 11
when the armistice was signed
was only a question of days.
With the Allied Armies in
Franco and Lelgitim, Nov. 17.
(Ly the 'Associated Press.)
The allied armies have begun
their march towards Germany.
The Lelgian forces have already
occupied Antwerp, which was
evacuated by the enemy on Fri
day and immediately taken over.
Lrussels w as expected to be free
of German soldiers today.
With the American Army in
France, Nov. 17. 7:30 a. m.
(Ly the Associated Press.)
General Pershing's forces" mov
ed forward early today in terri
tory just abandoned by the Ger
man troops. On the old line be
twven Mouzon and Thiaucort,
lying from the region of Sedan
to the south of Metz, the troops
had been stationed to await or
ders for the advance, and at 5:30
o'clock this morning the patrols
irarched out, not 'n line of bat
tle, but in columns along the
ligh roads, whi.h arc only
.lightly impaired.
The first steps of the Ameri
cans into the region. ho lately
controlled by Germany, were not
spectacular. The men were key
d up rmd keen for the new ad
venture, but. like they were on
the day of the signing of the
irmistice, there were compara
tively no demonstrative manifes-
ations of their enthusiasm.
Many of the men had been
new ly uniformed and all of them
were "polished" as though for
inspection. The men appeared
iger for the word to go for
ward.
Mud Slightly Fr07.cn
The relatively small units that
ire moving forward as advance
guards were sent to the line ie-
fore daylight. The night had
ieen cold and the mud that yet
marks the roads, notwithstand
ing there have loen two or three
lays without rain, w as slightly
frozen. The men shivered as
they rested by the roadside.
When the command finally
was given for the advance, the
elements who were to push for
ward; in some cases miles apart
on the long line U'tvveen the ex
treme left and right, moved off
into the mists that appear al
ways to shroud this part of the
country and disappeared.
For the first time since the
Americans had been ordered to
advance into enemy-held terri
tory, there was assurance that
they would encounter no hostili
ty. The intelligent department.
which has never ceased to func
tion, had accurately reported
that the Germans were carrying
out their agreement of evacua
tion and there was evident the
lielief both by officers and men
that no trap was awaiting them.
No Chances Taken
No chances were taken, how
ever. 1 he engineers were lite
second units to pres. forward,
and they carefully In'gan their
work of ItHiking out for mines
and tainted water. F.very ol-
stacle was tested before it was
moved in order to find out if it
masked explosives. For some
time the German. have shown a
spirit of co-operation in inform
ing the American where mines
were located and in themselves
destroying them.
It was some time after the
engineers moved forward before
th heavier columns took the
road. The entire army finally
was moving, and njoving along
the lines of peace days. Lut it
was in such order that it might
quickly be transformed into bat
tle array. I'very brigade was
covered by 77s, the heavier artil
lery follow ing close behind. The
flanks of the advancing. columns
were vvell protected.
It has been impressed on of
licers and men alike that is an
operation under an armistice;
that war still exists and that the
possibility remains that at nny
time it may be necessary for
them to play their part with the
same grimncss of the past year.
Fraternization, not only with
the German soldiers who may
be found cither as stragglers or
voluntary prisoners, but with
civilian population, has been
sternly forbidden. Looting and
FASTER THAN THE
CAMPS CAN TAKE
CAR EOF THEM
A. K. CKLDIIOF
Washington, Nov. 10. F, N.
Hurley, chairman of the V. S.
shipping board, told me, in an
interview today that the ship
ping board will bring back our
soldiers faster than the war de
partment can handle tlh.'ni in
this country.
While all other government
departments are preparing t
slow down their efforts, the
shipping board will increase its
shipbuilding program to build
ships, shifts, -md more ships, so
our loys can come home at the
earliest possible moment.
"We now have lfil cargo ves
sels and f7 transports," Iturle.1.
said, "available immediately for
the transportation of troop.s. If
necessary, we could bring; ull tlur
boys back in three months. Cer
tainly we can bring them faster
than they can be taken care ol
here.
"Fach of those cargo vessel,
can transport from 1,000 to L
000 men and the transport. will
carry three to ten thousand.
"The shipping board will iin
mediately stop the employment
of workmen overtime, and Sun
days because the immediate pre.,
sure has been relieved. Lut we
can use 200,000 more experienc
ed mechanics from the munition
plants and put them into tin
shipyards. "The bringing back of the
soldiers is not our chief problem.
That i.s to feed the population
of hungry Furope. Austria, Ilun-gai-y,
Germany, Lu!g:uia must
be fed, as well as our allies. We
must have more ships to d it.
Now that the war i over, our
efforts will be redoubled."
STOPS EXAMINA
TIONS OF DRAFT
REGISTRANTS
Washington, Nov. 111. Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder
today ordered the discontinu
ance of physical examinations of
draft registrants, and of all
work bv district draft hoards on
the classification of registrants.
The physical examinations have
Ik-ch given only to youths of IK.
under orders issued iijon cessa
tion of hostilities.
District draft Itoard. General
Crowder said, have I teen in
structed to complete all records
of cases Ik.1 fore them which re
late entirely to the granting of (
occupational exemptions or th:
consideration of appeals from
ocal Itoards on dependency
claims.
All records of the exemption
Itoards are to ltc preserved for
future disposition, and the class
ification of all l'J to 37 year old
and IS year eld troops i to lx
completed at the earliest possi
ble moment.
I.KT SANTA BRING W. S. S... '
TO ALL PATRIOTS
We must make up for the
workers who have gone to the
war by greater diligence and ef
ficiency among those of us who
remain.
We must all save lalor.
We must cut down the work
which other people do for us.
Our wants use not only lalxtr but
coal and materials and congest
the railways.
We must produce more and
consume lesa, if the Government
is to have its requirement in sup
plies and service. Let us, there
fore, observe a real and flitting
war-time Christmas spirit.
Let War Savings Stamps he
your gifts and messengers of
good cheer 1
even souvenir-hunting also have
been forbidden the Americans.
It has been plainly Impressed
upon the men that property is
inviolate and that those pereonn
with whom they come in contact
must le regarded as enemies.