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VOL 8 Ellin, N. C, Thursday, April 21, 1019 No. 10 ;m:i;NsnoK can gi;t a krial .mail station if ffopi.i: ci:t iiusv. Washington, Apiil I'.t. An mail .service in iii New Vuk ;iiil ': hing'en l A'.lan t:i. and p rtil ;it !- Key 'i.-t, i planned by tin' toll ice de partment and will In pill into K ration as .'nun a. CntigrcM appropriates tln n ('c-n funds. OiTeial, of the post", office believe this appropriation w ill become available dining tin' next fiscal year, since delivciy of mail l.y airplane l tvwcn Washington and New York al ready ha- pa- cd tin' cpri itm-n-tal stage. In this c(.)ni( linn, ("apt. Charles J. (Hidden originator of the famous (Hidden automobile lours, now it recruiting n"n . for the army air ,! i -t , di i liv id thi' possibility today of making Cut ndmio a .-tat inn on the fit hcon : i n New Yoik-At-lanta route. The fir. 4 tiling to Ih! done the army ofl'rcr explain ed is to provide a landing field. Atlanta i- already at work on Mich a field and iti.-s along the route who desire delivery of mail "by airplane will eventually wake tip to the Here sity hi o'L ring inducements so that they may be selected a aei ial way .sta tions. Captain (Hidden, f anion- as an aeronaut and anion. obili-t. be lieves that within the near fu ture delivery of i: ad l.y air plane will he general throughout the United States "If Green -boro ha- ambitions to get de'iveiv of mail ly ail- plane," said Captain G.i'K . ".-he should make an eaily .-tail toward supplying a landing field a Inch require- roughly a plot of smooth land about l.ono l.y fin p feet. A city that cannot fur nish a good landing place is handicapped from the start when the authorities map out aerial mail routes." Captain (Hidden is en route t New York from Souther Field, where he has been stationed for the past four months. He goc to New York on special duty in meet ion with military acio- Cji.uitics. He is in sympathy with the plans of the pn-toffirc . . . . . . 1 : . ' I rtepanmeni io nunn us a.nai mail service. The postoflice depaitment asked the last Congress for at least two additional air routes -one from New Yoik to Chicago, the other from New Yoik or in All ill -l i.l- U'i.V W'.it Congress appropriated only 4 enough for the Chicago-New YNfk route and this will he put into operation pnlahy before the fall. Asserting that there is an opening for 15.000 aviators in the United States. Captain (Hid den said he had been observing the men in training at Souther field. He said: "Every identical man is as anxious that the 'ships' .should start out in as good order as the - pilot having them in charge, and many of the men not taking in ' htmction are Riven rides about the country and to distant point -across country. All the men are preparing themselves to he important factors in the great air service of the fut re and realize that considerable time " must be civen to perfect them selves in flying and the care of the 'ships.' "Those who wish to lie fore most in aviation of the future must take advantage immediate ly of the government's offer to t.ilte a course in aeronautics This is done by enlisting at the nearest recrui ng office. It cost me $2,000 before I obtain ed a nilot's license for the Unit ed States. Great l'.ritain and France, but nowadays men are not on!v raid while learning, but are furnished clothing, quar ters and rations. I consider it ns cood as a term of one to iVivpo vears in college. "The extent of the air service Is unlimited and by 1020 will be n full operation all over the North American continent. Thei-p will bo a great demand foi nilnts and the compensation paid whether through military scr- vice or general public utilities ovreed that of most any oth cr profession of its character, Three trunk lines across me con tineiu, jeceuujr iuii.ii.u TTom C. McCaulley in 20 hours' (iFK.MAN U-i;()AT SLIPS INTO Ni:V IIAKCOK New Ymk April l'.)--The Cer- man submarine U-Ill, the Ctrst Jeiman undersea craft to be .rounht to this ((.untry, .clipped into New York hailxir early to night, with the imperial Cerman navj.l stamlard flving beneath the Stars and Stlipes. The U- M.at was taken to the navy yard md will be exhibited to st unti tle inleie t in the Victory loan. The U-IH, of a fleet of five such Irtiats now on their way to New York, was making good speed when she passed through the Narrows, running well out of the water. She left I'ly- meuth on April 7, carrying four flicers and I! 1 men. She is a arge vessel with guii mounted fore and aft. The other sub marines are expected within a lay or two. SIMPSON AND (il.F.NN AC- (H iui: wAKKiiorsK sni; Another large leaf tobacco sales warehouse is to be located on Trade : treet .at the comer of Seventh street, and extending west thru the block to Cherry street. A deal involving sever al tracts of land in that blink is been clu ed by Messrs. J. T. Simp on and Joe II. (Henn by which they acquire the North nd of the blin k. "The tract ex tends ninety-four fret from the corner on Trade strict; three mndred .-nd rixty-five feet on Seventh .stmt and one hundred md ninetv-six feet on Cherry treet. One hundred and two 'ee' of th" Cherry !' t ex tend- back more than half way thru the blk. The new owners of the pro-; ieity anno'iie-e that it i- their. vrpo e to elect a modern ware house building to cover the en tile area, and they hope to ma t ire preliminaries so that the building will be started this ummer and f ni-hed, if possible before the opening of the new obacco sales season. Plans for the propo-ed build ing have been prepared by Mr. W. (!. I'.ogers. architect of Charlotte, and they are now in the hands of contractors for bars on construction. The building will U attrac tive in design, with entrances on oth Trade and Seventh streets. The main floor w ill be on Trade street, ami a basement floor al most as large w ill be open on Seventh street. The building will be fitted with everv conven ience, I Kith to the farmers and uyers, and the main sales floor will have approximately fifty thousand sqUaie feet of space. Messrs. Simpson and Glenn have been in the warehouse bus iness a number of years, run ning the city's oldest warehouse P.iown's. Their business dur ing the past few years has been so heavy during the active sell ing months that they were un able to accommodate it in the manner in which they desire and hence their determination to build a larger house on Trade street. With the new house they feel that they will be able to give their customers n service that cannot be equalled on any market in the country. Daily Sentinel. flying time, w ill have upon them 21 distributing points and from these places every city and town in the United States is within ix hours flight. "It was my privilege to parti cipate in the operation of the early telegraph, come up with the telephone and automobile and it is a great satisfaction to do my p-u t in establishing avia tion. The telephone was over 2" years reaching its present stage of perfection, the automo bile I!) years, but aviation will take less than eight years reach ing a point of equal utility. "While I am particularly in terested in air service, I have learned today that the govern ment offers equal privileges to the young man to become pro ficient in several branches of the service and in all they may be come non-commissioned or even commissioned officers. Un doubtedly thousands will take advantage of the one and three years' course on the line their taste prefers. -:-'- . I i mrrr 1 1 Vliw of linrl.or of S. I.m-iomi, wliL h city mny ! eeunt-. miri l.jr 8lif.Ttiinc, (tit rltjr h tin- in-lit of tl.f Ii.k'i t nflin. 3 Xrerr'nrjr trlnl lam. if tint il.-lt'Ofd tr tlm Vlcii.ry l"n cmiiiohIcu. SIX VKSSKLS ( KOWDFI) WITH SOIJIIKKS AIMMVi; T()( KI.FIUlATi: KASTKK New York. April 2'.-Six tiMop : hips loaded to rapacity with American officers and men -1 1,110 in all arrived here to- lay in time to celebrate I'a. ter Sundav on Imme soil. Two of the .ships which arriv 1 were the German lin -rs Zep- iclin and Graf Waldeisee. mak ing their first tiip since they were turned over to the United S'e.tes. The Zeppelin, flying the international flag as well as the stars and stlipes, brought I.f.'O men. including the 12'ith field artillery complete. .": officers md 1.271 men. the :i:V.th anibu- nice company, three officers tnd 10.' men, 7:1 casual officers and a detachment of one officer md 11 nurses of base hospital II. On the Graf Waldeisee were 1.171 officers and men. the ma jority In-ing hospital units and including detachments of the fifth, llth. 21st. I2d. Ilth. .loth. 72d. !7th. ami 2i2d base hos pitals, six casual companies, IS casual officers and ."S convales cents. l'.oth ships had on loard par ties of German officers who had turned the ships over to the United States and who had made the tiip across representing the German government. The other arrivals were the ig transport Virginian with !,- 177 officers and men. including the ninth ammunition train, headquarters, headquarters mo tor and horse battalions, ord nance and medical detach ments and rompanies A to G, a total of 1G officers and l.02' men: 91st division detachments totaling 18 officers and 'X1 men, :tl7th machine gun batalion, headquarters detachment, medi cal detachment and companies A to I), 15 officers and s:r men; Hlf.th sanitary train, headquar ters, divisional medical supply unit camp infirmaries 1 to 8, headquarters field hospital sec tion, liield hospitals f.fil to Sfil. headquarters ambulance section and ambulance companies "61 to :G I. 17 officers and 87S men; .2d infantry machine gun com pany, five officers and 170 men. together with several casual companies and 172 wounded. The Great Northern brought n.001) troops comprising the 110th ammunition train com plete, fll officers and 1,158 men; "00 convalescent wounded, 18 casual companies of marines and furloughed men; lfi officers and G71 men, scattered units of United States army ambulance sections; and 21 casual officers. The Santa Paula brought 2. 1.11 officers and men, including 12d base hospital, two officers and 143 men; 31fith supply train headquarters and medical de tachments and companies A to F, nine officers and 471 men; 113th transportation coi-ps, two officers and 22G men, second trench motor battalion, head quarters and medical .detach ments and batteries A to D, six officers and 571 men; 370th aero squadron, one officer and 122 men; 616th aero supply squadron, one officer and 114 men ; fourth trench mortar bat tery, one. officer and 149 men .. M JL$ -1 si piuvati: i.ovklaci: was ix j5ig diuvk Private I). II. Lovelace, of Klkin. was in town yesterday, on his way to his home. He was leceiitly discharged from service having been in France for four teen months, and is the proud owner of an Ameiican distin guished service cross, which he won in the drive on the Hindi n burg line last September. On September 1!J la.st, Private I)velace w as a m Tiber of a platoon which was ordered over the top to take and hold two German machine-gun emplace ments which were harrassing Americans. The officers, of his platoon were disabled at the out set, and Ixve!aco ar.d one ser geant took charge of the pla toon. They gained their objec tive and h!d it until relief came, capturing fourteen prisoners. One of the prisoners request ed the privilege of writing a note to his wife, and Ixivclace, forgetting in the excitement of the moment that the request was out of place under the cir cumstances, granted it. The big Prussian immediately lowered his arms an 1 pulled out a fountain-pen. Pemoving the cap, he pressed a little trigger device and a steel-jacketed bullet from the "pen" passed thru the fleshy part of Itvclace's arm. The American states laconically that the German is probably warm er where he is now than he would have been in an American pir.-on camp, anyway.-- Daily Sentinel. SOUTH AMKKICAN INDIANS ON WAK PATH Duenos Aires, April 18. Gen eral Cezar, commanding the Ar gentine troops in the northern territorial districts, says the In dian uprising in Formosa and Chacow, is the worst of recent years. The tribes have been on a rampage since Novemlier. Gen eral Cezar says, because of ex ploitation by settlers who pay them for their work with alco hol and with arms and ammuni tion which they are now using. These tribes rompIetVly annihi lated the settlements a few years ago. Additional cav.ilry has been sent to suppress the uprising, but the task is a difficult one ow ing to the extensive territory. and wounded convalescents, l.'G men. The cruiser Seattle brought 1,6.." officers and men. includ ing 32 casual officers: 11 casua companies; fifth army headquar ters troops, five officers and 330 men: 33.r,th field hospital, four officers and 78 men; 52nd pioneer infantry, seven officers and 420 men. 406th teelgraph battalion, companies L and M, seven officers and 20. men. Debarkation authorities said that from 9:25 to 10:10 a. m., a record was made in docking troon shins, the Virginian. Great Northern, Zeppeline and Graf Walderse being put into their berths in that period by three tuffs. rs r W In I V i tvP V1CT0FTY 1 ! 1 LIBERTY' LOAN J m.l - 1-1 is I . " J , U10 nllli-4. 2 Hurl... r of (ii'in-v. (iln mel uliowlug the lielu- PIGKON THAT SAVKI) "THi: LOST nATTAUO.N" New York. April 19. The army carrier pigeon which sav ed "Whittlesey's lt I'.attalion" in the Argonne Forest, carrying a message to general headquar ters with the location of the battalion and the predicament of Major Whittelsey's command, arrived at Holiokcn Thursday on loaid the transport Ohioan. The pigeon has the distinction of being the only bird in France to w in the di.stingui died service cros:-.. At least in the army files in Washington there re poses a recommendation, signed by General F. U. KussHI. chief of the Signal Corps, of the American expeditionary forces, that the carrier pigeon Cher Ami, of Pigeon Co. No. 1, ! awarded the distinguished serv ice cross for valorous services far in excess of the ordinary call of duty. And Cher Ami came back as a passenger of state, having ex clusive accommodation in the captain's quarters, and unlimit ed rations. Those were the or ders of General Pershing after he had inspected the company and stroked the neck of the bird which was responsible for letting them know where the Ist I'.attalion" was located. The pigeon is blue, gray an I white, with a scar across its breast and only a stump of one of its leg:i left. Pigeon com pany No. 1 was in command of Captain John 1.. Varney of 1'ifts- Ik)io, Pa., a veteran of the Cu an, Philippines and I'o:cr campaigns. lie hail settle.! ilown to newspaper work, and in an amateur wav wa-s t mining homing pigeons whin the wai ircke out. When America en tered the war the government called on him for the services of himself and his birds. Captain Carney v;is in charge of the 1,000 pigeons brought back from France on board the Ohioan. "We had learned that it took five days for veteran birds to settle down in a new centre," he said, "and alnnit that many more days of practice before they became accurate messen gers. Cher Ami was always the first to get back. "For all general headquarters knew Whittlesey's battalion was wiped out. It was sure lost. We knew nothing of it, and then Cher Ami came in. He was very much exhausted w hen he hopped into the coop. The message tube was hanging from the stump of his shattered leg and there was a scar across his breast w here lie had been seared by a German bullet. Rescued From I'nemy Trap. "Then we knew where the lost Battalion was, and the army got busy with relieving troops to get Whittlesey's men, or what was left of them, out of the trap into which they had fallen." The headquarters of the pig eon company was in the Haute Marne sector, from where birds were sent out to difficult parts of the front. There were four thousand taken from the United States for active service in France and they flew thru bar rage but some of "Ihem always failed to return. WATAUGA AND YADKIN UIVFK ItAII KAOD SOLD. Lenoir April 20 .The Watau ga and Yadkin Hivcr railroad has passed into new ownership at a purchase price of $200,0oo. Fifty per cent, of the purchase price was put up by the Flk Creek Lumber company, of Grandin, his county, the wes tern terminus of the road, while the balance was subscribed and is being subscribed by the peo ple who live alomr. the road. The town of North Wilkcsboro is al so taking stock, it is understood here. According to G. M. Iccplmur, of Grandin, one of the parties backing the local ownership, the deal was eonnsummatcd last week by C. C. Smoot, of North Wilkeshoro. The deeds are be ing made out now by Frederick Fair, of Oil City, Pa., who liought the road at the receiver ship sale alst December. Mr. Fair held mortgages on the road and bought it in at this sale at $100.0(1(1. Just as soon as the deeds have leen delivered, the new ow ners expect to make the repairs necessary and begin op eration of passenger and freight trains. This will require about three weeks, according to the es timate of the road's engineer. The fact that the F.Ik Creek Lumber company is putting up 50 per cent, of the purchase price of the railroad is taken here as an indication that the lumber company will develop its plant at Grandin and begin the development of its timln r inter ests in Caldwell. Wilkes and Wa tauga counties. The F.ik Creek Lumber company is the new company which Ixnight the in terests of the old Grandin Lum Iter company, which was .sold at a receivership sale two years ago. It is estimated that the company has around T'Wl.OOO, ooo feet of standing timber. In 1910 and 1911 the Grandin Lum Imt company U'gan the develop ment, of this big Itoundery and lad partly built one of the big gest lumber plants in western North Carolina. When the war came on in Furope, causing un settled financial conditions here, it forced this company into bankruptcy just a few weeks le fore it would have been ready to -tart up the mill. The Watauga and Yadkin Uiv er railroad is only alxut 20 miles long. It leads out of North Wilkeslxuo to Grandin. this ounty. The original survey was between North Wilkeslxuo and Lenoir, and at Grandin another spur was surveyed across the mountains through Cook's gap to limine. Several miles of this spur was built before the finan cial stringency came on. Now that the road has passed into new ownership whose only pur pose is for permanency and de velopment it is Mieved that the road will shortly lc extended to Lenoir, and plans for extension to Morganton and Shelby to connect with the Seaboard are leing discussed. WAR TROPHY TRAIN TO TOUR NORTH CAROLINA The "Thirtieth Division Spec ial," a war trophy train named in honor of the fighting Caro lina boys who were with the first to break the Hindenburg line, will travel through North Carolina this week, to give add ed interest to the victory loan campaign, which begins today. Greensboro is the first stop to he made by the special, arriving here on Tuesday afternoon at 3:35 o'clock and remaining until 5:45 o'clock, remaining here two hours. It goes from here to Winston and the tour includes stops of from one to two and three hours each, at alout four score town and cities, returning to Richmond, Va., on May 10. It will cover aliout 2,600 miles. Part of the exhibition will in clude every variety of weapon and equipment used by the al lies in the successful prosecu tion of the war, from rifles, ma chine guns and hand grenades to large calibre cannon. In addi tion ail-plane parts will bo in cluded in the display. Probably the only arm of the service to be omitted from rep resentation in the trophy train wil be the tank corps. Arrange ments had previously been made KX-K A lSF.lt MAY M L'XILL'D TO ISLAND. Palis, April 19. The plan of the council of four to have Del gium prosecute the former Ger man emperor on the chaise of responsibility for the war i.. meiting with objections which are again bringing up the whole subject for revi.sion. Those who have the matter in hand divide the qtaMimi of wii responsibilities into t.vo i!i .lino classes. The fird da s include; military and naval offender., like General Ludetidorll' and Admiial van Hirpitz, and tho..e accused of various excesses against the usual rules of warfare. The see ond class includes former Lni peror William, c-(. iiancellm von Hethmaiiii-llollne; and oth ers whose offense is chiefly of a political nature. Concerning the first cla-s that of military offenders, it is agreed that there is j;o interna tional court-martial suitable t undertake such military trial-, but it is pointed out that every country has its own system of court-martial for militan offen ders within its holders. Thi has developed the suggestion that these counties combine their court-martial and act un der a single rniliUiy procedure codiiiced from all the military codes. A joint court martial would thus be constituted capa ble of dealing with offenders of the first, or military ami naval classes. Concerning the military offen ders it is said a tribunal is not necessary and will Ik; ineffective owing to the legal immunity of H.litical offenders. Therefore, it is maintained that the action against Napoleon I. furnishes a precedent for the determination of the allied course as a general measure of policy for the tran quality of Furope. Some such general policy is designed to reach ex-Fmperor William and other political offenders with P-elgium, or another count r against which the political of fenses charged were chiefly di rected, assigned the duties of se curing the extradition of the in dividual as a preliminary to put ting the general policy into effect. by the government to ship 'whippet' tanks to various cities and towns throughout tho coun try as a separate feature. A unique part of the exhibit will Ikj the display of naval in ventions, perfected under the stress of war needs, and com pleted only at a late data when the signing of the armistice pre vented their introduction into the scheme of modern war fare. As a balm to longing eyes the display will include an assort ment of captured German war material helmets of the crack Prussian guards, large calibre guns used by the Huns an re ducing allied trenches and forti fications, and articles or personal eqipment captured from boche of Heel's. Daily News. IMIORTANT to MKRCHANTS Collector Watts desires that all persons, firms and corpora tions who soil preparations of any kind containing a narcotic drug in a quantity exempted from payment of tax bo notified that they must register and pay a special tax or $1 per year or fraction thereof. The principal narcotic dings sold untaxed are; Paregoric, P.atcmans Drops, Godfrey's Cor dial, and quite a number of others, containing a very small percentage of narcotics. Proba bly most merchants, especially country merchants, sell some of these preparations. They should immediately write the Collector for a form upon which to-register, which form should be exe cuted in accordance w ith the di rections thereon, and returned to the Collector, together with $1, at the very earliest possible date. This tax:' docs not apply to druggists and others who are al ready registered under the law, and who pay a special tax at a higher rate.
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