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POLK COUNTY NEWS, lliYON, N..C r IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAY GIVEN ivHKE NEWS CF THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In T"e South land Will Be Pound In Brief Paragraphs Domestic. ; - Taking over ef packing plants will be urged upon the president by a dele gation representing every craft in the industry and headed by John Fitzpat- enemy there can never -be the re rick, president of the Chicago Federa- proach that we hdd back from doing tion of labor,;' which is in Washington, our full share Those ships laden A mob of several hundred citizens of with our supplies of food for men and Hatelhurst, Miss., took Sim Edwards, food for guns must have coal and put a negro, from the county jail and burn- to sea." ed him near the place where he had The new order in the coal situation murdered Miss Vera Willys. was decided upon hurriedly by the "Between -a dozen and twenty men, president and government heads as a most of them negro laborers, were desperate remedy for the fuel crisis droWned in the Estuary channel at and the transportation tangle In the Tampa, Fla., when two skiffs upset Eastern states. in the middle of the narrow channel. Inclusion of War industries among The money taken from the army those to which ' fuel will be denied bank at Camp Funston, Kan. by Gapt. caused some surprise, but fuel" offi- Lewis Whistler, fter he had killed I four ' employees and injured a fifth, said to have been more than $62,000, has been found. s ' The discovery of the mony taken by. Captain Whistler from the army bank at Camp Funston, Kan., probably closes thq case, as far as the theory that Whistler4 had an accomplice is concerned. Six men were killed and three injur; ed on the United States battleship Michigan wThen the ship was caught in. a heavy gale at sea, it has been officially announced in Washington. The men were killed and iniured bv the falling of a cage mast, the first accident of its kind in th,e navy. A bomb addressed to Governor Wil liam D. Stephens' mansion at Sacra mento, Cal., has been intercepted at the Ferry postofflce in San Francisco. This is the second attempt to assassi nate the California governor in three months. ASan Francisco dispatch says that Germany's latest attempt to destroy the wheat crop of California and oth er states has taken the form of ship ment to this country of powerful poi sonous pollen to be distributed by German agents in the western states in such a manner as to k;U the entire wheatNitput of that section. . Washington. r .Manufacturers -in the 28 states east . of the Mississippi river have virtually suspended in obedience to the govern ments order forbidding the use of - fuel. Millions of person were made idle I as a result of the order. According to reports from Washing ton, most of the plants engaged on war' contracts were exempted from the fuel orders operation, but few of them learned of it in time and most of them closed down with the other factories. A' price of $75.50 a ton, f. o. b. sea board for the nitrate fertilizer, which the department of agriculture has pur ' chased in Chile, was announced Uy ' Secretary Houston. ,In buying nitrate fertilizer, the farmers must pay the freight charges from ports and the state tax fees and payments must be in cash, but the ships will be directed to the most con venient pqrts. fiThe South should help win the war by raising its own foodtuffs and elimi nating the necessity of transporting food from other sections of the coun try, said Director -General McAdoo. Secretary McAdoo said the South, without reducing cotton production, fanners ought to produce more milk, and four fishing vessels, butter, eggs, poultry, fruit and yege- The report of the London admirality tabU?s. j .of January. 2 gave the sinking by mine D rector General McAdooV;stated that or submarine for the past week; of 21 if the South can feed iiself it will merchantmen, eighteen being 1,600 release from unnecessary service in r over. the South a vast number of freight Of all Bristish vessels damaged by cars and engines, and will help win enemy action between January and the -war. j" October, 1917, it has been found im- America's manufacturing enterpris- possible to solve four only, according es, j with but Jew exceptions, in all to Thomas J. McNamara, financial states east of ! the Mississippi river, secretary of the admiralty in the were ordered by the government to house of commons of London. ; suspend operations for 5 days begin- AiPautomobile carrying Nakolai Le ning January J8, as a drastic measure nine, the Bolsheviki' premier, was fired for relieving the coal famine. upon when he was driving to a meet- The government has ordered that all lTlg of the council of people's commis- - normal activities that require' heated saries, in Petrograd, but he was not . buildings, observe a holiday on Men- hurt. " day for the next ten weeks. Th's in- A Rome, Italy, dispatch, carries the eludes industry and business- genei-ally gratifying news to the allied' capitals - According to government orders, on tnflt the Austrians have received a Mondays -not only factories, but sa- sanguinary repulse on the lower loons, stores' except for the sale of Piave in the sector nearest Venice, drugs and food, places of amusement Tne Italians captured 150 prisoners and nearly all office buildings will be and a large quantity of guns and war closed. material. An exception is made in the coal The American sailing vessel Monitor order, in the case of shipbuilding as been sunk by a submarine near plant because of the great need for vessels to move suppliesjalready ready for shipment over seas,- The government's move in the coal situation came entirely without warn ing in an order issued by Fue Ad- rainfstratort Garfield, with the approv respected, but that the Turkish gov al of President "Wilson. ernment's domination over other peo- ; An administration bill has beenNn- Dles a hindrance' to the national troduced in congress to register for draft all men who have reached 21 years since June 5, 1917. The bill will probably pass quickly. .The 'British Labor party calls upon the .peoples of the central 'empires to force their. governments to renounce anaexaHon In Europe "with the same food faith in which we are renouncing those in Asia." According: to '-Mr.; McAdoo.. jpne. uf the great ; task3 confronting the American people, Is thai of improving and making thoroughly efficient their railroad transportation system. ! Fuel Administrator Garfield, ex plaining the drastic fuel order, says: "The most urgent thing to be done is to send to the American forces abroad and to the allies the food and war supplies which they v'. tally need. War munitions, food manufactured arti cles of every description, lying in At lantic ports in tens of thousands of tons, whore literally hundreds of ships loaded with war goods for our men and the allies cannot ta!e the ras because their bunkers are emp of coal. The coal to send them on their way is waiting behind the congested freight that has jammed all termi nals." ':'!. Sifcys Food Administrator Garfield: "This is war! Whatever the cost, we must pay, so that in the face; of the cials explained that war plants have produced more material than trans- portation systems could handle. While the government order for business suspension does nof mention ship yards, it is known that they will be permitted to continue operations as usual, although munitions plants will be closed. While even munitions plants are not excepted from the closing down order, preferential list of consumers in whose interest it was drawn is pre scribed. Senator McCumber of North Dakota gave the senate a very gloomy picture of the position of the United States and her pllios in emphasiz'ng his plea for radical speeding u; of the ship building program. According to Senator McCumber of North Dota, the United States mu send 5,000,000 soldiers to balance the manpower of the central powers, and f,000,000 would be needed to make the Germans retreat. According to Director General Mc Adoo, all state railway laws and regu lations will remain in full effect under government operation of the raiiads. The recent ruling of Director Gener al McAdoo in the railroad situation, disposes of the contention that under government operations the raAoads were not -subject to either intrastate rates or other state regulations. European. According to reports from Petrograd a Japanese cruiser was put ashore at Vladivostok and that the Japanese consul declared the Japanese soldiers were there to protect Japanese citi zens. '. A mutiny among submarine crews at the German naval base of Kiel on Jan- 0 uary 7 is reported in a dispatch from Geneva, in which it is stated thirty eigbt officers were killed. According to reports from London, another marked decrease in the sink ings of British merchantmen by, mine or submarine in the week ending Jan uary 16, is noted in the report of the admiralty. In the wrfek ending January 16J only six merchanment of 1,600 tons or over were sunk by mine or submarine, and, two merchantmen under 1,600 tons and two fishing vessels, according to London admiralty reports. The report of the London admiral ty for the week of Jan. 9, reported the loss by mine or submarine of 18 mer chantmen of 1,600 tons or over and three merchantmen under tha tonnage. Fucrteventura. The crew was saved. The Monitor was a schooner of 137 tons, built in 1904. The British Labor party says the sovereign independence of the Turk ish people in theii national home is development of the Turks. Therefore jt calls. r the formation of an inter- national organization Ho take over the i responsibility of governing certain People, such as the Arabs, the Pales- tinians and Armenians, Along the. southern course of the PiTe riTer. the Italians hare added materially to their bridrhead east of Cape Sile, w..v.v.v..vv-v :: :::. .v.s'.v.'.v.v.v.'. -x- : lCol Theodore Roosevelt urging to greuter$etforts fht men of tne snli yarns at Chester, Pa. 2 British drts inc station under tire on the west front. 3 Typof the -hangars that are Ixing built in this country and Franee for America's great air fleet. NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK Astounding Order by Garfield Stops Nation's Industries for Five Days. CAUSED BY THE COAL FAMINE Nine Additional Holidays Decreed Storm of Protests Is Unavailing At tacks on Secretary Baker Continue Central Powers Reject Russian Peace Proposals. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. "It is the earnest desire tf the fuel administration to prevent entirely any dislocation of industry or of la1or." With these words. Fuel Administrator tiarfieUi closed his summary of the most drastic and startling expvriment in domestic and war economy made by this or any other government. For five .days beginning January 18 every fac tory and workshop in the region east of the Mississippi and including all of Louisiana and Minnesota, was ordered closed, with the exception of those ,nanufacturing perishable food or food for immediate consumption. Ten suc cessive Mondays beginning January 21 are ordered to be observed as holidays when the consumption of coal shall cease except in specified cases. Doctor Garfield stated that he ex pected to save 30,000.000 tons of coal by his order. Very likely he will, but his plan, announced without warning, brought a tremendous storm about his head. Innumerably business men. whose affairs were dislocated despite Ihe "earnest desire" of the administra tor, flooded Washington with protests and requests for revocation of the order, but it had been issued after con sultation with and by direction of President Wilson and the wallers had no chance for relief save in those indi vidual instances where it was neces sary to prevent injury to health or de struction of property. Another and most important angle to the situation was the enforced loss of mil'ions of dollars in wages to work ers. Some big concerns did not deduct anything from the pay of their em ployees, hut it was beyond hope that this example would be followed by any considerable number of employers. Congress, stnrtled out of its usual deliberative-calm, got into action im mediately. The senate committee on manufacturers called Doctor -Garfield hefore it and heard an explanation that did not explain, and the senate thereupon adopted' a resolution asking , that the order be delayed for tfve days : for investigation. This Administra tor Garfield, on advice of the president, ignored. In the house various resolu tions were introduced, but immediate action was blocked by certain Demo crats. , As finally issued, the order per mitted ship yards and essential war in dustries to get coal and remain in operation during -the five Workless days. fti The metropolitan press of the coun ,; try in general bitterly scored Doctor Garfield for his order and declared that it not only was a ghastly mistake, but exposed to the world the utter in competence of America to meet a con dition that throughout the war has confronted the nations allied; with us and yet has culled for no such panicky action by any one of theiu. The severe winter weather which paralyzed traffic, and Ihe extraordinary demands for fuel due to wartime conditions are cited by Doctor Garfield as the causef i ,DaK,n necessary m order. The miners oiame me ranroaus ror tne coal shortage, and the railroads blame the "starvation policy" of the government toward ! them for the last generation More coal was mined in the United States last year than ever Wore, the output exceeding that of 116 by 10, 000.000 tons of anthracite and 42.000. 000 tone of -bUamlaous Of tke output a . . oniv aiMnm.i per cent was exponeu, .is.. . . . . .....l mostly to Canada. Yet, within the last week Knghid sent coal o us, in order that supplyijdiips might hot be stopped Out of tf fire of congressional in vestigation jhe marine corps has come with added$uster. the contrast to war department conditions heinj: sndly house committee said the marked. Th corps lias oiten Kept suppneu on wnv basis with mo apparent delays, while about lif.0(Hf recruits during the year have heen Improperly - housed, clothed, fed and trained. The secret of this lies in the diet . that Maj. Oen. George r.arnctt, commandant of the corps, be lieved in preparedness. Two months before America entered the war lie or dered riO.(XXfj pairs of shoes and rtO.OOO Lewis maclfne guns. His purchasing svstem has y worked smoothly and ef fiiently. possibly because he has had the assist at. .ve- of no "doliar-a-week" civilians, wubse capabilities and knowl edge are nfi commensurate with their patriotism. "The bureaus of construc tion and repair and of engineering of the navy defkrtnient also received high praise fromthe, committee. ,. isa - Secretary Raker and his manage ment of thewar department are still the objects ef sharp attack, and the de mands for tfis resignation or, removal increase daljy. His long defense be fore the senate committee was the re verse of satisfactory, and there is de cided diversity of opinion as to wheth er or not hiireorganization of bureaus will cure th evils .that have infested bis department. Daniel Wlllard told -the committiVvtlte new plan was faulty in that it.dljl not concentrate control and relied tfo much on voluntary ef fort, and "Uflmediately thereafter Mr. Willard resigned his post of chairman of the war itj-ilustries board. It was in timated a mf-w chairman 'might not be appointed pending action on the pro posals for 1 1 creation of a war supply department ff administration. Can it he;that Ir. Raker. deep in his pacifist i1i- believes the, war will come to 'nn'i-tMHl; hefore the American troops are cileLoji -to fight, and there fore is williJg that adequate prepara tion for thir active participation in the conflict fdiafl bedelayed? In his review of operations in Europe he says a great tJerrian offensive is to be ex leted on fhfj.west front, but he Is con fident that ie war-worn British and' French armies can vi:hstanl it. I . K Fiene cni'versy raged throughout the week between the (lemiiin groups represented fjespectively ; by Von Luden florff and Vin ; Kuehlniann the pan tlennans ail the nouaniu'xationists. There was p report that the govern nient had oHipromisel the Dispute by yielding to n Kuehlniann as to "the east front. nd assuring Von Luden dorff lhat h4 might grab any land on the west .frot that the military forces of the empire could seize and hold through the ipeaee negotiations. Rut this report jas .unconfirmed. Berlin stated officially on Thursday that tlie central iowers had found the Ituskian prcfosals inacceptahle, and that (iermay mid Austrian t rMps would not withdrawn from tlie o cupieil territories while the war lasts. The Austro-tjJermans, the statement added, do ot intend Incorporating into their respeWive countries the ter ritories now )ccupied by theiu. Trotzky chfug to Ids demands for the right of self-determination for all na tfonalities. aip that prihcpile.supixu ttMl by Lloyd-lge and President Wilson, has taken itslace as almost the lead ing peace tenji of the -opixaients of the central iowef!v The Herman General Hoffman tautBs Hie bolsheviki with tlrs fact that therare inconsNtent bet-uusAports is decreasing every month they are Ageing the l-krainians. hut cording to the Geneva corresnond on tne other j;uti lnmi, Trotzky and theirfellowstlliave periniTted the set ting up of infpen,dent governments in various part of ' ltasxia ' because the people so wied it. Tfiey have just declared, als4 that their government supports, the fright- of Uie AnmMiians in Russia nf Turkey to be 'ndepud ent aud to divide their own 'destiny. Tlie Brltlsli government has so far re ognized the lilsheviki as to estubliKh official relations with their minister Iondon. V, ' Turkestan nnonnced its independ ence on Tuesday. , Petrograd nounced that after ten lays of fighting the bolsheviki forces had seized Irkutsk, eastern Siberia; disarming the Cossacks and military cadets. They also have occupied Oren burg. Among tlie interesting reports that came out of Russia was one to the effect that the former czar and his family had made their escape from Tobolsk. Another story said the for mer czarina- has become hopelessly in sane. IE The abandonment of the Roumanian front by tlie Russian troops led to a nasty little row. Roumanians arrested and disarmed several Russian regi ments, and the Russian government at once put under arrest the Roumanian, diplomats in Petrograd and threatened ftar on Ron mania if the Russian sol diers were nor at once freed. A strong joint protest by representatives of all ' the allied and neutral powers brought about " the release 'of the Rounanian diplomats Then came an astonishing , order from the bolsheviki government for the arrest of King, Ferdinand of Rou nuinia and his incarceration in Ihe fortress of Sr. Peter and' St. Raul. This , was attributed to the action of the Roumanians in arresting some 'Aus trian oflieers who had attempted to pass through the Roumanian lines to fraternize with the Russians. The British labor party came to the front on Tuesday with a message to the Russian people announcing that the British people accepted the prin ciple of. self-determination Of peoples and no annexations for the British em pire, especia'ly in the middle East. Af rica and India. The manifesto - con cluded with an appeal to the peoples of central Europe to help end the war by the defeat of militarism on both sides, and not to drive the British peo ple, as they are driving the Russians, into the terribie choice between con tinuing the cwnfiict and abandoning the only principhs tic fan s;!e the world.' j There is not nnu-h ' be written of the week's figluing. The German pa pers' were talking openly of the com-' ing great offensive on the west front and asserted that a inPlion more troops had been sent into France, but Von Hindenburg-Mill delayed the blow. The activity of the aviators was notable, and the 'allied flying men made several successful bombing raids on German "cities. Karlsruhe especially being hard hit. In Italy the main event of the week was a surprise attack by the Ita'ians. supported by the French, by which cer tain important dominating positions on Monte Asolone were wrested from the Austrians and iheir observation posts destroyed. On Wednesday the Austrians made a desperate attempt to recapture the lost position. For four hours they at tacked fiercely and were stubbornly fought off. finally retiring, leaving the field covered with -their dead. The German, submarines have not been very active of late, the weekly re port of the British admiralty showing only six large British vessels and four smaller ones sunk. One of the sub mersihles. however, emerged off Yar mouth and shelled that pretty English city violently. Three persons were killed. , v ' Further evidence that the submarine service is moat, distasteful to the Ger man sailors is contained in the report from Geneva of another mutiny among the submarine crew's at Kiel, the Ger man naval base. Thirty-eight officers are said to have been kiPed. Tle num ber of r-boats returning to German nc- orrespondent. France is in the throes of a new Call lanx scandal. Ihe former premier being now under arrest on a charge of trea son. The affair was brought to a crisis by information supplied by Secretary Lansing, for It aprx'-ars that Caillaux engaged in intrigues, with Tonnfron Lnxburg in Argentina in I91f and was in communication with the foreign of fice at Berlin with the object of con cluding peace. His plotting in Italy also has. been exposed and document seized there show he planned to make himself dictator of Franee and to with draw that con&tiy front. tfee wmr. 1 HAS RESIGNED SCARCITY OF FOOD AND GENERAL DESIRE FOR PEACE BRINCG RESIGNATIONS. HUNGARIANS ARE DISCONTENT r Minister of Interior Will Form New Cabinet at , Once. Count Czernin Was Head. Held Portfolio of Min ister of Foreign Affairs. The crisis in Austria, arising fro ,: Ihe discontent of the people over th continuation of the war, the scarcity of food and a general desire for pea( p has esulted in the resignation of th Austrian cabinet. For weeks there has been bitter op position to the government on the part of the people and during the last few days this has resulted in nation wide strikes and some disturbances. The internal strife in Austria, an parently due chiefly to war-weariness the high cost of living and 'the dis location generally of economic life, continues to be of absorbing interest. Although the exact situation resulting from the troublous times is not giv en in the extremely meager details available, the dispatches that have crept through are indicative of a sit uation that will require skillful hand ling by the authorities again to brin the dissatisfied ' populace into a stat;.- of tractability. No newspapers in Vienna were per mitted last. Saturday. The only pub lication allowed was a "single sheet bulletin, which told some of the de tails of the nation-wide strike and tlu developments in the peace discussion at Brest-Litovsk. As usual, the han 1 of the German propagandist was c be seen in this one-sheet publication, for the chief announcement in it was from the German social democracy of Austria. This lay stress on last year's declaration of the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister. Count Czerin. that the central powers were ready to make an immediate general peace, without annexations or indemnities. Evidently, however, this statement failed to placate th strikers in Vi enna, who sent a large delegation to wait upon the food minister to inform him of conditions' among the work ing classes and to impress on him that their desire for peace overshadowed and took precedence over all other demands. In Hungary also the people are endeavoring to ascertain what are the prospects for a cessation of hostilities and a return to normal. So insistent has vbeen their efforts in this direc tion that the Hungarian premier has been forced to announce in the lower house of parliament that" the govern ment adhered to the principle of peace without annexation. GOVERNMENT! MAY HOLD RAILROADS AFTER WAR McAdoo Says It Would Be Injurious to Stockholders to Turn Them Back Washington. Changes in the funda mental princileps of railroad opera itoh under, government control will make it inadvisable to turn the roads back to private ownership immediately after the end of the war, Director Gen-. eral McAdoo urged befoVe the senate interstate commerce committee. Unitl "comprehensive and rational legisla tion" to meet the changed conditions is enacted it wToldu be injurious to the stockholders for the government to re linquish control, he added. Examination of the director gen eral on the administration's railroad bill may be resumed later by the com mittee, but Chairman Smith an nounced' that the hearings, including arguments, will be completed later. The committee plans to begin work on the bill and report it to the senate as soon as possible. The chief questions at issue are whether the measure shall fi za definite time for the Teturn of the roads to private ownership and the basis of compensation. STONE'S SPEECH IN THE SENATE STARTS A BLAZE Washington Smouldering fires of partisan feeling were set ablaze in the senate by Senator Stone, veteran Dem ocrat, with a long prepared speech accusing Republicans of playing poli tics in their -Criticisms of the govern ment's conduct of the war. There had been plenty of advance notice of the speech, which adminis t rat ion leaders sought vainly to induce the Missouri senator to abandon or postpone. TWO N. C. SOLDIERS DIE OF DISEASE IN FRANCE Washington. S;xteen deaths among members of the American expedition ary force, 15 due to nautral causes and .one from drowning, were report ed by Pershing, among them were: Private Joseph Bonner, engineer. January 10. pneumonia. Mother. Sa'". Bonner. Box No. 6. RanEomvillar N. C. Private Roland F. !e Arthur, mi rin. January It, cerebt o spinal men ingitis. Mother. Mrs. Ir .-ae Jessie Mr Arthar, Carthage, N. r. A-
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