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THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1917
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1 23 Days on a U-Boat j
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James Moore, son of W. T. Moore
f Yorkviilc, arrived at his home last
!-Mk after being a prisoner in the
ijaiuH of the Germans in Berlin,
' sinre March 3rd. Young Moore had
he wander-lust and took to the sea
on merchant vessels. When captur
ed ho was an able seaman in the
British navy. In an interview in the
Yorkville Enquirer he tells of his 23
,lav? on a German U-boat as follows:
"Thov took us aboard the subma-
'u., !T(lft 1 lpjimpH hp wnK.
rmc uir . .
and huddled us in one oi ine lorpeao
room-- VVe were given bread and
v.aur twice a day and two guards
with Kided guns stood over us from
Kel'ruary 8 until March 3. They
,!ll a little jam to the bread on
','. !av. and they gave us what they
laiit'l coffee. There is not only coffee
el- fa in Germany and on the U
lmat they had a substitute something
i : ,. i' -um. The officers got the first
"i,'r..w. ur.der-ofticers the second brew,
tht new the third and we got the
',;:'.!. We vere allowed to smoke
or,o or twice a day and that helped.
I discovered that the crew con-si.-.nl
of thirty-three officers and men.
Th- captain whose name I never did
learn, could speak English all right
and .-) could most of the crew. He
had lieen in the states eight years.
Ai! the crew were decent enough fel
low? and we talked about everything
but war. 1 was on that boat twenty
three days. In that time eleven vessel-
were torpedoed by the U-60. I
never learned their names or nation
alities. They were too far away and
be-ides we prisoners couldn't find out
anv.hing anyhow. But I noticed that
no more prisoners were brought in.
The Germans explained that there
was nowhere to put them.
"No, I won't tell you the U-boat's
zone, but we kept cruising around for
twenty-three days without going into
port. The food held out all right,
there was plenty of water and the
iub was cool a plenty. The eleven
vessels that fell prey to the subma
rine were found at different times
and none of them attempted to make
a f.eht for it.
"Finally the U-boat anchored at
Heligoland. We seven prisoners were
transferred to a torpedo boat and tak
en to Wilhelmshaven. From there
they took us to Bremen, and after
remaining in that port a couple of
days, we were taken into Berlin. I
was stone broke when I got there and
I don't know what in the world I
would have done if it hadn't been for
Mr. Frederick W. King, a wealthy
American who furnished me with
money to pay my board and lodging
and other expenses.
Locked in Each Night
"I was treated well enough. I had
to rfport at the police station once a
day and was lokced in my room every
night at 10 o'clock. But the rations,
my, I'm hungry yet. Nobody gets
any breakfast in Germany any mora
nothing but dinner and supper. Of
course you can eat breakfast if you
want to, but then if you d you'll miss
either dinner or supper. I lived
principally on turnips and you know
yourself that turnips are poor chew
ing. I was allowed two plates of them
a day, 50 grams of butter and 200
grams of meat a week, and one-fourth
of a pound of sugar every two weeks.
There was no grease with the turnips
they were just boiled in water and
since they are mostly water anyhow,
you see there was not much of food
value to eat. Everybody got the same,
so I had no kick. No matter how
"r-uch money you've got, that'll all
you can get. Of course you can get
black bread, four pounds of it each
week but I never did learn to like it
and haven't yet.
"All food is allotted by cards. You
have to get it at a certain place
all the time. These food depositories
are called 'Everybody's Kitchen,' and
they are distributed all over Germany
It is so in Sweden and Denmark, too.
Everybody gets enough to subsist on,
but there are millions of hungry peo
P'e in Germany.
Saw the Kaiser Twice
. "' "aw Kaiser Wilhelm a couple of
jln'e but since Bill didn't undertake
to -'peak to me, why of course I
atn't inclined to shake with him.
t was a few weeks ago when some
lurl"-h Prince, I don't know his
ame, came to Berlin. The two rod
lnrugh the streets in an armored
automobile. Six soldiers accompanUd
"-three on one fender, two on the
Tr and another sitting in front
lth the chauffeur. There was no
emjmstration as ha passed by, due
the fact that few people recognized
j""- But I knew him all right. Bill
J?nt fount fot much in Germany
"m't near as much as Americans
M for. He is more or lass of a
"Kurehead. it, the powers behind
"i that are doing the devilment. Von
nmawburg i a popular idol; but
J81 ou don't hear much about him
r anybody else. There's nobody in
rrln but women and ther don't talk
... f i . i
r;-War- Whftt they af thinking
out is something to eat.
Don't Consider Us Seriously
"The Germans don't seem to recog
nize the, fact that they are in war
with the United States. They don't
Consider this country seriously at all,
ana tney nave little or no feeling to
ward Americans. I heard very little
war talk. Soldiers returning from the
front are not allowed to talk. Evi
dences of the horrors of war are on
every side however. Women do every
thing, They run. the stores, the
street cars businesses of every kind.
Poverty and distress is to be seen
everywhere.
"But the people are pretty cheer
ful. They expect to win. Of course
they do. What nation does not?
I They drink their beer there is plenty
of that smoke cigarettes, they are
plentiful, too; and go about the af
fairs in their methodical way.
I "I am sorry I can't tell you how
I I managed to get away. It was the
same Mr. King of the Aerograph
(Company, who paid my passage. I
left Berlin on June 13, went from
there to Warnemuda and thence to
Gjedser, Denmark. At Christiana, I
boarded the Oscar II of the Scanda-Inavian-American
line, arriving in
New York, last Saturday. Here I am
back in the home town, alive and well.
"I am going back to England, stay
in the merchant service a short while
and then enlist in the navy of Uncle
Sam whose men are the finest body of
sailors in the world and whose sol
diers are even superior to those Cana
dians who have been doing such
great scrapping across the pond."
LINCOLN COUNTY ITEMS
100 Teachers Examined Wedding at
Denver Hoey Employed in Murder
Case.
The News:
Mr. J. C. Houser of Daniel's section,
and son Mr. Marcus Houser of Char
lotte, returned Monday from a visit
to Shelby.
A beautiful and impressive, though
quiet and simple wedding was
solemnized in Denver Monday morn
ing at seven thirty' o'clock at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Bolick
when their daughter Mary Daily be
came the bride of Mr. Edward Gib
son Brooks of Brevard, N. C.
Tuesdav was county teachers day
in I.incolnton. there being about 100
county teachers in the city to stand
the teachers examination before
county Supt. L. Berge Beam. The
meeting was held in the graded school
auditorium.
Cnuntv Aerent Winn will be glad to
give demonstrations in any section of
the county. If you are interested in
the food conservation, and would liKe
to build up your community commu
nicate with the County Agent and ar
range for canning demonstrations.
Don't wait. Do it now, everybody
will be ready when products are
ready.
Attorney Clvde R. Hoey of Shelby
was a business visitor in town Tues
day. He has been retained as counsel
with Attorney Wetmore, to aeiena
the two King brothers and Davis,
who will be tried next week in Lin
coln court for homicide.
S S. CONVENTION
Program of Kings Mountain Sunday
School Convention to be Held at
Boiling Springs.
Th Rnndnv School convention of
the Kings Mountain Baptist Associa
tion will be held at Boiling tarings,
July 28th-29th. Program is as fol
lows:
Saturday, July 28th
10:00 a. m. Devotional, J. M.
Goode.
10:30 Enrollment and reports ot
delegates.
11:00 Advantages of the graded
lessons.
11:30 Sermon, L. M. Whrte, al
ternate, I. D. Harrill.
Dinner.
2:00 P. M. Devotional.
2:;jo Development of Sunday
School pupils into church workers.
10:00 Exposition on the Sunday
Carme Elam, J. N. Bamett, A. E
Bettis, A. C. Irvin, J. W. Suttla and
n r. Washburn. Service will be
arranged for night if desired.
Sunday, Juiy
9:30 A M. Devotional.
10:00 Expositios on the Sunday
School Lesson for the Day-J. V.
Devenny. .
10-30 When Should the Mission
ary Spirit Begin to Develop in a
Christian-R. C. Campbell and D. r.
Putnam.
11:20 Sermon.
Dinnor.
1:30P . M. Devotional.
o'-ooThe' Sunday School and Mis-sions-A.
P. Spake L. W. fiwope
W. R. BEACH,
Chairman Program Committee.
Anniversary of Flood
Major Green reminded us yester
day that one year ago all of the
bridges were swept away by the des
tructive flood in the South. The
rainfall started a few days earlier,
but the raa) damage was Jear
ago yesterday.
WHAT IS YOUR NUMBER?
The Government is getting ready to draw the numbers of the
men who will constitute the new National Army. The drawing
will take place about the first of next week.
WATCH THE STAR
We have a list of every man registered in Cleveland County,
2,400 of them. This list contains their full names, new numbers
and jostofliee addresses. Just as soon as the numbers are drawn
and are flashed over the wires, The Star will put this information
in type for the benefit of its readers. Watch the paper to see
whose drawn.
If you are not a subscriber, become one now. 70c from now
until January 1st.
SOCIETY NEWS
Garen Party
A patriotic garden party for the
benefit of Shelby's flourishing Red
Cross chapter, will be given tonight
"by the Daughters of the Confederacy.
The spacious lawn of Judge J. L.
Webb on South Washington street,
having been tendered for the affair.
Everyone is cordially invited to
come out and enjoy an evening of
unalloyed pleasure, as games of all
kinds are being provided to suit the
taste of both young and old, and de
licious refreshments will be served.
An admission fee of 25 cents will
be charged and it is hoped that a
neat sum will be realized for this
worthy cause. The garden party will
begin at 7 p. m.
Cantata Given for Benefit of
Red Cross at Auditorium Friday
Night
A patriotic antata will be given in
the auditorium by Miss Bertha Bos-
tic's music class, Fridayjuly 20 at
8:30. A silver offering will be tak
en at the doors for the benefit of the
Red Cross work. Every one. from
town and country is cordially invited
to come and help in this noble cause.
Red Cross Mass Meeting to be Held
At Piedmont High School
Friday 20th
A natriotic mass meeting and an all
day picnic, at which time all of the
citizens of the county in reaching dis
tance are invited to attend, will be
held in the auditorium of Piedmont
High School, Lawndale this week,'
on Friday, July 20th.
The meting is under the auspices
of the Shelby Red Cross Chapter and
a most interesting program is being
arranged for the day, by the neioy
committee and Mrs. Carme Elam,
chairman of the local committee on
entertainment. There will be two
adresses on the" Red Cross work, the
speakers being Rev. Chas. Wood and
Hon. Claude McBrayer of Shelby,
who will be assisted by the various
ministers in that section.
Dinner will be served on the
grounds and everyone is invited to
come out with well filled baskets ano
enjoy a real community dinner as
well as having the privilege of hear
ing these splendid addresses.
The meeting will begin at 10 o'
clock Friday morning.
THIEVES AT CAMPBELL'S
Three Men, Supposed to Have Hid
den in Store and Stole Goods.
About midiieht Saturday a noise
was heard to the rear of Mr. R. E.
Campbell's store and Mis Fuschia
Lackev hearing the noise, called her
father, Sheriff W. D. Lackey who
lives within a few yards of the store.
Sheriff Lackey saw three men, sup
nosed to be white. He fired several
shots at them but they made their
get-away as hastily as they could,
leaving about $15 worth of goods
such as a suit case, shoes, shirts, etc.
Mr. Campbell thinks these men con
cealed themselves behind goods in
c store' during the busy hours Sat
urday night and after the store was
closed, they picket! out what they
wanted and made taeir escape
through the rear door. Mr. Campbell
says they got a quantity or dry
goods but he does not know how to
ascertain the quantity and value.
Police are on the look-out tor the
thieves.
Don't miss the children' cantata
given by Mies Bertha Boatick's music
clase under the auspices of the Red
Cross Friday night at the auditorium.
NOT READY TO DRAFT YET
Census Will be I'sed as a Basis For
Apportionment cf Men to be Draft
id for Hie Army.
Washington, July 11. Postpone
ment until next week of the drawing
of numbers of men who will be called
for examination for the national
army seemed probable today when it
became evident that states are not
completing organizations of their dis
trict exemption boards as rapidly as
war department officials had hoped.
Only twenty-one states have reported
their organization complete, although
in moat of the others only a few are
missing. The drawing will not be
made until the lists for the country
are complete.
A so-called revised census estimate
for the entire country complied on
the basis of the draft registration
will be used for determining appor
tionments. Each city, county and
state must furnish two-thirds of one
per cent of its paper population, ac
cording to the new estimates, which
were made for the purpose of equal
izing the draft rather than to repres
ent accurate population totals. Thus
New York city, with an estimated
population of 6,504,185, must give
43,382 of the 687,0000 young men to
be called on the first draft. A city
with 25,000 population would be re
quired to give 166 men. These ap
portionments would be subject to
alight allowances for alien enemies,
for men who have volunteered and for
other causes.
The population estimates, far from
attempting to show actual popula
tions, simply are improvised figures
reached by considering the number of
registrants in each sub-division as
9.32 per cent of the population,since
the total number registered, 9,659,382
was 9.32 per cent, of the total esti
mated population, 103,635,300. The
process resulted in large dummy pop
ulation showings for cities with war
industries where there has been a
recent inflow of workmen without
their families. Since the figures are
based on the number of men avail
able for military service, however,
officials consider the estimates fair
as bases for apportionment.
Hxemption Pleas
Pleas for exemption of any man
Jneed not be made by him but may
be entered by a wife, other dependent,
employer or any other third person,
the provost marshal general's office
explained in a statement. It also
was explained that any registered
man absent from his home district
need not return for physical exam
ination, but may be ordered by his
home board to be examined else
where. Collector Watts' Four Years
Landmark:
Today Collector Watts rounds out
four years as collector of internal
revenue in this district. During the
four yoars he has collected $50,615,
378.17 of revenue.
As indicating the wonderfu in
crease in the tobacco industry in the
district, which is the main sourc ) of
the increase in iaternal taxes. Collec
tor Watts' procedessor, Mr. Geo. H.
Brown, collected in the seven years
he was in office, a total of over
$24,000,000. In the four years suc
ceeding the taxes have more than
doubled the amount collected in sa-
en years.
Mrs. Dedmoa 111
The many friends of Mrs. Roxaaa
Dedmoti, wife of Mr. H. Dedmon who
livea or the Saelby-Fallston raad
will regret to learn that she is criti
cally ill. Sht it in her eighties.
NEWS OF CURRENT EVENTS
Incidents Gathered From All Parts of
The Country.
,' The American barkentine Hilde
gard, from Harve" to St Thomas,
West Indies, was sunk by a subma
rine. The crew was landed uninjur
ed. I Entry of the republican troops
from Pekin is announced in a dis
! patch to the Chinese legation in
Washington, including that the mon
archical coup had come to a com
plete failure.
James W. Gerard, former ambas
sador to Germany, has resigned from
the diplomatic service and returned
to private life. His resignation was
accepted some time ago, though the
fact was not made public at the time.
John Lampas, a young Greek of
San Francisco, gave the Red Cross
his touring car, his gold watch, his
bank deposit of $521 and $25 in
cash. Having thus, he said, dispos
ed of all his worldly possessions, he
enlisted in the army. ' I
Because he sang a parody extol
ling the Kaiser, at a postofTice clerks'
excursion two weeks ago, Fred M.
Bock, an employe of the Washington
city postofTice for 26 years, was dis
missed by order of the First Assist
ant Postmaster General.
Howard Morton, 70 years old, a
Southern author, died in Washington
last week and was buried in Rich
mond, lie was the son of Gen.
Jackson Morton of Pensacola, Fla.,
who was a member of the United
States Senate in the days of Web
ster, Clay and Calhoun.
A housewise in Paris cannot buy
a 50-pound sack of coal at any price,
but large consumers have been ob
taining it in lots of from two to ten
tons at $75 a ton. This situation
was disclosed in the debate in the
French chamber of deputies on the
economic situation.
Carrying liquor into dry States,
though intended only for personal
consumption, and not for sale, is inter-State
commerce and a violation
of the Federal "bone-dry' law, ac
cording to an opinion handed down by
United States Judge Charles F. Am
idon at Fargo, N. D., said to be the
first dealing with the subject.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels has
asked Congress to appropriate $45.-
000,000 for naval aeronautics in ac
cordance with the amounts carried
in this year's appropriation bill. The
navy is working out a considerable
air programme of its own aside
from the great $650,000,000 military
aircraft project for the defense coun
cil. Dependent wives and children of
all soldiers would be granted Federal
allowances during the war by a bill
introduced in Congress by Represen
tative Rankin, the lady member from
Montana. Waives with no children
would receive $30 a month, those
with one child $45, those with two
children $60, and those with more
than two $75.
Three persons were burned to
death and four others seriously in
jured by fire in the plant of the Inter-State
Sanitation Company at
Cincinnati. The fire was caused by
the explosion of a 250-pound tank of
chemicals, the shock partially wreck
ing the building, trapping employes
and several families living in the up
per stories of the building.
The electibn of Fred C. Harper,
of Lynchburg, Va., as grand exalted
ruler the unanimous choice of At
lantic City, N. J., as the 1918 con
vention city and the adoption of a res
olution pledging the support of the
474,690 members of the order to
President Wilson "in this time of
trouble," were events of the meeting
of the grand lodge of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks in
Boston.
MR. COSTNER DEAD
Cleveland County Man Dies of Fever
In Durham Is Buried at Pleasaat
Grove.
Mr. Paul Alexander Costner died
Wednesday in Durham of typhoid
fpver and his remains were breurht
to this county where the interment
took place at Pleasant Grove Baptist
church. Friday, Revs., J. F. Moser and
A. C. Irvin conducting the funeral
services. Mr. Costner was the son oi
Mr. Alex Costner and grand-eon of
Mr. Ham Williams. He was born
snt 23rd 1896. and was therefore
20 years, 9 months and 23 days old.
Mr. Costner joined the Baptist church
at Double Shoals and four years ago
and lived a Godly life. He wa mar-
rie about three months go to a wid
ow with two children who survives.
together with his father, mother, nine
brothers and two sisters. U uornam
boon amnloved on the street
railway system and developed typh-
aid rever from wiuca ae was ckk zv
daye.
CHARLOTTE GETS
CAMP TOR ARMY
THIRTY THOUSAND SOLDIERS,
12,000 HORSES, 2,500 AERO
PLANES ARE SOME OF THE
THINGS THAT GO TO MAKE UP
THE CAMP.
From The Observer:
The announcement in The Obser
ver Friday morning that Charlotte .
had been designated as one of the
sites for a national guard canton
ment brought expressions of satis
faction from business men and citi
zens generally. While it is recog
nized that Charlotte faces a big task
in caring for the thousands of soldiers
who will be here, and the many visi
tors who may be expected, the city
is risihg to the occasion, and by the
time the first troop trains begin to
roll in with the lads from up New
England way, the city will have got
ten in shape to take care of the boys,
both physically and socially.
That things will be humming in a
very few days was apparent Friday,
when it became known that large sup
plies of lumber and other materials
needed in the construction of the
camp were being ordered by tele
graph. One Charlotte firm, it was
said, has sold an immense quantity of
lumber. Other supplies in great bulk
are being ordered also.
Just when the actual work will be
gin could not be learned, although
almost at any day now army engi
neers are expected to arrive to lay out
the camp site, the regimental streets,
locate the headquarters and designate
where the city is to lay the water
mains and where the car company is
to lay its track. These will be among
the first things, and it will be around
them that everything else is con
structed. Not only will there be constructed
sewer lines and water mains, but the
railroads wijl ery probably build
switches to handle troop trains as
well as the supply trains. Some idea
of how much material will be handled
here can be understood when it is
learned that there an some 400 cars
of materials already upon the tracks
at one of the camps, near Atlanta.
It takes much equipment to supply
30,000 men and 12,000 horses. Ther
will be carloads of tentage, harness,
saddles, wagons, motor trucks and the
thousands and one things needed in a
modern army camp.
Aeroplane Fleet Attract.
A feature much commended upon
yesterday by Chanotteans was the
fact that some 2,500 aeroplanes are to
be located here. This is an unexpected
feature, and is of as much interest as
asything else connected with the can
tonment There are peoplo in Char
lotte who have never seen an aero
plane, ami they wilLf.t inu:h enjoy
ment from seeing th air full of them
on clear day.. Vi .a'.-r will be
like! to droi in oi the city nt almost
any hour :i the day or night, since
tearing to fly by night is as import
ant as flying by day.
Government engineers are erpect-
ed to arrive here early next week to
lay out the camp. It is not expected
that any real .work will begin before
that time. In the meuitunv however,
the families living upon the ground
which is to be, used for the canton
ment will receive notica . that the
government is to take over the land,
and they will have to seek other
homes. A number of growing crops
will, of course, be destroyed, but
these crops will be paid for and the
owners will also be paid for giving
up the land. The various. options are
held by local real estate men who are
furnishing the ground, together with
the central committee, for the pur
pose. It is understood that the canton
ment will be partially wooden and
nart canvas. As well as can be learned
the supply houses, headquarters,
mess halls, etc., will be constructed
of wood while the Quarters for the
men will have wood floors and sides,
a few feet high, and the hope will be
of tent material.
Tho entire camD will be laid off in
strnpta. and the work of building the
streets will be under the direction of
the engineers corps. The men of the
varirtua units will also have part ra
thn actual work of building the many
avenues aad cross streets. It is cus
tomary to lay off the camps in sheck-
erboard style and the camp here win
probably follow out this idea.
Mr. A. L. Rucker Dead i
Forest City Free Press:
Uf Arlin L. Rucker. former aaDer-
imtendent of county schools died at
his home in Green Hill Tuesday
morning, aged 78 years. He had
Uir KAPn a leader in the church, edu
cational and political life of the coun
ty. He represented Rutherford in
the legislature geyeral yeaas ago. The
funeral and buriel took place at
Green HUL Deceased is survived by
hto widow and the following childrea.
Dr. A. A. Ruaker, M. M., ana J. a.,
aid Mist Nan Rucker.