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A CUran Coral Vimtfunjf at Kd Hip Janrfhj
VOL. 15. NO. 52.
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1918
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
IKE SOHHE RiVER TAKEN BY GERMANS
i
TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER WROUGHT
AMONG TEUTON INFANTRY i
BY MACHINE GUNS.
BRITISH t.INF NOWHERE BROKEN
ON CAMBRAI SALIENT WHERE
FIGHTING IS HOTTEST.
Proceeds of Sale !
Fail to Satisfy
FRENCH CAPITAL BOWED KAISER IS ON M SCENE
IVlain Body of Britiih Falling Back1
Deliberately and Without Confusion
French Are Optimistic. (
Loudon. "Fresh hostile attacks do-
veloped have great strength on Ihe
whole battle, front." says 1'ielil Mar-'
hul lltng's report from h"a'lttMi'ter.s, j
"and thy have continued throughout
the day.
"South of Peronne the enemy sue- i
ceeded. after heavy fighting, In cross- .
ing the Somnie at certain points.
These are. being dealt with.
Berlin (via London). Paris has
been bombarded by German long-distance
guns, according to the German
official communication.
The statements add that the British
In their retirement are burning French
town and villages and that between
th 8omme and the Olse the Germans
are still going forward.
Enormous quantities of booty have
been taken by the Germans, according
to the statement which follows:
"Between the Somnie and the Olse
our corps are fighting their way for
war Chauny has been taken.
"Our booty In war material Is enor
mous. The British. In their retire
ment, are burning French towns and
villages.
"We have bombarded the fortress
of Paris with longdistance guns.
"A gigantic struggle is taking place
for Bapaume. A battle Is in prog; ess
on the Transloy-Combes-Maurcpas
line.
"The Snmme has been crossed at
many points In our attack bc?wec;i
Peronne and Ham."
The withdrawal of the British forces
along the battle front In Frame wis
long ago planned in the event of the
Germans attacking in great force. This
announcement comes from the British
front through the Associated Press
correspondent, who describes the op
eration of the British army as a mas
terly withdrawal, made possible hy
gallant shock troops in the front
lines, who checked the advance of the
Germans, while artillery, machine gun
and rifle Are worked appalling slaugh
ter among the masses of German In
fantry as they were sent forward, this
enabling the main body of the British .
ti fall back deliberately and without
confusion. . !
This army, It Is declared, has been i
conserved, and up to the present very j
few counter-attacks have bcn made I
against the Germans. Where the Brit-1
Ish have stormed the Germans" newly
acquired positions they have driven i
them back. But each mile of advance
makes the bringing iin of compiles ml
the German artillery and infantry I
more and more difficult, and unques
tionably the British strategy, as dem
onstrated since the beginning of the
great attack, Is to let the enemy, so
far as be may. wear himself out
against a powerful defense.
Both British and French forces,
where their lines meet south of St.
Quentln. are watchln events with op
timistic eyes.
About 400,000 German Troop Engaged
In the Fight Try to Retake Part
of Line Captured by Byng.
London. Sixteen thousand prisoners
and 2oo guns have been captured by
the Ccrans. according to a German of
ficial communication received by wire
less. The text of the communication
follows:
"The successes in the fighting be
tween Arras and La Fere were extend
ed in the continuation of our attack.
"Sixteen thousand prisoners and 200
guns have 10 far been reported cap
tured. Before Verdun the artillery
duel continued. From other theaters
of the war there Is nothing new to re
port." Withstanding Ferocious Onslaught.
In a battle that has rivalled in fe
rocity, any that has preceded It dur
ing three and a half years of warfare,
the British, on a 60-mile front, have
withstood the great German offensive
In its Initial stages. At tome points
the British line has been bent back,
but not as much as had been expected
by military experts acquainted with
the forcoB the Germans had brought
up and the power of the guns they
had upon and behind the line.
As the result of the struggle on that
part of the front Just west of Cambral,
where Ihe fighting was apparently hot
test, the British line has nowhere been
broken and Field Marshal Halg's men
have Indicted frightful casualties on
the enemy.
The first reports of Infantry fighting
were Indicative of an attempt on the
part of the Germans to drive wedges
into both sides of the Cambral salient.
Isolate the British troops farther east ;
and regain the lllndenburg line, from i
which they were driven on Novem-!
her 32. 1917. by General Byng's Bud-j
den blow. Subsequent dispatches j
have proved I hat this was. Indeed, the ,
plan of the German general staff. The !
fighting on the rest of the 50 mile !
front was but a side Issue to the ter
rific onslaught aimed at Gauche wood
and Lagnicourt, the south and north
bases of the salient.
Office Furniture and Mining 8tock of
George 8. Groves Brings Grand
Total of $210.10.
Whoever heard tell of a bank ac
count bringing a premium? Well. Ceo
S. Groves had a credit with The Heo.
pies Loan & Trust Company of J9.4S
which brought at public auction here
Thursday $'i.50. Another astonishing
; trade was that of the holdings of Geo.
' S. Griives in The Groves Mining Cor
! poratlon and The Southern Fuel Cor
! poratlon. Ills combined holdings In
' both corporations went at the hand-
some sum of $21. Whether W. H.
! flivens of Aqucdale. N. ('., who bid in
; this stock will realize on it we will
: not uttcnipl to prognosticate. But
, wltcfher he does or l ot he. or his cli
ent. Is In the hole about a hundred
; dollars anyhow, ami what ditTorenee
i does It make. If he had bid a hun
dred dollars on this one thousand dol
lar corporation It v.'ou!:! have he'Mi all
the same to him for his judgment
called for $210 and all the bidding he
could do pushed the grand total of
proceeds only to the $210.10 mark, and
this In the face of the fad that ha
bought over half the stuff sold The
many Inter-pleaders and those who
were sacked and didn't enter plea to
the tune of ten thousand dollars can
only walk around and grit their
teeth and Bhake their fists while the
famous wood magnate walkB the
streets of Ihe capital of the nation as
"the builder of attractive homes."
That Is. unless some loop hole is yet
discovered whereby the young cap
italist may be brought to taw and
made to pay for the thousands of cords
of wood he bought throughout the
Carollnas and didn't pay for. The
sale was conducted In the suite of of
fices occupied by Mr. Groves in the
First National Bank building Thiirs-
day beginning at 11 o'clock. H. T. Ful
j ton acting as auctioneer and Recorder'
j P T. Falls as director of the sale.
) W. H. Blvens. an attorney of Aquev
I dale, Stanly county. N. C came to
Kings Mountain several weeks ago
with accounts against Groves for wood
j bought in his section. Groves confess
ed Judgment, his office furniture was
I attached along with his mining Inter-
ests and bank account and the office
! locked un. The sale Thursday was.!o
satisfy the Judgment but It failed to
satisfy. As the office was about to be
I closed here Groves opened up in Spar
; tnnburg and styled his business The
Southern Fuel Corporation. His broth-
Camp Chronicle Is
Name Given To
Gaston Camp
BE
Camp Located Ne.ir Gnstonia It Nam
ed for Major Chronicle. Who W.i '
One of the Heroea of the Battle of !
Kings Mountain and a Native of
Gaston County.
Tilt- camp at (,:i!iiii;. v.hlrh torves
ns iircotnniudjif Inn for t ! Kinn-
M(.;niiain An i IJrry Kiiny h;is hc:
ofl'if'UiIly rk'slfinalr., lt j ramp Cltnuil
cle by Ii'SiernI ItaMiitt in ha-p of
the ciiiup.ar.il rniiEr. Major William'
rhjonich v.as hum and reared rn-ar
tli- present town of MrAd'-nvillc In
Huston rmn.ty and w:is one of ih'1
rnif"rni Aini'ririiT);; in r lu- bmUe of :
. Kins MiMiiiiiiin. It is i"i:it'-Iy minis;
that the nuiiic of ihl; !'.-o -OkiuM )m
Ihiis Im-xi-"'! at'd t'v 'oj)!n M this
; sM-tiOH i 11 i'.r-r;.' !)i atii a of
the new li.mp w'Mi :i.pr.'. i:M mii mul
1 satisfaction
TIim runs l'c,7rn bofitn'np awav a' ;
1 the pliitiaclf of Kin" Monnriiin th"
middle of Ii'st wee'.; T1) puns may
, be heart, verv disthn-My in (own and )
j further on in th county.
BRITISH FRONT
TERRIFFIC STORM OF ARTILLERY
FIRE OVER FRONT OF 50
MILES.
NO ATTACK GN AMERICANS
BETWEEN FOUR AND FIVE BIL
LIONS TO BE RAISED BETWEEN
NOW AND JUNE 30.
SOME U.S. TREASURY FIGURES
Three Deserters
Captured Here
Two desertprH from ihe Artillery
I Range at Landrtiin. S. C were ap-
tured here last week by Chief Duncan
f who turned thm over to Corporal
j "William Warwick a::d Private Oscar
j Muller who were snt for them. An-
other ma;.. s!y:h.R hinsolf S?;-.;th. who
! had vvrlci'tR in t''e DiDi'ijr mill
for iibmi' two welts and in wNse
i grip a uni'o'-m was found v;'.s al.-o
taken l'i Military tint T-r.t" : m- for in
! ve'-tiMa n. H" crme here with ft
woman clipifr.j? her wife and con
j Kinded s'i arifj iOy th:.! hn w.ih never
s a sold ej . This man w:w turned up hy
I a soldier hoy nt home on furlough,
Cavalry Horses On
Streets Friday
Two horses from the Kings Moun
tain Artillery K;iM!;e wert1 on the
atreelH here Friday ar(-nmtmiiel liv
two of the boys In uniform. Tli.il
makes the war n Iitt'p more real to us.
BRITISH AIRCRAFT PLAYS
AN IMPORTANT PART
Paris. The German "monster ran
non" which has been bombarding
Paris has been located In the forest
of St. Oobaln, west of Laon. and ex
actly 122 kilometers (approiimntely
76 miles) from Paris city hall The
gun bomborded Paris during the great
er part 'of Sunday.
The day was ushered In by loud ex
plosions from the 10-inch shells, and
Immediately the alarm to take cover
was sounded. This occurred at StBS
O'clock and many persons sought
Shelter, but greater numbers of them
appeared In the streets on their way
to the churches, which were almost
as well filled as usual. The women
who sell palm leaves on Palm Sun
.days, did their usual business.
LIBERTY LOAN PROBLEMS
' ARE UP TO CONGRESS
Washington. Liberty loan legisla
tion and the controversy over war ma
chinery, r reorganization are the en
grossing topics before Congress.
Announcement by Secretary McAdoo
of the slie and terms of the billions
of new war bonds to be followed by
house consideration of the bill, whose
passage is desired within the fort
night Intervening before the new lib
erty loan campaign. ,.; The light ovei
war organisations .will open in senat
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milt and Wounds Many Germans
With Machine Guns.
London British aircraft during the
fighting along the front in France '-i-d
materially tke infantry forces be
low, killing or wounding many Ger
mans with the machine guns while fly
ing at low altitudes, according to a
British official communication Issued
dealing with aviation.
In addition British aircraft bombed
Important military positions behind
the line and aviators accounted for
numerous German airmen in battles
In the air. The text of the communi
cation follows:
"The mist over the whole front
cleared, but at most places the weath
er was unsuitable for low flying. The
enemy's attacking troops and rein
forcements on the battle front offered
excellent targets to the pilots of our
low flying machines, which poured
many thousands of rounds Into them,
cnusing Innumerable casualties.
"Our bombing machines also at
tacked these targets. In addition to
bombing Important railway station
on the battle front, over 100 bombs be
ing dropped.
"A great deal of fighting occurred
at low altitudes, In wblch 16' hostile
machines were downed and six driven
down out of control. A hostile balloon
was destroyed by one of our pilots.
One of the enemy's low-flying air
planes was shot down in our lines by
Infantry. Three of our machines are
missing."
TURKISH WOMEN TO
SERVE IN THE ARMV
' New Tork. A Wolff bureau dispatch
from Costantinople, published in Ger
man newspapers received here, say"!
the Osmanll Association,, for Wpman'
Service has published an appeal to all
Turkish, women between the ages of
18 and 30 to enroll in the women's bat
talion. The Vakit points out that
Turkish women having already been
admitted to the Held qf . commerce and
public, offices, are now enabled to
enter the army.
er. W. C, Groses, was here at the sale
Thursday and pave notice fhat the
property about to be sold was not the
property of George S. Groves, but that
It belonged to The Southern Fuel Cor
poration in which George S. Groves
owned only one share. We hear hints
of a possibility of an aftermath from
this angle of the affair. Also we get
a whiff that correspondence included
1c the matter sold may bring on more
talk from the standpoint of the cred
itors. But the fart remains that
Groves "skint 'em" and so far got
off with it.
Recorders Court
Man Who Was Cut Pays More Than
One Who Cut Him A Pro
. voked Affair,
There was only one case before Re
corder Falls Thursday. This was the
case of Julius Pearason and John Mc
Danlcl for a fight which occurred a
week ago last Saturday in which Mc
PRnlel cut Pearson severely about the
neck and face. . The evidence showed
that Pearson provoked the fight and
rr,aiTe lt almost mandatory on MrDan
iel to repel him. PearBOn was fined
ten dollars and half the cost piaklng
a total of $1 9.25. : McDanlel was tax
ed with half the cost and $5 fine.
Judge Falls Intimated that if McDan
lel had not used his knife he would
not have been fined at all.
OVER THE LAND OF
THE L0NGLEAF PINE
?flOltT NOTKS OK IXTI HI S T TO
CAIIOI.IMVNS.
The Klotho Mills
Changes Hands
W. A. Mauney and Associates Sell to
John Mason of Salisbury and Asso
ciates Transfer April 1.
W. A. Mauney and associates have
sold the Klotho Cotton mill with' the
38 residences, storehouse nad ware
house, to John Mason of Salisbury,
Oscar Mason of Gastonla and others
of a stock company. W. "A. Mauney
and possibly some of the old stock
holders will Tetaln some slock. The
transfer of the property wll be made
April 1, Mr. John Mason, a' mfll su
perintendent of Salisbury and the
prime mover in the new company, will
move to Kings, Mpuntain?nd mil the
mill. The Herald extends a welcome
to Mr. Mason and his family
War Savings Stamps sold In the
state up to March 1st aviounted to
$849,824.
Captain Kdouard DuPont, French
officer stationed at fr.mp Greene, has
been commissioned as major.
One million Red Cross seals were
sold In the state. Greensboro headed
the list with 210.871 seals sold, while
Raleigh Is second with 111,760 seals
sold. .
A lotrti of 25 cents by every person
In the nation will provide the govern
ment with 2.r million dollars. Moral:
Buy a Thrift Stamp. 1
The per cent of slackers in North
Carolina in the first draft as compar
ed with adjoining stales Is as follows:
North Carolina 4 per cent ; South Car
olina 6 per cent; Ceorgla 7 per cent;
Virginia 8 per rent.
Governor Bickett has pardoned Wal
ter Jones of Wake county, convicted
In February, 1914, of second desree
murder and sentenced to nine years'
Imprisonment. He has served tout
years of his term, and has made a
good prison record.
Pinned under several tons of rock at
the bottom of a thirty-foot well, for
seven hours, Fenner Fowler, a negro
who was engaged In cleaning out a
well in Oborlln when It caved In upon
him, was taken out alive and with no
injuries beyond bruises
Only four men out of 1.000 examin
ed by the Cumberland county exemp
tion board were unable to name the
letters of the alphabet, according to
Dr. J. W. McNeill, medical member of
the board. Two of these were white
and two negroes.
' Lord Reading has been invited,. to
ipeak before the North Carolina Bar
association. '
Bonar Law Says Attack Had Been Ex
pectfd and Great Preparations Made
to Meet It French at Verdun Also
Assaulted.
Kx.ictly 25 months after lit'' '
nuns tj.'li.l.l tile liist'irii battle cf Ver
i un. the thunder of ineir buiib dei-pen-j
ed into a tempest of lire along the
I Ilrltish front In Northern France anil
j they begun what may be the greater
, battle of the war. a struggle which
muy lead lo resuliK which will shape
' the destinies of luilllonv of people
! over coming centuries.
I The attack was made on a scale
I hitherto unknown during this war of
j hiajor offensives. It was over a front
j of 50 miles. Official reports arc very
i brief, but correspondents at the scene
! tell of the terrific storm of artillery
j tire that burst over the lines held by
j Field Marshal Halg's men.
J The bombardment began at 5 o'clock
! just before the early spring dan was
! breaking over eastern France. Shells
of large anil small calibers were min
ed upon the llnfis held ' the British
for about live hours. Oii'ii German in
1 fantry stormed out lo make the first
great assault. The Germans, favored
bv the wind, moved forward under
fever of a pall of smoke which hid the
assaulting columns from tin eyes of
the British holding the front lines.
Describing the battle. Andrew Bo
nar Law informed the house of com
mons that lightly held portions of the
British line had been withdrawn, but
. said that there was no need for alarm
on the part of the country. The cor
respond! nt at the British front re
; I'orts that pn attack there had been
' expected and that great preparations
; had been made to meet It. The Ber
lin official report says that .the Ger
mans have penetrated into some Brit
ish positions.
Nor were the German efforts con
centrated on the front held by the Brit
ish. The Germans assaulted the
French lines near the village of Ornes.
j to the northeast of Verdun, and claim
to have penetrated a considerable dis
! tance. Near Flheims. too. the French
were subjected to an assault ; but
here the artillery Are bore the burden
of the lighting,
j The attacks at Verdun and Rheims.
i however, may be considered for the
time being as mere diversions to Ihe
j principal attack, which has been loos-
ed against the British. They would
serve to keep French forces at Verdun
and Rheims from being transferred
! to the British sector, if that part of
j the battle line should show any signH
I of bending back.
No Report from United States Lines.
Nothing has been reported as to
attacks on the lines held by the
Americans. -It had been expected that
the Germans would make an assault
j on the American-held trenches In the
j Lorraine and Toul sectors .acting on
i the theory that troops which have
not had experience in engagements of
i the first degree might ba found to
I yield easier than veterans. That such
n attack may be launched, and with I
only slight artillery preparation. Is j
! within the possibilities. I
I . The activity on the American sec
tors during the past three weeks
would Indicate that the Ge-mans
have been concerned with the disposi
tion of General Pershing's legions,
their probable strength and the loca
tions of the batteries supporting the
nfantry holding the lines.
' The French official reports state
that the Germans have been san
guinarily repulsed in a number of en
gagements, notably on the Verdun and
Lorraine fronts,
Receipts and Disbursements Made
Public Size of Liberty Loan Not
Announced, But Will Probably be
' Five Billion Dollars.
Washington. Imminence or Sc.
retary .McAiloo's annc'inccmctit of tiie
, size and Interest rate of the third Lib-
erty loan, to open April U, gave spe
cial importance to a treasury nr.
! noiinccment. of government receipts
; and expenditures, from wblch might
' be calculated ,ith fair accuracy the
i sum the government would need be
fore the end of the fiscal year. June ;i(
Outstanding features of these fig-
ures. as unofficially analysed, were
; that war costs are not Increasing from
J month to month as had been expected,
j and that ordinary eipri.sea and loans
to allies In the next three and one
j half months probably will not b
i much over I4.00fl.oon.noo. To this
must be added the necessary outlay
J of about $.1,165,000,000 to reduce cer
j tiflcates of Indebtedness now out
) "landing and maturing before June 30;
I $500,000,000 for the government's
capital In the war finance corporation.
; whose creation Is expected sor.n; and
$500,000,000 to provide a current
working balance at the end of the
year. These would make a total of
; $8,655,000,000 needed between now
1 and June :t0.
On the other side of the boo!t
might be placed the $SF,: .noo .AftO
working balance on hand loclav: $2..
816.000.0no estimated receipts from
income and excess profits' tuxes and
other Internal revenue sources; $75
000.000 estimated miscellaneous re.
ceipts; $4.1,000.000 estimated customs
receipts: approximately $200. 000. one
revenue expected from sale of war
savings and thrift stamps and $50
000.000 to b received In the next
three days from a current Issue of cer
! tiflcates. These would make a total
of nearly $4,500,000,000 which migat
he expected to flow Into the treasury
i between now and June 30 from other
sources than the Liberty loan
PLANS TO STRETCH
THE FLOUR SUPPLY
GERMANY'S RELATIONS
WITH HOLLAND ALTERED
London. Dispatches from The
Hague report that a local new agency
says that Germany considers her rela
tions with Holland altered by the atti
tude of the Dutch government toward
the entente and the United States and
publishes a report 'hat the abandon
ment by the butch covernment of the
remaining reatrlcti'ie clauses in Its
shipping loan terms would be regarded
r Germany as caul tor war.
Washington - The food administra
tion announced the first of steps plan
ned to stretch flur supplies suffici
ently to feed the country and maintain
shipments to the allies until the next
harvest.
Beginning with the baking trade,
which uses 40 per cent of the whe it
flour consumed In this country. Ihe ad
ministration has approved plans for n
division of flour supplies between
shops, sharing nf wheat substitutes,
and for a nation-wide educational
campaign to eliminate waste which
will be worked out at a meeting in
Chicago.
Further restrictions on the consump
tion of wheat, which were announced
as under consideration, will be put
into effect next.
Aside from the shortage of wheat
In the United States, another serious
problem Is confronted by the food ad
ministration In making good promises
to the allies. Not a single week's ship
ment of grain and cereals abroad has
equalled the announced program since
January 1. so that there remains a
deficit of 812.000 tons to be made op
in addition to the regular supplies
Shipments reached a low point la
the week of February 1 to 7. as the
culmination of weeks of bad weather
which demoralised both railroad and
overseas transportation. Only 84.651
tons went abroad in that week Im
provement has been sjiown alnce, but
even with clearing weather, It has
been Impossible to transport the 270
000 tons promised every seven davs.
Since January 1, shipments have to
talled 1,416,914 tons.
BANK CASHIER 18
SHOT TO DEATH
Lexington, N. C. J. Franklin bead
erick, cashier of the Commercial and
Savings bank here, was shot and kilV
ed by J. Graham Hege, in the sitting
room of the letter's home. Five shots
In all are said to have been fired two
of which pierced Deaderlck's body,
entering the right aide and going en
tirely through the body. Deaderick
rushed from the room and fell from
the front porch to tke yard, and died
almost Instantly. '';