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JUNE ! 23 TO 28 IS WAR SAYINGS WEEK. - MOST GO OVER TOP SI"- ' til IllMl mm . r WS.S. (JOTTED STATU nonuuumt 2.: WS.&, 1DJtUriNWUMF llllltl IV THE UNITED STATU OOVWIKMENT Vol. 16, m 12. Kings Mountain, North Carolina, Thursday, June 20, 1918. $1.50 A1 Year in Advance I'v ARE TRANSFERRED i Nearly 240,000 transfers of men from one unit to another lave been made in Army camps s a result of occnpatinnal quali fication determined byinvestiga- : lion by the War Department cow- ' tnitteo on classification of perao Bo. Recently about 40,000 trata i en have taken place each week. Through the committee orga- nizations have been built up in all the Army camps, by which .enlisted men and commissioned officers are classified according : to occupational qualifications. In pome canons, where as many as 2,500 men are leceived daily, 1 forces of 200 interviewers are employed to ascertain full Infor mation . regai ding each mans occupation, education, experien co, and special qualifications. STEVENSON IN THE PEN; WANTED HERE Chas. R. Stevccson wanted here for forgery and fraud writes a Kings Mountain lady that he is safe in the penitentiary and on light work.' Stevenson ww recently tried in Rockingham, it Is understood, for check flashing etc and it was expected" that he would be brought to Kings Mountain to render account for fraudulent chocks he - passed while passing off as an insur ance man here' iast winter, as soon as tbo Rockingham folks got through with him. Guess wo will have to wait our turn at the bat. SUGAB RATIONS CUT DOWN N.G. WAR SAVINGS PROGRAM BEGINS JUNE 23; ENDS JUNE 28 Col F, H. Fries Outlines Plan of War Saving Week and How Drive Can Be Made a Buoceis .jjj STOP, rrtr-A-T', c- i 1085 CISULT1ES IN FRANCE I i wasrMBgron, june iu...eeven i hundred and seventy casualties reported among tho American I expeditionary forc.es during the .. i ... i . i i .1 j ween ending louav orougns me total since American troops first j landed in France nearly a year ago to 8,085, r rt Tho second weekly summary p ! of casualties issued today by the i war department shows that thr total number of deaths from all is 3,192, while 4,547 men have I beenwooaded in action and 346 r ' are uissing in actios, including all men held prisoners in Germa b The summary which Includes I today's list, follows: !' , Killed in action (including 291 at sea,) 1,172. , Died of wounds, 364. '; Died of disease, 1,231. t - Died of of Accident and other & causes, 422. J Wounded in aation, 4,547. Missing in action (including I prisoners), R46. 1! Total casualties reported to 1 date, 8,085. With more than 800,000 soldi rrs sent overseas, officials polut ed to the small number. 291, lost ji through operatioua of German submarines as showing the eff ectiveness of tho convoy system. The men lost were on the Biit isb steamers Tuscania and Mol f davia. The former wai taking troops to England and the latter from England to France. The comparatively small num ber of men dying from wounds is pointed to as Indicating the effl- 5ciency of the ambulance and hos pital systems, while the fact that only; 1,234 men have died of (meases 'is accepted as, proof of the excellent physical, condit ion of America's fightinj men. Another satisfying considura lion is that of the wounded men, a very high percentage retutn to duty at the front in less than six weeks. :''.-f,.';y.-J- - 1 I Paul Urenhas .been home on lurloesu for a few days. . Raleigh, June Effective June 13th, State Food Administrator Page announced a reduction or bU per cent and more in the maximum quantities of sular that might be sold by dealers to individual con sumers and required all dealers. wholesale and retail, to keep an ab solutely accurate record of all sales of sugar to their customers, the re-j cord to include name of purchaser date of sale, quantity and price. Ef fective the same date, quantities of sugar that might be sold to individ uals who desire the same for can ning and preserving purposes, was reduced from fifty to twentyfive pounds. Individuals who need a greater quantity of sugar at one time can purchase it on approval of their County Food Administrator. AH commercial users of sugar for less essential products have already been cut 80 per cent of their last year's consumption ;nd in all prob ability there will be a further cut after July first The curtailment in the use of sugar for such products and the mere stringent restrictions government sales of sugar have been devised in order to assure an ample supply of sugar for domestic con sumption and for canning and pre serving. The Food Administration has an nounced repeatedly that it desires to encourage in every way the use of sugar fqr canning and preserving lt'iough it desfcs ihat cere and economy be exercised even in this use. ' i State Food Administrator Page has invited manufacturers of bev erage syrup and owners of r bottling works and soda fountains to join an honor roll of non users of sugar un til the present situation is relieved. A large number of hese establish ments which have been found to have exceeded their allottmeht have been closed up temperarily. The Food Administration is pre paring to put a number of inspect ors in the field in ' North Carolina j and will be able to quickly . detect any violations of rules and regula- ' tions governing the sale of sugar or . any other food product and the temper of the Food Administration indicates that willful violators and food "hogs" may expect no mercy at ' the hands of the Food Admuustra-j tion when they are caught I .- - i imu.v WAR SAVINGS TAMPS CAN STOP THIS. Sunday, June t Schools and Churches. PROGRAM. War Barings Messages will be delivered la Sunday Monday, June 24: House-to-house canvass beglni. Tuesday, June K: House-to-house canvass continues. Meotlng of workers at night at township schoolhouse to make reports. , Wednesday, June 16: House-to-house canvass continues. Thursday, June 17 1 House-to-bouie canvass finished, Meeting and report of workers, Friday. June 18: National War Barings Day. Every taxpayer sum moned to meet at school house to secure all additional pledges required to make township's quota. Saturday, June it: Meeting of township and ward chairmen to tabu late results of drive. EATING PUCES HUE REGULATED Kaleigh, Juno 18The hotels, restaurants anl boarding houses of North Carolina wfro today practically put on beef ration by State Food Administrator Henry A. Page who addressed a lotter to them requesting and requiring that they restrict their consumption of beef in accordan ce with this program: boiled beel at not more than two meals weekly; beef steak at not more than one meal weekly; and roast beef at not more than one meal weekly. Households are requested un aer no circumstances to use more than one and one fourth pounds oi clear Deer weekly or one and one half pounds includ ing ine oone ior eacn person in the household, ' in his letter to the hotels, res taurants and . boarding houses, Mr. Page states: "Your industry and the public at large will real ize that the changing situation in shipping and therefore of the markets avail ible to the Allies and the increasing demands for our growing Army, with the fluctuating supply of local beef in France, all combine to make it impossible to determine poli cies for long periods in advan ce. The co-operation of the Amer ican public in the canservation program of the Food Adminis tration officials are convinced that the more effective results can be secured through frequent hanges of conservation policy to meet the needs of different seasons or different conditions instead of enforcing bard and fast rules without flexibility. 23-28 W. S. S. Week SIfl STOP OUR PORTS London, lune III. Tho German admiralty intends to declare tho eastern coast of the United Sta tes from Mexico to Canadian waters a danger zone and will warn neutral shipping, says a dis,' .tch to tho Exchango Tele graph from Amsterdam, quoting reports rpceived from Berlin. 50,003 AMERICAN I I MEN IN FRINGE When the 5 new regiments and 19 batallions of railway en gineers now being organized are put on duty there will bo 50,000 Americans engaged in railroad construction and operation in France. After the United States enter ed tho war one of tho lirst re. quests trasmitted to this Govern ment by tho French mission was for assistance in strengthening tho Frence railways. Nine rc gimeuts railway engineers who,e organization was started before Gen. Pershing sailed, were in France by "Atmuat, 1917. Six of them have been engaged in con struction work, building and re building railways, building docks and rearranging terminal facili ties. The other three regiments havo peon engaged in operation and some of the railway troops have been on the fighting line. The additional troops will be us eb partly for construction and maintenance and partly for o-peration, A total of $160,000,000 has been spent on railway materials alone. DO NOT SHOOT PIGEONS The U. S. Department of Ag riculture urges hunters not to shoot pigeons in air, for they may be homing pigeons being ttained in many sections by tho Signal Corps of the U. S. Army to carry messages across battle fields. Farmers and other breed ers who allow their birds a few hours of liberty each day also are liableuJloss from shooting. Pursuant to the Proclamation of the President of the United States and of the Governor of North Carolina, I. F. H. Fries, North Carolina Director of War Savings, acting under the authority of the United 8tates Treasury TJepartment, have asked the ministers of the Gospel and the superintendents of Sunday Schools to have a War Savings message presented In every church in. North Carolina en Sunday, June It. have called upon every township or ward War Savings chairman to conduct a house-to-house canvass for War Savings pledges during the week following, and have summoned citizens of North Carolina to meet at their respective schoolhouses on Friday. June IS, 1918, the hour of the meeting to bo fixed by the local chairman.' Local oltlieni will be named to conduct the schoolhouse moetlngs, who will keep a record of the proceedings and report the names of all persocs present and pledging, and the namee of all persons present and refusing or neglecting to pledge, -with their reaeone for so doing. " War Savigs Stamps (which are United States Government Bonds, the same as filberty Bonds) can be paid for during any month m the year of 1918, but It Is lateudVl that subscriptions for them will be signed during the week beginning June IS. and. It any deficit exists at the end of the aouee-KMiousa canvass. a( the schoolhouse meeting on June II. The price of each War Savings, Stamp depends upon the month during which It Is bought. During June each Stamp will oat 14.17. During July each Stamp will cost M il, and so on. one cent more each month during 191. On January 1, 1118, the Oovernmiint of the United States will redeem all War Savings Stamps at 16.09 each, no matter during which month In 1911 they were bought They cost leaa during the early months of 1918 than during the later months because the person who buye earlier has loaned his money U the Government for a longer time than the one who buye later. By way of Illustration. .cote the followtmg table r-, , . Ceo e Wtf at tatp Ourtng Jaw, Jlrtft mad AmuM, WW, - Cost m Cost la Cost In And are worth June July August oa Jan. 1. 1921. I 417 f 4.11 f 4.19 8.00 83.49 83.60 81.10 100.00 108.60 109.00 809.50 ISO 00 417.00' 418.00 419.00 600.00 834.00 838.00 831.00 1,000.00 t Btamp SO Stamps 80 Stamps 100 Stamps too Stamps 834.00 The law provides that no person can hold In his own name War Savings Stamps exceeding 11.000.00 maturity value. War Savings Stamps, however, may be purchased tor other members of the family, including minor children. : The money Invested In War Savings Stamps Is not a gift or a donation, but Is a loan to the Government. It will be paid back with 4 per cent com pound Interest. If, because of some serious financial reverses or calamity. It Should be necessary to get your money before January 1, 1913, you may do eo by giving ten days' notice to any Money Order postmaster, In which case you can get what you paid for the Stamps, with Interest to date of payment. The Stamps are free from all State and local taxes; when registered at the oetofflce they are Insured against loss; they are backed by all the property la the United States; they eannot fall la value below the price you pay; they re as convenient and as well paying Investment as has ever been offered by our Oovernmeot. ' A definite quota of War Savings Stamps, on the basis of population at 880 0 per capita, has been allotted to each township and to each town I of ver 1,000 population, which will be published la every newspaper In the State before hand and announced at every schoolhouse meeting on June 81. The Government at the United States expects all the cltlssns of every town ship and county to subscribe for It quota and to pledge themselves to save nd economise to help win the war. i R le to be hoped that the pledges taken during War Savings Week and War Savings Day will show you and your neighbors to be loyal Americans eg whom eur Gov era meat. In this hour of neat, does not cell In vain. r. h. rums. ' " tor,,'-i Carolina Director of War Sewings, appointed and actual dor the authority ef the Secretary of the Ualtad tolas
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