The Greensboro patriot [July 30, 1917]

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PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
in ■ESTABLISHED RO, N. C. MONBAY. JULY 30 18-17 VOL.9 70
I-^WARTBUDGET MADE
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i el to carry tlie government
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the allies prom-«
ioaai cu exceed eight billion ,r
« and m»>
amount to ten bil-
"tii-rioeni estimates sent to
. p.i.u rail for new appro-tugre*
. ,- ..7s,ti.",6.000 for that
priatw-11
wane
ipfc
o( ,|,e military establishment
gfilmatt'j totalling another
. M..«M.O*o .,r more are expected
1 ,.'„'„■ when the other depart-
,5 report their needs, and in ad-iition
Secretar* McAdoo has indi-ct
before the year is out Con-
^!1WJ»W for a $2,000,000.-
.ppropriatioii to increase the
available for loans abroad.
«r»
find
ii soon a»
ports. are in v..'
departmental re-appropriation
com-i
■*«**• wiU g0 t0 W0Tk
[mmimmediate budget which prob-u,
rill total in the neighborhood
it; 006.000. 000. Meantime the
luv finance committee will meet
,omo'.r»« to consider what part of
,hene«- expenditures is to be pro-
,lif,\ by taxation and on What com-
■Oditits the ue« levies are to fall.
Coairesfionel leaders do not ex-pect
to have to provide, immediately
tor tie additional credits to the al-lijj
js treasure officials Jiave indl-tjwil
that no appropriations for that
pnrpo-e will h* requested until the
lest session.
T._ gross estimates submitted by
tie arar department today totalled
BJIT.S7S.S4". but that covered all
eiistini and •■ \ >•• t<■■! deficiencies in
He department funds, including up-nfifc
of ?•! !•>.""M00 already ap-propriai"!
for rite aviation program.
Til- latter item will not be included
■fte budget. tint Congress will have
k proride revenues to meet it since
it was not :: the ledeer when the
nr tax bill *a« formed. Commit-t
» sentiment tonight seemed to be
in favor of Increasing the $1,670,-
IW.f'OO vat -:<x bill only to about
IJ.000.000.01-' with authorization
Mi for a new bond issue, possible at
J higher interest rate and in serial
form, and for issuance of treasury
«ti*?at<w of indebtedaass.
Seiretary McAdoo is saia to favor
i«?'a larger levy of taxes, and a
1« ?oni'u;;'--:. -n favor increasing
Be Mil, total U $1,000,000,000 or
■ least ;n •*..:.•.'.DOO.000.
interest on the new
increased a'.so is caus-
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tnn-"> ;;.H:! t,.
I tog sacS li-
As :r, the SlJ
•aitfia-;em in ■
ss of the new taxed
unmittee appar
rard securing the
•oinmittee appar-s
»i!v:; tending tows
| - "I the increase from war ex-
I** Profits and
l»5Japtioi] 'a:
!:r' • ne» :-..-..
MtKl.
incomes. Excises or
- and a few other
Iso are being con-ftairman
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pinions
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.'.n- said tonight
iresent year's appro-
"ital $9,226,000.-
"•••! that only about
f that will be spent
'•' ;»r'-.-nt fiscal year.
•-• - a.'ie item in Che de-bt's
estimate is $2,468,613,-
hv-°r ar"l":"'!i' "f fortifications.
»i; io".'\'"'s'' 4*''■ transportation
It
«.:- S329.67:
lothing and camp
7.506.097. subslst-
-_ • automatic ma-
Hftfc, . ' ' -77.000. medical
*ors*s {*]"--• ":':'als $10,>.'>26.000,
"•fia-Xfr " 5:!-000-000- Q'uar-
■rtment $163,917,925.
•"^rs $82,118,000.
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lew;
an i
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|«>!aeer • """^ "amps *2,119.000.
Nuiance Pi""",ent * 104,300,000.
'*-' 'Mj .!'' ""■ amm'Unition $39,-
llan •' -lores, supplies,
ir"iored motor
OOfl ubmarine
cars
mines
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:>' 27.—Alliance
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li
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-fen t*
! Italy, Spain and Bu-r
«>ed at the secret al-
'""'s. Home dispatch-
"ibassy stated to-
,;ie first mention of
•as interested dlrect-
Bmbassy oflo'.ajs
N'betil"'• M,ls "Lat,n a,9*««a"
J "etwJ. ">r"runner of a similar
M, ,o .!„■ Anglo-Saxon peo-f^^
T''"1 in Preserving
'■1U '-"-! future.
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PENNSYLVANIA HAS
ANOTHER RACE RIOT.
Chester, Pa., July 26.—Race riot-ing
broke out ihere tonight and as a
result three men are dead and three
fatally wounded and twelve others
are In hospitals with more or less
serious injuries.
The rioting took place in the heart
at the town and the police were un-able
to curb the mobs.
Race trouble broke out here two
weeks ago after two negroes had at-tacked
a white couple, taking a girl
away from her escort. There had
been scattered flghls between whites
and negroes ever since.
Today the rioting began to take
on A serious aspect. Throughout the
afternoon there was fighting in var-ious
parts of the city.
Then at 7 o'clock this evening a
mob of white men started to abase
two negroes down Howell street. The
chase continued for several blocks
when one of the negroes turned,
drew a revolver and fired. The^bullet
pierced McCann's heart and he drop-ped
dead. The negro resumed his
flight, pursued by the mob. He dash-ed
into a two-story negro shack be-low
Howell street and started firing
at his pursuers from a window.
Two state constables and eight po-licemen
drove the crowd back from
the house and ordered Lucas to come
out. He fired on them and they
sought cover. Finally they set fire to
the house and threw flaming brands
in through a window. The fire spread
quickly in the shack and Lucas
jumped from a second story window.
He was caught.
Infuriated by the killing of Mc-
Cann. the whites then started to hunt
down every negro in town. They
found one on a street car near the
"black belt" and dragged him off. As
he was on the ground being kicked
and beaten by the mob, and uniden-tified
white man drew a revolver and
shot him through the head. The body
laid in the street two hours before
it was picked up and taken to the
morgue.
Twenty state constables at Eddy-stone
were rushed to this city to-night.
The other casualties of the day
resulted from fierce fights between
white men and negroes in all parts
of the city.
Two men and a hoy suffering from
bullet wounds are expected to die.
NORWAY PROTESTS
AGAINST EMBARGO.
New York, July 27.—To impress
upon the United States that Germany-has
not received any great quantities
of foodstuffs from Norway and that
the American export embargo as ap-plies
to Norway is not justified, a
Norwegian economic commission of
nine members arrived at an Atlantic
port today. The head of the mission
is Dr. Fridtjoff Nansen, the Arctic
explorer. The members of diis staff
are authorities in various branches
of the food problem.
The mission is prepared to lay
Norway's needs directly before the
American authorities. Dr. Nansen
said that as practically all commerce
with Germany and Russia had been
severed, Norway was almost entirely
dependent on the United States for
grain, fat and sugar. He added that
Norway ailready has suffered very
heavily from the American embargo.
He has considerable statistics with
him tending to prove that Germany
has received no foodstuffs from Nor-way
except a few things, such as fish,
which are permitted by an agree-ment
with the allies.
Norway also wants coal from the
United States. The scarcity already
threatened, he declared, wild inflict
considerable suffering during winter
unless relief is secured from this
country.
The American embargo Is not the
only cause of hardship in Norway,
Dr. Nansen pointed out. He said
that since the beginning of the war
Norway had lost. 80~0,000 tons of
shipping, a considerable part of the
country's aggregate.
Corn Spoils on Vessel.
Baltimore, July 27.—.About 7,000
tons of corn, comprising the cargo of
one of the eighteen neutral grain-la-dened
ships in port here awaiting
United States government license,
was dumped overboard yesterday be-cause
it had spoiled.
Of the eighteen vessels, which
have 96,000 tons of grain in .their
holds, fifteen are Dutch and three
Norwegian. Some of the ships are
said to have had their cargoes under
hatches for months.
BEATS PENALTY RESTOtED
RUSSIA'S POLICY OF"BLOOD AND
IRON" BODES NO GOOD TO
TRAITORS.
The Russian government's policy
of ".blood and Iron" is to be carried
out along lines which bodes ill for
the seditious troops along the east-ern
front and those persons within
the country who are trying to nulli-fy
the good work that has followed
in the wake of the revolution.
Capital punishment, abolished
with the advent of the new govern-ment,
again has been put into force
on the demand of the military com-manders
at the front; who now will
be able to assemble field court mar-tials
and put to death summarily
traitors In the army. General Kor-niloff,
commander of the forces in
Gaiicia, whose disaffection and de-sertions
have wrought havoc in the
Russian morale, was the most insist-ent
of the military chiefs in calling
for a free hand to check the refrac-tory
troops declaring that the death
penalty was the only means of sav-ing
the army.
Prior to the aoquiescense of the
rovernment General Korniloff is re-rorted
to have taken tha drastic step
< f having a division of fleeing cow-ards
of the eleventh army shot to
pieces by their faithful former
brothers-in-arms.
Meanwhile, pending the tightening
of the reins of repression, the Rus-sian
troops everywhere in Gaiicia
from the region around Tarnopol
southward to the southwestern Buk-owina
border, are continuing to give
.• ay with relatively little fighting, be-fore
the Germane and Austro-Hun-gnrians.
The important towns of
Buczacz, Tlumacz, Ottynia and Del-ityn
have been captured by the teu
•rnic allies and the Russians als.>
have been driven from the Tartar
I'ass.in the Carpathians and their
p sitions in the Kirlibaja sector, to
t:ie southeast.
The withdrawal of the Russians in
the latter regions apparently paves
the way for the teutons to.rmnptUK
Bukowina which, if accomplished,
possibly would make less stable the
Rosso-Rumanian line running
through Moldavia to where the Da-nube
bends eastward for its last race
into the Black Sea. Already Berlin
reports the Germans debouching
from the Tartar Pass to be headed
in the direction of Czernowitz, capi-tal
of Bukowina.
In addition to breaching the Ger-man
lines south of the Carpathians,
the Russians and Rumanians made
large captures of men and guns. To
the Rumanians there came as a re-ward
for their part in the concentrat-ed
attack more than a thousand pris-oners,
33 guns, 17 machine guns and
other war equipment, while the Rus-sians
for their took approximately
the same number of prisoners and
24 guns.
In the north around Krevo, the
Germans have been enabled to re-capture
the greater part of the ter-ritory
taken from them early in the
week, compelling the Russians under
a heavy artillery fire to fall back.
GERMAN U-BOAT TAKEN
BY BELGIAN CAVALRY.
Paris, July 28.—The German sub-man
submarine that ran ashore on
the French coast west of Calais on
Thursday, was not destroyed when
its crew set fire to the gasoline tank,
.but was captured by a troop of Bel-gian
cavalry, recalling the exploit of
the French Hussars, who, in 1794,
captured an icebound Dutch fleet,
according to a dispatch from Calais
today.
The stranded submarine was first
sighted .by a customs officer. He call-ed
upon some Belgian horsemen who
ivere exercising nearby to come to his
help. They rode down the beach, the
message reports, surrounded the
U-boat and made prisoners of the
crew, while the astonished country-side
watched the accomplishment of
the feat.
Germans Are to be Batred.
New York, July 27.—Germans wUl
be barred from practically all excur-sion
boats and other pleasure craft
about the city. Orders to this, effect
wore received -by United States
Marshal McCarthy tonight. The or-ders
will bar teutons from Coney
Island and other boats passing
through the Narrows. The reason
given tor the ban is that passengers
on pleasure craft may witness many
operations, such as sailing of trans-ports,
war vessels, etc.
To-mmro smi TRIOPS
LIEUT. COL. H. B. FERGUSON, OF
WAYNE8VILLE, SLATED FOR
THIS POSITION.
Washington. July 27.—^Lieut. Col.
Harley B. Ferguson, of Waynesville,
may command the first North Caro-lina
brigade of infantry instead of
Gen. L. W. Young, of Aeheville, who
has not been called into the federal
service with the mobilization of the
North Carolina national guard. This
information came to Washington to-day
in a telegram to some of the
North Carolinians here stating that
Governor Bickett had recommended
Lieut. Col. Ferguson to Secretary of
War Baker for appointment to the
head of the Tar Heels troops who are
certain to see service in France.
So far as Senators Simmons and
Overman and the members of Con-gress
from the state are concerned,
it is the first desire to see the North
Carolina troops In charge of a most
capable officer in the service. They
believe that not only will the health
of the state troops be preserved
while In camp but that the casualty
list when they reach the firing line
will be much smaller if they are com-manded
by men who are seasoned in
war service.
Friends of Colonel Ferguson claim
he hast all of these qualifications.
Colonel Ferguson did splendid work
In raising the battleship Maine from
the Havana harbor, has seen service
both in the Philippines and China
and has had most valuable experi-ence
jn the war department here and
on the Mexican border. Therefore it
would seem that he has a good
chance to command the troops from
his native state, should it be found
impossible, in the final analysis, to
have Secretary Baker reconsider his
former order .refusing to allow Gen.
eral Young to take the place which
he held on the Mexican border.
General Young was among the na-tional
>1( ard ofitaajs WJJJO came to
Washington nearly twS'years agd In
defense of the guard.
Colonel Ferguson's friends are
urging him because there appears to
be a vacancy in his own state and an
opportunity to lead the Tar Heel boys
to victory and possibly to Berlin.
And, too, because it is known he is a
military officer of ability and experi-ence.
It is known that Young is popular
with the boys in the North Carolina
national guard, and they naturally
hope he may get a square deal, and
Senator Overman, it is believed, is
going to see that General Young has
it. If Young cannot be given the
place, for any legitimate reason, it
is believed the junior senator will
take pleasure in recommending Col-onel
Ferguson for the high honor of
leading the brave hoys of the great
state of North Carolina across the
Rhine and into Berlin.
Col. Ferguson an Officer of Experi-ence
and Ability.
The news from Washington that
Lieut. Col. Harley B. Fergiuson is
likely to command the North Caro-lina
brigade will bring pleasure to
many friends of the officer in this
and the western section. Colonel
Ferguson is a son of the late W. B.
Ferguson, of Waynesville, and ne-phew
of Judge Garland S. Ferguson,
of the Superior court bench; also a
brother of Homer Ferguson, presi-dent
of the Newport News Shipbuild-ing
Company, and cousin of Garland
S. Ferguson, Jr., of Greensboro. He
graduated from West Point in 1897
and was chief engineer of the Amer-ican
troops in the Boxer expedition
in China. He also served on Gen-eral
MacArthur's staff in the Philip-pines-.
Colonel Ferguson won na-tional
fame, however, when he rais-ed
the famous battleship Maine in
Havana harbor.
JaiKincsc Raise Million For Soldiers
of Entente.
Tokio, Juii6 30.—The Japanese
national fund for the entente sick
ant! mounded soldiers has been clos-ed
It amounts tc $1,000,000. The
fund will be .'crwar.led to the powets
tarough the diplomats accredited to
Japan.
Nicholas Romanoff Breaks His Leg.
London, July 29.—A dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph Company
from Petrograd, says that former
Emperor Nicholas fell and .broke his
leg while riding a bicycle in the gar-dens
of the Taarkoe Solo palace,
where he has been Incarcerated since
the revolution.
CHICAGO RAILWAYS
ORDER AN EMBARGO.
Chicago, July 27.—The nineteen
Chicago railroads that have been
threatened with a strike tomorrow
morning of 2,500 switchmen belong-ing
to the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen tonight began sending out
notices of an embargo on livestock
and perishable freight to and
through Chicago. This announce.-.
ment was made by Frank Hasler, of
the committee of railroad" general
managers.
Mr. Hasler said the embargo no-tices
would he sent as soon as pos-sible.
The embargo, he said, would
be for the duration of the strike, end-ing
automatically as soon as a peace
agreement was signed.
The railroads also appealed to
Mayor Thompson, the sheriff and po-lice
for protection.
George F. Hanover, Chairman of
the roads conference committee, sent
the following notices to the city of-ficials:
"The conference committee of
managers of the roads are threaten-ed
by the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen with a strike of the yard-men
employed in their Chicago ter-minals
if they do not make conces-sions
which would establish the
closed shop in favor of members of
their organization and deprive the
managements of the power to select
yard-masters and their assistants.
"The railroads are also threaten-ed
with a strike of the members of
the switchmen's union employed in
their Chicago terminals if they do
yield to the demands of the Brother-hood
of Railroad Trainmen, because
this would close the door of employ-ment
against many members of the
switchmen's union.
"The conference committee has
proposed mediation by the federal
mediation and conciliation board,
which has been declined by the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
"A strike vote has been taken and
Mr. ^rd'oclTYli* president of"IS*
trainmen, has notified us that the
members of his organization in the
Chicago district will he withdrawn
from service at 6 A. M., Saturday,
July 28."
James Murdock, vice president of
the brotherhood, denied that the
switchmen were seeking aclosedshop
and characterized the reasons given
out by tlie railroads' managers as
causing the strike as "unqualifiedly
incorrect." He said ninety-eight per
cent of the switchmen had' voted in
favor of a strike because the rail-roads
had refused to grant requests
made by the brotherhood.
The new rules sought would give
preference to members of the broth-erhood
in employing yardmen, give
preference to yardmen in promotions
to yardimasters.and prohibit the com-panies
from reinstating men justly
discharged in disregard of the rights
of other loyal yardmen, according to
Mr. Murdock.
NEW CONCERN WILL
PROTECT OUR SOLDIERS.
Washington, July 28.—'Largest in-surance
company in the world, with
untold billions capital and 100.000,-
0PO stockholders, is about to be
formed to insure Uncle Sam's sons
In the Aisr. Within twenty-four hours
President Wilson will have before
him the results of the combined ef-forts
of America's leading insurance
men and actuaries. Next week it is
expected the plan for insuring Amer-ica's
soldier millions will be placed
before Congress.
Two plans, both calling tor gov-ernment
insurance, are to be pre-sented
to the president. Under one,
which he is expected to adopt, each
soldier must insure himself for at
least $1,000 and he can take out as
high as $10,000. The rate per thou-sand
is $8. While this would obli-gate
the government for $5,000,000,-
000, not one-tenth of this sum would
have to be paid, as statistics show
less than one man in ten sent to the
European battlefield is injured or
killed.
ConrtpUster Was Drugged.
Washington, July 28.—Tetanus
germs have been detected In samples
:>f courtplaster analyzed by depart-
SM C of justice experts. Coincident-ally
a supplemental warning went
out today from the department
against the purchase of sticking plas-ter
and courtplaster from street ped-dlers.
AMUIGANS SAFELY AfiKIYB
ANOTHER CONTINGENT OF OCR
SOLDIERS REACH EUROPEAN
PORT AND DISEMBARK.
A Europan Port, July 28.—An-other
American contingent has safe-ly
crrived and disembarked.
The American troops arrived by
the same steamer in which Kerm'.t
Roosevelt, his wife and Child trav-eled.
When tenders went alongside
the \essel Friday the men were in
high spirits and frequently shouted
"Are we downhearted?" was an-swered
with a roaring "no" glmi
with great enthusiasm.
Representatives of the genera!
staff watched the disemharkalious
There was no civic demonstration.
Only a few spectators knew of the
landing. These cheered and the
tr-K>ps cheered back. The men jn-traiued
quickly and left for thoir
new quarters. A signal company
remalced at the port for some hours
and thtse were the only represetsta-t:\
es of the contingent which ;ho
public saw.
Government Silent.
Washington. July 28.—The gov-ernment
withholds information or
comment on the foregoing dispatch.
COURT CLERKS FORM
STATE ORGANIZATION.
Aahevllle, July 26—Meeting at bne
county court house today Superior
clerks from all parts of North Car-'
olina perfected a permannet organi-zation
to work for greater unity and
the mutual advantage of clerks
throughout the state. Temporary or-ganization
was perfected with Judge
C. M. Pace, of Henderson county, as
chairman, and W. H. Young, of Dur-ham
county, as secretary.
Officers were elected as follows:
President, C. C. Moore, of Meck-lenburg
county; vice president, M.
W. Oant, o.f G.uilford county; secre-tary-
and treasurer, W. H. Young,
of Durham county.
C. B. Skipper, Robeson county;
W. K. Boggan. Anson; J. J. Barrow,
Franklin; I. D. Bradshaer, Person;
John H. Cathey. Buncombe, and" O.
M. Pace, Henderson, were elected is
members of the publicity committee,
and an executive committee »a
named composed . of one membar
from each of the twenty judicial dis-tricts
of the state.
C. C. Moore, addressing the con-vention,
stated the object of the
meeting and declared that each clerk
should be more familiar with tlie
systems in use in each judicial dis-trict,
striving to make them uniform.
It was decided to make the conven-tion
an annual affair, the time and
place to be selected later.
EIGHT PEOPLE PERISH
IN A FOREST FIRE.
Fernie, B. C, July 29.—Eight men
are known to have perished and a
number are missing in a fire that
swept the Spruce river valley yester-t'a.
v afternoon. More than 60 men
were trapped in a camp of the Elk
Lumber Company, situated in a blind
valley and their flight over the moun-tain
was most difficult.
Eight bodies were picked up in the
path of the fire. Two other men
are believed to have perished.
Nick Musovich, a Russian, was
found alive, but sightless and raving.
All his clothing was burned off ex-cept
his boots. After .being given
first aid lie recovered and helped men
he knew to be beyond him. He was
brought to Fernie where his death It
hourly expected.
Many of these on reaching parts
of safety were found to be tempo-rarily
demented.
Millions of feet of logs, the tog-ging
railroad and the bush camp
building together with equipment,
hcrses and supplies are a total loss.
The fire was consid* rably checked by
heavy showers that fell last nigiu.
The fire had been burning eln-'O
Wednesday In the vicinity of the Ulk
Lumber Compai.v camps and afti r
destroying two of the lower>cam?s
was believed to be well in hand.
Within an hour Riter Are fighters re-laxed
their efforts, the lire spraug
up afresh before a high wind.
Heat Ware on Way.
Washington, July 28.—For next
week a general heat ware, the flrst
of the summer, is predicted over the
north and middle Atlantic states and
the Ohio vaHey, by the weather bu-reau
today.
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