The Greensboro patriot [August 6, 1917]

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GREENSBORO. N. O- NfONaMfr. AUGUST 6 BJI7
fRQDBLE OVERDRAFT LAW
.,. Ai:r.i:s«Ki> ON CHARGE
IM'ITI Vii AN ANTI-DRAFT
I PRISING.
count;
Viw 4.—Arrest of Frank
,..;; known young Chat-rraer
on a charge of
.., ,,ii anti-dwtt uprising in
by heading a
raise funds to be for-
Tlioraas K. Watson, in
Mil :>S
M <*" U',:'1S,0n
rt"' ja «ad !ii" ''ater release on $5,-
2«nd. furnished the climax to an
• •„„ ,in in Goldston. according
fLormation reaching here tonight.
T-at the uprising in Goldston and
H-f"«Hnman!t} is serious was m-ade
• tonigi-i l») Thomas Bynum, a
!'-,« citizen and merchant of
iJ^ston. »-,o declared that the ma-in
sentiment is opposed to the
*?-" Bynum >* also autUorit>' for
jwteai»iii thai indications are
mvtnmw arrests will follow,
'. .-,,.,, further trouble may be ex-
^,,i-----'<rts already put for-
„.: tl. qui-t the populace of the
C0ID2luiiity prove successful.
r-deral seenf* are on hand, one of
,bK3 niakina the arrest. Citizens of
Boston a-:r--i at the government
■,.'the draft law and the arrest of
-o'i:ii Bnrr.s went to Sanford where
he a- held and furnished the bail.
He -is been cited to appear for trial
HJjnesboro next Thursday.
' Jst ho» large tue fund for Wat-
,-n had grown when the arrest of
BUM- occurred today (ould not he
Seamed. Mr. I'.yniun and other citi-zei-
said that many donations have
t*Ki made from citizens, some of
rt>a arc leaders in the community.
Mr. Bjiviin ii«"»lared tonight that
op: aents •' ' ■* draft were making
■83" BRl} remarks regarding it. One"
■2:1. according to Mr. Bynum, said
t.ia- lie would "•".ie before being
tak-n." F.i! :■ r- o? the youths are
panicipatini. .:•■• said. Mr. Bynum
stated that It Si id been reported that
ma-.r- citizen < .vere arming them-selves
I ' iiuike effective protest
against t •• :-:::.:::;eiu of the draft
Ian
>!aj. H. A. L.udon. of Pittsboro,
Co£'..iani co-ii >\ ■■:.■> lives some dis-tan
- from ■■ ■■ scene of the uprising,
was unwilline tn believe tonight that
it v mid prove s-rious. He declared
tna: the n.stti-r -'-. mid not be digni-fied
vit'.i piihU'-ation.
Bnu. is Hilil l"„r Trial at J'»ne>l»oro
llllllsilay.
f.-nford. Aas. (.-—Frank Burns, a
fflfriiam it ilol.lsion. was arrested
at i .at pla.-
8ta:a Mars:
charged ■.- ;•
nis :ri°r. ■-
try -n I-.. (:
<fo irafi lay
*»e:e h« »-,.
ion l by rr,|t.
I. talker ;-:
**- ■-■•• t!,e .
&* at J,.:,...
'•ida> by Deputy United
>' George F. Moore
soliciting funds from
■ ■■- surrounding coun-
■ < onstitutionality of
and brought to Sanford
placed under a $5,000
l States fommissioner
'!!>' for his appearance
>ve commissioner for
■■■ • text Thursday,
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(l i:\lt t.KRMAN REPLY.
Aa
: ,e_Ro- A! .... Argentine Republic.
!' - -;~t;ei with the pro-
On" ' " i:,i:''ns "tth Germany
,. lB! • ':'e sinking of the
tin."" -''"-r Toro. the Argen-
^•SW..rl-.,;,..,,, |m br()ken Qff the
M T«I '' ' *'ere being onduct-n;.
German minister here
to Be-v " :' ' r'nu'' categorical note
rej* ,'"' ""•!lir:lla: a clear and final
in- '" 'r-A"ttne demands with-
^^'?:l ":np The reply is
th,. xinw .' '" a'S"t days. During
"•as a" " '" ''" <ieci(le'l It re'a-
8t.:e ' ''■'r,,|any shall be broken
fi?n ofi""1' !' Ir0m the German for-
• H'-eative one. •
^ Mini ' ;:'i"i'i,er an>l the Ger-
»? for ,-.
"on or,).;
,'- fro:,.
*» to l,.
I <iis-. •sec •
"Patina
., !'in- -..
l^lls „•
^« ap
:"?an
to
■ "re had been disouss-
-' fevv days the ques-
■mking of the Toro. The
■■■-many had led Argen-
' !'<t Germany wae
1 "•' '" the demands of
1 to sink any more Ar-
''v,,n in the war zone.
"_•■' '" a discussion of the
'• conditions that was
i;iouos Aires, 'however,
•:,!'""ar that when it came
•Wing ,. ' '"" 0e"»any was not
** WedetT" """,nlete sattefaction
*" «tc»i er8H" t0 aspect Argen-
,^*lt ,. ." n,A futu're. The break-
Ct'aan n . discussion with the
^ aev „"1?'S'"r and the ending of
"w followed.
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RKBBLJLIOl'S RHGISTRANTS ARM
THKJISEM-KS IX OKLAHOMA
—MANY ARRE8TS MADE.
Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. 3.—
Groups of men numbering probably
400 in the aggregate have armed
themselves and were gathering in
several places in south-central Okla-homa
tonight, prepared to resiet
forcibly their selection as soldiers,
under the draft law. Discovery iby
officiate late tonight of the existence
of a new band of resisters who are
-thought to have established -a base
near Shawnee, a few miles southeast
of this city, has increased the anxiety
Of state officials as to the probability
of confining the agitation within the
five counties already affected.*
A hundred armed men are patroll-ing
the streets of Allen. Henrietta
also is filled with armed citizem-dep-uties.
At the direction of Governor Wil-liams,
who hesitates to use national
guards against resisters, hundreds of
armed civilians have concentrated in
Semin.ole, Hughes. Pontotoc, Okmul-gee.
Pottawatomie counties and will
make an effort at dawn tomorrow
to arrest the resisters.
According to late reports to Gov-ernor
Williams, one of the bandAwas
located near Sasakwa, another is at
Holdenville. another at Wewoka and
the last heard from had gathered at
Rock Crossing on the south Canadian
river.
Several arrests have been made of
men charged with resisting the
draft, throughout the affected local-ities,
and one. a socialist agitator,
was arrested at Holdenville when it
was discovered he was carrying a
grip filled with ammunition. Sher-iffs
of the five counties .have inform-ed
the governor that the situation is
out of their control and state officials
await with anxiety the outcome of
the attempt .being made by civilian
posses to errest the men tomorrow.
The bands are composed for the most
part of negroes. Indians and farmers,
who are tenants on the lands held by
the government in trust for Indians.
It has not been determined w.hat in-fluence
was behinH the movement.
-tHM-riff (aptiires Ten Resisters.
Ada. Okla.. Aug. 3.—Sheriff Bob
Dun,MI*of Pototoc county, previous-ly
reported captured by draft re-sisters
at Seminole. returned to Ada
late tonight with 10 prisoners, cap-tured
five miles northwest of Sasa-kawa.
There were about 80 persons in
that particular gathering. Sheriff
Duncan said, who were dispersed for
the time being by a posse of 25 citi-zens.
The rioters fled without firing
a shot. The officers released 11
prisoners held b/the men dispersed.
Citizens Prepare to Cope With Viola-tors.
Ada. Okla.. Aug. 3.—Two thou-sand
or more citizens in mass meet-ing
tonight perfected an organization
to apprehend the draft violators who
are threatening death and destruc-tion
throughout Pontotoc county. A
committee of 14 was appointed to
act with the authorities. The plans
d%cided upon will be known only to
the officers.
Three 'hundred rioters are report-ed
hid'ing in a well-fortified rendez-vous
near Konowa.
_Figliting Reported in Progress.
Muskogee, Okla.. Aug. 3.—Fight-ing
between draft rioters and officers
is going on twenty-five miles north
of Ada, according to Under-Sheriff
Purvine, of Okmulgee county, who
received a report from there late to-night.
One hundred armed men with
large supplies of ammunition left Ok-mulgee
on a special train at 8 o'clock
tonight for the scene of the anti-draft
riots in the southern part of the
state. The call for men came from
Saskawa at 7.30 P. M., and enough
volunteers were secured in ten min-utes.
VOLte6-NKL 72
One Resistor Killed.
Holdenville, Okla., Aug. 5.—Ed
Blalock. a member of a band of draft
objectors, was killed and a posseman.
Jack Paige, was wounded in the leg
and later carried off by the outlaws
in a fight between objectors to the
selective draft and officers twelve
miles southeast of here tonight. Hen-ry
Johnson, another posseman was
wounded in, the leg.
WILL Mill- AS IT FIRST
NO CHANGE WILL BE MADE BY
EXEMPTION BOARDS IN GUM..
FORD COUNTY.
The chairmen of each of the ex-emption
boards for Guilford county
Saturday received a telegram from
Governor Bickett announcing that in
figuring the quotas for each district
a mistake had been made. The gov-ernor
Instructed the board for rural
Guilford to raise 76 men instead of
65, the Greensboro board to raise 71
men Instead of 178, and the High
Point board 89 instead of 97. The
board for rural Guilford forthwith
posted a call for 22 additional men
to appear before the board in Greens-boro
Friday, August 10. The list is
as follows:
131 770—Arthur Highfill, Sum-merfleld,
R. 2.
132 882—C. Bruce Allred. Sum-merfield,
R. 2.
133 677—Charles G. Holt.
Greensboro, R. 6. •
134 749—Thomas R. Styers,
Greensboro. R. 5.
139 135—Willie Sapp. James-town.
136 525—Ernest E. Whitsell,
Greensboro.
137 1417—Waiter A. Coble,
Guilford College.
138 760—Albeit S. McAdoo.
Greensboro. R. 5.
139 183—Charles Clapp. Gib-sonville.
140 66—Cyrus A. Brown. Gib-sonville.
141 1276—Clyde G. Idol. Colfax.
142 792—William Lindsay. Sum-merfield.
143 5—Edwin R. 3hep!;?fd. Bur-lington,
R. 4. v
144 350—L. William Smith, Mc-
Leansville.
145 54—Stinner Baldwin. Brown
Summit.
146 870—Charlie J. Calhoun.
Summerfield.
147 549—Cecil C. FiV.ds: Greens-boro.
148 1132 — Ariir.do Leonard.
High Point.
14'9 440—Rufus Foust. Benaja.
150 1485—Ghat-lie W. Coble,
Greensboro, R. 6.
151 741 — Eugene Brown,
Greensboro, R. 5.
152 1054—Wiliram B. Gray,
Greensboro, R. 1.
NORWAY READY TO
GIVE ASSURANCES.
Washington. Aug. 3.—Full infor-mation
concerning food conditions in
the northern European neutral coun-tries
has been asked of the neutrals
by the United States in notes hand-ed
to their diplomatic representatives
here.
The American government's plans
for rationing the neutrals through its
control of exports will be finally de-termined
on after replies are receiv-ed.
The information sought con-cerns
the exact food needs of those
countries, their food production ca-pacity
and details of their export and
import trade of the last few years.
The intention of the United States
is to hold exports to the neutrals to
the barest necessities to prevent
American foodstuffs or food they re-place
from reaching Germany. Only
actual food deficiencies will be made
up from America and assurances will
be demanded that no American pro-duced
food is re-exporte1 or used to
supplant food that is exported.
Quick responses to the notes are
looked for, since at present no ship-ments
to the neutrals are permitted
to leave American ports and some of
the countries are badly in need of
grains.
Norway's case was put before this
government today by Dr. Fridtiof
Nansen, 'head of the Norwegian .mis-sion,
who declared his country, fac-ing
starvation, was ready to release
a million tons of shipping in return
for the privilege of importing food.
Norway. Dr. Nansen said, needs su-gar,
fats and grain, and will guar-antee
that none of these things are
3ent into Germany.
The Dutch government, too, is
willing to exchange ships for food,
but does not want Dutch ships sent
into the submarine zone.
GIRIMS DIOWI TBECRKf, WRBSPOUIHIAIS T100BLB
SHELLS BRITISH SHIP. LIFE
, BKIiTS ARE REMOVED AND
•MEN LEFT TO DIE.
A British Port. Au«. 3.—Thirty-eight
members of the crew of the
BritishT ateamahip Belgian Prince
u one-drowned deliberately by the
GermA.aubmarine wliloh sank here.
according to the account given by
suTvivori^ who have reached British
shores. The chief engineer who
many times after the steamer was
torpedoed, was perilously near
drowning, gave the following narra-tive
of fit experiences:
"About 8 o'clock on Tuesday even-ing
when we were 200 miles off land
I saw the wake of an approaching
torpedo. The vessel gave a lurch as
she was hit and I was thrown to the
deck among the debris. The vessel
listed heavily and all of us took to
the boats.
"The submarine approached and
shelled the vessel and then ordered
the small boats alongside the subma-rine.
The skipper was summoned
and taken inside. The others were
mustered on the deck of the subma-rine.
"The Germans removed the life
belts and outer clothing of all ex-cept
eight of us. smashed the life
boats with axes, and then re-entered
the submarine and closed the hatch-es,
leaving us on deck. The subma-rine
went about two miles and then
submerged.
"I had a life belt. Near me was an
apprentice boy of 16. shouting for
help. I went to him and held him
up until midnight, hut he became un-conscious
and died of exposure. At
daylight. I saw the Belgian Prince
afloat. I was picked up after 11
hours in the water by a patrol boat."
The second engineer also was a
survivor, and succeeded in reaching
the Belgian Prince before she blew
up. The Germans came on board
and iooterfVher. he reported. He was
in hiding, but finally jumped into the
sea and kept afloat on the wreckage.
The only other known survivor is
too ill in a hospital to tell his story.
GOVERNOR BICKETT
SENDS OUT WARNING.
Raleigh. Aug. 4.—Raleigh people
looking daily for official cognizance
of the recent speech of Dr. H. Q.
Alexander, in Salisbury, have not
been rewarded, but Governor Bick-ett's
letter today to Solicitor Walter
D. Siler and Sheriff Leon Lane, of
Chatham county, relating to the re-sistance
of the drait in that county
is quite broad enough ot embrace the
doctor if he courts a gubernatorial
hug.
Governor Bickett had received
from Solicitor Siler and Sheriff Lane
a joint letter indicating a rebellion
in embryo. These officials had heard
that somebody was raising a fund to
defend the selected from enforced
service in the army. The two officers
confessed a fear that a serious.situa-tion
would grow out of this and
Governor Bickett issues a letter
which would reflect more "serious
trouble" than any that may be start-ed
by anybody in Chatham or else-where.
Not the remotest reference to any-thing
traceable to Dr. Alexander is
contained in Governor Bickett's let-ter,
but it is hot shot enough for any-body
who might wish some utterance
that would fit the doctor's alleged
Salisbury speech. "We are in a
death grapple with the enemy," the
governor says, "and the man who in
this perilous hour lifts voice or hand
to weaken the nation's will or short-en
its arm, is a traitor to his country
and a friend to its foes. He is more
than a traitor, he is a murderer."
The governor declares that the
men who promise for love of money
to show the registrants a way to es-cape,
have "sounded depths of In-famy
heretofore unknown. » » •
I do not propose to tolerate treason
in North Carolina by word or deed,
if tliere be power in state or federal
law to prevent it."
Root and Party Have Returned to
America.
A Pacific Port, Aug. 3.—The
American mission to Russia, headed
l<y Elihu Root, reached here tonight
er. route to Washington.
Franking Privilege Means Free
, Postage of Seven Tons.
Washington, Aug. 3.—The extent
of the congressional "franking priv-ilege"
as a burden on the mails was
disclosed today as an incident to a
house committee's investigation of
charges that postal inspectors have
tampered with letters of congress-men.
They handle free of postage
every day seven tons of matter.
F'AILURE TO HEED THE SUM-MONS
OF' EXEMPTION BOARDS
CONSTITUTES DESERTION.
Washington, Aug. 3.—Registered
persons who ignore summons from
local boards to report for examina-tions
under the draft law, are stor-ing
up grave trouble for themselves.
A supplement to the regulations is-sued
by the president today, makes
this apparent.
Upon failure to report, or refusal
to submit to examination, the name
of the person concerned will be for-warded
to the proper authorities.
The person will be notified that he is
regarded as physically fit and held
for the military service. If he con-tinues
to disobey the law to the ex-tent
of ignoring notice to proceed to
the mobilization point, he is liable
to punishment as a deserter, which
in war time may be death.
The procedure in such cases is
gradual, ibut sure. The names of
persons certified to district boards,
who do not file claims within the
time prescribed will be listed. Those
who appear, or file claims, will have
their names cancelled from/the list.
The district board will then for-ward
the list to the adjutant general
of the state, stating that persons
whose names are listed have been
.calied for military service, have not
responded, and have not been ex-empted
or discharged.
The adjutant general will then
mail to those persons listed a notice
informing him that he has been se-lected
for military service, and order-ing
him to report for military ser-vice
to the adjutant general within
five days. From that time, the per-son
notified is in the military service
of the United States. Those who
ignore this last summons are then
posted to the adjutant general'of the
army. Procedure against them as
deserters may then he started.
MILL SUPERINTENDENT *
ARRESTED IN ALAMANCE.
Burlington. Aug. 5.—G. W. Lash-ley,
superintendent of the Lakeside
cotton mills, of this place, was given
a hearing yesterday before the
L'nited States commissioner of Ala-mance
county on a charge of making
seditious or unpatriotic remarks and
held to court in the sum of $1,000.
The bond was promptly made.
The hearing attracted a large
crowd and consumed some time, a
number of witnesses -being heard.
Among the statements contributed to
Lash ley was one that he hoped the
Germans would blow up a train on
which the president was traveling.
There were other unpatriotic state-ments
attributed to the mill super-intendent
and at the conclusion of
the hearing the commissioner an-nounced
that the evidence was suffi-cient
to hold Lash ley to court and
bond was fixed at $1,000. Lashley
was arrested Friday night .by a
United States officer.
INDIANS JOIN INFANTRY
COMPANY AT ASHEVILLE.
Asheville.' Aug. 3—Five more full-blooded
Indians, hailing from Chero-kee
county, were enlisted in company
F. first North Carolina infantry, yes-terday,
bringing the total of the
aborigines m the company up to
seven. Most of the men were enlist-ed
through the efforts of Utt Crow,
an Indian soldier, and Utt was made
a corporal for his ability at recruit-ing.
With a companion. Utt. or
Corporal Crow, left today for Cher-okee
county, to enlist more Indians
for company F. Captain Ed. Jones
says the Indians make splendid sol-diers,
and says he Is anxious to get
an entire platoon, of 32 Indians in
his company.
Rejri-tration List is Reported Stolen.
Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 3.—The
official list of registrants in Marion
county, outside of Indianapolis, con-taining
2,691 names, disappeared
last- night from the office of Hugh
McK. Landon. chairman of the ex-emption
board for that division. He
reported the theft of the numbers
and names today to the Federal au-thorities
here and to Jesse' E.
Sohtoaoh. state conscription officer.
Copies of the official list had been
made some time ago, so the drafting
of the men will not be delayed seri-ously,
it waa said.
l»cr wire AUSTMA?
BELIEVED A BIO DEVELOPMENT
IN THE EUROPEAN SITUA-TION
IS BREWING.
Washington. Aug. 3.—While the
government rushed its work of draft-ing
America's national army, a cloak
of secrecy was thrown about diplo-matic
conversations going on hero
relative to allied relations with Aus-tria.
The state department sought
to minimize their importance. It is
believed a big development in the
European situation is brewing. It
may be a separate peace with Aus-tria,
and it may be a great altied
drive to force the dual monarchy in-to
surrender. —
Diplomats see in the present situa-tion
-a struggle by Italy to prevent
the other allies from attempting to
obliterate Austria from the other
central powers by peaceful means.
Italy wants no peace with Austria
until Italy gets what she wants out
of the war. Strengthening the idea
of a possible separate peace are
.statements by Sir Robert Cecil, who
intimated England does not regard
Austria as a real enemy. Neither
does France, and the president haa
said there would be no war with
Austria until she committed somo
overt act against this country.
Agencies have been long at work
to improve, rather than sharpen, the
dangerous situation between the
l'nited States and Austria. AH of
which finds no sympathy whatever
with Italian statemen here. While
these sub-surface developments oc-cupied
the center of the war stage
here today, much was accomplished
toward hastening America's work in
the war. The war department an-nounced
a quartermasters cor-p,;"
training camp will be established for
the 3,200 officers and 20.000 enlist-ed
men, "somewhere in the United
States." The camp will turn out
ipecial technical units such as motor
companies, wagon .companies, steve-dore
regiments, labor, supply, repair
and salvage companies. They will
have cantonment camps occupying
about 2,000 acres.
DEATH TOLL IN KENTUCKY
MINE EXPLOSION M.
Clay, Ky., Aug. 5.—The death li.it
from the explosion yesterday in too
south entry of No. 7 mine of the
West Kentucky Coal Company had
tonight mounted to thirty-one, it
was officially stated. r T
Twenty-four bodies were removeJ
from the mine yesterday according to
the statement and one body was re-moved
today. Six of the twenty
five injured men rescued yesterday
died, bringing the death list to its
present total. A majority of those
killed were negroes.
Damage done to the fan house yes-terday
-by fire which followed the ex-plosion
forced the -shutting down of
the ventilating machinery today for
repairs, and early tonight the searon
of the workings was resumed.
From fifteen to twenty men are
3till in the workings it was said to-night.
Little hope is entertained that
any of them will be found alive.
MAN AND FOUR MULES .
KILLED BY LIOHTNINO.
Shelby, Aug. 2.—During a thun-derstorm
yesterday afternoon, light-ning
struck the wagon train of Stanl-ey
Brothers, merchants ot Fallston,
on the Shelby-Fallston road, instant-ly
killed the driver. Charlie Canipe,
and the team' of four fine mules. Tho
team was about five miles out and
was moving along the road in tho
heavy rain and electric storm when
the bolt struck. . Neither the wagon
nor the freight was damaged. When
a farmer living nearby looked out to
see if the lightning had struck his
barn, he saw the. mules lying in the
road and rushed to the scene where
he found the driver and the four
mules lying on their left sides as If
the wind had blown them over. Ca--
nipe had been in the employ ot
Stamey Brothers for seven yean and
was thirty years of age, with even
temperament and splendid morals.
He leaves surviving a wife and three
small children. ,
Name Is Wanted.
Washington, Aug. 3.—Wanted: A
name for the next* liberty loan. On
the event ot the announcement of the
second Hberty loan treasury officials
are at a loss for a name to distin-guish
it from the first.
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