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' Ju!» ;'J-—The war
^'"'"'ll't read' i'"r final actton
In1*"1*1" „,' ...mmittee of the sen-ate
finam7.... minor details are
,1,,. measure will be
committee and
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L, Bgur.'.i .>ut that the pro-lL„>
« practically agreed upon
Hdd bet■■-.•••« 51-998.000,000
JaHJM*-*'10' The changes in
i'becaa*'»"!iie new estimates
ZgA hj Secretary McAdoo last
'.-ill amount to bet v. sen $328,-
I and $!3S.O»0.000. Incomes |
td wwicating liquors are to be
Ej(or the ad-litional revenues re-ted.
■|«» agreed today that corpora-
,«am« should pay an addltion-
LOJO! SItJ- » »•' •**^*1 and that in-|
Criineoin^ ->f $15.000 and,
»ajT.WO.OSM ■> make up the!
Ittrenoe betwwn •-•■ senate bill as .
I Mon last '•"• k :*"d the new
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{tilled spirits v " bring in an addi-1
j$18.0O*.i>')'». and malt and fer-
«ted liquors $23,000 000. There
Ltobe *1 V~ Mi'1'" "n whiskey and
Items a barrel m beer.
iTomak.' up »"•'■ 'ti remains to be.
Led the sena'- *-!li levy a con-|
(gaption !:i\ an: :mi> tax petro-
Ii4hedetaiU ■>• •!.•■ bill will be lick-
Hinshai>-- iur "; '!•.«; next few days,
ISeutor Sin BI>R» will report to
* senate abow • .-■ -ml of the week.
|tbe swat? • mrn fee discussed
today '. ■■ iu*st: m of sugar.
LCWO8. and • ■iv.v. with a view to
kiting the ex. i- • -:i\ >o as to bring
psevera; add!:: ma; millions. It is
dersio ■> t::i; - finance commit-
IYBI n >t !•'.■ ..-• • ■-• t-ix on war
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airmail • .„-..<■■ K;t. inn. of the
hnevais .,:.■! ••, .n, committee, in
|telegram ;. :>. H. Q. Alexander,
siden; ■■; ■•.. Xnrth Carolina
mer; i'n: in. says t'.ie excess prof-ttax:
n • • .].,;.. revenue bill will
ork a hards: p ,n tiie farmers.
"A'"l«:-r :.,; ;;.. :^ss than $15.-
'ayrar .: ;,:*!!' i>rices would
■riwri ■,:,.... ,::il„ tlie rnited
Bites Steel i .::,,:-,- „u of $1,500,-
l :i..ik!ng $271,000.-
last year, would
'axes, either in-
'■"-»» 'axes, under
THOUSANDS OF PHYSICIANS
NEEDED FOR ARMIES.
Washington, July 31.—Fully 24,1
000 physicians, or two out of every
nine of military age in the country,
will be needed by the newAmerican
armies, the war department (has an-nounced.
In addition to 120,000 en-listed
men who must be secured for
the medical corps.
, Half of these persons and enlisted
men will ,be needed by October 1.
They also are going into training
camps to «t them for service at the
rate of 22 & day at Fort Riley, Kan-sas;
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indi-ana;
Fort Oelethorpe, Georgia; Fort
Des Molnes, Iowa, and Allenton, Pa.
Three months training is given the
officers and men. About 13,500 of-ficers
and men are now under train-ing
at these camps.
The demand for physicians is
probably fine 'heaviest made by one
war on any profession, and the de-partment
says the medical men of
the country are meeting it readily.
There are approximately 90,000 phy-sicians
of military age. 22 to 65 years
in the country. By a system of selec-tion
these would be drawn from each
community in proportion to the num-ber
available so as not to leave any
community without adequate protec-tion.
After their three months' training
a detaohment of the medical officers
for each regiment will be sent to
each national army, national guard
and regular army camp"ahead of the
troops to supervise preparations nec-essary
for safe-guarding health.
THE MAIN Ql'KSTIOXS IN
DISPUTE ALIi SETTLED.
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Washington, July 31.—The main
questions in dispute between 40,000
employes of southeastern railways
and the roads have ibeen settled by-
Secretary of Labor Wilson, who to-day
,:a7- a dies ion accepted by both
sides The settlement affects hours
of labor and wages of inspectors, re-pairers,
train airbrake repairers,
safety appliance maintainers, oilers
and packers and other employes in
the car departments.
John R. Gould, superintendent of
motive power of the Chesapeake and
Oho, representing the roads, and A.
O. Wiarton, head of the railway
departnieni of the American Federa-tion
of Labor, representing the men,
notified their principals that the re-maining
and minor points in the
controversy probably would be set-tled
by a decision of Secretary Wil-son
later today. Details were not
announced.
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GERMAN SUBMARINE
INTERNED BV SPAIN.
Madrid, July 31.—Premier Dato
announced today that the German
submarine U B-23 which had anchor-ed
in Corunna harbor, had been
taken to Ferrol, the chief naval ar-senal
of Spain 12 miles northeast of
Corunna."
The premier added that the gov-ernment
intended to keep strictly to
the terms of the recent regulation
regarding the entry of belligerent
submarines into Spanish ports.
I King Alfonso on June 30 signed a
. decree which had for its object the
! avoidance of a repetition of incidents
like the one at Cadiz, wihere a Ger-man
submarine took refuge and later
was escorted out of the port by Span-ish
torpedo boats. By the decree
submarines of all belligerent powers
were forbidden to navigate within
Spanish territorial waters or to enter
Spanish ports.
It was declared that all such sub-marines
wdiich entered the Spanish
zone for whatever reason would he
interned until the end of the war.
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A HUT Dim BY ALLIES
ATTACK BEGUN IN FLANDERS
COMPELS THE GERMANS TO
TO FALL BACK.
The great assault of the entente
allies, for whioh the big guns had
been preparing for three weeks in
bombardments of unprecedented vio-lence,
has begun in Flanders along a
front of about 20 miles, from the
region of Dixmude to south of Ypres
around Warneton.
Starting with the first peep of day
the attack, which was carried out
Jointly by French and British troops
—the Frenchmen holding the "line
north of Boesinghe and the British
between that town and Warneton—
the end of the day's fighting found
that all the entente plans had been
carried out. The Frenchmen were
holding two lines of captured Ger-man
trenches and Field Marshal
Halg's men three lines, in addition to
10 or more towns and villages and
more than 3,500 German prisoners.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
teutons had massed almost countless
number of guns and numerous divis-ions
of freshmen to hold back the
foreseen onslaught, and when the
battle broke threw both men and
guns into the fray, the British and
French carried out their operations
with dash and determination, indeed,
at some points, so determined were
the attacking forces that frequently
they passed the objectives which had
been assigned for their capture and
pressed on and took terrain that had
not been figured on for attainment.
The casualties of both the British
and French armies were relatively
sllght, considering the intensity of
the fighting on various sectors, while
the Germans in addition to their men
made prisoner, suffered heavily in
killed or wounded.
Although the latest reports are to
the effect that the Germans, are
launching a heavy counter-attack
against the allied line at the point
wihere the British and French forces
meet, statements from the front say
that the morale of the allies is splen-did
while that of the Germans is far
below their normal.
A majority of the positions taken
by the allies had been in the posses-sion
of the teutons since they invad-ed
Belgium.
The French attack which resulted
in the capture of Steenstraete, was
pushed on beyond that town and
penetrated the German lines to a
depth of nearly two and a half miles.
The British placed their deepest
wedge into the line of a depth of
two miles.
Again the French troops operating
along the Aisne front have been en-abled
to put down German crown
prince at Hurtebise and Cerny and to
assume the offensive themselves and
advance their line along the entire
front.
In east Galicia the Russians along
the Sbrocz river continue to give hat-tie
to the teutonic allies who have
crossed the stream and gained a foot-ing
on Russian soil. At several
points enemy detachments have been
forced out of captured positions,
which have 'been retaken by the Rus-sians.
To the south the Russians have at-tempted
to make a stand also in
western Bukowina, hut were com-pelled
to evacuate positions along
the Cheremosh river and retreat
eastward^ The town of Zaleszizyky
and several other positions blocking
the road to Czernowitz, the capital
of Bukowina. have been evacuated
by the Russians.
N. C. THURSDAY. AUGUST 2 1917
MAT CUIMS A HEAVY TOLL
THE IVTEK8K HEAT CONTINUED
THROUGH MOST OF STATES
YESTERDAY.
The great heat wave that holds
the country in its grip ha3 claimed
nearly 300 victims, and caused hun-dreds
of prostrations in the past
three days. The high temperatures
ranging from 100 degrees at Hart-ford,
Conn.; 98 at New York and
Boston; 95 at Washington, and 94 at
Philadelphia, have been accompanied
by humidity which made suffering
more intense.
Although Needles, Cal.. with its
thermometer at 104 was the hottest
place in the United States Wednes-day,
it was in the cities of the East,
where humidity was high and where
the population is congested that re-ports
told of deaths and prostrations.
Press dispatches from the chief
cities suffering from the heat show
the following deaths since the latter
part of last week:
New York, 115: Philadelphia, 68;
Chicago, 32; Pittsburgh. 24; Cleve-land.
14; Detroit and Newark. N. J..
10 each; Baltimore. 3. and Norfolk, c
No Relief For 48 Hours.
Washington.Aug. 1—The hot wave
will continue for at least 48 hours
more in the East, but the upper lake
region and West will have a sli?ht
drop In temperature tomorrow, the
weather bureau predicted tonight.
Reports to the bureau indicated
that today was not generally as op-pressive'as
the preceding two days.
The highest temperatures recorded
was at Needles, Cal., where the mer-cury
climbed to 104. Other high of-ficial
readings were Hartford, Conn..
100; New York. Boston and Albany,
98; Washington. 95; Philadelphia.
94; Atlantic City and St. Louis, 92,
and Chicago, 88.
Rains fell during the day in the
Texas -uanMiandle, Oklahoma, south-eastern
"Kansas, and In the upper
lake region.
Heat Claims 101 in New York.
New York, Aug. 1.—Heat claimed
the lives of 101 persons in Greater
New York today, while hundreds of
others were prostrated.
The city's sweltering millions got
only temporary relief from a brief
thunderstorm which broke this after-noon
and the temperature, which at
4 o'clock went down to 88 with the
cooling rain, again started to climb
with the re-appearance of the sun.
The humidity also began to go high-er
and night-fall found Che city's pop-ulation
facing another night of suf-fering.
■*•. ,.' " * '' corporation
|**»ad ,;,...":i r!,e same fcusi-
(,,'"• B];i-.„. '.' " "individual
"on equivalent
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Camp Greene Will Soon be Ready.
Washington, Aug. 1.—It was an-nounced
by the war department to-day
that the Charlotte camp should
oe completed by the 15th.
The statement says "steam shovel
and other machinery are on the
| ground and working at constructing
railroad siding. Three mess halls
' have been finished and eight more
' are under way. About 50 per cent
of needed material has been shipped
or received. The contractor for the
wiring has the work under way."
•'V 31—Cucum-f,
i" Colville dis-
; !'r»m here, suf-
! ,!« frost early
""ding to re-
^eports from
"'' -rost damage
Hold Up and Rob a Bank Cashier.
Spokane, Wash., July 31.—^Two
masked men today held up the cash-ier
of the First National bank, of
Medical Lake, 16 miles west of here,
and escaped in an automobile after
scooping $12,000 into sacks.
lV»ISONED So.!!'
USED AS WEAPON.
Washington, July 31.—Poisoned
soap is the latest weapon used by al-leged
German propogandlsts in this
country, it was stated at the depart-ment
of justice today. Peddlers have
been selling soap Impregnated with
typhus, tetanus and other germs, it
•s declared.
Department of justice agents have
a number of persons under surveil-lance,
along them a> well-known
chemist of German extraction, and it
is expected important arrests in the
conspiracy will be made in a few
days.
Six arrests were made in a small
town In Illinois today in connection
with the sale of courtplaster. In pur-suing
the investigation department
of justice agents learned that pois-oned
soap also had been sold by the
men. All those under arrest are Ger-mans.
Twenty-One Deaths in Chicago.
Chicago, Aug. 1.—Twenty-one
deaths attributed to the heat were
reported in the last 24 hours and
city health authorities predicted the
deaths today would exceed that num-ber
unless the promised relief arrives
before night. At 6 A. M. today street
thermometers registered 85 degrees
and the temperature was rising.
For the last two days the temper-ature
has reached 98 degrees in the
shade and on Sunday the maximum
was 97. _ •
One Death in Norfolk.
Norfolk, Va., Aug. 1.—One death
and two prostrations were reported
todav as a result of the heat wave.
Wh'U- the official record showed a
maximum of 98 degrees, thermome-t<;
js on street levels in the business
s°.tion reached from 100 to 102. A
numb*.: of horses fell on the streets.
MEN WORKING AT CAMP
GREENE GET POISON IVY.
Charlotte, July 31.—'More than
150 men, whites and negroes, have
run afoul of poison In the woods and
fields in Camp Greene, while clearing
the undergrowth, and the medical
staff in charge of the camp have been
busy for a week taking care of these
case;..
The medical men explain that the
workmen, not noticing the ivy, came
in contact with it while working in
the camp, the infection usually ap-pearing
on the lower limbs and
hands, and some times on the face.
"We have used several gallons of
laudanum in giving external treat-ment
for the poison ivy," said a phy-
•leiia yesterday, "but only one or
two cases called for hospital treat-men'
"
The effects of contact with the
poison ivy keep the workmen laid off
from work for two and three days.
The camp is being rapidly cleared
and the poisonous vine will have"
been eradicated as soon as the clear-ing
of the many acres of Camp
Greene is completed.
GREENSBORO AFTER ONE
OF THE AVIATION CAMPS.
Washington. July 31.—Charles W.
Gold. J. C. Forester and C. C. Hud-i->
n. president of the Chamber of
Commerce, of Greensboro, were here
t vday in en effort to induce Che war
and navy departments to locate one
of the a via'ion camps at Greensboro.
Judge Allen, of Goldsboro. was here
ou the same mission for his homo
c'ty.
There are a number of aviation
camps to be located under the pro-visions
of the recent law appropriat-ing
$640,000,000 for aviation and if
Major Sled man and the other mem-bers
of llu delegation can get one or
more for the state they 'ntend to do
SO.
■The Greensboro delegation called
ouVecretery of the Navy Daniels a'.d
Major Stedman and Majority Leader
Kitchin.
Washington, July 31.—It is stated
here today that the second class of
755,700 men registered under the
raft will be called up for examina-tion
early In August. With exami-nation
of the first quota of 1,374,000
progressing rapidly, the provost mar-shal
general's-office today announced
that seven days after the first called
are examined the second quota would
be posted for examination. The sec-ond
class, whioh will number 110
per cent of the 687.000 men needed
to fill fine regular army and militia
and the new national army of 600,-
000, win he combed for men to re-place
those exempted In the first
group.
Today General Crowder moved to
restrict exemptions further. Medical
students and men serving in Red
Cross ambulance companies have no
valid claims for exemption or dis-charge,
he ruled. Agricultural work-ers
and munition factory hands also
wiU be greatly restricted in exemp-tion
claims, it was intimated. Al-though
these industries are not spe-cifically
exempted, appeals are pour-ing
in from the farm districts and big
ndustrial centers for such service,
and cannot resign. If they persist in
refusing to perform laborers strictly
on their merits. City "war garden-ers"
wiH_ not be exempted as farm
hands who feed Che army, it wai
stated. Genera! Crowder declared
from this date members of local
boards must consider themselves as
drafted for such service, and cannot
resign. If they persist in refusing
to perform their duties they will be
reported to the nearest representa-tive
of the department of justice.
JULY WHEAT GOES
TO HIGHEST PRICES.
Fifteen Die in Cleveland.
Cleveland, Aug. 1.—The govern-ment
kiosk in the public square reg-istered
»5 degrees at 11 o'clock this
morn'ng, but a slight breeze off the
lake tempered the heat. Yesterday's
death toll from the heat was IB, thir-teen
of them babies.
Ten Deaths In Detroit.
Detroit, Aug. 1.—Ten deaths and
ID prostrations in the last 24 hours
is the toll attributed to the heat
WA\C that has prevailed here for sev-er*,
days. There was no indication
of a let up In the hot spell.
Two Dollar Rye.
Newton, Aug. l.-Tnere are some
large crops of rye in Catawba coun-ty,
especially In the Pineywood sec-tion
east of Newton. The farmers
ere getting $1.60 to $2 per bushel
I for the grata and $1 a hundred
pounds lor the straw.
Chicago, July 31—While the high-est
price reached for July wheat to-day
was made immediately after the
tap of the closing bell and it will not
be found on the records for the trans-actions
for the day, the $2.75 level
was reached for the second time
during the life of that future. It
sold on May 12 at $2.75, caused the
board of trade to take drastic action
in restricting the range of values.
While the July wheat future
showed an advance of 13 cents the
September was off 7 cents.
There is an urgent demand by
millers for hard winter wheat. There
were bids of 15 cents over the Sep-tember
for this variety. "There was
an advance of 6 1-4 cents in July
oats.
M.I. SLACKERS WILL
BE BROUGHT TO BOOK.
Washington. July 31.—District At-torney
W. C. Hammer and J. O. Carr
have been requested to run down all
"slackers" in North Carolina.
The department of justice today
ordered the searching out, arrest and
criminal prosecution of all men of
conscriptable age who have failed to
register themselves for draft service.
The men will be registered and
subjected to the draft in the reguiar
way.
They will then be prosecuted and
if found guilty will go to jail for at
least a year unless selected for mili-tary
service by me draft 'boards.
Two Killed by Lightning.
Bristol, Tenn.-Va., Aug. 1.—James
Bailey and a man named Minnick
were killed by lightning while har-vesting
hay on the farm of R. D.
Brown, near Abingdon, Va., today. A
young son of Mr. Brown, working
with the men, was also severely
shocked and is reported In a serious
condition. Two barns in that com-munity
were destroyed by fire result-ing
from lightning.
Germans Slay Family.
Amstepdam, July 31.—German au-thorities
at Liege shot down a mer-chant
and his wife and two daugh-ters
on the unproved charge ot
espionage, according to a wireless
message received here today. The
two daughters, It was declared, had
been compelled to witness fine execu-tion
Of their parents.
CALL A SECOND DRAFT SGC#
CALL WILL BE MADE FOR AN-OTHER
MILLION MEN WITH-IN
A FEW DAYS.
WELL FED GEESE BRING
«11 TO $lt» IN GERMANY.
Washington. July 31.—Informa-tion
concerning food costs in Ger-many
received today at the offices of
the food administration, show that
many edibles, particularly those con-taining
fats, are se!(iB« at almost
prohibitive prices. Fat for frying i.»
bringing more than $4 a pound.
Goose fat is sold at $5.36 a pound.
Fowls generally are high. Fresh
fowls bring $1.01 a pound; larded
goose breast $2.08; salted goose legs.
94 cents; young country laying hens,
$3.32 each; well-fed geese. $11 to
$19 each.
The egg ration at Hamburg f'
one week was one egg for each per-son.
Horses are in great demand for
food and horse flesh sells at from 53
to 86 cents a pound. Rabbits are
sold at $2 eaoh. Cheese is quoted at
from 36 to 82 cents a pound.
MEXICO AIDS SUFFERERS
OF RECENT EARTHQUAKE.
Mexico City, July 31.—The close
feeling of friendship between Mexico
and San Salvador has been demon-strated
recently by the efforts made
here and throughout the republic to
raise funds for the alleviation of dis-tress
among the sufferers from the
earthquake of the latter country. The
Mexican chamber of deputies has ap-propriated
30,000 . pesos for the
earthquake sufferers and many com -
mercial and labor organizations have
made large contributions. A fair
held here to raise funds for this pur-pose
was a brilliant success socially
and financially.
Prohibition Resolution Passed by the
Senate.
Washington. Aug 1—A resolution
for 'submission to the states of a pro-hibition
amendment to the federal
constitution was adopted late today
by the senate. The vote was 65 to
20, eight more than the necessary
two-thirds. —
As adopted the'resolutlon contains
a provision that the states must fee
asked to ratify the amendment with-in
six years. The house still must
act on the resolution.
Some Falling Off in Loss of Vesseln
by Submarines.
London, Aug. 1.—Some falling off
in the loss of British merchantmen
by submarines is noted in the official
summary issued this evening. Eight-een
British vessel* of more than
1,600 tone were sank by submarines
or mines last week. Three vessels
under 1.600 tons were sank, while
no fishing vessels were lost.
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