The Greensboro patriot [March 11, 1918]

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ESTABLISHED 1821. GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1918. VOL. 97-NO. 20
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PITSS GERMANS ON RUN.
.... .-.,. American Army
Mnrrfii 9.—Some of
: ,rJ In a listening post
'"'"".r their ..ft* northwest of Toul
' ",„:, morning discovered an
in
the
in
-<"'..■ , patrol fixir.-g their own wire,
'7,, •„<!•;><lv opened Are. The Ger-rf
treated leaving two of 'their
hanging on the barbs.
Paris. March 10.—The American
secretary of war, Newton D. Baker,
has arrived at a French port.
jiurobci
...... hours after daylight a 'party
',','. Germans, two In.iintry men
'_, ':,,. Red Cress work-ers, emerg-
;" .„„, Che enemy lines and started
\r\ ','. :r comrades, entangled in the
. 1 The Americans saw the Tied
*!*.L ',,.'■ :>rds and did not fire on
i •'•.-!>• «'.i:ch removed the bodies.
"•- --, ';£* been increased sniping
•jritles all along the whole of the
. L^e-fcan front during the last 24
.:' ur. One enemy -post gave the
iffierV:..-., specie trouble dufir.g the
D'aying well-armed bullets on
aigUI After day-
„„,!« points of fhe line.
,!R'at *'ae pest still continued work-l3g
from ?:ell holes w«th periscopes.
American saipera tried to silence the
eaemy tt. ci :l>e:r line, but were un-successful.
\ sniping patrol was then organ-
. ..,1 by the Americans and went out
fa broad daylight. The result of this
expedition has not be*n reported.
The game of sniping the sniper is
-till continuing. Reports from vari-ous
points show that enemy riflemen
are endeavoring to pick off Anieri-
■ :m traopi-
Today »as the warmest in many
weeks. The weather was fine and
-..-it'ii just enough ground haze to
make sniping conditions ideal. All
tne Americans who were not on duty
took advantage oif the hot sun to
thaw out and to dry their clothes.
During last night and today the
Germans dropped phosgene shells on
several of the American battery posi-tions
and mustard shells in the rear
r,f the line. Three gas alarms were
-iven on the front within a tew
bours. Owing to the quickness of
the Americans in adjusting their gas
uasks. tiie shells did no damage.
The mustard sticks fell for many
hours to the spot where a shell Tails,
i."id soldiers nearby experience a
stinging sensation in their eyes
On or.~ end of the American line
I he enem;. laid down a barrage, al-ter
having concentrated a rather
heavy ':,,">r.,'.,.:rtiment. "Pie American
art'.lto} pa: up a coun;er barrage.
KS a pr-cauti; n against a raid, but no
rii.l developed. While this was go-h;
an the enenr. dropped a score of
:i.- shells or a town directly in the
rear, bii" *iif mxious gas did no dam-age.
On the other end of the line
ihc- American gunners laid down a
barrage or. the enemy line. All along
the front iiie American artillerists
'lelk-ii the German front and second
•ine and (-..v.munication trendies.
j Americans Stop Huns.
A small American patrol early this
morning mer an enemy patrol in Xo
Man's band, near Chemin dee Dames,
"•! "'■ '. ,n the enemy. A sharp
skirmNh resulted, the accurate firing
'•- '" Americans causing one enemy
'MJialty and undoubtedly three
other*. The Americans returned to
1 '■'■■:• lines without a Wan being
scratched.
Washington, March 10.—Upon
hearing of Secretary Biker's safe ar-
[trtval in Prance through the Associat-ed
Prests dispatch from Paris, the
war department tonight announced
that the secretary's visit i6 purely
military and not diplomatic and is
SOT punpo-ses of inspection and per-sonal
conferences with military offi-
:lals. Mr. Baker "is accompanied by
Major Geners-1 William M. Black.
chief of engineers; Lieu*. Col. M. L.
Brett -.cd Ralph H. Hayes, bis pri-vate
secretary.
Secretary Baker .plans to spend a
brie! time in Prance, inspecting lr.
person the concrete results already
achieved in .the efforts of bis depart-ment
to place in the field this year an
army that -will be a factor in the
campaign. On ...e event of his depar-ture.
Mr. Baker told members of the
press who have been in the habit of
feeing hi-m every day, that he did
co: expect 'to be away for any con-siderable
length cf time.
WILL RECLABSIFY AM,
MEN IN SECOND DRAFT. CHECK UM1ERSEA WARFARE
FAMILY WIPED OUT AND HOUSE
BLOWN DOWN—SEVERAL
OTHERS KILLED.
Lima, Ohio. March 9.—One family
at Van West was wiped out when
their house Was blown down by the
cyclone this evening, along With sev-eral
houses across the Pennsylvania
railroad tracks, according to reports
to the Ohio Electric Railway dis-patcher's
office here. Conditions
west of Van West are critical. Farm-ers
have been started out to hunt vic-tims
in houses which were blown
down.
Fort Wayne. Ind., March 9.—The
Pennsylvania dispatcher here was in-formed
that four persons were be-lieved
to have been killed by the
storm at Ricbey. a few miles east ot
Convoy. Ohio, tonight. Pennsylvania
trains are tied op at this point.
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INCREASING ALONG
AXTLE FRONT IN
INCE AND ITALY.
(ties have retirnefl to the
Vt in - France, and every-hg
the American, British
artillery
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UNCLE SAM HAS NEITHER
ASSENTED NOR DISSENTED.
Washington. March T.—It was
made plain today that the United
States has neither asssn-.ed nor dis-sented
to any plan of Japan for ac-tion
in Siberia and that previous
statements that no direct communi-cations
have been exchanged between
the two governments on the subject
were correct.
The American government has
been fully informed concerning the
(Situation t>y Great Britain. Japan's
aiiy by special treaty, anfi discus-sions
between London and Washing-ton
are continuing. But so far as
can be learned Japan has not even
directly asked the ap,provai of her
pians by the United States, conse-quently
the latter U notjcaUed. spou
to make a formal etoreseioa. Great
Britain is said to have expressed
confidence in Japan's :ntentior.s.
with a view to allaying any appre-hension
here that the Japanese
might do more than protect the war
stores a* Vladivostok and combat
German activities. The understand-ing
is that the state department has
beer, satisfied on this poirt.
Fort Wayne. Ind., March 9.—Four
persons are thought to have been
killed and several injured in a cy-clone
which swept over Van Wert
county, Ohio, tonight. It is report-ed
here that Continental. Ohio, has
been wiped out by the storm.
It also is reported that the towns
of Holgate and Palmer. Ohio, west of
Leipsic. have been .practically de-stroyed
by a tornado. Appeals for
immediate help have gone out to ad-jacent
cities.
15 Killed In Kentucky.
Lexington. Ky., March 9—Reports
reaching here by telephone from
Winchester, Ky., say that 15 persons
were killed and approximately 100
others were injured tonight when
the walls of a ouroed building ad-joining
a moving .picture theater
there collapsed, falling upon its roof.
Rescuers are now working to clear
away the wreckage, the report said.
AMERICAN CASUALTIES.
WITHOUT ANY ADDRESS.
!'.
■ troops on the Lorraine front
tin- same time suffered an ex-ii-
ii..-.•.- heavy oombardment. Nonth-
•■-' '■! Toul the enemy fired nearly
hundred gas shells into one of the
1'- 'ii battery po6itiors In » short
"' ■ t time, but not a single man
4"> -.r hb'. been sent to a hosipital be-
«•■•■ of the rapidity wiith which gas
'■*-. ■•••ere adjusted.
'■'•' .lean artillery blew up an ene-
'• 'munition dump. The heavy
ri ropped mere .resulted in a
■Mowed by flames and great
; of smoke. The American ar-also
shellea heavily the ene-
" • !^"st and second lines.
i ' rican sniipers have been esrpe-
•ictive during the last 24 hours,
1 ■■' s'..arpshooter, killing a German
'•'':' ."as walking in aiparaipelt, while
" 'iiarpshooters were successful
ting cither Germans who show-
■ m.selves. Enemy automatic
I'lea were especially active last night
early this morning, but did little
; 'age. There is normal artillery
•:-ivity today.
Washington. March 9.—The cas-ualty
list without next of kin or ad-dressee
issued late today by the war
department contained the names of
Cspt. Harry C. M'oHehry and fifteen
men killed in action and of First
Lieutenant Frank J. Montgomery,
killed tn an airpHane accident.
The list also showed that Second
Lieutenant William Terrell had been
severely wounded in action and that
First Lieutenant Arthur Ward had
died from paralysis.
The death of Lieutenant Barle
Wayne Freed 'Cnilds, U. S. K.. while
on temporary duty aboard ?. British
vessel, was announced by the navy
department. The date : nd circum-stances
of ttlie death were not r-'iven.
Lieutenant Chi'ids' home was Brook-lyn.
* ..ere also were given the names
of 20 privates severely wounded in
action, 18 lightly wounded and two
"wounded In action," with four who
had died of diseases. At the war de-partment
it was .9aid that the two
re.port.ed "wounded in action" prob-ably
should have been included
among Bhe slightly wounded.
GOVERNOR O.UJ>WEIJi,8
BODY IS. TRANSFERRED,
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Morganton. March S.—The body
of Governor Tod R. Caidwell was ex-humed
here after having been buried
44 years, and transferred from the
Methodist church to the city ceme-tery.
Mr. Caidwell was buried in a
sealed copper casket, and upon open-ing
it was found that the body did
not show the least tract ot decompo-sition
and the embalming was a won-derful
piece of work.
The bodies of Mrs -Caidwell and a
daughter were transferred at the
same time.
On the corner opposite the court
house and hotel stands the old home
of Governor Caidwell and it is now
the oldest building in Morganton and
also one of the best, and te in perfect
preservation. For years it has been
known as the Brem corner, having
been owned and occupied many years
by Walter Brem. now of Charlotte.
All hope of finding Mrs. Anderson,
the sick woman who disappeared Sat-urday
night, alive has been given up
and after four days' search, not the
least trace or clue has been found,
and as the search has been thorough
the mystery grows.
jaiis.tt.'s •«» iHioNia «• «o« .unu-iju .^....-=w.-.~.- —. ——. fiaid high trtbute in his remarks t»
!*ab"«oluteIy deprrrrew Rnnyta -and- Iiie »—OteJdU be, sj»t.to,£he. ^r^^irtt-ead-eflteiency ot American
shores of the Gulf of Fin- White House Monday for'TWpreei-' jjaral units. crediting the
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Price of Coal Reduced.
Washington.. March 8 —An aver-age
reduction of 30 cents a ton in
the retail price of all anthracite coal
sold for domestic use between Alpril
1 and September 1, was announced
tonight by the fuel administration,
together with regulations governmg
the retail distribution o! all coal Tor
the year beginning the flret of next
month. The rules are designed par-ticularly
to prevent hoarding and in-sure
the filling of all domestic needs
for next winter during the summer
months.
Oround Glass Put in Candy.
Jacksonville. Fla., March 9.—Two
hundred pounds of candy shipped
from a Boston fadtory for use of stu-dents
at the Warrington. Fla.. naval
aviation station is being held here
following the discovery that it con-tained
a large quantity of ground
glass. One man who ate some of the
candy is in the hospital seriously ill.
Two dozen packages of the candy
sent to the state bacteriological lab-oratory
were found to contain a
large quantity of ground class, it 'is
said. .Government agents are in-vestigating.
A Woman Rip Van Winkle.
New York, March. 8.—.Rip Van
Winkle's long nap has had several
counterparts in real life, the most
notable being the long distance
sleeping record established by Caro-line
Olsson, a Swedish woman, who
fell into a trance forty-two years ago,
on December -■«. 1875, and did not
wake up until 1907.
Seventeen Killed.
Winchester, Ky., March 9.—^even-teen
persons were killed and be-
Stonn Warnings Displayed.
t Washington, Mardh 10.—Worth-ssoonnvrilllllee
ttoo EEaaeettppoorrtt,, •«W•»^«*.' J»™""\ZirTjE~^^B-££J"ri
weather bureau announced tonight, Itapeed h**«o<
sectors there has been an
increase in activity by the forces
which it ts believed must soon close
in a comsat,
Officia!{reports, devoid of descrip-tion
as'tley are. indicate that Ver-dun
is oliie more the scene of heavy
tior.s, but this may be
iminary to an attack on
ictor.
Mean lines near Toul are
southeast of Verdun and
Jued activity along this
front shdWs that the Germans con-template
r»erlous operations there.
Raids in Jjtoree. such as were met bv
the Americans and completely re-pulsed,
have not been repeated, but
German «riatore are continualh over
the American lines, spying out am-munition
dumps, location of guns
and the disposition of the American
forces, j
Gernien Retirement Forced.
It is revealed in late reports that
the retirement o' the Germans from
Narva, wfest of Petrograd. was a re-sult
of successful resistance made by-
Russian forces at the city of Jam-burg,
68 miles southwest of the Rus-sian
capital. This resis-.ance may be
only a Eal instance of the disposi-tion
of the Bolshevik government tc
fight against .further invasion of
Great Russia, but it points to the
fact tha( the Russians are still cap-able
of conducting a defense which
is effective.
The last details relative to the
peace signed with Finland shows
that from the Arctic ocean to the
Black Sea the German power is com-plete.
It is reported that Finland
has "asked" Emperor William to
place his *on Oscar on the Finnish
throiMr-jTJiie.a-ass indicated a few
fuay«
of both
land and makes Petrograd virtually
an inland city, so far as foreign com-merce
is concerned.
Spirited fighting is going on in
Italy. On the Asiago plateau the
teutonic allies have resumed their at-tacks
on the Italian lines, while all
along the Piave artil'ery engage-ments
el considerable violence are
developing.
Macedonian Theater Active.
The Macedonian tliea.er. too. hte
become more active than usual. In
four sectors along this front heavy
artillery fighting is reported by the
French official statement.
Another raid has been made on
London by the Germans. These raids
are usually made by moonlight, but
on Thursday night, aided by the au-rora
borealis. which brilliantly illum-inated
the northern heavens, seven
or eight German airplanes crossed
the east ooast of England. The anti-aircraft
fire was heavy and the ma-chines
were at first driven back, but
others, attacking from the south,
managed to penetrate as far as the
metropolis and dropped bombs. No
objects of military importance were
damaged, but 11 persons were killed
and 46 injured.
British on Offensve.
The Brtish forces in Palestine
have once more faken the offensive
and have advanced over a front 18
miles long to a depth of three miles.
The British are slowly moving north-ward
along the valley of the Jordan
from Jericho and are advancing their
lines to the west to sweep the Turks
completely out of that region.
Japan is not only ready to take
vigorous steps in Siberia, but has in-timated
that she would welcome the
assistance of the Chinese in opera-tions
which will have for their ob-jective
the safeguarding of entente
allied interests in the far east. China
has discovered that Germany plan-ned
to arm her soldiers held prisoner
in Siberia.and to send them against
the Chinese northern frontiers.
A new credit of 600,000,000
pounds sterling has been voted by
the British parliament. Thia brings
the total British war credits since
August. 1914. to 6,842.000.000
pounds sterling, or approximately
$34,210,000,000.
Washington, March S.—Reclaesi-flcation
according to physical condi-tion
of the men called in the next
army draft is provided n revised in-structions
for medical advisory-boards
which are being sent to the
local boards throughout the country.
The new regulations, made public
tonight, require that every man sum-moned
before the board shall be
placed in one of the following four
classes:
(A) Acceptable for genera! mili-tary
service; (B) acceptable for gen-eral
military service after being cur-ed
of remedial defect; OC) accept-able
for special or limited military-service
In a specified capacity or oc-cupation:
(D) rejected and exempt-ed
from any military service.
It is the intention of the provost
marshal general to provide later for
the further invest'gation and classifi-cation
of the men acceptable for lim-ited
or special service so that record
may be made of the sort of work
each of these men may be assigned
to do without endangering his
health.
Under the new regulations, many
ailments and defects which .jair.ed
exemption of drafted men in the past
now will result only in their being
listed in group B. Such men if they
chocse will be given the privilege of
securing the services of their family-physicians
in the effort to remove
the defect, but if they have not avail-ed
themselves of this privilege within
a specified time, they wMl be called
into military service and ordered to a
cantonment base hospital, a recon-struction
hospital or to a civic hos-pital,
as may be designated by the
surgeon general.
WORK U-BOATS DESTROYED W
DECEMBER THAN GERMAJfY
BUILT.
MEX NOT FORCED TO
WORK OX FARMS.
Washington. March 9.—The sen-ate
today agreed to the house amend-ments
to the bill providing for the
.furlough ;©t_soldiers ifor farm work
Washington. March S.—More sub-marines
were destroyed by the allied
and American naval fords in Decem-ber
than Germany was able to build
during that month, according to in-formation
reaching Washington.
This fact developed today in discus-sions
of the statement aade to par-liament
by Sir Eric C. Geddes. first
lord of the British admiralty, that
the submarines were being checked.
Whether succeeding months have
shown a net loss in German subma-rines
is not known here. It is be-lieved,
however, that the anti-eub-imarine
campaign has proved so ef-fective
that increased efforts this
spring will see a steady decrease in
the number ot U-boats available fo
•prey on allied and American ship-ping.
What officials know ot plans for
pressing home the attack with in-creasing
vigor, explains the feeling ot
optimism that prevails in official cir-cles
despite continued iieavy drains
on ship tonnage through the U-boats.
The gradual decline in tonnage loss-es
was graphically pictured to parlia-ment
by Sir Eric with curve charts.
American naval officials appear to
be satisfied that the weapons with
which they expect to crush finally
the submarine menace are forthcom-ing.
Increased lumbers of patrol
vessels of various types, appliances
and devices to make them more ef-fective
against underwater craft and
the increased skill of navy person-pel
are among the things upon which
they count. It has taken time to de-vise
and build the wean MM, bu: they
are beginning to become available
now.
Tribute to American Units.
When the United States entered
the war, the navy contributed
promptly all that it had available to
join In the submarine hunt. Sir Eric
dent's signature.
Washington. March 9.—The war
department w'ltl not force soldiers to
Work on farms. This official state-ment
was made tonight in connec-tion
with the bill to empower the
secretary of war to furlough troops
to go back home and till the soil.
Such furloughs will be granted
only in the cases where the men are
willing to aid in the relief of farm la-bor
shortage, it was said. The second
draft will not intefere with farm
work, it was stated.
The granting of furloughs to men
who have been inducted into raiilitary
service will depend solely upon the
military situation at the time. Sol-diers
allowed to to farm work .will
draw pay from their employers as
well as from the army. They will
have to defray their own expenses.
GERMANY AXD FINLAND
SIGN A PEACE TREATY.
Amsterdam. March 7.—Official an-nouncement
was made in Berlin to-day
of the signing ot a peace treaty
between Germany and Finland, and
also of trade and shipping agree-ments
and a supplementary protocol.
The treaty was signed at noon today.
Finland by the conditions of the
treaty, agrees to cede no territory
nor grant territorial rights to any-foreign
power without the previous
consent of Germany, who undertakes
to exert herself to secure the recog-nition
of Finland's independence, by
all the powers.
Each party renounces compensa-tion
for war costs or damages. Nego-tiations
will start forthwith for a
trade and shipping treaty. The for-tifications
of the Aland islands will
be removed as speedily as possible
and regulations will be adopted for
the permanent non-fortification or
the islands.
naval unite."crediting them wlttf a"*"
fair share of what has been accom-plished.
Vice Admiral Siraa' destroy-er
forces, however, constituted only
the advance guard of what the Amer-ican
navy planned to furnish for the
fight. Even with that limited aid,
the allied navies have neld the ene-my
and are now destro/ing one out
of every four or five German U-boat3
that put to sea.
Now America's real contribution
to the naval Warfare is about to be
felt. With every passing week, the
strength of the force will grow, for
it ie embodied in the most extensive
construction program «.ver under-taken
for the navy of any poavr.
The new destroyers and other
craft must be added to the patrol
fleets gradually as they are complet-ed.
Therefore, no sudden falling off
of tonnage losses Is to be expected.
It hae been stated publicly by high
British naval authorities, however,
that next August will show beyond
question that the U-boats have been
overcome. There are officials here
who are hopeful that detided results
will be apparent before that, per-haps
as early as May or June.
RULES FOR SAVING
OF WHEAT TIGHTENED.
Red Cross appropriations for work
In Italy from November 1. 1*17, to
May 1. 1918. total »4,7713»».
Mexican Bandits Killed.
Corpus Christi. Texas, March 8.—
Five of 30 Mexican bandits who raid-ed
the Tom East ranch, south of He?
bronville, last night, have been killed
by possea headed by Texas rangers
and 13 others of the bank have been
located and will be "accounted for
before daylight." according to a mes-sage
late tonight from Hebronvillo,
None of the posseesmen were injur-ed.
Raileigh, March 8.—The Impres-sion
has been created in some sec-tions
of North Carolina from a dis-patch
from Washington published an
some of the morning papers that the
order forbidding the safe of wheat
flour except in combination with
other cereals has been revoked. Food
administration officials announced
here today that instead of the order
being revoked all exceptions to the
order have been revoked. The latest
action of- the food administration is
a tightening for the more ettective
saving - of wheat flour through the
operation of the fifty Jflfty sales or-der.
However, the ruling of the
North Carolina office of the food ad-ministration
allowing the sale of up
to 48 pounds of flour to farmers up-on
certmcation that they have pro-duced
and are using cereal substitu-tions
is not affected.
Killed la Trolley Car A ecldent.
Unlontown, Pa.. March ».—Three
unidentified boys were killed almost
Instantly when they twere struck by
an lntenrurbani street car near
Brownsflekl this evening.
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