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GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY,'FEBRUARY 28, 1918. VOL. 97-NO. 17
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.... v„Cton. Feb. 26.—American
." ;.'ininee of the latest type and
UNCLE SAM MAKES,
BI<; FINANCIAL 1>HI\ K.
calibre (ten-incli. twelve---the treasury department, the United
I lllUrteen-incli) rifles are in
.",'„, the sector of the western
''."•■elJ by the American army
,. ', ,0 Italian front, it was learn-aI
,i,c war department. The
ii',i;
n.'-
t-n
• elief has been that very tew
.'„ ;,eav> guns were in Eu-puns
sent to Italy include a
,"„i fourteen-inch ri.les. both
'forty-five and fifty calibre.
Washington, Feb. 26.—Greatest
of financial drives, in this country's
history is that underway today to
obtain more than eighteen billion
dollars for government expenses this
year. According to the estimates of
HORRORS FOR 1 HE BIG DRIVE
GERMANS WILL USE ANY MEANS
TO BREAK THROUGH LIXES
OF THE ALLIES.
WE LUST "M? flnai DIl«f SALVATION ARMY GIRLS
UEjl DUDI I am PERSHIXG'S TROOPS. 10 PECPLE 1KST&K1LY KILLED
States will spend more than $53,-
000.00© every day during 1918, the
greatest portion to be spent to run
the war.
- It i3 expected that the third liberty
loan will net the government far
more than four billion dollars. In-ternal
revenue returns for 1918 will
show $3,400,000,000. as compared
with the $809,393,640 collected dur-ing
1917. according to treasury.de-
'GET A MILCH COW, A BROOD
SOW AND PLOW LIKE — UNO,"
IS TOE ADVICE OF OUSLEY.
* lonsidered the most; parement estimates. Total internal
K..-;,u nival weapon in existence
'..';',. commissioning of the Brit-
"v.uilesMp of the Queen Elizabeth
"..,; mteen-inch guns. Ameri-
, experts still believe that the
neon-inch fifty calibre rifle is
fi,.r.-.,itting ami more accurate
.' ,.,;, [be larger British weapon.
Vmcrirun G*«« '" l**h'-
. ;_ —i...nnr.0 revenue returns for 1918 will equal
one-third of the total revenue of the
entire world two years ago.
Excess profits will brfng in $1.-
200.000,000. The next largest
amount, $650,000,000. will come
from the personal income tax. The
pennies that are paid \ it!: nickels
and dimes for admission to movies
. "- from Italv sav the results j and from dues pa.d to clerk treas-
!*'Tbv tU. heavv American ord- urers will net $50,000,000. The pic-
L'.-K has elicited expres-1 toresflue Virgin islands, lately ac-
' ation from the Italian [quired, will furnish its share of the
revenue—$20,000. Out of this vast
sum to be raised by internal revenue
of the commodities taxed umier the
old law. The remainder, will be the
tangible results of the revenue act
of October 3, 1917.
i 'it
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... ,ns o: .i.l mil"
-i.alters.
;.....:; ;i„:i to heavy naval ord-
',"■,.. General Pershing has receiv-
., '., number of reserve twelve-inch
..,.'. :.. -!,.] originally for installa-in
. coast defences of the
•i-s When this country en-
I;, war there were a substan-
■ .,i number of these guns in Ameri-
, r-. •...<:- but the chances of their
... '.■';• 1 here was deemed so
, ... i.ie war department did
......M;.- to ship them abroad.
■o.unteJ on specially designed car-
■..;..- they are now located along the
•. rican sector.
Range of 17 to 20 Miles.
M mnted for high-angle fire, as
:, will he used in land operations,
... twelve-inch rifles have an esti-
.,«ed range of not less than 35,000
ards. or substantially 1" miles. The
i irteen-incb gun has a proportion-
','■■'.[■ greater ran?e.
Large naval guns are now being
ill:. as future American battleships
' ,rc to have sixteen-inch guns of both
■TV-live and fifty calibre. No
...:.. - of this weapon has yet been
:«rmiued to be published, however.
i)IKASSADOR FRANCIS IS
FLEEING FROM PETROGRAD.
'IYKKVMKXT WILL CONTROL
THK IF.UTILIZER INDUSTRY.
\\«-,. ngton. Feb. 26.—Govern-
:r. c.ntrol of the fertilizer indus-
. a- ordered by President Wilson
in a proclamation requirint;
1 an •' i 'turers
iUi '. '-'-n-e-
:-.: ilture or
an'l distributors to
from the secretary of
or before March 20.
Washington. Feb. 26.—The state
department was advised by Ambassa-dor
Francis today that on yesterday
the German army was only eight
hours' march from Petrograd and
that he was preparing to leave the
Russian capital with his staff.
The message, which was dated yes-terday
and sent by way of Peking,
said Mr. Francis would join the Chin-ese
and Japanese diplomats, also
preparing to leave. It did not refer
to plans of the European diplomats.
It was taken for granted at the
state department that the ambassa-dor
has abandoned an idea of follow-ing
the Lenine-Trotzky authorities
to a temporary capital and that the
route chosen is that over the trans-
Siberian railways into China.
No instructions have been sent by
the state department to Mr. Francis,
who in all his negotiations with the
de facto government in Petrograd
has nsed his own judgment.
An abandonment of Russia will be
construed by officials here as an in-dication
that the ambassador regards
the situation of the Bolshevik! gov-ernment
as practically hopeless.
irilj. for Cue is contained in
• II : , ..I control law.
I.: -list* must be obtained not
■i Y. makers, importers, storers
i —Hers of fertilizer itself, but of
' ingredients as well. Applications
:•).' license will be made to the food
- Iiiiir.istration, but. they will be la-
• II . b} Secretary Houston, who is
:. r.. 1 in the proclamation with en-
• nent of regulations to be is-
In ile-M in some fertilizer ingredi-
• it- including ammonia and its
"upounds, are already under li-r.*"
v.- the food administration and
■■-•■ >'\i-epted in the proclamation.
ALIENS ARE REMOVED
FROM CAMP GREENE.
Charlotte, Feb. 26.—One hundred
and fifty-seven aliens were removed
from Camp Greene yesterday to Fort
MoPherson. Ga. The men were most-ly
Germans and Austrians and some
of them had been in America for
many years. All of them were vol-unteers
in the army and came from
most every state in the union. Some
of them were old men in the service,
one mess sergeant having been in
for 18 years. It is understood that
not all of .these men will be interned
but assigned to the service not
"overseas."
The great German offensive on the
western front may be expected to be-gin
at any moment now and as far
as the British front 3 concerned, the
main thrust will be made on the sec-tor
between Arras and St. Queotin.
Tanks and a "new mysterious gas"
will be employed by the enemy in the
attempt to break through the allies'
line. Other attacks will be deliver-ed
farther south. These facts have
become known through German pris-oners
and from information gleaned
in other ways.
The plans of the German higher
command are complete and after I
many weeks of intensive training of
assaulting troops they are ready to
make the supreme and fina+ effort
which has been advertised widely in
| the past weeks.
Pin Hope on Hm-priNe Moves.
Field Marshal voa ' riindenburg
and General von Ludendorff appear
to have realized that the old meth-ods
of attack, in which a long bom-bardment
is employed, are too well
known to produce the results desir-ed.
Accordingly the German troops
are being told that surprise attacks,
ouch as were used in Galicia last
summer at Riga and again on the
Isonzo, are to be 'tried against the
allies on the western front.
Word has been passed out by the
German high command that few of
the allied troops will survive the ef-fects
of the tanks, the gas and the
bombardment, and that fresh Ger-man
infantry will overcome speedily
any resistance offered in captured
positions.
Despite these assurances and the
intensive training through which
they have been .put. the German
troops are frankly skeptical and are
undertaking their task with no en-thusiasm,
according to prisoners.
They feel they are going to be
thrown into battle to be used as can-non
fodder, and do not relish the
pri3pect.
Soldiers Ready For Peace.
It is said General von Ludendorft
recently addressed a body of infan-try
at Laon and asked how many-men
were killing to fight to a finish.
Only five noncommissioned officers
and privates stepped forward. The
others declared their desire for an
early peace by "arrangement."
The German attack cannot be de-layed
much longer. All information
points to the fact that both German
civilians and soldiers are keyed up to
such a pitch of nervous expectancy
that the strain cannot .endure for
long.
The coming battles will perhaps
be the most sanguniary of the war
and they will be the most intense yet
seen. But they will mark the begin-ning
of the end, for if the Germans
do not break clear through the al-lies'
lines—and they cannot—they
virtually will be finished. The em-peror
is putting every ounce of
strength into this great gamble and
if ft fails in the early stages it means
the end of Prussian militarism.
The allied forces have superiority
in numbers, both in men and guns,
and no doubt is felt on this front as
to the outcome.
Washington, Feb. 26.—In a state-ment
i&ned tonight in which he dis-cusses
ihe food situation and produc-tion
prjosipects for the coming year,
Clarence Ousley. assistant secretary
of agriculture, warns that it the
South Ueglects this year to provide
her o»fc food and feed, she is likely
to suffer serious privation and will-put
a burden upon the nation which
may prolong the war and even im-peril
victory in the war.
No Alarmist.
"I ain not expressing an alarmist
personal opinion,"the statement said.
"I am seeing through the eyes of 48
I agricultural colleges and of county
agents! in nearly every agricultural
county! I have recently crossed the
continent from the Atlantic to the
Paciflci I have studied the report
gathered by the department's 18.000
representatives and as many more
employes of the agricultural colleges.
I have considered the conclusions of
the international institute of agricul-ture
at Rome which has reports from
all the world.
Some Sourc<* of Information.
"The plain, hard truth Is that with
forty million people withdrawn from
productive industries and ensaged in
the business of destruction, it is not
humanly possible for production on
the whole to exceed normal demand.
The question is whether production
< can equal necessitous demand.
l.nlIre Battalion Volunteered.
Washington, Feb. 26.—An official
■'•■'•■:!• ■'. dispatch today said that the
■nt Franco-American raid in the
1 i-.niii Des Dames took place at
'• vrct-ny. and that the two Ameri-m
officers and 24 soldiers who
• chosen after the entire battal-
•i'l volunteered for service,
' •- proof of a spirit equal to"
•ai of the French troops.
American batteries, the dispatch
■all. co-operated in the preparation
>r the raid, which though of only
■•'- minutes' duration, was extreme-i
violent.
BODY OF ANOTHER TUSOANIA
VICTIM IS FOUND AT SEA.
GARFIELD NOW TELLS THE
PEOPLE TO LAY IN COAL.
•'"inci-irans "Gassed" by Germans.
With the American Army In
'"ranee, Feb. 26.—Three American
-■■■! Hers were killed and nine badly
"gassed" in two formidable gas at-
'acks made by the Germans on the
American positions in the Toul sec-
'*« early this morning with projec-tors.
The enemy also heavily bontbard-
A Scotch Port, Feb. 27.—The find-ing
at sea yesterday of the body of
John MoCoskey. of Watervliet. N. Y..
has increased to 212 the total num-ber
of Americans lost on the trans-port
Tuscania.
The body of MoCoskey was. sighted
by the crew of a British trawler, who
recovered it and buried it at sea.
American officers have just com-pleted
the task of taking the finger
prints ot 4'5 unidentified American
bodies, which were exhumed for this
purpose. It is expected that this
will enable the identification at
Washington of all of these men.
Deaths of Americans to France
Washington, Feb. 26.—Fuel Ad-ministrator
Garfield advised all
householders to buy their normal
supplies ot coal for next winter in
the regular way as soon as the coal
te available.
Dr. Garfield denied that he had
urged people last year not to put in
their normal supply of tosrt for this
winter's use.
Regulations governing the distri-bution
ot coal tor domestic purposes
will be formulated upon the return
to Washington ot L. A. Sneed, fed-eral
fuel distributor, who is now vis-iting
the state admin ist'ators. These
regulations may provide tor a "ra-tioning"
system similar to those al-ready
adopted by some local admin-istrators.
"England, France and Italy must
be sustained or their populations
cannot-stand the strain. The chief
cause pt Russia's collapse was hun-ger.
»
Wh> Plant Fixxl Crops?
1 "Secretary McAdoo has given
warning that transportation may be
lacking, in 1918 to haul food and
feed -Instates and communities, that
do not provide for themselves. Mili-tary
movements must have first con-sideration
and military movements
will be greater in 191S than in 1917.
The prime question for the farmer is
not what products will bring the
highest price, but what products will
insure food for his family and feed
for his livestock, and the answer is:
"A vegetable garden, a milk cow,
a brood sow, a poultry flock, ample
corn, oats, peanuts, etc.. and then as
much cotton or tobacco as he can
cultivate well.
Highest Demand of Patriotism.
"It is the highest demand of pa-triotism—
It is the first requirement
of living—that in 1918 every state,
every county, every, neighborhood,
every farmer be as nearly self-sus-taining
as possible.
"For the South to plunge on cot-ton
or tobacco or any other specula-tive
crop and to depend upon the
corn belt for bread and meat will Tje
for the South to engage in a gamble ]
which may cause privation ^o it3
people and disaster to the nation.
For any man now to determine his
business operations from the stand-point
of profit alone without regard
to the nation's needs, is for him wil-fully
to profiteer In the blood of his
fellows who are fighting in France
for the presevation of the republic.
Native to the Soil and Knows.
"My whole life has been spent in
the South. I know the Southern
farmer. He will do his duty as he
sees it. I am appealing to every man
In the South to make known these
facts—to consider it his business to
make them known—and I shall have
no doubt of the results."
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 26.—Sal-vation
Army girls are doing their bit
in France for American troops and
are doing it in the first-line trenches,
as the following cable from "Some-where
in France" indicates:
"In a few hours four of us women
start for tront-line trenches. Three
of our officers started trench work
yesterday. Mrs. Adjutant Hammand,
Mies Captain Mclntyre, Mrs. Ensign
Hickey and I are first American wo-men
accepted for trench service,
both day and night. We are fully-equipped
with gas masks, steel hel-mets,
rubber blankets and revolvers.
"HELEiN PURVIANCE.
"Ensign."
These American girls, stimulated
by patriotism and religious fervor,
are suffering from hardships and
dangers of trained troops in their
effort to serve the cause ot freedom.
They circulate through the front-line
trenches both day and night,
distributing buckets of hot coffee
and chocolate to the boys. As a re-sult
of the sock and garment ex-change
system our soldiers are able
to exchange their mud-soaked, sod-den
clothing for clean, dry woolen
garments.
While some of the Salvation Army
!a?sies on foreign duty are subjected
to the dangers of the battle front,
others are laboring in the rear. No
ta3k is too menial. Washing and
mending socks and clothing and
standing for hours over an improvis-ed
stove to cook for throngs of sol-diers
has become a daily routine.
MANY OTHERS SERIOUSLY IN-JURED
IN RAILROAD WRECK
NEAR COLUMBIA, S. C.
RUSSLAN RESISTANCE TO
GERMANS IS STIFFENING.
London. Feb. 26.—A Petrograd
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company, dated Monday, says:
'That resistance to tne German
advance is growing is shown by the
^p«>rtr-M»t>tftmi11feteMatfeas
in the vicinity of Pskov. This Town
ha* changed hands several times.
The German detachments which first
entered Pskov were very small, but
they have since been reinforced.
"There is a general belief that the
Germans are moving forward hastily
because supplies of ammunition
worth 400.000.000 rubles are con-centrated
In the neighborhood of
Pskov. The Russians, however, are
taking measures to guard the rail-way
and are sending more soviet
troops to Pskov."
Later advices say that the soviet
armies are now everywhere resisting
the invaders. At Narva, the garri-son
and workmen have formed an
army of 10,000 and gone to Reval.
There are similar reports from Walk.
Great activity is manifested at the
.Bolshevic headquarters in Petrograd
and arms and ammunition are being
distributed.
Columbia. S. C, Feb. 25.—Ten
persons were killed outright, two
died of injuries' and .38 others were
injured when train No. 42 of the
Southern Railway from Asheville to
Spartanburg crashed Into the rear ot
train No. 18 from Greenville, near
Frost's station, five miles north of -
here this afternoon.
The wreck occurred shortly after
2 o'clock this afternoon when train
No. 18 had stopped near Frost's sta-tion,
where a part of the truck on
the baggage car was repaired. Rail-road
officials said the flag on train
No. 18 was sent down the track in
the rear ot the train while H was
stopped. When the repairs were
completed the flagman was called
back and No. 18 had gone not more
than two train lengths when No. 42
came into sight, and a few seconds
later the crash came. The engine
drawing the Spartanburg train crash-ed
into the rear coach of No. 18, vir-tually
demolishing it, taking its toll
ot dead. Most of the killed were
said to have been in the smoking
compartment of the rear coach of No.
18 when the wreck occurred.
The force of the collision tele-scoped
the rear coach half way
through the coach ahead. Both
coaches, according to railroad offi-cials,
were wooden.
The bodies of seven of the 10 pas-sengers
instantly killed were found
I immediately after the crash. A
wrecking crew found the other three
bodies buried under the debris ot
the rear roach. Tomlinson and Mrs.
Johnson died in the hospital here.
Railroad officials late tonight re-ported
that the tracks>-were cleared
after 8 o'clock.
W. C. Tomlinson. of Durham, N.
C. was one of those killed In the col-
Mte OTjee.« and Ne;18,ae«rhera
late this afternoon. All the dead
were passengers on train No. 18.
NO NEED TO WORRY,
SAYS SECRETARY HOUSTON.
GERMANY AND. AUSTRIA
NEAR BREAKING POINT?
MORE AND BETTER
WAR GARDENS WANTED.
Washington. Fe». *6.—The d«ath
of one man in action, of two others
from wounds received in action and
a fourth from a gun explosion were
reported to the war department to-day
by General Pershing. The dis-
Stole His Meat.
.Reidsvllle, Feb. 2*7-^-Thieves
broke into L. L. Trent's smoke house
on Route 2 one night last week and
carried off three large ehoulders and
two large hams of meat. More than
200 pounds were carried off. >fo
Raleigh. Feb. 2«.—War gardens I
In North Carolina last year saved
North Carolina consumers $12,000,-
000 to $15,000,04)0 which otherwise
would have been spent for food pro-ducts
Imported into the state from
other sections and, in the opinion of
health experts, saved tens of thou-sands
of dollars in doctors' bills by
Improving the general health of the
people through the Increased variety
in their diet.
"More gardens and better gar-dens"
Is the motto for this year, and
with the forces of the food adminis-tration
and the agricultural exten-sion
service behind the movement
there should be a further increase
of several million dollars in the ag-gregate
value of garden products.
Garden bulletin* and plans may be
Washington, Feb. 27.—Further
evidence of the growing strain in re-lations
between Germany and Aus-tria
over the refusal of the latter to
participate in the renewed attack up-on
Russia Is given in an official dis-patch
received here today from
France. It quotes the Austrian pre-mier
as formally reiterating on Feb-ruary
22 that Austria-Hungary will
take no part in military action
against Russia or Rumania, and will
not send her troops into Ukraine.
The dispatch refers ,to the meeting
between Emperors Charles and Wil-liam
February 22, and says there
seems little doubt that a serious con-flict
has aTisen between the two na-
Itlons which Germany is determined
to settle by violent measures if nec-essary.
Washington, Feb. 26.—Secretary
Houston today gave the house agri-culture
committee an optimistic view
of the food situation in the country
as a whole, and said there was no
need for any hysteria over a danger-ous
shortage of any commodity.
The secretary was called before
the committee to discuss the bill pro-viding
for extending funds to farm-ers
to buy seed, particularly in the
North west, where much of the late
crop of grain contained too much
moisture to make lb valuable for seed
this spring. He gave no opinion on
the wisdom of the proposal.
Chairman Lever said later he did
not think information given the com-mittee
today would warrant extend-ing
financial aid to farmers for pur-chasing
seed. Representatives of
the Western states insist it is essen-tial,
however, and will make a fight
for the legislation.
«800 TO $2,500 IN GEMS
POURED IN THE SEWER.
Killed in the Air.
Mephis, Feb. 26.—William J.
Weissinger, a former Washington
newspaper man, was killed, and W.
C. Story, of Freeport, N. Y., was
probably fatally Injured when the
airplane in which the men, cadets at
Park aviation field, near Memphis,
were making solo flights, collided in
midair and fell about 1,000 feet late
today.
Wilson, Feb. 26.—'Sunday after-noon
quite a misfortune happened to
a Wilson lady who Is' a patient in a
local hospital—a misfortune that en-tails
a loss variously estimated at
from $800 to *2,500. Three dia-mond
rings, two of them clusters,
had been left either in a tumbler of
washbowl, and the nurse in tidying
up her patient's room emptied the
vessel containing the rings in a slop
jar. The contents ot the jar was
taken to a bathroom and poured
down the sewer. When the patient
discovered the loss of her precious
jewels search wa« made and one of
them was recovered. "Drags" were
placed In the sewer but no trace
could be found of the missing "clus-ters,"
-which aside from their Intrin-sic
value were highly prized—having
been a gift from mother to son, and
from son to his wife.
Spanish Steamer to 8«nk by Subma-rine.
Negro Soldiers Face Court Martial.
Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 26—Twen-ty-
six negro soldiers of the 512th en-gineer
service battalion are in the
guardhouse at Camp Pike £ altlng
court martial as a result ot a riot In
ameas hall at the oamp today* A.
Madrid, Feb. 26—A dispatch from
Bllboa says the Spanish steamer Me- amess nau « v""|
w"* ,3S"-A
, , r,a Jeuri has been sunk by a •ubmarine. Iwhite noa-eommtosloned officer aur
repu.Ksu ™ .— _ - 200 carxieu «— — aecured from the a.■g■riiMcuHltuariaril eexxtteenn-- HHeerr ccrreeww w«a«s MM.««~ »- «•«• , ^
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si.eiis but without result.