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GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAW MARCH 21, 1918. VOL. 97-NO. 23
AT LEXINGTON LATEST FROM WAR FRONT
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, ,„ \.,1.KHK SHOT AND KILL-
■' •'!' ', <; HEGE—DOMESTIC
H>,;,,,ll«JK THE CAUSE.
, ;,>„. March 19—J. Franklin
W , cashier of lUe Commer-
' '"^ savings Bank, i»t this place,
and killed today about 1
Graham Hege. The
^/occurred in the sitting room
„•; He? ,,-.-. home.
are saW to
,„.,„o•f ahich
AMERICAN'S USE ASPHYXIATING
OA8 UPON GERMANS—DROP
RUBBER GAS BALLS.
Five shots in all
Hove been fired by Hege.
pierced Deaderick's
; the righ: side, and
^entirely through the body.
1 .[erj.k rushed from ".he room and
,'■-. ffon: the front porc.i to the yard
i (lied almost instantly. Hege im-teiephoned
:he sheriffs
,J requested that tn officer be
°',r. for him, apprising toim of the
d«d.
le refused to make a statement
slviBg the details of the shooting,
I Uan to say tha: he shot in
DUTCH VESSELS ARE SEIZED IS TBEfc A SPY AT WORK ?
ABOUT 600,000 TONS OF SHD7-
PIXG ADDED TO AMERICA'S
MERCHANT MARINE.
..a i
meJlawlJ
lie honor of bis home and
further
>- ,eii?'' ot I
oil--I did wkat any other man
, -aid haw done." The slayer said
f|1'..'lllel. that he had formerly held
, dead man to be the "best friend
K„l m the world and after being
pisced under arrest said: "Boys.
;:'vyi ever have good friends. You
can't trust them too far."
--rom the facts gathered after the
footing it appears that shortly after
1 Hge arrived home from his work as
mjnaeer of the Southern Upho'.ster-
■ni Company. Deaderick also arrived
al'the B.VH" home. Words were pass-ed
and the tiring began, to cease only
v> en the pistol was empty.
j. T. Kedrick. of the bank of which
1 . dead man was cashier, issued a
statement this afternoon saying that
}..::<• invited Deaderick to his home,
l.-ae denies that he had asked Dead-srick
ta his home, though saying that
a:i interview was in mind.
Mrs. Hege when interviewed this
«i:ernoon. declined to make a state-m-
nt as to the exact nature ofTrh*
trouble that led up to the killing
lu.ther than to say that it was of a
domestic nature and had occurred at
a late previous to the shooting.
She and her husband both allege
that the pistol with which Deaderick
wss killed was bought 'by Hege some
weeks ago and given to Mrs. Hege
after Mrs. Deaderick. wife of the
asjd man. had made alleged threats
upon the life of Mrs. Hege. The pls-
;.. appears to have been taken from
i .. drawer of a library table in the
r m a; the time of the killing.
Deaderick had been c.shier of the
All along the western front, the
activities of the fighting forces still
has been held down to small infan-try
attacks and artillery duels "whiten
on some sectors have been quite vio-lent.
To the French again has fallen
the task of facing the fiercest infan-try
fighting. In Lorraine the Ger-mans
delivered numerous strong at-tacks,
ibut alt of them iwere put down
with sanguinary losses to the at-tackers.
At several other points the
Germans also have endeavored to
penetrate French positions, but
everywhere have been beaten off,
leaving behind them men killed or
wounded.
The American troops on the Toul
sector recently have been giving the
Germans, and effectively, a dose of
their own favorite weapon—asphy-xiating
gas. Four different sectors
of the Germans were gas shelled,
and the quiescent attitude of the
enemy upon all of them afterward
indicated that the gases had the de-sired
effect.
On their part, the Germans have
adopted another new plan of war-fare
which the American troops on
the sector attacked described as
"dirty work." This was the drop-ping
from an airplane of large rub-ber
balls filled with mustard gas.
None of the American troops were
injured in the attack.
Secretary of War Bakt.-r has had a
narrow escape on the American
front. A German shell burst within
40 yards of his automobile, but did
no damage.
Although tire snow is melting in
the mountain regions of the Italian
theater, sufficient of it still lies on
the ground to make impossible for
the present the commencement by
either side of hostilities of great
magnitude. Bombardments continue
atralong trie 1rent, being especially
violent west of Lake Garcia. Heavy
freshets have made the Piave river
impassable to large forces of troops.
SIONAJ, FROM WIX-AMERICAN
SEC-I
PACING ENEMY.
Washington, March 20.—Upon
Holland's refusal in the face of Ger-man
threats, to put into effect her
voluntary agreement for restoring
her merchant marine to normal ac-tivity,
the United States government
tonight requisitioned all Dutch shiips
in American waters. At the same
time Great Britain was taking over
Dutch vessels in British ports.
A total of 77 ships of prdbably
600,000 tons were added to the
American merchant marine by the
requisitioning. Another 400,000 tons
are put into the allied service by
Great Britain's action. Most of them
will be used in the food carrying
trade between the United States and
Europe.
President Wilson's proclamation
taking over the ships was issued only
after word finally came from London
that Holland's delayed reply was a
rejection of the British-American de-mand.
The government had waited
more than 48 hours beyond the time
when Holland had been requested to
make a decision as to whether she
would carry out the original pact or
submit to requisitioning Every ef- Daok
fort was made to avoid drastic ac-tion
as transfer by agreement was
sought, rather than by seizure, al-though
the latter is an exercise of
sovereign rights justified in interna-tional
law and practiced (by all na-tions.
As late as 6 o'clock tonight, it was
disclosed that President Wilson dur-ing
the day had been informed of
the delay In the Dutch reply, with
the request that he indicate whether
or not the requisitioning should pro-ceed.
He decided to await the for-mal
reply, which proved unaccept-able,
although under other condi-tions
it might have served as a basis
for further negotiations.
The president's proclamation was
Issued Immediately, authorizing the
navy to take over the vessels, which
will be equipped and operated by the
ARMYHORSESARB POISONED
DEATH OF THE ANIMALS SAID
TO BE RAMIFICATIONS OF
GERMAN PLOTS.
he American Army in
fcrch 18.—American lntel-ers
report evidence lead-conclusion
that possibly a
at work within the
lies northwest of Toul.
Imorning an American sen-ses
of a signal light from
'facing In the direction of
Nines. He fired through
and dashed into the
fMailed to And any one.
»rs earlier some irapor-fcone
wires within the
lines were found to have
THE AMERICANS ARE C0MIN6
CRIES TERROR-STRICKEN PEO-PLE
WHEN OUR SAMMIES
RAID GERMAN TOWN.
lean patrol last night en-trenches
at one end of
and penetrated them for
ance without difficulty.
le information iwas gath-
Sthey were about ready to
I established contact (with
who opened fire with a
n. The Americans jump-e
position and hurled
'silencing the run
to the American side of
Land, the raiders brought
them a German rifle
tected by a metallic cover
-uzzle and a snap clip cov-which
operate quickly and
Officers declared it was
ing of the kind they had
ever see for protecting rifles. The
median! ra was turned over to the
Intelliga ee department with a rec-ommend
tion that the attachment be
be furni he- American troops.
Anott |T patrol on the other end
of the e( Itor reported that the enemy
first lini .was held strongly. While
the raid W were inspecting the Ger-man
portions the enemy fired upon
ral times with rifles and
uns, wn.ch are unusual at
Covington, Ky., March 18.—Fifty
horses are dead of poisoning in Cov-
'.ngton and many more are expected
to die out of a government shipment
of >£t horses from Camp Grant.
Rockford, 111., onsigned to Newport
News, Va. Dr. L. E. Crtsler, veteri-nary
surgeon, Covington, pro-nounced
the death of the animals to
be due to belladona and croton oil
poisoning.
The consignment of horses reach-ed
Covington In charge of Lieut.
Frank Lilley and 16 soldiers. Doc-tor
Crisler said he believed the pois-on
had been placed in water given
to the horses In Covington. Govern-ment
authorities were notified. An
agent of the department of justice
began fen investigation. Deaths of
the horses generally are said to be
ramifications of German plots.
breech,
over the
er, both
efficient
the be
Enemy airmen continue to drop ; navy department and Hie shipping
board, the Dutch crews being sup-plemented
by American civilian sail-ors
and naval reservists. Compen-sation
will be made to the owners as
required by law.
Although the ships have been
Five Hundred Poisoned.
Covington. Ky.. March 18.—A
crowd estimated at 10,030,-which in-cluded
men. women and children,
here this afternoon, participated in a
rem?rka'ble demonstration of patriot-ic
protest against what is believed to
be pro-German propaganda In Cov-ington
'is exemplified by the poison-ing
of 500 of 720 government artil-bombs
on Venice, where the already
great damage daily is being added to.
Large portions of the populations
are evacuating the city.
In Russia the Germans and Aus-tro-
»Germans are still advancing.
Petrograd is being menaced by a taken over without any formal agree-ment,
the United States proposes to
carry out scrupulously the terms of
force of Germans which is operating
150 miles south of the former capi-
•a-1. while in the south. Khaskov is the original pact, so that Holland
being approached toy combined j shall receive ample foodstuffs and
. !orces of the enemy. Even Moscow will be protected in her colonial
ercial and Savings Bank since j |g reported t0 be iD danger of an en- | trade by having sufficient tonnage to
"• foundation some eight years ago. veloplng maneuver, and there Is talk maintain its commerce.
5 ---.ai weeks ago he left for Ashe-r:
l,e. where his friends at that time
■-•• d he iiad gone on account of a
nervous breakdown. He returned
. • "" Saturday night. Counsel for
! •■ defendant intimate that the
-\- levllle trip will figure in the case.
Tlie dead man was about 35 years
■"' • and has two children. Hege i6
i'nw the same age and also has Chil-dren.
Deaderick lived on Fifth ave-r.:
■ and the Hege home is on Har-
,.« Si^ve street with the back lots ad-jc'ning.
The dead man was a mem-
' of one of the state's prominent
-f again moving the capital.
While special dispatches from Rus-sia
continue to assert that the Bol-sheviki
leaders are hoetile toward
the invaders, no concrete evidence
has been forthcoming to show that
for the present at least efforts are
being made to reorganize the army
and give combat.
Announcement has been made by
the British first lord of the admiralty
that the tonnage of shipping sunk
during the last 12 months aggregat-
MRS. ANDERSON'S BODY
FOUND IN THE CATAWBA.
lery horses shipped from Canup
Grant. Illinois, for an Atlantic sea-port.
Ten thousand others were unable
to get near the field outside tiie
,tockade of the Covington stock-yards
where lay the circasses of
hundreds of animals and the stead-
-lv dlmirishing number of survivors
of the poison plot.
Emotions of the throng had been
iroused to a high pitch of patriotic
fervor when an interruption 'rom a
man giving his name as Richard
Schmidt, 23 years old, nearly
try Bombarded affective- brought about his lynching. As it
was, he was severely bik'ten before
ooltoe locked him up.
The mass meeting o! protest was
held under the auspices of the Citi-zens'
Patriotic League ef Covington.
The meeting decided to send a me-morial
tc Congress calling upon the
congressional law-makers to enact a
low Interning every enemy alien
within the borders of the United
states and making more stringent
the laws governing all seditious and
traitorous acts.
An investigaticn of the poisoning
of the horses Is being conducted by
federal agents.
London, March 19.—Fifty person*
were killed and great material dam-age
done by bombs dropped by al-lied
airmen when they raided Co-blenz,
Germany, on March 12, ac-cording
to a neutral traveler, who
arrived Monday at The Hague, the
Times says.
"The people believe the raiders
were Americans." the traveler says.
"I was in the neighborhood of a big
ammunition -works at Mulhelm
(north of .Coblertz.) and also on the
Rhine, at ten minutes past noon
when suddenly all the factory whis-tles
started blowing and sirens iwere
sounded. Many women rushed from
the works for the bomb-proof shel-ters
while passing street cars -were
stopped while the crews bolted Into
houses. Four or five airplanes were
visible in the clear sky.
"Presently someone exclaimed:
'They are Americans!' Another per-son
screamed: 'The Americans are
coming!' A Dutchman I knew rush-ed
up to me and said: 'Didn't I tell
you that the Americans would come
sooner or later?"
"I cannot say -whether the ma-chines
actually .were American, but
the striking thing was the evidence
that there has been general skepti-cism
that the American airplanes
ever would come and equal fear of
them when they do."
WANT TO MAKE PRICE
OF 1918 WHEAT *2-50.
Morganton, March 20.—The body
of Mrs. J. L. Anderson, who disap-peared
from her home here Saturday,
March 2 was found late today float-ing
against a sand bank in the Ca-taiwba
river, six miles below Mor-ganton.
Jasper Clark, the ferryman
at the site of the old Hoffman bridge,
discovered the body and at once re-ed
6.000.000. He denied that it had ported his discovery by telephone to
• • ii'.I'.I -. his father toeing Dr. T. O. been 9.500,000 tons, claimed by the . Morganton.
! ' lerick, of Weaver College, Weav-
*"'"!l>. He was a nephew of ex-
•• wrnor R. B. Glenn, of Winston-
>■ '.'II:
'' -• was committed to jail with-osking
for toail, to ;.wait a pre-
! ": hearing, which will be held
;ih a few days and after the fu-
'■ '••• <i! the dead man, the date of
'-•• lias not yet been announced.
:"': men were generally held in
ligliest esteem and the tragedy
•'o'-ked the community as noih-
■ M since the kiPing of Dr. Payne
' number of years ago.
Germans.
During the last week 11 British
merchantmen of more than 1,600
tons each, and six vessels under 1,-
600 tons were sunk by mines or sub-marines.
Would Take Over Private Property.
Washington, March 20 —Under a
bill sent to the senate military com-
The dead woman's physician. Dr.
J. R. Anderson, went with a party
for the body and positively identified
it as that of Mrs. Anderson. Al-though
having been in the water for
over two weeks, the body was well
enough preserved as to make Identi-fication
not very difficult.
The body was brought to a local
undertaking establishment hare
about 10 o'clock tonight and the fu-troops"
and new eri emy
works at Lapayvilie, St. Baussant.
the village of Montsec, Rlchecourt In
the Quarte-de-Reserve along the
iPannes-Monsard road and a consid-erable
'body of troops northwest of
Buxleres. They also battered to
pieces another battery of gas pro-jectors;
which had been set up in a
double line of trenches.
The enemy has shelled varlons
parts of our positions rather heavily,
snany gas shells being mixed with
high explosive ones. Some Ameri-can
soldiers who happened to be near
or who walked through the shelled
areas afterward said there were in-dications
the enemy was trying to is-olate
one of our positions with shell
Are. The visibility was exceptionally
good today and the weather was like
summer. A great number of wagon
trains and small groups of German.'
were seen walking behind the enemy
lines.
Several times during the day the
air was crowded with aeroplanes and
-on one occasion several enemy ma-chines
were overhead at the same
time. Airplanes from the rear of our
lines carrying American observers,
maneuvered to get Into a fight iwith
the enemy machines but they were
unsuccessful. American anti-aircraft
guns drove off a numtoer of enemy
machines and kept the others high in
the air.
American observers succeeded In
accomplishing much work which the
recent ground haze had prevented.
They Obtained badly wanted photo-graphs
and observed certain things
back of the German lines.
American troops in the Luneville
ector have been stfbjected to fairly
LIQUOR TRAFFIC RUNS
RIOT AT YADKINVILLE.
"ac "Finished Mystery."
: h-iton, March 19.—Because
Mystery," a Bible
ittee today by Acting Secretary of j nera, ^ burial wlll take place W-j^^y bombardments during the past
morrow. | 24 hours, tout have been giving the
enemy as much as received. Patrols
Yadklnville. March 19.—Declaring
that a prominent citizen had carried
his children to WinstonjSalem and
put them in school there on account
of so much drin'king and cursing on
the public streets of the town, an
editorial in the local weekly paper
has started quite a great deal of
comment.
The editorial charges "that the
town is gaining a statewide raputa-tion
as a place of whiskey drinking
and whiskey production." The ar-ticle
charges that young boys are not
only drinking It publicly, but daily-carry
it to older people. In men-tioning
the methods of handling the
liquor and the proposed remedy for
the situation the author of the arti-cle
referred to said, "It is carried in
suitcases, automobiles, buggies wag-ons,
overcoats, etc. The town con-itable
lives here; the township con-stable
lives here; and the govern-ment
has a deputy In this county, yet
this traffic goes on unmolested."
■'■ r'inished
!ext book, described patriotism
ertain delusion" and "a nar-
■' " niiuded hatred of otuer peoples,"
a- • war as "a work of satan, ' dls-
"iion of the book was forbidden
•ay. by the department of justice,
--o~ under the espionage act,
1' •"lbs Dropped on German City.
•oidun, March 19.—British . air-
P-ncj oroyped a ton of tomha on
^••' German city of Mannheim on
'"'•ay. it was officially announced
War Crowell, the president would be
empowered during the war to take
over private property of any kind,
personal or real estate, with compen-sation
for the owner, whenever
deemed necessary for (he national
security or conduct of the govern-ment.
Defeat of Ratification Dry Measure
in New York.
Albany, N. Y., March 20.—Defeat
of the ratification by the New York
legislature of the prohibitory amend-ment
to the federal constitution,
was virtually accomplished tonight
when the dry forces In the senate on
a test vote, In which all their power
wae displayed, -lacked a majority.
The vote was 24 for the ratification
clause and 25
7.000 Boys Wanted. I at two points established contact
Washington, March 19.-Quotas,with the enemy last night and early
of boys which each state is to fur-'this morning. After brief firing the
nish In the campaign to enlist a boys' Germans retired,
working reserve qf 250.000 for the j American soldiers are still holding
farmers, which opens tomorrow,' the Mecklentoury trench taken two
were announced by the department' days ago and which it is now per-of
labor tonight. Virginia's quota is milled to name. The anti-aircraft
8 000; North Carolina's is 7,000, guns east of Luneville were extreme-and
South Carolina's 4,000. ly busy In protecting our positions.
»ight.
Violent Hand to Hand Fighting.
Paris, March 20.—Attacks were
made by the Germans at several
points last night, <>he war office an-nounces.
In Lorraine there was vio-lent
hand to hand fighting. Every-
Seventeen British Ships Lost by In
dersea Craft.
London, March 20.—The admiral-ty
reports the loss by mine or sub-marine
of 17 British merchantmen
iast week. Of these. 11 were 1,600
tons or over, and six were under that
tonnage.
Two fishing vessels were lost.
Eleven merchantmen were unsuc-cessfully
attacked.
Washington, March 19.—Western
senators renewed their fight for a
higher guaranteed wheat price today,
citing the ability of farmers to make
more money raising other cereals,
i3horta,ge and Increased cost of farm
labor and vital necessity for Insuring
adequate wheat supplies.
The debate was on Senator Gore's
proposal to incrnise the price for the
1918 crop to $2.50 per bnshel. A
two-thirds majority is required to
suspend the rules for action on the
proposal, and Its adrocates are said
not to be hopeful of mustering the
necessary votes when the test comes,
probably tomorrow.
Wheat price-ifixing. Senator Nel-son,
of Minnesota. Republican, as-serted,
has toeen an "albject failure."
He advocated an open market, with
prices fixed only by natural laws, or
extension of price-fixing to other ce-reals.
While expressing re!u2tance to in-crease
the cost of living by raising
wheat prices. Senator Kellogg, of
Minnesota, declared such action ab-solutely
necessary, in order to stim-ulate
production and prevent a na-tional
and world shortage.
Other senators speaking In sup-port
of the Gore amendment, Includ-ed
Borah, of Idaho; Curtis, of Kan-sas,
and Norrls. of Nebraska, all Re-publicans.
"The result of fixing wheat prices
much lower than would be obtained
in the open market," Senator Norrls
s.ald, "caused increases in prices ot
substitutes which the consumer was
made to buy by the food administra-tion.
So for the sake of getting low-er
wheat prices for the allies, we
raised the prices of everything else
to the American people."
He added that wheat must be pro-duced
regardless of cos~.
Conservation of wheat substitutes
was urged toy Senator Sherman, of
Illinois, Republican. He read the
Bible story of the loaves and fishes,
observing that 'the bread was of bar-ley
and asserting that two billion
gallons of beer were made from bar-ley
last year. Use as food of cereal.?
now being made into beer and its
imitations was urged by the Illinois
senator.
votes were necessary for success.
rr 1(m«Maanntsa. •
Knits on 102nd Birthday.
Quiney, 111., March 19.—"Aunt
JInney" Daniels, aged 102, celebrat-ed
her birthday anniversary here on
March 1 hy knitting wash rags for
the American soldiers in France. The
centenarian tells her age by the war
pension record of her hnotoand.
South Dakota Accepts Dry Law.
Pierre, S. D.. March 23.—The low-er
house of the South Dakota legis-lature
tonight ratified the federal
prohibition amendment, acted upon
by the senate yesterday, making
South Dakota the tenth state to ac-cept
the amendment. ^_
Fourteen Sons Now In Army.
Goldsboro, March 19.—George
Borden, a negro of Goldsboro, has
the distinction of having fourteen
eons serving in the United States
army in this country and France.
Borden .'s the father of thirty-five
children, twenty-seven of whom aTe
living. His first wife presented him
with fifteen children, the second
twelve, and his present wife is the
mother of eight, the youngest of
whom is twenty-two months old. His
first •wife, on three occasions, gave
birth to four hoys at one lime and
bis second wife gave birth t# three
boys and one girl at once.
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