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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
ESTABUSHED 1821. GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1918. VOL. 97—NO. 22
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»VS TAKE TO THEIR OXK MILLION TOXS OF SHIPPINO EFFECTIVE ACTION OF AMERI
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.,. American Army in
V'il'-i viarrh '•'•—The ASnaffican
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■•^^ wed lortMw-le«»
, ,-ir.west of Toul carried out
the Gennaa
n'.ght. The artillery
WILL «E BROUGHT IN AMER-ICA
SERVICE.
CANS DUE TO THE QUICK
WORK OF OCR FLYERS.
li ft T!"':
E;»dea''
. 1t dt»*"
Americana entered the C.er-tar
as the second
found A number of Ger-rom
shell fire, and some
. . were r9tre»t&3 were
-ric-.n pioneers accjm-
•nfantry Me* u? enemy
., primers were tak.;r..
ltia ;if (he fact that -."r !
remain to fight, but
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certain* did
...in'i.-.te'y '■'< the approach of
""" Imerici-i". Ail the Americans
',.,.'.„,,'..;. their own lines and con-
„derable iv formation was secured.
"T.,e \meri.-an artillery last night
r0fflpletel5 obliterated a Oe-mu. po-
.:,',, i„ which two hundred gas
\,;,.,,„rs lud been set up ready for
.. ,.as attact. Tlte projects were
0ve-ei !i:e yesterday in a ;.i-.3to-
..;,,;, .lk.:i from high in the air.
v-soos as they were definitely lo-c
ted. «'->ere was a *reat concsntra-lrm
of American artillery fire nnd
,.,,, projectors and the entire position
,ew destroyed. !"- :'■' last gis at-
;ark up>a American troips. only sev-
[j-five projectors were used. The
i..w attack, therefore, had been p'un-
:„( on ? much more extensive s-a'.e.
American (Uyualtiea.
iVashington. March 15.—The
:.jme> of *:x commissioned officers
. wear in the casualty list given out
i (day by ;'.:e war department. Lieut.
'li.'iiard II. Whitner diel of accident.
bieats. Louis W. Ross and John W.
Apperssn were wounded in action,
.nd Lieuts. William P. Bledsoe,
liranviile. and M. Burrow and Wil-
! ani i". Dabnev were slightly vound-
Although the !is: forwarded by
I'taera: Pershing i* -lie longest yet
received, only 82 aames were issued
i > the war department on account
••? delays is checking. The 62 given
'•nt »ere divided a.i follows: Killed
•ri action 4. died of wounds 3. died
. accident 2. died of disease 5.
•■•fi'.ind'-! slightly 42. ''wounded*' 2.
Xearij fifty names were withheld
'if ':.!• '.:;r,--. Amnr.e them were sev-
•r?.'. k:'.!- L bu* most were sllthtly
v nan.!.-:.
The ;:<; fi'.lows:
Killed in action: Privates \V;1-
a-.-.i Eiiinerer. Marshall H. Jsrratt.
•'--. K. White and Jolin Deposta Moi-i'-
l nf wounds: Serjeant Leroy
"■ Miller sr.d Privates Ted A. Bat-
:«rand f'arl Larsen.
'■>'■•! r»f accident: Lieut. Richard
'• VVhi ner and Private EJwin C.
'•''>: I.
•;^-o' 1 TT-r
li: i if (; :-iS,.: Corporal Charles
*i- M i',.,| and Privates Ernest Ed-
'"arl-. Kdmund G. Ho'mes, Einar
■■'''■''■'■ ■'■' Moller and Jos. A. Yorkes
Wounded -severely: Sergean' Ott->
'-•-'"' and Privates Ralph R Ca-
"Ick, Wm. G. Carroll and Bugler
'■"''"-"■ 0 Parker.
w ■-.!*•:: Lieute. Louis W. Rosa
'"■I •' 'm W. _>pperson.
Wounded lightly: Lieuts. Wm. P.
'' •■'• GranvlHe M. Burrow. Wil-
■ • ' Dabney, Sergeant Carl Kaiin,
"""^is Lewis Dapg. Jacob Klein.
' - Phillips, Ebner Werner and
''fa Bernie Baldwin Feniey S.
'• John Reran, Jerry C. Brad-
Prederiek J. Cairns. Noah W.
• •'• J. Czapa. Frank J. Danko.
" 0. Davis. Arlo E. Dibble.
0. Dillenberger, Clay W.
; "k' . Olaf Evenbye, Harold R. Ger-
' " Archie Fahlgren, Phillip Golda-
'-■ M-nry Kessler, Mike Klachko.
'■ ■•"■r. Max Myers, Demin'ick P.
',; I'. .1. Almar, G. Nelson. James
;!iaughnemy, An»elo Pagotto,
• i' Potrovic, Joe. Richter, Theo-
" liir-s, Frank Rzenik, Henry F.
lAielbach, Alvin Smiley, Percy J.
ier, Harry F. Weidman, Clare E.
' md Emery E. Wilcox.
Washington, March 14—A million
tons of Da:t;i sh'V*. now held in
pcrt3 (i'i« world over, through Hol-land's
fear cf Germ-any4 thread .to
sink them if they venture out. will
he brought :r.;o the service of the
United ECatea end Great Britain ^n
Mireh 18.
Ui.le.'s the Katheiiapda govern-ment
^rav« the -menace of Ger-ma.
i>'s precuure and voluntarily ac-cepts
an agreement under w.hfch the
?'.;'.. i would be put in trade, the
i-nited States and Creat Britain will
take them over undor in'ternatior.a
'.a-.v. availing themselves of sovereign
rl;.ht which Germany herself has
hitherto exercised under the same
authority.
Formal notice has been presented
♦ o The Hague "by Uhe American and
3rltish diplcmati: repreoettativco of
the allied' governments' intentions.
As a result, today, the Netherlands
minister, August Phillips, ccting un-der
instructions of hi-s government,
m»de a final and personal appeal to
President Wilson to at least modify
t.:e decision.
The Associated Press ie enabled to
st; :e that the president saw no rea-sons
for altering the decision and
i'-.:•.: -.inle:s iO.e ships are turned over
by next Monday, a presidential .proc-lamation
will be issued, taking over
the -.hirs in American per"?. ?' which
there are about 80. Many more.
however, are in Britis'h or other al-
I'-id pcrt3 on the seven seas.
From the American official point
nf view, the action is one into which
the allied governments have been
o: ed by the German duress of Hol-land,
which may now see her ships
in trade again, and can point out to
Germany Chat they were taken
though no will eft Iher own. .._-,.
Cnming a>t a time wben the dire
need of the allied cause is for ships,
this acquisition of a million tons is
of tremendous importance.
Every arrangement has been made
for the compensation of the Nether-lands
for the s"hips. They will be in-sured
and armed, and ff they be lost
they -wi'l be replaced; besides ma-terial
compensation for their use, tho
United States will .permit the export
of bread stuffs and cattle foods, which
Holland nerds sorely for her own
people, and in addition will restore
the interru'pted trade of Holland
with her colonies, by guaranteeing
bunkers for her ships in ti.a: trade.
Under this arrangement, Holland
still is left enough ships for her own
needs and :has been notified that
plentiful supplies of ifood await her
if she sends bottoms to carry it. By
this arrangement, officials paint out.
further responsibility for food short-age
in the Netherlands, if there be
one, will rest on Germany, rf con-tinued
tl-.rea'ts coerce Holland into
keeping her shipping in harbors.
American and allied officials have
no fear that the move will force Hol-land
into the war.
GERMAN RAID WAS QPICKLY
CARRIED OUT, WITH WHAT
RESULT NOT STATED.
With the American Army in
France. March 14.—Four grouffs of
German gas projectors, in addition to
the group of 200 projectors already
reported destroyed, have been dis-covered
and likewise blown to pieces
by the American aftiliary. Probable
German :plans for gas attack on a
comparatively -large acale against the
American .positions northwest at
Tcul have thus been upset.
The new groups of .projectors were
discovered from aerial photograiphs
i taken by American observers in
rcr.:h alrotaac:. The effective ac-tion
taken against them was due to
the quick work of the observers, the
brtelltzcace officers and the artiller-ists
in turn.
The American artillery on this
front has been more active than ever
in the pa3t 15 hours, and its shells
also found lodgment in e number of
ammunition duuraps, which were
blown up. Many extensive esplos-ions
are reported. The correspond-ent,
standing on a hill, -witnessed one
dump situated in a wood, go Uip in a
brilliant flash and a great puff of
whitish smoke, a tremendous report
following a few seconds later. Ex-plosions
and fires also were caused
by our shells in villages and a num-ber
in the woods behind the enemy
front.
Silence Gormen llatterie».
During a retaliatory shelling for
an enemy bombardment in which a
nuciter cf gas shells fell on our bat-tery
positions, the American guns
silenced certain German batteries by
pouring in a fast and extremely ac-curate
fire. Our artillerymen stayed
in their dugouts until the gas shells
began to fall, when they put on their
masks and -manned the guns while
thus.'protected. Some mustard gas
shells were mixed with the others
that fell and later a few of our men
walked through this type of gas with-out
their masks on.
The American artillery also tore
great gaps in the enemy wire and
levelled various portions of the firet
and second line trenches, forcing the
enemy virtually to abandon them.
Details of the recent raid which
has just been developed, show that
while numbers of Germans were kill-ed
by shell fire -when the box barrage
was in effect and others later by the
creeping barrage, there were al?o a
few of the enemy shot here and there
during the time our men were in the
trenches. There were many Ameri-cans
among the raiding party of four
officers and 70 men who did not see
a single German soldier.
BAT-TLE
TO UNDERSEA BOAT
WITH SUCCESS.
Wfin the American Army 4n
France, March 16.—After a terrific
artillery preparation this morning,
large numbers of the enemy crossed
No Man's Land on the extreme right
of the American setetoT, northwest of
Toul. Apparently the purpose of
the raid .was quickly accomplished
and omly a comparatively email num-ber
eWered our tines. Permission
y~ae not been giv^n to mention the
number Of casualties.
T-hle raid, like most of the ethers
tarried out all the way from the se-;
to Switzerland, was designed to
gather information by means of tak-ing
prisoners.
Baet of Luneville, our patrols have
explored part of the German trench
which, our artillery forced the enemy
to abandon. Patrols proceeded lat-erally
umtil they established contact
with the Germans. Our reconnais-sance
and wire patrols found sniip-ers'
posts, listening posts and nests,
from which machine guns had been
firing on our lines. The artillery at-tended
to all these posts. The Ger-man
positions have been so uncom-fortable
at several places, that they
now are trying to regain a foothold
by connecting shell -holes. Our troops
have been subject to an extraordinar-ily
h ,-avy artillery fire for the last
24 hours. More than 240 shells.
which, make craters 20 feet deep and
30 feet in diameter, fell in one sec-tion
of the line. In another section,
batteries have been shelled heavily.
More gas shells have fallen in both
the Toui and Luneville sectors, but
the larger number in the former.
AMERICANS ENCOUNTERED THE
ENEMY IN NO MAN'S l^AND
AND OPENED FIRE.
An Atlantic Port, March 17.—At
the end of an hour's "battle between
a German submarine and an Amer-ican
tank steamship, the Paulsboro,
of the Vacuum OH Company, which
arrived here today, the U-boat appar-ently
was sunk, according to officers
of the American vessel.
One of the crew of the talker was
wounded by a shell fired by the sub-marine.
Two other shots struck the
American ship, which was not seri-ously
damaged.
The fight took place in the Bristol
channel on February 24. The Amer-ican
vessel wa3 about 24 hours out
from a British port when the U-boat
was sighted. The tanker tried to
escape and was pursued. ABter the
American vessel had been within tor-pedo
ramge for some time without
>.ny attempt being made to sink her
'n thifl way, the U-boat began shell-
"ng her.
The tanker halted and gave bat-tle.
The officers said the shrapnel
shells fired by the American gun
crew either fell short or passed over
the U-boat for a time, bat finally one
struck the submarine fairly in the
center and she disappeared im-medl-itely.
The American vessel is of
about 4,000 tons gross.
H. T. MASTERS BEST
SELLERS OF STAMPS.
MILLION DOLLAR LOSS
BY FLOODS IN MICHIGAN.
V
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YOUNG ROOSEVELT
<;KTS FRENCH ORDER.
twrtS^Stfa^e-es HlfiaTefr&apw
91,000.000- was done throughout
lower Michigan by an unusually
heavy rainfall that began late yester-day
afternoon and continued for 18
hours. The greatest damage was
done in the valleys of the Huron
Kalamazoo and Grand river, in the
lower part of the state. Swollen by
the heavy rain, the streams left their
banks, flooded boiler rooms in factor-ies
and drove scores of families out
of their homes to higher ground. At
Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor citizens
were rescued from the second story
windows in 'boats Sections of Eaton
Rapids and Al'.egan also were under
water today.
Long stretches of track on steam
and electric roads were washed out.
traffic being seriously affected dur-ing
the forenoon. A high wind that
accompanied the rain also did con-siderable
damage, wire communica-tion
for a time being demoralized.
Winston^Salem. March 16.—The
oostoffices of North Carolina during
the months of December, January
and February, sold $780,785 of
thrift and war savings staimps, ac-cording
to a report from the treas-ury
department of Washington to
state head-quarters tor war savings
stamps hete, which repirt iwas.com-
>n*L**Mt-ihe figure**! th&ppstof-
Would Commandeer Home.
Washington, March 15.—Because
a landlord sought to boost from $100
to $250 a month, the rent on the
!iome Ot General Black, Representa-tive
Johnson, fo? of war time realty
profiteers, has a bill in Congress to-
(•ay permitting the war department
to commandeer the house. General
Black is now in France with Secre-tary
of War Baker, while Mrs. Black
is convalescing.
Farmers Buy l.OOO Tractors.
Detroit. March 15.—The Michigan
war preparedness board closed a
contract today with Henry Ford for
t.000 farm tractors, to be delivered
May 1. The tractors wiM be resolj.
to Michigan farmers without profit.
A contract was also closed with
the Oliver Company. South Bend,
Ind.. for 1,000 two-bottom plows.
The deals involves approximately
$»50,000.
Wheat Farm of 50,000 Acres.
Chicago, March 1-5.—^Chicago cap-italists
have launched a plan for the
largest wheat farm in t!i€ world.
To meet the war demand it is pro-the
Snipe Lake district, West Central
'«•■ Savings sump Receipts S1O0,-
ooo.ooo.
Washington, March 15.—Receipts
thn treasury today from the war -----^0 ^ Jn
W'rininngnsn c—ampa.i-g,n..reache»d the tUfiA*Sn?ro*e .La?ke,.d,i's,tr„ic.t, wW«tatt ""l.OOO mark. These figures repre-nted
only the actual cash r-eeiv-Sd,
-Htimateu in excess ot $500,000,000, t0 8eed B* enur* ft!TTP.cton 'to tart word from the hospital.
■ about one-third of the tot*! U-ue>-^ tlme *y huge **" "*****■
With the American Army in
France. March 15.—Here is the offi-cial
French order of the day which
accompanied the besto.vai of the
Crcix De Guerre upon Captain Rooee-velt
at 3 certain field hospital be-hind
the American Toul front:
"Captain Roosevelt was twice
wounded by shell fragments upon the
field of honor, -while in pursuit of his
duties, showing unexcelled bravery
with his troops while awaiting the
order to go forward to a surprise at-tack
into the enemy lines.
" Capt. Roosevelt has shown him-self
valorious and worthy of specific
mention."
The order was issued to the army
corps to which Captain Roosevelt ta
attached. Since the war cross w
bestowed upon him. General Palo
has attached the famuos ribbon to it.
Archie Roosevelt was with a pla-toon
of riding troops in a communi-cation
trench, awaiting the comple-tion
of the work of the American in
the preliminary bombardment last
Tuesday morning preceding the
American raid when a Krupp shell
burst near him. One fragment
wounded him in the left arm inflict-ing
a compound fracture, while an-other
fragment entered the right
knee cap. He suffered other minor
contusions about the head and body.
Only near relatives have been per-mitted
to visit him so far.
The French corps commander call-ed
at the hospital in person and pin-ned
the war cross on Captain Roose-velt's
pajatna jacket.
Archie's wounda have since been
JOHN BULL LEARNS
WE MEAN BUSINESS.
London, March 15.—Under the
heading "America Means Business,"
the Daily Mail in referring to the bill
authorizing the sale of German prop-erty
in the United Sta.es. declares
editorially:
"The vigor and directness with
which President Wilson and his ad-visers
are setting a'bout this essential
business are smashing blows to Ger-many.
They show, too, how rapidly
the American government and peo-ple
are taking the measure Of their
enemy. They know that every eco-nomic
weapon which the allies pos-sess,
singly and collectively, must be
brought into play."
Alluding to the German property
affected by the bill the newspaper
continues:
"We may be very sure that this
property, or the proceeds of it, will
be held by the United States until all
the American claims against Ger-many
are satisfied."
^"'WWlltfiftitrB'-Mi»' ■*-—>
sales by the postofflces figures out
that the per capita sale cf thrift and
war savings stamps in the state is
about thirty-Are cents, and while the
banks have sold probably a similar
amount, the per capita .--ale remains
tar from what is required of each
individual if the state's quota of
5,50,000,000 is to be reached this
vear.
From the treasury report the post-offices
of Forsyth county leads the
state with the sale of S60.513.13.
Cabarrus i6 second with a sale of
$54,992.35. Other counties making
ood sales are: Rockingham, $42.-
83.31: Halifax, $37,581.36: Bun-combe.
$26,622; Union, $2-5.629.02,
and Granv-iHe. $23,610.61.
"The postmasters and the city and
rural letter carriers are so far our
beet sellers." said Colonel Fries,
state director of war savings. "They
readily accepted the task placed up-on
them by the government and their
reports have shown tireless efforts
on their part as Uncle Sam's work-ers.
I want to com-raefid the post-master's
and the city and rural letter
carriers, particularly, for the person-al
work they have done. We have
had frequent reports Of postmasters
lea-ving their work and making per-sonal
canvasses for the purpose of
lelling thrift and war savings
stamps.
Letter carriers, especially those in
the country, have rendered us a val-uable
service in carrying the mes-sage
of thrift and the government's
plan of saving to the country peo-ple."
With the American Army In
France, March 15.—One of the
American patrols last night encoun-tered
an enemy patrol in No Man'*
Land in the Toul sector and opened
fire. The Germans fled, carrying
with them several bodies, supposed
to be of -men killed or wounded. They
were so busy getting away that there
was only a feeble return to the
American fire and none of the Amer-ican
patrol was injured.
Two enemy airplanes Hew over the
American lines during the night, one
dropping flares as signals. The otner
was overhead at a time when the
Germans began a barrage which the
Americans' guns encountered. It is
not improbable the enemy plane was
trying to lacate the batteries by the
nashes of the guns. No infantry ac-tivity
followed the barrage.
The American artillery continues
to do effective work against the
enemy lines and silenced a battery
which was flriag big shells in its di-rection
from a point in the rear ot
Sonnard wood. Several other places
where activity was observed, also
were shelled.
New German troops have entered
I the line in front of the Americans.
Apparently they hare been told they «
are opposite Americans because
many times the new arrivals have
been seen observing their opponents
curiously through field glasses. This
curiosity has proved disastrous to
them on more than one occasion, for
the American snipers are as active N
as the artillery.
In the intermittent bombardments
at various parts of the American sec-tor,
considerable numbers of mus-tard,
phosgene and chlorine shell)
were used.
>t American aerial jftseryers In, the
*t fffe-^^lf-^-hpet.bo»-, fortojta
into a squadron under coarnBtad of a
Fremch captain. They were over the
lines today, birt had no encounters
with enemy machines.
EARIi NEVILLE PAYS
THE PENALTY OF HIS CRIME.
Sasketchwan.
j. E. p^^^spr^zs^t^Sk«-«■*■* *----«»■ «• erator, is in charge and It is P"""1*-!^.., ._ ^ ■ „„,.♦,» nuigmr
Tar Heel Grocer Put on Black List,
Washington, March 15.—J. Habit,
of Edenton. N. C. was put on the
black list today by the food admin-istration.
All wholesalers and food
handlers operating under a license
were forbidden to deal with him.
Habit was found gu-Hty of exacting
exorbitant prices for groceries, sell-ing
in unreasonable quantities and
forcing combination sales of flour
and sugar. An "unifair order" against
him has been issued by Henry A.
Page, food administrator <for North
American Woman Victim Air Raid.
Paris, March 15.—One American
woman was killed and rn American
man and woman wounded in Mon-day's
enemy air raid over Paris, it
was learned today. Miss Winga Car-oline
Martin, thirty-two, of Rockville
Center. Long Island, was one of six
persons killed in a hospital which
was struck by a bomb. .She was a Y.
M. C. A. canteen worker. Mrs. W.
B. Phillips and Mr. Salzer were
wounded. The total casualties were
one hundred killed and teventy-nlne
wounded.
Raleigh, March 15.—Warden Sam
Busbee this morning shot a thunder-bolt
that broke the last word of Earl
Neville in the electric chair, and the
sullen, intractable, immobile wretch
died after four hard shocks in unfin-ished
protestation of his innocence.
The black fellow, condemned for
criminal assault upon Mrs. Cybil
Celie, of Raleigh, walked before a
throng of witnesses who scarce could
be called his friends. An unprece-dented
number of requests for ad-mission
tickets had revealed unabat-ed
feeling against the negro. De-lays
by constitutional rights had pro-voked
hundreds who feared to the
last second that Governor Bickett
would yield to the impulse to save a
nan, Of whose guilt many men in
Raleigh now must have a dotfbt.
Neville hadn't a friend in the
world, not even in his own race.
That immobile countenance of his
would have set any white jury
against him. On the stand for his
life and in the chair giving it up,
there was the same inflexibility that
left no room for even tin slightest il-lumination.
He was the typical
nigger." sullen, morose, refractory
in the face of the inevitable and in-different
alike to his doom. "You all
got me here but I ain't guilty." he
mumbled as he dropped disgustedly
into the chair while attendants
bound h-.m hand and foot.
No Resting Place.
Nowhere can the Russians scuttle
in peace and sattety. In Armenia the
Turks began to attack as soon as the
German Prisoners to be Put In the
Bombed Areas.
London, March 15.—German pris-oners
of war are to be distributed
over areas which the enemy's air-craft
are subjecting to attack in
their raids, according to the Even-ings
News today. "This," says the
News, "is being done because the al-lied
governments have learned that
prisoners of their nationalities in
German hands already have been BO
placed in all towns which the Ger-man
government considers likely to
be attached."
Russian began to get out. What If
a nation to do when It won't fight
ana is not even permitted to be *
Page, toou »omiu»« •-» ------ r4 ,rithout molestation?—
Carolina, with tbe approval ot tta»|g^g
food administration.
I Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Good Advice.
Better raise your own food this
year. Y*u ean't «» aura ttmt any-body
•*• will ralM It tor you.—
Charleston New* and Courier.
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