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ESTA8LISHED 1821 GREENSBORO, N. C. MONDAY. JANUARY 22, 1817. VOL. 96—NO. 7
NEW DEPOT STILL USSETTLED THE NEW COURT HOUSE SITE
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P-COMMISSIONERS
TO ANNOUNCE
Til Kilt SELECTION AT THK
FEBRUARY MEETING.
,, conference held here Thurs-i
,.,<•••- '!r- ''- E- Jeffries, gen-
■ roundel i)i" the Southern Rail-
■ ill the city commissioners
■ jvo t.' I he !'.ew passenger station
Southern is to build in Greer.s-
, ,'•;,( r.oi result in any definite
•usion. A number of interested
!IS attended the meeting and
»al ni' them participated in the
Jon. which centered around
-.■.live merits of underpass and
•.- ! rr.i'.road tracks.
.}■ "'fries presented plans and
•i.i'is of a handsome and im-
._• station the Southern proposes
ui'ul between Depot street and
llroad tracks at an estimated
about S120AOO. These plans
for an underpass to divert
,••:••:• part of do traffic in that
:;y from South Elm and South
-trccts. The grading for the
p.-ss would begin at the intor-
.i of South Elm and Depot
- and South Davie and Depot.
..- underpass- would be COU-
- .-,1 under the station and tiie
.-. converging into South Elm
." yetteville streets. The ur.;!r>
ivoulil 'nave a six per cent grade
would have sidewalks on either
two roadways for general traf-fic
IS feet wide and a space on the
east side for the street car tracks.
r:.- grade crossing on South Elm
- mid be left as it is. but the Davie
street grade crossing would be done
rtway with.
The cost of iiie underpass is esti-mated
a; $114,000. and the Southern
want?- the city to bear halt of this ex-pense.
Mr. Jeffries stated that the
Southern was prepared to begin
work on the new Station as-soon as
, ,i city should proviSe for the pay-ment
of its half of the underpass
i-onstruction.
Several gentlemen present spoke
in opposition to the underpass, voic-ing
an objection that seems .to lie
pretty general among many citizens.
I- was pointed on: that it would be
:• to depress the tracks cf the
tad through the city, thus set-
. the crossing question for ali
re adjourning the meeting
. commissioners adopted a
: ion to the effect that the city
ni-ase an engineer to investigate
!r;ions and report, with plans, on
practicability of depressing the
. -...-. Later both plans will be sub-
, .! to the people of the city by
in -- in : ;i:is or otherwise for a full
.ii, I free discussion.
i- appears now that a majority of
:.•• people are opposed to the un-
.Ji rpass and favor the track depres-ion
plan. The railroad people claim
:. it is impracticable to depress
ihe tracks, and .Mr. Jeffries went so
far as 10 say that, rather thaiv-adopt
this plan, the Southern would build
is tr.nks around the city. However,
:lie city holds the whip hand here
id could have the legislature to
- a law requiring the railroad to
-.--> ils tracks. Such legislation
.. iicen declared constitutional by
■M'preme court.
■ his means delay in the con-
;. of the new depot, but many
of the city would prefer to
while longer, if necessary,
• what they want.
FORGED TO JONTIMUE WAR
MIST FIGHT OX, SAYS PRESI-DENT
OF FRANCE, UNTIL SAT-ISFACTIOX
IS OBTAINED.
The site for Guilford county's new
court house is to be agreed upon
and made public two weeks from to-morrow—
Tuesday, February 6.
which will be the second day of the
February meeting of the board of
commissioners. This decision was
reached by the commissioners in
their meeting Friday, when a num-ber
of citizens of Greensboro appear-ed
before the board and requested
that the selection of the -site be post-poned
until after the visit of an ex-pert
on city planning who has been
employed to make an investigation
of local conditions and report on the
most desirable locations for public
buildings. Cut for this request for
a postponement, it is possible that
the commissioners would have an-nounced
the selection of a site at
!■ "iday's meeting.
The Irving Park Company, which
had previously offered the Gilmcr
home place, on the corner of North
•Jim and Church streets, as a loca-tion
for the new court house, gave
the commissioners a price on t'he
property at Friday's meeting. The
price named is $.'.1,000.
I* was intimated to the board that,
in the event of the selection cf the
Cone lot as the new court house site.
Phe lot would be filled with dirt and
brought up lo the necessary level
free of expense to the county. This
lot, which is situated on the corner
of Welt Washington and Ashe
streets, has been offered to the com-missioners
for $15,000, and many
people are of the opinion tiiat this is
the most attractive offer the county
has received. However, the lot is
low and it would be necessary to do
a good deal of tilling in before be-ginning-
IwiWinc operations. It his
been estimated that this work would
cost nearly as much as the lot.
The date for the sale of the pres-ent
court house property is expected
to be announced as soon as the com-missioners
make known their selec-tion
of a i\ew site. It is freely pre-dicted
that Cue property will bring
more than $150,000, the amount of-fered
by the Jefferson Standard Life
Insurance Company, when it is put
up at auction.
The property will he sold with the
understanding that the county shall
continue to occupy it until the new
court house i; completed.
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'»'■■■' chliind Expected at New Lon-don
Soon.
. igeport. Con-. Jan. 10.- -The
. an submarine Deutrfchland is
i-d to arrive in New London
within the next 4S hours, ac-l.
ng to James L. McGovern, col-
'■•-•!■ ■.;' customs for Connecticut.
- returned to his home here late
i igiit mini New London, wliere lie
'inferred with officials of the East-ii.
forwarding Company.
Mr. McGovern also said he had
ifeard "unofficially" that the Bre-neii.
sister ship of the Deutschland,
a- not been lost at sea, as has been
'Opposed, but would not amplify his
<talenient other than to say that
'German naval officials no longer
'egard her as lost."
Paris, Jan. 19.—President Poin-care
has received Edward Marshall,
an American newspaper writer, at
the Palace of the Elysee and talked
with him in regard to President Wil-son's
note and the reply of the en-tente
allies. The crux of the inter-view
appears in these words of the
president:
"We are condemned to continue
the war until we—our gallant allies
and ourselves—can obtain the repa-rations
and guarantees rendered in-dispensable
by tiie aggressions of
which we have been the victims, by
the sacrifice; to which we have sub-jected
ourselves, and by the losses
which we have suffered."
'•May 1 tell America that France
is our friend even though we are not
fighting with her?" the American
asked.
"The United States of America
and France are closely united by in-effaceable
common recollections, by
the same political traditions, by the
same attachment of free Institu-tions,"
said President Poiucare.
"This war, which Germany unloosed
upon Europe and which France did
everything to avoid, could not alter
the good relations between the
United States and France. It lias
even made them closer and strength-ened
them.
"The 1'niled Stales." M. Poiucare
continued thoughtfully, "have re-mained
neutral, but tiie sympathies
PART GUARD0RD8RED HOME
GENBfUI. FCXSTOX SELECTING
UNITS THAT ARE TO BE
' BROUGHT HOME.
Washington, Jan. 20.—Immediate
withdrawal of "a substantial num-ber
of national guardsmen from the
border has been ordered by the war
department, and General Funston
now is selecting the units to be sent
home.' In announcing the order late
today, Secretary Baker said the
number to be withdrawn at this time
probably would be 15,000 or 20,000.
The secretary refused to comment
on the order or say what relation it
might have to the withdrawal of
General Pershing's expedition from
Mexico. He said that the organiza-tions
to be withdrawn would be an-nounced
as soon as General Funston
reported those he had designated.
This withdrawal will reduce the
force of state troops on the border to
between 55,000 and 60,000 men.
Pershtag Recall Expected Soon.
The announcement generally was
accepted, however, as an indication
that the withdrawal of Pershing's
force would not be long delayed. It
has been understood that as quickly
as border stations are evacuated by-state
troops, regulars will move up
to occupy them, but tonight it was
said authoritatively that no order to
bring the regulars north had yet
been issued.
It is the policy of the department
not to permit the disintegration of
the. national guard organization and
the intention is to hold every man in
service, though not under arms, re-
WITHDRAWAL PROM MEXICO
EXPEDITION WILL LIKELY BE
OX" WAY OUT SOOX—SUP-PLIES
HELD CP. -
THEY MAKE ANGRY PROTEST
BRITAIN'S DECISION TO CALL
AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
RAISES STORM.
of individuals in every section have gardsiess of the fact that his duty
FRENCHMEN HONOR*
HEROIC AMERICANS.
! •Hilfoiil Bill Gets Support in Senate.
Washington, Jan. .19.—The sen-
«te committee on military affairs
favorably reported the Stedman bill
o make a national military park of
Guilford Battle Ground today.
Senator Overman is confident that
it will pass the senate. It has pass-ad
the house.
Paris. Jail. 21.—The National
theater, the Cornedie Francais, today
honored the memory of American
volunteers who have died for France.
A delegation from the LaFayette
squadron, composed of American av-iators,
headed by Lieut. William
Thaw, Adjutant Itaoul Lufbery. and
four American volunteers >vho have
been mustered out. one of wearing
the war cross and who went to his
seat on crutches; workers at the
American ambulance, including Prof.
A. Piatt Andrew, director of the
American field ambulance service;
Ambassador Sharp and his family;
the attaches of the embassy and
many members of the American col-ony
were present. President Poin-care
was represented.
Rene Besnard, under secretary for
war, who was delegated by the gov-ernment
to deliver an address, paid
tribute, to Americans who have lost
their lives, including Corporal Victor
Chapman. Sergeant Norman .Prince,
Alan Sceger. Kenneth Weeks and
others. He said the sacrifices made
by the American volunteers was evi-dence
of the fraternity which
throughout history had never failed
to unite the two republics for lib-erty.
It would be against the nature
of things if the United States did not
bring to the sacred cause of human-ity
its tribute of effort and courage.
He added that it would hf to the
eternal honor of France to see that
those who have not forgotten that
the French revolution gave to the
world the declaration of the rights
of man, have aided in procuring a
declaration of ithe rights of peoples.
M. Silvain, dean of the Comedie
Francais, and Madame Segond-Web-er,
the tragedienne, who had an
American flag draped about her,
read poems written by Alan Seeger,
the Harvard student who was Trilled
manifested themselves in favor of
France and her allies. We have
been deeply moved by innumerable
demonstrations of friendship.
"There never has been a day since
soon after the beginning of the war
on which 1 have not personally re-ceived
from America a voluminous
mail containing generous offering
for our Invaded populations, for our
war widows and our war orphans.
The letters which accompany these
tributes emanate from all social
classes and often are expressed in
very moving words. Other letters
bring lo me warm wishes for the
victory of France.
"Vuor great country surely under-stands
that we. the allies, are fight-ing
not only for our own independ-ence
and our own national honor,but
for a much wider cause, which goes
further than the boundaries of our
own interests. We are fighting for
the rights of the individual and for
the liberty of peoples.
"The violation of Belgium brings
out the symbolical significance of
this Whole war. Germany was not
satisfied with declaring war upon us
without provocation. She had will-ed
to butcher us without warning
and. to attain that end, she trampled
under her feet. In passing, a little,
innocent people. This is enough evi-dence
by which to judge the respon-sibilities
of our enemies; it is
enough to define the nature of the
struggle in which we are engaged.
The United States have made no
mistake about this."
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Moi'Kanton Extract Company Pur-chases
Old Wood.
Morganton, Jan. 19.—The open-ing
of the big extract plant of the
Kistler Lesh Tanning Company here,
will prove one of the most beneficial
enterprises t'.iis section has ever had.
It opens a market for millions of
cords of dead chestnut wood, which
otiierwise would be worth absolutely
nothing. Now this wood is brining
$fi per cord, on cars or hauled to the
plant.
There is to be no limit to the
amount purchased and all that can
be delivered, according to quality
and size specifications will be
bought.
on the border has ended. All appli-cation-
for discharge except for
en use will be refused, and resigna-tions
of officers will be carefully ex-amined
and accepted only when the
department is satisfied with the rea-sons
<*wr.- It was point£u_put that
acceptance of many of the resigna-tions
already offered was more or
less in tiie nature of a weeding out
process.
Carranza Must Make Good.
The future policy of the adminis-tration,
it has been indicated, con-templates
dealing with the de facto
government on a strictly formal bas-is
rather than on an althruitic basis.
Thus, it is understood, that the ac-tivities
of Villa and the question of
who occupies the territory Pershing
is about to leave will be regarded
here as problems for Carranza, and
that the United States will look to)
him for their solution.
Army officers iiere do not believe
it probable that withdrawal of Gen-eral
Pershing's force can be accom-plished
in much less than three
weeks after the order is issued.
The Mexico Northwestern Railway
south from Juarez would facilitate
the withdrawal, but it has been in-dicated
that no request for its use
will be made by the United States
and that no offer of it by the Mexi-can
government is expected.
Whether the administration in-tends
to delay sending Ambassador
Fletcher to Mexico City until after
the American troops come out has
not been definitely indicated, but it
was suggested today that disapprov-al
of certain acts of the de facto gov-ernment
against which this govern-ment
has persistently protested
might serve to delay indefinitely Am-bassador
Fletcher's departure.
One question brought sharply to
the front within the last week is that
presented by the attitude of the de
facio governments towards the Na-tional
Bank and the Bank of Lon-don
and Mexico. They were forced
into liquidation for not complying to
the decree that their metallic re-serves
be increased dollar for dollar
with the note issues. Since then the
government has secured from them
a large loan in metallic currency and
bullion, the metal being carted from
the banks to the treasury. French
and British diplomatic agents have
protested without avail.
El Paso, Texas, Jan. 19.—It was
unofficially reported by army officers
that actual withdrawal operations,
were under way at El Valle, the
southern outpost of the punitive ex-pedition
in Mexico, and at San Joa-quin,
between El Valle and the field
headquarters at Colonia Dublan.
Predictions that the entire expedi-tion
will begin its march to Colum-bus,
N. H., within the next 72 hours
were made by army officers today.
All supplies billed to Americans in
the Cases Grandes. Colonia Dublan
district and sent to Juarez for trans-portation
over the Mexican North-western
railroad, have been ordered
held at Juarez, and no further ship-ments
of supplies will be made over
tills road for tiie punitive expedition.
Arrangements were also being
made in Juarez today for sending all
available freight cars to Casas Gran-des
to bring out the stocks of goods
und surplus supplies from the stores
of the American Mormons and others
who have been supplying the Ameri-can
troops in Mexico.
The dispatching of four empty mo-tor
truck trains of 30 trucks each
from Columbus during past 24 hours
was taken here to mean early with-drawal.
The pitching of a number
of large tents at Columbus for hous-ing
equipment, ordnance, merchan-dise
and other army stores also was
considered an indication of the early-withdrawal
and arrival of the ex-peditionary
column at the field base.
General Pershing's troops will be
disposed along thfe border with head-quarters
at El Paso and San An-tonio,
according to reports here, and
in Columbus today.
PUBLIC BUILDING STEMS
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Washington, Jan. 20.—The public
buildings bill, Which passed the
house on yesterday, contained ' the
following items for North Carolina:
Increase in appropriation f;>r post-office
and Federal court building at
Wilson. $75,000; increase in cost of
site at Wadesboro, $5,000: ilock-ingham.
$5,000.
Amount appropriated for public
buildings: Edenton, $25,000; Lum-berton.
$30,000: Mt. Airy, £55.000:
Mt. Olive, $30,000: Lenoir, $30,000.
The following amounts were al-lowed
for sites: Albemarle. $8,000;
Clinton, $5,000: Dunn, $7,000; Ma-rion,
$6,000; Sanford. $7,000; Wil-liamston.
$5,000; Louisburg, $6,000.
Congressman Hood is a member
of this committee, and was vigilant
in looking after the interests of
North Carolina.
London, Jan. 19.—The govern-ment's
decision -to call half of the
skilled agricultural workers to the
army and replace them by men who
now are assigned for sedentary work,
or women, has evoked angry protest
from the farmers. There also is a
deal of sharp press criticism on the
unwisdom of such a course at a mo-ment
when the national interests im-peratively
demand that the utmost
possible amount of foodstuffs should
be home-produced and when the
public is being exhorted to devote its
whole energies.
These critics argue that there has
been another contest between the
board of agriculture and tiie war of-fice
in which the war office won. Tho
government's decision is regarded as
an outcome of the recent conference
in London between the war office and
General Neville, the French com-mander-
in-tchief, and Field Marshal
Sir Douglas Haig.
It is announced that the govern-ment
accepted tiie plan to enlist wo-men
for farm work on a military
basis, the women being paid, billet-ed
and clothed by the war office. In-cidentally,
the decision seems likely
to revive the acrimonious discussion
of Ireland's contributions to the
army. It has already been sug-gested
that laborers should be
brought from Ireland to replace
farm hands taken for the army, and
it also has been argued that if Ire-land
gave her full quota of men to
the army it would be needless to de-nude
the country of skilled agricul-turists.
It is stated, however, that tho ex-periment
lias already been tried of
bringing Irishmen of military age to
work in monitions factories in Eng-land
and that it produced jealousy
and dissatisfaction which bodes ill
for a similar experiment with regard
to farm mhands.
HARPER JOHNSTON. OF
HIGH POINT, IS DEAD.
Catauba Farmer Sells Wheat at $2 a
Bushel.
Newton, Jan. 19.—Today D. Q.
Srayre, Catawba county farmer,
drove into town with 50 bushels of
wheat, and when he left the flouring
mill where he sold it, he carried
away a check for $100. It was a
high water mark, like 20-cent cotton
last fall, in Catawba county agricul-ture,
while carload shipments of
corn, on account of July floods, high
water mark stuff in one sense, marks
last summer qurin* the Somme of- also the lowest point ever touched
by the "Dutchmen."
Union Gets Her Flag.
New Bern, Jan. 20.—Chairman
Thomas D. Warren, of the state
Democratic executive committee, has
forwarded to the chairman of the
Union county Democratic executive
committee the handsome silk banner
which was awarded to that county
for having the largest Increase in
the vote polled at the last election.
The flag Is a beauty in every re-spect.
It Is of silk, hand-embroider-ed
and mounted on an ash staff tip-ped
off by a brass spear and It makes
" 'a moat pleasing appearance.
BRITISH LOAN TO BE
FLOATED IN AMERICA.
Another new British loan, amount-ing
to $250,000,000, will be floated
in this country by J. P. Morgan &
Co., that banking firm announces.
This is the third flotation, including
the Anglo-French, or British loans
in the United States since the out-break
of the war.
The new loan, secured by high-grade
collateral, will take Uie form
of 5 1-2 per cent convertible notes,
dated February 1, 1917, $100,000.-
000 to mature in one year the bal-ance
in two years, according to the
announcement. The notes will be
convertible at par at the option of
the holder prior to maturity into a
5 1-2 per cent bond of the United
Kingdom maturing in twenty years.
Car Load Hides Bring $10,000.
Durham. Jan. 19.—Durham has
become an assembling point of mag-nitude
for the exportation of junk,
rags and hides to the states of Mas-sachusetts
and Pennsylvania and
thence to European countries. One
junk dealer has billed 50 carlots to
these states since December 1, 1916
—six weeks ago. The waste pro-ducts
are collected by these New-
England and Northern exporters and
rebelled to European ports for re-
High Point. Jan. 21.—Following
an illness of several days, J. Harper
Johnston, High Point's oldest and
best known citizen, died at his home
on Broad street today at noon. He
was 90 years old and up until a week
or more ago. when lie contracted a
severe cold, was enjoying perfect
health. He was a magnificent speci-men
of manhood, standing well over
six feet, and had never used a pair
of spectacles. He was originally a
native of the Jamestown section of
the county but came to High Point
in 1855, where he engaged in busi-ness
for a short while before he was
appointed deputy sheriff for the
western part of the county, a posi-tion
he filled for 13 years. In latter
years, owing to investments lie had
made when this city was merely a
location for the meeting of the con-struction
forces engaged in building
the Central North Carolina railroad,
he was not active and contented him-self
with small tasks around his
home.
Mr. Johnston was one of the many
citizens present in Greensboro in
1894 when Governor Morehead turn-ed
the first shovel >i dlrl in -he con-struction
of Die state railroad, now a
part of the Southern system. He saw
the beginnings or several other
movements in his time, among which
was the first good road, the pkwk
road, which ran from Salem to Fay-etteville
and passed directly throagh
High Point.
The deceased was a lifelong Ma-son
and the members of this order
will have charge of the funeral ser-vices
which will be conducted tomor-row
afternoon at 2 o'clock. He ii
survived by two daughters and a
host of relatives who are not mem-bers
of the immediate family. In-terment
will be made in Oakwood
cemetery.
Hotel Architect Selected.
The executive committee of the
corporation that is to build the O.
Henry hotol has engaged W. L. Stod-dark,
of New York, to prepare the
making into useful articles. A Bos- j P'ans and specifications and super-ton,
Mass., speculator has attained I mtendi theconstruction of the build-the
topmost price for a carlot of ,n^-
hides, paying $10,000 to the North
Carolina assembler of junk. Phila-delphia
and Harisburg, Penn., are
chief damping grounds for all sorts
of rubbish and Massachusetts holds
Mr. Stoddard is an architect of
national reputation and has made a
specialty of hotels. A dozen or more
architects were In competition for
the O. Henry contract, and the hope
was expressed that a Greensboro
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