The Greensboro patriot [October 4, 1917]

              ES1THE
!
N!
[mount o|
of Hot
>eing
Go.
r5?-458
h
"V
h*
ill
unless steell
not to chip,|
$18.00.
I—but mfcdsl
rom $7.50 tol
Furniture I
Is o! better]
IE 00,
ismon Bras,
serve his old
fow.
RE.
*j
■•- o PATRIOT
S& PUBLISHED D THURSDAY
md iJ ESTABLISHED 1821 V GREENSBORO, N. C. THURSBMfJOCTOBER 4, M7. VOL.96—NO.-C 9
DUTY H1TJYHI6H PRICES
u>Sks,ONERS SAY THEY CAN
' J triM.Y ADD MORE EXPENSE
' AT THIS TIME.
Tie bo"
d of county commission-eel
that they nvust be economical
er".L .-pending of general funds dur-
/the next 12 months it the-county
"? o live within its Income. Chalr-a
Boren made this statement Mon-t•
v wlien the boa** was considering
petition for the appointment of a
ioly superintendent of charities
* j public welfare.
Commissioner Barber called atten-tion
to the fact that a bill for win-clothing
for convicts amounting
M $900 had just been approved. The
ijae merchandise four years ago
« ild not have cost over $300 to
5400. This was only a part at the
ricttbins tiiat wil1 be nece58arv tor
On men.
With a Plea for the appointment of
, Mll!ity hoard of public welfare and
, {Bn time county superintendent of
1P. ,lic welfare, a large delegation of
prizens appeared before the county
2imissioners. The commissioners
seemed to be impressed with the ar-guments
of the gentlemen, but post-poned
action until a special meeting
99 Monday, October 5.
The duties of the county superin-t.-'
Ient would be as follows:
j.) To have, under control of the
county eonrnrissioners. the care and
supervision of the poor and to ad-minister
tiie poor funds.
hi To act as agent of the state
b:-. r.i in relation to any work to be
i :.e by the state board within the
■••■ n ly.
i-i Under the direction of the
..:■■•■ board to look after and keep up
i:::i the condition of persons dis-
:.-..-rged from hospitals for the insane
si from other state institutions.
d) To have oversight of prison-er:
in the county on parole from pen-scarlet
fever held the same, six
cases each month.
During September Dr. Jones vacci-nated
for smallpox 254 persons.
,' County home—'During the month
one patient has left the home and
three have died. Two deaths were
negroes and were cases that had been
at the home for some time. The other
was a white man who had been at
the home only a few days and who
died from tuberculosis.
Camps—Only three visits have
been made the camps. One man sent
here from another county for a long
term was found- to be suffering from
tuberculosis and was at once return-ed.
To Do More Paving.
'Subscriptions totaling $1,700 were
assured the commissioners by prop-erty
owners as part of the cost of
laying concrete-asphalt on the west-ern
side of the street car tracks, on
.North Elm street extended. The
commissioners accepted the offer and
will furnish the rest of the money
necessary to do the work and have it
done immediately after the Greens-boro-
High Point road is finished.
The subscriptions to the $1,700
were as follows:
Julius Cone. $500; Irving Park
Company, $500; Wright, Scales and
Scales. $250; W. D. McAdoo. $100;
J. B. Latham Company, $100; J.
Baa'ch. $60j North Carolina Trust
Company, $50; Southern Real Es-tate
Company, $100; Ham Real Es-tate
Company, $50.
Completion of .the North Elm
street paving will give a straight
stretch of concrete from the Greens-boro
Country Club to the heart of
High Point, for it will not be done
until the final touches are done on
the road to High Point. The county
is assisting in laying pavement in
the limits of High Point to connect
the Greensboro road with Centen-nial
avenue. When this is done the
contractors, Robert G. Lassiter & Co.
will pave the section at Arch hUl,
near Jamestown, and will come to
GEIMAH AIRRAID QN LOKMI
FOUR GROUPS OP HOSTILE AIR-PLANES
IN A TERRIFIC BAT-TLE
OVER THE CITY.
T8 Htr'OHM G1U1EM6E
THE SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
SHOrJl© BE OVER-8UBSCRIB-MANY
MILLIONS.
.eatiaries. reBormatoriesT and all pa-- -She underpass at the fair *Tonnde.
just outside of Greensboro, and lay-concrete
there. After this comes the
pavement of the North Elm section,
and it is likely that all of it will be
done before October is old.
Jurors were drawn Tuesday by the
county commissioners to serve dur-ing
the term of civil court which will
convene November 12. They are as
follows:
W. P. Andrews, M. A. Huffine, Pe-ter
Garrett, Everett Fryar, G. E.
Reynolds. M. Brown. S. L. Rudd. Jr.,
R. R. Waynick, R. J. Whlttington,
M. K. Callum. C. R. Tucker, J. W.
Stanley, J. F. Fargis, J. E. Dillon, J.
W. Reece, N. P. Anthony. O. L. Pee-den.
W. S. Highfill. S. H. Anthrim,
C. M. Cook. S. J. Atkins. C. M. Giles.
W. B. Griffin and J. Wesley Johnson.
•i> prisoners in the county.
-) To have oversight of depend-
8K and delinquent children, and es-
JF tally those on parole or proba-
:i. a.
II To have oversight of all the
■j--oners in the county on probation.
?i To promote the wholesome
r- reation in the county and to en-tor.•
» such laws as regulate commer-ce,
amusement.
li i I'nder the direction of the
-'..:-? 'joarri to have oversight of de-pendent
children placed in said coun-tj
iy tii" -tate board.
il To assist the state board in
.inline employment for the unem-ployed.
j) To investigate into the cause
X iistress. under the direction of the
Ste:e Iward, and to make such other
investigations in the interest of social
--fare as the state board may 41-
T'lie following gentlemen made
talks before the board: Charles A.
Hines. A L. Brooks. A. W. McAlis-
»r. A. M. Scales. J. Norman Wills.
fc J I. Foust, Rev. R. Murphy Wil-liams,
Carter Dalton, of High Point,
ani Prof. T. E. Whitaker, of Oak
R! ige.
The appointment of the proposed
^ id and superintendent was made
P -<ilile by an act of the last legis-
"■' ire establishing a state board of
- rities and public welfares. This
*''■"" board has recently appointed
); It. F. lleasley. of Monroe, as com-a."-
«fioner of public welfare, and aX
-'■' - <tep>. are being taken to have
_'•»•>■ boards appointed throughout
'"• state. Forsyth county has al-
'-- Iy appointed such a board, with a
' time superintendent, and the del-
*-uion urged that GuiKord county
" text to take this progressive step.
Sewer For County Home.
Estimates are being prepared of
coat of sewerage for the county
■v' !•'. according to the report of Dr.
* M. Jones, the county health offi-
:'r made Tuesday to the commis-sioners.
Improvement of conditions
v li" home by better equipment was
r" inmended by the grand juTy in
il- ■'•cent report.
According to Dr. Jones' report the
lu"--'■tious diseases in the rural sec-l"'
as of the county have been great-
;; "educed 6ince last month. He pre-st.
tiid figures for comparison. For
instance, in August, there were 24
^"-s of typhoid fever, and only 14
III September. Whooping cough was
Wfiuceo from 12 to one case. Only
MRS. ENGLAND KILLED
WHEN CAR OVERTURNED.
Lenoir, Oct. 2.—This morning a
party consisting of Mrs. W. I. Pitts
and little girl, her mother, Mrs. J.
P. England. Mrs. A. M. Todd and her
little girl, left in an automobile for
Blowing Rack to spend the day. Af-ter
getting about a mile above Pat-terson
the car turned over, killing
Mrs. England and breaking one of
Mrs. Pitts' legs just above the knee.
Mrs. Todd was badly bruised, but
not seriously hurt, it is thought at
this time. The two children were
not hurt, sustaining only a bad
shakeup.
At this point of the road there is a
narrow fill and when two vshlcles^
meet it is a hard matter to pass in-safety.
The car was being driven by
Mrs. Pitts.
London, Oct. 1.—The strongest air
attack yet attempted on London and
the coast towns by the Germans, was
carried out tonight by four groups
of hostile airplanes. Some of the
machines got through to London and
bombed the southwestern district.
A terriific 'barrage was sent up from
the defense guns and the road of
battle lasted intermittently for two
and a half hours.
The Germans bombed coast towns
as they passed over and proceeded
toward London. Two of the groups
succeeded in getting a number ot
machines through the sky barrage.
Numerous bombs were dropped on
the southwestern district which is
thickly populated with the homes of
the upper middle classes. The fire
from the defending guns was longer
and louder than ever before. A rain
of shrapnel fell in all sections of the
town and the streets were virtually-deserted
save for a few police.
The weather was perfect for air
operations as there was a bright full
moon, with no clouds or wind. The
people of London expected a raid and
were waiting for signals. Soon after
7 o'clock motors of the volunteer
corps sped through the streets blow-ing
their sirens and displaying an il-luminated
notice "take cover." Tele-phone
exchange notified their sub-scribers
and other measures were put
into execution to inform the populace
of the pending air raid.
Field Marshal Lord French, com-mander-
in-chief of the home forces,
issued the following report dealing
with tonight's raid:
"A group of hostile airplanes
crossed the Essex coast at 7 o'clock
this evening and proceeded across
Essex toward London.
"This group of machines Was fol-lowed
at about a quarter of an hour's
interval by a second group, which
pursued the same course.
"The first attack on London was
delivered from the northeast about
7.45 P. M. Most of the raiders were
turned back, but one or more of the
machines penetrated the defenses
and dropped bombs in the southwest-ern
district.
"About 8.15 P. M., the second
group of raiders attempted to cross,
the defenses at various points to
I northeast and north London, but
without auccess until shortly after
9 o'clock, when a few of the ma-chines
passed across London and
bombs were again dropped in the
southwestern district.
"Meanwhile, a third group of raid-ers
crossed the Kentish coast and
dropped bombs at various places.
This group did not penetrate very
far westward.
"A fourth group of enemy ma-chines
crossed the Essex coast about
8.50 o'clock and proceeded toward
London, which was approached short-ly
before 10 o'clock. They did not
penetrate further than the northeast
outskirts of London, where some
bombs are reported to have been
dropped.
'No reports' o£ casualties or dam-age
have yet been received."
OVERSUBSCRIPTION OF
SHORT TIME NOTES.
Toiedj, O, Oct. 1.—Speaking to
several -thousand citizens in Memo-rial
Ha^ here tonight in opening the
Liberty Loan campaign In this dis-trict.
Secretary of the Treasury Mc-
Adoo declared that the failure of a
single issue of government bonds
would be worse for America than a
disaster, upon the field of battle.
"We must never let that happen,"
he said," -
"Assarting that "we must make
the Second Ltberty Loan a success,"
he said;.
"A few days ago I read the follow-ing
manifesto, issued in Berlin by the
League of German Municipalities:
" 'M money talks, the president of
the United States may learn by Octo-ber
18; when the subscription lists
close, that the, echo of the new war
fund given by the German people
will have drowned out completely
the clamor of unending protests
which his reply to the pope has
given stimulus.' •
"Let us meet that challenge by a
subscription to our Second Liberty-
Loan on the 27th day of October,
nine days after the close of the Ger-man
loan, which will make clear to
the German military despotism that
America marshals • not alone her
brave soldiers upon the field, her in-vincible
navy upon the high seas, her
industries throughout the length and
breadth of this land, but as well her
financial resources, and that she is
determined to use them all without
stint and regardless of sacrifice to
vindicate American rights, outraged
too frequently by German infamies.
"Let us answer this challenger by
making clear to the world that the
American people, with transcendent
love of Justice and of country, stand
solidly behind their great president
and_,aun»ort. uuequivocally the pur-pose*
rtSis war." < "">'-—v
Washington, Oct. 2.—Ltberty loan
financing was marked today by the
oversubscription of the ".argest issue
of short-time treasury certificates
ot indebtedness put out by the gov-ernment.
$400,000,000. The certif-icates
bear four per cent interest.
mature December 15. -ind may be
redeemed sooner upon ten days" no-tice.
The amount of the over-subscrip-tion
was not stated by the treasury
tonight but the taking of the entire
issue, which is S100.000.000 or one-third
greater than any previous of-fering,
with a margin to spare, was
regarded as presaging the success of
the second liberty bond issue.
Today's offering of certificates
brings the total up to $1,250,000,000
or more than 40 per cent of the min-imum
set by Secretary McAdoo for
the second liberty loan. With the
proceeds of the latest certificate is-sue
available, the government will
have anticipated the second liberty
loan receipts to the extent of $1,-
250.000.000 and much of the money
will have been paid out.
Continuation of the enthusiasm
which marked the opening day of the
ltberty loan campaign was reported
to the treasury tonight from many-sections
of the country.
GERMANS GROWING MRYODS
APEX OP HAIG'H SALIENT POINT-ING
DANGEROUSLY TOWARD
RAILWAY.
JOHN LONG HELD.
IX DURHAM JAIL.
SUMMONED FOR SERVICE
HE COMMITS SUICIDE
Wilson, Oct. 2.—Brooding over the
possibility ot having to go to the war
Levy Webb, a young white man, of
Saratoga township, Wilson county,
committed suicide Monday. He re-ported
here at the proper time before
the local board for examination and
it is alHeged, played the *>art of being
mentally weak so well that the board,
lor the time .being and until they
could investigate his case, deferred
examination.
Later young men from Webb's
neighborhood told a member ot the
board that there was nottiin*; men-tally
wrons with Webb and ttttt he
should be made tc take hJs medicine.
Word was sent to him to report back
to the board and rather than comply
he put an end to his existence.
Young Girls Abused.
Washington, Oct. 2.—Not a young
girl in Belgium above seventeen
years old has escaped misuse by Ger-man
authorities, according to Baron
Van Der Noot De Moorsel In a report
to the Red Cross today. "No one
can imagine the suffering of the Bel-gium
people." said the Belgian
nobleman. "The people are actually
deprived of everything. They are
living from hand to mouth. They
watch, week by week, for the Amer
lean relief ships to bring them sup-plies.
They kneel before the Stars
and Stripes and pray to it as they
would to the flag of a church. Not
a young girl in Belgium above seven-teen
years of age has not been taken
and misused by the German author-ities."
Starts With a Rush.
Washington, Oct. 1.—The great
Liberty Loan drive started today
throughout the country with a rush.
Telegraphic reports to the treasury
from every section indicate tremen-dous
enthusiasm on the part of ten6
of thousands of workers and a fair
first-day volume of subscriptions to-ward
the $3,000,000,000 minimum
which has been set as the goal of the
four weeks' campaign.
Flags were flown, whistles were
blown, acres of bill boards blossomed
into red, white and .blue posters and
thousands of workers started the
campaign with enthusiasm from New
England to California. Eve?ywhere,
from postofnees. bank and store win-dows,
railway stations, street cars
and scores of other public places, lib-erty
posters with varied slogans
were posted up and workers began
the task of finding buyers.
Towns and cities from coast to
coast welcomed the beginning of the
campaign with distinctive demonstra-tions.
Here in the capital street cars
were stopped for two "minutes at noon
and automobile horns and sirens let
loose a bedlam of noise as the field
force began its work. In hundreds
of other communities the story was
the same, varied only by methods
followed.
Durham, Oct. 2.—Loaded down
under a heavy-weight bail of j.15.000
John Long is destined to live the life
of a fu'llfiedged prisoner for many
months. 'Squire R. A. Harris, Dur-ham
county trial magistrate, fixed
the heavy bond and named October
15 as the date for the preliminary
hearing. The hpur is 3 o'clock. This
date and hour is contingent upon a
satisfactory progres in the condition
of Miss Nellie Ball. She is now rest-ing
quietly at the home of her father
In Bahama, iM in aH.lUjflihood will
recover. ^_ .'- . -"***•">■
The warrant charges secret as-sault,
with intent to kill, and on this
count Long faces a bond of $10,000.
The additional $5,000 is a guarantee
to refrain htm from further practices
of outlawry. The magistrate places
him under this peace bond with the
stipulations that he shall be peaceful
toward all the people ot this com-monwealth
and shall exercise espe-cial
caution toward the citizens of
the Bahama community. Feeble ef-forts
were made this afternoon by
one citizen of the Bahama commun-ity
to bail Long out. but the magni-tude
of the bond had not been antic-ipated.
COMPLETE NEGRO UNIT
AT EACH CANTONMENT.
More One and Two-Dollar Bills,
Washington, Oct. 2.—To meet a
heavy demand for one and two-dollar
notes the house today passed a senate
MM amending the laiws relating to
denominations of circulating notes is-sued
to national banks. It repeals a
law -prohibiting the furnishing to
national banks ot bills of less de-nomination
than five dollars and au-thorizes
the banks to issue not ex-ceeding
$25,000 in one ai.d two-dsl-lar
bills.
ALLIED AIRMEN PLA1TNG
HAVOC WITH RAILWAYS.
London, Oct. 2.—Dispatches from
Holland forwarded by frontier cor-respondents,
say that the allied air-men
are playing havoc with ths Ger-man
railway communications and
military establishments if. Belgium.
On Sunday night, according to the
Telegraaf railway communication
with Ghent was interrupted. Another
correspondent says that a bridge was
destroyed just before the arrival of a
military train, the engine of which
fell through the opening, derailing
several cars, which were then bomb-ed.
The Evening Standard states "an
the highest authority" that the gov-cntuer-
is paying special attention
to the question of reprisals for Ger-
Washlngton. Oct. 1.—'With plenty
of room available at the national
army cantonments, due to the large
number of men to be withdrawn to
fill up the national guard and other
branches, the war department has
again modified its plans for training
negro troops of the national army
forces. It is now the purpose. Secre-tark
Baker said today, to train a
complete unit of negroes at each of
the sixteen cantonments, instead of
training them only at cantonments
to which a considerable number re-port.
The size of the unit will de-pend
upon the number of negro
drafted men from the divisional area
which supplies each cantonment, but
where there is a large surplus men
will be sent to posts with smaller
numbers for consolidation with the
training units there.
The first of the drafted negroes
will be mobilized under the call o?
October 3. The number to be tiken
from each division will not be uni-form
and the allotment '.>as no*, been
announced.
Farmers Agree Upon 30 Cent- For
Cotton.
That extreme nervousness over ap-proaching
events pervades the Ger-man
front in Flanders Is indicated by
the infantry attacks Crown Prince
Ruppreoht. of Bavaria, is throwing
against Field Marshal Hoig's army on
the Ypres salient.
These attacks are being centered
upon the apex of Haig's salient in the
line which is pointing dangerously
toward the Ostend-Lille railway, the
ultimate gaining of which by the
English, Scotch and Australian con-tingents
would work sad havoc to the
replenishing with supplies of the Ger-man
line to the south from the naval
bases at Ostend and Zebrugge.
In storming waves of great
strength, the Germans have made
valiant efforts 'to wrest from the
British positions captured from t'.iem
in the recent offensive, but every-where,
except at two small points,
they met with decisive repulse un-der
the hurricane of fire which swept
against them from guns of all cali-ber,
strewing the ground with their
dead or wounded. Numerous prison-ers
also have been taken by the Brit-ish
and to a man they have evinced
gratification that they are safe from
the inferno of bursting shells which
he British without cessation are
pouring in upon the German hold-ings.
The big guns of the Germans have
not been idle during the fighting, but
their strength is in no wise compara-able
to that of the great array of
cannon that Haig has set up for the
purpose of pounding the German en-trenchments
for warding off attacks
and for screening his infantrymen
as they surge forward.
As yet there has been no indication
that the British commander-in-chief
has the situation worked out to a
point where he is prepared to turn
loose'.his itrtantry tor another MMM*
'across "Bft>'Man'•- land for further
German-held territory, but doubtless
from the great German activity this
time is not far off.
Meanwhile, the French and] Cite
Germans are engaged in violent ar-tillery
duels along the Aisne front
and the Verdun sector, in both of
which regions General Petain's arm-ies
also again have been forced to
withstand, and successfully, vicious
attacks from troops of the German
crown prince, especially near Cra-onne
and Beaumont and between hill
344 and Samogneux. Near hill 344
the Germans entered a French posi -
tion, which later was recaptured !n
a counter-attack.
On the northern front in Russia,
in the region south of Riga, the Rus-sians
are keeping up their offensive
against the Germans. Following up
their attacks of Sunday, in whldh
gains of from 800 to 1.000 yards
were made, the Russians again have
surged forward and beaten back the
enemy for a distance of one mile
south of the Kronenburg, Spital-
Grounduii sector. Quiet still pre-vails
on the eastern front farther
south and in Galicia and Rumania.
In Mesopotamia the British vic-tory
over the Turks at Ramdie. west
of Bagdad, was greater than at first
reported. In addition to capturing
the town, nearly 4.000 Turks were
made prisoner and large numbers of
guns and quantities of war stores
were captured. Moreover, heavy
casualties were inflicted on the Otto-mans.
British and French airmen are
continuing their raids against Ger-man
positions hehlnd the lines and
the French aviators are carrying On
further reprisals against German elt-ies
and towns for the bombardment
of open French settlements. Large
quantities of explosives have been
dropped by French airmen on Stutt-gart,
Franlcfort-on-Main, Coblena
and Theves, while in conjunction
with British aviators railway sta-tions,
air dromes, munition depots
and military encampments have beea
effectively bombed.
New Orleans, Oct." 2.—A price of
30 cents a pound to the farmer was
agreed upon at a meeting here late
today of men interested in market-ing
and growing of cotton in 10
Southern states as being justified by
man'air h'Tacks on London and other the present selling prices of manu-places.
It says: . factured cotton products. The price
"There is no qualification about was suggested in an amendment to.a
the decision ot the government to resolution adopted Just previously
undertake very effectiva reprisals at which declared against price regula-
.he earliest moment consistent with , tion of cotton by Congress or dele- public by Mrs. William McAooo at
tbe advice of the high military com- gating of this authority to any other the conference of the women's 11b-
~ „ |body. jerty ton committee.
One Woman's Pledge* '
Washington. Oct. 2.—A' woman
has pledged herself to buy $5,000,-
000 worth of the new liberty loan
bonds. She is from New York.
This is the first official announce-ment
of a subscriber to this new pa-triotic
fund. The news was made
.. - . .. A ..■•..'k.v.*,^*