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ON ACCOTWT OF PEATG OF
Lr J. H. LUTHER.
When the grand Jury returned not
a true bill against ,W. C. Bensle?
charged with manslaughter in con-nectien
with the death ot J. H. Auth-or,
the only case ot general interest
io this week's criminal court ■went
,,rf the calendar. Beasley was driv-ing
the automobile that struck Mr.
Luther on Summit avenue a few
weeks ago and caused Mr. Luther's
death. He was arrested and at the
preliminary hearing was 'bound over
to 30iirt.
The court was presided Over by
judge W. J. Adana, whose address
to the grand jury was brief. The
foreman of the grand jury for the
first six months of 1918 is John J.
Phoenix and the other members
a:i; W. H. Smith, W. J. Blair, R. L.
Small. C. L. Klrkman. C. W. Canada,
Charles E. Honner. P. W. Coble, J.
A Heath. W. J. Stafford. Jerome
Loinard. Frank Gurley. L. C. Scott.
T. D. Whlttington. J. A. Idole. R. L.
ioale. J. S. Ingold and^James A.
Cook.
Robert Ellis pleaded guilty to
breaking and entering a freight car.
s- 1 tlie co-defendant in the case.
J: in Truitt. was acquitted. No sen-
^;. e was passed.
5. E. Idol, of the Hickory Grove
-• -lion of the county, who was ar-r-
ted after the sheriff .found a keg
o: whiskey under his bed, pleaded
_- r.lty. He was fined $100 and the
. .-ts and required to give a bond of
->:. >0 for his appearance in court for
;, i years to show good behavior.
Square Brown, the young negro
v tight back here from Alexandria.
Va., a few days ago to answer to the
charge of carrying a concealed weajl-
•-.-. and the more serious one of as- ,
April term of court to show what ]Blfi| ftfllgK HP
nit future behavior ia to ft toward
Mrs. Levy. The prayer tor sentence
was iontlaued until then, and the1
judge*'warned the defendant to okay
awaydrom hto wife and cause tier no
more trouble.
Mrs. Mary. Bryant, of High Point:
/'fas'tried on'the charge or getting
goods from a store In her town on
approval and failing to return th
of pay for them. She said ahe was
PEOPLE IN FRASKLIX ADMIT'
VrOLATKESS OS" LAW,1- BCT
\ PBOMBE TO«K GOOD.
" Lpuisburg. Jan,. 2$.—For some
trmn persistent rumors have floated
kurftna outside world that P^hkMn
county wan hoarding flour. The State
I Food Administrator Henry A. Page oi
or lor uv»m. o"" ••"« ■»« ™"~ ■ « .. tkl_
ZZ her trouaseau and got a coat- ■»«"* «W.£!£j!
suit that way and asked the er-chant
to collect from ner father in
the event that she'retained it. She
got the go5d# (on Thursday and was
married on. the following Saturday.
The father did. BOt pay the bill and
the charge wna brought. Very little
time, was .required fcy the jury to re-turn
a verdict ot not guilty.
Joe and Sam Scales, two negroes,
were acquitted of the charge _of
breaking into and robbing freight
cars on the Southern tracks west of
town.
The court continued the murder
charge_.brought against Theodore
Matthews for trial in the next term
of court. Matthews was charged
with murder o>Jea«e Janes, another
Hi^h Po.int negro, and the grand
jury returned a true MM.
Roy Stu.tts. of High Point, was
convicted of seduction under prom-ise
of marriage and sentenced to IS
months in prison. .
The term will adjourn sometime
today.
Tr.e grand jury yesterday made
the t:)llo*'iug report:
Report of Grand Jury.
We have passed upoa seventeen
bills of indictment witU the f:llow-ing
results:
True bills returned 14. not true
bills returned, 3.
We have .personally visited county
home, county jail, county clerk's of-
I fice. We found the jail in^ood con-dition,
and prisoners properly cared
. | for. Mr. Caffey, jailer, extended
after-noon
very unceremoniously and in tl
MUms mini
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LONDON AIR RAJDS.
is-tbA, too. 2*.*-Cable and
ipMo llnee to Russia have been
American Minister Morria, at
Iholm, reported today, and^the
renaming routes of communi-with
Petrograd how are
Persia and Vladivostok.,
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• - At with his revolver upon hi. . K , ^ cottnmf 1Bd j8 to ha conimead-n
.ite foreman on the railroad work; , .- „ ;^,., k=*a«r~ - :-,-.-,-'
-.i-ar Pomona, pleaded gutlty. He
was given five moriths.
After hearing the plea of counsel.
;.v: court was lenient to Lillie Tal-ley,
the 17-year-old white girl of
Wnite Oak, w.ho was Indicted on the
harge of an assault with a deadly r
veapon upon her girl friend, Lottie
Denny, of the same age. The defen-dant
shot the other girl, in the mill. I
where they worked together, after a i
quarrel. It was stated that the pri- j
va:e prosecution did not want to
prrss the c.<se. The judge dismissed
ih« girl with the payment
costs.
■Sdgar Scales, a negro, pleaded
-; Uy to carrying a concealed weap-1
ir. and with making an assault. He
•!r-v: 90 days.
Frank C. Perry, white, was con- j
victea of an assault with a deadly '
H'topon. He was fined $30 and costs.
J. II. Farlow, white, pleaded guil-ty
to dist'lling liquor. He was also
c large- with deserting his wife in
hie preference for the still. The
rourt gave him 15 months for tffe
ATindonment and suspended sen-rw.
ee in the case for distilling.
A long story told on thestand by
'Shine" or Arthur Farrington. a ne-
-:o, wrought his freedom. He was
•harged with larceny of about $12io
:jm the. person ot a white man, T.
P. Farrington, but he pleaded not
-■iilty, explained the occurrence in
■Mail and the jury believed him. He
***& declared not guilty.
Charged with larceny, John Ded-ress,
a white youth of High Point.
'*•as so adjudged and was given the
.minimum sentence, fou.- months on
•-..* roads. His home is In South
Carolina.
Solicitor Bower withdrew the bill
i: indictment against John Truitt.
wo was charged with breaking into
» freight caT, and Robert Ellis, in-iT.
ted with him, pleaded gutlty.r
■Roy Stutts. a young man of High
Point, was charged with seduction
inder promise of marriage and was
ried Tuesday. He was convicted.
Miss Pearl Beck, of High Point, was
"5 complaining witness.
' ed tor the splendid mahneFinwhiclt
hie department to conducted.
Clerk's office: We found this de-partmen;
in excellent condition. Rec-ords
neatly and properly kept. Mr.
Gant extended every courtesy to en-able
us to properly inspect his of-fice.
County home: We visited the
county hone located fou- milea east
ct Greensboro. Found the inmates
cared for as well as surroundings
would permit. The mnnager, Mr.
Scott, conducted us throughout the
T'tl^e ' Vari°us departments. We found Mr.
I §cott to be a very careful and effici-ent
man. doing splendid work with
the facilities at his command. How-ever,
we regret to have to report that
our poor and insane are not cared for
in keeping with the resources of
Gu'.lford Bounty. The buildings are
old >nd out of date, unsanitary, and
poorly heated. We recommend tha\
the board of count}- ommisisjoners
take immediate steps to remedy con-ditions.
We (further recommend that
the present farm of 365 ecres. worth
approximately $50,000. he sold, and
a farm purchased 10 or 12 miles
from the city upon which a modern
county home be constructed, with a
suitable wing for the proper care of
insane patients.
ResipectJfully supbiritted.
JOHN' JV PHOENIX.
Foreman.
the court house tonight lie addressed
a good sized audience of representa-tive
citizens from various sections of
the county. He read the riot act to
the violators and wouM-ce transgres-sors
of the hoarding act. Mr. Page
turned the meeting into a Methodist
mass-meeting and called tor peni-tants.
It was freely admitted that there-]
had been many infractions of the
law regarding the hoarding of food
in the county, but no individuals
were bawled out., Quite a number
of tobacco and cotton, farmers, ac-cording
to their custom, in this sec-tion,
"but now contrary to the law,
laid In a year's supply of flour when
they sold their cotton and tobacco at
enormous profits. It was explained
that the Franklin farmers did cot do
thte for the purpose of hoarding, but
to save their surplus money which
they might have otherwise wasted
and to prov
All of the food merchants present
nearly a score, who'••were equally as
guilty as their customers to whom
they had sold more flour than the
law allowed since September 10,
1»17. promised to have the surplus
flour returned and to be good in the
future.
The penalty for having broken tliej
law is a fine ot 15.000 and Imprison-ment
for two years, but in view of
the tact that the good people of
Franklin county .have violated the
law hitherto In/"ignorance and un-belief,"
Marse Henry said that" h*
•neat*—*«*»*»—th«»-4eT-»n«*>Si
tenses. But now they r ad been en-lightene-
Mhey would have no excuse
in the future and if Mr. McAdoo or
one of his secret service men should
bob up unceremoniously violators of
the law had better take to the-woods
and hunt the tall timber.
Mr. Page explained in a perfectly
good-humored way the necessity laid
upon Americans for the next six
months to live on half rations at
least as far as wheat was concerned.
He made a strong appeal to the pa-triotism
and to the religious im-pulses
of his audience io co-operate
with the administration in feeding
our allies and the neutral nations
who would) perish K*we did not send
them food.
A profound solemne^s prevaded
the auditorium as the speaker por-trayed
the condition that confronts
us and this community is beginning
to wake up to the fact fiat we are in
the war. . >
a* details have come through
rning the situation in Finland
reports indicate that the Red
rd to in control at Helsingfors,
a revolutionary manifesto
proclaimed that authority is sole-the
hands ot the working class-other
that Leon Trotsky, the Bol-shevik*
foreign minister, intends to;
return immediately to 3rest-l»ltovsk
for a resumption of the peace conver-sations
with the Austro-German del-egates.
Still another Petrograd dis-patch
says Trotsky has reiterated to
the council of workmen's and sol-diers'
delegates that the Bolsheviki
will insist on a democratic peace.
One Petrograd journal declares that
Austria-Hungary alread/ has offered
to conclude a separate peace with
Russia regardless of Germany.
The breach between Russia and
Rumania meanwhile is broadening.
In addition to severing . diplomatic
relations with the little kingdom the
Bolsheviki have ordered the seizure
of Rumania's gold ..reserves on de-posit
in Moscow.
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War Council In Sesstosi.
he supreme _war council, with
tes representing the * United
I, Grant Britain, France and
In attendance, has convened at
Hies, France. The plans of the
iry campaign of the entente al-and
of the United States forces
expected to be discussed.
Troubles in Germany.
rjrious strikes are reported be in
progress throughout Germany. In
Berlin and suburban towns 90,000
workers are said to have quit work.
Various large manufactories engaged
dde against a day of want/}***6 manufacture of war supplies,
especially airplanes, are anectea. in-dftoendent
Socialists are reported to
h«re taken an active pan in the call-ing
of the strike. The German gov-ernment
has decided to o~der the ar-rest
ot six leaders of this party.
•Nothwithfttanding the fact that
deep snows still cover the ground
the Italians have carried out success
fully a spectacular drive against the
Austro-^ierman lines in the mountain
region of northern Italy and captur-ed,
strong positions and more than
1,500 men.
.Tfce blow was delivered on the
FOCR DEAD IN HEAD-ON'
COLLISION OF TRAINS.
burg.
RIGHT OF WAY ORDERED
FOR LOADING OF COAL.
HOARDING 't<06T»T!ALMETTO
STATE MILL rUS LICENSE.
Washington. Jan. 30—Speculating
in and hoarding of cottonseed has
cost the Olio Oil, and Fertilizer Com-pany,
of Clio. S. C, its license to
deal in commodities covered under
the food control act ' o! -Congress.
The United States food" administra-tion
announced today that it has re-voked
the license of the concern and
has ordered « to close up its business
not lai&r than February 6. As all of
its products are manufactured from
cottonseed, which is under license, it
wilL be unable to operate, even as a
fertilizer manufacturer.
Washington, Jao. 30—In response
to an urgent appeal from J. J. Stor-row.
New England fuel administra-tor,
the shipping board tonignt di-rected
that <coal piers at Hampton
Roads ports give complete right of
way for loading during a 72-hour
period beginning tomorrow morning
to a fleet of 50 steamers, schooners
and barges waiting there to take
coal for Boston.
At the same time Director General,
McAdoo Instructed the railroads to
give'priority tomorrow to 12 coal
trains ol Zo cars each t» supplement
the usual movement of coal to New1
England and to meet emergency de-mands
at Boston. Secretary Daniels
ordered the commandant of the navy
yard there to turn over 5>000 tons of
bituminous to the city fuel adminis-trator.
An indeterminate sentence was
£lven Eck Caldiwell, which may run
only three years but e»n be-ntfet«h-vd
into five, if the «*g*6 'ittia* .not"
comport himself sroU., paJdwdjjT ad4|
■Bitted his guilt of wnrg'-ary -4>i»t hto
ounsel showed certain extenuating
circumstances and pleaded hto Tooth
Moses M. Levy'was eonVtcted" by
the Jury yenUrday of an ads-nlt on
iswife. Than Law*
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Hungarians Pledge Their Loyalty,
Chicago, Jan. 2».—Men and wo-men
representing thirty-eight Hun-garian
sooWiea and more tfcaff-j8»(*
«M Hungarian ««snen»%M<«* «"*•
loyalty to the Unite* *tate» at.»
inaas mealing held under the aus-pices
of the state council of defense.
Cold Wave to Expected to Reach the
Coast Friday.
Washington, Jan. 30.—A disturb^
amce that developed In the Gulf of
Mexico Tuesday is causing general
rains in Southern stands and* snow
and ice in Virginia, saWa special
.ulletln issued today by the weatih-
.er bureau. -.TWs afternoon, and to-iright
it wil€ca'«se:ifp&r*ral snows in
the midJle Atlantie states. The se>
vere coM ***• prennllthg in the wdst
and northwest, the bulletin •say* to
expected to reach the Atlantic «•*■«<'
Resolutions were adopted gesuring. ty'Trriday, except alonj the «•*>•*
Sn^WrtM^MrwtfW-rgfffy g AMaato-aaawt. The cold
protection from unjust •suspicion of ^^^^ t„
•weathse
positions penetrated were tenacious-ly
held notwithstanding strong coun-ter-
attacks in which the Austro-Ger-mans
were repulsed will: heavy cas-ualties.
The Berlin war office, in
admitting the reserve to the teutonic
allied line, asserts that the Italians
repeatedly tried to bring up rein-forcements
to widen the breaches
they had made in the enemy front
but that their efforts failed and 600
Italians were made prisoners.
That airplanes aided vaterially in
the fighting, full details of which
have not yet bean received is indi-cated
in the Italian official corumun-ication
which asserts that during the
progress of the battle tin enemy lost
twelve aircraft.
Important Victory.
The victory for the Italians at this
particular point is of^ considerable
significance, because of the fact that
lately, since the enemy's strong at-tempts
to break through from the
hill region to the Venetian plain fail-ed
around Monte Tomba and sectors
west of the Austro-Germans have
been bringing up reinforcements in
the Asiago district preparatory to a
further series of attacks io reach the
lowlands around Bassano add Vicen-za.
Aside from this battle no impor-tant
infentry operations have been
recorded although the Germans have
been operating with their artillery on
a somewhat extensive scale on the
Arras front and have carried out
raiding operations on several other
sectors of Field Marshal Haig's line.
London Air Raids.
Monday night's air raid, the first
of the year, on London aud adjacent
territory, resulted In the largest cas-ualty
list of any air raid since that
of June 13 last. The total casualties
were forty-seven killed and 169 in-jured.
Forty-elx of the fatalities oc-curred
in London where 162 persons
were Injured. Bombs were dropped
by the invading enemy 'in Kent and
Essex, but slight material damage
was done. One of the airplanes, a
three-seated maahine, was brought
down in flames from a height of ten
thousand feet and all three of Its
occupants were burned to death.
> In the June raid ninety-seven were
killed and 437 were wounded by
bombs Which fell In London and- on
Essex and Kent. < ~ *
' Russia Cut Off.
JUfst what is the- situation in Rus-sia
remains obsenre. . One report
■ays there baa been a split among
*a* Bolsheviki oa the attention ef
peace _on Qswanatfe t*r«s and an-'
Roanoke, Va., Jan. 30.—Four ien-were
killed, two trainmen injured
and several passengers M-aken up In
a head-on collision between the
Memphis Special and w westbound
-Norfolk and Western freight train
10 miles west of Radioed tonight,
.-.bout 10.30, according to Informa-tion
given out at the Norfolk and
Western division offices.
The wreck to said-to have been
caused by failure of the freight en-gineer
to observe instructions.
The dead reported are-. Engineer
J. H. Smith, of the Memphis Special,
of Bmstol, Va.; Freight Engineer 'P.
A. Jacobson, of Roanoke, Va.;
Freight Fireman H. C. Hoyle. of
Roanoke, Va.: Elbert Taylor, negro,
brakeman, of Bristol, Va.
"J. R. Mason, engineer on the sec-ond
engine of the Memphis Special,
was injured by getting the toes on
one of his feet cut off. A fireman,
whose name could not be learned,
was scalded.
The Memphis Special is a South-ern
Railway passenger train between
Memphis and New York but is opwr-a
ted over the Norfolk, and Western's
ffaW?*b!eTieeeln! BrWol^ndfXyneh-
XHE APPALACHIAN BRANCH OF"
SOUTH RAILWAY WASHED
AWAY BY FLOODS.
Bristol. Tenn.'-Va.. Jan. 29.—No
trains will" operate* on the Appala-chian
division of the Southern Rail-way
for at least th* wank on ac-count
of the washing away ot mom
than 15 bridges and trestles and
numerous slides and washouts, fol-lowing
heavy rains and the thawing
ot snow on the mountains.
This division operates into the coal
fields.and is the main fuel feeder for
the Southern system.
More than six hundred feet ot
trackage through the natural tun-nel
is entirely washed away. Two
trestles at this point are gone. At
Ironton. one bridge is gone and a
50-foot slide destroyed the track.
Another bridge to gone near the Iron
furnace at Big Stone Gap and be-tween
Big Stone Gap and Appala-chTa,
there is a SDO-toot slide and
five bridges washed away. Between
Appalachia and « St. Charles, six
bridges went down and there are a
number of slides.
Work trains and men were rushed
here from the Asheville division and
repairs are being pushed. Officia.13
hope to have part of the line in op-eration
by Friday.
There were one or two small wash-outs
on the Knoxville division last
night but they were quickly repair-ed.
Two Small bridges on" the Moun-tain
City division were repaired to-day
and operation resumed. The
Bulls Gap and Gate City division is
operating after small damage was
repaired. It is reported here thai
tli» Virginia and Carolina nailToad
operating from Abingtton, Va., to
Boone, N. C, has suspended opera-tion
on account of washing away ot
two bridges.
Two small bridges were washed
away on the Big Creek Park interur-bao
lines out of Bristol.
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PAYS HALF OF EARNINGS
IX GOVERNMENT TAXES.
HEALTH OONDtneMS
IN THE ARMY OAJUfg.
New York. Jan. 29.—The United
Scates Steel Corporation paid to the
federal government more than half
its earnings in the final quarter of
1917. according to a statement of
the corporation issued today.
Total earnings for that period
amounted to J59.724,12l5, after mak-ing
allowance for $60,950,364 paid
into the government treasury as war
income and excess profits. Net in-come
for the final quarter was $48,-
035,344 and surplus for the same pe-riod
amounted to f 16,258,278.
This compares with total earnings
of $68,243,784, net income of $55,-
245,377 arid surplus of $21,824,5>54
for the previous quarter.
In keeping with expectations the
directors declared an "extra" divi-dend
of 3 per cent on the common
stock, nr addition to the regular
common dividend of 1 1-4 and pre-ferred
of 1 3-4.
Including a Red Cross dividend of
one per cent -voted in the second
i quarter, total disbursements on the
common shares for 1917 amounted
to 18 per cent.
Total earnings for 1917 amounted
to $331,6158,131 after, charging off
$212,467,249 to government baxes.
etc.
Father Seeks Missing Son.
Concord, Jan. 29.—L. C. Off, of
this place, is seeking his missing 16-
year-old son, who has disappeared
from his home. No. 1, Caldweil
street. The youth, may be identified
by a marked scar on the outer side
of one thumb, running lengthwise.
When last seen, he was wearing a
dark brown serge suit with knee
trbusers, a cap, and ruober buttom-ed
shoes. He has dark brown eyes
and is well grown for his age. His
father is-anxious for information.
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Sugar as a Souvenir.
Washington, Jan: 29,:—One pound
of sugar as a souvenir with theater
tickets is 'much too much. That's
why D. Klchomsin, wholesale grocer
of Paterson. N: J., will be forced by
the food administration to remain!
closed during February. He soM 400
pounds of sugar to the • Orphetrm
theater there, thereby selling more
to an individual than the food hrw
permits, - The Orpheum advertised
a* a souvenir a pound of sugar with
tickets- to tt» Hww.
Washington, Jan. 29.—Slight In*
crease in the sick' rate for both na-tional
guard and national army for
the week ending January 2'5 over
figures >for the preceding week are
shown by the health report publish-ed
today by the war department.
The non-effective rate for the na-tional
guard was 50.4 per thousand
compared to 49.1 the preceding
week, but the hoepital admission
rate decreased frem 30.1 to 29.3.
The non-effective of the national,
army was 53.9 compared to 51, and
the hospital admission rate was
39.6 compared to 36.6. ;
There were vi deaths in the na-tional'
guard camps compared 'with
66 the preceding week. Of that num-ber
47 were pneumonia cases. Deaths
in the national army Were 108
against 149. pneumonia causing 71
of the deaths.
Camp Wheeler, Georgia, showed
the highest non-effective and admis-sion
rates of all -national guard
camps, although both rates were be-low
those of the preceding week for
that camp.
Among the national army cam.p-the
highest admission and non-effec-tive
rates were a: Camp Travis, Tex-as,
where mumps prevails exclusive-ly.
Measles generally showed a de-crease
at the cantonments. There
was an increase in pneumonia • at
Camp Lee, Virginia, and Camp Tra-vis.
There was an increase in meningi-tis
In all national army camps. •.
This Prophet Failed.
Paterson. N. J., Jan. 28.—iHaving
prophesied that "the kaiser would
die January 181" ana despondent be-cause
the emperor failed to make
the prophecy good. Lombard*]? Mull-er,
a retired sea captain killed him-self
by shooting here today. He left
a note which road: "
"l have .been a false prophet,
therefore I have sinned .against
CHM." . , . - - :
.' VlHa-Haa Lcfc Broken.
El r>#o, T«v Jan, aQ^Refugees
from. ~fhe' |S»u Florida district in
Chtb'uaMK arriving harp state that
Frai»cisoo Villa, was thrown from his
horse two weeks ago and one of his
tegs' was broken. They declare VRla
kidnapped fcVlhlJhl i Irwhv San
ionejS«»eriW n*o*eei>ta*
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