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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-11-09
ROANOKE RAPIDS PERSONAL
AND LOCAL ITEMS

R. C. Sale. of Portsmouth,
spent the weekend here with
his wife.
S. F. Patterson spent several
days out of town last week.
Miss Mary Daughtry spent the
week END in Norfolk with friends
and relatives.
Job Taylor spent several days
out of town this week.
jim Lynch, who has been
working in Greenville, N. G., has
returned home.
DR.. Paisley Fields and G. l..
Lillard spent Sunday in Norfolk.
Miss Ruby Williams motored
to Warrenton Saturday, where
l
she spent the weekend with
friends.
L. ]. Boykins, of Wilson, spent
Sunday here with friends.
]. H. Matkins and little son,
John, spent Tuesday in Norfolk.
Clarence Topping, who is at
tending Massey Business College
in Richmond spent the weekend
here with his parents.
J. L. Andrews is spending sew.
eral days in Baltimore and
Wilmington, on business.
A. L. Balm spent Thursday out
Of town on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. M. Spivey
spent Sunday at Rich Square
with relatives.
Mr.. Mechan, of Richmond
spent Thursday here on business.
Miss Helen Anderson, of We'll
don, spent several days in the
home of Mr.. L. o. Anderson this
week.
Mr.. Leonard Perkins and Miss
Susie Wiley, of Purdy, spent a
few hours in the home Of Mrs.
Mamie Peele Friday.
George Stanley spent Wednes-
day in Richmond on business.
Miss Jennie Whitaker has re-
turned here after spending sew
eral weeks in her home near
Asheville.
Miss Cammie Vaughan is visit
ing relatives in Richmond.
R. ]. Sellers, of Oxford is a
visitor in town this week.
The Red Cross will have a sill
yer tea at the home of Mrs. S. F.
Patterson Friday afternoon from
400 to $50.
Mrs. S. M. Spivey is visiting
relatives at Rich Square.
Miss Margeret Hoskins, OF
East Pepperell, Mass. and Mrs.
Pres White, of Raleigh, arrived
here to-day to visit relatives.
Rev. Stanley White returned
last Saturday from Fayetteville
where he attended the Presby-
terian Synod.
Miss Mamie Umphreys, OF
Fayetteville, is visiting relatives
here.
Mrs. Fred Peck and Mrs.
Hoepy are spending this week in
Washington.
R. F. Edwards, Masonic Grand
Lecturer, who has been here
several days left Sunday fol-
Elizabeth City.
The sladies of the Episcopal
Church will hold their annual
bazaar on Thanksgiving and the
day after, in the hall over the
garage. Thanksgiving dinner
and supper will be served.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-11-09

"why, Bobbiel You've got hole In
your stockingi 1t wasn't there this
morning when you put them on"
"Well. II 1t wasn't there, where was
It'll" s igss
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-11-09
Cause Of the Mortaaoe.

Redd-"If man has a mortgage on
his house no one need know It,"
Greene-"No; not unless he has an au.
tOmObile."
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-11-09
CHARLEY BARKLEY
WRITES FROM FRANCE
Somewhere in France"
Oct. 1917.


Oct. 1917.
My Dear Mother: r
How are you at present? Real
we'll ! hope.
| am getting along fine, al
though | am at present a very
long ways from the good old 28th
Regiment and my company COM
mander, Capt. G. A. Davis, Of
Salem, Mass. | am acting as
orderly at the present time at a
British Army Headquarters some
thing like 800 miles or kilometers
from my Company and Regiment.
| like where we are pretty well,
because we are on the shores of
the old Atlantic which is the
same that makes the beaches Of
dear old North Carolina and
Virginia.
sometimes walk along the
beach gazing far across the broad
blue and wonder what is happen
ing where once was and where
| long to be now more than ever,
where | spent my childhood and
wildhood days in good old North
Carolina.
hope the time is not far off
when my Company and | in the
2Sth Regiment go over the top
which means the parapet of the
trenches and possibly end this
bloody war so can return to my
home in Dixieland.
am in perfect health at pres
ent time thanks to my sleeping
down upon the beaches in a little
canoe tent where | sleep COM
fortably amid the war of the
wind, rain and the never ending
means of the English Channel.
i am as you see from the be-
ginning Of this letter, at present
living among the British Lads,
"Tcmmies" and so far and all
that | have beer with are a
pretty nice bunch Of soldiers and
| have learned a good deal about
the bloody trenches talking with
them. %
Mother please let me know if
you got the money have sent
you twice in the last 2 months,
answer at once and let me know.
How is dad, Dorsey and sister
getting along? | suppose Thurma
is going to school at the same
school where | spent so many
happy months.
When did you see Bruce Tillery
and some of my other old chums?
Tell them hello for me please
and tell them to hurry and come
over to beautiful France, and
dear mother | spent a glorious
thirty-six hours in gay Paris a
few weeks ago where | have
longed to go.
viewed the Eiffel Tower and
other places of interests in that
great city of Europe, | will visit
them again in a few weeks when
we return to our training camp.
We Tommies and the Yanks,
as the Tommies call US are get
ting some training and all kinds
of it believe me.
Well I'll stop for this time but
will write again soon, | remain
Your loving Soldier Boy.
Charles R. Barkley
Second Battalion,
Machine Gun Company,
18th N. L. Infantry,
A. E. F. France.
P. S. Please don't fail to send
me some papers, especially the
Roanoke Rapids Herald.
Can't give you my present ad-
dress, Censor will not allow.
Charley.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14
BLAME PLOT FOR DISASTER
Alba B, johnson and Samuel Vanciain
Say Eddystone, Pa, Explosion
Not Accident.

Chester, Pa, April 12-President
Alba B. Johnson of the Baldwin Lo-
comotive works, changed his theory
that the Eddystone explosion was due
to an accident after visit to the plant.
He now agrees with the view of SAM
uel M. Vanclain, president of the Ed
dystone Ammunition corporation, that
plotters caused the explosion.
although we have only circumstan'
tial evidence" Mr.. Johnson said, 1T
looks as If someone touched off a
bomb or a time clock with an explo'
sive. attached. / have become con-
vinced after talk with the Eddystone
officials, that the catastrophe could not
have occurred through an accident3
Knoxville.-Col. j. w. Campbell,
commander Of the Henry M. Ashby
Camp of Unit ed Confederate Veterans,
has offered their services 10 the presi.
dent In case Of war to serve in any ca
pacity that the president may see fit
to use them. Col. Campbell is SO
years of agy,, but says he is ready to
help defend the flag.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14
S. FLAG IN BIG BATTLE
Young Texan Carries Stars and Stripes
in Assault on Vimy
Ridge.

Ottawa, Ont, April 12,-The Stars
and Stripes went into battle for the
first time during the world war in the
recent entente storming Of Vimy ridge
inS France, according to an unofficial
disAatch received here from Canadian
army headquarters in Europe.
''Ero a young Texan, who came to
Ontario to enlist and who is lying
wounded in the hospital" the dispatch
reads, Belongs the honor of first car
rying the American flag into battle in
European war, into which the United
States, as a belligerent, has just en-
tered. He went up to the assault at
Thdlus carrying the Stars and Stripes
Oh bis bayonet and fell thus"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14
FRENCH CHEER U. S.
1 Ambassador Sharp at Meeting Of
AlIle6 representatives.
Many Leaders Guests at Dinner Given
by the Paris Relief Clearing
House.

Paris, April 12.-The entrance of
the United States into the war was
celebrated by dinner given by the
executive committee of the American
relief clearing house, at which repre-
sentatives of all the allied nations were
present. H. Herman Harjes, who pre-
sided, alluded to the satisfaction felt
by Americans in Paris at the accom-
plishment of an act they had desired
so passionately. The company broke
into cheers as he proposed the health
of President Poincare.
Minister of Justice Viviani expressed
the gratitude of France for the help
given by the clearing house in reliev-
ing the suffering among the French
people. He was followed by United
States Ambassador Sharp, who said
in part:
Noble France, accomplishing Of
the sacrifices which have so strongly
appealed to the heart and conscience
of my fellow countrymen, has assured
ly pointed the way to victory through
the eloquent words of her illustrious
son, M. Viviani.
"Little Belgium, whose heroic army
fought like the Spartan patriots Of old
at the Pass of Thermopylae, though
able to defend but for brief time her
territory, battled so effectually as per-
haps to determine the result of this
worldwide war; Belgium, through her
eloquent minister of war, M. de
Broqueville, pleads tonight for the JUS
tice of her cause, and voices her graf
itude for the succor extended to her
starving people"
M. de Broqueville, In reply, said:
Gentlemen, let us bend very low
before the great nation which gives to
humanity the most beautiful and
proudest spectacle it is possible to con.
ceive. 1t is she which hastens, by
her Intervention, the realization of our
fondest and most loyal hopes. All hon
or to the United States of America.
Vive President Wilson,"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14
SPANISH STEAMER is SUNK
San Fulgencia Sent Down Without
Warning, According to Stories
Told by Her Crew.

Paris, April 1.-THE Spanish steam
er San Fulgencia was sunk without
warning, according to stories told by
her crew. They were safely landed at
Nantes.
The Fulgencia was a steel screw
steamer of 1868 tons, owned by the
Cartagena Navigation company, and
registered at Cartagena, Spain.
the revenue act of August 5, 1909.
Inc revenue act of March 3, 1917, au-
thorizes the issue of $100,000000
worth, and the public resolution Of
March 4, 1917, authorizes the issue of
Panama canal bonds for the construc-
ton OF the nitrate plant. The shipping
act likewise authorizes the issue Of
Panama canal bonds for the purposes
of that act"
Ii authorizes the purchase with the
proceeds from the sale of these bonds,
by the secretary of the treasury, with
the approval of the president, of the
obligations of foreign governments
bearing the same rate of interest and
containing essentially the same terms
and conditions as the bonds issued
under authority Of this act.
The issuance of$2,000, 100000 in certi-
ficates of Indebtedness is recommended
to the end that proper balance may
always be maintained in the treasury.
These certificates are payable in one
Year and will be redeemed out of the
revenue to be raised by the forthcom-
ing tax bill.
The report says in conclusion:
The total interest-bearing debt out
standing February 26, 1917, amounted
ITO S973,000,000. Under existing law
S427, 100000 worth of bonds are avail
lahle to be issued. This bill authorizes,
in addition to the bonds already avail
.ahle to be issued under existing law
and exclusive of $4,000, 100000 bond Is
sue to extend credit to foreign govern
lnents which takes care Of itself, the
issue of $2,000,O00,000 worth of bonds.
Should this amount of bonds be issued
The total interest bearing Indebtedness
exclusive of the $3,000,000000 credit
10 foreign governments will amount to
IS s445 100000" :,
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14

Western Newspaper Union News service.
Washington.-Ass in Washing
ton within a few weeks of a great in
ternational war council was foreshad-
owed by an announcement from the
State Department that British COM
mission, headed by Arthur ]. Balfour,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, is expect
ed to arrive within ten days to dis
cuss with the Government here ques-
tions connected with the conduct of
the war In addition to the Foreign
Minister, the commission will include
Admiral De Chair, of the British
navy; General Bridges, of the army,
and the Governor of the Bank of Eng
land, attended by numerous staff
This was as far as the announcement
made by the State Department goes,
but it was learned authoritatively that
a French commission, composed of Of
ficials and officers equally as distin-
guished as the British representatives,
also will be in Washington about the
same time. This commission will be
headed by M. Viviani, at present Min
lister of Justice in the French Cabinet
and formerly Premier
1t is not known definitely whether
any of the other allied powers will
send commissioners to Washington,
but it is assumed that owing to the
difficulties in passage and the proba.
BILE delay the interests of these gov.
ernments will be con6ded to their
resident Ambassadors
Beyond the statement that the OBJ.
/ ject of the commission Is to discuss
\ generally questions Of policy connect
4 ed witt the wal 10 information was
given at the State Department II
was made clear, however that in no
way will the United States Govern.
ment depart from the traditional pol.
icy of avoiding anything in the nature
of political alliance, though, of course,
that does not exclude full and intimate
military and naval cooperation in the
! prosecution of the war.
| While it is by no means certain that
there will be joint meeting of the
visiting commissions, if the State De-
partment should desire to avoid the
appearance of an alliance, there is Ger.
tain to be concert of action in some
| way.
The conference is stated to have
been sought by the allied leaders
themselves in order to discuss every
phase of the war No attempt will be
made to go into details or technical
considerations, as the general policies
involved are too stupendous to permit
of 1t.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14
WORST EXPLOSION IN
HISTORY OF STATE
Killed 116 Persons in Mu-
milton Plant.

Chester, Pa.-A statement by high
official of the Eddystone Ammunition
Corporation placed the blame of the
disastrous explosion, the worst in the
history Of the state, on disloyal em,
ploye who is thought to have sacri'
feed his life with the 116 known dead,
most of whom were girls and young
women. This amazing development
spurred on the Investigations of the
catastrophe already under way by fed
eral, state, county and local officials
and officers of the company. Numerous
suspects were rounded UP here in Phil
adelphia and Villa Nova, Pa, and in
Camden, N. J., and in each case the
disposition of the prisoners was placed
In the hands of agents Of the Depart
ment of Justice at Philadelphia. The
arrests so far, however, apparently
have furnished no tangible clew to the
perpetrator of the alleged plot, If any
such was the case.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14
U-soats Sank Nineteen Vessels.

London. n.--During the week ended
April 8, II British merchant vessels
of more than 1000 tons were sunk.
Two vessels of less than 1000 tons
were sent down. This was officially
announced The statement follows;
Merchant vessels over 100 tons of all
nationalities, arriving and sailing from
United Kingdom ports: Arrivals,
2,4O6; sailings, 1857; British merchant
ships sunk by mines or submarines
over 1900 tons, IT, including 2 sunk
during the previous fortnight; British
merchant vessels under 1900 tons, 2,
including 1 sunk last week; British
merchant vessels unsuccessfully at
tackled, IA, including during the pre-.
vious fortnight; British fishing vessels
sunk, 6, including | sunk during the
previous week"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14
SAYS KAISER DOOMED
Germany Has Been Expelled
From All Continents.
Swiss Paper Declares If Teuton Navy
Were Free 1t Would Have No
Port of Call.
aaF. aplIe, IeaFagl I
Genetc, I'll an editorial saws

Is gsSss t'ss ss}t ff 2lf.s ifsf7 y y9tsftAet w
Genete, III an editorial saws
THE essential factor is in the pro-
gressiye expulsion Of Germany 4-oA-
all continents today. Even if the Brit
ish fleet did not exist the Germans
would not have Il port of call outside
Europe, except in Siam. For an over
populated and oyerproductive country,
which lives by expectations and which
would die if forced to fall back on it
self, the loss of South America, COM
ing after that of China, is a genuine
catastrophe.
SIT has often been said, in war VIC
tory alone counts but it is no longer
true. The future counts more. Ger
many is victorious in Europe but shut
out of the rest of the world. 1t is
brilliant speck on hostile map. A
hundred million men against the whole
universe is death and hardly a slow
one. Such is the result today of the
submarine war, wanted by Germans
who talked much of imponderables
and have neglected the heaviest of
ALL"
Rome, April 12.-Premier Boselli,
speaking at the inauguration of an eX-
hibition of photographs from all fronts
which has been organized in the Capt.
toline museum, said, in reference to
Americas entrance into the war:
"Six hundred years ago Cola di Ri
enzi proclaimed from this capitol the
rights of peoples. Today, from an
other capitol, that Of Washington,
President Wilson has proclaimed the
same rights, inviting the peoples to
bind themselves with pledge of love,
! embracing ali civilized races"
The premier emphasized the impor-
tance of American intervention both
from moral and material standpoint.
Every reference to the United States
was greeted with loud cheers.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14
lER HOT I'M GERY ANY
- lssN ~ - ~ N77 ~ z. ss438a3s9
s, US III Uniform Join FOOD Out.
bnrst-Mob Is Fired on--Many
Women Injured.

The Hague, April 12.-Soldiers in
uniform are reported to have joined
the food rioters in Germany. Unrest
over starvation rations has increased
to an alarming extent, according to
news from the frontier today.
1t was reported that food riots in
Dusseldorf were so serious on Easter
Sunday that troops fired on mobs In
the street. Scores of arrests have
been made
Women are taking leading part
in the agitation and many have been
hurt In clashes with the police.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14
FIGHT TO VICTORY, SAY RUSS
Soldiers of the Petrograd Garrison
Adopt Resolution Strongly Sup
porting the War.

Petrograd, April 12.-"The party of
the fatherland and the army" which
includes most of the members of the
Petrograd garrison, has adopted res
olution strongly supporting the war,
"We urge the continuance of the war
to a victorious conclusion" reads the
resolution, namely, peace restoring
the ancient frontiers of Russia and
free Poland, including the German and
Russian territory"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14
FIGHTING ACTIVE
French Take Prisoners on West Front
Break Up German Attack
South of Oise.

Paris. April 12.-"Active artillery
fighting continues over the front be-
tween the Somme and the Disc" says
the official communication. Patrol
encounters occurred at various points,
in which we took prisoners. South OF
the Disc a German attack on one OF
our posts east of Coucy was broken up
by our fire. Near Maisons de Cham
pagne there was severe grenade fight
ing during. the night"
U-Boats in the Pacific.
San Francisco.-Warning that Ger.
man submarines are believed to be op-
Grating in the Pacific were sent to all
steamship captains at sea by wireless,
by order Of Lieutenant Commander e.
c. Woods, of the Twelfth Naval Dis
trict here. The warning said; "Infor.
nation has this day been received
that German submarines are operating
in the Pacific. Please notify all ships
under your control and ask that they
spread the warning broadcast" Com
mander Woods would not say what
parts of the Pacific.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14

DR.. Charles {. Parsons, one Of the
leading chemists in the service of the
government, has been transferred from
the bureau of mines to the war depart
grnent, where he has become chief chem
list. He is most widely known for his
work on radium. He has been abroad
studying the fixation of nitrogen and
is practically in charge of the govern
nent's experiments with nitrogen
plants.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14

Buenos Aires, April 1.-THE govern
ment issued declaration announcing
that it supported the position OF the
United States in reference to Ger
many.
The declaration was made known
to the public through bulletins posted
throughout the city and caused great
sensation. Enthusiastic crowds
marched through the streets and the
university students organized pro-ally
demonstrations.
Some Of the newspapers say that
high officers of the army assert that
the military mobilization of Argentina
will follow that of Brazil.
Brazil Orders Break.
Rio Janeiro, April l2-At a cabinet
esntneiI ~ vas daetae7 athet rfazit
sever her relations with 4sSlu,.assg.
Three Republics With U. S.
Washington, April % Much Of the
uncertainty as to Latin Americas at
titude in the war between the United
States and Germany was cleared
away by definite advices that Chile
and Mexico will remain neutral and in
creasing indications that Brazil, Guate-
mala and Peru will join Cuba and
Panama on the side Of the United
States. Brazil already has broken
off relations with the kaisers govern
ment, and it is believed here it is only
a matter of time until a state Of war
develops.
The decision of Chile, the first of the
American republics to announce her
neutrality, caused some surprise
among officials here.
Mexico's decision, on the other hand,
caused no surprise and is regarded as
certain to have little influence with her
sister republics.
Information as to Carranzas decl-
sion reached the state department in
formally, and proclamation of neu-
trality is expected after the Mexican
congress meets April 10.
BraziI's Influence Large.
AS the largest South American ma
ton, Brazils influence on the other
republics of the new world is expected
to be second only to that of the Unit
ed States.
Official advices from Guatemala
during the day left little doubt that
the proclamation of martial law there
was preliminary to q break with
Germany. Under suspension of the
civil law the Qua temalan government
can take drastic steps in controlling
what might otherwise be a serious sit
uation presented by the large German
pOpulatisn.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14
Terms Are Explained.

After stipulatfhg that the interest
rate on the bonds shall not exceed 3M
per cent, the report explains that
terms and denominations of the, bonds
are left in the discretion of the see
retary Of the treasury. If in subse
quent issues it is necessary to increase
the interest rate, the bonds of the
present series are convertible into
bonds bearing the higher rate.
"Phe secretary of the treasury,
continues the report, "at the present
time has authority to issue $472,000,-
900 worth Of bonds. S222, 100000 worth
are still available to be issued under
the Panama canal bond provision Of