The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-09-27
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD over
Happenings Of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place in the South.
land Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphs.
Domestic.

IOmeSC1C.
The Texas farmers union held 6
meeting at Dallas and decided that 6
minimum price of soc pound would
be about the lowest price the United
States farmers should secure for cot
ton this year.
Difficulties in the mobilization Of the
40 per cent Of the new army recently
called to the colOrs were reported from
a number of states in the central west.
1t is reported that a county in the
central west which was to have sent
fifteen men to the new national army
sent only one.
Herbert G. Hoover, national food adj
ministrator, speaking at Atlantic City,
N. j., of the world food situation, de-
clared that starvation would ultimate
1y win the war, and said the side best
able to organize it's resources for food
production would come out victorious.
Lord NOrthcliffe, head of the British
commission in the United States, says
he is spending for Great Britain be-
tween fifty and sixty million dollars
week in this country.
The food war; has resolved itself
in an attempt on the part of the al
lies to block the shipment of supplies
to Germany, and on the part of Ger
many in sinking food ships. So far
competent critics are inclined to the
belief that it is a dog fall"
Food Administrator Hoover says
that owing to the limitation of ship
ping facilities we must confine our
exports to the most concentrated
foodstuffs-grain, beef, pork, dairy
products and sugar.
The war library council of Georgia |
at meeting at Macon, Ca, outlined |
plans for raising $4,000 toward a fund |
for one million dollars for Libraries for |
soldiers throughout the United States, |
1t being decided to open the campaign
September "a R. L. Foreman of At
lanta is state director.
Sergeant Alfred Bonhaupt Sixth
United States infantry, has been in
termed at the prison camp at Fort
OgIethorpe on instructions of the bu-
reau of immigration following his dis
charge from the army on orders from
the war department, on the ground
That his sympathies for Germany pre-
cluded the performance of his duties
as a soldier of the republic.
President Wilson has issued proc
Iamatlon calling upon the school chill j
dren of the nation to do their part in
the war by joining the Junior Red
Cross to assist in the mercy work of s
he senior organization. {
A Baltimore dispatch carries the in '
formation that Gotthold Prusse one g
IF the designers of tho No,.oooo wa, Z
'hant submarine Deutschland, who /
vent to Baltimore on the first vow
lge OF that craft, committed suicide in v
hat city by hanging himself in the n
1ty Jail, where he had been imprisoned c
IS an alien enemy. s
BY the payment of 100000 to Fed
raj Judge James E. Boyd, John F, v
of Asheville, one of the four m
etendants indicted two years ago on o
harges of defrauding the government "
I $4O3,OOO by illicit distilling of in b
oxlcating liquors, settled the case n
galnst him. The case began in Flor b.
la, but was moved to North Carolina fl
ecause Smithdeal was a resident of
nat state. 81
disturbances in various parts of San OF
francisco marked the strike of ap- fo
rOx1mately twenty-five thousand met
trades mechanics in San Francisco tt
nd nearby cities. Numerous arrests al
ere made. Most of the disturbances 70
ere in connection with the strike al
employees of the United Railroads nj
'mpany and with whom the striking til
etal workers expressed sympathy. 70