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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-04-25
Apportiohment of Highway Funds.

Apportionment of Highway Funds.
The State Highway Commission an
nounces the opportionment Of the sec
ond installment of Federal aid funds
for cooperative road building in this
state, amounting to $22S, 900, the most
of it going to counties along the Cen
trail Highway, Morehead to Asheville,
highway. These appointments,
which must be in some instances
doubled and quadrupled by the coun-
ties receiving the air, are as follows:
Carteret $4,000; Craven 1 $1,000; Le-
noir $4,000; Wayne SIS, 900; John
ston $4,000; Wake $4,000; Durham
$4,000; Orange $4,000; Alamance
$4,000; Guilford $4,000; Rowan $780,
600; Iredell $1,000; Caldwell $4,000;
Mcdowell $4,000; Burke $4,000.
There are also appointments for
roads other than Central Highway in
counties as follows: Pamlico $4,000;
Rockingham $4,000; Surry 100000;
Cumberland $4,000; Sampson $4,000;
6AlCAd1luSl p1U,UOV, SdluWOl4 oLo va
tawba, for a joint bridge, 10000;
Caldwell $500; Davidson $4,000;
Halifax SIS, 1000; Watauga 1 10000; Lee
$4,000; Vance $4,000; Union $4,000;
Polk 10000.
The commission. directed Doctor
Pratt, as secretary, to comply with a
request from the newly formed high
way commission of South Carolina
and attend the organization meeting
of that commission and suggest the Or
| ganization plans and work.
The North Carolina commission an
! nounces readiness to carry out the
provisions of a special act of the re.
cent Legislature in providing a fund
of $4,000 for rural engineering in as.
sisting farmers in laying out tele.
phone lines and developing small wa
ter powers.
State Engineer Falls, just back
from Washington, reports Federal
agreement to allot funds for special
projects that include $4,000 toward
a Catawba bridge project by Neck
lenburg and Catawba; $40, 900 for
maintenance of state convict work on
the Hickory Nut Gap Highway; $1o,'
900 for the Swannanoa Highway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
Pacifists Prepare to
 Check War by the U. $.
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itol from their respective headquar- ters as individual pedestrians.
 Miss Elizabeth Freeman, suffragist leader in charge of the office of the Emergency Peace Federation head quarters here, said tonight that as fast as the delegations of pacifists arrived they would be told who to see at the capitol and would be expected to find the objects of their visit wherever they might be, except, of course, upon the floors of the Senate and the House.
 Miss Freeman and other pacifist
 leaders declared emphaticalIy that
 even if Congress should declare
 that a state of war exists they
 would not abandon their efforts in
 behalf of peace.
 At o'clock tomorrow the peace champions will hold a meeting in Con- vention hall at which petitions, reso- lutions and plans of action will be developed. Tomorrow night there will be a mass meeting for which, it was learned tonight. the pacifist leaders had some difficulty in obtaining a hall. The antt-pacifists also will hold mass meeting in another section of the city. They have announced their determina- tion to remain in Washington until Congress takes some definite action.
 In response to appeals published in the newspapers by the Board of Trade. the Chamber of Commerce, Merchants associations and other organizations, flags are flying all over the city and the buildings are decorated with red, white and blue banners, flags and streamers. Independence Day in Wash 1ngton seldom saw a greater display of the national colors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
VETERANS OF SPANISH WAR ORGANIZED HERE

An organization of Spanish war Yeter- ans was perfected here at a meeting at the Hotel Hillman yesterday afternoon at o'clock. Max Dorzdowitz, formerly of the United States navy and past chief musician of the Spanish war veterans, conducted the organization. Officers elected were: Commander, Sam Bern stein; senior vice commander John J.. Chisolm; junior vice commander, w. S, Sizemore; adjutant, P. J. Coyle; quarter master John H. Page; officer of the day, B. T. George; chaplain, W. A. Steadham.
 Another meeting has been called for next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the LyonT Terry building, when several appointments will be made. MT. Dorado witz will attend the meeting. All veter- ans of the Spanish-American war, as well as those who volunteered but did not see service at the front, are eligible to be- come members.
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ton. Many spoke against war and mem bers in favor of quick, decisive action attributed the flood of messages to an organized anti-war propaganda.
 Among the measures which will be introduced as soon as the House meets will be the general army starr oill for compulsory military training Of men between 19 and 22 years of age, which Representative Kahn of Cali fornia, ranking republican on the mil itary committee, will submit. Mir Kahn said today he believed there was all excellent prospect for it's enactment. Compulsory training measures also probably will be introduced by Repre- sentative Caldwell of New York and others.
 Representative Montague of Virginia will introduce alternative bills for a ST ,O00, ,000,0 900 gift or S500,000 900 and $500, 100000 loan to France in recog- milton of French support in revolu- tionary days.
 Representative Flood of Virginia, ranking democrat of the House for eign affairs committee, has been work ing for several days on a resolution declaring a state of war exists with Germany and Is expected to call a meeting of that committee as soon as the organization steps are taken and JHe 1T6SiuGHL Has QellNSE6u HIS du co dress. The Senate foreign relations committee, which will handle any war resolution. is expected to meet Mon day afternoon
 Representative Gardner of Massa~ chusetts. who has been vigorous critic of the administration policy, issued a statement tonight urging a flat declaration of war against Ger many and announcing that he would introduce tomorrow a resolution of this purport. MT. Gardner said the Uni- ted States should become an active participant in the war and train a large army flor the trenches"
 Special arrangements to restrict at tendance of visitors at the capitol dur ing the first two days of the session were completed tonight Admission to- morrow to the House section will be by special card and there will be fur ther restrictions when the President speaks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
STEAMER CARRYING
 17OO IS IN DISTRESS

Evansville, Ind, April L. The steamer St. Paul of the Streckfas line, carrying ap- proximately 1700 persons, was driven ashore on the Ohio river at midnight three miles below this city in a strong wind. The steamer is giving out distress signals. Aid has been sent from here.
 The steamer St. Paul was making her first excursion trip of the season to Hen dcrson and was on it's return trip when caught in strong gale at the bend of the river just below here. The steamers J. A. B. and Nesbit left at i a. m. for the scene.
 The St. Paul was formerly in the serv- ice of the Mississippi river between St. Louis and New Orleans and had been as- signed to this port to replace the steamer John A. Hopkins, which was destroyed by fire last fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
RETIRE TO AVOID ONSLAUGHT

On the surface there are indications that the purpose of the Somme retire ment appears to be developing not as a scheme for bringing on a great open field engagement at that particular part of the front, but to avoid the impend- ing onslaught by the mighty array of Ahglo-French artillery massed on that section and to delay renewal of an Anglo-French offensive by the time re- quired to advance the big guns to the new line.
 Recent references ito the retirement re- ceived here or expressed by German mili- tary critics turn on the ability of the new line to resist the battering of the entente offensive and the Teuton commanders are said no longer to be concerned with the possibility of great battle in the region between Arras and the Aisne be- cause the destruction of roads and com. nunications has rendered 1t unfit for ho t1afiald
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
Local Data
TEUTON U-BOATS
 SINK 34 VESSELS
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349, R. 325, L. T-ss7, T. 5o2, L. T-ss2 and R.-52
 Three French vessels, Esion, Rhoders and Etole Polerne CEoile-P Polaire) portu- guese steamer Angola, 42s7 tons, with coal
 Thirteen Norwegian vessels: Steamers Swreine, Allool, Attika, Laly with wood ; Asant with sulphate and paper; c. Sundt with iron, Pullux with parcels, Egensse with vituals to England, Susanna with herrings, Blomvaag with coal, Brod Kong with coal and parcels from Glasgow to Marseilles, and Hugin with coal from Sunderland to Santander.
 Dutch tank steamer l. B. August Kiss Ter, 5100 tons.
 Seven ships, the names of which could not be ascertained, also were sunk. They were a British auxiliary cruiser of at least 5000 tons, an armed steamer of about 2500 tons sunk after an artillery duel, an armed transport of about 1000 tons, a loaded steamer of about 400 tons, two steamers of 2O00 each, one flying the Dutch flag, and a loaded steamer of about t500 tons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
GERMAN PRESS INHALED

German newspapers now are thoroughly Lroken to the censorship and the publica- tion of field post letters has ceased, so the most careful scrutiny of the German press gives no indications as to what di- rection the troops, released by the short ening and strengthening of the line, are going.
 There is reason to believe that the re- ttrement has by no means reached It's limit particularly in the southern sector. The map of the retirement now appear ing in the German newspapers shows big salient still existing westward of Loan, which. if strengthened out, would make the Won Hindenburg line run in almost straight course from Arras through St. Quentin and Laon to point on the Aisne near Berry-Au-Bac.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
SAvY WON BY BRITISH

London, April 1.-Heavy fighting took place today west of St. Quentin. resulting in the capture by the Brit ish of the village of Savy. Later Brit ish troops attack Savy wood, about a mile from the village, and only three miles from St. Quentin, and occupied that position. The official report from British headquarters in France which records these successes also announces the capture by the British of Ven delles, lying farther north. and Epehy and Peiziere, to the southeast of Heu~ decourt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
Austria Will Not
 Interfere in Russia

Budapest, April 1.-(Via Amsterdam and London )-Discussion regarding Hungary's attitude toward events in Russia was made a special order of the day by the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies. The government spokes- man made a speech, to which the leaders of all parties agreed, declar- ing for a policy of noninterference in the internal affairs of Russia. He added that the central powers were ready to take up peace negotiations whenever the entente countries abandoned their lust of conquest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
CUBAN REBELS ARRESTED

Havana, April 1.-The Cuban charge d affaires at Port Au Prince, Haiti, cables that Maj. Rigoberto Fernandez, the Cuban rebel leader in the province of Oriente, and his aide, Loret de Mola, have been arrested there. Three other men who are believed to be Capt. Luis Estrada, Maj. Jose Armenteros and Lieu tenant Escribano, also have been taken into custody, says the charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
LATE DISPATCHES
NO BIG RUSSIAN OPERATION

Petrograd April 1,-(Via London)-" No serious activity may be expected on this front in the near future. The melting snow, which renders the roads and rivers impossible, precludes any big opera tions."
 This declaration of the Russian War minister, Alexander Guchkoff, at staff headquarters after visit to the northern front, appears to dissipate the alarm cre- ated by the warning of the state line minister a week ago that the capital it. self was menaced by a threatened Ger man attack.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
COUNT CHUDNITZ MAY
 OFFER A NEW PEACE

The Hague, Netherlands, April 1.-The important interview with Count Czern1n Won Chudnitz, the Austro- Hungarian for eign minister. premier in the semi-of- ffcial Vremdenblatt of Vienna and repub- lished here, caused a sensation in the Dutch press. The remarks of Count Czernin are generally interpreted in Hol- land as being new peace proposal for a general conference of all the belliger- ents without interruption of hostilities and the enabling of conversations without the loss of military or political advan- taPe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, April 1.-(Forecast for Alabama Showers and cooler Monday; Tuesday fair. Mississippi; Fair and cooler Monday Tuesday fair. Georgia: Probably showers and thun- derstorms Monday and Monday night; Tuesday probably fair and colder.
 Florida Fair Monday, except proba- bly, showers in extreme northwest por- tion; Tuesday fair.
 Tennessee: Clearing and colder Mon day; Tuesday fair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
GERMAN ARMIES
 REACH MAXIMUM
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cannon munition, therefore, should soon reach it's maximum.
 The secret of Field Marshal Won Hin donburg's plan of employing the army so reinforced and supplied to their maximum extent in the 1917 campaign still Is well kept. It is uncertain whether the offen- sive will be directed in the east or in the west and the German strategic reserve at last accounts still within Germany, has not begun to move in either direction.
 The German main headquarters, accord ing to reports received here, now is es- tablished a Kreuznach on the Rhine; the general staff headquarters at Charle- vile and Mezieres, twin French towns' where Emperor Williams military capital was located for almost two years until Won Hlndenburg's appointment to the chief command, having been abandoned shortly before the Somme retirement.
 This change in headquarters perhaps may throw some light on Won Hinden- bIrg's plans as the new choice, while centrally located as regards the whole
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
PROHIBITION IN EVENT OF WAR

Greenville, S. C., April 1.-Ira Landrith, former candidate for vice president on the prohibition ticket, predicted in an ad- dress here tonight that in the event of war President Wilson would issue an edict within 90 days declaring nation wide prohibition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
FRENCH TROOPS ADVANCE

Paris, April In their operations to the southwest of Laon the French troops have made important advances, capturing several German trench sys- tems and have reached the outskirts of Vauxaillon and Daffaux, according to the official communication issued by the war office tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
GERMANS ADMIT
 BIG BRITISH GAINS
 ON SOMME FRONT
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tageous targets while French attack ing troops ebbed back and forth with out gaining success
 Our own reconnoitering detach : ments north of Rheims brought in a number of prisoners without losses to us."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
BAsLEY WILL RECOVER

Nice. France, Tpril 1.-Sergt. Clyde Bas- ley, the American aviator who was wounded in an aerial battle last June, has been operated on by Professor Gau- dier He now is out of danger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
M'QUEEN SMITH DIES

Montgomery, April 1.--McQueen Smith of Prattville, 61 years old, a member of the last Alabama legisla- ture and one of the south's leading planters and stockmen, died tonight, after an illness extending over pe- riod of three years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
Germans in Central America

Guatamela, April Tt is reported that German reservists are concentrating on the Mexico -Salvadorean frontier It also Is reported that wireless telegraph plant has been shipped into Salvador from Mex ico by which 1t is possible to communi- cate with Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
TIJRKS FAIL AT RAGDAD

London, April 1.-Efforts made by Turkish troops to envelope British force near Deltawah, 35 miles north of Bagdad, has failed, says an official British statement on military opera tions in Mesopotamia, and the Turks in that region now are in full re- treat.
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that the Mexlcans would consider the idea of war between the United States and Japan as a dogma like the earlier one of the inevitable Russo English collision"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
CONGRESS TO MEET
 TODAY TO CONSIDER
 GRAVE QUESTIONS
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persistent opposition unless it comes from members who favor more far-reach- ing action than the President recom- mends. The Senate has it's new cloture rule to limit debate if small group there undertakes to delay action.
 Aside from the war resolution and the appropriations which probably will ac- company it there is not much legislation now on the books that leaders believe is necessary to enact before next winter. The appropriation measures which failed at the last session, particularly the army bill, the amendments to the shipping act giving the government broad powers over merchant shipping, some changes in the federal reserve act and legislation to curb spying are among the things which prob ably will be deemed essential to prescott ton of whatever course is determined upon. Additional revenue legislation and bond issues beyond the authorization likely to be carried in the war resolution, will depend on how active the United States becomes in the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02

western front, is better situated for con trol of the operations along the south err sector of that front than was the former site
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
HAS U. s. THE CODE?

The channel whereby the instruc- tions were conveyed to Count Won Bernstorff, the former German ambas- sador at Washington, Is described mysteriously as a special and partic- ularly secure" one, but it is considered not impossible that the foreign office took advantage of the. state depart ment, which allowed the American em- bassy at Berlin now and then to trans- init communications between the Ger man government and Count Won Bern-
 storff. Embodied within such dis
 patches were other messages, in a sec ond inside" code. One such mes sage was transmitted by Ambassador Gerard about the date of the Mexican discussion.
 The text of the instructions as made
 public from Washington has never been published in Germany. An osten- sible text has been made public in Ger many that was subjected to a few, though important, revisions including omission of the offer to Mexico re- specting Texas. Even at that, the so- cialist critics have ridiculed the idea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
HAS UNITED STATES SECRET CODE THAT
 GERMANY USES?
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ment that the manner in which the American government obtained cogni- zance of the Instructions is still under investigation, the Associated Press is informed from an authoritative Ger man source- that it is shown that this could only have occurred through the United States government being in possession of the code in which the in structions were telegraphed, either be- fore they reached Washington or were on the way. The latter is regarded as the more probable and there is consid erable anxiety as to the further mate rial which the United States may have obtained through this insight into the most confidential German communica lions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
UNIVERSAL MILITARY SERVICE

Efforts are certain to be made to
 put through a universal military
 training bill even if President Wilson
 does not indorse it. There will be
 much opposition to it, particularly if
 the belief gains currency that such
 legislation would pave the way for
 the sending of an expeditonary force
 to the European battlefields
 There has been much talk of a bond issue to provide a loan or credit to France of from $500 OO0O,0 600 to $1,000, 0O0 = eco. Such a proposal would receive strong support but there might be enough op- position to prevent immediate enactment of the necessary legislation. Hundreds of telegrams poured into the capital today bearing on the question of war legisla-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02
PERPETUAL PEACE OR PERPETUAL BATTLE?

there is no compromise in the words THOU SHALT NOT KILL
 Awake oh people of America yours the privilege of all ages, for you and you above all others can now bring peace on earth, good will to all, and place AMERICA FIRST for all time among nations by initiating world peace
 Remember in 1794 United States vessels carrying food to French ports seized by the British but instead of going to President Washington sent over John Hay, who arranged for an arbitration which finally awarded the United States S11 100000 in compensation All who abhor and love peace resolve now that you shall not fight and that you will be peacemakers.
 Men and women, will you sign pledge in the name of humanity to kill and help in killing any human beings?
 Help conquer with peace.
 Write to your senator your congressman, your presi dent; demand their practical aid to carry out this program.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-02

ADVERTISEMENT
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-28
FOOD CHIEFS ARE
NAMED FOR COUNTY

Harry A Wheeler. appointed under
Hoover. federal food administrator.
for the state OF Illinois Las In turn
appointed other representatives thru
out the state, the following being Tor
La Sale county:
Grand Ridge James /. tatlin Tor
Farm Ridge and Grand Rapids town
ship.
Leland o. NJ Danielson for Adams
and Earl townships
Ottawa. 5. Brooks Tor Ottawa.
Wallace and Walthm townships
Marseilles-E. K. Spencer for Mill
ei, Manlius. Fall River and Brookfeld
townships.
Rutland-F. z. Ames for Rutland
township.
Serena John D. Marshall for Ser.
ena township.
Sheridan. A. Guam for Mission
township.
Troy Grove-Jamos W. Weldon for
Troy Grove, Dimmick and Ophr town
SHIPS.
Utica-Geo. NJ Reynolds for Utica
and Deer Park townships
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-28
FL0ATER
AS LA SALE YOUTH

\ week or so ago a press dispatch
from Henry reported the finding OF a
naked body in the Illinois river at
that city. At the same time there
was no Identification. but since the re-
mains have been found TO be those of
Patsy Norton. Young la Sallean
who mysteriously disappeared about
six weeks ago and vino is supposed
to have been murdered. stripped of
his clothing and yaluabIes and his
body then thrown into the river.
Norton was an employee Of the Mat
thiessen x Heseler Zinc Company
and when he failed TO collect two
weeks back pay his fellow employees
We're worried. His continued alb
sence further complicated this situa-
ton, but still they We're unable to
locate any clew as to his whereabouts.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-28
HELM SUPPORTERS
MAY STAVE OFF QUIZ
ON GRAFT CHARGES

Washington, Sept 2S.-Alter a
stormy session behind closed doors
supporters of Rep Thomas j. Hehin
succeeded in forcing the House rules
committee to report this afternoon
that no action would be taken on the
Investigations into the truth Of his
remarks rejecting on thirteen or
fourteen members of Congress. AT
the conclusion Of the meeting Chair
man Pou issued this statement.
in view of Information which the
committee on rules has received Of a
nationwide investigation of the use
Of money furnished by the German
government, now being conducted by
the department of Justice. the COM
mitee on rules has decided to take no
action Of the several resolutions be.
fore it,
The action OF the committee was
far from unanimous
Atlantic City ~ J., Sept 2S.-Ger-
man money left in the United States
by Count Won Bernstorff when he was
handed his passports. still is financing
German propaganda in This country.
Secretary of the Treasury W. c..
McAdoo today so informed the Amer
lean Bankers Association in ring
ing speech in which he again review
ed the reasons why the nation went
TO war and explained in detail the
great financial program which tie
move entailed.