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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
Eauer For First Reports.

Washington.-Reports of the first
selection boards to fill their quota
for the selective draft army are
eagerly awaited by Washington Off
Gals, because they will give the first
definite information as to probable
percentage of reflections to be expect.
ed omong the ten million registrants
All available statistics indicate a
probable rejection of one in every
four for physical disability. In some
localities this will vary, but the aver.
age for the whole country is expect,
ed to be between Is to 30 per cent.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
NEW WAR BUDGET
MAY Be TEN BILLION
NEW ESTIMATE BY WAR DE-
PARTMENT EXCEEDS FIVE
BILLION DOLLARS.
ARE AWAITING FULL REPORTS
AS Soon as the Departmental Reports
Are in the Committee Will Begin
Work on Budget-Provide for Big
Loans.

Washington.-The new war budget
to carry the government through to
next July and to cover additional
credits to the allies promises now to
far exceed the eight billion dollars,
and may amount to zen billion.
War department estimates sent to
Congress calls for new %appropria-
lions of $5,27S, 636, 900 for that branch
of the military establishment alone.
Estimates totalling another $1,000
000. 600 or more are expected when
the other departments report their
needs, and in addition, Secretary Nc
Ado has indicated that before the
year is out Congress will be asked
for a 100000 appropriation to in
crease the funds available for loans
abroad.
AS soon as the departmental re-
ports are in, the appropriation COM
mittees of Congress will go to work
on an immediate budget which prob
ably will total in the neighborhood
Of $7,000,0 O0, 600.
Congressional leaders do not ex-
pect to have to provide Immediately
for the additional credits to the al
lies, as treasury officials have indi-
Gated that no appropriation for that
purpose will be requested until the
next session.
The gross estimates submitted by
the war department totalled $5.917.-
1887 but that covered all existing
and expected deficiencies in the de-
partment funds, including upward of
$64O, OO0,0 600 already appropriated for
the aviation program This latter
item will not be included in the bud
get, but Congress will have to pro-
vide to meet it since it was
not on the ledger when the war tax
bill was framed. Congress sentiment
seemed in favor of increasing the ST.
670. SIC. 900 war tax bill only to about
$4,000 900 900, with authorization both
for a new bond issue, possibly at a
higher interest rate and in serial form
and for issuance for treasury certif-
Gates of Indebtedness. Secretary Nc
Adoo is said to favor a much larger
levy of taxes increasing the bills to-
tai by 81. 900, OO0. 600 or at least to
$2,2 25, OO0, 600.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
FUNCTIONS OF MILITIA
BUREAU WILL END
With Drafting of Entire National
Guard Into the Federal Service Aug
aust 9Th.

With Drafting of Entire National
Guard Into the Federal Service Aug
gust 9Th.
Washington.-With the drafting of
the entire national guard into the
army of the United States August 5,
the functions of the militia bureau of
the war department are expected to
come to an end. There will remain
10 force of national guard for the bu-
real to supervise and the officers of
the regular army attached to the divi-
sion will probably be assigned to other
lty.
Under the plan of the national de-
Tense act, which calls upon the states
OF maintain recruit battalions for each
guard regiment in active service, the
bureau would continue as it is. 1t is
regarded as probable, however, that a
general reserve system will be substi-
tuted for the regimental depot plan to
fill gaps in the ranks.
In that event, new men, whether
volunteers, those called under the Sc
lective draft or wounded men who
have recovered sufficiently to return
to the front, would be gathered in gen.
eral recruit depots in America which
would supply a general depot in
France. Preliminary training of the
recruits would be given in the home
depots, to be supplemented by inten-
sive training in trench warfare at the
depot in France. The convalescent
soldiers returning to the front would
form a valuable training force to
break in the new men at the depots.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
NEW LIST OF REGULATIONS FOR
THE GUIDANCE OF THE
PRESS.
ENFORCEMENT UP TO PRESS
Repeated Violations Which Were Ex-
cused on the Score of Misunder-
standing Cause New Rules and Re-
quest for Their Observance.

Westinghouse new list of press
regulations making material changes
in the voluntary censorships rules I'M
der which American newspapers have
been operating was promulgated by
the committee on public information.
The new regulations contain the
first general request that there be no
published mention of the arrival of
American troops at European ports,
replacing in that respect an express
authorization in the old rules for use
of any cable dispatches passed by the
European censors.
The old regulations are made more
severe by specific stipulations in place
of the more general language en-
Dyed in the rules in fore until now.
Information when the government
considers might reveal military nov
ments or policies is described in great
detail.
In the statement announcing the
new regulations, George Creel, chair
man of the committee, says that ere
peated and serious violations of the
voluntary censorship have been at
tempted to be excused on the score
of misunderstanding" and that a
reinstatement" is made with the ideH
that hereafter there shall be no room
for doubt as to the committees de-
sires.
The instances in which the most
serious charges of violation have
been made, however, have not result
ed from misunderstanding of the ON
mitee's rules, but from following them
implicitly. These instances have in
volved publication of dispatches pass
ed by the European censors, announc-
ing the arrival of American military
units in Europe.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
PROMPT, EFFICIENT WORK
BY EXEMPTION BOARD
Procedure Has Been Stripped of All
"Red Tape"

Washington.-Prompt and efficient
work by district exemption boards
is expected by government officials as
a result of stripping all red tape from
the procedure of the tribunals.
President Wilson's executive order
outlining the principles to govern ex-
emptions, coupled with instructions to
the boards from Provost Marshal
General Crowder are regarded here
as setting in motion the last phase
of the selection process with a mini
mum of confusion and delay.
The object of the instructions is to
impress the boards with the view
that their primary purpose is to Sc
lect the personnel for the national
army in the shortest possible time.
To that end they have been informed
that no legal precedents will bind
them, and that there need be no ad-
herence to rules of evidence or other
technicalities of court procedure.
Attorney General Gregory set in
motion further machinery to increase
the size of the registration reservoir
from which 687, 900 men of the first
call are to be drawn. Thousands of
men failed to register for one cause
or another. Through the district at
torneys, the department of justice is
rounding up these men and when
found they will be assigned numbers
which will insure their being called
up for examination at an early date.
The first reports of the local
boards on physical examination are
beginning to appear. AS yet they
are not complete enough to make any
logical deduction as to the probable
average of rejection for reason. The
draft statistics of the civil wal which
showed between twenty-five and thit.
ty per cent rejected on this ground,
still are the best guide or the ques.
ton.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
TWO KILLED IN RACE
RIOT AT CHESTER, PA.

Chester, Pa.-Davld Schwartz, a
deputy sheriff and an unidentified
negro were shot and killed here in a
fight in the heart of the negro section.
The shooting occurred after a day
of quiet following the disorders of the
last two nights and was the result of
the sending of a number of policemen
and guards into the ne1ghborhood after
a crowd of negroes had opened fired
on two guards. The two guards re,
treated after emptying their pistols.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ARE
SHOT BY COMRADES
Part of New Policy of "BIod and Irons
to Stop Sedition.

~ WY
The Russian governments policy Of
"blood and IRON is to be carried out
along lines which BODIES i'll for the Sc
ditious troops along the eastern front
and those persons within the country
who are trying to nullify the good work
that has followed in the wake of the
revolution.
Capital punishment, abolished with
advent of the new government, again
has been put into force on the demand
of the military commanders at the
front, who now will be able to assem-
BILE field court martials and put to
death summarily traitors in the army.
General Korniloff, commander of the
forces in Galicia, whose disaffection
and assertions have wrought havoc In
the Russians morale, was the most in
sistent of the military chiefs in calling
for a free hand to check the refrac-
tory troops.
Prior to the acqulescence of the
government, General Korniloff is re-
ported to have taken the drastic step
having d ul'loloh VI hooAAS Wv"
ards of the elevent harmy shot to
pieces by their faithful former brother
in-arms.
Meanwhile, pending the Tightening
of the reins of repression, the Russian
troops everywhere in Galicia from the
region around Tarnopol southwark to
the southwestern Bukowina border are
continuing to give way, with rela-
lively little fighting before the Ger
mans and Austro-Hungarians.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
TEN BILLIONS PROBABLE
COST OF YEAR OF WAR

MISUNDERSTANDING the sost
of the war for the coming year at
$40, 1885, O7, 900, exclusive of loans to
the allies, the administration inform
ed Congress that new revenues total
ling $1,000, O0O, 900 must be raised from
taxation or issuance of securities. If
advancement of credit to the allies is
continued at the present rate, the
years total of war expenditures will
pass 15,O00,0 900, 900 and the amount
Of revenue required will increase.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
INCREASE IN NUMBER
OF VESSELS DESTROYED

Neutrality-suspicious. British ves-
sells Of more than 1000 tons each and
three of less than 1900 tons each were
sunk last week by mines or subma-
rines according to a weekly admiralty
report on shipping losses. The state.
ment follows: ARRIVALS, 2,791; sail
ings, 2,791. British merchantmen
sunk by mine or submarine over 1000
tons, including two previously, 81;
under 1900 tons, three; British vessels
u~nsuccessfully attacked, IT,"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
TiIIman Pushing Fertilizer Bill.

Washington.-Senator Tillman, of
South Carolina, asked President Will
son not to exert his influence to have
eliminated from the food control bill
now in conference the senator's
amendment appropriating $40, 00O, 900
for the purchase of fertilizer for thin
farms along the Atlantic seaboard.
The President expressed willingness
as far as he is concerned to have the
amendment remain in the bill. He
pointed out that there might be some
difficulty in getting the ships to
bring nitrate from Chile.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
MORE THAN 20, 1000
APPLICATIONS RECEIVED

Washington.-For the $4,000 places
in the second officers training camps
to open August 81, a total of 1884
men haveapplied and the war depart
ment is considering accepting several
thousand more than was originally in
tended. Preliminary examinations
given the applicants by civilian physi-
clans indicate 51,e38 are physically
satisfactory. In most states the num-
Der of applicants is from three to
five times the states quota.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
YOUNG MILITARY OFFICERS
HEAR SECRETARY LANSING

Madison Barracks, N. YIN a
speech here before LOO members of
Of State Robert Lansing emphasizing
the peril of German imperialism to the
United States and the world, declared
his belief that the German people
would not cast off the yoke of autoc-
racy'' until the physical might of the
united democracies of the world has
destroyed forever the evil ambitions of
the military rulrs of Germany"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
CONSTITUTIONALITY OF
DRAFT TO BE TESTED

Athens, Ga.-Opponents of the sc.
lective draft, attending a mass meet
ing al Bold's Springs, jeered loyal
citizens who sought to warn them
against unpatriotic actions. The
meeting was one of a series Of de-
monstrations in Georgia against the
law. The presence of a United States
commissioner with a squad of depu-
ties probably prevented violence. A
fund of $1,000 being raised to test
the constitutionality of the law.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
CONSCIENTIOUS DIRECTOR"
is BRITISH DESERTER

Chicago. - Daniel H. Wallace, ar.
rested at Davenport, Iowa, according
to his own statement and that of fel.
low members of the League of HI.
mainly" is a deserter from the British
army. According to an official of the
league, the British government has set
a price upon Wallace's head. Wallace
claims to have been through many of
the most important battles on the
western front in Europe, deserving at.
ter the battle of Neuve Chappelle.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
CHICAGO FINANCIER FOR
SHIPPING BOARD

Chicago.-Charles G. Dawes, of Chi
cago, was mentioned here as a pos
sible successor to Theodore Brent on
the shipping board. Mr.. Brent, a
strong supporter of Chairman Denman
of the board, resigned when I'M. Den
man was forced out by President Will
son.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
AMERICAN BARK is
SUNK BY SUBMARINE

London.-After being attacked by
gunfre by a German submarine, the
American bark Carmela of 1897 tons
was sunk by bombs in the entrance Of
the English channel on July 2S, says
an official statement issued by the
British admiralty. The crew was
picked up and landed at Plymouth.
There was no casualties.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01

The exemption boards of North
Carolina met and organized Thursday.
The Western District board met at
Statesville and the Eastern at Raleigh.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01

Miss May Stephenson, of Raleigh,
N. c., has been named a vice-presi-
dent of the Girls Conference OF the
Chautauqua and School of Methods of
the Christian Church for the coming
year.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01

Gen. Julian S. Carr, of Durham, has
reopened his fight against the "yallar
cur" dog-a fight that caused a state
wide controversy, when the general
was a representative from Durham
county in the state legislature.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01

The thirty-fourth annual session of
the Statesville district conference of
the M. E. Church was held at Gas
tonia last week and many splendid
addresses were delivered.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
OLD NORTH STATE NEWS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings in
This States That Are of Interest to
All the People.

Belmont now has a community n
ming plant.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01

Walter Storm, a Wilmington man,
has what he terms a successful anti
submarine device.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01

The July crop report has some in
teresting figures on North Carolina.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01

A big canning plant is soon to be
erected at New Bern.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01

Capt. Henry w. Stiness, of Provi-
dence, R. L., of the Rhode Island quar-
termaster's department, has arrived in
Charlotte having been detailed at
Camp Greene, where the New Eng
land division is to go into camp some
time in August. Captain Stiness is a
former newspaper man.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01
however.

Closing their one-day campaign, in
tended to raise $4,000 for the Y. M.
C. A. work, with a supper at the Y. M.
C. A., ten teams of business men re-
ported that once more Asheville, as
in the case of the Red Cross and lib
erty loan subscriptions, had over-sub-
scribed her quota. The amount rails
ed was 49, sos .25.
Mai. Sidney G. Chambers, of the
Third infantry, gets the lieutenant COL
onel's place in Cooks artillery" as
the new regiment has been christened
and the end has come.
At a meeting of the exemption board
for the western district of North Car
DINA was held in Statesville. The
board will make Statesville their
headquarters. The board was former
ly composed of DR.. ]. w. Long, of
Greensboro; O. R. Jarrett, of Ashe-
vile; W. N. Reynolds, of Winston-Sa-
lem; W. B.. Gibson, of S%tatesville, and
R. B. Redwin, of Monroe. For various
reasons Reynolds and Redwine were
unable to serve. E. T. Cansler. of
Charlotte, and A. H. Galloway, of
Winston-Salem, were appointed in
their stead.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01

Members of the Hundred Thousand
Dollar Club of the Jefferson Standard
Life Insurance Company of Green's
boro, spent one day last week on Mt.
Mitchell, the highest point east of the
Rockies. The trip was part of the
vacation rendered by the company.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-12
HOOVER REACHES NEW YORK

New York, May 4-The German
U-boat menace has made the food stu
alton IN Belgium and Northern France
one Of extreme gravity, the mortal
ity among adults in the industrial dis
tricts having multiplied by three dur
ing March and April, according to
Herbert c Hoover, who arrived here
today from Europe on an American
ship.
Mr.. Hoover said he would go imme-
diately to Washington to take charge
OF the governments food control pro
gram.
Like every good American, I have
come over to do my share" Mr.. HooT-
CT said my new duty is too big q
proposition TO discuss at this time
At the dock, Mr.. Hoover was met
by Baron Cartier. Belgian minister to
the United States. who said he came
from Washington to express his
thanks and reverence" for the Bel
gian Relief Commissions accomplish
ments in his country.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-12
Threat May Be Enough,
ALLIES MAKE GUNS ENOUGH
Heavy Cannon Are the Only Things
Needed from This Side, Says
Howard Coffin.

Washington, Nay American
troops who go to France will have to
use Allied guns and munitions if they
are to be OF use in fighting against the
Germans, Howard Coffin of the adTis-
DRY commission OF the Council OF Ma
tiona1 Defense today told the state
governors here for a defense confer
ence. The Allies, he said, are manu-
featuring more munitions than they
can use and can help supply the Amer
lean soldiers
More motor cars are manufactured
In the United States than the country
can use, Mr.. Coffin said, and he be-
HeVed it never would become neces-
sary to commander pTfFate cars
Rifles are produced now at the rate OF
seventeen to twenty thousand a day,
Mr. Coffin said, and more ammunition
is being manufactured than the whole
world can use. Machine guns, he said.
could be supplied as fast as needed
Most OF the big guns the country
makes will continue TO go TO the Allies,
although the American military forces
are in need of them. It viii become
necessary to increase big gun manu-
featuring facilities.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-12
HOME RULE RIOT IN NETWORK
Chairman of Irish Mass Meeting Re-
jected Resolution Presented by
Outsiders-Germans involved.

New York, May 5.-When the chair
man of a mass meeting held tonight in
Cooper Union by thirty-two organiza-
lions composed of Americans of Irish
birth or descent refused to receive a
resolution calling upon President Viii
son and Congress to intercede in be-
half of Irish independence, a riot
broke out, which resulted in the ejec-
ton Of more than thirty persons from
the hall 1t was not quelled until two
hundred policemen made free use of
their clubs.
The trouble began at the close of a
speech by former United States Sen
ator James A. O'Gorman, when Rich
ard F. Dalton, a young Long Island
City lawyer, arose and addressed the
chair. He was told he could not read
a paper he had prepared on home rule
Coroner Timothy F. Healey, one of
those who arranged the meeting, de-
clared the disturbance was the result
of an organized effort on the part of
German sympathizers to break up the
meeting.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-12
MRS. E. H. FUNSTON is DEAD
Mother OF Late Major General Passes
Away at Home of Daughter
in Emporia.

Mrs. E. H Funston, mother of the
late Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston, died
at the home of her daughter at EN-
poria the other night. She was 72
years old.
Mrs. Funston was i'll at the time of
the death Of her son and it is said the
sudden shock of the generals death
aggravated her weakened condition.
She arose from sick bed to attend
the funeral of her son in California.
When she returned to the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Frank A. Eckdar, it
was noticed that her condition was
worse, and no Improvement had been
noted since then.
Mrs. Funston's husband, the late
e. H. Funston, was former member
of Congress from Kansas, having been
elected at special election to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Dudley
Haskell in 1884. Mr. Funston was re-
elected five successive terms.
The body was taken to lola for
burial beside that of her late husband.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-12
NAY SEND TROOPS TO FRANCE
Government VIII Act Whenever Alice
Deem it Wise to Divert the
Ships.

Washington, May 2.-The United
States stands ready to send an army
to Europe whenever the Allies deem
it wise to divert the necessary ships
from transporting food to transport
ing men.
1t became known definitely today
that the government had offered
troops to the Allies, but had suggested
that the alarming shortage of world
shipping might make it impracticable
to send them at once.
In spite of objections of the general
staff to putting any American forces
on the firing line before the great
war army has been raised and trained,
the administration has determined
that the small contingent earnestly
desired by France for moral effect
shall be sent as soon as possible The
general belief here is that the way
soon will be found.
Whether the force that is first to
carry the Stars and Stripes into battle
in France shall be made up of regulars
or national guardsmen, or both, has
not been worked out. The subject
was not discussed at today's Cabinet
meeting, but Secretary Baker remain
ed afterward for a conference with
President Wilson.
State Department officials have
continuously urged the sending of an
army, solely for its psychological eff
feet, not only in encouraging the Al
lied troops but in discouraging the
Germans. Convinced that the diplo-
matte advantages far outweighed the
technical and training difficulties ad-
Tanced by the general staff, they have
felt that such a step would conse-
crate the United States as a full mem
Der of the alliance entitled to a most
honorable seat at the peace confer
ence.
The amount of tonnage that would
be required for transport is usually
put at about twenty tons a man in a
fully equipped force. For the regular
American unit OF $4,000 men nearly
half million tons, therefore, would be
necessary, or ships about equal to the
seized German tonnage in American
waters. 1t remains for the Allies to
figure out if they can afford to di-
vert that amount of shipping.