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The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-10-25
IMPORTANT NEWS
The WORLD over
--
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South
ga land Will BE Found, In
-~ Brief Paragraphs
European.

Detained in New York City three
months because no ships have sa1leo
from the United States to Holland
three hundred Holland subjects, near
lv half of them women and children
have petitioned the president OF the
United States to assist them IN re-
turning to their native land.
Singularly .reticent is the German
war office in its latest official COM
munication with regard to the opera
ton Of the German naval forces oper-
ating against the Russian squadron
which has been reported to be bottled
I'D in Moon sound, merely dealing
with naval battle which resulted IN
the sinking of the Russian battlSsh1p
Slava. $3.50
The most recent communication
from Petrograi gives but few details
OF the situation in the Gulf of Riga.
Petrograd admits that the Germans
have been landing troops on Dago
island. after a bombardment, and that
the German naval units engaged in
the conquest of the three islands COM
prise at least ten of the newest dread
naughts, ten cruisers, fifty torpedo
boat destroyers and between eight and
ten submarines.
Two German torpedo boats were de-
stroyed while running through the
mined fields in Moon sound, according
to a dispatch from PetrOgrad.
Reports are to the effect that the
Russian government will be moved to
the ancient capital, Moscow, in the
very near future, anticipatory OF
German movement towards PetrOgrad.
Important papers were sent there sew
eral months ago.
The civil population has evacuated
Reval, one of the principal Russian
ports on the Gulf Of Finland.
The organizing committee of Stock
holm, Sweden, has drawn up a mani
festo which sets, out, in plain language,
that the war SO far is a "dog fall"
and holds out no hope for peace either
in 1917 or in 1918.
A Copenhagen dispatch says that
Bulgarian agents have been endeaVor-
ing to get in touch with the entente
powers on the subject of peace and
subsequent relations.
Notwithstanding Bulgarian peace
talk King Ferdinand and Emperor
William have been exchanging assur-
ances Of unsuitable loyalty to each
other.
A Russian aviator is reported to
have made flight of ten hours from
Tiflis across the Caucasus mountains.
The road is about sixty miles long
and the highest point is 1856 feet.
British casualties reported in the
last week amounted to 14,O96, divided
as follows: Killed or died of wounds
officers, 277; men, $500; wounded or
missing-officers 837, men 1O,473.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-10-25
Domestic.

Food Administrator Hoover has
given notice to the public that the
corner has been turned" in high food
prices and that most Of the essential
commodities should continue to show
reductions between now and the end
OF the year. But, at the same time,
he stated that retail prices are not
going down in accord with wholesale
reductions, and advises consumers to
get behind retail dealers and coerce
them into reducing prices.
: To aid the public in dealing with re-
tailers who continue to extOrt war
profits, on specious grounds, the food
administration is collecting wholesale
prices Of all staples in 700 cities and
will publish them weekly for compar-
ison with retail figures.
Housewives are advised by the food
administration that 81 cents a pound
for sugar is the very highest price
they should pay, because the retailer,
at that price, is making a splendid
profit.
A Kansas City. dispatch says that re-
ports that the fire which destroyed a
large portion of the Kansas City
stock yards and resulted in the death
Of approximately eleven thousand cat
tie and thirty-three hundred hogs was
Of incendiary origin, is persistent.
What a different world of trade this
will be after the war was pictured to
the Southern Commercial congress
in New York City by Secretary Red
field in an address telling Of the cut
ting of the threads of Germany's for
eign commerce bv her own act, and
Of the awakening Of America and her
allies to the danger of having their
industries dependent upon foreign and
possibly unfriendly sources of sup
ply.
Without further authority from con-
gress the food administration is pow
erless to control retailers, except those
doing a business of more than hun
dred thousand dollars a year. Con
gress may amend the law so an to
cover all retailers they are now on
trial before the public and the gov
eminent, and it is up to them to make
good and show, their patriotism.
Beef Is now selling in Chicago at
141h cents a pound Wholesale, and re.
tailers are selling round steak at 81
cents-higher than. beef sold in July
which was then 16 cents a pound
Wholesale.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-10-25
Washington.

The American army transport Antil-
les, homeward bound under convoy,
was torpedoed and sunk by German
submarine in. the war zone. About
seventy men are missing and prob
ably lost.
The tragedy of the sea, the sinking
of the Antilles, under convoy Of seve-
raj American patrol vessels, is the
first in which an American ship en-
gagged in war duty has been lost.
The loss of the Antilles brings home
to the people Of the United States
the terrible rigors of the war in which
they have engaged against Germany.
1t carries the largest casualty list Of
the war so far of American lives and
marks the first success of German
submarine attacks on American trans.
ports.
The government has set in motion
the machinery to apprehend and pun
ish pro-German workers wh0 have
started an organized campaign in
more than a dozen states to defeat
the. Liberty Loan.
An American destroyer on patrol
duty in the war zone was torpedoed
by an enemy submarine and had one
man killed and five wounded. She
managed to make port in spite of Sc
we're damage.
Loans of fifty million to Russia,
twenty-five million to Great Britain,
twenty million to France and three
million dollars to Belgium bring the
total credits of the United States to
allied nations to $2,711, 100000.
With no more than two millions OF
American manhood enlisted, the total
military strength of the allies is thir-
| ty-three million men against a total
| of twenty million men of. the central
| powers.
A record crop Of wheat in East In
dia is reported in a dispatch to the
department of agriculture.
| By next August, according to some
estimates, the total cost to the world
will have been one hundred and fifty
five billion dollars. Already expendi-
lures have exceeded one hundred bill
lion dollars.
The developed national wealth of the
allies is placed at six hundred billion
dollars; that of the central powers is
given as one hundred and thirty bill.
| lion dollars.
| The total population of the allied ma.
tons is one billion three hundred mil.
lion, against one hundred and fifty
million in the central European M
| tion&s
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-10-25

Some of the retailers claim that
thew should be permitted to sell the
stocks they bought at higher price
than the stocks they are now buying
at the reduced rates, but the food al
ministration points out that they nave
no hesitancv in following quotations
and raising prices on stocks they
bought at reduced prices. It's poor
rule which doesn't work both ways.
Powerful influences appear to be
drawing back to the southwestern
mart of the state of Georgia hundreds
of negroes who left during the spring
and early summer to seek their for
tunes in the Northern and Middle
Western states. One is the approach
of winter and the other is the I'M
precedented prosperity of Georgia
farmers, both white and black.
Helaire Carriere was hanged in the
Louisiana state penitentiary at Bat
on Rouge for the murder, in July, 1916,
of Marion L. Swords, sheriff OF st.
Landry parish. He died protesting his
innocence, claiming the shot which
killed the sheriff was fired by one OF
his deputies. Carriere was one of the
most desperate characters of recent
years in the Southern states.
Chains Of lakes hitherto unmapped,
and rivers equally unknown, were ira
versed in the interior of Labrador by
the exploring parties of representa-
tives of the National Geographical So
ciety and the Carnegie museum OF
Pittsburg which has arrived at st.
Johns, New Foundland,
A passenger train on the Chicago,
Memphis and Gulf railroad was held
up at Mission, Tenn, about ten miles
from Dyersburg. The safe in the ex"
press car was opened and the rob-
bers secured between $4,000 and $12,-
900 and escaped. When the train
stopped at Mission for water the two
bandits, white, men, boarded it. The
robbers got away.
DR.. Frederick Cook, the Arctic lex
plorer," and a crew of 10 sailors, were
among those marked for assassination
by the leaders directing the alleged
plot to foment a revolution in India
to embarrass Great Britain during the
war, according to testimony of Hin
du priest in Judge Lands court at
Chicago.
Authority for the purchase and sale
to the people of food and fuel by the
city government has been asked of the
New York state food commission by
the mayor Of the city of New York.
He asserts that an emergency exists
and only the sale of necessities by the
city can avert a calamity or at least
intense suffering. The head of the city
food commission inspired the mayors
request.
Adolph Germer of Chicago, executive
secretary Of the National Socialist par
ty, and ten other persons have been
acquitted in the United States district
court at Grand Rapids, Mich, of the
charges of conspiracy against the Sc
| lective draft. ALI the men were So
cialists, and it seems that not a scin-
tilla of real evidence was presented
Theodore Bilbo, at the Mississippi.
Alabama fair at Meridian, Miss, made
the statement that Mississippi was a
hotbed of German spies, who were
there looking to the destruction OF
shipbuilding on the coast.
Two masked bandits entered the Cal
houn (Minn.) State bank during the
noon hour, drove the cashier and two
bOOkkeepers into g. rear room, gathered
up $4,000 in the cages and escaped in
an automobile.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-10-25
Anything for a Victory.

"The German higher command haS
invariably picked out a weakened %.
jective, in order to be able to recofV
a success which should be of political
rather than military value, The aS'-
Sands OF the Finnish coast in the hama
of the enemy in no way offset the i'~
cent allied victories in Flanders
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-08

wife. that he would come 20 want.
but he only laughed lie was so
well and strong and could make II
20 Tasfiy mat ne couldn't Def1DvE
that he would ever come 10 want. "
The years went on. The other
brothers died and Louis lost heart
and strength for his work. He
finally gave il up 10 years ago. and
worked on paving jobs, but grad
ually that became too hard for him
and OF late ne has done odd jobs OF
delivering around the Central mar.
kct building
Tho often pressed 10 share his
stepson's humble home. where his
wife lived. he refused. but visited
the home regularly twice a week.
Then came "a lapse Of 10 days with
ont "a visit The family became
anxious and learned that he had dis
appeared from his room and from
the market They found him in the
city receiving hospital He was
about TO be- sent 10 Eloise but was
taken. instead 10 his stepsop's
Wednesday. and lived only until
Thursday evening. when be died
peacefully in his wife's arms In
The hospital her name, Susie, was
constantly on his lips
Tho funeral will be held in the
Church OF he Nativity a 10 o'clock
on Tuesday.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-08
REALTY BOARD
COMMITTEES
ARE APPOINTED

Following Is list 81 tho commit.
toes appointed by President Thad y
Leland NJ The Detroit Real Estate
board. 10 serve during 1919,
Arbitration committee Edward \
JcveloF. chairman. Benjamin T. Nor
tNus1n. vice chairman Faul \ ~oTHe,
Frederick ". Dennis and Frank a.
Nall
Nppfntents committee claude "
Usfwou. chairman. Richard o. Lam
hr"rht ce.thsiguau. Edward T.
stun un. Matthew Sranlon and Jam =
/. Holden.
Msmhcrsi ir committee Daniel KEEL
". thurman. rhirlev Pitcher. vic"
chairman i Ice Baker Walter
1ftrkc aud L"wla ~ smart
Legislative committee George W.
brennan. cl Amman Frederick e..
-Niprnn. tfrr. chairman. Jerry g.
ltn''s. l7ui D. lasguciie and g.. T.
fnfsffs .nnlrnf rarmittoe., Tboma
~ isun rh0'r uHn ffonr, " t.eafh
vice 1iIrn7u 'nrptr ~ ffuRhcs
s"wa'a .. volts ana uerrf ~ schin
raaA".v renmitgr 70 o. rayio-
tasiTwan eeotf, i rpeteau. vicr-
chm man 81 So ttHfes. william u.
Ci~rinr@ h.t tui'iri Moore
iuNIir ~ rumuitfee Thoma .
No-r'- chair Edward o.
ffrrtwfrF s.rs-rta rnunt Joseph ~
Ma Nueust ii'lhig and HaWson
y liarnoh
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-08
l.. A. Davenport, Once
Prosperous, Lost All
He Owned
WAS FAMOUS
ROPE WALKER
Was Last Survivor of
Well known Family
Of Performers

Louis Davenport. once prince OF
entertainers who held the people
spellbound by his daring feats on
the tight rope. is dead. His body
lies in the parlor OF the humble cot
tagc ~ his stepson. Charles Borg
man, No 1880 Cadillac-ave.. and his
perfect features stand out as chiscl.
cd marble in the subdued candle.
light
Beside the casket is his faithful
wife, who has-ne left him night
or day and expects to keep her vigil
until the grave closes over her nus
bands body. Tuesday morning.
Three little boys, Henry, William
and Louis. spent their idle hours.
some so years ago, in balancing on
the clothes line in their fathers
back yard on Franklin-st. in Detroit
TO the great delight OF the children
OF tho neighborhood. From the be-
ginning the Davenport brothers be
came the best known ':ght rope
walkers in the country. and travelled
from coast to coast reaping large re-
wards
Louis was a happy. generous man
and gave away whatever be had 10
anyone who needed it,
II used TO tell him" sold the little
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-08
1917 BUILDING
PLANS STARTED
several Large Structures APP
pear In List Of New Work
Being Figured

A ,even-story brick and rein
forced concrete once ana service
station structure for the Cadillac
Motor Car company vas one Of the
largest items among the new work
which came from the Offices OF tn.
architects during the week. accord
ing 10 the report OF the Builders q
Traders Exchange The new struc
ture will be erected on Woodward
ave. 81 Burroughs.
The board OF education is taking
figures on the revised plans for the
twostory. l6-room school TO be
erected on Linden-ave between FIJI
teenth and Sixteenth-sts.
Figures are being taken on the
four-story library building 70 be 10.
Gated at Putnam and Woodward
ayes, for the public library commits
sion
Alvin r. Harley is.preparing plans
for a seven-story. brick and rein
forced concrete hotel building To be
built on the northwest corner OF
Paggst and Third-ave. The own
er's name is withheld
The new year opened with fair
sized list OF new work. including a
number OF pretentious projects.
There was a falling of in the con
tracts awarded but the aggregate
was in proportion 10 previous rec
ords for this time OF the year.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-08
CITY NOT At
PROSPERITY
HIGH POINT
-TyIku H. LELAND
Greater Things In
Store Says Head of
Realty Board
PENN" ROAD WILL
BE GREAT BOON
b ding of Great
Outer Boulevard Is
Advocated
q. r. STEPHENSON
-TH,n. y. LELAND

Despite The overwhelming pros
perity enjoyed by Detroit in 1916.
Thad L. Leland. newly elected presi.
dent Of the Detroit Real Estate
board. believes that the city has not
reached the pinnacle OF its progress.
and that great undertakings are to
mature during the new year.
Contrary 10 the belief last sum.
mer," Mr.. Leland said. that Detroit
was being oyerdone in the matter OF
real estate, few months expert
I once has proven sound and
healthy condition in inc realty mar
kct
The wonderful sales record of
1916 Is the best evidence OF a nor.
nal and healthy condition IN the
market And there is no reason 20
doubt that 1917 will prove 10 be
even a greater year for Detroit not
only In real estate bnt induslrially
a close ana's-is OF conditions re-
veals that every branch of industry
has shown wonderful development
IN the last year The spirit Of
humanifarianism has neen more
widespread than H. generally known.
Many manufacturers have inaug
urated systems OF profitsharing with
their employees some have given
stock in the company. others cash.
wiTItc EevrTaf hdvc InCrGaseT VII
aries This serves 10 make the
working man more content With De.
troit. aud inspires loyalty and enter
prise IN his work
The full strength OF our industry
has not been reached The future
holds ont 20 us wonderful oppor-
tunity for expansion The announce.
ment OF the coming of The Ponnsyl-
vania railroad harkens a. an echo
answering the demand for more IA
cilitios with which 20 further our
progress This road has already
purchased real estate and when IL is
in operation il VIII add tremendously
10 Detroit's resources
1T seems 10 me this is the right
time 10 consider The building of a
second great outer boulevard I be.
Heve this should be- taken ny before
things become too settled. making
such an Improvement too expensive.
Bankers. builders and men OF the
business world generally have such
great confidence ian the future Of
Detroit that they have already dis.
counted the fleet of talk Of an early
peace II has been repeatedly said
by conservative business mon that
Detroit is so well enirenchcd indus
irially that II would suffcr little by
peace abroad. It's enormous pro.
duction for domestic consumption l.
responsible for this conclusion
while big additions are baipg
made go factories. I confidently be.
lieve that increased railroad facil-
tics will aiiracf MANY new indus.
tries IA the cit, during tho new
year
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-08
Circuit Court Judges
Reverse Ruling In
Dodge Suit
REQUIRE BOND
OF 100000
Building Operations AT
Rouge To BE Re-
sumed At Once

Henry Ford may proceed with his
plans for erection % 100000
blast furnace ~ River Rouge despite
The quit brought by the Dodge broth
crs 10 stop the ccmpany's cspan-
sion
Yielding g the order OF the SUI
preme court mace just before Christ
mgs. Judges West. Harr and Ches-
tef. Saturday morning. reversed
their ruling OF December which
halted the Rouge extensions Of the
Ford company. and allowed Mr..
Ford 10 furnish $4,000. 900 bond
End 10 proceed With the work The
bond is 80 indemnify the Dodge in.
tereSts in case the court finally de-
Cide against Ford
Bond Runs TO Ford Co.
The bond runs 20 rhe Ford COM
pan,. for the benefit Of the minority
stockholders. instead OF to the
Dodge brothers As defendants in
the suit Mr. Ford. Frank l.. Klingep-
smith and Horace II. Rackham. di-
rectors, will have TO insure the com
pany
This distinction was insisted upon
by Elliott G. Stevenson, OF counsel
for the Dodges. because OF the
Dodge contentious that the Ford
plans for vide expansions are
jeopardizing the interests OF the
stockholders. whose board OF direc-
tors. IL is maintained. are complete
" dominated by Ford.
Mr. Stevenson also contended that
the work should be allowed 10 pro
gress only insofar as contracts had
already been let lie said that the
supreme court had simply wished TO
insure the company against suits for
breach OF existing contracts
AN undertaking indemnifying the
complaining shareholders (the Dodge
brothers, for the carrying out of
existing contracts for the establish.
ment OF smelling plant and the
acquiring OF the lands. buildings.
machinery or equipment therefor"
was the language used by the SUI
preme court 70 define the terms OF
The bond
Stevenson. with characteristic
vigor. put stress on the existing
contracts" Lucking upon the little
word OF three letters and" which
had been substituted for the word
"or" by the supreme court
Company To Make Statements.
The Ford company was directed
10 make 3o-day statements.
Mr.. Lucking. after a hurried con
sultation with Engineer Mayo. an
nounced that IL was possible that
expenditures at the Rouge might ex-
coed sl2.O00.000 for the frat two
years. but that If they were in
creased the bond would be en-
-larEed
: The amount OF the bond was ar
rived At by computing 10 per cent
of the proposed outlay. the Dodges
holding 10 per cent OF the stock
Judge West ordered the case set
for an early hearing on its merits.
II was agreed to have II brought TO
trial al the beginning OF the April
term.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-08
Say Outlook Is That
Business Will Hum
This Year
HEALTHY GROWTH
OF CITY CERTAIN
Believed AT Least 10O.-
600 Will Be Added
To Population

What will be- the status Of the De
iroit real estate market in lal7?
This question i- in the minds Of a
great many people who are either
interested in Detroit real estate or
Apcct 10 he !, is natural that
thoughtful consideration should bc
gwen this matter now that the new
scar has been entered upnn. and
tho individual AS we'll as business or
lanizaiions are computing tho pos
sihiliiies OF the next IL months.
Whatever controls the general
prosperity Of the city likewise con
fro's tho trend ~ Tho real estate
market In fact. there Is no rle.
mcnt IN city life that constitutes
UGH a delicate barometer Of city
growth as The real estate market
What affects tho city likewise in
fluences the status of real estate
values TO make. y, COMPREHENSIVE
review OF the real estate situation
and 10 prognosticate what II viii be
in NE ensuing year. Il rs necessary
20 consider the present prosperity
~ ihc city and the inaucncine fac
tors.
Annual compilation. Of bank clear
ings. building operations. ndusir rial
output and other items of The past
years achievements just made show
thu Detroit hrs no, only scored
record year but IS standing on ihe
Threshold Of what is believed will
De- the greatest year in the ciiy's
history
The subdivision market is con
irolled entirely by the Law Of sup
plv and demand say expert realty
dealers Real estate is classed a.
an economic necessity. which fact
gives IL great potential value. The
nocossity OF real 'statc is essentially
emphasized in the demand by thc
masses for home site properties or
subdivisions.
II Is conseryatisely estimated hat
Detroit viii in 1917 grow equally
as much " not more than in 1915.
which fact means that upwards OF
i0o. 900 peopl" viii be added 10 the
population 81 The present time ne
iroii faces a problem of housing
congestion and high rents which is
the direct result OF an insufficient
supply OF homes N'ho building
operations In taiG broke all records
and are progressing M phenom
email rate. the supply of homes has
failed 10 meet the demand.
n being recognized fact that
demand governs the realty markets
course and that great influx OF
newcomers Is certain 80 take place
IN the coming year. Il IL not con.
sidercd unreasonable by realty men
10 conclude. therefore. that cortin-
ued and increased prosperity in 1917
viii mean an increased demand for
home sites.
Tho growth OF Detroit is certain
Tho wheels of industry are grinding
a. never hefor, and Industrial ~
panSions ia The coming wear viii be
tremendous. according 80 plans ~.
roady announced. The means moro
work. greater population and con
tlnucd stability of The standard ct
living
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-08
GOTHAM TO HAVE
SOCIETY PARK

. NEW YORK, Jan "a new 80
ciety colony sort OF Manhattan
Newport, Is 10 be built around the
100000 c. X. G.. Billings estate
overlooking the Hudson at One Hun.
dred and Ninety-seventh-st.--or the
famous estate is TO become a public
park. Two different rumors were
In circulation today. II is whis-
pered that John ID Rockefeller. Jr..
and his friends already have bought
sl2 100000 worth OF estates imme-
diately surrounding the Billings
tract and that s25.000,000 is TO be
spent Transforming the Billings
grounds into wonderful and ex-
elusive society park.