The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-09-06
Domestic.

Capt. Harvey Kennedy, noted San
Francisco automobile racer, was in
stantly killed at the county fair at
Lima, Ohio, when his car cast a tire,
turned turtle" and crashed through a
fence.
Ten women arrested in front of the
white house in Washington who we're
making a demonstration in behalf Of
the National Woman's Party were fin
ed $25 each in police court. They gave
notice of an appeal and were released
on 500 bond each.
Byron Nelson, son of Congressman
John M. Nelson, of Madison, Wis, will
be arrested on the ground that he did
register under the selective draft law.
He claim exemption on the ground
that he is not a citizen of the United
States, having gone to Canada before
the CONSUMPTION act became effective
Practically every one of the approx
imate1y three thousand officers who
will train the selective service men
for the new national army division at
Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ca, have ar
rived at the camp, and have been as
signed to their several commands and
to their quarters
Organization of the sixth reserve
district which will have charge of the
distribution Of the second Liberty
Loan, to be issued within the next
month, has been perfected with the Sc
lection Of the directors Of the federal
reserve bank in Atlanta, Ca, as the
committee to have charge of the work
in the four district states-Georgia,
Florida, Alabama and Tennessee.
Atlanta, Ca, will be the center. for
all loan activities in the sixth dis
trict.
Arguments have been made in the
federal district court at Greensboro,
N. c., in the first test case of the new
federal child labor law. The consti-
tutionality Of the law was one of the
chief points argued by both sides to
the case. Opponents to the law say
it violates states rights, and hint
that it is class legislation.
The federal child labor law becomes
operative September /, and prohibits
employment Of children under four
teen in. any factory, mill, workshop or
cannery whose products are to be
shipped in interstate commerce, and
further provides that no child IA or Is
years of age may work over eight
hours in any twenty-four hours
George H. Hartford, president for
many years Of the great Atlantic and
Or Of Orange, N. j., where his home
was, is dead, at the age Of "a, at Spring
Lake, N. J.
Only four thousand negroes will
train at Camp Gordon, near Atlanta,
Ca, says Gen. Eben Swift, in charge
of that cantOnment. These will be
draft men drawn from the Camp Cor
don Jurisdiction.
1t is not known yet whether segre-
cation will be put into effect at Camp
Gordon, near Atlanta, Ca, in order to
prevent feeling between negro and
white troops.
Delegates in Chicago representing
the ice industry Of the United States
voted unanimously to turn over to the
federal food commission all the cold
storage facilities controlled by the ice
manufacturers and dealers ''to be used
in any manner the government may
see flt''
1t is announced by those owning
cold storage warehouses in the Unit
ed States that spectators will be re-
fused the use OF storage facilities, so
that every pound Of food may be de-
voted to the necessities Of the war and
the citizens OF the United States a
a "fair'' price.