French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-08-22
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.
land Will Be Found IN
Brief Paragraphs
Domestic.

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Lieut.. Harold F. Maxon of Los An.
geles and Cadet G. F. Gedeon of Tt
Eusville, Fla, were killed when theiI
airplane crashed to the ground in a
hay field near Comack, N. Y. 1t was
! caused, it is thought, by an explosion
in midair.
; The so-called billion-dollar budget
! for railroad improvements and equip
ment has proven insufficient to meet
war needs, and it has been Increased
! to $3.50, 600, 900 more than the origi'
nal aggregate-that is to say, to ST.
O97, 1913, 900.
There is a growing need for more
cars due to the great demand on the
railroads for war service.
The Tulsa (Okla.) Confederate Feun-
ion committee, composed of many OF
the leading citizens Of Tulsa, ave been
engaged for some weeks raising a FUND
of one hundred thousand dollars and
! perfecting an organization for the en-
~tertainment of the tWenty-eighth an
nuaI reunion of the United COnfeder-
ate Veterans association, the Confed,
crate Southern Memorial association
! and the twenty-third reunion of the
Sons of Confederate Veterans, on Sep
TENDER 24-27, inclusive.
1t is believed that one hundred thou
sand delegates and visitors will attend
the Confederate reunion to be held
in Tulsa, Okla.
Arrangements have been made to
care for, free of charge, from 5000 to
| 10000, Confederate veterans at the
reunion September 24-27 to be held
in Tulsa, Okla.
Organized labor's emphatic opposi,
ton to any work or light provision in
the new man-power bill extending the
| draft ages is expressed in a letter
! from Samuel Gompers, president>of the
American Federation of Labor, to the
members of the senate military com
mittee.
Generous support of the schools, col
leges and universities where it will not
interfere with the operation of the
draft law, is urged by President Will
son. He ~deprecates any falling off in
the schools further than necessity re-
quires.
my only regret is that I am unable
to fight beside my sons" Thus runs
the answer of Col. Theodore Roosevelt
to the expressions of coincidence from
| President Poincaire on the death Of
his son, Quentin
Dispatches from Cape May, N. j.,
report that the American schooner
! Dorothy Barrett was sunk by shell
fire from a German submarine. The
schooner was set on fire by the shells.
Seaplanes and chaserS dropped bombs
| without result yer the spot where
the U-boat was last seen.
Robert Fay, who has been at liberty
two years, having escaped from the
federal prison at Atlanta, Ca, has been
apprehended in Spain, and will return
to the United States without extradi-
ton. He had been convicted of placing
bombs on ships carrying supplies and
troops to Europe.
General March is reported to have
said to the senate cOmmite on mill
tary affairs that it is up to the United
States to put enough men in France
to- win the war, and that when we get
four million men cover there under
one American commander we will go
through the German lines whenever
and wherever we may elect.