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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-09
About Forty Big Shells Are
Sent at the Heavy German
Batteries Composed of Guns
Captured From SIayS,
AUSTRALIANS BAIT
THE GERMANS AGAIN
Men From Far Over the Seas
Are Spelling for a Fight and
Turn Loose on Foe Between
the Somme and AnCre,
fsv MORNING Iousp.L SPECIAL LEASED w.ss,

With the American Army in France,
May s. (by the Associated Press -
American heavy artillery was fired to-
day for the first time in the sector
northwest of Toul After several
weeks spent in preparation the Amer
lean artillcrists, having picked out
targets In the rear of Montsec, report
ed that they were ready to open fire
couple OF days ago But for reasons
net disclosed the guns were not fired
until today.
About forty big shells were sent
over Montsec at the heavy German
batteries composed Of 2O3's captured
from the Russians which had been
firing for some time, especially at the
American battery positions.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-09
INCREASE IN PAY
RECOMMENDED FOR
RAILROAD EMPLOYEES
Wage Commission Finds That All Workmen Whose Monthly
Pay in December, 1915 Was Less Than $3.50 Month
Should Be Beneficiares; Recommendations, if Approved
by Mr. McAdoo, Would Give the Men 500 100000 in
Back Wages
(By Morning journal Special Leased Wirc)

ed increases, and those below Is years
one-half.
Wage Runs With the Place.
In the application of the scale, the
wage runs with the place so that men
who have been promoted since De-
cember, 1918, shall receive increases
applicable to the new place and not to
their wages in that month. Men dis
charged since January ! shall receive
their share of the retroactive pay for
the time they worked,
Mr.. McAdoo is studying the report,
which was made public tonight, and
will decide what increases shall be
allowed. probably within ten days. 1t
is considered certain that he will not
adopt in full the commissions recon-
mendations, but will make readjust-
ments which he believes to be neces-
STATED by the intrcacies of union
wage scales and other wage factors.
The commission based its fecommen-
dations on the monthly pay of the
men, inasmuch as the advances were
recommended to equalize wages and
the growing cost of living, but the
rates of increase were arranged for
all classes of employees, whether paid
by the month, day, hour or number Of
miles.
An important feature of the report
was the recommendation that where
the same service is rendered the pay
shall be the. same without diserimina-
ton as IN sex or race
Overtime pay and hours of service
should not be disturbed during the
war the commission reported. in sug-
gesting that an exhaustive study be
made of both subjects with a view to
changes to eliminate dissatisfaction
and improve the service. 1t was re-
corded, however that a standard day
of reasonably limited length is as
much part of the measure of justice
with the workingman, as is his rate of
wage"
Permanent Tribunals.
Permanent tribunals to continue the
study of railroad labor problems and
to adjust many grievances presented
to the commission, but which it was
unable to take up, were proposed.
With the comment that its inquiry
showed substantial readjustment Of
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-09
N, M. B00TL EGGERS
GET YEAR SENTENCE
icy aosn,ss ,ov.s.. srre,., ,r.sso ~,sr,

Tucson, Ariz., May S.-Harry Bor-
den and ID. c. Wright, wholesale
liquor dealers of Rodeo.. N. NJ. who
were convicted of conspiracy to trans
port liquor from Rodeo to Douglas.
Ariz., were sentenced to year and a
day each at Fort Leavenworth prison
BY United States Judge SawtelIe to-
day. Each was fined $1,000.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-09
COLLIDE IN MID-AlR,
ONE AVIATOR KILLED
nv Mosn,so JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED w,ssi

Mineola, N. Y, May S.--One Amer
lean army aviator cadet was killed
and three others were injured in a
collision between airplanes above
Central park, Long Island, this after
noon. The student who was killed
was John B. Erwin, of Muldrow. Miss
The injured cadets are Ralph Ii Jer-
my of Wilkesbarre, Pa. and Julian
r. Vidner of Washington, D. G.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-09
sammie Downs Seven Huns.

Washington, May s. = Sergeant
Frank L. Bayliss of New Bedford.
Mass, an American flier in France.
has brought down seven German air.
planes within the last two monthsse
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-09
LOCAL REPORT.

A summary of local weather con-
ditions for the twenty-four hours
ended at 6 p. nj. yesterday follows:
Maximum temperature. 81 degrees;
minimum, 81; range, 80: temperature
at p. M, rs; west wind clear.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-09
OVER HALF MILLION AMERICAN SOLDIERS NOW IN FRANCE DECLARES BAKER
GERMAN GOLD BACKS MEXICAN DISORDER IN
EFFORT TO FORCE AMERICAN INTERVENTION
LATEST lMGNlCAN OUF-
BREAKS.

/" Villa and his raidera Kill 80
" women and girls near Chihuahua
q City
=" Acting Governor NafdTettc
. of Tamaulipas state assassin
. ated by knife thrust
e Disaffected Clrran2a troops
(" near Tampico surrounded and
. Killed by loyalists.
4" Carranzistas and Zapatistas
q clash in Morelos safe, near Mex
o leo ely.
g
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-09

the salaries of railroad officials would
promote the efficient operation of the
roads, the commission added:
Some salaries may well be abolish
cd altogether, others greatly reduced,
while in some cases of lesser paid Of
ficials, an Increase would be war;
ranted."
A total of $3O,0O0,O0O was found to
have been paid out during the year
ending December 81, 1917 to officials
receiving $4,000 a year and more.
The Guiding Principle.
The commission stated It's guiding
principle is recommending increases
in the following words:
"A sufficient increase should be
given to maintain that standard Of
living which had obtained in the pre-
war period, when, confessedy, prices
and wages were both low And upon
those who can best afford to sacrifice
should be cast the greater burden.
The magnitude of this amount ($28S,-
00O.000) is not staggering when the
whole expenditure for wages upon the
railroads tnearly $4,000, 900, ,000) Is
considered And whatever its effect
upon the mind may be, we regard
such an expenditure as necessary for
the immediate allaying of feeling
that can not be wisely fostered by ma
tional inactivity, and as not one dollar
more than justice at this time re-
quired, 1t will make hard places
smoother for many who are now in
sore need. II gives no bounty. 1t is not
a bonus. 1t is no more than an hon
orable meeting of an obligation.
Beginning with the advance of 500
month to workers receiving s46 q
month and less. the recommended in
creases followed a sliding scale, vary
ing with each dollar Of advance in the
basic pay. The percentage declines
steadily as the higher paid classes of
employees are reached, but, the amount
to be added to the wage increase grad
ually to $34, the largest amount rec
commended, which will go to workers
from sS4.01 to ss5 a month.
From that point the amount decreases
like the percentage.
Increases recommended.
The increases recommended varied
in amount based on monthly pay up
to $3.50, where the increases stopped.
Under SAC the increase recommended
was flat $40 per month. From
S46.01 to $50 the recommendation
was 43 per cent, other increases be-
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-09
Marinc Corps CASUALTY List.

Washington. May s.-A marine
corps casualty list today shows one
man dead from wounds and seven
slightly wounded in action,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-09
Wants Death Benefit.

Santa Fe, May S.-Juanita r. Galle-
goes has filed suit in the district
court against the Wooemen yof the
World, claiming $1,000 death benefits
on the death of her husband. Isidro
GallegOs.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-09
THE WEATHER
FORECAST.

Denver. Colo, May S.--For New
Mexico: Partly cloudy with showers
north portion Thursday night or Fri
day; cooler Thursday.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-09
increases recommended.

S50.01 to $51, 1886 per cent.
$51.01 to s52. 41.73 per cent.
s52.01 to s79, Al per cent,
S79.01 to $50, 40.S7 per cent
$S001 to $S5. 40 per cent.
$S.01 to $50, 1886 per cent.
$S6.01 to $S7 s3ST4 per cent.
sS7.01 to $SS, 38.13 per cent.
sSS.O1 to $50, 1888 per cent.
$s9.O1 to 500, 1896 per cent.
ssO.O1 to sos, from s63S to 34.22
per- cent
s95.O1 to 500 from 1910 to 31.75
per cent. =. ..4.
(Continued on Page Two.1
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04

To get to the cemetery, we had to
pass through the little shell-destroyed
village, where troops were hurrying
to and fro.
Az the funeral procession passed
these troops came to the attention"
! and smartly saluted the dead.
Poor Pete was receiving the only sa-
lutte a private is entitled to ''sOme-
| where In France"
Now and again shell from the Ger
man lines would go whistling over the
| village to burst in our artillery lines
in the rear.
When we reached the cemetery we
halted In front Of an open grave, and
laid the stretcher beside it. Forming
hollow square around the opening Of
the grave, the chaplain read the burial
service.
German machfne-gun bullets were
cracking" in the air above us, but
Pete didn't mind. and neither did we.
When the body was lowered into the
grave the flag having been removed,
we clicked our heels together and
came to the salute.
left before the grave was filed in.
could not bear to see the dirt thrown
on the blanket-coyeredf face Of my COM
rade. On the western front there are
no collins, and you are lucky to get
blanket to protect you from the wet
and the worms. Several of the Sec
ton stayed and decorated the grave
with white stones.
That night, in the light of lonely
candle in the machine gunner's dugout
Of the front-line trench wrote two
letters. One to. Pete's mother, the
other to his sweetheart. While doing
this cursed the Prussian war god
with all my heart, and think that st.
Peter noted same.
The machine gunners in the dugout
were laughing and joking. To them
Pete was unknown. Pretty soon, in the
warmth of their merriment, my blues
disappeared. One soon forgets on the
western front.
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governor because he was laid up
with a cold, contracted by getting his
feet wet on his way to work in Wool
witch arsenal. If man should manage
to doze off, likely as not he would wake
with q start as the clammy, cold feet
of a rat passed over his face, or the
next relief stepped on his stomach
while stumbling on their way to relieve
the sentries in the trench.
Just try to sleep with belt full of
ammunition around you, your rife bolt
biting into your ribs, intrenching tool
handle sticking into the small Of your
back, with tin hat for a pillow and
feeling very damp aud cold, with
"cooties'' boring for Oil in your arm
pits, the air foul from the stencil Of
grimy human bodies and smoke from a
juicy pipe being whitfield into your nos
trils, then you will NOT wonder why
Tommy occasionally takes turn il
the trench for q rest.
While in q front-line trench orders
forbid Tommy from removing his
boots, puttees, clothing or equipment.
The ''cooties" take advantage of this
order and mobilize their forces, and
Tommy swears vengeance on them and
mutters to himself, "Just wait until ]
hit rest billets and am able to get my
own back"
Just before daylight the men turn
to" and tumble out of the dugouts man
the fire step until it gets light, or the
welcome order "stand down. is given.
Sometimes before "stand down" is or
dered, the command five rounds, rap.
i'd is passed along the trench. This
means that each man must rest his
rifle on. the top and fire as rapidly as
possible five shots aimed toward the
German trenches, and then duck with
the emphasis on the 'duck''). There is
great rivalry between the opposing
forces to get their iapid fire all off
first, because the early bird, in this in.
stance, catches the worm-sorr of gets
the jump on the other fellow, catching
him unawares.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
NORTH CAROLINA, BRIEFS.

The war department authorized an.
.nouncement that ten officers of the
medical reserve corps have been or
dered to proceed to Asheville, N. c.,
to take charge of the United States
army hospital at Kenilworth Inn.
Matthew S. Sasser, carpenter, 81,
Mount Olive, N. c., was asphyxiated in
a rooming house at Richmond as a re-
suit of blowing out the gas before re-
firing. That was the conclusion
reached by Coroner Whitfield after
making an investigation.
The body of Charles Thompson, g.
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Thompson, of Burlington, after being
in the water 73 days, was found just
below theadam at Swepsonville. Jan
uary II, the boy, with some compan-
ions, was walking some planks used
for inspecting under the railroad tres
tie at Haw River and he lost his bal
ance and fell forty feet to the water
below
General Cameron personally gave
permission for publication OF news OF
the completion of the movement to
Camp Greene of 5000 mechanics II
tie aviation section. signal CORDS
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04

A 'machine-gnn oa6ecr entered the
dugout and gave me a hard look. ]
sneaked past him. sliding and slipping,
and reached my section Of the 'front.'
line trench, where was greeted by
the sergeant, who asked me, "Where
in -- ave you been2"
1 made no answer, but sat on the
muddy fire step, shivering with the
cold and with the rain beating in my
face. About half an hour later
teamed up with another fellow and
went on guard with my head sticking
over the top. At ten o'clock I was
relieved and resumed my sitting posi-
ton on the fire step. The rain sud
denly stopped and rye all breathed a
sigh Of relief. We prayed for the morn
ing and the rum issue.
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CHAPTER x.
~The Days Work"

Vne DAYS Work"
was fast learning that there is q
regular routine about the work Of the
trenches, although it is badly upset at
times by the Germans.
The real work in the fire trench
commences at shutdown. Tommy is
like burglar, he works at night.
Just as it. begins to- get dark the
word 'stand to" is passed from trav-
erse to traverse, and the men get busy.
The first relief, consisting Of two men
to traverse, mount the fire step, one
man looking over the top, while the
other sits at his feet, ready to carry
messages or to inform the platoon Off
Ger Of any report made by the sentry
as to his observations in No Mans
Land. The sentry is not allowed to
relax his watch for second. If he is
questioned from the trench or asked
his orders, he replies without turning
around or taking his eyes from the ex-
panse of dirt in front of him. The re-
malnder Of the occupants of his trav-
erse either sit on the fire step, with
bayonets fixed, ready for any emer
gency, or if lucky, and dugout hap
pens to be in the near vicinity of the
traverse, and if the night is quiet, they
are permitted to go to same and try
and snatch few winkS of sleep. Little
sleeping is done; generally the men sit
around, smoking Tags and seeing who
can tell the biggest lie. Some of them,
perhaps with their feet in water, would
write home sympathizing with the
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
CHAPTER TX.
Suicide Annex.


was in my first dugout and looked
around curiously. Over the door of
same was little sign reading "Sui-
eide Annex" One Of the boys told
me that this particular front trench
was called Suicide Ditch" Later on
I learned that machine gunners and
bombers are known as the suicide
Club"
That dugout was muddy. The men
slept in mud, washed in mud, ate mud,
and dreamed mud. had never before
realized that so much discomfort and
misery could be- contained in those
three little letters, N u D. The floor
Of the dugout was an inch deep In
water. Outside it was raining cats and
dogs. and thin rivulets were tr1ckl1ng
down the steps. From the air shaft
Immediately above me came drip
drin. drip. Suicide Annex was hole
eight feet wide, ten feet long and six
feet high. It was about twenty feet
below the fire trench; at least there
we're twenty steps leading down to 1t.
These steps were cut into the earth.
Int at that time were muddy and Slip
merry. A man had to be very careful
or else he would "shoot the .chutes."
The air was foul, and you could cut
the smoke from Tommy's flags with
krife It was cold. The walls and
rnof were supported with heavy square
cut timbers, while the entrance was
strengthened with sandbags. Nails had
been driven into these timbers. On
och nail hung a miscellaneous assert
mont of equipment. The lighting ar
rangements were superb-one candle
in reflector made from an ammuni-
tion tin. My teeth were chattertng
from the cold, and the drip from the
airshaft did not help matters much.
while I was sitting bemoaning my
toto and wishing for the freside at
home. the fellow next to me, who was
rr,+ino a letter, looked up and inno-
Gently asked, "Say, Yank, how do you
smell 'confagration'?
r looked at him in contempt ana an
s1norod that / did not know.
From the darkness in one of the cor
rors came a thin, piping voice singing
ono If the popular trench ditties en-
titled: , o,a rr,+
FacK ep and Smile, Smile, smile.
r,or1 now and then the singer
would stop to cough, cough, cough Out
# was a good illustration OF tommy
chearfulness under such cono1t'ons'
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
$4,000 Lodne Destroyed.

Asheville-Fire Of unknown origin
completely destroyed the Arden Park
lodge, about six miles from Asheville,
causing a property loss of something
like $4,000 In addition to the lodge
two cottages nearby were destroyed.
The buildings were unoccupied at the
time Of the fire, and it is supposed
that some intruder who was spending
the night therein unlimited caused the
fire by his carelessness. The lodge,
which is used as a summer resort, Is
the property of Mrs C. W. Beall.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
Exposed by Family Bible.

Durham.-Family Bibles refuse to
lie. At least this is the declaration OF
United States Commissioner Hugh
Scarlet, who detected an effort to
change birth dates in the family Bible
Of William Williams, cNlored, Of Per
son county. Williams was before the
commissioner on charge of vio1at.
ing the selective draft by failing to
register.
The family Bible was brought into
court by Williams to give mute tcs-
timony to his age. The last figure of
the birthday had been erased and a
substitute figure inserted. The sub
stitute figure made Williams too young
to be caught in the draft.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
WriahtsviIle Is Chosen

Statesville.-Of interest to- organ
ICED merchants and business men
throughout North Carolina is the an
nouncement by Secretary J. Paul
Leonard, of Statesville, that the State
Merchants Association will hold it's
1918 convention at Wrightsville Beach
June Is, 10 and 20. At recent con-
ference of the officers of the assocfa-
ton held in Charlotte Messrs. Morris
and Leonard were instructed to ar
range for the convention to be hello
at some Loint on the 'seacOast-
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
Used II on fHerrimac.

Charlotte. Officer J. T.
Dryer, of the city police department,
has n his possession an adj which
was used by his grandfather, Thomas
X. Dwyer, in helping to build the Mer-
rimac near Norfolk, Va, during the
war between the states. Mr.. Dryer
prizes the old relic very highly, and
Members of the police department
were recently given the opportunity
to inspect it. His father was also
chief mechanic at the Confederate
navy yard, at Charlotte, in the latter
part of the war.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
OFFICERS SEEKING
STEEL PROMOTERS
ARREST AND BAIL PROCEEDINGS
ARE INSTITUTED AGAINST =
THEM.
SELLS MUCH OF ITS STOCK
Empire Steel Company Has Author.
ICED Capital Of Four Millions
Gut No Assets.

Raleigh. F. Armistead, fiscal
agent for the Empire Steel Company,
a North Carolina corporation, is be.
, Ing sought by officers of Wake coun-
ty who have warrants for his arrest in
arrest and bail proceedings, the war.
rant being, sworn out by persons who
have purchased stock in the corpora.
tion on alleged fraudulent representa-.
tions.
Officers of the State Insurance De-
partment are also seeking Mr.. ARMS
the company because of alleged viola
tons of the North Carolina laws per-
tanning to the sale OF stock in corpora
lions.
Arrest and bail proceedings brought
by Attorney J.. M. Broughton for cli-
ents in Mecklenburg county, Virginia,
few days ago resulted in the recov-
cry OF $1,4O0 for those clients. The
claims were. paid in cash and the as
s1gnment of an automobile then at
Norlina by Mr.. Armistead personally,
the criminal proceedings being drop
ped upon the satisfaction of the civil
claims. Since that time Mr.. Armi-
stead is said to have left this city
The Empire Steel Company was
chartered under the laws Of North
Carolina on February 1 with an au-
thorized capital stock of $4,000, 900. OF
this amount the sum of $1,000 was
paid in at the time the charter was
granted, and incorporators named in
the application for the charter having
been Charles. H. Twist Of New York
City and r. C. Tyree and S. Haywood,
both Of Raleigh.
In the charter Raleigh was named
as the home office of the company,
but an effort recently to locate the
offices in this city proved in vain. j.
F.. Armistead came to the city early in
January to investigate conditions here,
and it was through his efforts that the
charter was obtained. He mas later
represented himself as the fiscal agent
Of the company, while Charles H.
Twist of New York city is named az
the treasurer.
SO far as those who have been en-
deavoring to Investigate the activities
fthe men interested have been able
to learn no effort has been made dur
ing the nearly two months that has
elapsed since the company was in
corporated TO do anything in the way
of starting a steel plant. Records fail
to disclose that any site has been pur-
chased, or any other steps taken to-
ward carrying out the purpose for
which the charter was granted.
On the other hand, there is much
evidence of widely scattered sales Of
stock in the company. Reports from
Norlina, Greenville and Farmville in.
dictate that stock statesmen have been
particularly active in those sections,
and there are indications that sales
have also been made in Winston-Sa-
LEM, Greensboro and Burlington. It
was estimated yesterday that at least
800, 900 worth of the stock has been
foated in the State already.
At Norlina sales were made, it is
stated, to people there on the repre-.
sentation that suffic:en subscrfp-
ton from that place would insure the
location of the plant of the company
'n that town.