The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-14
IMPORTANT: news
The WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
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THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South.
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Domestic.

For the first time in the present
generation the aurora borealis was
visible in the northern sky from Tam
pa, Fla One report had it that Dade
City, forty miles north of Tampa, was
afre, but this was error. Reports
from a number of other cities and
towns throughout the United States
describe the lights as of unusual bril-
liancy.
Burton Hurlburt, Royal Flying corps
cadet, whose mother lives at Prescott,
Ontario, was killed when he tried to
make landing at Fort Worth, Texas.
He is the thirty-sixth cadet killed at
Fort Worth.
Indications that a number of French
army officers may be implicated with
Washington, D. c., in his alleged lar
ceny of between three and a half
million and six million dollars of
French government funds paid him as
commissions on purchases Of automo-
biles in the United, has been found
in an examination Of papers seized in
a raid on the New York Offices Of the
Alliance Motors corporations.
Equal suffrage, nationwide prohibit
ton and radical legislation favorfng
farmers and 1aborers, are the chief
planks OF the platform Of the national
party adopted at Chicago at a con-
vention attended by about two hun
dred delegates, boilers from the Pro-
gressives, Prohibitionists, Socialists
and Independents.
Partial generalization Of the pur-
chasing of between one million and
two million dollars worth of railroad
supplies and equipment this year un-
der government supervision is involv-
ed in a plan for organizing the rail-
road administrations division Of
finance and purchases, announced by
Director General McAdoo.
While a large number Of men will
be called out during the present year
to fill up the army and complete its
organization, it has been learned that
war department plans do not call for
the creation of any additional divi-
sions in 1918. It is stated that less
than one million men-probab1y not
much in excess Of eight hundred thou
sand-are to be summoned gradually
during the year to complete the exist
ing organizations.
Delay in the announcement as to the
next draft is understood to be due to
uncertainty as to what will be the
method of allotting quotas to the
various states.
A high tribute to President Will
son was paid by Earl Reading, Great
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United States, in an address at New
York City to the Merchants Associa-
Control of the house of representa-
tives was regained by the Democrats
when they elected their candidates
from four districts in Greater New
York at special elections called to
choose successors to four members of
that party who had resigned their
seats in congress.
It is significant in the national cleo
ton in Greater New York that out of
total of 1892 votes the women cast
81, 1853 votes. They voted early, seem
ed to have made up their minds what
they were going to do before they re-
ceived their ballots and they asked
few foolish questions"
Exact subscriptions by states to the
second Liberty Loan tabulated and
made public by the treasury depart
ment at Washington show that New
Fork led all the states. Texas led all
the Southern states.
Senator Tillman Of South Carolina,
veteran Democrat of the senate and
chairman Of the naval committee, has
announced his candidacy for a fifth