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:.f-r:r.. i - - 'The Commonwealth. VOLUME XXXV. AFTEBHOOH DAILY SCOTLAND NECK, N. Q. 'FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1917 TELEGRAPH SERVICE ussia Igmores All Ger man Disregarding The Insidious Pressure of Teu - tons Russian Army Repledges Itself ., ..,.; " NEW REGIME PROVES A SUCCESS By Arthur Mann Copenhagen, April 27. Far from 1) ing afteeted by the msicl- i norman pressure to com- pletc a separate peace Russia's tics with allies is slowly streng ening according- to information received here through diplomatic channels. The most interesting evidence of Russia's increased war power is contained in the information just at hand of the highest au thenticity stating that the Rus sia army has repledged itself to -war. A plan of sending provisional leaders to the different fronts to explain the plans of the new re gime lias proved successful. COLORADO IS FIRST TO START FOOD DRIVE (By United Press) Denver, Colo., April 27. Colo rado, the first state to act when the importance of the bread bas ket's part in the war became known has virtually completed organization the administrative machinery for the biggest "food drive'' in the history of the coun- try. j at every point. Immediately following the de-, Yesterday the French troops daration of war, Gov. J. C. Gun- gained more ground around the ter anticipated the national move- blood soaked forest of Hurtebiz ment by naming a ways and and Cerny. moans committee, headed by J. K. j They stormed and captured Mullen, president of the Colorado ! German trenches and then attack Milling and elevator Company, ' ed the heights of Moronvilli rs and Ex-Gov. Amnions,, one of the which they took, state's largest farmers. The Germans throughout the The committee already has com- day suffered heavy losses in these pleted organization of a sub com-' raids particularly near the f or- mittee in cverv countv of the ! state. Working on the assump tion that monev, or its equivalent credit, is the greatest need of far mers to meet the crisis, the com mittee has assured farmers capi tal with which to finance ltis food raising operations. The home gardening movement was given tremendous momentum h the outbreak of war. The Civ 1(1 and Commercial associations t Denver is urging a movement L whereby employes will agree to Pay full wages to employs, but allow them one working day off caeh week, provided they work their gardens on that day. Under tj,e auspices of the Denver Moth- 0,000 packages of seeds are M.'Ug distributed without cost i 10 school children. Cecilia Ward Shea, a pro 'eiiut worker, has-7 inaugurated a Inject advocating that the state itself turn farmer, and lease ,"' r''"t approximately 15,000,000 ;r('s' of tillable land hi the state ,1(di has never been cultivated, ('tting this to families who ome into the state, she be lt' they .were assured of ?,,fimd to farm at a low rental. Weather , "SBfr JSs-' I' ft : 0; i " w Tl1,,, iTluniuull 1,AF1UMUU (By United Press) Chester, Pa., April 27. Indica- tions point to Russian plotters as tion was neceSsary if only to con responsible for the disaster at the vince the ene of th folly of raaystone munitions plant some weeks ago, according to mforma- ' tion at the coroners inquest to- GERMAN DESTROYERS ARE dav- BEATEN OFF ENGLISH The authorities are now seeking COAST TOWN a supposed Russian know as ' Wa- j London, April 27. German de skoff", who sent a message say- j stroyers who were evidently at- ing to the radical Russian Newrs papers of New York, stating 1 'Ex- plosion occured today, our crowd i safe.,;,,.,- Over Blood Stained Ground The French Make Progress Paris, April 27. Official news most pressing of the Navy's pro comes today of the terrifie work blems. of the French troops who daily ; gain more ground from their ene-. mies and shower defeat upon est ot St. Gobam. Germans Abandon Guns in Retreat (By United Press) London, April 27. The British ! today captured the quarries on the eastern outskirts of Harge court. The Germans in fleeing abandoned their guns so great j was the hurry to escape. General j Haig reports the capture of eon-. siderabie equipment and guns. French Sailors Join Hands With Navy Boys (By UNITED PRESS) Norfolk, Va., April 27. Just ; to prove brotherly feeling several j hundred French sailors marched' in the patriotic parade this after noon. The streets were lined with j viewers and cheering was univer- j sal as the tri-eolor boys swung j along the streets in line with the I American bluejackets. j Report: Por North Caroling overeat; tonight, Saturday showers, Fresh winds. Congress To Hold A Night Sessions General Opinion is That The Sen ate Will Pass The Selective Draft Bill I ! 16 SENATORS ARE TO SPEAK (BY UNITED PEESS) Washington, April 27. The se nate at ten o'clock today began the concluding drive to put through the presidents selective conscription draft plan for raising the army. ' '$b'WK:"- It was announced this morning that night sessions would be a dopted if the necessary progress was not made. There are sixteen senators to speak, and in the address of Sen ator Jones he said that conscrip- continuing the terrible stru i crctl a -t tempting to raid Ramsgate, an east coast British summer resort, were driven off by a British pa i trol is the official information re.r i - - , ceived today. THE MEN WHO RUN THE UNITED STATES NAVY (BY UNITED PEESS) Washington, April 26. "Man powTer" is just now about the With the rapid increase in fight ing ships, the question of finding men suitable men to man them J is becoming more and more seri ous. The big job of raising about 40,000 recruits, and that in the very near future, is up to Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. This bureau has to do with all matters of personnel, present and prospec tive. Moving pictures, cartoons, pla cards "open-door" recruiting sta tions, brass bands, and all forms of publicity and exhortation, are among the means Admiral Palmer is employing to fill up the ranks Incidentally, a seuduetive $5 a month salary increase, which will be urged in congress for the Navy enlisted men, is expected to prove a great stimulus to recruiting. The new "open-door" policy, chiefly advocated by Admiral Pal mer whereby 100 bluejackets are to be annually admitted to the An- napolis cadet academy to become fiulfie jged officers, now offers a f urtner and very powerful in- 'ducement for enlisting. VA. "PLANTING DAY GOV. STUART SAYS (BY UNITED PRESS) Richmond, April 27 This is Gov gtuart. Prepareclliess planting-so that this nation may not only feed America but our allies too. ' Meetings were held in various cities of the state to consider the food shortage and its relations to the war. Agreement Reach ed In War Con. Balfour Cabling Shipping Arran gements to His Government to be Made Public Soon AMERICANS NOT NECESSARY (By UNITED PEESS) j Washington, April 27. The first chapter of America's part in' the world war was penned in black and white here today by former premier of England, Bal our7 when he cabled to his home government the report of the a greements of the greatest war parley in American history. Balfour's report wrill tell Euro pean allies that' the first problem has: been settled, and this report dealing with shipping will be made public in London soon. England's representative will say that the American govern ment has asked Iioav the allies wanted the shipping handled. With a preponderance of men, munitions and food it was agreed between Balfour, Bridges and De Chair that "with these necessaries supplied the matter of America supplying men could wait. French commission was in .cmnpTetif aecortif with' the shipping settlement that Balfour will re port to his government today. British Admiralty Severely Attacked By The Press London, April 27. Thp Brit ishpress has turned loose upon , the admirality in criticism of its ineffectual work in coping with the submaring warfare. English newspapers generally are of the opinion, and express themselves in no uncertain terms ! of the want of action of the navy department in not meeting the submarine war with sufficient en ergy. There is also a wide spread of discontent over the withholding of information on the losses sus tained through the submarine at tacks, and the feeling is that the English people are lulled into a false security and are not impell ed to the necessary sacrifices through the wrong impressions being allowed to simmer in the minds of the people that the sub marine maiiace is being coped with, when the reverse is prob ably the fact. U-Boats Successful Reports Berlin Amsterdam, April 27. Ger many's submarine warfare having been most successful, as stateo by the Reichstag sub-committee today and quoted in Berlin disp atches, asserting that April suc cesses have so far equalled ail past months that the expressed opinion is that England will soon be forced to accept peace. COTTON MARKET Open. High. Low. Close. May 19.88 20.25 19.76 20.25 July 19.62 20.06 19.56 20.06 Oct. .00 ' 19.01 18.52 19.01 Dee. .00 19.08 18.60 19.0S Jan. .00 19.10 18.65 19.10 Local Market. 19e. The P remier N ation Won t Starve Eloquent Address at Receives ADMITS SUBMARINE AS MENACE New From The State C a d i t o Raleigh, April 27. "Profess ional" baseball has advanced for enough to create the suspicion that the Raleigh club of the State League has drawn a Jonah aggregation-for the 1917 season or the beginning of it, to say the very least, me city turned out miiiunureti ana en great shape, as usual, to witness I with three million the opening game (generally won by the home club, for unexplain - ed but not inexplicable reason") and the Raleigh Capitals took the t)urhatdulIBy'"' the hours and threw him over the fence. Since then the - Capitals have played a half dozen regular sched uled games and lost every one of them, standing at the foot of the ladder today and way down in the score cellar. Unless the situation improves the blindest fan on the bleachers can the fin ish of the misnamed "Howitzers" before many moons. Raleigh has had a lot of rotten ball players on its list for several years and some of the present bunch badly need to learn the same and most of them were brought here on long,; lier peopie mu.st make many sac mileage tickets from distant j rifices, and he further appealed places, too. I f() the people to subordinate party $10,000 for Flogging Prisoner j feeling in the settlement of the The first of two civil suits be- j jj.j; problem, gun in the Superior court of mmmm . -Wake county against W. L-1 the bill and the legislature did.a't Wiggs, the recent and W. M. Mil-jknow Avhat th(iy W(MH. voting for ler, the present superintendent whcn lhey p.,ss'(.a jt. of county roads for heavy dama-: Bad Law Got H;m in Trouble ges, based on charges of inhuman ! Jt was JK)t Jo, , i)(.f0re there whipping of two county convicts has been attracting much atten tion here this week. Henry Crawford a young white man sentenced. to the roads for 60 days on conviction of "imper- sonating an officer," sued Supt. ; )a(1Iy la(.erat(.ti ;!11i ,is story was of roads Wiggs and county a siamfful one to the county of guards Nippen and Johnson for j Wak(1 and the s1a(l of x v ?10,000 damages. The testimony j 1Iow (,01iie ?" was the imrne resented revealed horrible cruel- j diae iI1(,un.V) -Veve got a law :ies with the "Black Aggie" not j a,,ailjst thing." Whereupon ,uly on Crawford but on other the bu of Seiiatoi. jul!ll of Wake n-isoners and even the guards tes-! was discovered y,hl(.h .lve Supl .ified that the Crawford boy was autIl()rity t() wljip oeaten repeatedly (every other ; Wake county convicts. . i . Zj. :.n i i . ' lay one u uness sam; aim imiu- manly. It was this case in which the guards were . criminally indicted and convicted, that stopped whip ping at the camps in Wake coun ty for a short time. ther has brought suit against Last January Senator Bunn of , Road Supt. Miller for heavy dam Wake, at the instance of the pfes-japres in a civil action which is ev ent Supt. of county roads' of j pected to be tried soon. If the: Wake, got a "sneak provision" through the legislature that re stored these whippings the title of the bill to "amend the road law of Wake county" giving no inkling of such a permission in spy Says Gould Hall Last Night Attention By Ed Keen London, April 27. England is I wiimin?' and the llltimate jeess of the allies cannot be doubt- ed, and that the success is being achieved at less cost" are the words of Premier Llovd George last night in an eloquent address at the Guildhall. "Victory is becoming increas ingly assured" lie id "The gov ernment is planni 'ueteen dve nvt. ai ! acres available, and it can now be 1 taken for granted that we would not starve if not a single ton of foodstuffs was imported, but we must economize." Emphasizing the seriousness of the submarine war the premier stated that the best brains of Eng land and America were now con centrated upon an appeal to the public to practice a food economy and give an increased production. ! The increased prices of food stuffs was unnecessary, and he appealed to the patriotic spirit of the allies of the world to remove all imped imenta that would stand in the way of a victory and speedy peace. England must recognize that ; ,ojbeu np another case like that of Crawford and Senator Tinneis legislative investigating commit tee had the white boy (named Ja cob's, Hi years old) brought before him. Ilis bodv was shown to be Representative Winston of Wake at once presented a bill re pealling the Bun ii lash law and it was passed by both brandies un animously, not even Senator lunn voting against it. So Jacobs mo- pocket books of these ultra disci plinarians are tapped in the pro cess of elimination, the sooner and more effective will be the cure of such outrages on the good name of the state. rv A