News and Record from Greensboro, North Carolina • 1

3 VOL XVIII NO 86 PRICE IVE CENTS by i CHARLIE MADE A SPEECH CONDITIONS SEEM EQUAL INAL SCORE WAS 3 TO 0 No Bond Sales Made But Pledges Military IGHTING IS DESPERATE BAND ROM CAMP GREENE HARD TO PROCURE NEWS SUPPORT GOOD HUNS DRIVE OR BETHUNE Impetus was added to liberty bond! AB a WOULD NOT MEAN END To AS TO SHIPYARD WORK making of a I with the McAdoo plan to boostSv 1 I A 4 I 1 1 I 1 4 Ho drove out the magnificent two bag ailments were eagerly awaiting hi3lenw'Ve malc tod I Htina rn non n1 1 I i I st nve I rt OTHER ARRESTS EXPECTED uit in iiiit the British can no longer afford to vithdraw for strategic IPflsniKi nnrl mi 1 1 1 i a "un 11 lUL mean that garden as significant of power British are faced the iwHTMity 0 0 6 BRITISH HAVE CHECKED ENEMY ADVANCE ROM LYS TOWARD BETHUNE 36 Pages Today Three Sections 1 1 0 a 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 14 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 2 0 0 8 12 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 a Enemy Twice Attacked Locon On Line Three Miles North of Bethune But Each Time Repulsed Americans in ighting Rixey Pitched or Virginia and His Team Showed Its Confi dence byrine Support British Beat Back Enemy Near Bailleul Germans ight rom Heights of Messines? HELPED HERE GREATLY SIR DOUGLAS HAIG BY CHARLIE CHAPLIN POZZLING WASHINGTON men for all He nd RIVAL ON MUDDY IELD BEOREA LARGE CROWD And Pure Guessing Goes On in Wash ington Even Loss of Amiens'and Cuttingof Railroads Is Not Nervous Strain So ar as Hazebrouck Is Con cerned the Germans Are Held or Present i Seemingly Not Justified Map Situation Daughter of Late Dr Sylvio Von Ruck Who Died Last Sunday Passed Away Last Night Mud But Contest Waa Vary Good One Alleged Russian Seditionist to ace Trial Medical Class Having Kicked PO i 0 0 1 0 0 6 18 2 27 PO 0 2 2 1 3 0 8 11 0 0 27 Lee McIntyre Surveying and Mapping Vicinity of Camp Greene Is Placed Under Arrest Induct Only Those Qualified or General Military Service Were Taken by Mr Chaplin During His Talk Mich a showed tremendous from As a result the Many Units in the Parade With the Boy Scouts tarrying the Kaiser in Students ot Colleges in the Line German Pressure Continues With Great Weight North Experts However Realize There May Be Un known actors WEATHER North air Today and Monday Errorless Game Played Before 3300 Peo ple in Cone Park ield Waa Shoe Deep in A OLD Aid ETV nr TUP riTAMRTTTT nXTar 1 vnAiumL UKld Al MAKE IN THE IGHTING IN LANDERS AND RANCE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 n' 11 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 7 Powell Was Invincible and Showed Great Generalship is now doing 1 not (ho Great Celebration or This Sec 1 a rs I non or aiate Yesterday 0 Inpin 2 1 ounce Not Even If It Included Capture of Paris and Amiens It Would Simply Mean Beginning of Long Struggle by America and Her Allies to Recapture Principal Business in Hand Now as Before Is Beating the German Army 3 4 a 3 2 3' 29 AB 4 2 6 department Washington has BiTugglipg along with hardly any com munieatinn 'with New York and east ern cities during the last two days Much of the wire trouble is between Dally News Bureau and Telegraph OfTI The Riggs Buildhif (by Uued Wire) (By DAVID LAWRENCE) (Copyright 1018 by New York evening Post) Washington April Storms that have wrought havoc with the telegraph wires of both companies have imposed a virtual censorship on news from the national capital ns well as crippled gov ernment eomniunirations on war busi ness With the exception of a few wires which are being used by the press asso ciations and for the transmission of navy been (Sperls) to nail News Asheville April Miss Sylvio von Ruck only child of the late Dr Sylvio von Kuck and Mrs von Ruck died of pneumonia shortly after 8 o'clock to night at the home of her grandparents Hr and Mrs Karl von Huck aged 10 Miss von Huck and her mother were wiWi Hr von Jmk in New York when he died there last Sunday after a short illness from pneumonia Returning to Asheville Wednesday Miss von lluek win taken desperately Hl and this morn ing her physician stated that there was no hope for her rerovorv and death i nnie early tonight Miss von Rink was brilliant artistic and possessed a lovely Haltin' Shewiis a Stu lent nt the Cnthedtil school Washington J) a yriir ago lint on neeomit of illness did nut return lust full being tutorial nt Imini '1 Ito funeral arrangements liavu not been announced American Escapes rom Germany I'arls April 13 The first American prisoner to mrape from Germany say the Temps has reselmd Bar Switzer land lnM 44 vpjtiKiit Ainfewi was me central event anti it is xe 8 nbxuutfiun Annl Wa 1 hn STU Tortlufi iii wIaI 1 puuiL'll mill nature of the parade Charlie spoke es here today who could seel lirii finnUnm ANimA and urged bonds He snid he was 11 the situation as revealed on NrM I Vi ll IIUiILDQ speaker but he made the folks know llhe justify such a last ditch IjLll UllUnULlI UnULhU that he Was in Piirnpst nhnuf uis tback to the wall nff arunoa Tka AECT DRATED MEN Virginia McCall rf Mahood of 1 Mount 8b House 2b rs Moran If Gwaltney a as' lb Idxey Totals Carolina Cordon 2b sr Pippin cf ei muter 3b Harden If Grandin rf Bryant lb 3 Younoe 0 4 Powell 2 Adams 0 Totnla xRan for Pippin in 9th RAOfft hv Innlnwu 000 nrollna 000 000 Riimmarsri ii IIILB 111 Powell Sacrifice hits Hrvant Mount I'ettwav Huso on halle oir 'Usey 7 oft Powell 1 Struck out IV Riser by Powell 11 Double play Powell tn Brynnt to elmter bases Virginia 4 Carolina 10 nan 11 HD 0 30 Empire Slaaon Attendance 3 300 Playing in mud flawlessly Carolina and Virginia universitiea staged the big the contest in rance I Co iwrul Crowder Io draft boards i To Heels allot out the invaders nT view I aw i re 1 service and the announcement that tlm fcW ln his control of just before this grant offensiv ONDON April The Germans were driven out of Neuve Eglise by the British this morning according to the report from ield Marshal Haig's headquarters tonight our attacks against the British positions southeast of Bail leul also were beaten off BERLIN via London April 13 rThe official statement from general headquarters today says: On the battlefield of the Lys our attacks against Eng lish divisions which had been brought up as quickly as pos sible in motor cars and by railway made good progress rom the heights of Messines we pushed forward across the Steenbeek river and reached the eastern border of Wul loiilif bmn left the scoring to his team mates and retained tbu share ot for tlio victory Whim Um gnme was started nt 330 the sun was fBniouflnged by cloud and almost throughout the game the skies were overcart ns they have been during the week Once along in the third In ning Old Sol smiled upon the diamond and Ilin nmtiim picture man held up the game for luuplo of minutes to taka mliantagc of fins mmlijht for Lis film he romjifon of the ground may wcll be imagined by those who know lion' Grcenslmro lias lain under an almost unerasing shower for nn entire week Although sawdust had been thrown In the spots where the most action nhvaya is li) a game in a few moments after tno umpire called play the men were trudging through muil almost up to Ihc lr alt 11 a 4 Good Action Shown 'I'hoy got surprising action on field His nmps Charlie Sissnn aim inn is in i inn ru rno 1 vsv ill handicap to pep by refraining uiuimiu Ug injvr i contest nlnj clean innings required two and half hours to complete But it was a ball game none the less The at tendance was large another big aurprh for it filled the ground almost to the limits taken by the recoid crowd of the past It Is fair thnrra 1 4 I Atxn wmi i300 people withered th game al though without a count because at tendiin estinmtivl higher in times past filled little if any more apace Hisov brother of Eppa pitched ball himself Ila Was a bit wild but bls team director allowed confidence in him hroughont 0ic9 or twice th folk thought it time for a cautious Vir gmiau roptiiin to warm up hi anecessor but he elected not to do and Hirer as a whole justified the mlldonce The Tar Heels started something In the seventh after they had passed tlp uno exec) ent previous opportunity and had cnscil the Virginians out of their Inesl ehanee in the fifth In the seventh Grandin tho Oirolina right fielder was tContlnued on Page ifteen) PASSENGER TRAIN NEAR NEWTON LEAVES RAILS HAS DEVELOPED TO WALIIS Is i rarSTi Al 1 It' 1 Urnru VHSUHIgUin pII XtrOllg urther Retirement Not Defeat opposition to th? appoint ment of Joseph ine uaig tatcincnt mean that the onvHi? as nnuiurration rtf jiiMi tiw at uiioiK nas (Iovhqimm i vif I a I I 1 I 1 1 ri a io 1 I aI 4 I 1 I tritung a CI iiirij position 1)0 one IIPIC HMUy iiiil fiin Appoint thinks that a further retirement means Ilnit "'buO be withdrawn defeat If the llritish lull book tliev 'hvmes Williams immigration in will rlmlthws fall back in the region of 'or nt Newport News has been sum Arras and they will pivot their Jmejnmned to Washington for a confemin south of Ypres to protect the channel 1 ulh ini mlff' 1 'on nfiicial" Monday ports This movement will widen the il was said at the department of la base of triginn salient pr l'iat probisblv would be unpointed init that movement to go forward of Norfolk di trirt after all Amiens and the railroad Thia will be 1 haa the Indorsrmnnt of utl i troublesome to the allies more In the riJin'u delegation in Congress and busi mutter of the rsil shittim of resei vea bum of Norfolk and Newport News vnariotte April Charged with Hnu UI'r ltnl where the acting in a suspicious manner by pho Germans already have the advantage t'griiphing surveying and mapping conveyance of rnnplios Hut it 1 1 1 1 i4 1 1 I uu I fl 1 Ofnti 4 tea rf 4 il I mu xrnerHi vicitniv nniii un fijiu uip rni int Of Camn nMt uuf of ia nt rraul uii nn Hivmry be claiming to be un employe of that (he line RbhU hidd hold uHiuniii viicago nnn waa arreafed to umi tirn mhed armuu remain rfliv find 111 il I zlh II) I I i rt iSvsil a MUJKIi 4 HI fljipr miQCBU hearing before a magistrate Witneaaea at tin Ireanig said McIntyre had been Lajoie Declared ree Arent management of the coastwise steamship 1 1 "iit three Indlananuli April 13 Napoleon mpanies taken over today by the rail ajoio today was declared a tree agent road administration biritor Gem rnl 'ib'iJa nlmittbd ho had sent thejly the National llnscbnll commission McAdoo ordered creation of emXT! 2 lTf SI nn in cameras ml the local mil w'U American smitinn) club according "lin HR gave into 'to word rceelved bv owner I I the Jndiffnnpohi club tAynoi rvr (Continued on Pago Three) ANOTHER ALLEGEDSPY IS HELD AT CHARLOTTE (i onu inc mtns jor deiense arc I re and the defense though driven I i i 1 1 hoLi I pivotai positiona I Austria in nil his messages now become patent to the world the fact is that he Ims been constantly well informed con cerning the real situation in the dual monarchy and only reluctantly was the decision jnado to sever diplomatic rela tions and declare a state of war Peace Talk Being Squelched The enforced use of Austrian troops on the western front where (hey would surely oppose the American army out weighed all diplomatic obstacles but even this did not sweep aside a certain tendency on the part of tho Austrian loaders to regard Washington as their1 1 1 1 1 1 1 a 4 a i i ini1 JMVHtl fl pmm44 pence today however when the Chance of break between Germany and Austria is eon iderod remote due to the excellence of German precautions nil emphasis is placed on the Philadelphia and New York but most army' tho German for several days talk of peace lias GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS GREENSBORO SUNDAY MORNING APWir id low hem nut of Analria lin (V HJir rauinvi tI UHt I desired by Berlin politicians tn give the introduced Cnarlie imHI nco el 4 41 4 AO 1 Lr 4a 1 is too said tho funnv man of the films to a small Imv back of the Hand lie made the folks laugh how ever with hat trick and other peculiar mannerisms and they cheered him end promised tu buy bonds when he appeal cupi'ort of ibis governmentJim government can take your money it it wants to" die seid "'but it onl'v links you to lend it It is ncrfeetlv secure They got 100000 mt of ln'e and 1 mine little business nun 1 fell yon But beside that if it isn't secure I ml I a on 1 mule is no nceu to worry about Helped ths Committee Chaplin lent himself to the plans of the local committee with superb com plaisance lie rode ju the parade over its long slow route performing' to the delight of the thousands along the streets just ns though bn were getting paid for it at the usual rates 'liny young folks at every corner wanted to UIO I Lor A apfiearanee and rlapsodically welcomed him Without introduction who would stare llankly at the name of the Presi dent Undoubtedly the interesting vis itor helped to make an epochal cidebra tion Charlie is Rmfill nnd sural I tweeds lie was without mousuehc and the ladies who crowded up front at Curry court to see his feet were disan pointed They were jilst such feet as a nice young man ought to have well pro portioned just believe that turns said one Greensboro woman after tlc mii'Ht I 11 ra i a 1 aa 111 I i wiioicsoniB looking iiinn nn ii a ninti A scales introduced Mr Lap worth with a brief speech in which he spoke ot the arousing of the great re public of the west to action against the enemy of civilization and of Christ Music Was eature Vade Brown professor of music of the State Normal college led (he tinrniKe rt 4 ta 1 SSI 1 1 A 1 1 1 lull I 1ULH It 1 IM in I 1 1 I IS A ZSS 4 44 I A music feature of big import alien vrai'onc doubts that they have the neivi the DteRPUce of the reirimnntal "fiGermnn nurrlH a I A IVPDV CTBOtrn nTrAfTrrxJ IWH iail'1 Ul I llrt 17 "lie I 4 sJIUUX'U UIIUJIIIUH vRnin lreOfl Tlia mrnnn 1 rnAilril mnm Hhih hs a I 4swsf unfujMtJjijc SS 411 uvime nt I neat uniformed soldiers playing 1 hu lias happened Hmro ought not to I fectly under the direction of a hi happened 1 sat isfart nrv (Irimt ihiAnw la i less attractive than Charlie It waa re Engine Plows Through ield But Over too Passengers Escape Without In jury Though Engineer Hurt A (Sprrlsl Io Dally Nwi Newton April 3 Carolina and Northwi tern passenger train No run nliig an hour late left the rails at 4 oelork this afternoon on a sharpe curve Jflmut three miles smith this city The mgme tender and combination bag rage and passenger coach were derailed lha engine plowed through a field about CO leet stopping in upright posl lion Jhc litiiu uhr fit charge of Cap lain Rosa All of JOO pas engera on tmard escaped injury although tt nlim bar wcin considerably shaken up En ('nicer Brawley riH iuved a painful intn the head and other slight Injuriei' 1 he trainmen were tumble to a rPu fun for thn derailment but it (bought 1rr'bab)' by presdmg T11O UlRbHfrhnc vi I I even it didnt lt "'pre "'ie to commit certain ele ments in the situation to the wires Think Opposing orces Equal Stiffening British resistance has checked the Gennmn drive southward from the Lys toward Bethune and west ward from MemTlo towards Hazebrouck near the Belgian border The enemy pressure is continuing with great weight toward the north and desperate battling is in progress along the line running southwest from Messines to the south of Bailleul The whole Ypres salient and the con tinued safety of the channel ports are Jiointed to by observers abroad ns at stake in the fighting now underway Hazebrouck ami Bailleul important rail way centers are vital feeding points far Messines ridge and the Ypres posi tion in general JVI li Hiiaillltsm 10 far as Hazebrouck is'concerned the messages for the state war and oeen ncid lor tho time nt least on the edge of tho forest of Nieppo vest of Jferrille and some five miles away from their objective The Gert mana have boon battering away at the British lino here since they captured McrvilJo on Wednesday night but have advanced only a few hundred yards be ing Stopped short of the forest which I I SZX 1 1 4 A I I A 1 I IBS 4 mvi(u uuw HiHi Hair Deyona Aler vjiie British Resistance Stiff Little additional light was thrown by t'aturday dispatches upon tho situa tion around Bailleul Io which tho Ger mans bad worked very close in JigUtiDg It Avar revpiilr'd however that i dq momy yas attacking heavily to the jionnrast of Bailleul between it and Messines The British arc on compara tively high ground here and the reports did not indicate that the Gormans were making much progress On the southerly aldo of the wedge nhich the Germans have driven in be tween Ja Basseo and Armontieres the British resistance was notably stiff Be thune 1ms boon threatened by the push in this dircetion The enemy twice at tacked Locon on this line about three gtnilcs north of Bethune but eaeh time was repulsed tlie second time more easily than the first The British also held firmly around Givencliy on their right flank and advanced their line by capturing an important German post in this region There was an improvement also in the allied position on the Somme battle front The Cormans had gained a foot log in Hangardcn Snnfcrro in the southeast of Amiens in an attack on riday but a combined drive by the British and rench during the night at the point where their lines join the river Luce near Hangard restored the situation putting the rench again in posession of the village Meanwhile tho American forces are contributing notably to t'ie maintenance (Continued on Three) MISS SYLVIO VON RUCK IS DEAD AT ASHEVILLE 'aris but the vital approaches to War News Meager Hardly any news has reached here of the part that (he American trovpa are playing in the great struggle That they will be of tremendous assistance in tho reserve army is expected notw ith standing jhe small size of the Amer ican contingent for fresh troops always have an effect far beyond their numbers in stimulating the morale of the veter ans and besides General Pershin has dispalelied to tlio British and rench im the very best battalions trained in the last six months But while the battle rages with fierce intensity there is ho feeling of despair but on the contrary a dogged deter mimitlon to RPO thn Rtroiyaln U'ol no matter if German successes continue' undoubtedly it haa burn con fident belief thn a serious break through the allied line would lend to demoraliza tion of the allied peoples' and a craven receptiveness to peace overtures Break Would Not Mean End So far as the United States goieru incut is concerned a break in the allied lines even if it included the capture of Ainieua and Bari would not menu the cud but merely the beginning of a long 1 struggle to help recover them Tern lory lost or gained is not so important Ip uii iiMiig or a comsftai mil itary nower hila Z4X1S 1 Inin nerv aenuncintmt) nf 1 1 st rilfliloaemraj 1 41 ieiim a8 LHC isorn I Vnltl 0441 sacriuee ot mo on le west drr1 mn runt for merely few miles of thirds terrain 1 tier 1 Uie Hcnwdioual publication of Emperor letter revealing A nu tria's roftdiiirM to recognize the claims of 1 rauie to Al Mice Lorraine which might under other circumataiires lime been taken us uu opening lor general peace piiwd by aMhhigton a simply "intnrcMtng his and proof positive Ihat the mil itarism uf Germany had made of Austria merely fl VHSfial Mate Mhilr fl(f President effort to ahow a conciliatory apirit to of the mesnugt'8 addressed by Washing ton correspondents in the last 48 hours to western points us well have been turned back by them Telephone facil ities are also inadequate Mails are de layed Delays in Messages Serious And this at the riiot critical moment of the war illustrates the unwisdom uf the government in relying on air com inunication when the number of under ground wires might have been increased uh a matter of military necessity dur ing the past year or delays in mes sages at this juncture in the war may easily cause cinbarrMKKtnpnL i be congested Ju fact the pressure for lit AlT fifirOT OTI IDEIIT uniA 1 i In fl I I IV 1 I I fl 1 1 1 nil HHhLIUnLOl OIUULHI EXPELLED BY COLLEGE Charles A (Duke) arrell old major league catcher has been appointed Un' eJ States mni shal yo ted States Marshal Mitchell ar rail In recent years coached thn he caSaht thJYdlff ne caught the deliveries of soma of greatept pitchers In the ga 8 er of the rep I slutting of rcaervM EAST AND WEST RIVALS IN LAUNCHING STEEL SHIPS Washington Anril 13 Rivalrv ha (yards to fmtaldjili records for the tulrk growing more hairrnau Hurleytoday promised to attend the launchingof a ship now being built in an Atlantic yard if it is put into tho water in lew than til days tho record set nt Seattle' Meaiiwhih the Seattle vard is striving to lower its record and has reported that a ship would be launched in 5 days piwibly 1pi Mr Hurley declined t( (lp jt lantic CuRhl yurd which i i tying for the rocoid Dallv Nw Burrsti snd T'lprapl) OSiti Thy Hlfts Riiildfug (by Lt ucd Wks) (By GILBERT) (Copyright 1918 by Now York Tribune) ckpni me jtaiff wumwi niiiirary 1JU CI1IIKI ROA man tn inat ifv mink a 4t I I VV4 Si incsv UILCU hack to the wall utterance The fact I I 1 1 43 ri 4 1 4 ciu tPHumwiu in which armicB equal I each other and tho arms for I A 1 1 I hack still Jiohla i was not desperate one suggested that tlms wl4 1 uigjH ut unKnuwn laetors which prompted Haig's address to his men Even men high in the war department worried over these possible unknown factors Li'e r'H1 is that even tho general Ptatl ol the army has not as one officer tllB 011 1Ile able Our army here blows little more about late developments and immedintn pros pects than the readers of the newspapers do No one in rance has time in the midst of the fighting to sit down and vw U4ejnninis fxpiainin Vl 4H UJ'lTt make a speech the usual sense of the aa (By BOST) Raleigh April Wake orest's medical class served notice vesterdnv its college government that it would not stand for lames Dubrowaky a Russian member whose alleged seditious talk has him in bad with the United I college affairs The college has purged ilself of him The meds let it be known there room for them nnd him They served notice that they would not eom'e to class any more The nature of the talk that got the fellow in bad has not linen learned from M'ake orest an iimrmes nave ordered him taken up came hero from C1 olina but little is known of him He will be brought before Commissioner Plummer Batchelor next week and given a luarlng The arrest of the Russian to bt followed by otliera in the federn I depart iili'iits here Of ono and another her actor there are several candidates for trouble The offices of the collector and the marshal are working on various ru mors that will get some of the business men Raleigh or manifiwt reasons the officials do not announce the names but soft talk must fallow or German citizens drop into jail RENCH ADVANCED SEVERAL HUNDRED METRES SATURDAY Paris April 13 rench troops in an attack today northwest of Orvillera SlArnl mnrla nt nIimioA i nn antftiiw ui wuvcrai nun niotriu nirnw 1 MUJIl in no TWA I it A mi aernrfhntv office nnnoniMT mcnt tonight A German1 4t V4HT UO 'Ml W3 rPpUISP'J with heavy losses to the enemy Coastwise Advisory Committee 1 Washington April To assist in Bl tl I 1 11 11 I Aa 4 1 4 4 1 5 Hlilva Kitirii loutiy ny inn mil mu uiiiiiiiiirHiion Jirectof eni rn U'H i McAdoo ordered creation of coastwise ih ani1 pmlurw he made I Hdvnnrv PnmmiWw ui 1 Ll Wifi 1 SinnrtrtA KS it 41 UHlJir uiniiG lue ocuiiu'rn raewe chairman 41HrCuls wws muuvil to liberty bond Bentiiuent of this section of the state by I nrn Jreat Patriotic display in Greensboro! RRAK IN THE AT Ten tmitc (yesterday A parade of record breaking A AAlrf JUlllUiJ pvjigui was uie central event and it is ZW1 I 88V aaj vHHine Liiapim was i I and urged bonds that ho waa in earnest about what ho sviucuung or a teat lor a humorist ho bond a)PS were undertaken be cause the plans are far the selling drive to start Tuesday morning with well organized canvassing teania However the motion picture hero took the pledge of thousands to buy bonds when he call ed upon all who would invest to lift their hands Ho spoke on a small plat form erected in Curry court on the campus of the State Normal rollem His companion speaker was Charles Lan worth of the Saturday Evening Post formerly of tlio London Daily Mail edi tonal staff Charlie Is British Both these gentlemen are Britons de epi the fact that one is better known to the American youth than anv Mates nifi In Ilin 11 I wwmu J4ipworin 'ord Neither attempted oratorioil ihgnts and this was not out of har the thin! hborty kmnt As Mr Lan ortli said when tho secretary of the treasury looked about for folks to as sist in arousing the country ho de ndeito exieiiuiut with people well known but not an oratora Dintioiii rirrsritiiHrAn Drri others Mr Lapworth talked a minute ot the urgency of the issues of the war j' i' no hi i ljiu improsRion That the entente is or has uy negotiating for pea re Thej publication of the Austrian letter is expected (o squehh the propa though the best damper on any peace talk is the distressing alfuatinn on the western front To all tashing ton it bceius clear that (hero never will bo peace while the armies of democracy ar at a disadvantage here will be peace only when thp! futility of what Germany now doiiur in utter disregard of human life to gam Ciifiah rl g11 44 WUJ4 1V luiiy tirmonsiiTunt merely to the ontsiM World but tu people of Germany themselves which Mich reg Jimi not sent to the camps until they nre in condition to render net ran etlii icnt military sen ire wur dpnrt ment announced that nr a large number of shipvnrd workers obi nin (I ml deterred clnssifleii tin Hoiild bl given registrants because bl some epi cinl skill in shipbuilding Till department made it plain that once a reg is! in nt has lnn ordered Into military service request to have him tram fared tu a shipyard will have no cfTei In the past If hits been customary to grant defeired claasifieation to men 'who iinild be used in tho shipbuild ing program '1 ho following faurth ilask poMmm tato Jeru appointed today: Nellie Owens st ountain county Sam uel Hyman at Hobgood Hnllfav county James bumiiicri ll at Point iinoor iirriiiietc eonntv Elizabeth Seals of Raleigh has been appointed clerk ill tin war department Col Chapman Hu letcrun reve pile agent who nerved the government in Cropnabnrn Dll 4 1 Clt hfii snot i 41 Ml i nntlDIIH Ul I ir ii MHSTiniffioi Msittir The 1 ZSI 1 a re just a many and I at Sall lake City He fathe the front a German and revenue rvieo it an thC i rnn T's ns I ah a is si ri ii ii anil nr 44 "feKit' "fess nffectinv nerve pomUal our nine fa 1 nrl 18 today that the Republican of both il 'wltelions are com North and South Carolina had indorsed fta) that granting tm Gorman have MH Ur i ou i rnnde biff rmttnbuiimi tA Gm anlnnAa tl i 7 in inR io RpoaK aganiftt the lie Offens ic In trench warfare and no j)IIir ritie nnd ids tea for ConureM mg the past year easily cniiso embarrassment to tho gov 11411 4 Incoming cables arc also unden I wife and cable fepare on the part of our government is growing to nich a pvint that the sending of news "nay toon have to be appreciably diuHnished Brielly summarized the national can itfil has been watching with much anxi Gy Ifi tho liist two days the renewal by the Germans of their super offensive Reiterated statements that the British were compelled to give ground steadily have tended to upset confidence some what in the reserve? power of the allied army but ield Atarshal state ment that position must be held there must be no is now taken to mean tlmf i1P RriikL i VI UIC icasons and are literally fighting with their backs to the in defense not only of the railroad between tho channel and Paris but the vital approaches to Calais 1 inmeg' is to evade General Crowder warned that indue 4 v( 413 I 3 1 tney would not outnumber thn rr Mill! LDP nmum more than flm Uho toninrnl rrn I 41 Mill! nimsh OlltniimhorU Thn hrutu hae II iiiitiii nvi jin il tarv'nh nl1 mili local draft bonid not to send to oven in fra dpp men sunernig nom i 4 rrpnrt Hal recently troafnient might remedy onm4 division! department he iid has umkr ipomg Jinn Information here is that ''onsnleratim a plan bv whu meh reg ie bail under his control an equal num win 111 treated at home by the tier of mon government and not ui "1th regard gimpowcr the Infor at ion is esa rini uni (Hiicern tn the nimy do not believe that the Ger Biitish to 1rtrit 1I1C jjri(iR1) rh(v may be com ent rat ing gns and here and fliete dine Haigs arm 1)afki but i nu not destroy it Cry i Baffling The myMery of llnig'a rather despair Illg cry and of second bin sue on the west front remains unex lamed The question why there Inn lvMi no major counter offenaive remain unanswered Prediction of a counf 114 1 ll if a 4 1 wre in the first early dnv of tho drive toward Almon and it wn thought bv some that Hour's statement foreshadow ed mu an effort But the predictions lacked the confidence that similar uro Cietion a few lays ago had The suggestion is made Hint the nllicd reserve was scattered and has not been organize nni therefore ii counter at tack rn a la rm hpmIa Ima bln n1 im A i I I an ri I 1 31 1 144 A 11 A "1 rflMl i8 Pl gm ing i eoiiinel rtMfaT fa 7 wuoe ue 'wi murp im h'knAu 4t: IB the queer man von rph Illtn llau wni Mil 4" HIVI4 4 lHA C111 AUO fAA 1 I woman alter I Mntun on the fiont an a careful examma Lion of the Might fig Austrian and the faith that ure of the healthy wholcsnniA tu iLmulman iri: States and the administration of thelT8 7 Ptttfonn Dally Nwa Bur uxJ Tlrffraph Offlr The Riggs Utiiltlrtii Leuwrt Wire) (By PARKER ANDERSON) Washington April Two develop ments today in connection with the na tion's draft machinery held Interest for Iip milli trim 4 1 lai 1 1 1 a MHUHcu 44 uuivuci sttineriea a What tlie army authorities know' and I tem eonfidencipZish3 from Pravoat 4 here yesterday 1A nnnla4 4HHWUUU uiiiirM iii i rn noa i 1 4 1 1 Berviec men who I by a 3 to 0 score pitching for '1Z I nr general nniiuiry rnlina vipw aT li 4 7ttW a re isvrvice and the announcement that tlm niR lt military situation delivered drafted men will nt i his benders an Ha wn aMiirau 1 lie I if 4 1 4 44V VlllllllH I'll I IV VW MV1 IV 144111 1 1141 end in anticipation of it said fl is i it 8 "1K'" lwn hab l0 in both rentral pow' rs Ml 'umH milha bag 12 front to 'iciieral Crowder warned that indue the one rim actually ot aoln tive men mut bo because of thowed' although ho i wt 4 I if ji h' 4 i 1 8.