DIMAN DAMAGE
Captain Ira A. Wood returned to this
port last Saturday night on tho Nancy
Bell from a trip to Diketuan. He re
ports that high water at the break-up
period did considerable damage to tho
buildings in that town belonging to
the N. C Co. and J. E. Fullerton, the
last mentioned estimating his loss at
$2,000. Captain Wood lost cprite a
large number of sawlogs by the spring
freshet.
TO RAISE SUNKEN
SHIPS AFTER WAR
London, April 23.—The Lusitania
may yet carry American troops to
Franco to beat tlie Germans.
Salvage experts are now working on
the problem of raising her from the
]00 feet of water sho lies in off the
Old Head of Kinsale. At all events an
attempt will be made to recover the
treasure from the strong room on one
of the upper decks. The possibility of
beaching the vessel on the Irish coast
is also being considered.
Some of the keenest engineering
minds of Great Britain are devising
plans and means of raising torpedoed
ships after the war. Many of the sub
marined ships lying on the ocean floor
in the “graveyard of the Atlantic.” off
Ireland are in water shallow enough to
make the project feasible.
In addition to the value of the ships
vast fortunes in metals and imperish
able cargoes are resting in the holds of
the wrecks. I
“Salvage companies are laying plans
for raising both ships and cargoes on a
big scale,” said R. II. Davis, managing
director of one of the largest subma
rine engineering corporations in the
world. “Cargoes to the value of mil
lions of dollars are awaiting recovery.
Apart from the silver and bullion in
sunken ships, there is a huge quantity
of other metals.
“In many cases where ships cannot
be raised, the cargo can be salved.
We recovered $350,000 in Spanish gold
from the Alphonso XII some years ago.
She was lying 165 feet under the sea.
We also recovered a large quantity of
silver bars from the Skyro off Cape
Finisterre in 186 feet of water. This
shows what can be done after the war.”
Owing to the scarcity of tonnage
after the war, every ship that can float
will be worth a fortune. The salvage
companies expect to raise many of the
lesser damaged vessels with little
trouble and put them into commission
shortly after the war is ended.
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Joe Miller Contest
Lloyd Winter claims that the oldest
joke is the one about the German who,
met an Irish friend on the street. ]
“How are you, Mike?” said Fritz. “I
feel out of sight,” replied Mute. A
little later Fritz met Heiney, another
German. “How are you, Fritz?” said
Heiney. ‘T feel like you can’t see me
at all,” replied Fritz.
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OLD CLOTHES DRIVE IS STILL ON
The ladies in charge request that if
you have any old clothes or shoes that
are serviceable, and which you would
like to send to the Belgians, to please
send them in. They can be loft at the
Adams house, tho N. C. Co-, or at the
telephone office. _
Watches and Diamonds
Strictly at Outside Prices
J. L. SALE, FLAT
DECALOGUE FOR JEWISH SOLDIERS
A Baltimore rabbi has given
the following decalogue to Jew
ish soldiers at Camp Meade, Md.:
1. I am America, the country which
has brought thee cut of bondage into
liberty.
2. Thou shalt have no other country
beside me.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of
thy country in vain.
4. Remember the Declaration of In
dependence. and keep it holy.
5. Honor thy superior officers.
fi. Thou shalt. not despoil.
7. Thou shalt not ravish.
S. Thou shalt not loot.
9. Thou shalt not betray.
10. Thou shalt not annex.
SAW-TOOTH BAYONET
San Francisco, April 20.—A saw
toothed bayonet taken from a German
soldier who wore the Red Cross in
signia upen his arm was of the several
mementoes exhibited by Lieut. .T. L.
Carter, of the Canadian Expeditionary
forces, when he told of German atro
cities committed in F.rance at a big
war rally recently held there. Lieu’.
Carter spent two years and seven
months in the front line trenches at
Ypres and the Somme.
‘ You should believe all you hear
about terrible and unbelievaple Ger
man atrocities,” said the Canadian
army officer, “I have seen so many
samples of hideous atrocities by the
Huns that I know that the worst im
aginable stories about them can be
true.”
WAR-FUND DRIVE
New York, March 11.—The War
Council of the American Red Cross an
nounced today that the campaign to
raise the second war loan relief fund of
$100,000,000 would be postponed until
the week of May 20. It was the orig
inal intention to begin raising this
money for Red Cross work on May (!,
but fear that it might detract even
slightly from the Liberty Loan cam
paign prompted the War Council to
postpone the date for two weeks. This
action, therefore, fixes the date of the
Second War-Fund campaign eleven
months after the first which was car
ried on during the week of June 18,
1017. The War Council had been ap
pointed by President Wilson five weeks
prior to the start of this first money
raising campaign, and its first great
task was to provide means for carrying
on the relief work on a scale commen
surate with the military operations.
More than $100,000,000 was contributed
in response to the first call for financial
aid and these contributions plus inter
est brought the total receipts from the
first drive to $105,990,257, Of this
amount $17,000,121 was refunded to
chapters for local relief work, and of
the balance $77,721,918 has been appro
priated, leaving a balance available for
appropriations of $10,371,217. France
has been the beneficiary of American
Red Cross appropriations in the sum of
more than $30,000,000.
During the week preceding Christ
mas the Red Cross conducted a mem
bership drive which resulted in the en
rollment of approximately 22,000,000
new members, and this was followed
last month by a campaign conducted by
the Junior Membership of the Red
Cross which resulted in that collateral
organization of virtually all the school
children in America.
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Let us voluntarily deny ourselves now that
the needs of our Allies may be supplied, lest
the ultimate demands of our enemies must of
necessity be satisfied by the unwilling saorb
floes of future generations.
Second 8t. IDITAROD MEAT OO- p*°ne,5|
TELL ITALIANS
ABOUT ENTENTES;
Rome, April 20 A movement to im
prove censorship condilinns so that
Italy may be better known to her
Allies has been begun by l)r. Stuart
(lalenga, chief of the Press Dureau,
under-secretary to Prime Minister
Orlando, and a member of parliament.
At a recent conference held to hear
the grievances of both Italian and
foreign newspaper men so as to im
prove censorship conditions, English
and American correspondents pointed
out that one of the chief objections
was the slowness of the telegraphic
and mail services, particularly when
any news event of importance occurred.
The chief point made as regards the
Allies, was that it is to their mutual
interest to let the people of the respec
tive nations know of the war activities
of each other and by telling the truth
to counteract the evil impressions made
by the circulation of Austro-German
propaganda.
Anti-American propaganda in Italy
so far has been largely founded on the
argument that the war is enriching
the United States to the deteriment of
all the nations of Europe, that the
United Staves is going to make only a
“bluff” of carrying on the war and
risking the lives of her soldiers. Such
propaganda is supposed to be of Ger
man origin. Tt has been found to take
ready root in the minds of pacifists and
socialists who want to have the war
ended at any cost and who realize that
without the help of the Luited States
the war might not he carried on so long
and to a victorious conclusion.
A subtle means of conveying this
argument has been by the use of a mov
ing picture film shown in Sicily pictur
ing Uncle Sam as a big, vulgar million
aire raking in the gold of the whole
world.
Representatives LaGuardia, of New i
A LI. ABOARD!_
THE NEW GASOLINE BOAT
M.T. Crosby
WILL SAIL JUST AFTER THE OPENING
OF NAVIGATION
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Marshall, Andreofsky,
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York, has delivered several speeches in ;
Italy, speaking in the Italian language,
explaining that, a collection of debts is
about all the United States will get out
of the war and telling of the sacrifices
the American people are making in
the way of food and coal so that her
allies may have more of these articles.
This “get-rich-quiclc argument,”
however, was used very effectively
against the English previously to the
entry of the United States into the war.
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