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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1918
Page
4
At Greenville Camp a new conservation and war effort feature includes carrier pigeons for field signaling. A 20 member staff supports printing, clothing repair, motor repairs, and wood supply as part of the camp’s war readiness program.
Despondency is believed to have led Private Jack Davis of Company C 6th infantry to take bichloride of mercury in the division stockade after a minor infraction. Davis died last Friday and was buried in Greenville with full military honors after his mother A. B. Davis was notified but no disposition instructions were given.
General Pershing during the Mexican expedition noted a Boy Scout mackinaw in San Antonio. He ordered a duplicate for his engineers and scouts, and the national outfitter FON Coke Jr. supplies hundreds of mackinaws for the U.S. Army.
Ice blockage in the Chesapeake Bay disrupts regional water transport. Baltimore and Washington lines reduce service due to hazardous navigation while ferry and freight movements to Cape Charles halt.
Terre Haute scouts began a campaign to adopt a French war orphan with pledges and signatures flooding in. A skeptical scout warned the orphan might be a girl, halting the effort while the group considers the likelihood and scope of the assignment.
Wilmington on January twenty four reports show water front guards boosted by naval reserves regular army troops and the Ninth Company North Carolina reserves. Washington orders urged vigilance at Atlantic ports but officials say no special significance to Wilmington activity and rumors are unfounded.
Treasury and Post Office departments team with Boy Scouts of America to solicit thrift stamp subscriptions. Scouts canvass homes using a prepaid postcard application for one cent stamps, with no cash payments accepted. Post offices handle delivery and payment collection, 289,859 scouts to receive manuals.
Camp Sevier in Greenville South Carolina is blanketed by sleet measuring about three inches with continued cold and possible rain. This ninth sleet event in 40 days delays outdoor military activities as footing remains treacherous and temperatures stay below freezing.
Washington reports the federal government will purchase about 100000 tons of nitrate of soda for sale to farmers at cost with freight and tag fees borne by buyers. Sales are limited to 100000 tons, proratable, not sold to dealers, and applications must arrive by February 4.
Three North Carolina officers are among eight who have left Roth Field Artillery brigade for training at Port Sill Oklahoma. First Lieutenants Leo C Tobin and Frank K Borden will take a ten week course as airplane observers. Captain Reid R Morrison will attend the school of fire for about ten weeks. They will rejoin their commands after completion.
Greenville South Carolina reports that most cotton mills will pay employees 50 percent of regular wages on shutdown days under the Garfield decree. Mills were idle Monday and the policy will be followed regionwide. The West Virginia coal operators association backs the U S fuel administration and the director general of railways in a received resolution.
More than 70 percent of the 30th division have taken war insurance with 18 822 policies totaling 134 million dollars by last Saturday. Officials expect 80 percent insured this week and over 90 percent by February 12. Relatives may insure soldiers at the same rate, and governors' appeals plus slides at shows boost the drive.
General Pershing expresses unqualified approval for the Boy Scouts in a cablegram received in Philadelphia via London. The message says the movement builds manly qualities for citizenship and soldiers. Separate notice states the fuel administration directed higher coal shipments to Ohio Michigan and surrounding states for ten days due to shortages.
James Baker, 39, operating an elevator in the Commercial building, fell ten stories to the basement after the safety catch failed. He survived with a broken leg and other injuries and was taken to the Charlotte sanatorium. The incident occurred after the car slipped past the seventh floor, briefly caught, then plunged again.
In Florida, clay bricks saturated with kerosene are burned in stoves to conserve fuel. It is claimed that four rations of oil used this way will replace a load of fuel wood totaling 26 cubic feet.
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