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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1917
Page
1
Convicts in Michigan prison revolt and set five buildings ablaze. Guards were called out to quell the uprising as nationwide registration proceeds with few disturbances and arrests seen as sporadic, not organized resistance. Weather remains fair and registration trends look healthy in early reports.
Governor Sleeper wired the Marquette guards to move 25 National Guardsmen to Ne gaunee amid reports that Independent Workers of the World advocates threaten to oppose registration by force.
Serious rioting erupts at the Joliet state prison with five buildings set ablaze. Soldiers from Companies E and F of the first infantry in federal service assist guards, clearing convicts from burning structures and herding them back to cells. Soldiers are ordered not to fire except to save their own lives.
Concord residents enrolled for military service with orderly conduct showing no signs of disorder or evasion as registration proceeded in the afternoon.
Salisbury North Carolina June 5 Registration is progressing orderly and is expected to be heavy in this township with many residents set to vote.
Hickory North Carolina reports 550 men registered by one oclock with expectations around 850 by day end. Authorities say the scene is quiet and orderly as the registration continues.
San Francisco dispatch reports Vice-President Feng Kwock Chew sent his resignation to President Li Yuan Hung. The same cable says the president called for unity and declares neutrality as factions within China clash over the republic’s troubles.
William G. McAdoo secretary of the treasury spoke to two mass meetings in New York urging purchase of liberty loan bonds as the best investment on earth. He said funds were needed to equip brave men going to the field to defend lives liberty and property of the nation.
Reported attempt to wreck the Alabama Great Southern train carrying General Wood from Chattanooga to Birmingham. A log was found tied across the track about four miles south of Chattanooga with passengers confirming the incident.
Registration in the state opened with rapid turnout across cities. National guardsmen were detailed to explain the process and aid recruiting as crowds formed at booths. Greensboro staged a large patriotic pageant while Fayetteville Salisbury and Hickory reported strong black turnout for registration.
Goldsboro June 5 The Odd Fellows Orphan Home closes its term with a baccalaureate sermon by Rev M L Kesler D D superintendent of the Baptist orphanage at Thomasville to a large audience Examinations start today and run through next Saturday A high school play is set for Wednesday night June 11 the home marks its 25th anniversary with a grand concert by the children of the home leaders and supporters gather for the milestone event.
Springfield residents and nearby neighbors loaded into motor cars and fanned out into the Ozark mountains to locate Lloyd Keet the 14 month old son of banker J. Holland Keet abducted Wednesday night from his home. Citizens hope the hills again shelter the kidnapers.
Washington June 5 two thousand wholesale grocers in the southern states urged in a letter by J H McLaurin president of the Southern Wholesale Grocers association to support the administration food legislation in congress He warned against further delay as business interests favored swift enactment into law.
Morgantown June 5 Dr Edward Mack Jr assistant professor of chemistry at West Virginia University resigns to take a similar post at the University of North Carolina.
In High Point township and across the city men aged 21 to 31 lined up at four registration sites from dawn, answering questions for selective conscription. Volunteers assisted, lines grew under heat, and many registered in minutes while others took longer. Public ceremonies included a sunrise prayer at South Main street school and Red Cross enlistments at a post office booth.
New York police report positive information that the head of the German wireless system visited the United States, laid plans for wireless operations to inform Berlin, and then departed, likely toward Mexico.
About 400 Baptist young people from across North Carolina expected in Gastonia for the annual Young People's Baptist Union convention. The event starts tonight and runs through Thursday with Walter N. Johnson of Raleigh among the speakers and a visitors reception planned at the church.
Commencement began with Dr Walter William Moore of Union Theological Seminary Richmond Va delivering the baccalaureate sermon in Gerrard hall UNC alumni returned for reunions and a large crowd attended.
The federal shipping board and the department of commerce announced a plan to recruit and train ten thousand men to officer the ships of the new American merchant marine. Henry Howard of Boston was named director, with offices in the customs house. The first nautical training school under government direction opened near Boston, with fourteen more to follow along the Atlantic coast and potential expansion to the Pacific and Great Lakes. Applicants may be of any age and must be in good physical condition.
A large parade with secret orders military groups municipal bodies school children and citizens moved at 11 oclock along Greensboro streets. A mass prayer meeting filled the Municipal theater at 7 am and registration day passed quietly with no efforts to disrupt it.
Farmers in Wayne County report extensive corn losses and fruit damage after a Sunday afternoon storm that produced hail and lightning. The heavy rain damaged fences barns and trees across a wide area around 5 o'clock.
In Washington the 27th annual reunion of United Confederate veterans opened with patriotic mood as about 5,000 veterans and 75,000 visitors gathered. Registration day saw impromptu groups and singing while wartime memories mixed with current conflict talk under the capital tents.
The chamber of deputies voted to authorize cabling a message of congratulations to the United States Congress on the approval of an American squadron.
London reports from the Associated Press that British warships bombarded the German naval base at Ostend on the Belgian coast with no British losses. In a running battle six German destroyers clashed with Commodore Arwhitt's squadron, a German destroyer was sunk and another damaged.
Reports from the British front describe signs of a major offensive with intensified gunfire and trench maneuvers. An artillery duel near Ypres and a long-range roar toward Vimy ridge signal Haig's next likely blow under General Maurice.
Dr. Eric A. Abernathy and Dr. L H Webb must report to Fort Oglethorpe Georgia by June 15 for medical officers reserve corps training. Prof R L James of the university engineering school expects call with engineers for France. Lewis Burnett, a college sophomore, will sail for France with the American ambulance corps. Miss Effie Tillman of Chapel Hill married Jack Sparrow yesterday.
The funeral for B F Montgomery a well known contractor who died at his South Main home yesterday after a three week illness was held this afternoon at the North Main Street Methodist Protestant church at 4 oclock. Pastor Rev A G Dixon conducted the service and a large gathering of friends and relatives attended. Interment followed at Oakwood cemetery.
Durham June 5 Trinity College observed the 25th anniversary of its removal to Durham as part of today’s commencement exercises. The event highlighted the college’s growth and community impact.
All men aged 21 to 30 were urged to register between 7 and 9 pm as part of the Day of Registration. About 10.26 million subject to register across states including North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Exemptions will be decided later and counts delayed by reporting rules.
In Stafford County Circuit Court Judge Alvin T. Embrey was named receiver for the Virginia Fredericksburg and Western Railway company. Elizabeth Marshall seeks $1,900 and to determine bonds issued under a mortgage securing a $3,000,000 bond issue. The company, organized twenty years ago, bought the Fredericksburg to Chesapeake Bay rights of way.
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