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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1918
Page
4
Gertrude Atherton imagines a distant Fourth of July under German rule. She envisions a German colony shaping culture and education, a slow collapse into tyranny, and Americans finally reclaiming freedom through vigilance and action. The piece warns against complacency and urges decisive resistance to despotism.
Rome dispatch confirms 45000 German prisoners taken by Italians in Piave battles. Included are about 12000 to 15000 captured in the week before the Austrian offensive collapsed into rout.
Washington June 26 government insurance totaling more than $590000 goes to survivors of seventy marines reported killed in France. Of 72 marines listed as killed in this casualty list only two had any insurance, fifty seven were insured to the maximum $10000, one claimed $3000 and twelve $5000 each.
In New York on June 26 the cotton market showed a moderate retreat after the prior day's advance. Demand for shorts slackened as traders covered, while some traders favored long positions on continued reports of beneficial rains in the eastern belt and cooler southwest weather. July and August opened 15 to 66 points higher, then eased with July around 3.03 per unit and August near 25.30.
London June 26 Baron von Seydler the Austrian premier declined Emperor Charles invitation to form a new cabinet. The decision was announced at a crown council meeting in Vienna where the food situation was declared critical and Charles said he would address Emperor William on the matter.
While touring toward Montreal an automobile carrying Mr and Mrs Charles Hamilton Hugh Hamilton and Mrs W F Thom struck a road hole. Mrs Hamilton sustained a broken wrist two bones were injured. Friends in High Point were notified Wednesday. Mrs Hamilton was rushed to Black Mountain for treatment. The party will stay in Montreal until September. Mr Hamilton is returning this week.
Washington reports ships east of longitude 40 between Cape Race and Bermuda have been warned of enemy activity. A German raider was reported in the vicinity and brought by an incoming steamer, but the navy said the warning rests on unconfirmed reports.
L J Ingram High Point food administrator announced merchants may sell corn meal at 54 cents a pound following federal guidance. He stated the goal to reach five cents a pound soon with improved conditions.
A North Wilkesboro report says the Wilkes county reserve militia offers to aid Governor Birkett in rounding up Ashe draft deserters facing potential indictment for evading military service.
Rome dispatch reports Austria in full retreat and from prisoners papers shows they did not expect defeat. They promised soldiers this would be the last stroke to put Italy out of the war.
Atlantic Coast Line engineer Marion R. Brandt of Florence South Carolina was shot and dangerously wounded over a dispute about a train clearance order. Seaboard Air Line telegraph operator Edward W. Kennedy, recently from Columbia, was held without bail on the shooting charge. Brandt has a wife and two children. Kennedy is single.
London reports German artillery engaged east of Amiens between Villers-Bretonneux and Morlancourt last night with activity in other sectors. Arras raids yielded British prisoner captures.
Paris dispatch reports German assault on new French positions north of the Aisne failed to gain, with official war office stating no gains. In surprise attacks across Woevre and Lorraine, French forces captured 20 prisoners.
President Wilson will address a Mount Vernon celebration on July 4. Allied representatives will attend the event marking America’s Independence Day.
Judge Frank Carter of Buncombe and Madison counties resigns effective August 3 to devote full time to the Albemarle Enterprise weekly paper he recently started. His successor has not yet been named.
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