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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1918
Page
4
The High Point North Carolina Enterprise announces subscription rates by mail or carrier at 50 per year and 2.50 for three months. It invites reader letters with author names, notes second-class post status, and datelines Monday September 9, 1918.
Berlin says they have finished their retrograde movement and will oppose further Allied plans. British and French forces push from Cambrai toward St. Quentin and La Fere while American troops help in the Vesle Aisne sector. Secretary Newton Baker arrives in France for the inter allied war conference as tests of strength loom.
General Crowder requests bands on registration day, urging North Carolina communities to unite in patriotic songs. The State Council of Defense praises communal singing to boost morale and aims to drive a hundred percent registration on September 12 following September 11.
Nine hundred skilled cooks trained for overseas duty graduate in classes of 300 at Camp Bowie Fort Worth. The program emphasizes practical cooking, sanitation, stock management and food conservation with the goal of efficient rations and waste reduction for the army.
The American Expeditionary Force lists 592 casualties today with 44 killed in action 145 missing in action 105 wounded severely and 268 died of disease. North Carolinians named include Private Robert Collins Hendersonville missing and Privates Don Sutton Lumberton Vinson Gneiss Batson Vista Midgett Lowland plus J B Anderson Wilson Jones Dunn Jenrett Ash. Overall army totals since landing in France reach 27173 with 5249 killed in action and 1677 wounded in action.
The High Point report notes lighter weekend motoring but not drastically so. The fuel administration limits pleasure driving on Sundays to two exceptions: funeral processions and emergency trips to areas not served by railways, with no church or post office permits.
The North State Telephone company responds to criticism of local service, admitting faults and promising improvement. It notes much of the critique is justified and cites the labor question as a factor in recent issues.
The city’s telephone firm struggles with a lack of experienced operators and recent resignations. Although eight longtime workers left, the company has 13 positions filled by new staff. Officials expect service to improve as training completes and untried operators gain experience. Public cooperation is urged to help overcome the labor shortage.
In Paris Aug 25 two khaki teams played a wartime game on a cratered field mocked as Lorraine pasture. A shell dropped near second base during a tense inning, the umpire asked if anyone was hurt and play resumed with the line about finishing the war before the game.
New York reports First Lieutenant John Manning Battle, former assistant district attorney of New York County, killed in action in France. A UNC graduate, he studied law at Fordham University before joining the practice in New York. He sailed for France last August and was promoted to first lieutenant overseas.
Berlin suffers a working horse shortage prompting coal to be moved from yards to homes by streetcar trailers. The Berlin Tageblatt reports coal will be conveyed in trailers attached to trolleys to meet consumer needs.
Secretary Baker arrives in France aboard an army transport with John D. Ryan assistant secretary for aircraft and Major General Gorgas surgeon general. Ryan will inspect overseas airplane facilities and factories. Gorgas will review American army hospitals abroad.
Sixteen suspects linked to a series of industrial plant fires across California are in custody in Los Angeles, Fresno, and Sacramento jails. Federal indictments were returned by a Sacramento grand jury, with Dublin Bob Connell in Sacramento jail confessing to role in the arson campaign alongside Industrial Workers of the World members and others.
New York dispatch notes that Germany has virtually suspended building of dwelling houses, per the imperial statistical bureau's report on new constructions as published in the Berlin Tageblatt.
Rome notes strong artillery activity along the Piave River and Ramonica valley with frequent duels in Val Arsa and the Asiago plateau. Two tons of bombs hit aviation hangars near Belluno and Italian aviators struck Villach and Lienz railway stations with precision.
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