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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1918
Page
7
American Arthur Guy Empey living in Jersey City joins the British Army after the Lusitania disaster. He trains in London and France then serves in frontline trenches. He rescues wounded under fire and digs in No Man's Land while on listening and observation posts.
In the unit a tall Northern man nicknamed Old Scotty is described as a deaf, expert rifleman from the Northwest Mounted Police. He boasts a forty five pistol, wears a sombrero and lariat, and longs to be a sniper. His antics include notches on his rifle and fierce, colorful language before blithely facing danger.
In Chapter XVH the narrator recalls a late night patrol after ten lieutenants join in. Twelve men plus the leader venture out with six Mills bombs to scout No Man's Land for working parties. They move cautiously for hours seeking activity near German barbed wire.
A soldier recalls slipping into no man’s land by mistake and bursting through German wire. He dodged fire after a sharp challenge, found his way back to Allied trenches, and survived with shaking nerves until a rum restored him.
A company in reserve billets turns to theatre writing and staging a two act farce The Diamond Palace Saloon. Soldiers scour villages for props and improvise a Bowery setting with Abe Switch as lead.
A historical note states that the total wire in submarine cable cores and sheathing since 1857 would stretch from the earth to the moon, illustrating the vast scale of early global communications infrastructure.
The House adopted the conference report to base draft quotas on Class 1 men and eliminated its amendment granting credits for volunteers. It sent the measure back to the conferrees over a 182 to 118 vote after a Senate amendment exempting ministerial and medical students. The bill on registering youths aged 21 since June 5 awaits Senate action.
The War Department approves an ice making and refrigerating plant at Camp Greene quartermaster depot. Construction of six new quartermaster storehouses is pending written authorization. Work continues on mess halls roads and the base hospital while a sewer system nears completion. Ice demand at the camp runs to thousands of pounds daily with about 300 pounds per mess hall.
Prosecution attorney Edwin T. Burton J B Huntington Y M C A official L J Williams G W Branch face suits in Superior court filed by Miss Jacobi Wey ers. They refused to answer questions before commissioner Rogers citing constitutional rights. The matter will be certified to Judge Lyon for his opinion after examination prior to complaint filing.
Dr Benjamin K Hays of Oxford resigns from the state board of medical examiners and as secretary of the state medical society after three years, turning over the office to Dr L B McBreyer and entering military service to join his comrades.
Raleigh reports out-of-state witnesses besides experts in the Gaston B Means murder case received no expense money from North Carolina for trial presence. Miss Julia Alexander, first woman lawyer before the Supreme Court, fails to win a new trial as Charlotte Electric Railway appeals a judgment against it in favor of Grace M Spittle for 11 500.
Governor Bickett calls his Western North Carolina speaking trip the most satisfactory and refreshing. He recounts raids on deserters in Jackson county and reports that remaining deserters are ready to surrender. He urges loyalty to the Union and cites Cherokee patriotism and draft volunteers from the reservation.
Washington dispatch reports General Crowder orders renewed efforts to seize deserters in North Carolina. Draft officials receive General Orders No. 26 detailing rewards for apprehending and delivering delinquents to an army camp or station, with a $50 reward option or a lesser amount.
West Raleigh launches a determined typhoid fever campaign led by the State Board of Health. The plan targets not more than 500 deaths statewide in 1918, claiming a potential saving of 126 lives for the year.
North Carolina briefs report a Methodist conference in Atlanta approving a shift from Holy Catholic Church to Church of Christ by 172 to 72 after eight years of discussion. The draft asks the provost marshal for state quotas, NC 18 870 and SC 11 067, while NC Gov Bickett defends loyalty from moon to seacoast.
A wooden passenger coach carrying the 321st infantry jumped a trestle at Camp Jackson near Greenville. Eight soldiers were killed and 26 injured. A military inquiry led by Lieut. Col. Halsteadt investigated the cause as the train, pulling out for Camp Sevier, was slowed for the trestle when a spreading rail toppled the front coach. The list of dead and injured includes Private Edgar Simpkins of Arkansas and Private Philetus Swann of Asheville among others, with numerous names of injured from North and South Carolina and Tennessee.
London reports the Ostend submarine base on the Belgian coast was blocked by a British raid. The obsolete cruiser Vindictive filled with concrete was sunk at the harbor entrance, while a battered old cruiser lies aground outside the navigation channel and the harbor entrance is free.
Greenville report confirms two North Carolina soldiers died Wednesday evening in the 50th division. Private James R. Cullum of the 120th Infantry is survived by sister Mrs BE A Frazier of Durham, and Geraver Woodring of the 105th Ammunition Train is survived by his father H B Woodring of Sanda. Both deaths announced at Camp Sevier divisional headquarters.
British admiralty reports Ostend harbor raiders blocked the exit channel with the hulk of the old cruiser Vindictive. The daring strike under heavy fire hindered German submarine operations from the Belgian harbor for a time, possibly rendering them impossible.
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