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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1918
Page
8
The City Council adjourned session accepted bids for 100000 dollars of refunding water mains extension and improvement bonds sold to Harriss Forbes Company of New York at a premium of 1181 dollars. The 75000 and 25000 dollar issues led the eight bids with a fair price in the council's view.
A small fire broke out Wednesday at 11 p.m. in the home of George LaBoo, a colored resident on North Tenth Street. Children playing with matches caused the miniature conflagration, destroying a chair and prompting a quick fire department response from Box 127, preventing further damage.
John Ostertag E C Mescaw Eddie Brown and McCoy Dowless were convicted of attempting to break prison with hacksaws and given road terms Dowless 30 days others six months. their conduct negates credit for good behavior. Several others were fined or had cases continued. Bond set at 100 dollars for all defendants.
Captain David Fallon, distinguished visitor, spoke at the high school auditorium at noon to students, faculty, and visitors. He described Gallipoli and three years in France and Belgium before invalidation, delivering his address in a distinct Irish brogue.
Telegrams sent to 90 North Carolina towns urging that Wilmington port recognition become a state fight led by the Chamber of Commerce Rotary clubs and county officials. The drive seeks federal harbor funding for Cape Fear river depth and channel depth, claiming gateway-port status lowers statewide freight rates.
A speech fragment urges that revolutionaries can crush council authority but warns German imperialists will trigger a German revolution. It claims patience is needed and describes German panic after plunder raids, with cowards fleeing and revolutionaries rallying to defend the socialist homeland.
Berlin reports a day of heavy air combat with German forces claiming to have downed 15 Entente airplanes and three captive balloons. The German general staff also said troops north of Dorpat captured two Russian regiments as they retreated.
In a Petrograd dispatch German General Hoffman reportedly ordered continued German advances near Pskov despite Russia accepting peace terms. A separate public notice offers cash for old teeth and precious metals, with mail-in payment and a ten day hold.
The Postoffice Department announced daily airplane mail service from New York to Washington will start April 15. Eight aircraft will be provided by the War Department and flown by army fliers as a year long part of the army aviation training system.
The service uses the Postal Telegraph Cable Company's messengers to call for advertisements in the same quick manner as telegrams and cables are covered in the city.
Frank P. Walsh of Kansas City Missouri, former FIRC chairman, was chosen by labor as its representative in the public interest on the board forming a national labor policy for the government. Employers have selected former President Taft to represent the public interest for them.
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