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"' ' - ' -r - - THE MORNING STAR, WlLMINGTON,N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH.31, 1916. .1 . . , . , . . , . Three. ; i $8.00 SET OF GRANITE AND COPPER.WARE '-.,FREE'v'i' With Every ? Majestic Range Sold ? , ' ..i ' . P a. .... 5 JV I ft i $8.00 SET OF GRANITE And COPPER WARE FREE ' .With Every Majestic Range Sold A iEiiy) 18,00 AS a special-inducement dufingr our. demonstration V week only; with every , MAJESTIC : RANGE . sold " (prices always the same)r'we will give "free, one handsome set bf ware as illustrated here. ' ' . ' ' : v Every piece of this ware is the best of its kind. Not v a piece that is not needed in every" kitchen: "If cannot possibly be bought for less than $8.00. This ware is on exhibition at our store. DON'T FAIL TO SEE IT. D Which Shall It Be? O YOU intend, to continue UriMwIngr, burning valuable fuel land destroying: fcigii-prlcd food witb that old worn-out cook stove? J- v You KNOW that old stove eats, up a lot of fuel each year. V u KNOW you have trouble in a-ettlns; It to bake just rig-ht in fact spoil a ktatch of bread every- once in a vrhile you know It costs considerable tor yearly repairs, Stop and think , and flgrure. Wouldn't it .pay . you to buy a good range laage with a reputation ' The GreatlMajestic "hoal iroI? Range YOU make no mistake In buyins; the GREAT MAJESTIC- it's the range with THE REPUTATION ask your : neighbors. Then, too, it's made just right and of the right kind of ma terial MALLEABLE- AND CHARCOAL IRON riveted together practically air tight lined with pure asbestos parts being malleable ' cant Xreak has a movable reservoir . anil an oven that doesn't -warp -that's why the MAJESTIC uses so little fuel, 4 bakes just right every day In the year (browns bread just right all over without turning), heats 15 gallons of water while bzeakfast Is cooking properly handled lasts a lifetime, and costs practically-nothing "for repairs. Don't buy the range you expect to last a lifetime unsight un seen;" .you'll be sure to be' disappointed. Come to our 'store t during demonstration week, see the GREAT - MAJESTIC have' its many exclusive features explained find out why the MA-' ; JEtTICis 30O per cent, stronger than other ranges wheremost ranges are weakest. j. MAJE5TlGiRAMGE5'AREMADElN-ALL 5IZE5 'AND-5TYLE5 HEAVY-STTirnPEMKUM-mflRBLErZED' pjB 1 H - - - aw .auV I : I ill ' III II 1 1 II Ml EE - : a -uuusv ricflVY-ninRBLEiZEQ-Pwi-pnrf' 2-5Mna-N?ip-pnM5 THIS SET OF WARE FREE CHI L D R E N 'S :SOUVENIR DAY: inn STORYBOOKS I7017I7 1UU "THE . QUILLIVER'S RIDE" T JAlliEi A ' By CLAUDE WETMOBE ' CHARMING STORY for boys and girls of the adventures Xof the wee QUILLrVERS in BIG FOLKS' LAND a story that will holb any child's interest to the very end, and teach a lesson of life-long value. ; , The first ISO boys and girls who present to THR MAJESTIC RANGE SALESMAN, at our store, between 3 and 5 P. M., TUES DAY, written answers' to the following questions, will reeeivu this fascinating story book FREE. 1 What range is your mother now using-? 3 Give names of anyone you know needing, a new range. 3 The .Majestic Range 1ms many points of superiority which does your mother consider best? 4 Wliat is your agef ' 5 When is your birthday? $1.00 ARTICLE FREE The boy or girl giving the neatest , and- best answer to the third question may select any 91.00 article from our stock IN ADDITION TO THE SOUVENIR. ; A PRIZE FOR EVERYBODY. Don't be "discouraged if you are not one of the 10O to get the story book. You will receive a MAJESTIC PUZZLE . CARD that will afford you many hours of amusement. Be sAe to have your answers ready to hand In at our store TUESDAY afternoon, between three and live. Thiey must be WRITTEN if you wlsli to receive a souvenir or prized " Special - All during this week a special demon strator direct i f rom the ' MAJESTIC ' FACTORY will be glad to show you "ALL ABOUT RANGES' , show you why the MAJESTIC is the best range on earth at any price. Come, if You Intend to Buy or Not EDUCATION lies in KNOWING THINGS KNOW why the oven of a range is heated KNOW how "the water is, heated HOW the top is heated WHY the MAJESTIC uses so little fuel KNOW how a range is made inside and outside. This educa tion may serve you in the future.. DONT OVERLOOK a chance to KNOW THINGS shewn by one who knows. : COME. DON'T OVERLOOK THE DATE. JACOB THIS IS A SPECIAL INVITATION TO YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS aiiaiiOKr--; (fftMPyaflV ?0and 12 South FrontStreet vwuuuu , (muy. u 0 , Wilminaton. N. C. in - r KANE ASSERTS HE MD. HO FALSE ItJTENTIOriS However, He Admits Receiving the Money From Yjfaite. . Says lie Didn't Intend to Testify tie Used Arsenic , In . Embalming PccU's tfody Was1 Dajeed by f Offer Made, bj Waite. Xew York, March 30.-r-Eugene Oliver K.ane, who embalmed" the body of' John E. Peck for whose murder Xr. Arthur barren Waite is under arrest here, went to District Attorney Edward STwann's office today arid 'denied he ever had any intention' of testifying that the embalming fluid used on I'eck's body contained arsenic as Waite is said to Mr. Swann to have alleged. Kane admitted, ' however, i it was said, that he had received- $9,000 in as!h and a check for $9, .400 from Waite, which the young dentist has - said was o be in. exchange., for swearing that mere was arsenic in , : the ' embalming "fluid and placing the poison in a 8am . pie to be delivered to; Mr., Swann. Ac cording to the embalmer's story the money was virtually 'forced UDon him. Although an order for his direst had "een issued Kane -was allowed , to re main at liberty in the euslbdy of : his "attorney. - -' ' Kane said lie was sent to Waite by John S. Potter, undertaker in charge of Peck's funeral. Who- told him Waite banted to ask him 'about - embalming fluid. At Waite's solicitation, he met the dentist in a garages where he said Waite asked him if he could put ar senic in a sample of embalmirig fluid for the district attorney.' rlane replied it could be done, but v that it was against the law. Waite, then -offered him a check for $9,400. which he said lie did not want, but ne aid not return jt. Waite, he saidr promised' to mako im "comfortable for life."-, Less than two. hours 4later;i he met waite in a cigar "store y appointment although he said he did not know why Waite wanted to see him. They both "ent into a telephone booth" and Wait ' , Slysteryt, . Who is the LauKhlna: Mask?" Will 'Je the one engrossing: question. '"The iron Claw." THrit tnAav 5 - (Advertisement.)1 placed a large roll of bills, which Waite told Swann contained $9,000, in to Kane's hands, saying: .'Now. for God's sake eret that stuff in the sample and get it down, to the dis trict attorney's office." ' DANIELS, THE LAST . WITNESS FOE NAVY . , PROGRAMME, HEARD -(Continued From Page One.) 'annarflntlv - understood that Hadfleld's limited," would enter the field and not withstanding that the last previous bids for these companies had been ?45U to $500, the Crucible Steel Company, the Bethlehem Steel . Company and the MirtvalA Steel Oomnanv bid at the ab normally1 low prices of $315, $320 and $334 eaclv These bids were well un der, those submitted, by. Hadfleld, limit ed.'andthat company could not'obtain a contract;-' "The ' condition in the United States today is briefly as follows: -"The navy wants armor-piercing pro lntilAR . lint it does not want an in- i.f eri or ' quality such as the manufac turers a-re willing, to sen as sucn. xne manufacturers, although they, have am ple, capacity and although; they know that projectiles 'In accordance with fhe requirementsr -can he producedi are un willing to undertake their production, but are endeavoring to force the Navy Departmenft to' pay the same price, for an admittedly inferior product. , : -"What is the answer? There can be only' one ; that is for the Navy. Depart ment to 'own' and operate its , own pro jectile plant which will enable it to fill its own requirements and ? possibly -to improve over the qualities now demands ed of private concerns." . Explain -ReaueBt fo;More Men ' Secretary Daniels explained that his request that the" enlistment of 15,008 additional men be authorized this year hrin- the force to . the flerure hv th general iboard in Its last communication on the subject, approx imately $7,000 men. He suggested that the hospital corps be excluded from the autKorized .enlisted strength In future as in the' -arniy. - While the secretary thought 1t '-.improbable that more than 10,000 more' men could , be enlisted, he pointed out that with the . authoriza tion for 15,000 and appropriations im mediateiy available, the recruiting service could be amplified so-as to se cure quicker results.1 .Th nrAMM.rv comDlements for ships, Secretary Daniels said, "was' one of the most vexing problems as. it "was- sel dom two corporations agreed as t'p the number of men they needed The. whole mater, he - added, was ..being worked out by'a looarar of offifcers. v The Secretary ; urged the - equipment of Norfolk," Philadelphia; and-Tyget Sound navy yards for heavy construct tlon and th building' of big. drydock at NQriollt..He said th delay in cqn'- jtructing' 'battleships;. 43 and 44 had made it certain these . ships would be far ahead of anything now afloat in torpedo protection. The delay , had been urged, he said, by the chief, construc tor who had only recently ; completed his plans. Defends Educational Features. ' The Secretary defended, the ' educa tional features developed during his administration, which - he contenfled were bringing in men of the highest type. . . ' "You can never have an , efficient navy," he said, "if you build a bulk head so nigh that young men who en ter at the ' bottom cannot rise to the top. I burned a bushel of recruiting literature showing men going to the tropics and associating . with half dressed women. It was indecent. All Our literature now shows that men w"Ho enlist will get education and vocation al training." - . . T . . I BRITISH CREW ARE HELD UP BY; ONE TEUTON STOWAWAY .. (Continued From. .Page, One,) -Since being placed in jail( the. pris oner, who speaKS excellent .tijn&iisn. has refused -to discuss, his alleged ex ploit. He said, however, that he had been living tor, the past eignt monens at Hoboken and 'for a number of years had i lived, "in Epgland. . He said he had been stowed away in tne jviatoppo ior Ave days before she sailed. - A partial . investigation taiiett to re veal any of the bombs Schiller claimed to have 'concealed, about ; the boat. 180,000 in times of peace was intro duced ' by Chairman j Chamberlain, : but it was announced - that amendments from the committee would be disposed of before any others were considered. A number of minor amendments, agreed to without objection, included one which prohibits the calling out of the ;flunteer army in . time .of peace for periods more than 30 days without consent of Congress.1 -, ? ' STARTS FIGHT TO " - - AMEND ARMY BILL (Continued From Page One.) r v'f 4rat frrtm the air and suodIv the srov-' emment at a" price" to be fixed by the Secretary of War, :: , . " An amendment to the pending, Sen ate substitute for. the army reorganiza tion bill .i was introduced by Mr. Un derwood' to authorize, army, engineers to investigate and report; to Congress on .the best" process; ;f or, 'fixation of at mospheric nitrogen -rid the best " site for the production praraoeqUate sup ply . for use - in manufacture" of muni tions in time of war and fertilizer . in time of peace. , ; - , '"' ; S "v" -Smith Champion His. BIirv t Senator ' Smith, of South ," Carolina championed Jhls bill, now. pending, which Would appropriate $15,000,000 for development. of five government nitrato plants. - '' " Jt 1 ' A - The. South ' Carolina Senator said "it was, better "than, the" Underwood amende mentc because -". It., would ", provide - - a means'- for immedfate ,' acquisition ,o government", waterpower ites tb"eforp all: available sites Jiad. been preempted. ' Jin,., amendment Irestrietlngi the . en-. listed Btrength of the regular, army io HOPE M'LEAN WILL BE . DANIELS 'SUCCESSOR (Continued From Page One.) he would accept the place or not, but there is-. every reason ' to believe he would' take.', the honor.' if" it' can be had without a? fight. Wilton McLean came very near.! en tering the gubernatorial race this year. But for the -illness of a member, of his family, there is little doubt- that he would have' announeed his candidacy before this time. He is a business man of rare " judgment and has been suc cessful as au. business -man and banker. .. He Jtas acted- as National Kiommittee man since Mr. Daniels became Secretary of the Navyl-.-lt was McLean wli,o saw to it that North, Carolina: contributed her part for the continuation of per manent .Democratic ; headquarters j in Washington in iorder jtfiat ' the Demo cratic administration . might be- kept before the "public. ... No morei- popular" selection for this .high ; honor; could, he made than ; to give , the place to JVIcLean, in the opin ion of a prominent Democrat who was in the city today.- , Major Stedman has . recommended Captain John Ball for appointment yas postmaster ofTElkin. - P. R. A.- - RESOliTJTION AtOPTBD TO I PROBE! PRICE; OF GASOLINES termine whether a criminal conspiracy is ack of-,the rise in the price of gasoline is directed in a resolution in troduced by Senator Marti ne, and adopted today by the Senate. Senators in urging the investigation said the recent advance of gasoline had brought floods of letters an dtelegrama of pro- DRINK BIS-MAC! You'll Like It. To Determine whether Criminal Con I spUracy is Back of Rise, v ;- v Washington, s ,March 30.- Ah- investi gation by tlie attorney, general to de For Sale 500 BUSHELS JUMBO PEANUTS 1,000 BARRELS FLOUR We positively have a Full . Stock of . Wire and Cut r Nails, and will name close prices. See us before buy ing. ; D. I Gore Co. 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