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PUBLISHBDvTWICE-A WEEK WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS
VOL. XXXV No. 18
CEIIiSj TC01( All
Prisoners and Plunder of
Three Weeks Summar-if
l iizcd by Government
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FRENCH AVLATCRS BUSY
; Shell ' Stations and Muni
tions Factories In Impor
tant Section of Germany.
Hinder . Transportation
t Supplies -
. (Bjr tha United Press.! "'
Berlin,- Aug. 27. Mora than 200,-
1 000; prisoners, several thousand can'
5 non and enough rifle to supply sev
eral army divisions, have tocen cap
tured by the Germans since the fall
of Warsaw. In, th"e three weeks fol
lowinir the capture of t Warsaw, the
Russians were driven bade more than
10ft miles. Their first line defenses
were taken, all second line positions
fcave fallen except Urodno, It is ex
pected Von Hindenbuirg wilt take the
latter before the end oc the week.
. Freach Birdmen Get in More Work.
: Paris. Aug. 27. French aviators
have renewed , their raiding opera-
tions. They have attacked half
doses German railway- stations and
factories, it is officially ' announced
in the Woevre region along the rail
wars seed by "the Germans to carry
supplies to the armies of the Crown
Prince, and those fighting ''before
Mete. The war office today reported
that the French' have captured Ger
nan trenches at Landorsbach in Al
t " . V ' ' '
Another" Fortress Falls. -
: Berlin, Aug.-27 The Russian fort
ress of Olita. one of the last two
strongholds defending the Warsaw
Iletrograd Railway, has been oceu-
' pied by the Germans.- " ,v -
BANKERS IN ELIZABETH
CITY ON LABOR DAY,
(Special to The Free Press)?
Washington, N. C, Aug. 27. The
bankers of he First Congressional
District will meet in Elizabeth City
on September 6, to confer bn the cot
ton situation. According - to local
hankers, the outlook is anything but
serious. So optimistic are the mon
ey men that they will Spend a .part
of Labor Day in a program of recre
ation. J3E AND 3 CHILDREN
cm pershcg burned
Cremated in Home
at
The Presidio
of San Frapcisco Thia, Morning
. Soldiers Rescued Small Son Fa
ther and Husband Was at El Paso
WiUi the Army of Texas.
(By the United Press)
San . Francisco, Aug. - 27. Mrs.
Pershing, , wife of Brigadier-General
Pershing and her three children were
burned! to death in their home at the
Presidio, the army post here, early
this morning. A five year old son
was rescued , toy soldiers, General
Pershing is in command at El Paso.
He is one of the best known officers
in the army. Mrs. - Pershing was a
daughter of Senator Warren of Wy
oming. .- .-" :..
WALr:i SAYS ELEA5E
. " 'ISONVOaGTACK
Massachusetts Executive Condemns
Speech of Former South Carolina
Governor Objects to Definition
of "Liberty Ac Given by Palmetto
SUU r.
(Ey the United Press)
Boston, Au. 27.-Governor Walsh,
of Massachusetts, today vigorously
denounced tae speech of former Gov
rnor E'.ease of South Carolina, exl
tolling
mob action. Governor Wash
sr"J
e f-' iectcJ streniionslv tn
of liberty
He
conscience
a c-
KM THEul AFTER
ra .in rjr nil
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BRITAIN MAY SEIZE
MINES AND
TIIE: ARMY
Threat py the Government
to Take Over' Welsh Coal
W6rks and ' Inaugurate
Conscription - Public .Is
, Calling for News :
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(By the United Press.)
London, Aug. 27. Nationalisation
of the coal mines in Wales and some
form of conscription to force "shirk
ers" into the amy are important
questions being considered by the
cabinet. It is learned , that the gov.
ernment has threatened to take the
mines over SI another general strike
occurs. ' ? '
The press is urging the admiralty
to make public the number of Ger
man submarines sunk and captured.
Public curiosity has been aroused by
the admiralty's confirmation that , a
large number of submersibles have
been destroyed.' .
IS NO EVIDENCE OF GERMAN
MILITARY OPERATIONS HERE,
MA
Washington, ' Aug. 26. Secretary
Garrison revealed" today " that $ for j
months the War Department bad
been receiving letters from all sec
tions of the country reporting alleg
ed German activities, such as the
masking, of big gun foundations in
tennis courts and building founda
tions. No evidence had been disco-1
ered, the secretary said, to substan-i
tiate any of the reports.
BRITISH MERCHANTMAN ,
- - HAD, BIG GUN ON DECK.!
Newporr News, .Vj, ,Au.
HuatmnB nliiomls here trxlav refused 1
to grant clearance papers to the Brit-
ish steamer Waimana from Marseil
les to. Buenos Aires after it was die-
covered the steamer carried a four-
inch rifle mounted on her' main deck,
aft.'- Capfc, Holmes,, her: skipper, ex-j
plained that the gun had been mount
ed as a' protection against subma
rines. 1
SAID HE WAS DESCENDANT .
OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Richmond, Va., Aug.' 26. -It took a
commission of lunacy, tout, a snort
time today to adjudge E. II. Pass in
sane atter hearing cms young man,
who recently escaped from the asy
lum at Raleigh, relate the history of
his career, during which he stated
that he was lately given a high com
mission in the British army and was
destined to prove himself a second
Napoleon, from whom he descended,,
he foolishly claimed. '
Like John Armstrong Chaloner,
Pass claims he was imprisoned by his
relatives so that they might get con
trol of property he owns at Mocks-
ville, N. C. '
WILMINGTON DOCTOR
GETS BORNEMANN'S JOR
Wilmington, Aug. 26. Dr. ; P. P.
Causey of this city : has been ap
pointed medical examiner of the At
lantic Coast Line to succeed the late
Dr. . J. II. Bornemann. who (was
drowned a few weeks ago in the Cape
Fear. ' . -
F0REIER PRIEST SHOOTS
CCft CATirOUC BISHOP
(By the United Press.) '
Winona, Minn Aug. , 27. Rev.
Patrick Heffron. bishop of the Catho
lic diocese of Winona, was shot twice
over the heart today. Asha French
Pearl, his assailant, according to the
police, was a former French Catholic
priest.
GOVERNORS SEE MILITIA
OF MASSACHUSETTS PARADE.
Boston, Mass., Aug. 26. A demon
stration of the preparedness for war
of the Massachusetts National Guard
was given before the visiting gover;
nors and a great throng of citizens
ere today in a parade, through the
t-eets of the city, of the entire btate
fORCIB jf GERAD
KINSTON.
UNSING DECLINES
TO ' DISCLOSE WHAT
HAD TO SAY
"Confidential," But Believed
to Be -Reassurinir Ad-
ministration Says Platts -
burg Incident Has Ended
Far As It's Concerned
(By the United Press) '
Washington, Aug. . 27,-j-Lansing I
admitted today that he had received
considerable "confidential" informa-
tic-n from Ambassador Gerard :- at
lu.lin '- Tt- L. . ,,i.i:v,i
WMIIIl ; . W lid. I1VU WCI, , , Ullfliail3U,
but is understood to contain German
Assurances that Americans need fear
no more submarine attacks.
Roosevelt's Talk About Administra-
tion to No Avail.
Major-General Wood today wired
Secretary Garrison that he will rig
idly follow the policy laid down in
the latter's telegram yesterday. . Mr.
Garrison refused to meet Roosevelt's
charge that no attempt had : been
made to prevent him speaking at the
Plattsburg camp, and that he sup
posed it was known in advance. It
vas stated at the White House that
th incident is closed. '
CLOSING SESSION OF THE
MONTREAT CONFERENCE,
Asheville Aug. 26. The 1915 Bi
ble conference at Mon treat, which has
been in session practically all sum
mer, came to a close today with an
address' by Dr, Dunbar H. Ogden, of
Atlanta, who spoke on -the subject,
"Why I Am a Presbyterian." ; Dr.
Mauze of St, Louis, was heard earl
ier in the day, and Dr. T. W. Lingle
of Durham offered the closing prayer.
ZEFPELCS FLEW OVER
. .
JHE BALKANS TO TURKEY
Amsterdam ' Report Says Dirigibles
Were Employed to . Carry Machin
ery to Make Ammunition Cross
ed Over Bulgaria 100 Tons Said
to Hve Been Transported
(By the United Press.) . '
Amsterdam, Aug. 27. That zeppe-
lins have been used to relieve the am
munition shortage in Turkey is reported.-.
"A hundred tons of fine ma
chinery used to manufacture shells
was carried, from the Austrian fron
tier across Serbia and Bulgaria to
Turkey in aeppclins, a distance of
280 miles, it is said.r .
PIONEERS GATHER
Aberdeen, Wash., Aug., 27.-Sever-
al hundred gray haired men and wo
men, history makers, of the ; North
west gathered here today. I he oc
casion was the pioneer's annual re
union. -' ' ,
GOOD YEAR AHEAD OF
t--'-'.imi says rnnPKR
Wilminarton. Aug. 26. The new
cotton year will find the South ,- in I
much better shape that it was a year
ago. in the opinion oi senator w. .
Cooper,- cotton exporter and banker,
who keeps in close touch with the fin
ancial situation and: with the condi
tions relative to the cotton crop. He
says that the main reason for this is
found, in the fact that through , the
practice of - the most rigid economy
the cotton crop has been made at
much less cost than for many years.
The people generally have hot spent
their money bo freely the past year
for things they do not need, he said.
There will be plenty money in the
South when the fall cotton begins to
eome in. but it win De naa oniy on
proper collateral. . ' . .
BIDS FOR NEW WILMINGTON
CUSTOM HOUSE ON OCT. 9.
Wilmington. Aug. 26. Col. Walk
er Taylor, collector of customs, re
turned yesterday; from Washington
and brought news that bids for the
new $600,000 custom house at this
port, are to be advertised for imme
diately, and will be opened on Octo
ber 9th. It i3 expected that the con
tract will be awarded before the be
ginning of next year.
N. C SATURDAY. AUfilJST
ff. C. VEST ADMITTED
TO DAIL IN THE SUH
OF 2,500 THURSDAY
Judge Connor Reached
Quick Decision That La
1 Grange Man Was Entitled
to Bail Victim of
Still Unimproved
Shot
(Daily Free Press, August 27)
Crover C. West, who shot and se
riously wounded S. J. Meyers at La-
Grange Tuesday night, was Thursday
1 f ternoon admitted tQ bail in the sum
I nf S' KOrt tv Jildve GenrirA Connor In
' " i C
Superior Coui here. - West was
brought to thisjcity by an officer. 4 He
been in custody since the shoot-
in' havinK betn "fused ,bond b3r,th
recorder at LaGrange.
Judge Connor -quickly reached
decision that the case was bailable.
The State suggested the amount of
the bond. ; Meyers, in Memorial Hos
pital here, was this morning report
ed to be unimproved from Thursday.
Only two other matters, outside of
the Cooper HilJ sanity hearing, which
resulted in Hilf being found not men
tally capable of standing trial for the
murder of his wife and his being
committed to the department for the
insane at the State prison, were trii
in Superior Court Thursday. Doe
Davis was found guilty of selling
whisky, but sentence was not passed.
Jim Edwards, colored, charged with
fornication . and adultery, was ac
quitted. j
San Francisco, Aug. 26 Hundreds
of clay workers and brick dealers are
here attending the annual convention
of the National Brick Manufacturers'
Association. ' ,' . -
CULGARIA!! CAFITAI ,
CENTER 0E WORLD'S
'BIGGEST' LOBBY' NOW
Two Great Camps in Sophia What
the Bulgars Want to Join in the
War Services V to. Be V Exchanged
for the Best Bid, With Privilege to
Reject AH Bidders' Plentiful
By Henry Wood,
( United Press Staff Correspondent)
Sophia, Bulgaria, Aug. 2 (By mail
From the spick and. span, but none
the loss modest little Balkan; capita),
Sophia has become the center of tbe
world's greatest lobby and the lobby
for the greatest thing in. the world
victory in the present war, geographi
cal position. Bulgaria .has come more
than any one other to hold an in
fluence over the future destinies of all
Europe. - ' "
Were Bulgaria suddenly to join the
Allies;and falling on the back of Tur
key capture -Constantinople from the
rear,-the Allies could at last pass the
Dardanelles and carry to Russia the
help . in supplies and ' munitions that
might' quickly turn the wholo current
of the war in their favor. ' s
If Bulgaria continues neutral, the
possibility of the capture of Constn
tinopfe from the Chatalja line a re-
moved ana the eventual passage of
the Dardanelles if not rendered im
possible will be so indefinitely delay
ed as bo enable Germany in the mean
time to follow.' up her successes
against Russia and turn the whole
current of the 'war in her favor.
This, at least, 1s the way the great
European powers now involved In the
conflict view the situation and that
ie why the lobby is here. ' '
In Europe they do not call it lob
bying. - It passes under the more po
Hte term' of diplomacy. . In reality,
however, there is not a method nor
a. tactic known to the most common
or the most distinguished Hobbyist
at Washington or any American state
capitol that is not being used to' win
over the various members of the Bul
garian cabinet, the members" of par
liament, the , political leaders,' , the
heads of the army and even Czar Fer
dinand, the Queen and ' the crown
I prince themselves. It may be that
diplomacy and lobbying are merely
the European -and the American
terms for the one and the same thing
or it may be that the issue at stake
is so great that the exalted and dig-
( Continued from I i Five)
28. 1915
FOURTEEN HORSE
TRAINING HERE FOR
MEET ON THURSDAY
Special Rates Will Be Given
On Lines of Kinston-Car-
olina and Trains Held to
' Accommodate Patrons o
the Races - ' ;
(Daily Free Press, August 27)
Fourteen horses are now in the
stables at the Kinston Fair grounds,
being conditioned for the first t fall
meet there on next Thursday after
noon. Secretary Canady stated this
morning that the card is not yet com
plete. Owners represented at the
fair grounds includo Richard Wingate
of Ayden, W. Car Skadcn of Kinston
T. A. Grantham of New Bern and H,
E. Daughety of Dover. Horses be
longing -. to Greenville . and Grifton
men are also being trained here.
Through arrangements made with
Genl. Supt Hayes of the Carolina
and Km8ton-Carolir.a; railroads, Mr.!
Canady said this morning,, trains due
to leave here at 3 o'clock, for Pink
Hill and at 5 for Snow Hill, will he
held on Thursday until after the
races, for - the accommodation of
large numbers of people expected to
come here for the event from Greene
county and lower Lenoir. Special
Tates will be given over both roads.
FRANK S. POLK MAY BE
NAMED FOR COUNSELLUK
Washington, Aug. 26. Frank L.
Polk, corporation , counsel of New
York City, was said in official circles
tonight to be the probable choice of
President Wilson for counsellor of the
State Department ,
NEW ORLEANS HAY HAVE
AN AUTO SPEEDWAY SOON
Chicago Promoter- Interested In the
Proposition of Crescent City Men
- to Start Two-Mile Track There In
the Coming Winter Matter ' De
pends on the Southerners', . ,
(By the United Press)
Chicago, Aug. 27. A two-mile au
tomobile speedway for; the South is
possible if New Orleans shows Da-
vjd,F. Raid, president of tho Chica
go Speedway Association, ; . that ,it
means business. Mr. Reid is en route
to New Orleans to confer with South
em capitalists regarding a plan to
operate a track ' during the coming
winter.
COBB TEN YEARS A .
. BIG LEAGUE PLAYER,
Detroit,' Mich, Aug. 26 Ty Cobb
to'day celebrated the tenth anniver
sary of his debut as a major league
player. ' , ' . , '.
SEVERAL REASONS GIVEN
FOR SUICIDE OF OLD MAW
(Daily Free Press, August 27)
CsawellAskew, aged Jones coun
ty man who Thursday commitited su
icide by cutting his throat in a New
Bern boarding house, may have end
ed his life because he had been
blacklisted by his neighbors at Tren
ton, according to one report from
that town. ' . ' '
Askew may have heen deranged.
He is said to have deeded to a negro in
Jones county some Hime , ago the
property that he owned there, val
ued at from $15,000 to $20,000. This
so incensed the people living around
im that they threatened to drive
him out of Trenton,' it is said. The
negro was driven to make an agree
ment to, keep other blacks off the
operty, adjacent to white people's
homes. Askew brooded considerably
over the disfavor into which he had
gotten. -
The body was taken to Trenton to
day for interment.
SOUTHERN STEEL
- BUSINESS BOOMS.
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 26. Steel
mill3 and machinery factories all
over the South are being run on a
capacity soneauie. me greatest bus-
i in years is the report.'
FACULTY FOR CITY
SCHOOLS ANNOUNCED
TODAY BY THE SUPT
Both High and Primary
Schools Have New Prin
cipals Department 1 of
Domestic Science : Added
to Curriculum
(Daily Free Press, August 27)
The faculty of the city schools for
the 1915-16 year, which begins Sep
tember 6, includes 13 pew teachers,
most of them, of course, in vacancies
caused by resignations since last year
The department of domestic science
newly inaugurated, will be taught by
Miss Martha Creighton. There i
new principals in both the High and
Primary schools, Professor Rose' who
presided over the former last year
having gone to the Bethel, N. C,
high Bchool and Miss Hattie Parrott,
formerly primary principal, having
been made assistant county superin
tendent - '
The complete factulty was announc
ed by Superintendent Barron Cald
well today. ' ! . ' ; .
In the Primary School bulding will
bo M!bs Mary Watson principal:
Miss Kathleen Woqten, city; Miss
Eugenia Scarborough, city; Miss Ed
na Cox, Abbeville, S. ,C; Miss Jean-
ette Johnson, Magram, N. C; Miss
Roberta Coble, Laurinburg, N. C;
Miss Belle Walters, Hertford; Miss
Dwilla Heath; Miss Dorothy Batten
Smithfield, Va.; Miss Natalie .Nunn,
city; Miss Maude Beatty,. Tabroro;
Miss Lucile , Middleton, Goldsboro;
Miss Orie Maseley, city; Miss Jennie
Wilkinson, Altavista, Va.;' Miss Rende
Pittman, city; Miss Scotia Ilobgood.
city; Miss Sidy A.yhert city; T"
Lois Wooton, Chadbourn, N. C; IiK8
Carlotta ' Mewiborn, . city; Miss Lai a
Daughety, city; Miss Martha Creighr
ton. Rock Hill, S. C; Miss Kate Wat
son, Wagram. N. C; and'Miss Jennie
Shaw, city, principal of the grammar
grades. ' ' '
In the High School will be Prof.
W. S. James, principal and teacher
of the science course; ' Miss Mary
Loom is Smith, English, Durham;
Miss Corinna Mial, French and history,
Raleigh; Mr. Earl Sikes, mathemat
ics, Kenly, N. C; Miss Besbie Wil
liams, Latin, Arvonia, Va., and Miss
Betty Bryson, 8th grade, Guntwyn,
Miss. ' ;
NORTH CAROLINA WOMAN IN
VIRGINIA ACCUSED OF THEFT
Richmond, Aug,, 26. Mrs. Sudie
Taylor Williams of. McCullers. N. .C,
who says she worked in a cotton mill
in Raeigh' and lived in Martin street,
before her marriage to "New" Wil
liams, of McCullers, was arrested
here today on the charge of robbing
man of $130 in a jitney bus last
night while n route from Peters
burg to Richmond. : R. A. Mason, a
young man with her, was charged
with complicity in the theft,"
AMERICAN BUSINESS .
.. WITH TAMPICO HEAVY.
Washington, Aug. 26. During the
year over 500 American vessels are
expected to clear from Tampico, car
rying oil and other commodities, ac
cording to reports of the Bureau ; of
Commerce, if the present rate con
tinues. This will more than 'triple
the number clearing during the last
year. The large increase is due to
the placing under American registry
many of the oil interests' boats. .
8,000 MORE MINERS
. ARE OUT IN WALES
Newport Wales, Aug. 27 Ten
thousand coal miners in the districts
surrounding Newport are idle. Eight
thousand struck today in pretext of
the government's arbitration award.
Cardiff, Aug. 27. The executive
committee of the South Wales Feder
ation of miners today decided to re
quest the ten thousand coal miners
on strike to return to work pending
a settlement of the dispute over the
government award.
PRICE FIVE CENT3
SATISFACTION FOR
fJATTER IS ASSURED
Von Bernstorff Presented
Statement of imperial
Government Today
SINKING NOT ORDERED
If Submarine Was Respon
sible Her Commander Ex
ceeded Instructions Ha
iti Likely to Accept This
Country's Offer-. ' '
(By the United Press)
Washington, Aug. 27-German
Ambassador Von Bernstorff today
called upon Lansing. It was learned
at the embassy that the ambassador
formally presented the German gov
ernment's assurance that if a subma
rine commander torpedoed the Arab
ic, he exceeded his instructions and
"full satisfaction will be accorded the
United States."
The State Department is to decide
whether the British steamer Waima
na, from Marseilles to Buenos Aires,
can leave Newport News, Va., with a
four-inch rifle mounted on her main
dock. Captain Holmes said the gun
is for submarine protection.
The State Department announced
today that every indication was that
the Haitien Congress would , negoti
ate a treaty with the United States -providing
for a financial protector.
ate.
HIS CURE FOR FELON -
OVERDID THE THING.
Taw (",..;..-, '
Michaels, --!, today iiimsU that he 1 : -
found a brand new remedy for fel
ons. His "cure" is ,to soak his finger
in carbolic acid for a couple of hours.
The felon came off, and so did the
finger. , -
BANKERS SEE HARDING
ON COITON SITUATION
Delegates Appointed at Dallas Pass
; Resolutions Encouraging ,Speclal
Consideration for Farmers Loans,
After Conference With Federal
.Reserve Board Man '
Birmingham, Aug. 26. The dele
gates appointed at the recent Dallas
Convention of Cotton, States' Bank
ers conferred at length here today
with W. P. G. narding of the Fed
eral Reserve Board, on the cotton sit
uation. Afterward the delegates is
sued a statement concluding as fol
lows:
"It is the sense of the delegation
that it is right and proper for South
em bankers to accord special consid
eration to loans made to farmers
based , on insurefd. warehoused cot
ton and other staple products, and to
offer on such loans the lowest in
terest rates consistent with sound
business policy. It is not, however,
deemed wise or necessary for any ar
bitrary maximum interest rate to be
named, it being the sense of this del
egation that better results to all
concerned will ibe reached by entrust- -ing
this detail to the patriotism and
sound business judgment of individ
ual bankers throughout the South, lo
cal conditions being given due con
sideration.
NEW DIRECTOR 0?
"Bureau c? r.:::;:s
(By the United Press)
Washington, Aug. 27. The Presi
dent today appointed Van II. Man
ning of Mississippi director of the
Bureau of Mines.
SEVERAL BOXES REQUir.ID.
(By the United Press)
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 23.
and a half million ia t!e c
number of orange 1 ? v
ally in Forida, one-;!.:.-1
have just boon c -' I :
local luihler c