SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 12, 19l
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ENTIf USIASRI AT04E
GREAT HEETLVG OF
Dr, IJHy Presidinjr. Ad
dresses by Prominent
Speakers Today
IS THE BEST CONVENTION
Far More Interest Than at
Previous Gathering En
rollment Expected to. Go
to 2,000-7-Delegates from
All Over the State
By D. T. EDWARDS,
' Free Press Staff Correspondent.
Greensboro, Tcb .10. Dr. D. Clay
' Lilly of Nashville, Tenn, presided at
the bit Laymen's meeting in West
' Market Street church today. He
made an address in which he showed
the trowing impetus the movement
has gathered In nil the cities he has
visited. . . " ' ,
. There la much-more interest In
thin meeting than In the preceding
convention six yesrs ago. : ; " '
.'. Dr. Lilly this morning called for
Scrlptnre texts showing biblical foun
dation for the movement This was
followed by number of prayers.
, , Dr, Lilly " referred to prominent
laymen of the old testament and de
clared that the modern laymen have
allowed this prominence to slip away
from them, lit said that reforms
tlbn Is at hand In : which lays the
prominence that Is to be restored
through the enlarged service of lay
men. . .. '-;i;'''-f' M;:-?'"
Dr. Lilly Introduced Rev. George
Green,' At. !., medical missionary of
the Southern Baptist Convention, lo
cated In West Africa. Dr. Green
gave an Interesting account of hi
work In equatorial Africa, telling of
: the wonderful effectiveness of physi
cians in preparing the way for the
. nHAgKliiir t ClnA'm wflnl with run.
vincing power. .'His experiences
brought sadness In that he found dif
ficulty In convincing those people of
his limitations. The work is calling
.for co-operation between Christian
men, he said. - f , -
' The great audience sang "Rescue
the Perishing," and Dr. Sylvester
Newlln. pastor of the Friends church
of High Point, spoke on the pastor's
missionary opportunity. He was lis
tened to with much interest and ap-
plause. Dr. Lilly suggested that the
pastor, himself the leader, must be
kd, Ihe audience, sang,' "I Need
Ihre Every Hour." after which was
introduced Dr. C J. Thompson of Ra
leigh, who In a strong address, spoke
of the present world crisis and its
meaning to as in America. He de
clared some' present day facts In the
mitwion world to be a transition
w hit h the non-Chriallan world is un-
iiergoing nna new aiuiuae lowsra
Christianity as a turning away from
prejudice to confidence. A great apt
ritual awakening Is very marked, he
declared, and the present trial is
ore evidence. ' He showed wherein
the Christian world is weak, and
' closed by showing our nerds to be a
f .! '1.1 I
ijirittuan-iiKv Tision ana cvmpiMiou
foe the lost world and a self-giving.
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:. iH'nominauonai conterences are to
be held this afternoon and the regu
lar program tonight. The enrollment
wilt firlittaMv ak 9'nflA Min i
here from all parts of the State.
: Scales Presides Over .
4 Opening Session.
jiveniiboro. Jreu, lttTweive nun
dred delegates were present last
" night at the opening session of the
convention of the Laymen's Mission
ary Mwement In North Carolina in
Went Market . Street Methodist
church. " It is expected that the num
ber will go to 1,500 by tonight. Hon
. A. M. Scales, chairman of the exe
cutive committee of the convention,
' presided over the first 'session in the
absence of Dr. D. Clay Lilly of Ten
nriee, who. had not arrived. .
Dr, Jutin N. Mill of Washington.
K C a nUcd lecturer, addressed the
convention Wednesday , night on A
. Tour'ut's View of Missions. Rev. 1,
a. u. fcaipiey or cam spoke on
W'inninjr China for Christ'' Rev,
J. F. Love of Richmond, another of
speaker, had fur his subject
'Tut Message and Mission of Christ.'
AV'ei meetings far women, non-r-yif'vml
men and colored people were
i I ':( in other place at . the
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i for iilar are Rev. Cm"!
mm
LAYMEN
' frka; Kev. J. G. I)a!a
U O.iL'na; Dr. UUy, !: will
NAVY AND MERCHANT
MARINE CHIEF NEEDS
Nation Needs Them Worse Than
Anything. Daniels Telia United
8tata Chamber of Commerce
Constructive Program of Admin
istration Will Result In Complete
Navy shortly
Washington, Feb. 10. A merch
ant marine and adequate navy are
the Nation's chief needs. Secretary
Daniels today told the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States. The
Administration program la a con
structive one, he said, ami by 1921
the United State! will have a com
plete navy.
A. C L CONDUCTORS
ARE HOLDING OUT
Won't Stand for Auditing of Their
Affairs by -Crooks,- Declare
Railroads Discharging Men All the
Time, Why Shouldn't They Do
Something for Their Own Interest,
They Ask
(Free Press 9th)
The Atlantic Coast Lino Railroad
need not rest too assured that the
conductors on the system will be con
tent to stand for tho auditing of their
affairs by men-of the White agency,
said to be a CJhkairo concern whose
service is now had by ihe railroad in
other line, according to local rail
roaders. The conductors, a hundred
strong, contend that the auditors;
would be permitted to spy tfpon them
and at any little mistake "hold them
up and demand to go through their
business right, on the spot.'V '
declared by some of the men that the
"auditors" are In some cases "crooks"
and that being decent men they will
not stand for their "meddling." .
A vote is being taken, It is under
stood. The danger of a strike, it Is
known, is not past by any means,
: A for the eight-hous "working day
which they are said to demand of
ficially, the conductors point out that
the number of employes of railroads
are balng cwatanilyreduoed. ("They
are putting on bigger engines all the
Urns and getting rid of men. Why
shouldn't we do something for our
selves " they ask.
GERMAN SEAPLANES
ATTACK KENT COAST
London, Feb. 9. Two women and
one child were Injured this after
noon when two German sea planes
raidnd tho Kentish coast, dropping
bombs. Three mksiles fell on the
outskirts of Ramsgate and four near
a school at Broadstalrs, The mate
rial damajre is said by the war office
to have been confined to the shatter
ing of glass.
A number of naval and military
aeroplanes and : aoaplanes ascended
to attack the Germans, but they im
mediately retreated.'
LUKEWARMNESS THIS
CITY NO RFASON FOR
NOT HAYING LEAGUE
A Goldaboro report state that the
laclt of interest in ba.ebull here is
no reason why there may not be an
East Carolina ba.Wl league this
season. "Ktnston 'is not the only
town." It is intimated that others,
especially Goldsboro, areimore intor
esud than evur in t,he idea of reviv
ing the old six-town association.
"Junston came noar, with the aid
of a nearby sister town, In breaking
up the East Carolina League upon
one occani.n," it is declared, although
no local fan can be discovered who
knows anything ithout that
A. L, MAY TAKE OVER
ROAD, TO SOUTHPORT. SAID
Wilmington, Feb. 8, It is report
ed hers today that negotiations are
in progress for the sale of the Wil
mingUnr Brunswick and Southern
Railroad from Kavassa to Southport,
a distance of about thirty miles, ta
the Seaboard Ak Line Railroad, af
fording the latter road ,deep" water
terminal at Southport,
YHIBL4N FOR GOVERNOR
INSTEAD OF PRESIDENT
Albany, . Feb. Governor Whit
man is out for re-election for Gover
nor. This drives a spike in his pres
idential boom. -
preside; Kev. C. J. Thompson of Ra-
teiiA: Rev. E C. Prank nfraimi,;.
S. C: Dr. W.s W. PJnW nf NT..V-
viHe.Te.nn, and Rev. B. W. rattoa!
of AllunU. ' " I
I ' I,, .....nrnr rariTriTTrn ' - I 1 t lirnT 11 til t PIT I ITT I'f in ,
UNITED STATES MAY
REMAIN IN CHARGE
HAITI DECADE YET
Treaty Establishing 'Ten
Year Protectorate Fa
orably Reported
ARMOR PLATE MAY GO UP
Manufacturers y ill Run
the Price Up to $200 Ton
If Government Insists on
Manufacturing It, Said
Tillman's Reply Later
Washington, Feb. 9. The Senate
foreign relations committee by a
unanimous vote today favorably re
ported a treaty for establishing a
len-ycari' protectorate in Haiti. v
Armor Plate Men Make Threat.
Plans for early passage of the gov
ernment armor plate bill were an
swered today by threats from the ar
mor plate men to boost the price to
the government two hundred dollars
a ton. Senator Tillman will take up
the reply Monday.
Sav Oil Lands for Navy,
Daniels Urges.
Secretary Daniels today protested
to the land committee the giving up
of grants of oil lands in California.
He said the oil is needed by the na
vy. '
TESTIMONY OF IOWA
MAN HAD NO EFFECT
ON BRANDEIS' CASE
Say Friends of President's
Nominee for the Supreme
Court Bench
DIFFERENCE- OF . IDEAS
Between Himself and Bos
tonianAll That Clifford
Thome Proved, Declared
Supporters of Lawyer
Are Confident, Say
(By the United Press)
Washington, Feb. 10. Brandeis'
friends are confident of the outcome
of the hearing on his fitness for the
Supreme Court, as the result of the
apparent failure of Clifford Thome,
Iowa Railroad Commissioner, to im
press the Senate judiciary sub-committee
with hi3 charges. " '
The majority thought Thome sim
ply proved that he and Brandeis
were of different ideas about how to
condwt the rate case, it is indicated.
Statement by Thome Denied.
3. W. Carman, Interstate Com
merce Commission examiner, flatly
contradicted a statement by Thorns
yesterday that he (Carmalt) was
surprised nt an alleged statement by
Branili-ia that the railroads should
have more money, Carmalt said he
told this to Thome himself. Brand
era, aaid Carmalt, was employed to
develop all sides of the case.
New Ynu-k, Feb. JO. Belvedere
Brooks, vice-president and general
manager of the Western Union Tele
graph Company died today.
FOR RHEUMATISM.
As soon as an attack of Rheuma
tism begins apply Sloan's Liniment
Don't waste time and suffer unneces
sary agony. A few drops' of Sloan's
Liniment on the affected parts is all
you need. The pain goes at once.
A grateful sufferer writes: "I was
suffering for three weeks with Chron
ic Rheumatism and Stiff Neck, al
hough t tried many medicines, they
railed, and I was under the ears of
x doctoK ' Fortunstely I heard of
Sloan's Liniment, and after using it
Jree or four days, am up and well
I am employed at the biggest deport
ment store in S. F- whers they em.
ploy from 600 to 800 hands, and
Jjey surely will hear all about
Slcan'a Liniment, IL B. Smith, San
?MnciscV CaL Jan. . 1913. At all
druggist
HITCHCOCK THINKS
HUGHES BEST HAN
Former Postmaster General Would
Like to See Justice Nominated for
Presidency Disclaims Telephone
Conversation With Staunton, Vs.,
Man on That Subject, However
New York, Feb. 10. Although he
denied flatly ns purely a fictitious
story of a telephone conversation
with II. Brown Allen of Staunton,
Va., in which he was said to have de
scribed a movement to nominate Jus
lice Hughes for the presidency, F.
H. Hitchcock, former postmaster gen
eral, today said he is strongly in fa
vor of Hughes' nomination if it can
be brought about. He believes him
the strongest candidate.
REMAINS OF ENGINEER
WRIGHT FAYETTEVILLE
Seaboard Air Line Man Killed Near
Southern Pines Tuesday Was Na
tive of That City and Iirother-in-Law
to Kinxton Woman-i-Family
Survives Locomotive lft I'ailn
Two Hurt
(Special to The Free Press)
Raleigh, Feb. The, funeral of
David K. Wright, S. A. I- engineman
killed yesterday when the Florida
Limited's locomotive left the track
nesw Southern Pines, is expected to
be held in Fayetteville today. The
remains were carried there this morn
ing. A negro fireman and a baggage
master were painfully but not se
riously injured.
Engineer Wright, who was a brother-in-law
of Irs. W. B. Douglass,
wife of Alderman Douglass of Kin
gton, was 41 years, of age and a na
tive of Fayetteville. He had been a
railroad man the better, part f his
life, He went with the' S. A. I in
1900. He was at one time a member
of the Board of Aldermen of this
city. He is survived by his wife, a
young son and a daughter aged eight
He had resided in Raleigh a num'bcT
of years. .
SCHMIDT MUST GO f 0
CHAIR, SAYS GOVERNOR
Whitman Refuses to interfere In
Execution of Unfrocked Priest
Convicted of Murder of Sweetheart
i Will Die Sometime During Week
Beginning Monday in the Electric
Chair
(By the United Press)
. Albany, N. V., Feb10 Governor
Whitman has refused to interfere in
the execution of Hans Schmidt, the
unfrocked priest, who murdered An
na Aumuc'ler, set for next week,
Execution. Nest Week. , .
Albany, N. Y Feb. 9. Hans
Schmidt, the former priest convicted
of the murder of Anna AumuMer In
New Yark in September, 1913, must
pay the penalty for his crime in the
electric chair in Sinjr Sing prison
during the week of Feb. 13. Gover
nor Whitman' tonight declined to In
terfere with the execution.
HUGHES NOT IN RACE
FOR PRESIDENT, SAYS
Washington, Feb;.- !). Representa
tive Slemp, Cjhatrmttn of the Virgin
ia Republican committee, today made
pulilie a latter from Justice Hughes
declaring "I am , totally opposed to
Lht use bf my name in, connection
wifh the nomination and 0 the se
lection or instruction of any dele
gates in my interest directly or re
motely. SUGGESTS MEANS FOR
EDUCATING OFFICERS
Washington, Feh. 10. Military
scholarships to 'the number of 230 a
year; for boys willing to' enter mili
tary colleges, was advocated by Pres
ident James of the University of Il
linois tfday before the House Mili
tary committee,' e
Children err
. FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTOR' A
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ALBERT, INDIGNANT
OVER PROPOSAL OF
PEACE FROM BERLIN
f i
Understood Kaiser Offered
Restoration and Payment
for Destruction
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KITCHENER WONT LEAVE
Official Denial That He Will
Quit London for Foreign
Service Turk Submar
ine Sunk By Russian Ves-.
sols Off Asia .Minor
London. Feb. 9. The goern
ment machinery fr the enforce
ment of (he conscription act was
put into effect telay. The call
was isHUed for bachelors from
20 to 30 years of age to report
with the colors March 2.
Belgians' King Angry.
London, Feb. !). Belgium has re
fused separate terms for peace offer
ed by Germany, according toa Rome
dinpatch, said to have come from Va
tican sources. The Kaiser was will
ing for restoration of ,the 'country,
and agreed to pay fpr the destroyed
irtruotures provided the country re
mained neutral..'
King Albert i indignantly rejected
the terms, it Is said.
Kitchener Won't Leave Office.
London, Feb. 9. It is denied in of
ficial circles here that Lord Kitchen
er is toresiprn '' to be succeeded fay
Lord Derby.
Turk Submersible Sunk.
Putrograd. Felb. 0. A ' Turkish
submarine which, attacked a Russian
squcdron on . the Anatolian coast was
brkinbarded and is believed to have
been sunk. r
NEARLYLL COUNTIES
REPRESENTED AT THE
N. C. ROAD INSTITUTE
Chapel Hill, Feb. 10. Nine-tenths
of the sounties in the Stat ore now
represented, at the North , Carolina
Road Institute in progress here.
Among the speakers so far have
been Prof. Collier Cobb, on the sub
ject of "Good Roads In Other Lands,"
W. S. Fallis, "Steam Shovels." Pro-
fossor, Williams, "Relationship of Su
ueriirtendents and Engineers to
Highway Commissions," and others.
Thexe and other experts led in dis
cussion of various topics of interest
to road builders.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Ycara
Always beais
the
Signature
of
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF STATE ,
CertiGcate or Dissolution
To all to Whom These Presents May
Come Greeting: ,'r ,,')
Whereas, It appears to my satis,
faction, by duly authenticated record
f the proceeding's fpr' the voluntary
dissolution thereof by the unanimous
consent of all the stockholders, de
posited in my ofike, that the PINK
I11LL'"MOTOR CAR COMPANY, !a
corporation of this State, whose prin
cipal office is situated at No.
Street, in the town of Pink Hill.
County of Lenoir, State of North
Carolina, T, Davis being the agent
therein and in charge thereof, upon
whom process may be . served, has
complied with the requirements ' of
Chapter . 1," Revisal of 1005,.. en
titled "Corporations," preliminary to
the .issuing of this Certificate of Dis
solution: - ,
. Niw, Therefore, I, Jv Bryan Crimea,
Secretary of the State of North Caro
lina do hereby certify that the said
corporation did. o the 22nd day of
December 19U Y file : in my oflfce a
duly executed xul attested consent in
writing to the ' dissolution of . Said
corporation, executed by all the stock
holders thereof, which said consent
and the record of the proceedings
aforesaid are now on file in my ssid ,
eflbe as provided by law.vV
- In Testimony whereof, I have here
to set my hand and affixed my official
seal at R.iKigh, this 22nd day of Dss
wmlw'r, A. D. 1315.
J. EiiYAN CKlilES, Secretary ot
State. " ...
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