The KINSTON P Si K EE PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS SOL. XXXV No. 71 . KINSTON, N. G, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1916 PRICE pIVE CENTS TERRIFIC OFFENSIVE lllEfflllKi) MILES ENEMY xL LINES TODAY; Swiss Reports Positive That Teutons Intend Assault on St Quentin, Trebizond Will Fall Into sistance,' Persian Advices Trapped .Between Two Approaching Armies Paris h Confident That Allies Will Hold Own In West Ger mans Shifting Artillery and Greatest Struggle Yet Ex pcted to Begin at Verdun ( (By the United Press) LONDON, Feb. 29. Suddenly shifting their attack, the Germans launched a heavy drive on Verdun from the east, aiming to squeeze the JTjjsjpneh out and threatening an enveloping move ffttnk Frightful German losses are believed to have caused the Kaiser to cease massed assaults on Verdun. - LONDON, Feb. 29. The decisive battle at Verdun is beginning. Checked on Pepper Heights, the Germans are bringing up their heaviest artillery to blast away the treflches.. There has been indescribable slaughter at the " rufyspf Douaumont The Teutons are today attacking ' along a hundred-mile front, after a lull due to the shifting ' of artillery. Paris is confident of the failure of the at tacks, although expecting the Teutons to fight jdespera ' ly at the renewal. Swiss dispatches insist that the;Ver : dun attack- was but. a diversion, and say the- Germans - are ready for a great attack now on St. Quentin, only 60 miles from Paris. Ottoman Forces Evacuating Trebizond. Petrograd, Feb. 29, The Turks are hastily evacuat ing the 'Black seaport of Trebizond and neighboring cit- . - .t t ipr hptnrp r.ne advance oi ' patches. The evacuation was necessitated by the ap proach" of two Russian forces. All Attacks Repulsed, Says Paris. . PARTS'. "Feb. 29. All German attacks at Verdun dur- 1"ing the past 24 hours have cially. The drench are entirely in coniroi oi uie wuuuy surrounding Douamont. It is admitted that the Germans have captured the village of Manheulles, eleven miles from Verdun, and are driving now to force the evacua tion of Verdun by a squeezing process. The loss of sev eral trenches in Lorraine was admitted, but these have been " recaptured, it is said. The heavy bombardment continues. The Kaiser watched the Verdun battle today in a fierce storm, despite the warnings of physicians, prisoners said. German Hospitals Crowded. ; LONDON, Feb. 29. Over forty-five thousand Ger mans have been kiiled at Verdun, the central news says a dispatch from Amsterdam. Eight thousand corpses still1 hii0 two miles of-the front. Endless trains of the wounded are arriving at Metz and the hospitals at Cob lenta, Treves, Cologne and other German cities are over flowing. German Report On Battle. BERLIN, FEB. 29. The Germans have captured a small armored Work northwest of Douaumont, itisoffi cially said. 1 Nearly seventeen thousand prisoners have been taken in the Woevre region, east of Verdun. The Germans have passed Dieppe, Abacourt and Blancee, and captured Manheulle and Chamlon. BANKER RUNS MACHINE OVER BOY; MAY DIE Salisbury, Feb.' 28. With a crush ed hip, a hole in his head and a bad ly brtiised body, Joseph. Owen, a 7 j yearrtd son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W, 3 Owen of Salisbury" is in" a critical ; condition it a" ocal hospital tonight aesqitfcf ing 'un tyet this f , ternoon by a 5-passenger automobile owned and driven ;by Mr. W: T. Bus 'fby, asslsta'rashiet of ,th Peopi?? - National Bank herev';'; 5 ' ' EL' T f ' fw f arvivrv f - 15 it i.AllU JtbSTASTIZT REVOLT Y.'a.-' Diaz, several 'ice re . .cU-J ' 1' . '.:. U-'l.n.l JV : l : t of J i i - ::a. of of 'American has left the mitral iy. apparently" S la t es . f or ' Mex ico w ' . h th e '?. f launching1, a 'revululion 1 he.4Carranaide-facto, gov e:'a" u Iormation' -reaching o(R. eials here iiu;-,-:,t' that he ko,-s"to "'l-11- 1 ; i a ' Jio tro;.3 naiive "i e, o.x,. , . ) . . Lis Jorr i ,n , : s Fi ; :. OF THE GERMAN TURKS EVACUATE CITY Gigantic Only 20 Leagues from Paris Hands of Slavs Without Re Say Garrison Would Be 1.1 t : fr:i;. Ae me ivussians, sav muo uia- been repulsed, it is said ofi OFFICER KILLED BY MAN HE SOUGHT TO ARREST Rocky Mount, Feb 28. defying arrest, George Collins, a young white man of Faucette township, Halifax county, yesterday fired upon and fa tally wounded Deputy Sheriff C. M. Hawkins. The young man was sought on a warrant by the officer charging him with having jumped a board bill, and jwrith a shotgun opened fire, on the officer, inflicting - a wound in he stomach that resulted .. in Deputy Hawkins' death within a few hours. THEY SQUIRT $1,000,000 " WORTH OF PERFUME. Kio de Janeiro, Feb. 28. All Bra zil li preparing for the annual three Jay Mrfrdi'Graa camlval,-early - in Marth,. The Annual carnival cele brated jji.Rio .de Janeiro, as a gorg eous spectacl6 claims ; to far over shadow that of Venice or of New Or leans..' It is 'estimated that $1,000, Odu.was spent on siphons of perfume alone last year. PECULIAR FACTS ABOU Oh -V WELL KNOWN PEOPLE. '.,' Washington, Feb. 29. Democratic tor. !er Kitchin - wears a toothpick J "ins from a corner of his mouth v itea a tiriar pipe, DiacK.Wlin agej j id n't - in its place. -" -, 1 PLANT MAKING GASES FOR ALLIES BLOWN UP Damage $50.000 Only One Man In jured Company at Woburn, Mass Had Received Threatening Let ters and Employed Large Force of Guards. But Could Not Prevent the Explosion. (By the United Press) Woburn, Masa., Feb. 29. A thun derous explosion today blew up a building of the New England Manu facturing Company, making gases for the Allies' bombs. The company had received threatening letters, and the plant was heavily guarded. -The building was blown high into the air. The men escaped except one injur ed. The loss will exceed $50,000. GIRL BRIDE'S CRIME BEING INVESTIGATED . (Py the United Press) Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 29. The defense of Mrs. Katherine Harrison, fifteen-year-old bride, rharged with the murder of W. L. Warren, will be that he saved the State the trouble of execut ing him for assault. The defense contends that she is a child, and Cannot be tried, V Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 28. The grand jury today began investiga tion of the confession alleged to have been made by Mrs. Katherine Harri son that she shot and killed W. B. Warrenj 'hotel proprietor- who, she charged, had wronged her before her manriage She 'became the - bride, of Harrison, who is 20 years old, two days after Warren's body was found In a road near here December 22, 1915. WHAT SOME OF THEM Ap DOING WITH THE EXTRA DM !N YEAR (By the United Press) Minneapolis, Feb. 29. Ten civic organizations chose today, an unusu al date, for launching a campaign against mosquitoes, in this city sur rounded by a State that has 10,000 lakes. It is planned to eliminate every puddle in the state where wa ter stagnates. Dallas, Tex., Feb. 29. Three bish ops. Luther E. Todd of St. Louis, W. R. Lahbuth of Birmingham, Ala., and E. E. IIoss of Muskogee, Okla., were here today to aid In planning the Methodist membership campaign to be inaugurated in Texas and New Mexico, March 12. Tulsa. Okla., Feb. 29, Tulsa busi ness men selected the extra day ' in the year to celebrate Prosperity Day. in addition to the usual carnival fea tures, a battery of public speakers will tell Tulsa what a regular city it is. ELECTION BATTLE OVER RACE PROBLEM (By the United Press) St Louis, Feb. 29. After a stiff legal fight against the holding of an election on the subject, St. Louis vo ters today are deciding by ballot whether negroes here ehall be com pelled to live-within residential dis tricts selected for them. The Segre gation Bill, as the plan is called, would prevent whites . and negroes from living In the same blocks . and would compel White persons to move from their homes in blocks the ma jority of whose residents are negroes. Negroes would he prohibited from living In blocks in which the major ity of the residents are white. Should segregation win, negroes and white Interests opposed to the proposed law, will attack it as unconstitutional, they said today, on the ground that it is discriminatory., ' ; DAYIE COURTHOUSE AT ! "MOCKSVBiE BURNED Winston-Salem, Feb., 28. The Da vie county courthouse at Mocksville was' destroyed by fire tonight " The origin is not known. The building was erected five years ago ami cost over thirty thousand dollars. A one- wee term oi uie superior iuuri opened thejeJ-t-'-'V - SAYS BRYAN CERT'N TO UPHOLD WILSON AT THE CONVENTION Will Attempt Nothing to Embarrass President, De clares Democratic State Chairman of Nebraska After Talk With Bryan (By United Press) Washington, Feb. 29. The uphold ing of Wilson by Bryan for renomin- ation is expected to lead to a solid Nebraska delegation to the conven tion in favor of Wilson, lie won t seek to injevt into the platform pre paredness nor the diplomatic policy for repudiating Wilson, it is authori tatively stated by Judge W. 11. Thompson, the Nebraska State chair man, following a visit to Mr. Bryan at Miami. Judge Thompson is a per sonal political friend and adviser of Mr. Bryan. The people, misunder stand Bryan, he said. DAVID EVANS TAKEN IN PAMLICO COUNTY IS NEW BERN STORY .- (Special' to The Free Press) u. - New Bern, Feb. 29- David Evans, negro slayer of Joe Mc Lawhorn, superintendent of Pitt county roads, is understood to have been taken in Pamlico county- PROGRESS OF THE , SUPERIOR COURT (Daily Free Press, February 29) Hughes vs. Moseley, an action con cerning a note, was concluded in Civil Superior Court today, the jury find ing for the defendant, colored, in all the issues. THE ODDEST STOltY IN THE DAY'S NEWS Dallas, Tex., Feb. 29. Mayor II . D. Lindsley celebrated his tenth birthday today. He would be forty four years old had he been born one dsy earl;er. As it is, he has a birth day only once every four years, anil 1900 being a centennial vear he had none from 1890 to. 1904. It wan chiefly 'hrciigh' Mayor Lindsley's in fluence that Dallas made the ?100t- 000 offer for the Democratic national convention. (By the United Press) SHIP SUNK BY MINE. Copenhagen, Feb. 29. The Gothepburg steamer Knippla, of 500 tons, has been mined south of Falsterbo, outside , Swedish territorial waters. Fifteen of the crew and two women passen gers were saved. THOUSAND PROBABLY LOST WITH SINKING SHIP. ! Paris, Feb. 29. The French auxiliary, cruiser Provence, sunk in the Mediterranean Saturday, it is officially reported. A thous and persons are believed to have been lost Eight hundred were saved. . ,- 'Ten boats are at the scene of the disaster seeking survivors. , The Provence was formerly a trans-Atlantic liner. Some sur vivors have been landed at Mal ta, some on the Greek island of Melos. ' - AT LEAST SIX DEAD IN MINE EXPLOSION Cumberland, ML, Feb. 29. Sis Persona are reported to be .dead and twenty injured, bur led under debris' by an explosion in the Davis Coal and Coke Com- HUNDREDS OF HIGH SCHOOL ORATORS TO DERATE DIG ISSUE 'Preparedness" to Be Dis cussed In Spring State wide Contest Aycock Cup to Winning School After April 14 (Special to The Free Press) Chapel Hill, Feb. 2'J. The ques tion of preparedness will be thresh ed out in ,'t25 North Carolina high schools thin spring. Already 2,000 young leiaters in me ciaie nign schools, from Murphy, Cherokee county, in tilt' west, to Manteo, Hart- county, m the cast, arc working on the question, "Unsolved. That the United Slates should adopt the pel u-y c,1 greatly increasing its navy. On March :U, l.'.'OO of these debat ers, who will nave ueen cnosen as re presentatives in preliminaries held in their respective high schools, , will meet in a State-wide debate on this question of preparedness, th occa sion being1 the annual triangular con test of the High " Sihiwl- Debating Union. Each debating team entera this contest with the view of win ning the Aycock Memorial Cup, the trophy provided by tho inter-collcgi-ate debaters-. of the University -.of North Carolina. " - 4 Each school enrolled for this eon- test is grouped with two others for a triangular debate '' every 'school having a1 team -on the, affirmative side of the question and one on the negative,' The schools winning both debates send their (representatives to ,-Chapel Hill to compete for the Ay cock Cup in the final contest to be held here April 14. ! ! " The High -School1 Debating Union, conducted hy the Bureau of Exten sion and the Dialectic and Philan thropic literary societies of the Uni versity of North Carolina, was or ganized in 1012-13. In the first year if the union's existence, 90 schools in 40 counties took part in the debates, end the Pleasant Garden High School of Guilford county, won the cup. In 1914, 150 high schools in 64 coun ties 'participated and the Winston Salem high School was awarded the cup. Last year 250 high schools in 90 counties entered the contest and tho Wilson high school was the win ner of the cup. PROMISES TO REVEAL BIG GRAFT IN CHICAGO Chicago, Feb. 28. Asserting that the Easlon-Rowe graft controversy was a minor event compared to reve lations which he would make Seymour Stedman, attorney for Mrs. Waller Page Eaton, former head of the So cial-Welfare Department, who has charged she had heen compelled to give up part of her salary for tho benefit of a -member of Mayor Wil liam Hale Thompson's family, today declared he would bring forth a wit ness who would reveal extensive Sal ary splitting Jn. the city hall. Today's hearing on the Eaton-Rowe case itself developed little of interest. HENRY JAMES, NOVELIST, DIES BRITISH CITIZEN London, Feb, 28. Henry James, the novelist, died today. Henry James was born an Ameri can but died a IJntisn subject, in July, 1915, he took the oath of alle giance to the Crown, explaining that he had lived and worked in England for forty years and ' had developed such an attachment for the country and eympathy with its people that he desired to throw his moral weight and personal allegiance into the Brit ish cause in the European war. BUFFALO BILL AT v t 71ST MILESTONE TODAY Cody, Wyo., Feb. -28J Colonel Witt, F. Cody,"Buffalo Bill," Indian ecout, showman and -character dear to the hearts of the youngsters of three gen erations, U hale and hearty at his he;: sec t IU 71 n birthday. AURORA WANTS SEMI- PRO. BASEBALL ASS'N First Town to Itexpond to Proposi tion for League is Smallest Con sidered Believed Likely Combi nation Would Be kinxlon, Crct-n-ville, Washington, Aurora, Wil liumston, Plymouth (Daily Free Press, February 29) Aurora, the smallest town of the eight proposed by lawyer Lindsay Warren for the semi-pro. East Caro lina League, is the first to respond to the proposal. "We will be there with hells on," was the message that Warren has had at Irs office in Wash ington from the Aurora fans. That town will employ four professional men, that being the maximum per mitted in Warren's plan, and will guarantee a self-supporting club. Aurora has not a thousand pulia tion. It will send u dozen represen tatives to ilie meeting in Washington March IT.. Copies of Mr. Warren's circular letter forwarded to Kiiwton funs out line his scheme in full. "1 believe that if this plan is adopted, tile ex pense-f attached thereto will be very smnll and thnt the league will be praetioally self-supporting,", he says "A schedule of fifty games would be sufficient" each team playing two at home and two abroad every week." He would like to see at least six team iff the association, although he has ad dressed interested parties in eight towns. The safest combination that could he dpvisod, probably, would be Klnston, ' Greenville, Washington, Aurora,? Plymouth' and Willlamsiton, the last :. named . three being . small places but ''enthusiastic ' and willing to put up the money." ' ' ENGLAND FEELS QUITE ; CHESTY OVER ITS BIG ; ARMY NOW IN HARNESS By WILBUIl S. FORREST, Louden, Feb. 1(5 (By Mail There is a brand new germ in the British air. Atmospheric utoms that hud the general effect of something aUin to gloom several months ago and which prompted British statesmen and public alike to speak less con fidently about the final outcome of the war, have disappeared. These atoms have been replaced by bright er colored atoms; peppy, optimistic 1 i i tie tikes. From the big government buildings in Whitehall to the smallest London shop there is a marked change in the conversnftion. Every man in the street knows that Britain is getting ready for the big show. The aver age Britisher still throws out his chest if the navy is mentioned, but today he will show a broader ex panse of shirtfront when it comes to talk about the army. The predomin ant topic of interest has become the Tommies. With about 4,000,000 men in khaki, England is preparing to do things in the spring, on land. That is com mon talk. No Britisher has lost any of his confidence in the Navy, but he has given up hope that the Ger man fleet will come out and fight, so he is leaving the navy to control the seas and taking foir granted that it will. Cabinet members, peers and plebl- ans alike look forward to the epring campaign. The government 'leaders who six months ago modified their earlier pronouncements that ' "(jer- many must be crushed?1, to the "gen tler assertion, that "the war cannot cese until the enemy has evacuated France and Belgium and restored the rights 'of smaller nations" are today reasserting the . former statement with vigor. ' The reason is said to be new confidence in the army. 0. P. HEATH; CHARLOTTf COTTON RlAN, SUICIDES Charlotte Feb. 28. O. P, Heath, senior member of the cotton firm, of O. P. Heath & Co., shot and killed himself in his office here today. - He was one of th a oldest merchants in the cotton business in this section and one of the largest operators. Two years ago. he met financial reverses, but was apparently doing a thriving business at this time. He was about 60 years cTd and leaves a family, also several brothers, who are prominent cotton manufacturers in tliia section. ANOTHER CALL DOWN FOR V. BERNSTORFF FROM SECY LANSING Head of State Department Does Not Like "Impro per Publicity" REBUKE IN A STATEMENT Remarks That Quotations From Latest Memorand um From Berlin Made Public In U. S. Did Not Come from Officiate (By the United Press) Neve York, Feb. 29. The go ing into effect of the merchant. ! men decree ia new a matters of . hours. : Eight big lipera are re Vj . ' dy to sail .from here with hun r dreds of passengers. Six Itali n vessels have armed at New '. York and are now ready to salL -y , Several chips are now In the war . (tone.' V t " Washington, . Feb.' 29-5ecreUry Lansing today administered another direct - rebuke to Ambassador VVon Bornstof for : what he believes ta he ' improper publicity. : lie issued a statement .' announcing that state ments of the contenU of the German memorandum outlined by Von Bern--storff yesterday were not made pub lic by himself, ' nor Uie depairtiment mndi preflsinifs the Department' Ay views ef ' the -i memorandum.' v.The .'f- ; statement loiiowea tne pnnung tnw morning' of, '.JpnjjjQrted. paragraphs " " 'rom":'the meniorandun. wi''-- .... i . - . mr; : jjansing conxsrrea wicn rresi dent Wilson today preceding the cab ' net meeting. v ' ' The text of the German memorsn . dum obtained by the United Press says Germany will keep its pledge made in tho Lusitania .matter, ao fa 'i as peaceful merchantmen " aire eon 4 ; cerned, but that the presence of guns ' t implies intent to resist. Sabmarine can't warn liner if the liner plans to fire, the memorandum isays, and cites a secret British admiralty order to attack submarines. The reason far submarines is that they fear attack. AMERICAN MURDERED , BY YILUSTAS, SAID Washinulon, Feb. 29. Grover C. Vurn, an American, has been -murdered ' at Pome, Durango, Mexico, by Villistas, says a State Department report Labor con- ditions in the .Mexican capital are unsettled. " V HAITI IS NOW A REAL PROTECTORATE OF U S. Washington, Feb. 28. -The Senate nto today unanimously ratified tho treaty with Haiti undear which , the United States assumes a protectorate . over the turbulent ." ' island republic, , a tAking over control of its finances r and police!, ;. guaranteeing its jterrito 4 ! urn iiii-gruy hu unaeriasmg io ae- olop Us resources. '- The treaty hsa' alteadybeen approved hy the Haitiea ;.., Congress and'tts terms virtually are " in operation under the eye of a strong - American marine expedition. . v FIRE IN LUMBER" HILL' . V EARLY THIS EIDJIZG (Daily Free Press, February 29) The East Kinston. Company exUng ished a small fire at Hines Bros.' Lum her Mill, .East Kinston, at' 5 a. m. today, before the downtown firemen arrived. The blase was in a boiler- room at the plant, damaging the roof some. ' The damage was- stated to be slight. - The firemen responded in a rain, ' ' .- The Pitt county HepuLIlony j nrday in' a alwvt convent' i r ed delegates i) t' a ' lior-, N t t hi !.., - IN hi " i 1 - hi I u r is it is not at all surprising that within rcl'y la