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VOL. XVI. No. 238 KINSTON, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1914 PRICE TWO CENTS
ALLIED FORCES UNABLE TO BREAK LINES
OF GERMANS, AND
KAISER'S ARMIES
BERLIN CLAIMS THAT THE WAY IS PRACTICALLY OPEN FOR
ANOTHER MARCH TO PARIS, AS "ALLIES CANNOT
RECOVER" FROM HAMMERING OF GERMAN FORCES.
FIERCE FIGHTING IS STILL IN PROGRESS, THOUGH
i
Allies Being On Offensive, Are Suffering Great Losses Many High Rank
ing Officers Killed, Including General Galieni, the Defender of
Paris French Rushing Additional Heavy Guns to
the Assistance of Their Center.
(By the United Press.)
Paris, Sept. 18. After five days'
fighting, during which the Allies have
tried vainly to break through the
German lines, thousands of troops
have been killed. In the Champagne
region the forces' sufferings are In
creased by cold rains. Both sides
contemplate reinforcing their lines in
this section of the battle lines. No
statement of casualties is obtainable.
Train load after trainload of wound
ed are passing around the city to the
hospital camps to the south. Many
officers of high rank have been kill
ed. The majority of the wounded are
suffering from shell wounds, indicat
ing that the conflict is still one of ar
tillery duels. The fact that the
French are maintaining the offensive
and attacking naturally adds to the
French casualties. General Galliene
has been killed in battle. It is be
lieved that the German line must
bring supplies from a long distance
while the Allies have direct opera
tions from their base. The battle
continues along the whole front from
Oise to Regin Woevre. Three at
tempts by the Germans to take the
offensive have failed.
GERMANY CLAIMS WAY
TO PARIS OPEN
Berlin, Sept. 18. The general staff
issues a statement to the effect that
the battle raging in Northern France
is still undecided. It speaks of evi
dences that indicate that the French
offensive movement is losing force.
The general staff says the French ef
fort to penetrate the German right,
made with the greatest bravery, has
failed. The German center is slowly
forcing back the French advance. Al
though the French made a desperate
resistance in their position at Ver
dun, they were repulsed without much
cifflculty. Strong reinforcements are
being sent forward to every point
along the line. The present battle
win surely result in a victory for the
Germans, the statement says. The
French will be unable to recover for
long time, and Paris will be at the
mercy of the Germans. The Allied
iorces losses are heavier than the
Germans, for the first time.' The
Germans have advantage for the first
time, fighting from trenches and
using this advantage to the greatest
extent.
FRENCH MILITARY HEADQUAR
TERS ADMIT FIGHT A DRAW.
Bordeaux, Sept. 18. Military
headquarters admits that the battle
in Northern France is stTII a draw,
and states that it may continue for
some time. The French are sending
additional batteries of heavy guns to
the Allies center. There is much re
joicing here over the fact that the
Germans after'eight days of fight
ing have been forced to fall back from
Fancy. .
AUSTRIANS CONSCRIPTING
RSCRU1TS.
Vienna, Sept 18. All the Austri
an forces are now united with the
right wing, from Biohleyez to Chy
tw insuring lines of retreat if too
hard pressed. : Fighting along all
the lines is in progress with greatest
ferocity. General conscriptions are
progress under decree of the em
peror. New recruits are being rush
ed to the front as fast as they can be
Pupped.' ' : '
SERVIANS CONCENTRATE AND
3 CONTINUE ADVANCE.
Nish, Cept loWPurtuant to plans
the Servian General staff for the
wcentratioB of Servian forces in the
ioo of Bosnia, the entire Servian
IT APPEARS TBAT
RAVE WON VICTORY
army has been withdrawn from Sem
lin. Austrians have occupied the
town, but have made no effort to
cross into Servia. The advance of
the Servian and Montenegrin forces
in Serajero continues.
MANDOT AND WOLGAST
MEET AGAIN TONIGHT.
fBv the United Press.)
Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 18. Ad,
Wolgast and Joe Mandot were to
meet here tonight at the Hippodrome
in a ten-round battle at 133 pounds.
This is the second meeting for the
two, Mandot having secured a paper
decision over the bearcat in the first
bout. Wolgast's arm, broken in
training on the coast, has knitted
firmly and the Dutchman has been
going at a strenuous rate since Sep
tember 5, when he started training.
SALISBURY GETS NEXT
STATE S. S. CONVENTION.
Winston-Salem, Sept. 17. Salis
bury has been selected as the place
of' meeting fore the State Sunday
School Convention in 1915. Invita
tions were also received from Golds,
boro and Raleigh but these were with
drawn in favor of Salisbury, who of
fered free entertainment and re
quested unlimited delegation.
JORDAN SAYS ROBBER
BARON SPIRIT CAUSE
Chancellor of Leland Stanford Uni
versity Thinks Greed of Euro
pean Aristocracy to Blame for
War Civilization's Great
Back Set
(By the United Press.)
Stanford, Cal., Sept. 18. Dr. David
Starr Jordan, chancellor of Leland
Stanford University, and who has
been touring the world in the interest
of a world peace,' will not return to
Stanford until late in November, it
was announced today. In a letter
received here from London, Dr. Jor
dan stated he would be in New York
about the time of the meeting of the
tn stees of the Carnegie Peace Foun
dation, on November. 18, and as soon
as that is over will come west. A
letter received recently from Mrs.
Anna P. Zschokke, who knows Dr.
Jordan, has the following to say re
garding his attitude towards the war:
Dr. Jordan board's near us, Kildare
Gardens, London. He is greatly dis
tressed over the terrible backset that
civilizatin will get. He declares the
robber baron spirit among Austria
and Germany's aristocracy is respon
sible for the war."
GERMANY WOULD LIKE
TO KNOW HOW THE
OTHER POWERS STAND
Washington, Sept 17. Germany
has suggested informally that the
United States should undertake to
elicit from Great Britain, France and
Russia a statement of terms under
which the allies would make peace.
The suggestion was made by the
imperial chancellor. Von Bethmann
Hollweg, to Ambassador Gerard at
Berlin, as a result of arkinquiry sent
by the American government to learn
whether Emperor William desired to
discuss peace, as Count Von Bern
storff, the German ambassador, and
Osar Straus recently had reported.
- Emperor William himself made no
reply nor did the imperial chancellor
indicate whether he spoke on behalf
of his monarch. '
BOTH GERMAN ANB
FRENCH CLAIM TO
HOLO THEIR OWN
DESPERATE FIGHTING MARKS
THE THIRD GREAT BATTLE
OF THE WAR.
OFFICIALS REMAIN SILENT
The Armies of Generals Von Kluck
and Von Buelow Get Brunt of the
Conflict Because Allies Un
dertake to Flank Them.
(By the United Press.)
Paris, Sept. 18. "The third great
battle continues, and our lines hold
everywhere," was the comment on the
situation at military headquarters to
day. The hard fighting has occurred
in partipularly heavy rainfalls, espe
cially the desperate struggle on the
left wing, where the joint armies of
General von Kluck and General von
Buelow have been compelled to ex
pend an extreme effort by their right
to meet a flanking movement in force.
Because of the extreme importance
of the present struggle, officials in
Paris hesitate to express an opinion.
GERMANS SAY LINES
ARE HOLDING.
Berlin, Sept. 18. The war office
announces that the German lines are
being subjected to enormous pres
sure, but declares they are holding
fast all their positions. German suc
cesses in East Prussia continue. The
war office officially states that the
French are devoting their whole at
tention to the army of the Crown
Prince, which is suffering heavy los
ses, but holds its position by its en
ormous strength, and is repulsing
every attack by the French:
WOULD HAVE BIG SUM
RAISED TO SAVE COTTON
Washington, D. C, Sept. 17. A gi
gantic scheme to save the Southern
cotton crop from low price destruc
tion will be laid before the confer
ence of the governors of the nine
cotton states which will be held in
Washington Monday.
This scheme involves the issues of
250 million dollars in State bonds by
the nine cotton states of North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,
and Arkansas, with which to buy and
store five million bales of cotton. The
price to be paid for the staple is ten
cents a pound.
This plan developed at the meeting
tonight of the House committee on
banking and currency.
N. C. MEMBERS VARY IN
OPINIONS ON COTTON.
Washington, D. C, Sept. 17. Wide
ly varying views on the plan for fin
ancing cotton as proposed by the Ra
leigh mass meeting are expressed by
members of the North Carolina dele
gation, though few of them are will
ing at this time to make public state
ments. Interest in the delegation's
meeting Saturday to decide on their
reception of the committee from the
meeting on Monday is growing, and
it seems probable that a warm dis
cussion is in prospect. It is not
known yet whether or not the meet
ing will be public.
NEGRO BOY BEING
'TRIED FOR ASSAULT.
Rocky Mount Sept. 17. Fletcher
Winstead and Will Holland, two ne
gro boys who, on the afternoon of
Wednesday, July 8, attempted a crim
inal assault upon Miss Nannie Mae
Dflughtridge and her sister, daugh
ters of Dock Daughtridge, will, on
tomorrow, be tried in Edgecombe Su
perior Court, now in session at Tar
boro. .''
WILSON CONFIDENT THAT
CARRANZA IS CAPABLE.
Washington, D. C, Sept 17. Pres
ident Wilson declared today he order
ed American troops withdrawn from
Vera Crux because he believed that
Mexicans now in control were able to
manage Mexico's affairs.
8 KILLED WHEN
FAST EXPRESS
TAKES TO DITCH
ALABAMA GREAT SOUTHERN'S
LIMITED FROM NEW OR
LEANS IS WRECKED.
MANY PERSONS INJURED
Hospital Train Is Rushed to Scene of
Wreck, South of Birmingham,
Carrying Doctors to Care for
Unfortunate Victims.
(By the United Press.)
Mobile, Sept. 18. Eight were kill
ed and twenty-five injured today in a
wreck at Livingston, Alabama, of the
Great Southern northbound Express
from New Orleans to New York. A
hospital train was rushed from here
to the scene of the accident. The
wrecked train is one of the South's
fastest and best equipped, making few
stops between the Queen and Cres
cent cities.
TARHEEL STUDENTS
FOUGHT RATS ON SHIP.
New York, Sept. 17. One hundred
and fifty woe-begone American fugi
tives from fighting Europe were on
the Greek liner Athinai, which dock
ed today from Venice and Patras,
Greece. The horrors of war had been
blotted from their minds by their
battles with rats and other disturbers
of comfort on the voyage across the
Atlantic.
Among the passengers were W. P.
Whittaker and T. C. Linn, Jr., stu
dents of the University of North
Carolina, who worked their way
abroad last spring and who walked all
the way across Europe and did cler
ical work to pay their passage home.
They told humorous stories of fight
ing rats aboard the ship, which they
said was overrun with the rodents.
OREGON SCHOOLS TEACH
PRACTICAL GARDENING
Wants Children Taught to Raise
More Necessities, and Thus Help
to Solve the Ever-Increasing
High Cost of Living.
(By the United Press.)
Salem, Ore., Sept. 18. The school
children of the State are today tak
ing greater interest in agricultural
pursuits than ever before as a re
sult of supplementing text-book in
struction with practical demonstra
tion work in gardening. State super
intendent of schools Churchill con
tends that if every school child in the
State is made familiar with garden
ing from a practical standpoint, the
production of poultry, eggs and vege
tables will be materially increased
with a resultant decrease in the cost
of living.
STATE'S MOST POPULAR
BASEBALL PLAYER.
Durham, Sept. 17. The official
vote of the winners in the Sovereign
cigarette voting contest given by the
American Tobacco Company for the
most popular baseball player in the
North Carolina State League has
been announced. Jim Kelly, manager
of the Durham Bulls during the sea
son just closed, wins the first auto
mobile with a vote of 542,203, while
Carl Ray, premier twirler for the
Winston-Salem Twins, gets the sec
ond machine with a vote of 535,011.
The first prize is a 1915 Cadillac or
$2,150. The second prize is a 1915
Overland or $1,075 in cash.
EUGENICS LAW BLOW TO CUPID
(By the United Press.)
Salem, Ore., Sept 18. According
to a report issued today by the State
Board of Health, the eugenics law has
Cupid "lashed to the mast" There
were more than 1,000 fewer marri
ages in 1913 than in the previous
year, the report shows. To avoid the
law, which requires men to furnish
a certificate of health before a mar
riage license will be issued, hundreds
of young couples go to the neighbor
ing States to have the nuptial knot
tied.
KING GEORGE'S
SPEECH READ TO
HOUSE OF LORDS
HE DECLARED THAT ENGLAND
WAS FIGHTING FOR A
GOOD CAUSE.
PARLIAMENT TO ADJOURN
Decree Was Read Today By the Royal
Commissioner, In Which He Eulo
gized the Splendid Work of
I The Assembly.
(By the United Press.)
London, Sept. 18. A decree for the
adjournment of Parliament was read
in the House of Lords this morning
by the Royal Commissioner. He eu
logized the wrok and the spirit of
Parliament in the Home Rule dises
tablishment act and accompanying
act, suspending its operation during
the progress of the war.
The Royal Commissioner read the
speech by King George, in which His
Majesty declared England is fighting
for a worthy cause, and that the King
dom cannot lay down its arms until
the purpose in view is achieved.
300 CONVENTIONS
DURING THE FAIR,
(By the United Press.)
San Francisco, Cal., Sept., 18 More
than 300 conventions will be held in
San Francisco during the life of the
Panama Exposition. Of this number
more than forty will deal with the
products and problems of the soil,
and many of them are of an interna
tional nature, like the World Congress
of Grape-growers, which will have
present representatives from more
than twenty foreign countries.
WASHINGTON WATERWAYS
CONVENTION ADJOURNS
(By the United Press.)
Spokane, Sept. 18. After an en
thusiastic session of two days, the
fall meeting of the Columbia and
Snake River Waterways Association
adjourned here today. Many promi
nent men addressed the association,
urging that the northwest waterways
be developed. They declared that the
region would be benefited greatly by
the opening of the. upper Columbia
and Snake rivers to navigation ana
hydro-electric development.
DAHLIA SOCIETY WILL
STANDARDIZE VARIETIES
(By the United Press.)
Seattle, Wasn., Sept. 18. Having
for its purpose the standardizing and
making official the naming of dah;:a
varieties in the United States, the
convention of the National Dahlia So
ciety convened here today for a two
day session, with several thousand
delegates in attendance.
A dahlia show was also opened to
day for the instruction and entertain
ment of the delegates, in which there
were 5,000 entries, representing 342
classes.
GUARD WHO KILLED
CONVICT ACQUITTED
Wilmington, Sept. 17. C. O. Per
ry, a guard at the East Wilmington
camp, who on September 10th shot
and killed an unruly negro convict,
Joe Martin, was acquitted last night
by a Superior Court jury of second
degree murder.
PROTEST SPECIAL TAX
ON STOCK BROKERS
Washington, D. C, Sept. 17. Stock
biokers are protesting against the
proposal to include in the war reve
nue bill now being drafted a special
tax on them of $50 a year. Such a
tax was levied in the war revenue act
of the Spanish-American war, which
the Democratic caucus authorized
the ways and means committee to
emulate. . The stock brokers say
stock exchanges are closed through
out the country because of the war,
and that their business is demoraliz
ed. v , .' .
The matter 'will be taken up to
morrow. - ,"
TOBACCO SALES
MABE SEASON'S
HIGH MARK TODAY
flbiaj,.
BETWEEN THREE AND FOUR
HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS
"TTf THE LEAF SOLD HERE.
PRICES PLEASE FARMERS
The Tobacconists Are Greatly En
couraged, and Say the Banner
Sales Days of Other Years
Will Be Reached.
Roughly estimating, between 300,
000 and 400,000 pounds of tobacco
were sold here this morning. The
breaks were the largest of the sea
son, and prices were consistent with
the seasonal average.
Much of the tobacco came from the
south. At one time late Wednesday
forty-three wagons and carts were
counted at the iron bridge en route
to the warehouses for today's sales.
Tobacconists declare the heavy
breaks are evidence of: the planters
optimism over the market, and some
authorities predict that last year's
banner sales of around a half mil
lion pounds will be equalled before
many more days. The crop is now
well in shape, and the better quali
ties are coming in in greater quan
tity.
In one warehouse today the sales
force and buyers were required to
handle 100,000 pounds. On every
warehouse floor the scenes were
of great activity, and driveways and
the street approaches were filled with
vehicles from the country.
Hardly a seller had any complaint
to register against the prices, and ob
servers with an interest in the sell
ing expressed gratification at the
bidding.
CO-EDS OF CALIFORNIA
UNIVERSITY WANT TANGO
Seniors Have Drafted Resolutions
Asking That New Steps Be Permit
ted in the Campus Dances Under
Supervision of Censor.
(By the United Press.)
Berkeley, Cal., Sept. 18. The lid
barring the tango and hesitation
waltz from campus dancing will be
lifted if the co-eds at the University
of California are permitted to have
their way. At a meeting of the sen
ior women the following resolutions
governing the rules of dancing for
the coming year was adopted: "Re
solved, That progressive dancing be
permitted at campus dances under
the following conditions: First. That
the order of dances on the program be
supervised to include waltzes, hesi
tations and one-steps.
"Second. That the music be con
trolled in regard to orchestral selec
tions. "Third. That a paid censor or
standing committee of censorship be
provided by the students' welfare
committee.
FIRST GIRL TO STUDY
MEDICINE IN STATE.
Chapel Hill, Sept. 17. Establish
ing a precedent in North Carolina, as
serting woman's unquestioned rights
to enter into the professional field so
long dominated by man, is the init
iative "step taken by Miss Cora Cor-
pening of Mars Hill, in matriculat
ing for a full-fledged medical course
in the University of North Carolina.
She is the first woman to register for
a course leading to the profession of
medicine in the annals of North Car
olina colleges, and perhaps has no
parallel in Southern colleges.
NINE KILLED WHEN
FREIGHT HITS TROLLEY
Memphis, Tenn., Sept 17. Nine
persons were killed and more than fif
teen injured when an Illinois Central
freight train crashed into a crowded
street car near. Binghamton, a sub
urb of Memphis, early tonight
The car, a "trailer," was struck
midway and was hurled over an em
bankment the foremost of the freight
cars toppling over on it - " ;