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lilSlllSil ili ESS; ill n nm THE WEATHER" 8 PAGES TODAY If !-': vis rer IN. I. Uoudjr tonight UK : n r VOL. XVL-No. 239 TFRRIFIC FIGHTING CONTINUES ALL -r..v v. ALONG BATTLE LINES WITHOUT ANY MATERIAL ADVANTAGE TO EITHER SIDEi TRENCH ATTEMPT TO BREAK DOWN GERMAN BATTERIES AND DRIVE TROOPS FROM TRENCHES WITH HOT ARTILLERY FIRE AND LITTLE LOSSES OF PAST FEW DAYS Troop Suffer From Exposure Turkey Still An Uncertain Quantity, and Entry Into Conflict Expected tialled for Inhuman Order Military Governor (By the United Press.) Paris, Sept. 19. Fighting along the left line of the Allies is increas ing. The Allies are being pushed for ward. The Germans have retired to new positions previously prepared in the rear of the original entrench ments, but they are at no point yet defeated. Fighting along the left lines continues to be mainly an artil lery duel. There has been no infan try fighting in thirty-six hours, the Allies realizing the futility of sacri ficing the men while the enemy's en trenched positions are held. The Al lies are bending every effort to de molish the German batteries. The French artillery fire increased stead ily all through last night, with indi cations that it forced changes in the Germans' position. The Allies are sending reinforcements to their left. TROOPS SUFFER FROM EXPOSURE. London, Sept. 19. The war office announces that the fighting in the north of France continues, and that the situation is unchanged. It is be lieved the losses in this battle al ready total a hundred thousand. It is insisted the German losses are much heavier than the Allies' The fighting is taking place under the worst con ditions possible. Cold, torrential rains floor the battle 'field, and the trenches are filled with water. It is reported the British troops are suf fering greatly from rheumatism, but there is no official confirmation of this. TORCH APPLIED TO VERDUN. Antwerp, Sept. 19. Official advices tell of further instances of German vandalism. One instance is that of the destruction of Verdun, where on ' ly the churches and hospital remain. The Germans applied the torch after the terrific bombardment in the midst of strong winds, which swept the flames through the city. RUSSIAN COMMANDER COURTMARTIALED. Berlin, Sept. 19. General Paitof, the Russian commander, has been court-martialled for his order to the troops to kill all male inhabitants in tneij advance through East Prussia. The verdict has not yet been report ed. GERMANS FIRMLY ENTRENCHED London, Sept. 19. The German po sitions in the fighting in the north of France are strong. The entrench ments of many of the positions are Provided with bomb-proof protection extending along half a mile of front. Also complicated net works, barbed wire and other entanglements Protecting all portions of the trenchments. are en- GERMAN OFFICERS IN THICK OF FIGHTING. Bordeaux,' Sept 19. It is officially stated that letters found on dead bod ies of German officers show the mor tality, 'fcnong the German officers is far greater than has been reported. Already many companies of the Ger man farces in East Prussia fighting against the Russians are commanded by volunteer officers. - BORDEAUX NOT POSTED. Bordeaux, Sept 19. No details irom the front The war office says fighting continues with satisfac tory results to the Allies. It is stat . that if the Allies 'drive the Ger- Sfl f France M more troops rt " necessary.. This is interpret. , to mean 'a numerical advantage. It officially stated that tfc r.. -jS "strengthening their po- PUBLISHED INFANTRY FIGHTING. ESTIMATED OVER 100,000 Russian Commander Court-Mar- Germans Burn Verdun Saves Treasures. GERMAN GOVERNOR OF BELGIUM WOULD PRESERVE THE CITY'S ART TREASURES Berlin, Sept. 19. General Von Der golt, the German governor of Belgi um, is taking active steps to save from destruction and injury the art treasures in Belgium, and is having all completely listed. The greatest precaution will be observed for thor ough protection. TURKEY STILL AN UNCERTAIN QUANTITY Rome, Sept. 19. It is believed here that in spite of the declarations of her neutrality, Turkey will yet enter the war as an ally of Germany. It is reported that the Turkish minis ter of war has gone to Germany in cognito on some secret mission rela tive to Turkey's course. AUSTRIAN VICTORY LARGER THAN REPORTED. Berlin, Sept. 19. It is officially an nounced that the German attack de livered against all the Allies south ft Noyon in the region of Lette reSultea in a gain for the Germans. An at tack by the Allies on the Germans' entire battle front was easily repuls ed. An anticipated invasion over the Vosges mountains into Germany at Breiscs was repulsed. Ajram dispatches report that the Austrian victories over the Servians were greater than at first stated. They indicated that the Servians were rout ed and driven across the Save river, many being drowned. The Austri ans have been reinforced. The Rus sians are slightly checked, permit ting the advance of reserve columns. SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE IS OPENED TO SOUTH New Boat Service From Mobile to Venezuela Affords New Possibil ities for Marketing South's Products There. Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 19. The merchants and importers of Venezu ela are anxious to learn what lines of manufactures they can advantag- eously import from the cities of the j South which to them is a new s3C- j tion. iust opened bv the recently es-! tablished steamship service between Mobile and Venezuelan and Colom bian ports, writes the American Con sul at La Guaira to the Chattanooga Industrial Board. He states that the Venezuelan business men are now in the proper receptive mood to be im pressed with the opportunities for do ing business on a better basis than formerly when they could import American goods via New York. The new service from Mobile to these Caribbean ports gives the South a better chance to enter these markets than formerly. The consul says that Venezuela manufactures little and imports a little of every thing, so that there is a wide field for the sale of products-manufactured in the South if they were proper ly exploited. He reports that a salesman representing a Chattanoo ga house recently told him of great success in selling his line in Venezue Mr. Charles L. Chandler, South Am erican agent for Southern Railway, Mobile afTd Ohio Railroad, and the Queen and Crescent Route, will give full information and extend any pos sible aid to any merchant or manu facturer who desires to. enter the South American trade. The services of the South American agency will be given without, charge of any kind, all its' expenses being borne by the railway lines supporting it EiERY" HFTERNOON:1 EXCEPT SUNDRY, KINSTON, N, C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19; 1914 TOBACCO SALES v THIS SEASON WILL EQUAL LAST YEAR'S MR. HARRY WOOTEN SAYS THE QUALITY IS NOT VERY GOOD, SO FAR. PRICES ARE SATISFACTORY Smaller Places Not Getting Average Sales, for Planters Prefer to Take Chances In the Larger Markets Now. Tobacco prices are as good as the quality offered warrants, is the opin ion of Mr. Harry Wooten, of the Cen tral Warehouse. Mr. Wooten gave his views in an interview this morn ing as follows: "The grades being brought to the market now are inferior, and the quantity of the crop also is smaller than in former years. However, as much tobacco will be sold here this season as last because of the fact that the planters prefer at this un settled time to bring it to the larger markets. The sales in the surround ing small towns are not up to the standard. The farmers, realizing that the crop is not up to the usual, are not protesting the conditions, and all admit that they are receiving as much for their weed as they can expect. In fact, the prices are splendid in com parison with the quality. There is a demand. This was evidenced by the fact that the Imperial Company Fri day purchased more than 40,000 pounds on one floor here, and seemed to hfii. anxious to get it. - .Conditions seem brighter as the season advances. Friday was the best day so far as prices are concerned since the open ing." Reports from all of the larger cen ters in the bright belt for the last few days have tended to confirm Mr. Wooten's opinion. That Kinston is offering as much for the product as any of them is an encouraging fact, also. Scores of planters, talked with, in the past week have expressed sat isfaction with the market, and many of these declared that they are real izing on the crop even better than they expected." REPUBLICANS' FILIBUSTER KEEPS SENATE ALL NIGHT Burton Relieved Kenyon for the Noc turnal Harangue, But the Latter Took Up the Burden Early In the Morning. (By the United Press.) Washington, Sept. 19. There was an all night session of the Senate last niSht with Senator Burton speaking continuously from midnight to early morning, when Senator Kenyon took P the burden of the Republican fill- buster situation. GERMANS HAVE PLENTY AMMUNITION. (By the United Press.) Berlin, via the Hague, Sept. 19. It is officially stated that the battle in Northern France is still progressing, with the Germans slowly breaking down the lines of the allied forces. Indications are that the battle will continue several days. A report that the Germans have run out of am munition is denied. It is asserted that the German army trains are run ning direct to central points along the battle line and distributed thence all along the front. GERMANS FAIL IN NIGHT ATTACK. (By the United Press.) Paris, Sept. 19 Reports have been received here that a German night attack in an attempt to break through the Allied lines,' was frustrated. TWINS TAKE THIRD OF SERIES FROM NORFOLK. Norfolk, Va!,- Sept" i8-Winston-Salem defeated Norfolk for the third time in the interstate championship series this afternoon by the score of 4 to 1. ' Myers for the visitors only allowed three bits. w . ttROUNDS j COMMITTEE HAS" THREE OPTIONS REPORT HEARD BY DIRECTORS OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND OTHERS. WEST PROPERTY FAVORED Four Additional Members Added to Committee, and Further Time Given May Raise Necessary Money By Subscription. A considerable number of members of the Chamber of Commerce and oth er substantial citizens heard the re port of the chamber's committee on playgrounds Friday evening in the mayor's office at City Hall, and dis cussed proposed sites and ways and means for raising the purchase mon ey. The committee stated that op tions are had on eight acres for which Mrs. Lillian Perry wants $30,000; the Athletic Park, of about four acres, for which $12,500 is asked, and two pieces of property on East Gordon street separated by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, for which Miss Tiffany West, the owner, wants $6, 000 and $8,000, the acreage of the two pieces being three and one-half and six, respectively. The meeting seemed to favor the purchasing of the West property, and making a double playgrounds of them, using the smaller plat, on the west of the railroad for small chil dren, and that on the east for ath letics and sports. The idea predom inances for the parking of both pieces, with equipment for the amusement of' the little folks and a baseball and football grounds, tennis courts and swimming pool for older children and adults. Public subscription, those present at the meeting decided, is the best method for raising the money for pur chasing the grounds. iThe directors of the chamber pres ent appointed Messrs. L. Hines, Wil- j liam Hayes, G. V. Cowper and Dr. J. M. Parrott as additional members of the playgrounds committee, com ( Continued on Page Eight) WRECK ON SOUTHERN DELAYED MORNING MAIL Connection Missed at Goldsboro With Train from West Wreck Near Greensboro Caused Injury to One Passenger, Is Report. Passengers and mails from the west for Kinston and other points on this district of the Norfolk Southern Railroad, missed connection with the 8 o'clock train this morning because of a wreck on the Southern Railway near Greensboro. Passenger train No. 112 of the Southern ran into an open switch. The engine was thrown against an embankment, but the en gineer and fireman escaped injury. Only one passenger, who sustained slight bruises, was hurt. It is alleg ed that the switch had been opened and the lock removed. GUNBOAT AT WILMINGTON WAS BERNHARD'TS YACHT. Wilmington, Sept. 19. The Unit ed States dispatch boat Yankton, bound for Vera Cruz, Mexico, to New York, Lieutenant Joyce command spent yesterday in port, coaling at the docks of the Springer Coal Com pany, and cleared last night to re sume her journey. The Yankton was formerly the Cleopatra, Sarah Bern hard't private yacht, purchased by the United States government, and now in use as a tender for the Atlan tic fleet STOCK BROKERS' PROTEST AGAINST TAX IS VAIN. Washington, SepC 1!L Stock brok ers who. have protested against apr posed 'special tax of $50 ayear will not escape assessment Democrats of the ways and mean committee, de termined, today to include them in the wtfr revenue bill, which is now being perfected. ; ST. LOUIS CIVIC BODY WOULD AID COTTON PLANTERS ASKS KINSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO JOLN ITS MOVEMENT. WILL FURNISH STORAGE Proffer to' Arrange Facilities for Car ing for Crop If Local Means In adequate Co-Operation of . , Kinston Will Be Given. The Buy-a-Bale-of-Cotton Com mittee of St Louis has asked the Kinston Chamber of Commerce to join in the plan which it is fostering, similar to those of numerous other organizations throughout the South, and advises that "if you have not the facilities for storing cotton, the St. Louis committee will undertake to handle the matter for you." The cot ton surplus, the committee says, will be about 3,000,000 bales, meaning by surplus that part of the crop which will not be soldbroad because of the European war. These 3,000,000 bales, it is pointed out, will represent to the Southern farmers $500,000,000, and to every line of business incalculable damage will be done if it is not saved. 'The St. Louis committee will be ad vised that Kinston has already ar ranged to hold every bale of cotton in the entire county if necessary, and with thanks informed that the Cham ber of Commerce is anxious to co operate with any interests in any manner by which the local planters may be benefited. Robert L. Marcley, secretary of the Goldsboro Chamber of Commerce, has asked the local chamber to co operate in the formation of a pro- posed Southern Immigration Com mission, which, with two representa tives from each Southern State, would maintain offices at Washington, D. C. "There can be no question that there Will be an emigration to this coun try, following the close of the Euro pean war, greater than at any pre vious time," Marclay says, and he wants to see the South instead of the Middle West secure the cream of this influx of labor. STOCKHOLDERS OF THE , SOUTHERN RWY. TO MEET Annual Gathering Called for Rich mond, October 13 First Oppor tunity Afforded for Direct Vote of 12,000 Owners. Richmond, Va., Sept. 19. The next annual meeting of the stockholders of the Southern Railway, to be held at the principal office of the company in the Times-Dispatch building in Richmond on October 13, at 10 a. m., will mark a new era in the history of the Company, as it will be the first meeting at which the 12,000 stock holders have had the opportunity to vote directly, the voting trust, in ex istence since the organization of the company in 1894, now being in pro cess of dissolution. "An effort Will be made to make of this meeting more than the con vention routine, which current crit icism finds to be characteristic of the meetings of the stockholders of Am erican Railway companies," says President Fairfax Harrison in a letter addressed to all stockholders, "and the co-operation of the stock holders is necessary to that end. The principal officers will be in attend ance to answer questions directed to the policy of the management, or to any detail of its business, and the report of the operations during the past year will be before the stock holders for discussion." The principal business to be trans acted will be the election of five di rectors, four to fill vacancies due to the expiration of terms of directors of the 1914 class, among them Mes tttx Finley and Fahn stock, who have died during the past year, and one to fill a vacancy in the 1916 class due to resignation. It is expected that this meeting-will be largely attended and tnat the gath ering of the stockholders of South- Sunday. Virwbla wind.. PRICE TWO CENTS i , t JEWISH NEW YEAR, MOST SOLEMN OF ALL HEBREW CELEBRATIONS TO BE OBSERVED HERE. STARTS THE 5675TH YEAR Observance From Sunday Night at Sundown to Monday Night Many Jews From Surrounding Towns Expected to Come Here. Rosh Hashonah, the Hebrew New Year's Day, inaugurating the most solemn session of the Jewish relig ious year, begins Sunday evening and lasts until Sundown Monday. Among Orthodox Jews, who celebrate two lays, Tuesday also will be observed. The day opens the Jewish calendar year 5675.. In two passages of the Five Books of Moses, namely Leviticus 23:24,25, and Numbers 29:1, the observance of this holy season is commanded. In neither passage is there any specific command as to how the day is to be observed beyond the injunctions to hold a holy convocation, to engage in no servile occupation, and to "blow the trumpet." It is to be noted that this day is the first day of the sev enth month, or the day of the new moon of that month. The new moon was observed as a holy season by the Jews of old; the seventh month was particularly holy month, as the seventh day of the week; hence, the new moon was invested with a sig nificance of far holier import than the other new moon days of the year. As in all holy seasons, no servile work or gainful occupation was to be fol lowed. The injunction to blow the trum pet on this day was to call the peo ple to remembrance before the Lord. In the course of time this ceremony of blowing the "shofar" became the central feature of the elaborate re ligious service conducted on the day. Just as the shofar called the people to remembrance before the Lord, so were its sounds to arouse them to their shortcomings and to their duties in which they may have failed. The day is called on this account "Yom hazikkaron" "the day of memor ial." Another idea which in time came to be associated with the day was that on this day God weighed men's actions in the scale of justice. For this reason another designation of the day is "Yom haddin," "the day of judgment." The days intervening between New Year's Day and the Day of Atonement are called the ten days of penitence, during which the opportunity is had to reflect finally on and repair the wrongs done during the year. If the repentance is sin cere forgiveness is gained on the cul minating day of the holy season, "the Day of Atonement." The New Year's Day in the passing of the centuries has thus come to embody the great religious ideas of divine justice and human responsibility. As the begin ning of the Jewish religious year it emphasizes the religious uniqueness of the Jewish people, the servant of the One God, the priest people of hu manity. Rosh Hashonah will be celebrated in the synaagogue on Queen street, with services conducted by the rabbi, Rev. I. Goodkowitz. A number of Hebrews will come here from sur rounding towns for the worship. TRAIN WRECKERS BLAMED FOR TEN DEATHS. New Orleans, Sept. 18 Search was being made tonight for train wreck ers believed to huve caused the death of ten persons and the injury of thir-. ty others, by derailing the Queen and Crescent train No. 2 at 3 a. m. today at Livingston, Ala. Bloodhounds late today failed to pick up a trail. Some of the injured, taken to Meridian, Miss., hospitals, are in a serious con dition, and the death toll of the wreck may.be increased. $ ern Railway Company will become an annual event of great importance in Richmond. ROSH HASHONAH BEGINS SUNDAY r V ."
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