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VOL. XVI. No. 276
KINSTON, N. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1914
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OLD AND THE NEW IN AMERICAN NAVY
GARRANZA GETTING
LOCAL OAIRU01
EVERYW
READY TO FLEE TO
CENTRALAMERICA
MUSHI1
ALONG YSER CANALi
AGAINST GERMANS
TUBERCULIN TEST
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Complete Rout of Aostro-
German Forces South
of Cracow
ATTACK BECAME RETREAT
Five Batteries and Train of
Armored Automobiles
Fell Into Hands of Czar's
Men Airmen Took Risks
and Paid Penalty
(By the United Press)
Petrograd, Dec. 12. An attempt
by Austro-German forces south of
Cracow to break the Russian line re
sulted in the enemy's complete rout.
Five German batteries were captured
and an entire column of armored mo
tor cars taken.
Two German aeroplanes which cir
cled daringly above the Russian lines
were brought to earth.
The German advance from the
northern, western and southwestern
fronts has been checked at all points,
elated war office officials stated today.
Hurry Reinforcements to Armies in
Poland.
London, JJec. lU. Heavy rein-j
forcements are being rushed to both
the Russian and German armies
around Warsaw. German attacks
north of Lowiciz have been repulged
by the defenders. In the Piotrekowi
region the fighting is still progress
ing.
In the fighting souttw of Cracow
the Austro-German losses exceeded
10,000.
Reports from Petrograd today say
Czar Pleased With the Situation at
the Front.
Reports from Petrograd today say
the Czar is now at Tiflis. His Ma
jesty is understood to have expressed
complete satisfaction over the devel
opments of the campaign. The Czar
will review the troops in the region
about Warsaw, and is expected to
award many decorations for gallant
ry-
BROKERS CHEER BECAUSE
OF NORMAL EXCHANGE
(By the United Press.)
iNew lortc, uec. n. A surging,
cheering mob of brokers today inau
gurated the first "open" session of the
New York Stock Exchange since July
30 in vigorous fashion.
SHERIDAN ON THE
FOOTBALL SCANDAL
By Hal Sheridan
: (Written for the United Press)
w York, Dec. 11. Strange rum-
ors m afloat regarding the make-up
f the jreat machine that Joe Duff
W Pittsburgh University the seas
n just closed. Mike Boland, of
Princeton is credited with having told
McCleanahan that Duff made
im a substantial inducement to play
"rn Pittsburgh next season.
The story followed others to the
f ffect that rules of eligibility that are
force in all the big Western and
Eastern oniversities and colleges,
hav no place on the statute books at
Pittsburgh. Where there's so much
smoke there ought to be an expla
nation
Charley Brickley is said to be out
iter a job coaching some university
Ieven. If he can teach as well as he
cn play, he should be Worth any price
to an eleven. He'd earn his entire
alary if he merely taught some grid
"n warrior bow to boot a pigskin
the goal posts half as well as Sir
varies himself can do it
A current magazine has picked an
AU-American baseball' team; The
Pitchers chosen are Alexander,
thewson and , Johnson. Perhaps
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j winning a majority of games I
'r the Braves last summer, and!
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do C 01 cnampionsnip ciues,!
overlook musty, dusty Boston. I
fresh Troops Attempt to
Regain Foothold, But Re-
peatedly Fail
BATTLE FAVORING ALLIES
Kaiser's Troops Evacuate
Stationary Battery Aus-
trians Make Headway in
Invasion of Servia At
tack on Dardanelles
(By the United Press.)
raris uec. iz. ine uermans are
desperately attempting to regain a
foothold on the Yser canal south of
Ypres. Their attacks have every
where been repulsed. Today German
reinforcements are renewing them,
but fail repeatedly. Except the war
office, all departments of the govern
ment are today established in Paris,
and it is expected that in a few days
the minister of war and his staff will
enter the capital.
The Germans have evacuated the
west bank of the Yser canal north of
the ferryman's house, leaving behind
a battery of motors. In the region
of Perthes and in the Gurie woods the
day's artillery and infantry actions
are with advantage to the French.
Austrians Advance on Servian Soil.
Vienna, Dec. 12. The Austrians in
Servia continue to advance to the
south of Belgrade, it is officially stat-
Allies' Fleet Fails In Attack on
Dardanelles.
Berlin, Dec. 12. An attack on the
Dardanelles fortifications by the Brit
ish and French fleet was without suc
cess, it is reported here.
BULLETINS
(By the United Press)
SECRECY SURROUNDS
BARRACKS' BURNING.
London, Dec. 12. The Got
torh barracks at Kiel, the pow
erful German naval base, are re
ported to have been destroyed by
fire. The cause of the reported
blaze is being kept a secret.
ENGLAND REGARDS
KAISER IMPROVED.
London, Dec. 12. In the ab
sence of official information, the
condition of the Kaiser is believ
ed improved, as German official
statements have persistently de
clared. NO WORD OF SINKING
OF CRUISER DRESDEN
London, Dec. 12. Official word
of the sinking of the cruiser
Dresden by Sturdee's fleet has
not been received. The British
losses when the Narnburg, which
escaped with the Dresden when
the main part of Von Spec's fleet
was sunk, was destroyed were
seven killed and four wounded.
WOUNDED GERMANS GO
TO NEUTRAL PORT
Buenos Ayrea, Des. 1& Three
hundred beds hare been request
ed at Montevideo for the wound
ed in the Falkland Islands naval
battle, by a wireless from the
English fleet PracUcally all the
wounded are Germans rescued by
the British warships from the
Gneisenauand Leipzig. .
GO INTO NEW SCHOOL AT
END OF THE HOLIDAYS
It will be January 4 before the new
East Lenoir street Bchool building,
be put into service, it was announced
today. The house will then be occu-
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The Christmas nonaays 01 me
schools begin on next Friday, the 18th. J
Americas flint battleshln. th Constitnnnn nnrl thA nnw-.
lying side by side In the Charleston
ENGLAND LEAVES TRUCE
FOR FRENCH TO DECIDE
Pope's Suggestion for Cessation of
Hostilities on Natal Anniversary
of the Man of Peace Referred 4
to Poincare and Joffre.
(By the United Press)
London, Dec. 12. The Pope's sug
gestion for a Christmas truce will be
left to the French government and
General Joffre to decide, so far as
England is concerned, it ' was an
nounced today. The British govern
ment will abide by the French deci
sion, His Holiness has been advised
following receipt of his proposal.
D. F. WOOTEN DIRECTOR
FOR STATE INSTITUTION
Raleigh, Dec. 12. Governor Craig
today commissioned D. F. Wooten of
Kinston, a member of the board of di
rectors of the State School for the
Feeble-Minded, to succeed Dr. R. M.
Cartwright of Hyde county.
Mr. Wooten is cashier of the First
National Bank of Kinston, and is re
garded locally as a wise choice. Dr.
Cartwright, the man he succeeds, was
an efficient director and did much for
the institution's improvement. He is
a practicing physician of Fairfield,
and is well known in his section of the
State..
GERMAN SUBMARINES
IN DARING VENTURE
Two of the Nudusea Boats Destroyed
When They Sought to Enter
Scottish Firth for Attack on
English Shipping.
(By the United Press.)
London, Dec, 12. It is unofficially
announced that two of a flotilla of
German submarines which attacked
shipping in the Firth of Forth, Scot
land, were destroyed.
SOUTHERNERS TALK
ABOUT IMMIGRANTS
Washington, Dec. 12. Plans for di
verting the flood of immigration from
the crowded cities of the Atlantic
coast to the farms of the country,
and particularly to the south, were
discussed at the meeting of the South
ern Commercial Congress, which open
ed its convention here today.
Secretary of Labor Wilson, was
scheduled to deliver the principal ad
dress. His department it was stated,
will ", co-operate with the Southern
Commercial Congress in its work, and
T. V. Powderly, chief of the division
of information of the Bureau of Immi
gration has been designed by Secre
tary Wilson to assist actively in car
rying out the plans may be decided
upon as the most desirable. '
The problem was regarded by dele
gates to the Congress as being of pars
ticularly great importance at this time
because a great flood of immigration
is expected at the close of the present
expected at t
European war.
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HUNDREDS OF CRAZY
FOLKS, UNATTENDED
Discovery of German Offi
cers Who Captured a Sup
posed Chateau
OFFICIALS HAD DESERTED
Austrians Hemmed In By
Servians, , Swear at Their
Tantalizers in Twelve Dif
ferent Languages Hum
orous Situation in Trench
By William G. Shepherd
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Berlin, Oct. 15. (By mail to New
York) German officers tell me that
the most distressing and, at the same
time astonishing, message that has
come into their war office was sent
from Von Kluck's army near Noyon
France.
"Send me nurses to take care of
1400 lunatics," was the gist of the
message which came from an officer
of the medical corps.
Investigation disclosed that many of
the doctors and some of the nurseg of
the great French asylum for the in
sane at Chauny had deserted their
posts as the Germans advanced. There
are no walls surrounding the asylum
grounds, as the asylum is built on the
most advanced lines and the bound
aries of the grounds are only deep
ditches.
The asylum buildings were mis
taken by the Germans for a chateau
and the officers who rode up were
astonished to find over a thousand
hopelessly insane patients in the
buildings and grounds.
Some valiant nurses had remained
but many patients were without at
tendants. The German medical corps
took charge of the place and later
some of the French physicians and
nurses, being assured by the Germans
that their lives would be spared, re
turned to the asylum,
i Nish, Servia, Nov. 1. (By mail to
New York) At Krupanj, on the east
ern bank of the Drina, a situation has
developed probably without, parallel
in all the present European war.
Although able to boast of the fact
that they are in the enemy's terri
tory, the Austrians are in the rather
embarrassing position of neither be
ing able to advance nor to retire. The
least movement on their part would
mean the certain annihilation of the
entire detachment
For over a month now, these few
Austrians near Krupanj have been
face to face with, the Servians, the
trenches of the two armies not being
on an average of more than 60 yards
apart It is this proximity, together
with the apparent friendliness that
has grown up between the two bodies
of troops, that .has given rise to the
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ALLEGED GERMAN SPY
TAKEN BY PORTUGUESE
Member of Commission Supposed to
He Studying Rail and Agricul
tural Development of African
Colony Fled from Troops
(By the United Press.)
Lisbon, Dec. 12. The military
commandant, in the well founded be
lief that members of a German com
mission supposedly studying railways
and agricultural development in An
gola, the Portuguese African posses
sion, were spies, sent a detachment
of troops to arrest them... One of . the
party was captured, but the others
escaped.
NO DOUBT THAT KAISER
IS NOW CONVALESCING
Berlin,. Dec. 12. Surgeon-General
Von Nidener, the Emperor's personal
physician, today declared that "the
Kaiser has. suffered an infection of
the throat from chonchial catarrh,
caused by a cold contracted at the
front. He also had some fever, but
this has now disappeared. The Em
peror is able to be up to receive nu
merous guests. He is certainly con
valescing, and will be able to return
to the front in a week or ten days.
Columbus, O., Dec. 12. Practical
methods of fighting the foot and
mouth disease will Ite shown in mov
ing pictures before Ohio stockmen and
farmers here tomorrow. Nearly the
whole time of the agricultural meet
ing today will be taken up with dis
cussion of the disease.
most unusual situation.
Every evening the Servians have
resource to a most ingenius method
of tantalizing their Austrian neigh
bors in the trenches so near at hand.
This is for the Servians to sing the
folk song's of the various districts of
Servia. In the Austrian ranks there
are many Slavs, or Servians coming
from Bosnia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slav
onia, and other Servian provinces
which are under Austrian rule. That
thepe folk songs of the Servians drive
almost to madness and desertion their
brothers in the rival trenches there
can be no doubt, and no small portion
of the duty of the Austrian sentinels
is that oi guarding against Servian
desertions within the Austrian ranks
rather than Servian attacks from with
out
In response to these folk songs, the
Austrians who ar not of Slav origin
set up cries of "Come on you half-
starved Servians; surrender your
selves ;,come over to us, well give you
something to eat."
In response to this, the Servians, to
show that they are not half-tarved
cease singing and shower the Austri
an trenches with chicken bones and
other remnants of the evening's re
past
Another favorite pastime of the
Servians is to hurl a whole volley of
tin cans and boxes at the trenches
pretending they a rebombs and ac
companying them with vocal volleys,
which imitate to perfection the sound
of exploding shells. The Austrians
reply by swearing at the Servians in
all twelve of the languages most com
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! Report Printed in Newspa
pers and Wired to Gov
ernment Here
SECRETARY TO EUROPE
State Department Officials
Doubt Rumor and Thin
Leader Will Make Deter
mined Stand Against Foes
at Vera Cruz
(By the United Press.)
Washington, Dec. 12. Carranza
and his cabinet are about to flee from
Vera Crub p.nd take refuge in Cen
tral America, according to reports
printed in Mexican newspapers and
cabled to the State Department to
day.
It is officially announced that Sen
or Fabela, Carranza's secretary, has
left Vera Cruz, on a "secret mission,'
for Europe, but State Department of
ficials doubt the reports that Carran
za intends to leave. He is believed
to have a sufficient force with him to
maintain a vigorous resistance to the
convention forces. Carranza has
made no response to the United States
protest against firing over the bor
der at Naco, Arizona, by his troops.
American Soldier Struck by Bullet
Corporal Noah McAllister of Troop
B, Ninth cavalry, colored, was todav
wounded by a Mexican bullet Which
came across,, th.0jwder at Naco, ac
cording to a dispatch from General
Bliss.
FAVORABLE RULING FOR
THE HOBSON AMENDMENT
(By the United Press)
Washington, Dec. 12. The Houst
rules committee today favorably rul
ed for the Hobson national prohibi
tion amendment to be taken up u
the House on December 22, and im
mediately afterward on the Mondel
woman suffrage amendment. The.
. .forces of both in the House claim.
they will give decisive votes.
THERE'S A REASON FOR
THE "MINORS'" LOYALTI
Harvard's Great Financial Year-
Cobb's Record and Other Sport
Talk by Sheridan That Will
Please the Loyal Fan.
By Hal Sheridan
(Written for the United Press)
New York, Dec. 12. It is easy t
find the reason for the vote of th
minor leagues recently at Omaha t
remain loyal to the organized bas
ball. During the four seasons of 190!
1910, 1911 and 1912, when the Feder
als weren't cutting up such didoe:
the major leagues shot into the col
fers of minor leagues magnates ;
total of $1,553,220 in exchange fo
players. Some of these men wer
gold bricks, but the money stayed i
the bushes just the same.
Last year these same minor league
received $224,305 less than the yearl
average for the four preceding yean
This money doesn't include sums tha
were spent by certain big league mag
nates from "war funds" to save som
of the minor league clubs, especiall;
those of the International Leagu
from being engulfed completely.
Minor League magnates also re
member that throughout all of las
year the magnates gathered a fiv
per cent tax on the gate receipts o
all major league clubs, the money t
be used to provide means of harassing
the invading Federals and to keep th
minors intact
Some industrious person has figure
it out that Harvard took in exacts
$197,000 of football money during th
season closed. Total expenditures, in
eluding $10,000 to Percy Haughtot
amounted to $20,065 leaving a ne
profit of $177,000 in the Crimson cof
fers. If we were asked for the bes
way to spend this surplus we'd sat
without hesitation, "Raise v Coacl
Haugh ton's salary $177,000 a year.
Expert Expected to Come
Here Next Week For the ;
Work
INSPECTOR FOLEY'S IDEA
More Than Hundred Ani
mals to Be Submitted to
Scientific Inspection--Of-ficial
Co-Operates With
Dealers Satisfactorily t-
An expert from the State Agricul
tural Department Is expected to come
here next week to conduct tuberculin
tests of the hundred or more eows
supplying milk for Kinston consum
ers. This is tile first important step
taken by Meat and Milk Inspector J. .
F. Foley for pure milk since bis in
duction into office Tuesday. Dr. Fol
ey has made inspections of tha five .
or six dairies, and all the market
places doing business here, and .ex-;,
presses himself as pleased with con- '.'
ditions "for the start" All the pro
prietors, he states, display willing
ness to co-operate with him, and he
believes his task of enforcing the in
spection ordinances will present few
difficulties. .
inspector Foley, dealers Beta . with -approval,
treats with them, in a neigh
borly fashion, rather than in the for- '.
mal official manner that they had ex
pected. "Showing thera how is his
principle for doing business.
The administration officials ". are
pleased with Foley. He ia exhibiting-
an energy- and ealwhich f ully v
compensates for their confidence in ,
him at election. Excerpts from the :
new ordinances are to be printed for
the benefit of the market men and
dairymen. '-
ONLY ONE WEEK FOR ,
RURAL SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
Owing to the late beginning: -of the
county schools, the teachers ' have
been advised by Supt Joseph Kinsey .
to arrange to give only one week for
Christmas holidays, closing school on
Wednesday, the 23d, : ana opening
again on Thursday, the 31st
The assistant county superintend
ent, Miss Parrott will, visit the
schools in session on Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday of the Week pre
ceding Christmas, and on Thursday
and Friday of the following week-v
Several township meetings have '
been held recently on Saturdays, tha
teachers of the schools in a township
meeting with the assistant superin
tendent and discussing and planning
for greater and better work in tha
community. Wf
At the township meeting, held on
Saturday in the Coahoma school,
building, all the teachers in the town- '
hip were present as well as several .
from adjoining townships, Tha bn-
portant problems of attendance, dai
ly schedules, and class room work
in the studies taught both m prim
ary and higher grades, Were discuss
ed. The aim of this meeting was to
make plans to do more efficient and
intensive teaching, and to enlist tha
patrons in, co-operating - with tha
teachers in community service work.
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SOLDIER VIRTUOSE .
PLAYS AGAIN TODAY
New York, 'Dec. 12.-From the bat
tlefields back to the concert stage will :
be the experience enjoyed this after-
noon by Fritz Kreisler, violinist and ,
ex-soldier in the . Austrian army.
Kreisler is on the program, for his
first New York appearance of the seas
on at Carnegie Hall. Kreisler .saw
active service in the European war
and, at one time was reported killed.
BIG DEPARTMENT STC
IN B1RMINGHA11 EUTI3
(By the United Press,) v
: Birmingham, Ala- Dec 12 Fire
today destroyed a large department
store here, throwing 250 people out of
mployment' A moving picture the
ater and wveral ether buildings were
damaged. The property loss was
$475,000.