North Carolina Newspapers

yoDB ko:.:e ttm H'Jl l-Vl A TH WEATICT Prty cUedy m4 aaiwKl mmm f tonight m4 -iMijr PUBLISHED KFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY, VOL. XVI-No. 289 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 4. 1915 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS THE GERMAN PAPERS ALLEGE NEUTRALITY OF AMERICA A FRAUD "Thin Curtain to Hide Love For England." Van Horne Appeals to Ambassador to Save Him From the Canadians fill I Tfl PfiFATP r STEAMFR SINKS SAFFTY muni rain IS GIVEN ASSURANCE -v . eaaswsaaa Chairman Drewry of Good Roads Legislative Com mittcc is Quite Optimis ticHis Article Bill Favorably Reported -',- (By the United Press) Amsterdam, Feb. 4-Many Gor man newspapers are attacking Amer ica's neutrality. They declare Amer ican neutrality is only "a thin cur tain behindwhich zealous and loving service to England conceals itself." Embassy Silent as to Van Horne. Vanceboro, Vt, Feb. 4. Werner Raleigh, Feb. 3. The following ar tide by Mr. John C. Drewry, chair man of the Good Roads Legislative Committee regarding the bill, now pending in the General Assembly, which would create a State Highway Commission is of interest to the peo ple throughout the commonwealth. The subject of good roads is engag ing the people everywhere and any Van Hofiie, the German, .who at- legislation looking pertaining to the tempted to dynamite the bridge over the St Croix river, is etill- being de tained here,: awaiting action by the State Department ; at Washington. There is much bitter feeling against Van Horne on the Canadian Bide of the border. He has appealed to the German ambassador to stop his extra dition to Canada. The German 'em bassy is silent. Van Horne Arraigned in U. S. Vanceboro. Feb. 4. Charged with defacing and injuring buildings in Vanceboro, Wernar Van Horne is be ing held here for attempting to dyn amite the international railroad bridge over the St, Croix river. He was ar rested today upon a warrant issued by trial justice George H. Smith. ' $50 TO GOVERNMENTS CONSCIENCE FUND. Washington; Feb 8. Uncle Sam's "conscience fund" Is $50 better off to day than it was yesterday, and some one who was in Greensboro at 7 o' clock yesterday morning has a clear er conscience titan he or she had be fore. Postmaster General Burleson received a letter today with five crisp fen dollar bills. The only writing in the letter was thi& sentence: "Postal fundi due the government." The let ter was mailed at Greensboro Febru ary 2 at 7 a.m. SUGAR GOES UP ALONG WITH OTHER FOODSTUFFS Quarter of Cent Rise In Price to Job bers and Retailers The Lack of Shipping Facilities Responsi ble, Say Big N. Y. Dealers (By the United Press) New York, Feb. -4. Sugar today joined other foodstuffs, going up in price. Big dealers admitted that they raised the price to jobbers and retail ers a quarter of a cent. Poor ship ping facilities are held responsible for the raise. 4 :-w . , SUPPLY SHIP CELTIC FLOATED IN BLIZZARD Newport, R. L, Feb. 2. The naval supply ship Celtic, which struck on Half Moon Shoal in Nantucket Sound Monday, was floated In the teeth of a northeast blizzard yesterday. The VesspJ nnnnrontltr urn a tint nfnwul hnf as she was having trouble .with herweher' No State that, has tried it. anchors the coast guard cutter Acush-1 has given it up. The propositson is net; the lighthouse tender Anemone I to "trengthen the present- arrange- and the ammunition ship Lebanon re- i ment lon to Peratron ,nere 8UP; n.i.i -i !j. m.. .i,. 2. Inlementin? it. not suDDlahtinsr it: and michcu nioiiraiae. v . me umc isi " " subject is of almost universal con cern. i t' ,- . "The State Highway Commission Bill has emerged from the Roads Com mittee of the House unamiously en dorsed. It is now before the Com mittee on Appropriations. The senti ment in its favor increases daily as the purpose and provisions of the Bill are more clearly understood. The Bill creates a State Highway Commission on a basis that guaran tees impartial administration of the trust At its head is the Governor of the State. , With him are three civ ilians, one from the eastern, one from the western, one from the central sec tion. The remaining three represent the profession of engineering, the State Geologists, a professor from the University and another from the Agri cultural College No salaries are at tached to these positions, expenses only while attending to the business will be covered. The appropriation of $30,00(1 is to, be invested in expert engineering serviceswhich are to be available in any county in the State without cost. It is optional with the county to avail itself of these ser vices or not. The purpose is to try to stop the appalling drain on the State's re sources due to the mud-tax and to the undeniable fact that a large propor tion of . the $5,000,000 expended each year on the roads in the State is wast ed because of, improper construction and neglect of maintenance. The Of fice of Public Roads of the United States has made a careful study of the roads in all the states, and has published its findings. It states that North Carolina pays a mud-tax of more than $12,000,000 a year in in creased cost of haulage over the cost were the roads improved. It also states that the enormous expenditure upon the roads is "practically thrown away." This does not mean that no benefit results,, but that permanency of result is not secured. It attributes it to the fact that men are charged with the responsibility of building permanent roads who have not the re quisite training; and the remedy they suggest; is, the expert road engineer. That the remedy suggested is a remedy, has been proved in forty states where a State Highway Com mission is in charge of the work. North Carolina is much older than most of the States, but it is not too old to learn. The State is not asked to take up sflome "new-fangled" no tion, an untried experiment. It has been tried out for many years else Lake Liner Crushed By Ice Off Chi cafo River Mouth Crew Took to Floes Before Vessel Went . Dewn-Ltvea' In Doubt (By the United Press) Chicago, Feb. 4. The steamship Iowa of the Goodrich lines, sank in Lake Michigan this morning three miles off the mouth of the Chicago river. The crew of about 70 men left the steamer before she sank, but it is not known whether they made their! way io saiety over tne ice noes watch sank the Iowa or not The Goodrich Line officials believe the terrible ice floes crushed in the sides of the Iowa. ATTEMPTS TO DRIVE GERilANSiSACpPON Defenders of Warsaw Be gin the Offensive Again In Earnest AMERICAN LEAGUE BEGINS SEASON ON 14TH OF APRIL Chicago, Feb. 3. The American League will open its 1915 campaign on Wednesday, April 14, with Chicago at St Louis, Cleveland at Detroit, New York at Washington and Bos ton at Philadelphia, according to the schedule announced today.' The chart provides for 164 games by each club, as usual, and the season will end Oc tober 7, with Boston at New York, although the other teams will have wound up their quota before that date. WILL KAISER'S NAVY COIOOTOFHIDII TO ENGAGE ENGLISH INTERMINABLE GUN FIRE Artillery Keeps Up Inces sant Exchange Many of Wounded Sent to Rear Russians on Hungarian Soil Stubbornly Resisted bound from Boston for New York and Guantanamo with supplies for the Atlantic Fleet HYENA ;AT LARGE ON 3 ! SALISBURY STREETS. ailisbiir ?enat -1 XWjn the streets thrilled a part i tbf.e city this afternoon. The remedying the single defect, the lack of the expert engineer, by offering engineering services, without cost, to any County Board that requests it. Should there be hesitancy to add a burden of $30,000 a year to the budget it must be remembered that in reality the burden will be greatly reduced, a vital consideration in these times. The t that an awful war is being wag ed does not change the situation that Notice to Neutral Shipping to Stay Away from the French Coast Indicates Increased Activity Ship Purchase Bill Seems Lost (By the United Press) Washington, Feb. 4. Carranza will not hold the family of Gen. Santiba nez responsible for the assassination of his brother, Jesus, and his son and nephew. " The German government has noti fied the United States and all other neutral nations to keep shipping away from the western north coast ' of France. This is taken as indicating an important extension of German naval activity in that section. Democrats are in final caucus to save the ship purchase bill. Senate supporters of the measure lack one vote. The bill seems doomed. There will be no vote on the Bhip purchase bill until the arrival from Nevada of Senator Newlands and Senator Smith of South Carolina. Their States might decide the bill's fate. 75 CARLOADS IN SINGLE SHIPMENT OF COTTON Fayetteville, Feb. 3 A single ship ment of seventy-five carloads of cot ton Is being railroaded out of Fay etteville. This shipment consists of 1,974 bales of cotton and is the larg est single shipment ever sent out of Fayetteville. OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE Newton, N. J., Feb. 4. Mrs. Wal lace Douglas, wife of an instructor at Columbia university, bought a doz en eggs the other day. They were strictly fresh, the grocer said. The first one she opened was sick; the second was hardly convalescent A third was stamped "May 6, 1802." ADDITION TO CROWN PRINCE'S FAMILY SOON . A T ' ammv'was recently received by during 1915 this State will pay some James Hodges, a local show man, and $12,000,000 for the privilege of go today, it got out of its cage and left ing in mud. By withholding $30,000 home. After being chased across one we are not going to escape losing mil- vi uie ciry it was cornered in a iions of Idollarh through road de- shed and lassoed with a chain. MICHIGAN CONVENTION terioration and mistakes of location and construction. : It is not a ques tion of whether we can afford to do it now; the question is, "Can we af ford to pay that awful mud-tax an- . (By the United Press) Berlin, Feb. 4. Berlin expects the stork's visit to the Crown Princess. The fifth child to the royal couple is awaited. The parturition will occur in Berlin within a few weeks. (By the United Press) Petrograd, Feb. 4. Furious Ger man attacks have been made upon Bzura, southwest of Warsaw. Rub sian aviators rained bombs with very deadly effect upon German concen tration cumps, situated at'Rawa and Brxesimy, west of Warsaw, and in the regions of Goumin and Borzhymow, south of Bzura. Heavy artillery fire continues day and night The Rus sians have achieved a victory north of the Vistula. The attempt to drive the Prussians back upon their fortress of Thorn has Seen resumed. Hundreds of wounded Russian and German sol diers are arriving at Warsaw, most of them from the Bzura region. It is officially admitted that the Austro German forces are stubbornly resist ing the Russian forward movement in Hungary. Austro-German Forces Take One Thousand Captives. Vienna, Feb. 4. The Austro-Ger-mnns operating in the Carpathians have captured a thousand Russian prisoners, and several machine guns. The Russians are today on tho offen sive at several points. The situation in Southern Poland and Western Ga licia is unchanged. Germans Advance 2,000 Yards. Berlin, Feb. 4.-A daring French infantry charge was defeated north west of Massiges. The Germans have advanced more than 2,000 yards and taken 700 prisoners and 18 guns. The Germans are advancing towards War saw from the Bolimow region Ar tillery fighting has been resumed in France and on the Belgian battle front from Rheims northward to the seacoast Germans Work Hard to Resume Offensive. Paris, Feb. 4. Reinforced, tho German armies are making violent attempts to take the offensive and force back the Allied lines from the coast to Arras. Heavy cannonading continues in the region of Nieuport. The Germans are dropping shells across the Allied lines into Furnes, near Notre Dame Lprette. French shells wrought havoc with a German regiment convoying & ammunition trains in the Woevre region. By tho thaw in the-Vosges region mountain streams have been converted into rushing torrents of water. Floods threaten to hinder the operations. I VtlUtu 2 NEW ANTI- LIQUOR ACTS TODAY Lower Branch of State Assembly Vot- ed to Postpone Consideration of v Issue' -Indefinitely" Senate v Passes Long-Short Bill (Br W. J. Martin.) . Raloigh, Feb. 4,-J-The House voted Measures to Prevent Whis- this afternoon, 38 to C7, to indefin Rely postpone consideration of the bill by Roberts of Buncombe for wo man's suffrage in North Carolina. This means that the issue will not come ' up again this session in that branch of the Assembly. A vote followed a spirited discus sion of the measure, -, during which Representative Page of Moore declar ed that out of COO women of the State he knew personally, only one claimed to want suffrage, and he regarded this woman the least qualified to exercise the ballot of all ,the women he knew. In the Senate McRae introduced a bill to amend the building and loan association laws so as to provide for land and loan associations" in rural districts. The Senate took up as unfinished business the House bill to repeal the long and short haul clause of the Jus tice Intra-state freight rate act. It was argued at great length, and fin ally passed without amendment key Advertising and Re plenishing of Stocks Un constitutional, Hender son Thought GEN. VILLA AT HEAD OF NEW COVERNM'NT SOUTH OF THE LINE Declares So Much Territory Held by Convention Sol dicrs That Organization Was Necessary Practic ally President of Mexico LUMBER SITUATION WILL BEGIN TO IMPROVE SOON (By the United Press) El Paso, Texas, Feb. 4. Villa ha practically proclaimed himself pre3i' dent of Mexico and assumed supreme political power. He has organized a new civil government with himself at its head, and declared the zone ho controlled so extensive that an organ ized government was necessary. SCHOOL TEACHER WHO WHIPPED BOY SLAIN. Jasper, Fla.v Feb. 3. The whip ping of a pupil by a school teacher resulted in a fight late yesterday in which William Yates, the taheerchtcr, was shot and killed and Claude Holt zendorff, father of the pupil, probab ly was fatally wounded. According to the authorities, Holtzendorf and two sons attacked Yates on the high way after school closed. , In the fight it is alleged 'Yates and Wilber Holt zendorf used revolvers. The latter is in jail here charged with the kill ing of Yates and the elder Holtzen dorf is under guard at his home. HAVE "FATHER AND SON." "MOTHER AND DAUGHTER" SUPPERS IN SALISBURY Supt Hayes of Kins ton Carolina Ry. Is Hopeful That Depression In That Line Will Lift Now General Dullness. TARHEEL OFFICER OF FARMERS SEES WILSON Washington, Dj C Feb. 3 S. H. Hobbs of Clinton, one of the officers of the National Farmers' Union, and several other representatives of farm ers' organizations called on the Pres ident Wilson today with Representa tive John H. Small to assure him of Detroit, Mich- Feb. Republi can county convention! far th pier- 'other Tear?" tion of rfo1a. ii. : I nrv . ctt TTtcfiwav w ''K.w. u . in. snr iir run Alls Li c.uuu v& m k. j . enUon f the party will be held to- Commission seems to be a condition' their hearty co-operation and approv morrow throughout Michigan. The precedent to the State's participation al of hi efTorts to have the ship pur Ute convention will be held a week in any appropriations which the Fed- chase bill enacted into law. -The from today at Grand Rapids. J (Continued on Page S) President's callers showed their ap- Mr. William Hayes, general super intendent of the Einston-Carolina Railroad and Lumber Company, be lieves that in a few months the lum ber situation will be better. Apropos of the suspension of the plants of the mammoth Roper Lumber Company in Eastern Carolina for at least a month, the local man declared that mills which are now running are do ing so at a sacrifice generally. 5 ; - Although Mr. Hayes did not dis cuss the situation beyond the brief statements quoted above, it is gener ally conceded by lumber dealers in all parts of the country that the bus iness is "rotten." Many mills in the timber States of the North, West and South have been operating on part time, or suspended. . - Some mills that are now running, Mr. Hayes asserts, are doing so prin cipally to hold their labor together. predation of his efforts to furnish a market for farm products without contributing wealth to foreign ship owners. Salisbury, Feb. 3. Last year Sal isbury had its first father and son supper under the Community Y. M. C. A. work and it was so successful and productive of good that the sup per ia to be repeated Friday night, with Dr. W." J. Martin of Davidson College, as the guest of honor. At the same time, but at a different place a mothers and daughters sup per will be held with Miss Jane Mil ler of the State Normal Y. W. C. A. as guest of honor .v L B. DAIL OF ML OLIVE MISSING SINCE FRIDAY - L, B. DaU, known to many people here, is being sought throughout this section of the State. Dail, a real es tate dealer and insurance agent, dis appeared from Mount Olive last Fri day. He was last seen in this region in Goldsboro on Friday night Friends of Dail are uneasy over his absence. They fear that he was de ranged and drowned himself or that other hcrni has befallen him. It is admitted that he had been . acting gtrangoij- before his disappearance The mystery is the second of the kind to cause a sensation in ML 01 ivj recently. A few weeks ago Rev. (By the United Press) Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 4. Gover nor Henderson today vetoed the anti- liquor shipping and anti-liquor ad vertising bills on the ground of un constitutionality, ; The former pre vented saloons getting stocks during the remainder of the five months of business granted them, and the lat ter prevented Alabama circulation of newspapers and magazines containing liquor advertising. Statewido prohi bition becomes effective after June SO, The goneral bill, left for Hend erson to sign by the preceding execu tive. was by him vetoed, The Legis lature passen it over his veto. COUNTY COURT HAY STRIKE SNAG BEFORE iiiTtvrniT n i n i nbiit miipiuii uM ma Known that Some of Lead ing Members Are Dis-. satisfied With Recent De- v velopments Civil Juris diction Not Approved BIG MOONSHINE STILL LOCATED NEAR DURHAM. Durham, Feb. 3. The sheriff and his three deputies broke up a still in Patterson township early this morning. , They : found about 2,000 gallons of beer and a large amount of other material for making whis key, but no whiskey was found. Tho blockaders had just started tho run and had to leave in such a hurry on account of the approach of the of ficers that he did not have time to save any of his property. A ' DR. BATTLE IS OPPOSED " TO WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE Former University President Thinks Equal Suffrage Strikes at the Very Heart of Home Preser vation Opposes It (Special to The Free Press) Chapel, Hill, Feb. 14. An active and vigorous fighter at the age of 8.1, Dr. Kemp Plummer Battle, former president of the University of North Carolina, is championing the antt- suffrage movement in this State. He is storming the arguments of the equal-suffrage advocates with ham mer and tongs. '' He threads his arguments in op position to extending the ballot to woman around the preservation of the homethe basis of all civilization. The preservation of the home largely rests in the hands of woman. Ex tend the ballot tcF woman and you scatter the forces of her concentrat ed efforts in maintaining the home. Her widened interests in political campaigns, attending political speak ings, and on the hustings would Ulti mately lead to the neglect of the fam ily circle. The care and attention of the lichdren, so eminently important in early life, would be sadly neglect-ed. "Why, equal suffrage doubles the vote of the married man," said Dr. Bottle. The woman will attach her self to the political faith of her hus band, or the strong personality i of the woman will have a tendency . to convert her husband to the party of her affiliations. Estrange their polit ical affiliations and the inevitable con sequence is discord in the household. The introduction of discord , in the home life strikes a fatal blow at the basis of civilization the preserva tion of a peaceful, harmonious family. Equal suffrage would introduce in terminable -disputes , and wrangling over elections. Defeated candidates would contest the decision of the bal lot, basing his claim on the contention that woman was coerced to vote for his. opponent : Electioneering would develop into an art talking sweet to women and pleasing devices would capture their votes. The ability to enforce a law is fun damentally important. Women, un equal to the task of enforcing laws, would often unite with the minority party of men and write on the stat ute books laws that would remain dead letter statutes. J The cry for equal suffrage to all is far-fetched. Many young men, un der twenty-one, easily, capable of ex ercising the suffrage, are debarred. The proposed county court Is a contention in legal circles now mora so than at any time since the Idea was given public expression. Lead ing lawyer! are known today to be , opposed to the inclusion of civil Ju risdiction as a part of the power with which it is proposed in the bill bow being drafted for passage by the Leg islature to clothe the recorder or judge. These opponents to the civil authority of the court aay there la no ne:sBity for it Soma of the ator neys hold that other phases of the plan are inexpedient now. The mat ter of how to select the recorder has not been decided satisfactorily to all the members. , ' The general public ia not yet ful ly informed upon the matter of the county court This is evidenced by -the fact that few laymen have been heard to express themselves' about it County officials pay little atten tion to it except the sheriff, who ia openly and avowedly opposed. It will not save the county much If anything, . he says, and will entail a " great amount of additional work upon hia office. - The completed bill will be present ed to the full bar association in a few days, and an argument which might result in it being rended asun der may not be precipitated, or It may. There's no telling. It is a set- tied fact, though, that the legal fra ternity are not a unit as regards the court CABINET MEMBERS TALK ' TO BIG BUSINESS MEN . ; (By .United Press) Washington, Feb. 4. The attitude of the administration toward Ameri can investors in foreign countries was outlined today before the Chamber of Commerce of the United State at ' today's session of its annual conven tion. ' Secretary of the Treasury, McAdoo discussed the development- of the American Merchant marina, report ing on the growth of American flag shipping since restrictions o? regis tration were removed. Senator Theo dore Burton, of Ohio, Joseph E. Davies commissioner of corporation, Paul T. Cherrmgton and Harry A. Wheeler, the latter members of the organisa tion, were among the speakers to day. . Secretary of Commerce Red- field and Hon, Charles H. Hamlin,' governor of the Federal Reserve board will speak at the banquet tonight DURHAM CHANGES MIND - ABOUT ANNEXING CHATHAM Durham, Feb. 3 Following the meeting yesterday afternoon ' when the county commissioners passed a motion to the effect that thia county would welcome that part of Chatham county which desired to become a part of Durham, provided they would make the fight before the Legislature and could get their release from Cha tham, the board hold a second lata meeting at which only the members of the board were present and res cinded the action. It is understood that one of the county officials objected to the addi tion of this part of Chatham to Dur- - ham county on account; of political reasons, and the count commission ers followed the suggestion of thia official by side-stepping their former order. . . Chtirles E. Orton,.a well-known min ister, left the town and has not since Why should women not more justly been heard from. ' - entitled to the ballot be extended the GREECE PREPARES FOR MOBILIZATION London, Feb. 3. A wireless dis patch from, Berlin says the Berliner Tagcblatt reports from Constantino-v pie that Greece is preparing for mob ilization and continuing the fortifica tion of her frontiers. privilege? ; Ex-President Battle is confident in his belief that not over 20 per cent of the women of North Carolina are desirous of the privilege of voting. The number of women viorous'y clamoring for the ballot are wotfa"y in the minority!