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DAILY a . THEEATHEK - Fair lMiht Mid FrtJ, PUBLISHED EVERY HFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY, XVI No. 294 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. G, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1915 FOUR PAGES TODAY 'PRICE TOO cxuntj IISSIANS WILL TRY TO CHECK AUSTRIAN JVAN(M IIALITZ Ilave Strongly Fortified the City in the Eastern Carpathians TRYING TO PERSUADE :; INDIANS TO QVE UP White While Waiting for Ammuni tion Parley With flute OuUawi to Surrender android Fur ther Bloodshed. mm) TURKEY FEARS INVASION Ottoman Government Rec ords Prepared for Re moval From Constantino ple If Allied Fleets or the Russians Take the City, (By the United Press.) Dolores, Colo.," Feb. 25. Addition al ammunition is expected to arrive at Bluff today. Preparations for an other attack upon the Indians are be ing made, awaiting the outcome of ne gotiations in an attempt to persuade the Indians to surrender before the whites attack again. . PARIS ON GUARD : J. AGAINST ZEPPELINS By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Paris, Feb. 3 (By mail - to New (By the United Press) York). Thore is no city on earth Petrograd, Feb. 25. A great bat- which loves a thrill better than Paris tie is in progress east and south of loves one, and tonight she got a Stanislau, in the Eastern Carpathian '. dandy, a thrill much as only a Zcp mountains. The "Austrians are1 at- pelin can produce. Not that one even tempting to press north to the river started a rumor that a Zeppelin was Dneister in force, and have affected coming, but that Paris took her first a crossing at Halite. The Russians have strongly fortified the city of Halitz and expect to halt the Austri an forward movement at this point. . The Russian offensives in the Carpa thians and Poland continue. The Ger mans have been outmaneuvered in their attempts to concentrate around Przasnysz for a" new advance on Warsaw.'.;- i -. ' German Reserves Take Przasnysz. Berlin, 'Feb. 25. It is officially an nounced that East Prussian reserves stormed the Russian fortress of Prz asnysz yesterday and captured more than ten thousand prisoners. "-, The" fortress was . strongly forti- ' fled. The Germans .capture twenty large guns and many machine guns. The German movement along the right bank of the. Vistula , toward the Rus sian fortress, Novo 'Georgievsk,' has made further progress, and 6,000 prisoners have been taken. It is ad mitted that the Russians have cap tured the town of Mogily, southeast of Bolimow. ' "; ' Turks Taking Precautions Against Invasion. ' , Athens. Feb. 25. According to dis patches, Turkey is making prepara tions against an attack upon Constan tinople. AH government records have been removed to the interior in ex- '; pectation of a combined attack by the Angle-French fleet trying to force Dardanelles. ' Leading, families of Constantinople have made arrange ments to flee to the interior on quick notice. A report that Russian trans ports are about to embark with troops for the invasion of Turkey and to attack Constantinople was caused great alarm. Turkish submarines are displaying the greatest activity in the Bosphorus, and are preparing to meet the transports. . real precaution against one. As the tight stole on, with the clouds hanging low and drizzle filling the air, a 'policeman called on all Parisians. They ordered curtains drawn over all windows, blinds drawn or the liehts put out And Paris obeyed, thrilled through and through. Back of closed shutters the popula tion sat and had delighted feelings steal over them, for at least maybe a Zeppelin would come and they would see ,' what the War was like. True, Parisians said to each other, they had seen German aeroplanes and beard the ; little bombs explode which fell from them. This was quite thrilling for a time, but the novelty soon wore off and the Ger man Tauben quit coming. A Zeppe lin is a far different thing: it is much bigger and its bombs are cor respondingly ? larger. A Zeppelin could really bombard the city, and that would be genuinely thrilling and quite remindful of what the boys at the front hear and see and daily undergo.' - OFTIIOS. JEFFERSON'S H Would . Blake : Museum of MonticclloOfficial Order for Navy Courts-Martial Safe Shipping Lanes Out lined by the Germans NEW YORK BOOKMAKERS ARE PUZZLED JUST NOW Byr HAL SHERIDAN. (Written for the United Press.) ' New York, Feb. 25. Just how far they can go without police interfer ence is worrying the bookmakers, who already are laying their plans carefully for a bit of wider-cover betting when the New York racing season starts on May 20. . Last year there were a few raids, and this year, according to word which has gone out in the shape of a tip to the racing fraternity, strictness will be the rule. The arrest over in Maryland a few weeks ago of a hundred Washington betting fans,-? jnong them a congress man or two, naf made the pony-followers' here a bit chary. There has been a bit of betting on the Q. T. throughout the winter, but the old poolroom days are far in the discard at least the police say so. C0NSTABLWEL1JSSG0T MAN, BUT LET HIM ESCAPE Constable Josiah Wells of Mose ley Hall township drove in 'a buggy from LaGrange to a point where he located Ransom Alphin in the coun try Wednesday -and arrested Alphin for perjury, to-wit, falsely swearing to the age of Mary Croom, whom the sheriff here says is less than sixteen years of age. Alphin procured the license for the marriage of Miss Croom to Frank Mitchell, a well known young farmer of that section of the county. Her relatives, it is said, objected. , Alphin was driving on a cotton wagon, according to the story that reached here today, and the consta ble permitted him to remain on the wagon or join Mitchell,-riding in an other buggy, but which is not clear. At any rate, the constable, who is al so Chief of Police in LaGrange, drove in the van for some time, without paying attention to his prisoner. Just how long is '. not known, but it s a certainty that when Wells turned to take in that part of the landscape of which Alphin was supposed to con stitute a part, the skyline was most conspicuous by reason of that gentle man's absence. (By the United Ptmi) Washington. Feb. 25. President Wilson approves the plan to pur chase Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, to make of it a national mu seum, y Secretary of the Navy Daniels to day signed an order for the court martial of the five men alleged to be involved in the recent explosition on the U. S. cruiser San Diego, due to low water in the boilers, and costing several lives.' -. .. .'''.. German Embassy Outlines Safety Lanes. '; .':':,' Safety lanes through which Amer ican ships can reach German ports were defined by German embassy of ficials today. ' ' Administration officials view grave ly the German passport case which tends to involve German Naval At tache Boyed. If Boyed is found guil ty of helping a German spy to reach England the State Department will be forced to take a hand. Mexicans Know Nothing of Special Tax. The Carranza "Agency here dis claims knowledge of Carranza's act of levying a special tax amounting to (Continued on Page 3) ENGLISH PEQPLE WANT RETALIATORY BLOCKADE Angry Over Increasing Activity of Kaiser's Sntamiine Fleet In Brit- , . i Ish Waters, Demand That Na-.t ry Blockade German Coast (By United Press.) , London, Feb. 25. The British pub lie is daily becoming more exasperat ed over the repeated attacks of Ger man submarined in England's coast waters, and is demanding an immedi ate blockade of "the German -coast. It is announced that the British steamer Deptford has been mined or torpedoed off Scarborough and sunk. One of the crew was drowned and the others landed at Scarborough. A British steamer off the western JUDGE'S oppon " PROTESTS TO OBREGON flit lltnrtnniirtlTi Jtl By IRepreeentaUvea Illo iMrtAbiiMtiill Mexk , ' ' , Landlord! Threatened. Dissatisfied With Commit tee's : Attitude Resolu tions In Case tJp Again This Afternoon Matters " . , ui nucicair ait ajcgiaiatuiv ; , (By W. J. Martin.) : Raleigh, Feb, 26. The eight per cent, interest bill, allowing that race nnilor . iiw In I writ tan rnntmrrn ma M Al I t Milt mi niiMl .fii- rMlMul 1 11 om coramiiMw on nuig into Beachvhoad etordav. Tha emr and Hou8a M vorable re- ' (By the United Press) ,., Washington. Feb, 25. Officials ad mit that if Obregon's threat to con' flscate property and imprison owners failing to pay a tax by tomorrow night, it will lead to objection on the part of the diplomats of foreign pew- err, whose bankers and business men are involved. The State Department has sent a protest. . , passengers were landed at Plymouth today. REUQOUSEXPANSION AT STATE UNIVERSITY 4- FIRST CHAUTAUQUA ENTERTAINMENTS ON BIG SHIPMENT FROM BOSTON FOR BRITISH ARMY. (By the United Press) . Boston, Feb. 2a. The Leyland liner Bohemian sailed today for Liverpool with an immense cargo ' of supplies arid eight hundred horses for the Eritibh army. TO BRUSH SLEEP AWAY v FROM PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia, Feb. 25. This city is to have a greater Chamber of Com merce. , The plans which were re cently decided upon by the Board of Directors call for the appropriation of $100,000 a year for commercial and industrial welfare, and will unite all the trade bodies of the city into one central organization. - Bureaus to , be conducted include the present traffic bureau, trade ex pansion, a publicity and convention, industrial, legislative and statistical bureaus; and a bureau to supervise charities. It is planned to place ex perts in charge of each. TODAY ANDTONIGHT Strollers' Quartet and Ells worth Plumstead, Noted Impersonator, Chief At tractions of Both Pro grams Today The festival of the Booster Club started in the Grand Theater this af ternoon at 3:15 O'clock with a con cert by the Strollers' Quartet The Strollers are stronger right now than ever before, the Radcliffe . manage ment says. They gave a superb pro gram of popular and classical selec tions. Tonight the Strollers will give a grand Concert at 9 o'clock, follow ing a feature performance by .us WoTth Plumstead, the noted-impersonator. Mr. Plumstead this after noon followed the male singers, giv ing a program of character studies probably never excelled. He is a humorist of the first class. The festival, more popularly call ed the midwinter chautauqua, is un der the auspices of a club of local business men who will donate their percentage to the to the betterment of the school children of the city, possibly for playgrounds purposes. Several hundred dollars are expected to be realized for the Booster Club's share of the profits. The Radcliffe Company, furnishing the amusements for the three days of the festival, is among the best-known of the chau taqua organizations. Tomorrow Dr. J. W. Frizzell, not ed, lecturer, and the LaDell Concert Company, comprised of ladies, will hold the boards for the two perform ances. On Saturday Hal Merton. the famous magician, and Dr. H. W. Sears, America's foremost humorist, who has filled more return engage ments in the South than any other man on the platform, will be the at tractions. ' Dr. J. W. Frizzell is the platform manager of the festival Single admissions to any of the at tractions are being charged for at the rate of 50 cents for adults at night and 35 for afternoon, and 25 John R. Mott Meetings Redoubled Force for Good of Students' Y. M. C A. at Chapel Hill . 400 to Be UsefuL (Special to The Free Press.) Chapel Hill, Feb. 25. Secretary Frank Graham of the Young Men'e Christian Association of the Univer sity, aptly epitomized the far-reaching consequence of the vlBit of John R. Mott and his five associates in the International Student Movement when he said: "The Mott meetings redoubled the force, the activities and energies of all departments of the Y. M. C. A." Other than his sane and straight forward appeals to grip his immedi ate hearers, John R. Mott has the capacity to call students to social and religious srev1ce.i"He,lefi his Im press on University students. Res ponsive to the meetings, 400 students affixed their signature to this pledge: It is my purpose, pay what it cost, to be a sincere follower - ef Jesus Christ" Many students yere Seized with a passion for service, and boys have appealed to the Y. M. C. A. for jobs in community work, leaders of Bible groups, and work 4n other fields of service in the village and vicinity. President Edward K. Graham's ad dress, "A New Start," Was an added impetus td the movement for social and religious expansion, His address has been supplemented by talks in chapel by the various student leaders in the departmental work of the Y. M. C A. The stimulating effects of the Mott meetings rivet attention -on the bet terment campaign in the ural com munity around Chapel Hill, inaugur ated by the Y. M. C, A. a year ago. The work of the Association is divid ed into twenty distinct departments each under the supervision of a chair man and a committee. The Bible Study Department enlisted the ser vices of 390 students, divided into twenty-five groups. These groups conduct Bible classes on Sundays in the dormitories, and three courses LIVE STOCK INCREASING IN UNITED STATES (By the United Press.) ' Washington, Feb, 25. Meat at CO cents a pound and shoes at f 10 pair are further away than ever, the De- The Senate resumed consideration ! J""" A.fr5ou.lt,,r! '". ior me reason inai ior tne nrst time port Tuesday , afternoon in a Joint meeting of the finance and banking committees, ' The House adopted unanimously the joint resolution Tor no more new bills after next Monday. of the revenue bill, practically no changes being made. The House is en the machinery bill after the morn ing hour. V: ' ;'. 'V;f -v , Dissatisfied with the attitude of the judiciary committee No. 1, having the matter in hand for a favorable or un favorable report as to resolutions for an investigation of the Carter-Aber-nethy contempt proceedings and the charges against Carter's ; personal character, advocates of the resolutions are threatening to launch impeach ment, proceedings against the judge. Calls Were made on the Department of State today for reports of the pro ceedings in the famous Douglass and Furches impeachments. The judiciary committee will meet this afternoon to settle the question as to a recom mendation on the resolutions. COUNCIL'S COURT BILL TO RALEIGH FRIDAYAFTERNOON Legislature Will Be Asked to Create A Municipal Court for Kinston, With Salary of $1,200 for the JudgeAmend Charter City Council, in a special meeting Wednesday evening, decided without a dissenting vote to ask the Legisla ture to pass the bill providing a re corder's court, with criminal juris diction' only, for the City of Kin ston. .. The Mayor and several members of the Council will appear in Raleigh before the committee which will have the reporting of the bill in charge, Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. ; It is probable that the committee will at the same time consider the bill to es tablish a court with both criminal ",wJ-- :-:iand ivn jurisdiction for the county, have been outlmedi.Men of the Old ' , . Testament" "Manhood of the Master" and "New Studies 1n the Acts." The student teachers in the rural schools, in outlying districts around Chapel Hill, present the lessons of , the - International w Sunday C School quarterly. A movement Is to end the one providing for a court. similarly constituted, for LaGrange and Moseley Hall Township. The Kinston bfll, completed by City Attorney John G. Dawson, late Wed nesday, provides that the proposed v coun snail do caiieu v iuo launched to encourage various com munities to raise funds for Organs in the rural Sunday achools. Neigh borhood social gatherings, anion pic nics, and discussions of rural prob lems are promoted key the student leaders in charge of the country-side program. , SAFETY FIRST CONVENTION OPENS IN NEW YORK TODAY ; New York, Feb. .25. To I make safety first" a national slogan the Safety First Society of New York today opened its first convention of national importance. It 4s proposed to organize various independent asso ciations into a strong national body. Moving pictures ahowing what safety means in factories and elsewhere will be utilized. ' cents for children at night and cents for afternoon. 15 in many years all classes of live stock in the United States are increasing in numbers. , ' - i,- - . . Despite the ravages of foot-end raouth disease, the number of beef cattle increased by nearly a million and a quarter, or 3.4 per cent, last year; after declining steadily ever since 1910. There were half 'a mil lion more milch cows on January 1 than a year ago. ; Swine increased nearly 6,000.000, or more than nine per cent In the face of the expor tation of horses to the Allies, these animals increased 233,000 head, and there is no reason to fear a shortage of horses, says the department The increasing use of autoa took the av erage price of horses down $3 and mules down $11,50 during the year. Importation of hides showed a fall ing off. "There is, however," says the department, "little reason to Sup pose this decrease will ie permanent or of .sufficient importance to create any real scarcity, r Since the great bulk of the Imported hides come from countries now at war, shipments re not interfered with any way, and the only new factor to be considered is the possibility of an increasing demand by the warring countries." - . "It is . believed," the department continues, "that the United States is in better condition to face such a situation than for 'years past The tide, it seems, has turned. Instead of live stock steadily decreasing year after year, this year, for the first time, all classes show an appreciable increase, including horses, mules, milch cows, beef cattle, sheep, and swine, there were on January 1, 1915, 7,712,000 more farm animals in the hnited States than on January 1, 1914. The increase in the total value was $78,024,000, or 1.3 per cent It is quite true that this increase is not yet proportional to the increase in population,' which i Is approximately 2 per cent; but the fact that there is an increase, that the tides aeem definitely to have turned, is regarded as a sufficient answer to alarming exaggerations and misleading fig ures." Court of the City of Kinston." It shall have i jurisdiction in the city, and within a mile and a half on every side. ..It shall be presided over by a person elected by the people, at the same time and under the same regu lations as the mayor. The recorder shall take the same oath as is re quired of judges of 'the Superior Court. The salary is named at $1,200. Fees will be paid into the city treas ury, except "such service fees as may be .paid for the service of any writs issuing from said court which may be served by any officer of Lenoir county." In the latter event tneiees j . , .''"'" for service shall be the property ' PRESIDENTS GRANDSON the county, "The recorder snail open court every morning, Sundays and holidays excepted, at 10 o'clock." A substitute recorder, Vo be paid out of nd Mrs. Francis Sayre. with baby the salary of the recorder when that gon, have gone to their home at Wfi efficial shall be absent from his OftV v liomstown, Mass. The President ex cial duties, will be paid out of the pcts to go there soon to act as god - (Continued on Page 3) -father at the baby's baptism. PREDICTS BOOM IN V GREAT LAKE TRAFFIC Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 25. Harvey D. Goulder of Cleveland, Ohio, the dean , of marine attorneys, predicted that the recent business depression will result in the 1915 navigation Sea son being one of the -best in the his tory of the Great SLakes. "The wheels of industry will have to revolve doubly fast to make up for lost, time," he explains. "Ae more machinery ;; is manufactured.! j. more material mined, more goods in gen eral demanded and produced, so also will it be necessary for the increased amount of tonnage to be ehipped Goulder made this prediction while trying 'a case in the local - United States District Court", GOES TO NEW ENGLAND. Wsshineton, D. C- Feb. 24. Mr. JIOPfLESSIYUMEJ is mm Era, SAfS REHE ViVlAia French Premier - Declares .'Financial-Econotnic. ' Rout Complete ; rr his doiul mnmi Famous Statesman's First Talk With Newspaperman Is . With United Press . Representative - "Ger many Militarily Stricken" By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS ' United Press CorreapondeHt, ; (Copyrighted in the United SUtea and Great Britaiiu) . Paris, jFranco, VFeb. 26-PreJmier Rene Viviani today pictured Germany -to mo as a hopelessly beaten .nation in the first interview '.the French prime minister has ever .granted to any newspaper man, French or tor . eign. ' ' , The German torrent is checked," he said, decisively. "Germany 1s mil itarily stricken. An implacable block ade is drawing tighter and tighter about her. Despite all the precautions Germany has taken to conceal the truth, I can assure yon that her fln- . cial and econoiBic rout is complete." RUINS OF All AKCEIT RACE IN KE.TAS2A .-''i '- flKnjj, "I1- '.-'f.'." (By the United.Preas.).. Lincoln, .Nob., Feb. 23. Ruins, left by some prehistoric race in the vicin ity of, Howe, Neb., have recently been inspected and studied by Prof. Gerard Fowke, the St Louis geologist, who is curator of the St Louis museum. Fowke lias been gathering -scien tific data on 'the primitive inhabitants of the Missouri valley, and he investi gated the remains xtt their civilian on. tie oogan witn n oncieni if ruins north of Kansas City and zet- lowed the west Jank of the tlver northward, tracing the northern ire- treat of these ancient farmers and gardeners. , v After an exhaustive examination of the ruins found at Howe,'Neb at Peru, the prof essor is of the opinion that the ancient iwrabrs recently discovered ear White Good, Keois, were of works made by the same race. Considerable work 4as been .one at Howe under the direction of C L. Meek, and a large number of the bone and horn gardening instruments have been unearthed. '. The .tolls, for the most part, were found cached be neath what had once been the floors of the dwellings, where they were buried in beds of ashes. V Scentists aro now of the belief that a number of the remains found along the 'Missouri river and ' the neighboring country were of a civi lisation which preceded that tut the Skeletons discovered y .Robert -P. Gilder, , of Omaha, and now in ihe University nuwum, -are .declared by scientists : to greatly antedate -the Indian. ,The skulls show much, less brain cepacity than those , of the In dian, 'and have .the - very receding forehead cbaracteriatic of the early members of the race and but little higher than the ape or gorilla type. TODAY'S ODDEST TCRY Detroit vMJch, Peb. 25-Park CoBsmissioner ; WiUiaf T. Dust is facing the most serious problem f his long career as m public official here. The problem was presented by receipt of the 'following postal card note: "Dear Stork, V ;,"BeTlele. .; ' "Please bring me a five-pc:; 1 baby sister. Don't forget Tor In lonesome. :-- ;. Ca'-" It's tip o the Fik Cc: : who has jurisdiction ever t' s r Isle too, either to m" t t!.s r-; t or explain why it can't e dr.e.
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