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rnTT tt - a YOUR KO"E PAPER J jj J H' -i : -i. i-C ' PRESS THE UuttU toaiaM MtJ ': PUBLISHED . EMERY HFTE(?NOON EXCEPT SUNDRY, ' L f ' v, i- P , , -v " - 1 . : - . 1- : . ' - ' ' VOtfr XVI No. 293 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1915 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTJ THE TURKISH JLEET TAKES UP POSITION NE4RER TO CAPITAL Leaves the Dardanelles to Better Defend City of Y Constantinople;;; CHEWS OF TWO VICTIMS SEA JiAIPER pUT ASHORE THREE MORE FORTS FALL Russians Successful on the Road to Lemburg -Force of Austrians to Evacuate Krasna 40,000 ; Germans Narrowly Escape (By the United Pre) London,. Mar. 4.-According to Athena dispatches, .the Turkish fleet assigned to battle the Anglo-French warships inside the Dardanelles has fled to the Marmora Sea. It is be lieved the ships have withdrawn "to be nearer approaches to Constantino ple. Tore. more inner Dardanelles forts have been reduced, and the bombardment . continues. Mine sweepers have cleared the channel for a distance of twelve miles above the entrance. Forty r battleships . , and - cruisers, supported by ft flotilla of de stroyers and smaller vessels, are now in action. s . " -. The Athens dispatches Bay German artillerymen are manning the big Kru'np guns. Ten of the biggest bat tleship of the Anglo-French fleet are shelling Fort Kilid-Bahr, on the : European side. ' The French fleet i bombarding the forts on the Asiatic : ;: aide, and. the defenses of Bulair. The . guns of Fort Namazieh are keeping up a brisk reply. The fire of some of the batteries of Kilid-Bahr has been silenced.. - - Russians Claim to Have .Upper Hand. Petrograd, March 4. Russian shells have silenced several Austrian ..batteries at Czernowitcz. Civilians have been ordered to leave the city The war office today declared German . gun fire has not damaged the fortress at Ossowet. The Germans have been defeated along the railway toward Lemburg and two companies slaugh tered. The Austrian? have been fore ed to evacuate Krasna, southwest of Stanislau. ' 40,000 Germans Surrounded by Rus sians Cut Way Out fi " - . Berlin, March 4. According to the war office, 40,000 German troops nar- 1 rowly escaped capture or annihila tion by the Russians,- in the recent fighting around Przasnysz. . They were surrounded by 120,000 Russians in the outskirts of Prsasnysr... and fought desperately all day endeavor ing to cut their way through the Rus- sian lines. ' ':; :; An official statement claims the de feat of several French regiments in the Lbrette Hills, northwest of Arras. ( The Germans have taken 1,000 yards of trenches and 8 officers, and 550 men. A French position in Argonne near St. Hubert has been taken. Germans Shelling Rhelma Again. ; Paris, March 4.The Germans are ' again pouring a hot shell fire into the city of Rheims, completing the des truction of the city. The French pro gress on the Plateau of Vauquois near v arennes and now hold the south po sition of that town. ' There was se vere street fighting there French Bark and British Steamer Be. lieved to Have Been Sunk by the r Karkruhe Early In January. , sv Men Now On Easter Island. (By the United Press.) " Santiago, Chile, March 4. The crews of N the French1 Bark Jean and British steamer Kinaldon, sunk Jan uary 1, have been landed on Easter Island. The censor prohibits further details regarding the eihking. " It is believed both were sunk by the Ger man raider Karlsruhe, j '. ; TO FINANCE CANAL SURVEY St. Paul, Minn., March 4. -Minnesota and Wisconsin will spend $5,000 for surveys for the proposed Lake Superior-Mississippi river and canal if bills pass the house of the two States., Both legislatures have bills providing for this amount of money, equally divided between the States, now before them. 4 TODAY'S ODDEST STORY. Columbus, Ohio. ? March 4. "Help Stamp Out Tuberculosis", read a sign In a window of the house of Ernest Hamilton when deputy sheriffs went there to arrest Hamilton on a delirt quency charge. Within the house1, a four-room structure, they found eight people, a hog, four chickens, two dogs, a cat, and a lame duck were living, FAIR IIUIITTEE TO MAKE CANVASS NEXT TUESDAY MORNING ROGERS JARHEUW BIIlECtOR OF CENSUS v Washington, March . 4. Samuel L. Rogers of . Franklin succeeds William J. Harris of Georgia, Tuesday night confirmed by the Senate as a mem ber of the Federal Trade Commission, as director of the census. Mr. Rog ers' nomination and its confirmation were made today. -.-: V , - The hew director will take charge of the Census Bureau next Monday, it is thought; Meeting Held This Morning In Chairman Taylor's Of fice Arranged to Put Pro ject On Its Feet At Once Shares $25 Each The sectional fair committee met in the office of Chairman Taylor this morning and planned the organiza tion of the stock company to finance the project, deciding to canvaBS for subscriptions next Tuesday morning, the 9th, at 10:30 o'elock sharp. From $5,000 to $10,000 is wanted by the committee to prepare for 'the big fall exhibit, and the business men and others who contemplate taking stock lire asked to be prepared to make their subscriptions liberal. The stock will be in shares of $25, payable half in cash and the other half on Sep tember 1. ? Each share will carry with it a free anmiaFpass.; The company wilt be a chartered association, and the stock, will be non-assessable,. 1 : The fourteen gentlemen who com prise the committee to organize the fair association are optimistic over the prospects. . They believe they will have no trouble whatever in raising more thai) five thousand dollars when they set out on Tuesday to get the stock subscriptions. - They expect to raise the necessary money in as short a time as possible to permit of or ganization at the earliest date when it can be accomplished, so that the site can be selected and preparations for building be gotten under way. The committee did not decide upon the name for .the fair, but will leave that together with the site selection, up to the directors of the holding com pany. SAY DETECTIVE W4S GUIDitf GENIUS QE PLOT New York Police Depart 'M-t- j-., . : , ment Vigorously: Denies Accusation of Prisoners That Amedo Pulignanb Engineered Awful Plani (By the United Press.) New York, March 4. The case of the two young Italians caught in i red-handed attempt to blow up St Patrick's Cathedral, took a new turn today. The men swore that Amedo Pulignano.'a young detective, caused their arrest and engineered the plan even to the point of making the bombs. They merely helped him, they said. -,.,- - The police department vigorously denied the accusation. V i ' HEARING OF FREIGHT RATES Chicago, March 4. -Proposed in creased freight rates on all railroads west of the Mississippi were invest! gated today by Commissioner Clem ents of the Interstate ' Commerce Commission, before whom hearings which will continue until April 2 opened. ' v ., CONSTITUTIONAUSTS RETftEAT FROtf SABLNAS Suffered Heavy Losses In Clash With Convention Troops and Drew Off ' .. to Blanco Sttion-160 Villis- ' ts Taken Prisoners. (By the United Press) Washington, March 4 The Carran zists retreated after a battle at Sa- binas to Blanco station, after suffer ing heavy losses, according to State Department dispatches, A hundred and sixty Villistas were captured. ATTEMPT TO KILL CROWN PRINCE OF MONTENEGRO Austrian Aviators Dropped Bombs Dangerously Near to His High 1 ness' Residence.at Antivari Family Present at Time. ANNIVERSARY OF INAUGURA - ' TION. ' Washington, March 4. Fifty years ago today Abraham 7 Lincoln, "the great . emancipator," was inducted into for the second time as President of the United States. Too much to lament a misery is the next way te dra won a remediless mischief. R. fXhamberlain. TWO TRAINTJEN KILLED : ON NEW YORK YARDS (By the United Press.) New York, March "4. Two train men were killed and traffic tied up by a crash today in the New Jersey Cen tral yards. A switch engine plunged into the rear pf an empty passenger train, v . . ' , ' (By the United Press) Cettin je, Montenegro, March 4. Two Austrian aviators unsuccessful ly attempted to kill the Montenegrin Crown Prince, Danilo, and members of his family, according to official dis patches from Antivari. The aviators hurled several bombs at the Crown Prince's villa, in the suburbs of An tivari, while he was in the residence. The bombs narrowly missed the dwell ing. . OTHER CROPS TO RIVAL KING COTTON IN SOUTH Dallas, Tex., March 4. "Let Texas Feed Itself" is the slogan of a diver sified farming campaign that finds its counterpart today in every State in the South. General farming in stead of all cotton is being urged by practically every newspaper, banker, storekeeper and agricultural expert in the Southland. Hundreds of lec turers are in the field, armed with proof of the greater profits in di versification. The mistake of selling a dollar's worth of cotton and, im porting three dollar's worth of food stuffs is being brought home to cot ton growers everywhere. " - -t The Texas Industrial Congressman endowed organization working lor better farming methods, diversifica tion and dairying, has given general farming an impetus by distributing $10,000 in cash prizes to high record producers of wheat, corn Hhtaize, pea nuts and many other articles as well as cotton. -'; "" TRENCH J SENTRY IN ARMOR M i-A i J q ; , i-rts French sentry In the trenches, weQr- Ing a heavy mailt and cuirass of steel penetrable only at a very close range; watching Germans! who are Intrenched but a few yards away. , j SOLDIERS TO TAKE ' A HAND IN HIGH SCHOOL MILITARISM h -- .-;V:.: wd r' By Barton K. Standitih (Written for the United Press,) 1 Washington, March 3 High school military training, unless .carefully supervised and directed, will work evil rather than good, in the opinion of Sprrnt.arv rtt War finrrisnn. ! So to prevent the widespread agi tation for such training from becom ing a detriment to the nation, he in tends soon to inaugurate a movement whereby this may be correlated and properly: directed.' , ('.( r- !' Ho announced today that' he will try soon to get together a group of representative citizens from various communities to confer with a body of military experts from his depart ment. ' In this proposed conference, a plan will be mapped out whereby military training may be. used in the schools to the advantage of all concerned, He, decided on this measure 'only fter careful study of the situation, and af ter hundreds of letters had suggested to him that the recent preparedness discussion had produced throughout the nation a ! mo'vemeht for military ' training everywhere. Tho Secretary today explained that, in many respects he believed the public schools of today attempted too . Wid& a range, and to make any military training effective, he held, it .must not le too amhitiouft a prpo- gram," thrown in as a part of an un digested whole, a ,' ' . . i -"When I went to school." he com mented, "there were too many sub jects. We had .drawing a ' while, geography a while, and then trigo nomctry and calculus. Many of us didn't even know how to spell cal culus, much , less did we know what it was all 'about. For this reason. I have always felt that there should be ' more ' selection about school courses. , - - . . "And with respect to, the matter of military training, I feel thatwo should not rush into it without care ful consideration. - - We should not have the idea that schools can accom plish the purpose of turning 'school boys into trained soldiers. We must see to it that the training is properly supervised and properly apportioned." He indicated that he is in "hearty accord, with, the general principle in volveV but that he did not feel that it should be like many popular move ments "going up like a rocket and coming; down like a tick.V-" PITTSBURGH GERMAN t ? BANK CLOSES DOORS SCHOOL DIST. TODAY PASSED THE judge carters counsel trying Case out court Counsel Manning . Thinks Effort In Bring Made to Force Resigna tion of Carter by Delaying - Hearing Will Sit Mar. 22 Ex-Judge J. S. Manning, of counsel for judge. Fank Carter In the Car SUrahCC Bill TodaySemi-J ingi declares In a statement made SENAJF House Concurred In Senate Amendment to Seawell In . monthly payments . 'Railroad Workers" for (By W, J. Martla.) Raleiurh, - March 4 The House j passed the bill to enlarge the Kinston graded school district, The House concurred " in the Senate amndment to the Seawell. insurance bill in which the Senate struck out eleven sections, j giving this State the Kansas. State Wednesday to the Raleigh News an Observer, that "I em apprised of th desire to put the screws on and force ' resignation of Judge Carter," ' Judge Manning's statement is inter rogative generally throughout, and cells on the opponents of Judge Car ter to substantiate charges against his client' character he alleges or in timates to have been made by them The hearing on March 22 of the famous contempt ease .will be the most interesting' event of the month In the State. : Both Judge Carter and rate regulation law for fire insurance. A bill was passed providing con-J Solicitor Abernethy, who was fined currence to the bill requiring semi-1 fop contempt by the judge in Craven monthly payments to workers in the railroad shops. " Another will provide lime at cost for agricultural purposes, : , County Superior Court at New Bom are preparing to contest their sides hotly. Solicitor Abernethy will con tend that his humiliation in the open Others provide for the reclamation I court was unjustified, and the judge will defend his record in the case, a well as the charges . of Immorality which hnve come Up through the res olution of Representative Ckrk i of Bladen, for legislative investigation of wayward youths and special courts. The Senate passed th& Mc Rae bill for land and loan associa' tions; also the crop lien bill as asked by the Farmers Union and one to pre vent fraudulent advertising in North Carolina The Senate passed the anti-saloon league bill to prohibit the sale of malt such as i9 used in blockading liquors, RECORDER'S COURT BILL FOR HINSTOff TFM THftTKAMn ROPRC WERE TAKEN PRISONERS Mi llUUU CHANCE south African Revolt Lost Thous- Mayor and the Aldermanic and in Casualties, According to Colonial Secretary. (By the United Press) Capetown, South Africa, March 4. According to Finance Minister Smuts, ten thousand Boer rebels were taken prisoners during the recent rebellion. The losses on both sides were a thou sand. l- flommiltpp Wrnt JtojRa- leigh Wednesday In Its Interest Recorder and Mayor Each to Get $1,000 EIGHT ALL-STEEL TRAINS NOW IN SERVICE ON SO. RY. I r10 Fifty-Seven Steel Cars Added to the Equipment, Enabling Great Many of Wooden Cars to Be Dis- -carded7 Dining Cars. Atlanta,' Ga., Man 4 most important through trains of Southern Railway have been equipped with' all-steel, electric light ed cars of the most modern design, 87 cars just received from the build ers having been . placed in service. The trains to which this equip' ment was 'assigned are: Nos. 1 and 2, the "Royal Palm," between Jackson ville and Chicago; Nos,' 8 and 0, the' "Florida Special," between Jackson ville and Cincinnati; Nos. 13 and 14, the "Ohio Special," between Jackson ville and .Cinconnati; Nos. 25 and 20, the "Memphis Special," between The' Mayor, Boar dof Aldermen and City Attorney of Kinston moved the administration bodily to Raleigh Wed nesday afternoon for the purpose of getting with the Senators from this a lino on the bill for the proposed recorder's court for Kin. ston. Mayor Sutton, Aldermett Mew born, Hood, Fort, Rouse, Bocton and Webb and Attorney John G. Dawson motored to Goldisboro, caught a train there, collared Senators Ward and Thompson in the capital, got assur Eight of the I ences that those gentlemen would nassentfcr'l support the bill, and returned home itt night much grattned Incidentally, the bill as it will be passed if passed it' is, Is altered tso that the recorder will not 'receive more compensation than the Mayor of the municipality. ' Each-will te ceive a thousand dollars per annum and the Mayor will hot under any cir cumstances be required to hear cases of, alleged disorderly conduct, alleged brick-throwing, ' alleged dog fighti, his dignity will not be impinged by rny such trivial matters, and the da partment of justice will have all that stuff to attend to. Kinston has'ba- come a city, and will have in future. Washington and Memphis; Nos., '29 and 30, the "Birmingham Special," j if. the bill passes, a real mayor in- between Washington and Birming-1 stead of a justice of the peace, ham; Nos. 35 and 3fi, the "U. S. Fast! Senator Ward and Senator Thotnp Mail," between . Washington and New I soft assured the officials that they wUl Orleans; Nos. 31 and 32, the "South-1 do all in their power to get the bill eastern Limited," between Washing-1 through, i It has been reported favor ton and Jacksonville; Nos. 43 and 44. between Washington and Atlanta, and Nos. 27 and 28, the "Carolina Spe cial," between Charleston and Cin- ably by the committee, it Is said, on 1 the chance are very good for it being j put through before the session expires Saturday. Both the Senators beliovo cinnati. Nos. 37 and 38, the "New that it wili be easy to get theliiTl h y ; ' (Bj the United Press) Pittsburgh, March 4. The German York, Atlanta, and New Orleans Limited," is an all-Pullman train and has been all-steel since the introduc tion of steel cars. r The stcel-f rame cars, formerly used In these trains, have been transferred to other1 through trains, . releasing steel-underfram cars to be placed in strictly local trains, releasing wood en equipment. All this new equip- to an act during the next seventy-two hours. : - " : It is not known what the fate of the Lenoir county and ' Moseley : ILiil township, recorder's court bills will be. It is very probable, however, that the county bill, the original measure, and the Moseley Halt bill, which because of the persistency of the people of La Grange in demanding that their town ment is in addition to the seven-steel I and township - be excluded from tho dining cars recently placed in ' ser-J jurisdiction of the, county recorder National Bank, located at 600 Wood vice, and has been provided in line I upset the plans of the entire commun- There is no remembrance which street, one of the largest institutions with the policy of Southern Railway J ity -communities-nd gave birth to time doth not obliterate, nor pain in .the city, doing a general banfeing Company to give its patrons the ad-' the Kinston bill, wm sleep untu mv. whicn aeam aoin noi put an enu to. Cervantes. ' THE EVENTFUL 63RD AT MIDDAY Had Been Sitting In Actual Time, iSix Hundred and ' Thirty-seven Days ,' HAS ACCOHPUSHED MUCH Government Money JSpent By Millions in the Final Hours--More Than Two . Democrats to One Repub-' lican (By United Press.) PRESIDENT IN CAPITOL - . AT END Washington, Mar. 4v-Preeident Wilson reached the Capitol at 10 o'clock this morning and proceed ed directly to his private office in the Senate wing, from where he sent WOrd te the tedder or both House that he wa ready for bus iness. According s. to DimocriUe Leader Underwood, the Congress hich ended today accomplished more than any la the Iweaty yean he ha been member.- He declal ed the Simmons-Underwood Tar iff Law the most Important pro1' duct of the session" At 10:45 the President signed LaFolletteV Sear men's Bill a amended in con f err ence. The bill ' proVldes belief Working 'conditions and 1 'greater measure of safety with regard' td the number of life boat and raft hi ealloTi bA'AmencaiTsfiipsmie hill doe liOt go Into effect for fif teen months. .-'' 1 -- The Senate adjourned at 12:04 p. m- and the House at 12:29.' Washington, March 4.In turmoil, unprecedented congestion and a -jrtad' scramble to avoid An extra session, the Sixty-third Congress- record breaker In ' many 'xespects-rexpjred by limitation at tiOort today. With, an unusual record ; of; legis lation accomplished, bangs of gavels in the Senate and House sounded "taps" on th session- launched ' a : month after President ', Wilson' in auguration two years ago today, ' v The President went to his rooni .at the Capitol early to sign the last few bills before the . expiring . Congress, Crush pf belated business threatened invoking of the ' time-honored expe dient of stopping the' clock' hands hrortly before noon to enable' Cdh gress to clean up. ' " - 1 M; ? The usual -scenes of leave-tWrig, mixed with pathos and hilarity, were enacted, but tempered by the pressing demands f&f consideration of - real business, piled uport Congress during the last ten days because of the ship purchase bill filibuster.''. -:-i5 Government money was appropriat ed today ih the final rush at the rate of million an hour. Conference re ports on the appropriation bills,, held up the last minute, were hurriedly exchanged between the two houses and as hastily approved. Bustle and . excitement marked the closing hours of both houses.1 The full membership of both was present. - The turmoil - was more subdued in the Senate,' but scenes of hilarious : jollity marked the House proceedings. "Swan ftohgs" were sung by retiring members. Res olutions of felicity were given Speak er Clark and the party leaders. A costly oil painting of himself Was the ' members' gift to the "retiring Demo cratic Leader, Representative Under wood. " In time consumed the ' Congress ' which ended today smashed records. It had been in session 37 days. The pedal session called in April, 1913, leaped into the December session that year, which 'continued until last Oc tober, adjourning only five weeks be- (Continued on Page 3) business, failed to open ita doors this vantage of every possible protection ' And LaGrange will still have to morning. j and convenience. come to Kinston when it attends the Court, while the people of the remain der of the county outside of Kir ;on seemingly are not giving I.urj where they are tried.