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TtMnr '. JHP jWEAJHR PUBLISHED EU&.RV HFTERNOON EXCBPT SUNDRY, VOL. XVI No. 2 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. G, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1915 SIX PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENT3 FREE TOUR HOME PAPER 101 Q " t - ' . i 1 ". RUSSIANS ARE NOW merman CITY, IS ADMITTED Memel, in the Northeastern Part of Empire, In Invad ere' Possession. HARD FIGHTING IN WES' Violent Bombardment by the Germans Near Mesnil Artillery Duel Along the Aisne Germans Claim Progress. (By the United Press.) Berlin. March 20,The war office has officially announced the Russian occupation of the German Baltic sea port of Memel. Russians Will Not Deny Nor Confirm Oceuoation. Petrograd, March 20. The Rue sian general staff continues to remain silent retarding the movement of Kus sian troops who crossed the Prussian border, and are now said to occupy the' Baltic eeaport of Memel. The war office refuses to either deny or confirm the report. Violent Artillery Fighting in West Paris,' March 20. The French are resisting a violent bombardment and infantrv attacks northeast of Mesnil A brisk artillery battle is in progress along the Aisne. Germans Gain In Champagne Region, claims; the capture of a group of Berlin.' March 2d. The war office claims the capture f a group of houses from the British near St. Eldi and slight gains in the Champagne district. COURT UPHOLDS WOMAN NOTARY'S APPOINTMENT Asheville, March 19. Announcing a decision in favor of Mrs. Nolan Knight of this city, the first female notary named by Governor Craig uh der the recently enacted law provid ing for the appointment of women, to office of notary public, Judge James L. Webb, presiding at the present term of the Buncombe county supe rior court, declared that the law is constitutional. The case was insti tuted against Mrs. Knight as a test case,, being brought by Solicitor J, . E. Swain, acting for the Attorney General of North Carolina. Immedi ately following the announcement of the decision of the judge of the Supe rior Court, the State gave notice of an appeal. LOCAL BASEBALL TEAM LOST SEASON'S FIRST The local high' school baseball team was defeated in the first game of the season for both aggregations by the New Bern Highs in that city Friday afternoon. The score was 13 to 6 The game was snappy. In the first inning New Bern scor cd one, in the second they scored sev en, in the fifth two and in the, eighth three. Kinston scored one in the third, four in the seventh and one in ' the ninth. " The batteries wefti, Kinston, Fields and Tyndall; New Bern, Willis and Scales. - " MISSIONARIES CAME - FftOM INTERIOR AFRICA Davidson, March 19. An interest ing visitor here ; this week is Rev4 Charles Crane,' class of 07, who with .his wife, prior . to marriage. Miss jLoufae Dixon, of Hickory, reached 5 America from Luebo,' Africa on the th of March. They landed at New . York, 'sailing from Lisbon, whither , they came direct from Matadi, on the west coast of Africa. .They made the trip down the Kassal river,1 'froni Xae bo, 900 miles,' in seven day's to Leo poldville at Stanly Poot.;v-:' CONSTANTINOPLE ADMITS SINKING ALLIES SHIPS Irresistible and Ocean of British and Bouvet of French Squadrons Tor pedoed Admitted Slight Dam age to Turk Earthworks (By the United Press.) Constantinople. (Via Berlin, Wire less to London, March 20. The Turk ish war office has confirmed the report of the sinking of the French warship, Bouvet, and the British warships Ir resistible and Ocean, in Dardanelles Strait. The ships were torpedoej The Turkish earthworks, on the strait were only slightly damaged. How Ships Were Torpedoed Not Understood. London, March 20, The Admiralty is at a loss to explain the Turkish of ficial claim that the Bouvet, Irresisti ble and Ocean were torpedoed. The Queen Elizabeth took a lead ing part in the bombardment of the Turkish forts, exploding the maga zine in Fort Chanak. The guns were unharmed, however. Bouvet'a Survivors Only 61 Paris, March 20. The French min istry of marine announced today that only 64 of the crew of 630 were saved when the Bouvet sunk in the Darda nelles. Was British Admiral Killed? London, March 20. Athens dis patches strengthen the belief that Ad miral Garden was wounded or killed in Thursday's battle in the Darda nelles. More than 50, including sev eral officers were killed on the flag ship Inflexible during the action. DESTRUCTION OF THREE SHIPS IS ADMITTED London, March 19. The British battleships Irresistible and Ocean and the French battleship"" Bouvet were blown up by floating mines while en gaged with the remainder of the Al lied fleet in attacking the forts in the narrows of tha Dardanelles Thursday, the Admiralty officially states. Virtually all of the crews of the two British ships were, saved, hav ing been transferred to other ships under a hot fire, but an internal ex plosion took place on board the Bou vet after she had fouled the mine and most of the crew was lost. The Bou vet sank three minutes after she hit the mine. The damage done to ' the Turkish fort3 by .the heavy bombardment has not been ascertained. It is stated that operations against them are contin uing. The Irresistible was commanded by Captain the Hon. Stanhope Hawke, and in times of peace earned a com plement o f780 men. She was the largest of the three allied battleships sunk, being of 15,000 tons displace. ment and 430 feet long. The Ocean was commanded by Cap tain Arthur Hayes-Sadler and had a crew of 750. She was 418 feet long and of 12,950 tons displacement. The Bouvet, 12,000 tons, was laid down in 1893. Her complement was 621 men. FIRST ALLOW WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE, SAYS SUFFRAGETTE ' A i Mrs. Pankhurst Believes They Should Have Men's Privileges If They Are to Do the Work of Men Women Make Proposal (By United Press) London, March 20. Replying to the request of officials for "an indus trial mobUisation of women," Sylvia Pankhurst, ; the ' militant suffragette leader, declared that the government should grant women the vote at once. Twenty-five thousand women have already answered the government's appeal and registered'at the labor ex change. : In., London;. 10,000. ; women have already offered to take the places of men needed at the front CITrDE PRIMARY DATE APL. 6 In Session 'Friday After noon Run-Off Primary If Necessary April 10 Mayor's and Recorder's Assessments Stated The City Democratic executive committee met in the Courthouse late Friday to set the date for and draw up the regulations for the coming municipal primary, on April 6. and in event there should be a tie for may or, recorder or second place for al derman in any of the wards, another primary on the Saturday following, the 10th. The primary will be con ducted from sunrise to sunset, with the polling places in the Courthouse. The entrance fees for candidates were placed at $3 for mayoralty can didates, $3 for recordership candi dates and $2 for aldermanic candi dates. Mr. Jesse Heath, committeeman from the Third ward, being a candi date for alderman, tendered his res ignation as a member of the commit tee. It was accepted. The two candidates for councilman in each ward receiving the largest votes will be declared the nomincse but in the event that there is a tie for second place the selection will be made at a second primary. The committemen present at the meeting were Chairman P. S. B. Har per, W. A. Mitchell, A. W. Taylor, W. T. Cox, and C. W. Pridgen. Mr. Mitchell acted as secretary. GERMAN PHYSICIANS RISK LIVES TO COMBAT PLAGUE Scores of Doctors Have Volunteered to Enter Detention Camp Where Russian Prisoners Are Suf fering from Spotted Fever (By the United Preu.) Berlin, March 20. At risk of their lives, scores of German physicians have volunteered to combat the plague of spotted fever which has broken out in the concentration camp of Russian prisoners. Seven German doctors have already fallen victims of the fe ver. (By the United Press.) GERMANS LOST 6,000 AT NEUVE CHAPPELLE. Berlin, March 20. The war of fice has announced that the Ger man losses in the recent fighting at Neuve Chappelle were 6,000. This contradicts the estimate of General French, the British com mander, of 17,000 to 18,000. TAFT COMPLIMENTS WILSON'S SANENESS Chapel Hill, Mar. 19. What might be interpreted as a contrasting view between the diplomacy and saneness outstanding in the policy of President Wilson, and the policy of Roosevelt to usurp any power not clearly spec ified by statute, . was presented by former President William Howard Taft here tonight1 His method of ef fective contrast was b? Citing illus trations in the settlement of large gauged disputes. When President Wilson was called upon to negotiate a settlement in the Colorado strike, the miners put a pro position to this effect: "We ask you to close the mines and unless you do and station soldiers here we are go ing to create disorder." President Wilson recognized the injunction on ly in part, stationing troops that were later"' withdrawn. The ' diplomacy worked admirably, Was the conclus ion of Professor Taft" BULLETINS TEACHING MUST BE ELEVAp TJITS RIGHTFUL PLACE BY THE TEACHERS, THEMSELVES, Dr. R. H. Wright of East Carolina Teachers' Training School and Dr. E. W. Kn culty Addressed Teachers noir's Educational Day" School Auditorium This Have More Pay Dr. Robert H. Wright, president of the Eaat Carolina Teachers' Training School at Greenville, declared in an address to more than a hundred city and county teachers, committeemen and others in the auditorium of the Peyton avenue school building this morning that the compensation of teachers in North Carolina on an ave rage is lower than the rate of hire for State convicts. He compared their pay with that of the average negro cook in Greenville; the cooks are better treated, he opined. The occasion was Lenoir county's "Educational Day," arranged for by Prof. Joseph Kinsey, county superin tendent. The audience was satisfae torily large, and an interested one. The schoolma'ame came from every district and nearly every school of the county. Trustees of the Kinston schools, Superintendent Caldwell of the city schools, Miss Hattie Parrc'.., the assistant county superintendent, and principals and committeemen were in the gathering. Dr. Wright is probably Eatft Caro lina's best known educator. His ad dress was principally to the teachers, and he .talked! plainly in criticizing their shortcomings, but did not fail to give them credit for things achiev ed and their effort for further prog ress. "Why, in Washington, D. C, the dog catcher's salary is $1,500 a year," he stated. "The pay of the average teacher in the city is not half that much." Dr. Wright said he believed the teaching profession should be ra'.jed to the level it deserves in the State; LIVING CHEEKTO JOWL WITH DEAD MEN IN THE FOREIGN By Phil Rader (Written for the United Press) Copyrighted 1915 by the Un'.ted Press London, March 1. There's a Ger man's body hanging from tho barbed wire entanglements in front of the French trenches, which I have just left. For two months this ijndy wia part of my little outlook o he world. There's a pair of niopers in the rot ting hands. For some weeks thu bacK was arched upward, but recently it has begun to sag. The clothes flap more and more wildy each day a the body slowly shrivels. Nobody from either side has been able to pot to that body to bury it It is buried there in the air on the barbed wire, and will be gradually shot away. Living cheek to jowl with dead men ; that's the thing that turns you to a beast, but it's a part of trench life that is unavoidable. .The first thing that shock's, you in the trenches is to discover that after a time you are able to watch men writhing in pain with perfect equanimity. My first experience in this happened one day when a young Englishman, in my squad, named Samuels, tried to take a short cut to the rear and, instead of following the maze of trenches, got out into the open right in front of our trench. A German bullet passed through his lungs, and we saw him topple only fifteen feet away from us. He writhed and moaned, but our officers wouldn't let us try to get him. The Germans didnt shoot at him any mors, because they knew they had "landed" him. Our lieutenants sent to another part of the trenches for a Red Cross man, who came, after a boat , ik hour. . This Red Cross doctor was a . young Swiss named Scherr.- 'He j climbed right out of the trench and Y Ight of Trinity College Fa of City, and County at "Le Exercises Held at Graded Morning Teachers Should it should be legally classified as profession. He commented on the oft-repeated assertion of the layman that teachers are not practical, and have no common-sense. . But they have, he assertd. "The teacher is the link that holds our people to civilize tion," he said. "The President of the United States is a true teachar." Outlining methods, the noted edu cator described a visit to a school in Eoston, where a teacher was enfrflR'H in instructing her class in civil g.iv eminent at the time of his visit. The instructress was almost as tall us he, he said, (Dr. Wright is rather above the ordinary man in hoight), which elicited a smile from his audience, and fully as broad as she was tall. She lacked the snap that he likes to see in a teacher the snap that is ab solutely essential in getting the best there is in them out of the' children. Why, the woman honestly didn't know a thing about citizenship, he observed. She thought that to be a citizen qpe must be of the masculine gander and 21 years of age. All that Dr. Wright got out of bis visit was that the teacher didn't know what. she was talking about He told how he thought the three "r's" should be taught, and explained that geogra phy, which he added, was not merely a study of maps, as some teachers in sisted upon making it, but a study of peoples, occupations, and the things that they dealt in which we are com mercially interested. "We should know especially a lot ajxmt South America now," he said, referring to the broadening trade 'relations be (Continued on Page 4) LEGION'S EXPERIENCE started toward the writhing figure of Samuels, but a bullet passed through his head, and, after flopping about a minute or two Scherr's body stiffened, and we could see he was dead. This was three o'clock in the afternoon, Whenever we tried to get out to help Samuels the Germans turned a ter rific fire our way, and though we could even hear Samuels groaning we couldn't get to him. It was not until dark that we could do anything. Then Victor Chapman, of New York, a Harvard man, who was studying ar chitecture in Paris, when the war broke out, made a lasso with a piece of rope, and before long he had brag ged both bodies into the trench. Sam uels was dead. Experiences like this hardened us and finally we got to the place where, if a man was killed or wounded, he was blamed for carelessness. When Visconcellos, a merchant of Paris, was killed with a rifle bullet through his head. While peeping about the trench, Lieutenant Francais, who conducted the funeral ceremony, said to us as we stood over she grave: "This is a lesson for you young men to take to heart ' - You, must not be careless." Think of that as part of a funeral service. , Most of the divisions of infantry men who spent five-day watches in the trenches, during the forty-seven consecutive days that I Was there with the machine gun squad, buried their dead right in the trenches.. Some times they scooped out a grave in the side of the trench. " Or. sometimes they would dig a grsve in the floor of the trench. They would not know, of course where other divisions, buried their dead, so it Was no uncommon . (Continued on Taje 2) S AID SPEAKERS TODA NEW YORK ALSO EXPECTS DROP IN FOOD PRICES Argentine Beef and Batter Crowding Out Domestic Products in Cold Storage Houses, and Ameri can Apples Tske Room (By the United Press.) New York, March 80. Reports from here agree with Chicago reports that a big decline in the prices of but-' ter, eggs, and other coir storage pro ducts is imminent, due to crowded conditions of cold storage houses fill ed with Argentine beef, American ap ples and large importations of but ter from Argentine. WRONG OSBORNE WAS BEING SUED BY GIRL New York. March 19. James W. Osborne, the millionaire lawyer for merly of Charlotte, N. C, being sued by Miss Rae Tanzer for $50,000 in breach of promise action, was today vindicated when the real "Oliver Os borne" came from Boston and admit ted that he was the man whom James W. Osborne had been mistaken for by the young woman. Oliver Osborne appeared in the attorney's office late this afternoon, bringing with him tet ters, photographs and other proof of mistaken identity between himself and the former North Carolinian, and supporting James W. Osborne's as sertions that he had never seen the girl in question. LEAPS TO HER DEATH FROM FIFTH ROOR Mrs. Ellen H. Henney, Short .Story Writer, Delirious From ,Forr,; s Meets Tragic DeathWas A -Magazine Editor (By the United Press.) ' New York, March 20. Mrs. Ellen H. Henney, the short story writer and magazine editor, sister of the State excise commissioner, leaped to her death from her bedroom window on the fifth floor of a building during de lirium from typhoid fever today. MRS. ANGLE NOT GUILTY OF BALLOU'S MURDER Bridgeport, Conn., March 19. Mrs. Helen M. Angle was found net guilty of manslaughter by a jury in crimi nal court here late today, She was accused of having caused the death of Waldo R. Ballou at Stamford or the night of June 23 last. LEWIS PRAISES WILSON TO MISSOURI SOLONS. Jefferson City, Mo., March 19. A review of the administration's record, praise for President Wilson and de nunciation of Republican leaden and policies were included in the speech pi Senator Lewis tonight, at a banquet of Democratic members of the Mis souri Legislature. liOLDS THE FEDERAL GAME LAW A MATTER OF STATE'S RIGHTS -.. it United States Judg? Pollock Decides That the ; Act Is Unconstitutional Agri cultural Department .in terested in the Appeal. . (By the United Press.) Topeka, Kansas, March 20. De claring game laws a matter bf 'State's "rights," Federal district Judge Pollock today decided .the fed eral migratory bird statute unconsti tutional. ' .; " ' An appeal from a similar decision is now in the Supreme Court, and of ficials of the Department of Agricul- . , . ... i i ture expect a favorable decision in May. - v UNITEOOTESIJAY BE JNSAME jpj AS MSOflEJISlE 1 Naval Officers Advise Coins Slow: In Making Protest Against blockade HEAR EXPRESS COMPANIES Interstate. Commerce Com mission Orders Case Con cerning Rates and Prac tices Re-Opened In Ac cord With the Appeal (By the United Press.) Washington, March M. tfhe offl and cials of the State Department,. White House are restrained bl mak Ing protest note to .tfingJand oh acTrf; count of the German blockade for fear the United States will some day be forced into the same position.-The administration baa teen, warned by naval pincers that ehang4 conditions must be taken into account,' ' Express Companies to Havtt Bearing. The Interstate Commerce Commis-eion- has ordered a teopehifttf of the matter ef express ,eempniiiesV.te ' and practices petitioned 'lor by, tha companies on ground of sustaining losses under new ndea. ;' V Many Thoussnds WoeM Work Oa Alaskan Railway. . ' WeAfcs:":' iivtA soppiu cants for work oh the projected Alas kan Railroad are more numerous than Alaska's entire white population, taid Chairman des of the .Railroad Com mission today. t v i ; . ; C F. Adams Diet in Washington. Charles Francis Adams, ii, former ' president of the Union Pacific, 4id at his home here today. . " ABOUT 6 GALLONS BOOZE SWIPED FROM EXPRESS GO. Local Office Entered Some Time Fri day Night and Whisky Paekkges Together With Small Quan tity of Small Change," ( An Unknown party, or parties, rob bed the Southern Express office on North Queeh street early this morn ing, or just before midnight Friday night Fur packages of whiskycon taining in all about six gallons, and about $2 ih pennies aad nickels Were taken. , The money , was left in, the cash drawer by the force before shut ting up Friday night, ; ( Entrance was had through a '.rear side window. The wire screen wee removed from the window, a panel of gtass' smashed, a nand was inserted, and the window unlocked an4 'nails Which had been used to reinforce the lock removed. . , ' There have, been no clues .' and no arrests made. AGED CATHOLIC 'BISHOP .ACUARDl DEAD W ROLIE (By the United Press.) London, March 20. Cardinal Ag liardi, aged 83, titular. or, nominal) Bishop of Albsno a dead eay vRome dispatches. . ; , ' . SPELLING EE AT - r;, mc?oRYt dR0yE. Hickory drove achoothousi Friday night was the scene of a spirited spelling bee in which fourteen f the ereck' spellers ' contested for y two boxes of chocolate,, offered by . lira. James G. Mehegan. The winners waro pisses, Linsa Mosingo and Ma-. ry Elmore. .The large attendance en- )oyed a concert by the Lenoir Con cert Company following the spelling match. Professor Mehegan mads an appeal for contributions, to t' sifund being raised by the local T" ,'.tera of the Confederacy for.a r " nert here, " , - I a ,; Sit' 'Ml 1 X r t ft. i" h& if- Li r
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