Newspapers / The Kinston Free Press … / July 28, 1915, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Kinston Free Press (Kinston, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
"-s ...... ill:: DAILY FREE PRE! THETWEATlini YOL. XVII.-No. 82. SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. (WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1915. FOUR PAGES . PRICE TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS the ho::e PAPER 1 FURIOUS FIGHTING IN WEST; GAINS FOR DERM'NS AT WARSAW Teutons Wilhin 13 Miles of the Beleaguered City Today NEW FRENCH AIR SUCCESS t .. .. ..'" ' ' - : ' f T';,r- ........ - : ; . v Birdman Destroyed Turkish Aviation Station British Dirigible Explodes in . Hangar j ' Killing Three, Injuring Many (By the United Pre) " Paris, July 28-The battle for the tranches in the country around Sou chez has been resumed by, the Ger mans after a week's lull, Three furi ous charges occurred last night. The war office admitted that the Teutons penetrated the French trenches on a 20-yard front Soissons was heavily bombarded during the night A French aeroplane bombarded a Turkish avia tion camp north of Chanak, on, the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles, firing jangars and the gasoline depot, and j-'f ..causing big blaze that destroyed -$!rtijfounding buildings. . . V. f&stondon, July 28. Three were killed nd twenty injured in the explosion of Jian army dirigibW Inia hangar s in Wormwood Scrubs. ) They were most. ly mechanicians. It ia believed es- s caping gas was ignited by a cigar. -Eing Tightening Around JVarsaw. , , Berlin, July 28 The Germans clos . ed in .rapidly on .Warsaw during the last forty-eight hours.' The city is wo-ibirds i vfiurrounded. - Only , two railroads are open , for the v Russian retreat, . On the south .the Germans are attacking , along a forty-mile front within sixteen miles of the city. Obtains Commission In Flying Corps, But Won't Report Until End of the Year, He Saya To Buy a Ma chine From Qrville Wright to Take Across Water . New York; July 28. Vernon Cas tle, iha. noted dancer, has obtained a ' commission in the flying corps of the British. aTmy. H He' wiH jreport- in De cember, he said, file is going to Day ton to purchase a Wright aeroplane. THE LKSDN lMED IWES MUCH ' AS SEEM IN LONDON ; London, July 8. It took John Bull ten months to discover that what he needed most was a general lusi ness manager. Of course, he has learned several other lessons, among thorn: that it doesn't pay to conceal the truth; that the British people resent being treat ed like children; that they can stand bearing lad news, and that when" the situation is put before ' them with frankness they can actually be as pa triotic as Frenchmen or Germans.' ; But; the one big lesson which the Germans . have taught him is that ar nowadays is as much a business s it is a science. He has seen all the old theories of warfare upset He was "ot prepared for the change in styles. He had no idea the system of trench warfare would become so highly de veloped; that such an amount of high explosive' shells would become neces ry; that a preponderating supply of machine guns might'spell all the dif ference between success and failure; that the Germans would introduce nse of asphyxiating gas, liquid and oiner like" agencies hitherto "'Zrdii in the conduct of civil- ' - ! ci r. - T. ) bf cffSsMi,;s, JOIN ENGLISH ARMY FRANCE C CHICAGO TODAY PUT AWAY SIX HUNDRED THE EASTLAND DEAD S V.... ' .'. " v Federal Government' yill Prosecute "Relentlessly" Those Responsible for ,lje Tragedy On the River Sat : urday . '. ' - , (By tilt United Press) '-; ' Chicago, July 28 The "higher ups" blamed in the Eastland disaster will be relentlessly prosecuted by the Fed eral government regardless , of the action of the coroner's inquest, it was. sUted " todays ..j." .;,V '.' 'Under streaming skies Chicago to day buried 600 of its dead.? The bells of a hundred churches tolled. Flags were half -masted. . - SAYS WILSON DONT KNOW TALKING Berlin, July: 27-By wireless to Sayville, . N.: Y. Professor Eduard Heilfron, an authority on internation al law, commenting on an article ia Ter -Tage,in the American note to Germany says:, "The American note must produce indignation and great irritation. Pres ident Wilson's contention that Amer ican citizens may travel where their interests upon the high seas call them is absolutely untenable. I . "International law unconditionally acknowledges that neutrals do not possess absolute freedom of travel on the high seas in war time. , v "The Lusitania case concerns not a neutral -ship,' but a hostile ship of whica there were strong suspicions of her being turned into an auxiliary cru iser at any moment." TO CELEBRATE MOORE'S j . CREEK ANNIVERSARY. Burgaw, July 27. President Geo. J. Moore and Secretary C. D. Mur phy, of the Moore's Creek' Mattle Qround Association have, issued invi tations to the annual celebration on the battle ground, which will be held August 5th. BULLETINS SWEDISH SHIP TORPEDOED, " Copenhagen, July 28 The Swe dish bark, Madonna, en. route, from Halmustad to Hartlepool, ' was stopped by a German subma rine in-the North Sea, and fired after the crew had taken to the boats. BY ENGLAND IN THE TO DE HAUD'HUY, THE AS SEEN IN BERLIN : Berlin, July .28. Germany's j yeiar of war in the west has crippled France and shamed .the English. From the outset of the war, the Germans devel oped an initiative that gave them, a superiority .over their-' enemies, and since then, no effort of the French and British commanders, has been equal to the task of overpowering the num erically weaker Teutons. 2 Only once has Germany been supe rior in numbers to her western op ponents, according to the claim ot teutonic authorities. That was dur ing the rush through Belgium and to Paris. The superiority at that time was due 4o the slow mobilization ot the French and the breakdown of the English plans for hurrying a large ar my to the continent From the days of the Battle of the Marne, the Ger mans have had to fight with weaker forces, than their enemies, and yet never have" they been overwhelmed. The Germans taught the French and trenching; the Germans revealed the superiority of siege guns over the strongest fortresses; the Germans first discovered the modern' necessity for high powered shells and machine (Continued on Paee Two) REPETITION RUMOR ! TO ABANDON GORf TZ Spectacular Battles Tuesday Night Resulted In Victor ies ( forItaUfns Intense Heat Adds to the Soldiers Discomfort (By the United Press.) , Rome, July 28 In a series pf spec tacular night battlcB, the Italians mp- tured one position after ' another around Goritz. Dispatches today re peated a rumor that the Austrians are preparing to evacuate the fortress and city. " -',' The Austrians still hold the heights of Podgors and are pouring down a heavy fire on the Italians. For a fortnight the temperature has been from 00 to 100 degrees, the heat mak ing the fighting more terrible. " DESTROYERS PLAY HAVOC WITH TURKISH SHIPPING Russian Craft Destroyed 150 Vessels On Black Sea Porta Most Success ful Sally By Fleet Since the War Began Samsun and Riza Harbors Were Visited (By the United Press.) Petrograd, July 28. In the most successful raid upon Turkish shipping since the war began, Russian Black Sea destroyers sank 150 Turkish Bail ing vessels in the harbors of Samsun and Riza, and along- the coast of Trebizond. , 1 ' i SHOT WIFE TO DEATH; ( TRIED TO SUICIDE Rutherfordton,. July 27. John C. Souther, a jeweler, last night about midnight shot and killed his wife and cut his own throat inflicting such wounds that his physicians say he has only a fighting chance for his life. He used an automatic Colt's revolver in shooting his wife, firing four times In to her side and killing her instantly. Souther was under suspended sen tence to the chain gang for beating his wife. It is stated that at the time he took his wife's life he was drink ing. Mrs. Souther would have become a mother in three or four weeks. When you take your summer va cation, let your horns paper, The Free Proes follow you. Addresf changed as often as you desire. ; FIRST YEAR WORLD lONTHS; HERO OFARRAS AS SEENIN PARIS - Paris, July 28. When General de Maud'huy blocked the Kaiser's legions in their smashing drive for Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne, he scored)' for France one of the biggest victories of the first year of the great war. . The Germans even place this battle first in importance, and their verdict in this matter might well be taken, since they, better than anybody else, should know just what success there would have meant to them. ' Whatever else a victory of the Impe rial arms would have meant it would have brought them in sight of Eng land, the whole course of , the' war would have been changed and the re sult probably have been disastrous to the Allies' cause. ,,-'As it turned out. General de Maud' huy's success completely I used, op Germany's initial strength, or what was left of it after the Marne, length ened the battle front considerably and inaugurated the strength-sapping win ter campaign in the trenches, each of these a hard blow to the Teutonic hordes. Far not only were they doomed to months of immobilization when time was so valuable to them, but General Joffre. was given time to (Co'i'imiei on Par? Two) 0NArTERI25 U. S; DEPARTMLNT OF FLY EXTERMINATION - i , Recommends Use of Traps and (Seyeral Solutions for Killing Larvae Also Ad- ?es Scrqchin of flouscs and Especially All Food Stuffs u (By the United Press.) Washington, July 28. An educa tional crusade against the house fly in which every proper means of pub- licity'should be employed is urged by the DepartmenVof Agriculture. In a new Farmers Bulletin. No. 679, -it is stated that the danger from the house fly must be brought more forcibly home to the people .before health Of ficers can do effective work. By the expenditure, of sufficient pains, any one individual may prevent flies breeding on his premises, but . this will not rid. him of the danger, from flies if hjs neighbors are careless. There is, however, no excuse at the present time for permitting flies to breed in anything like the numbers in which they have done in the past The vast majority , of flies I develop from eerffs which ace laid in horse manure, and there are two' . ' simple ways of destroying the larvae, as the young inserts or maggots, which hatch from 'the; eggs are called. Sprinkling1 themanure heap with a solution prepared by addg ono-half pound of powdered hellebore, to 10 gallons of .water will destroy( accora in to recent experiments, from 88 to 99 per cent of the larvae in the manure. . If th, is not. done, the use of a" simple maggot trap will prte equally effective. By experiments carried on ty the Bureau of Entom ology of the U, S. Department of Ag- riculture at the Maryland Agricultu al College, it was found that th trap used there destroyed fully 99 per cent of all maggots or larvae breeding in i given lot of manure. ; ; Experience with maggot traps has irought out the fact that these are most effective when the manure is kept compactly heaped and well-; moistened. This is due to the lar vae's desire to find a comparatively dry place in which to pupate and, consequently, they crawl away from yet ; manure. Wherever, , possible, therefore, it is advantageous to pre serve all the liquid manure both in or der to moisten the .pile and because second place, the platform should not stand less than 1 foot above the con crete floor in order that tiie floor may be more , ' easily cleaned. . A third point Is that old manure does not at tract flies for ; breeding, A ; lot of: manure need remain on the maggot trap but ten days in order to. prevent any breeding taking place in it In cities and towns it is probable that the treatment of manure with hellebore will usually be found more advantageous. Ten gallons of the so lution already described, composed of one-half pound of powdered hellebore to 10 gallons of water and allowed to stand 24 hours, will be Sufficient for the treatment of 8 bushels or 10 cu bic feet of manure. The , hellebore does not alter the composition of the manure in any way and does not cause any injury to crops on whjch the lat ter is placed. i" Borax is perhaps even more effect ive in the killing of larvae than helle- bore, but borax has the disadvantage of exerting in large quantities an in jurious effect upon plants. , , While the use of maggot traps and the treatment of manure with helle bore or borax are most effective in reducing the number of flies, it is sot likely .that they will actually extermi nate the pests in any neighborhood. The precaution of screening windows and doors and in particular the pro tecting of all articles of food with fly-proof screens is, therefore, ur gently recommended by the Depart ment of Agriculture. Screening, of court,' has no effect upon the num ber of flies, but it does minimize the danger of infection. Comparatively few people realize how admirably adapted from its structure and habits the fly is to carry disease. The body of the house fly, and especially the Ict- are thick'y eoverel with hairs AMERICAN TO TAKE CHARGE OF AFFAIRS IN HAITI French Legation Threaten ed by Mob Seeking the Fugitive President . . WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER Port au ? Prince Governor Oscar H Lynched by Mob Angered . At ' the , ; Ex ecution of 160 Men Rev olutionists Active ' (By the United Press) Port Au; Prince, Haiti, July 28. French' outbursts are expected follow ing yesterday's rkt in which Presi dent Guillaume was forced to flee from his palace, and General Oscar, the municipal governor, was yitted. Crowds were harangued by various leaders during the night." The French embassy was surrounded and threat ened, when the President took refuge American, Naval Force On Way. X: Washington, July 28. The cruiser Washington, in command of Rear Ad miral Caperton,' was due at Port au Prince, Haiti, with an expeditionary force of a hundred marines and 700 bluejackets at noon, the State Depart ment announced.- He will land : a force if necessary to prevent fighting. J Washington, July 28. An unoffi cial report that President Guillaume of Haiti had been dragged from the French legation at Port au Prince by an infuriated mob and shot to death, could not be confirmed by the State Department this afternoon. ' - . Port Au Prince. Haiti, July 27. A revolution more terrible In the toll thus far taken than any even in the days of Nord Alexis, flamed out in the Haitien capital today. It was an offshot of the movement to the North, where the adherents of Dr, Rosalvo Bobo, twice expelled from Hiati, have been striving for several months to break the power of the Hai tien president, General Vilbrun Guil laume. One hundred and sixty men, includ ing a former president of Haiti, Gen eral Orestes Zamor, were executed by order of General Oscar, Governor of Port Au Prince, who later was drag ged from the shelter of the Dominican legation and riddled with bullets. . Soon word of the massacre of the political prisoners was circulated and a fierce wave of Indignation swept over the capital. Many, who had not originally been identified with the ris ing, took up arms. - The Dominican legation was invad ed and the governor of Port Au Prince paid the price with his life. DUPLIN COUNTY MAN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. V Warsaw, July 27. Mr. Geo. . West, residing several miles from here In th? Xanefield neighborhood, attempt ed suicide last night by swallowing strychnine. Physicians' , eqorU re lieved him and it Is thought he will mover. No motive is known for the attempted suicide. , and bristles. As the fly crawds over the decaying organic matter on which it likes to feed, these hairs readily pick up disease germs and carry them to the human foods which the fly sub- seyuently visits. The fly is eontinur ally passing from piles of refuse and filth to kitchens and dining rooms, and in each one of the journeys it can with the greatest ease bring with it the germs of any intestinal disease. Ty phoid, 'Asiatic cholera, dysentery, and infantile diarrhoea are among the di seases which are known to be trans mitted in this way, and there is very strong evidence that tuberculosis7 an thrax, opthalmia, smallpox and other diseases are carried through the same medium. It has also been , demon strated that not only are disease germs carried in this mechanical way upon the legs and body of the fly, but that these germs flourish abundantly witfOhe fly itself, and that they can be deposited by the fly upon human beings or upon (human food. The danger from the fly is greatly increased by the extraordinary rapid ity with which the insect multiplies. KITTRELL TURNED OUT ON Recorder Wooten Changed Roads Sen tence ef 49 Months Imposed - Oai Convicted Retailer Out of Compas sion for Family Dependents r Recorder Wooten, in the City Court, this morning revoked the .sentence totalling forty months against Geo. A. Kittrcll, convicted Monday after noon of having whisky in his posses sion for .Bale, retailing and false pre tense, and imposed Instead a fine of 400 and coats, about 38. " , Kittrell's relatives paid his fine and costs. , .. , The defendant was required to give promise to the court (that he would not bring any liquor into the city in the future. . l Compassion for Kittrell's family is believed to have actuated the court's decision for the change from the road sentence to the fine. " 0RIEOTAL 11AJJ.TIBNKS . HE CAN STOP TORPEDOES . Will Dixon, an Oriental man, has an invention which he claims will stop any torpedo fired at a ship a hundred yards off, and cause it to ex plode at a distance safe for the ship. He has tried it out with excellent re sults, on a small scale. Dixon, as a member of the naval reserve, studied torpedo . attack and defense on the battleship Kearsarge i -few days ago.' He disclosed ; hu idea to officers of the navy and and reserve, who were so impressed that they secured his promise to go before the General Navy Board." The naval militiaman says his in vention can be installed at a cost - of $5,000 on a ship,? and if the crew has eight seconds of time after a torpedo is fired,he' is absolutely certain the missile will never reach . its an ark. Dixon expects to be made rich by his project He will not give out any de tails of the invention before Wash ington authorities pass upon it SHORT NEW? ITEMS FROM THE NEIGHBORING TOWNS Miss Alice Bowman of Woodstock, Va., has been elected supervisor of Craven county's; primary schools. - W. Carroll Rodney has resigned as cashier of the New Bern Banking & Trust Co. He has not made known his plans for the future. - He will go to nis home in La-rel, Del., tempor arily, . k, , ,,. New Born's graded schools open September 27. , , A bad negro put a revolver to the head of a Washington policeman and pulled the trigger several, times. The gun failed to go off. The officer was caught unawares. The negro escap ed in darkness. Greenville's new auto fire truck was used at a fire on the first day in commission. , ' . , Mrs. R. L, Johnson, a well known Greenville woman, is dead. She was fifty-three years of age. . The National Bank of Greenville has opened for business in i new building. The three-year-old son of Mrs. E. S. Edwards, who lives at Arthur, is an inveterate smoker. The -child is afflicted with infantile paralysis, sus tained when a year old. He smokes cigars and refuses to have cheap ones. BREAKS THE PERIOD OF HIS MOURNING The President Attends a Lawn Party At Cornish Daughters, Mrs. Sayre and Miss Wilson, . Entertain at Summer Home for Neighbors and Other Friends' (By United Press) j. Cornish,y uly 28 The President to day broke the mourning period.' for Mrs. Wilson by attending an after noon tea and lawn fete at Harlaken den House. This -was the first social event he has attended in more than a year. ; Miss Margaret Wilson and Mrs. Jessie Wilson Sayre were the hostesses to their Cornish neighbors, other friends and the artist colony. Subscribe to the Fis rr.nss CLERK TO AMERICAN OFFICIAL AT BERLIN IS HELD PRISONER Reported He Helped , Eng lishman Escape From the , " German Authorities ' REPORT ON THE LEELANAU Submarine's Crew Treated American Ship's Men As , Well; As They. Could Gave Therna Tow for 50 Miles, Stated : , .,l . Washington, July 28. Harry I Wilson of Oregon, clerk to the Amer-' lean consul-general at Berjinw f has been anrested by thfi German authori ties on the Danish frontier on a tech nical charge. He was attempting to leave Germany without passports, but . tho' State Department said it Is under-' stood Wilson's real offense-was iss- ing ft passport to- an Englishman as an American, enabling him to evade : the German authorities. ' .. Wilson is not immune from the law of Germany. It ia believed here that , the offsnsa is grave.,,-The department : is Investigating. . It Is reported but ot confirmed that "Wilson is related to the President - It is believed he knew the Germans were after him, and was trying to leave the country when arrested. , , Page's Report on Leelajtaw. ,, The State Department joday receiv- ; ed a report from Ambassador Page at : -London, based on the British admiral ty report of theterpedpiaf f tha-Lee,. ., lanaww He said the, ship was flying the American flag. The crew vers , given a plenty of time to, leave the vessel.' The submarine, with the crew aboard, towing the boats, proceeded flfty miles toward the Orkney Islands, releasing the crew when a ' . steamer appeared, " ' , Organized labor will back the con gressional fight for government man- ufacture, of munitions of. war. The support of many congressmen holding union cards is expected., Amsterdam, . July 26v German pa pers mention in the latest lists of cas ualties the deaths oi) three direct des cendants of General Blucher, who commanded the Prussians' in the Bat-. tie of Waterloo. . s ' ' PSYCHOLOGISTS, HERE'S A CASE FOR YOU TO SOLVE. F, J. Weathersby, an elderly New Bernian and fine old-time gentleman, sat on the porch of the hotel at Grif ton in which he was stopping . the other day, and suddenly was compell- v ed to remove his spectacles because of a blur that had come on the right lens. : ,. . , s ,;.:: Mr. Weathersby started to erase the blur when something about , it . caught his eye. Then Iieartstringa stretched across hundreds of leagues ' twanged- painfully. Plainly as . if were written with a- magic : pencil ' were the Initials, F. B. W. The in itials were those of F. B. Weathers by, a son of the New Bern man. The . young Weathersby, afflicted with tu berculosis, has been in Colorado ' for. the past eight years. The day be fore the "premonition" or , whatever : it was, Mr. Weathersby had a letter ' from him. "I have had a bad week; : I don't think I will survive the year," wrote the patient ,' . . f. J Weathersby la one of. New : Bern's bset known citizens. No one there ever doubted his veracity, it Is said. He declared that the "hand writing" was unmistakably his son's. Mr. .Weathersby had not even . been thinking of the young man for the time, but haeb en r . . .' . time had been reading a story in a magazine.'' '.';.-; '',.'. ''-. . "I tiavs . believrd least of all men, ia the supernatural,'' the New Frn man said. "I never law a toit or anything of the kind in my L';, Put I would certainly like for sore r y- chologist to ex'-'ain V $ fri Ko ,telc-"-n 1 ' ; 1 ! f - his cA"-e 1 3 ) ' ' t.
The Kinston Free Press (Kinston, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 28, 1915, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75