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SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. Cn MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1915 FOUR PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS -FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS ANOTHER JPP ALLIES EVERYWHERE OESPERATE HEN ATTEMPT TO HOLIf UP CAPTAIN SAYS THAT TWENTY-SIX OF CITY SCHOOL TEACHERS CANNON, AYDEN MAN SHIP IS Tffl BY SEEM TO BE HAVING CASHIER IN DOVER BANK; SCARED OFF I LONG M, HAS BEST OF SITUATIONS BY PATRONS; HEAD; ED TOWARD KINSTON SUNK LINER AIONA IN MOONLIGHT WORK DECIDED TO RETUP VOL. XVII. No. ;1G3 "Genesee Seized and Car ried Into fort at St. Lu da, West Indies THE ZHISKDIA HOLD UP Cruiser Iris Searched Ship Within Mexican Three -Mile .Limit, Official Re , ports Say Representa tions to London Govt. -' (By the United Press) Washington, Nov. 22. Reports es tahliflhjng the fact that the American ship Zealaiidia was searched by the craw of the British cruiser Iris inside J the three-mile limit off Progresso, in Mexico, were received at the fetate Department "', today from American consul Germon and the commander of the. battleship' Kentucky, as well as Me$C8n port' authorities. The re ports will be made the basis for rep resentations to England. There will be a further investiga tion -when the Zealandia arrives at New York. Aewvtean Ship Seized In West Indies. American Consul Livingston at Barfeadoes today wired the State De partment of the Seizure of the Am eriqan hip, Gennesee, at St. Lucia, Brijtish West Indies, by the British authorities. The reason is not dis closed . Genessee's Owners Protest . New York, Nov. 22 The American Transatlantic Company, owners of the v. . .1 . p. j-. .i ... ' . . i. . Al attln'a nnSsurn wlt.Vi fha jifafo Donnrf. ment. The. ship was on the British Black lst' on the suspicion that she was bought with German money. A British cruiser toojc her to St. Lucia. AOTER PiER TURNS DOWN PATRONAGE GJp.be, influential Sheet of London, .Won't Accept Automobile Manufac . urer'a Advertising Because of His Opposition Jo the - Anglo-French Loan In This Country Recently (By the United Press.) London, Nov. 22. Following , the example of the Northcliffe publica tions, and other papers, the Globe has refused Ford automobile adver tisements on account of Henry Ford's attitude ' ' Joward , the Anglo-French loan in America. ? The Admiralty to day denied the German claim that England is using transports as Hos pital ships. VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY, IN THE POLLARD CASE A jury in criminal court at Green ville Saturday after 6 6'clock, fol lowing comparatively short deliber ation, rendered a verdict of not guil ty in the case.pfS.JH. Pollard form ei; Fgrmyyie druggjstyM&ho was accus ed of' the- tnur.(ef in the latter town of Chief of Police Smith' early in 1914. ' The verdict was not a surprise. Jdge W. M. Bond's charge, it is said, Intimated that the policeman might have overstepped . his authority .in trespassing on the premises of Pol lard, believed by the authorities at the,, time to be running 'a gambling joint and selling whisky. ; Pollard ..was on trial for the sec ond time, Following conviction, and a (ive-year sentence, he asked for a new trial and secured it i 3 J lUtiit.) Ayden has reorganized its Cham ber of Commerce. Norman O. V" en cashier of tba & Trust Co, to 'ren has been chos ,re3nville Banking " J C. S. Carr, ' .as been with res:; fed. V, the L6! Serbs Claim Victory That French Exnerts Hesitate to Credit THE ITALIANS FIGHT HARD Anglo-French Are Pressing Matters at Dardanelles- Central Powers Report Little Success Serbian Rear Guard Defeated (By the United Press) Paris, Nov. 22. The Serbs have crushingly defeated the Bulgarians at Leskoyac, the Serb Legation today announced. The story is deemed im possible in military circles, on account of the large force of Bulgarians op posing the Serbs. The Serbs claimed that they inflicted heavy losses upon the Bulgars and that the latter re treated in disorder. Tremendous Offensive" at Dardanelles. Rotterdam, Nov. 22. The Allies have begun a tremendous offensive at the Dardanelles, said a Constantino ple dispatch to the Koelnisclie Zee- itung today. Fierce Hand-to-Hand Fighting Around Goritz. Zurich, Nov. 22. Fighting with ba yonets and knives, the Italians and Austrians are engaged in a hand-to- hand struggle on the Doberdo Pla teau, according to Swiss correspond ents. The struggle today centered about the Goritz bridgehead. Italian artillery is sweeping the Austrian side of the river day and night.' -The Ital ians are charging several times a day. The losses of both sides have been enormous. Serb Rear Guard Defeated. Berlin, Nov. 22. "Have repulsed the Serbian rear guard, in the Ibar Valley and captured 2,000 or more, is the claim of the German War Of fice today. WAR TRUST MEN ARE IN THE NAVY LEAGUE ,Will AsK Congressional In vestigation, Says Illinois Representative League Officials Demand Specific es Morgan, et ai. (By the United Press.) Washington Nov, 22 Represen tative Tavenner of Illinois today an nounced that he will ask Congress to investigate a report that alleged war trust magnets are connected with the Navy League. Col. Robert M. Thomp son, secretary of the league, has de manded that Tavenner, make specific charges, "" . ; - - .'' i Mr, Tavenner declared that Mor gan and others will be asked to tell how much they profited bf war con tracts, as the Navy League is un- friendly to government manufacture of munitions of war. , H STILL DOUBTFUL Allied Warships Searching Greek Merchantmen - In Mediterranean, However Which Leads to ,' BelieT That , Coasts Have'. Already Been Blockaded While Negotiations Are Continuing. Paris, Nov. 22. The outcome of the entent and Germanic powers' struggle for the control of Greece's Balkan policy is doubtful. Unoffi cial news that' Allied warships are searching Greek merchantmen in the Mediterranean .is : interpreted as meaning that a literal Mockale of (irotk porta has been establL-A-jJ. Two Bandits Would Have cial Institution Had Not ment Fled In Automobile Over Central Highway With Kinston Possible Destination Plan to Arrest Them Here Holdup In Hour Telephone Wire Had Only Information Available This Afternoon A message received over the Nor folk Southern Railroad's private wire this afternoon said a bold daylight attempt was made shortly after noon today to rob the bank at Dover, nine mines east of Kinston. Two strange man entered the bank and held up the cashier at the points of revolvers, said the report, which was said to have come from a reliable source. The public line from here to Dover was out of order and the story could not be substantiated. The holdup would have been suc cessful had not patrons entered the bank while it wns in progress. The bandits lost their nerve with the en trance of the others and fled. They had already demanded the money in the cashier's keeping, and would prob ably have succeeded in getting it. The robbers left Kinston thii morning at 10:20 o'clock in the car owned by W. II. Murphy, the well- known colored grocer, and driven, by Claud Nunn. Murphy maintains his car for hire, and the men, whom he describes: One being about forty-five years of age and rather small of sta ture, and the other about 47 years old, of large build and wearing brown clothes. The large man was the "master of ceremonies," according to both Murphy'lnd Nunn. an'ifhandledl his gun in such a way as to convince Nunn that he had better do what he was told to do. The car was hired a little after ten o'clock and the men said they wanted to go to Dover to a land sale. They agreed to pay four dollars for the trip down. They left here, according to Nunn, about 10:20 o'clock this morning and arrived in Dover a little after eleven. Just be fore reaching the town, they forced Nunn to drive into the woods and at the point of the gun, to take off his license number, which is N. C. 11151. After that they drove into Dover and up to the bank. A policeman was in the bank at the time and they ordered Nunn to drive out in the woods and there they stbyed until about one o'clock. Then they had the car driv en to the front of the bank again and the larger man' of the two alighted STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN KITCHIN, CONCLUDED FROM SATURDAY'S PAPER I fear that neither the President nor the Secretary of the Navy, with their other manifold duties, have not possibly had the time to give the de tailed study and thought to the sub ject which many of us have. I re call that the President in his letter of July 21st, to tho Secretary of the Navy, (which, by the way, I had not seen until some time after my letter in. September to the New York World), asked for advice of naval ex ports, saying: "I want their advice, a program by them formulated in the mosit definite terms." I cannot help believing that the military and naval experts have badly advised and misinformed both the President and the Secretary of the Navy. Naval" officers or experts are not competent judges of the policy which this coun- try should pursue. Their very train- ing of thought and their ambition are to see only one function of the Gov- eminent that of the navy. They know what will gratify their arobi- , tion. They know what they wanti From the time a man enters Anna polis, as long, as, he. lives, his ambi- tion is ' to command battleships, the magnificent floating sea palaces and battleship fleets. This consumes his thought. It is natural, therefore, and inevitable that he should consider the needs of the country in accordance with fc; and ambition. The naval iow how to build or (ContinueJ on Parre Taken Money in Keeping Offi Patrons Entered at the Mo Broad Daylight After Noon Out of Order, Railroad Office and went immediately into the bank and covered the cashier, while the other man sat in the car and kept the gun on Nunn, One or two patrons of the bank appeared and this seem ed to frighten the man on the inside and he iran out just as the cashier was in the act of .getting the cash for him. He jumped into the car and ordered Nunn to "beat it." He did and made no stop until he was about three miles from the scene of the at tempted hold up, where he was halt ed and the men made their get-away into a thick clump Of woods. Nunn hurried on to Kinston and reported the affair. He put his li cense number on -after arrival here. The men had planned the robbery, for they told Nunn or said said in his presence that they had already been down to Dover and gotten the lay of the land. Officers are searching for them, but nothing further had been heard at the time of going to press. BULLETINS (By the Uni,ted Press) TURKISH TRANSPORT SUNK; FIVE HUNDRED LOST. , London, Nov. 22. A' Turkish transport, carrying 500 Otto man soldiers, has been sunk by a mine in the Sea of Marmosa, according to a Zurich central ' . news dispatch. Nearly all were drowned.. TWO BRITISH SHIPS " SUBMARINED. London, Nor. 22. The British steamships Merganzer, 1,900 tons, and Hallamahire, 4,420 tons, have been sunk by German ' submarines. The crews were . saved. Randall Long, the negro who sev eral months ago shot Flagman Irving Shaw on the Norfolk Southern Rail road at Newport, has been arrested in Virginia. He is to ibe tried at Boaufort. superintend the building of ships and how to fight them when built. That is his .thought, his profession, his am bition. Since the General Nayy Board was established in 1903, every Presi dent and every Secretary of the Na vy, except one, has recognized these propensities and limitations of the naval officers or- naval experts and every President since 190.1, since the Naval Board's first recommenda tions, and every Secretary, except one, until now, have rejected and de clined to accept their recommenda tions, and no Congress has ever yet' approved them. Mr. Roosevelt did not accept them. Only one. of his secretaries, Mr., Metcalf, did.; Neith- er did Mr. Taft, nor his Secretary of th? Navy, accept their recommenda- tions at any time ..during his four years' term. Both Mr. Wilson and Mr. Secretary Daniels, in, 1913, de- clined again to accept their expert opinions in 1914, five months after the European War had begun. They both opposed their recommendations, and so did Admiral Fletcher, the highest active officer in the Navy, commander of the Atlantic fleet But how the papers denounce me as an "idiot," as a "traitor to my country, to my party and to the Administra tion." if I do not swallow at one gulp the recommendations of the naval experts, because the President and his Secretary of the Navy,' for the first time, acct i'-em. Three) Lansing Discredits Report. Austrians Have Accepted the Responsibility WILSON BUSY ON MESSAGE To Submit It to Cabinet On Tuesday Mayflower Will Not Be Used for Presi dential Honeymoon Sea sickness Feared by Both (liy the United Press.) Washington, Nov. 22, -The Census Bureau today reported 8.777,791 bales of cotton ginned from the 1915 growth to November 14, compnred with 11,608,2-10 bales in 1914. Ancona Captain's Report Discredited. A German submarine sank the An cona, and not an Austrian, according to the report of Captain Massardo of the Ancona, cabled the State Depart ment today by Ambassador Page at Rome. Lansing discredited the state ment. He said the Austrians had practically admitted, the nationality of the submarine by assuming res ponsibility for the sinking of the An cona. No action will be taken until receipt of the report of Ambassador Penfield at Vienna. ' The captain also said the Ancona was shelled after she had stopped, while lowering lifeboats. President Finishing Message. The President is spending the day finishing his message to Congress for submittal at the cabinet meeting tomorrow. It is expected to deal al most exclusively with "preparedness." He has received a reply-from Sena tor Gallinger, Republican leader, agreeing for a-conference on the pre paredness issue. The White House today intimated that the yacht Mayflower will not bo used for the presidential "honeymoon. ear of seassickness is understood to be the cause, ATTACKS ON CANADA PLANNED BY GERM'N RESERVISTS, STATED Cleveland, Buffalo and De troit Alleged Bases, Says Embassy Nothing ' to Base Complaint On The Conspirators' On Trial (By. the United Press.) Washington, Nov. 22. Cleveland, Buffalo and Detroit today were re ported to the British embassy as bases for attacks on Canada by Ger man reservists, the embassy announc- It was stated nothing was dis covered that would warrant protest to the State Department. ew York Alleged Conspirators On Trial. New York, Nov. 22. Karl Buenz, former German consul-general in Now York, and other officials and em ployes of the Hamburg-American line went on trial this morning before Federal Judge Jlowe on the charge of fraudulently , conspiring : to furnish supplies to German commerce raid ers. lOTTON PRICES BETTER ON KINSTON EXCHANGE Today's cotton sales on the local Exchange were about 53 bales by 3 'clock. Prices ranged from 10 1-2 to 11.17 1-2. New York futures quotations were: Open 2.40 p. m. December.. ......... .11.05 11.53 11.70 11.98 12.10 January .. ....... 11.80 March .. ............12,05 May .. .......... ..V.12.17 July 12.24 City Niht Schools to Open Tonight Will Be Three ' If Enrollment Warrants. Supt Caldwell and School Principals to Supervise Tonight the moonlight schools for Kinston's adult illiterates will be put in operation. Sessions will be held in Christ church, East Kinston, at a point in West Kinston, and if the en rollment warrants it. in the High School building in North Kinston. There will be three supervisors, Sup erintendent Barfon Caldwell and the principals of the High and Grammar schools. There are, according to census, just 199 illiterates in Kinston. It was be lieved until the census was taken that there were more than this number, and it was incorrectly stated that more than 200 had enrolled for ths moonlight schools. Superintendent Catdwell today stated that he has no idea just what the enrollment will bev It is hoped, however, that all of the adults in Kinston who cannot read or write will take advantage of tho opportunity now presented to leurn to spell and add and subtract and use the pen. Twenty-six teachers of the city schools have volunteered for the work. This number will be a sufficiency. At the rate of only eight pupils to a teacher this faculty could care for 200 people. The Episcopalians, who maintain Christ church, a mission, in East Kin ston, have given the moonllgh schools project here excellent support. They, the. rec tor, , Rev. John 11.. Griffith ..of St, Mary's parish in particular, have worked hard during tho past few weeks to insure a 'large enrollment for the schools. The people behind the movement hope that the moonligh schools for whites have better luck than that es tablished for negroes in the Tower Hill road school some weeks ago. The enrollment there was only three. The school soon ceased to be. It was through no fault of the colored prin cipal and teachers who volunteered for the work, however, according to Superintendent Caldwell. They were "right there," but the "old dogs" who at first professed interest would not be taught "new tricks." " STATE MISSIONARY BOARD CHRISTIAN CHURCH HERE The State Missionary Board of tho Christian church ' met today in the Gordon Street Christian church. President o fthe Board, W. C, Man ning of Williamston and Dr. Jesse G. Caldwell, president of Atlantic Chris tian College, came in this morning, as did Mr. C. C. Ware, secretary. The resident members are Messrs. B. P. Smith, C. W. Howard and Paul Hodges. COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE IDEA GROWS; IN FAVOR SUGGESTED PLAN AND INTEREST SHOWN Kinston should have the commun ity Christmas tree. Intimation , in The Free Press several days ago Jiat it was being considered was followed Sunday by the declaration by one of the best known men in Kinston that he would like to contribute, rather liberally too, for a fund for the tree. He would not agree to his name be ing used just at the time. "I would not have the time to assist, except in a monetary way," hut there are a plenty of people who could find the time, he said. T The proposed community tree would be a fine specimen from the local for ests, a pine or some other tree, eas ily secured. It would be had at an insignificant price. It would be, ac cording to the general pfan,; magnifi cently decorated. . The city would furnish lights free. There might be gifts on it, for little children who might not otherwise know Santa Claus. School children would be per Writes From Richmond He Is On His Way Back Home "WILL BE A MAN AGfW' Tells of Narrow Escape At New Benv Debauch in Norfolk, How He "Came To" In Kentucky Town . (By the Eastern Press) Greenville, Nov. 22. The Reflector, a local afternoon paper, today ' re ceived a letter with the signature of T. E. Cannon, mailed from Richmond, Va., on Sunday. Cannon is the Ay, den man who disappeared several weeks ago. Ilia automobile was found on a bridge at New Bern, and it was at first, supposed that he had been drowned. Later that theory was dis pelled by a statement by a reliable man who wan positive that' he had seen Cannon a day or two after his abandoned machine was found, in Norfolk. The Reflector believes there is no question about the signature being - Cannon's. He said in the letter that he had been playing cotton futures !. a small way and that after Bevcral "small" losses he sought relief from his financial trouble in drink. He went to New Bern, and visited James City, a negro suburb where he filled vn on common whisky which made him, crazy . drunk. Returning to - New Bern he very nearly lost his life on acitatcd for drivincr his car.' and af ter he had nearly gone overooara he left the machine and wen: into town afoot, lie left New Bern and went to Norfolk, there continuing his debauch. He "came to" in Lexing ton, Ky., he says. Remorse set in. Sunday he was in Richmond on his way home, he wrote, "to be a man again." Cannon has a family at Ayden. His wife has been confidently expecting his return, since she was. informed that he had not been drowned in the river at New Bern as was first thought. NO PROTEST OF BRIDGE OYER THE RIVER HERE Captain Ridley, U. S. army engi neer in charge of the Wilmington of fice, was here today to conduct' a hearing of any complaint thai might be made against the new bridge' to be built across Neuse river here. The stream opposite Kinston is navigable,, and therefor the matter was. within the War Department's province. There developed no complaint when ' Captain Ridley declared the hearing opened, and the "session" was decid edly short. - mitted to give a few pennies each, fraternal orders a few dollars each, churches the time and trouble and) every individual in Kinston his hearty support in any old way. : The Christmas tree could be plac ed on the' Courthouse Square. It would be illuminated for several eve nings. A great glowing star at its very pinnacle would radiate good cheer. . There would undoubtedly be more happiness occasioned by it than anything else that could be, undertak en at the season of Christ's anniver sary. The undertaking would ; be. blessed from the beginning. Then, on one certain night, say about De cember 23. there would be a big mu sical program. A big choir, trained in one or two selections, would sing carols and anthem, led by the Second infantry band. The band today prom ised to give its assistance, since most of its resident members will then be at home for the holidays.
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