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, ' - ' ; i EE ri i::::e VOL. XVII. Ne. 166 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1915 FOUR PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS ' FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS TOE AIM AIDES PRESS . THE BOtGAHS HARD WTH ECEASED FORCES French Spelling Allies of Teutons' With Great Energy RUSSIANS' OJBARD ICE Blow Holes Into the Frozen Surface of the River Styr, DrOWrtlhiran Entire Bat- talion, Say; Advices Re ceived' at Copenhagen (By the United Press.) Amsterdam, Nov.' 26. A terrific bombardment of the Bulgarians at prilep by the French is progressing. To Allies are daily increasing their strength and' pressing the Bulgars ' hard. It is believed the Bulgars will : remain on the defensive until Austro- German relief arrives. 1 Russian! Guns Blow Holes In Ice; Many Drowned. - Copenhagen, Nov. 25. By bom barding the ice on which Austrians are trying to cross the Styr, the Rus sians have drowned an entire battal ion of Teutonic troops, according to unofficial' advices. 1 "EDITOR AND PUBUSHER" TAHES SHOT AT COUPONS Says Purchases Made Where Cou - pon! Are Given at .Higher Rate Than Sam Goods Bought Else whereQuotes Mr. Dooley's Fam ous Sayings Pmbably ten years ago Peter Fin ley Dunne, according to the Editor and Publisher of Now York, put into the mouth of "Mister Dooley" these words: -, ; : . . . ' "Whitllver anybedjf. offers to, give ye somethin fr naWthin', or some thing fr less thin it's worth, or more fr somethin' thin it's worth, don't I take anny chances yell fr a police man." Telling of how the public ia mule : ted on purchases from coipon compa nies, tH9 Editor" ana" Publisher charges that prices asked for many articles are "from 25 to 100 per cent, higher than they can be bought for at de partment stores." It ajUeges that . even on "standard-priced v. merchan- dise coupon users pay more." - Tables printed by the New York publication, "in the interest first of the people and second of the newspa: pers, show that for, a standard-grade fountain pen a coupon company, the United Profit-Sharing Corporation, charges 26 cents more than does a V well-known i New York department store. The Profit-Sharing Corpora tion's excess on a "grade A" necktie is 65 cents, on a-white enameled bed, 14.26, and on a brass bed, $10-51-Rarely if ever can an article be pur chased as cheaply from a coupon company , as from the horrie mer chant " " "Ori the face of it, isn't this coupon system just about the most eollosal scheme ever devised for getting more fof merchandise than it is worth ! asks the Editor andf Publisher. '"The unsophisticated but greedy old far mer who goes to the. city and buys a 'gold brick' gets a brick all right, and it may make a pretty glittering or nament on his "parlor' mantel-board. But the confidence man has got the fanner's money." ' ' TINS (By the United Press) URCE SERB FORCES CAPTURED. . - . ' Berlin, Nov. 25. Seventeen thousand, four hundred more S1 were! captured hy the Ger mans, Austrians and Bulgars they took Mitrovitza and Prktina, the war ofSce today an nounced. It la declared the Cr- are Crmly fcolding their Ri M positions against heavy Rus ia attacks. MORE PLANNING FOR PEACE, DISCUSSION IN CHURCH TlilBUN'L German and Papal Confer ees Said to be Active tn Switzerland A Belgian Cardinal Was Afraid to Attend Consistory By ALICE ROHE, " (United Press Staff Correspondent) Rome, Nov. 25. -Fear that Ger- many will prevent his return to Bel gium if he attend! the December consistory, It is stated by the Mes Bagero, is the probable explanation why Cardinal Mercier of Brussels has abandoned the trip to Rome. The rea son is doubted in diplomatic circles. Cardinal Hartmann of Cologne, en route to Rome, is now in Switzerland I conferring with Prince Von Buelow and a Prussian diplomatic represents tive to the Vatican. It is believed they are trying for a fresh attempt to negotiate a peace discussion at the coming consistory. Russians Gradually Gaining Around Riga. London, Nov. 25. Despite desper ate counter attacks affecting a few temporary recoveries of positions, the Germans are steadily losing scattered positions to the Russians in the Riga district, say official Petrograd ad vices. Hard fighting is continuing in Galicia. AMERICAN MOTHERS PRAYING FOR PEACE Deluge of Telegrams From All Over Nation Swamping White House President Asked to Give Assent to Conference of Neutrals "The World Is for Pi-ace," He Is Told iBy the ..United Press.) . Washington, Nov. 25. "The world is for peaqe. Mothers in America pray for it." This is the keynote of a deluge of telegrams which contin ue to Bwamp the White House. It is unknown whether the President is in clined to yield to the appeal to call a peace congress of neutrals. OTHERS THAN American North German Lloyd Men.Said to Be Under Suspicion In Conspiracy Case Broadening of Scope of In quiry 'Likely at Resumption of the Trial in New York On Friday, Un derstood . (By the United Press.) New York, Nov. 25. Broadening of the scope of-inquiry to include prom inent persons not yet named, may mark the resumption of the trial of the Hamburg-American Line officials tomorrow, Federal officials today hinted. North -German Lloyd men are mentioned. ; STRAY MULE POSSIBLY RABID, OWNER SATES A mule, suffering from hydropho bia,- has been sought byits ownei; Travis Harrison of Greene county, in this section. He dreve the animal to this ' city Saturday, ' returning home in the afternoon. He noticed that the mule behaved queerly and ate little. He let it have the run of a yard for the night. : v' ; - .-' " Upon arising Sunday morning Har rison discovered the mule in the act of breaking out of the lot. It ran off at a speed which would not permit of immediate pursuit. Harrison track ed it to apoint three miles from fcin ston and then lost the trail. He was unable to find any trace of the lost animaL .: f ' The mule. Harrison says, was bit by a rabid dog about nine years ago, and he fears that it is suffering from the disease. He has asked that any in formation concerning the missing an imal' be communicated to him, : - Subscribe, to The Free Press. FOUR KILLED, lM HURT IN WRECK UN SAliSBURVj YARDS Southern Passenger Train Crashed Into a Footbal Special Max Gardner Among Injured Confed erate Vet One of Dead (Special to The Free' Press) Greensboro, Nov. 25 Four persons were killed and eight, including Max Gardner, candidate for lieutenant governor, of Shelby, injured when Southern train No. 38 crashed into special in the yards at Salisbury last night about 10 o'clock. The special was carrying people en route to Rich mond for today's football game. A Cnofederate veteran named Hall and a man named Severs, both of Charlotte, a negro , porter and one other person were killed. Traffic was delayed for hours. Two sleep ers of the Pullman special were ex tending across a street crossing when the regular train arrived, on time, and smashed into them. The wreck age was badly piled up. Several of the injured are said to be in serious condition. Just how se verely Mr. Gardner was hurt has not been learned here. Later Report Says None Dead; Two Fatally Hurt. Salisbury, N. C, Nov. 25. Twen ty-four were injured, two fatally, in the wreck on the Southern Railway here late last night. A southbound train crashed into a train standing at the station here. Henry Seivers and C. E. Hall of Charlotte, N. C, are expected to die. Among the injured are 0. Max Gardner, and Forest Esk ridge of Shelby, N. C, twelve resi dents" of Charlotte and Jesse Arnold, of Atlanta. ' MAY CAUSE CHANGE Say Short Saloon Day De prives Them of Alcohol During Their Leisure Time May Possibly Be Rescinded By Monday (By the United Press) London, Nov. 25.--Nonplussed by the trades unions' formidable opposi tion to the new war order reducing the open hours of saloons to five hours and a half daily, government .leaders are conferring. The work men claim the order will close the saloons during their leisure time. They threaten to shorten the days' work. Unless rescinded the - order becomes effective Monday. INTRODUCING THE RAINBOW UNIFORM, ITS OUT SIGHT (United Press Correspondence) i, London, Oct." 13 (By mail) Khaki, field grey and German green as in visible colors for armies are dismal failures. Fourteen months of war in the field has proved that the most in visible army of all would be one whose soldiers were clad in models of Joseph's. coat. ' Such at least is the Verdict of a high British officer, who in months at the front has made a study of the in visibility of colors. , ; i la clothing an army, the highest point of invisibility he says would be obtained by garbing each man in a different color; one in green the next in blue, another in grey, one in red and so on alternately, according to the color experts scheme, j If this proved impracticable each man should be dressed in a combination of soft toned colors.- Either scheme, says the officer, would enable an entire army corps to merge inconspicuously into any background. ; WANTS EUROPE HAVE FUllTEXT MESSAGE IT'S DELIVERED President Working Hard to Get It Printed and Off Immediately HIS THANKSGIVING DAY Lets Pefsonal Plans Slip to Finish , Document Con servation of All Nation's Resources Is Necessary Many 'Peace Telegrams (By the United Press) Washington, Nov. 25. That the message on preparedness may be read in Europe on the day he delivers it to Congress, the President was today secluded in his study, letting his Thanksgiving, plans slide. The mes sage must be printed today if catches a boat in time to reach Eu rope before December 7. The print ing office is ready. Friends of the President believe the message will be the most important since he was elected.. It is expected the doctrine of pre paredness will cover more army and navy, plans. It is understood to in clude! conservation and other domes tic pRoUems'from the stand that the nation must be prepared in all resour ces to meet any emergency, individ ual and industrial. It is announced that the President has received more than 3,000 women's peace telegrams, WHJTLOCK TO SEE MR. ' LANSING AND PREST Minister Absolutely Refuses to Dis cuss Belgian Matters Has Real American Thanksgiving Dinner at New York Returns to Europe After Christmas, According ' to Plan (By the United Press) Chicago, Nov. 25. Speakers at the funeral -ef Joe Hillstrom today call ed Friday's execution at Salt Lake City "wilful, cold-blooded murder, by the powerful money interests of the State." I. W. W. Attorney Hilton said "We can prove threatening let ters sent Governor Spry, signed I. W. W. were the work of the Mormon Church." SAYS HILLSTROM WAS WILFULLY MURDERED Letters With I. W. W. Signatures Written at Instigation of Mormon Church, Says Lawyer Powerful Money, Interests of a State Caused Execution In Utah, Alleged New York, Nov. 25. Brand Whit lock, American minister to Belgium, had a real American Thanksgiving dinner with his wife and mother and a few friends. He flatly refused an interview to comment on the Belgium cases. Secretary Lansing will come to New York to confer with him, on Friday or Saturday, it is understood. Whitlock is going to Washington on Monday to report to the President He returns to Europe on December 28. Mrs. Whitlock has joined the woman's peace movement and tele graphed the President. SHAWVAN LEGALLY DEAD IN TWO YEARS Belvidere, III., Nov. 25. For more than 6 years, relatives here have been seeking Rinard Shawvan, who mys teriously disappeared about 11 years ago. An estate of $30,000 in which the missing man should share, is held pending the expiration of the 7 years since he Was last heard from, after which Shawvan may legally be declared dead. 1 . In the countrywide search for Shaw van, trace of the missing manwas found at Aiken, Minn., and again at Needles, California. Shawvan's pa rents believe be joined the Mexican revolutionists and died in battle. DAY KINSTON INTEREST IN FOOTBALL GAAIES IS ABOUTDIVIDED City Sent Many Fans Both to Richmond and Nor folk Local Boys In U. of N. C, Squad Mijht Be In Field Against Virginia North Carolina football fans are today principally interested in the games at Richmond and Norfolk, University of North Carolina play ing the University of Virginia at the former and the North Carolina A. & M. playing Washington & Lee in the tidewater city. Thousands (locked to Norfolk from the eastern part of the State. Larger delegations went from the cities and towns west of the main line of the Atlantic Coast Line to Richmond. Kinston sent large num bers to both cities. Interest here was about evenly divided, although there was a possibility that one or more of the Kinstonians on the University squad might play in the big match at Richmond. Reynolds Allen and Phil Hines are one or both apt to be in the lineup against Virginia. At Charlotte this afternoon the Davidson Presbyterians are playing the Wake Forest Baptists. NEW POSTOFFICE TO BE . OCCUPIED BY FEB. 1ST Postmaster Walter LaRoque ex pressed the belief Wednesday even ing that the new postoffice at Queen and North streets will be occupied by a date late in January. The equip ment for the office is now arriving piecemeal. The interior of the huild ing will, of courso, be handsomely finished and furnished. Practically the entire appropriation is expected to be used up by the time the struc ture is opened to the public. GREECE WILL KEEP HANDS OFF IN THE BALKANS, BECLARES Note of Assurance to Allies. Crisis Regarded as Pass ed In London King Con- stantine's Army Will Not Be Demobolized However (Ey the United Press.) London, Nov. 25. -Greece has sat isfied the Allies that there will be no Greek interference in the Balkan campaign, according to an Athens dispatch to the exchange telegraph. It is reported that a note of assur ance has been given the Allies' diplo mats as Greece's answer to , Wednes day's note of inquiry. It is consider ed here that the Greek crisis is over. It is apparent that the Greek army will not be demobolized, however. IINISTER WOULD NOT PAY EXTRA FARE TO SOUTHERN CONDUCTOR Greensboro, Nov. 25 Rev. Dr. Mel ton Clark, one of , the best-4tnown Presbyterian divines in the State and pastor of the First church here, was ejected from a Southern Railway train yesterday afternoon at James town because his ticket read to Jam estown and he refused to pay the dif ference to this city. Dr. Clark, com ing to Greensboro from Salisbury, did not know until h ereached Jamestown that his ticket was not as be had ordered and, according to friends who saw him hand over the money, paid for, at Salisbury. V ; He explained the facts to the con ductor. Dr. Clark then asked the con ductor what he would do if a "poor woman with children" were in his fix. "I'd put them off," said the conductor. "Then youll have to put me off, too," said the minister, leaving the car. An automobile was sent for hhn from Greensboro. IDEAL THANKSGIVING WEATHER GAVE TO KINSTON'S CELEBRATION THE TOUCH NEEDED TO ROUND IT OUT PROPERLY Special Services In the Various Churches Largely At - tended Offerings for Orphans of State Taken Stores Closed and Spirit of Holiday Prevailed Throughout the City Spirit of Thankfulness for Peace and Prosperity and Good Will Toward One Another Everywhere In Evidence SHOP EARLY AND DO YOUR MAILING EARLY Poatoflice Department Sees as Much Reason for the Latter as for the First Working Employes Almost to Death On 'Christmas Day Not Relished Ship a Week or Ten Days Before 25th Shop early and mail early. Postmaster LaRoque today exhibit-' ed big placards received at the post office from the department, calling upon the patrons to "wrap securely." nddress plainly and mail early arti cles intended for Christmas gifts. If necessary, the packages can be mark ed "Not to be opened until Christ mas." A gift of almost any size enn be mailed to a point within a rfasori able radius of Kinston, and a itif(. such as' the average person is apt to send can to ma'led to any pLice in the country. Last Christmas day the postoffice force, with extra help, worked prac tically the entire day on the Christ mas stuff. Carriers sloughed around all day inv the most disagreeable Christmas weather in many years. They didn't have to do it, but arc, as everybody in Kinston knows, an ac commodating lot. There is no telling when the offi cials higher up are going to issue an order forbidding the like. The Post office Department, be it known, is noi altogether neglectful of its employes, and it may take a notion not to al low them to work themselves almost to death on the holiday of holidays. Why can't it be done? Ship a Christmas gift a week ahead, or even ten days ahead. Then, if it arrives a day or two ahead of time there will be no harm done. Invoke the conscience of the recipient not to open until on Christmas Day; write it plainly on the package. Procrastination, or whatever it may be called, results in a lot of trouble for a lot of people of which the general public is ignorant. It should take thought and have con sideration for the fellows who would like to be at home with their families on Christmas day. Then, as stated ' above, it "might be by some chance that belated presents won't be deliv ered on Christmas. ONLY TWO GAMES OF GENERAL INTEREST Passing Custom of Playing Football On Thanksgiving Reflected By Schedule Philadelphia and Pitts burg Are Centers of Interest One Big Event Only In the West Pennsylvania vs. Cornell at Phila. Penn State vs. Pittsburgh, at Pitt. Brown vs. Carlisle, at Providence. W. & J. vs. Lehigh, at Washington. LaFayette vs. Dickinson, at Easton. F. & M. vs Gettysburg, at Lancastr. Syracuse vs. Montana, at Missoula. Ames vs. Drake, at Des Moines. Denver vs. Aggies, at Ft. Collins. Akron vs. Kenyon, at Akron. Case vs. W. Reserve, at Cleveland. S. Dakota vs. Creighton, at Omaha. By GEORGE R. HOLMES, (United Press Staff Correspondent) New York, Nov. 2& The slowly dying custom of playing big football games on Thanksgiving is reflected in today's schedule. Only two games of more than local interest are scheduled for Eastern teams. In tha West, one intersections! combat tbe Syracuse Montana game alone is of more than passing interest. At Philadelphia and Pittsburgh this afternoon the two undefeated teams This is the day set aside by pro clamation of the Nation's leaders that the people of this Christian and peace blessed country should pause and give thanks to God for the nia.-iifold bless ings that He has bestowed upon them! In Kinston it was a beautiful and idfnl day for the celebration. The at mosphere had that crispness which made it conform to the. season of tur key and cranberry. The spirit of thankfulness was everywhere in evi dence. It was manifested along the business streets, where (tha quietude of Sunday- prevailed, as 'most of the : atoros ware closed. The special ser- i vices in the various churches of the city were largely uttended by those whit realized that there was much to be thankful for onJ who wanted to manifest their thanksgiving in that jjon.l w ay. ; Christian Church Sunrise Meeting. The special Thnnksgivinjr service in the Gordon Street. Christian church were held at 7 oVbx-k this morning, " nnd about. a hundred and fifty people , were . present . and enjoyed the hour of prayer, praise . nd testimony. , ( Evungelist Cross Jed the meeting! and . many of those present contributed to its making with, sentence prayer and testimony of thankfulness. The sun rise feature, when the minds of those present hadn't had an opportunity to become filled with the worries and . . such-like of the day, made the ser-' vice particularly impressive as only meetings at such hours can be . Service In Queen Street M, E. Church. - A large congregation heard a spe cial sermon by Pastor H. A. Hum ble in Queen Street Methodist church this morning at 11 o'clock. Mrs. Pan Quinerjy's singing of Kjpling's Reces sional featured an excellent musical program, appropriate W the day. The collection was for the orphanage of the""Methodists at Raleigh, In the Episcopal Churches. - A special service in Christ Episco pal church Wednesday evening was largely attended. The harvest sea son was brought to mind by the deco rations and fruits and vegetables pil ed up within the church. Rev. John ' H. Griffith, rector of the church, eon ducted the service. This morning at 11 Mr. Griffith held a service in,, St Mary's church, when an offering was tuken for the Episcopal orphanage at Charlotte. In the Other Churches. Special Thanksgiving services were :' held in the First . Baptist church on -Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, in ' the Christian Science church this morning at 11, and in Atkinson Me-, morial Presbyterian church this morn- ing at 10. The Baptists took a coir , lection for the. Thomasville Qrphan- -age and the Presbyterians t donated liberally to the Barium Springs hams Rev. E. N. Harrison, pastor of Cas well Street Methodist church, was o conduct a service for the inmates of the County Home this afternoon at 4 ' o'clock. " .'"jVvtfJ'yv.':. The Thanksgiving collections, prac- tically all contributed to orphanage ... work, were probably the largest over taken here, according to one or two ministers. '-,-'. ' ,. - I.,--. of the east swing into action, and on tha results hinges to a large extent whether Cornell will havo an edge on Pittsburgh in the final accounting. Cornell should have a comparative ly easy time with Pennsylvania, which is completing a disastrous year replete with coaching trouble. Pitt, however, has a tough proposition in Penn. State, which already has IkkeJ Pennsylvania, and car.ie r.cr.r I ".- ? Harvard.
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