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Ml t4 .THE WEATHEIi ' Fair lpaiht W4 I feECofrl) feDITtON KINStON. N. CnSATURDAY; DECEMBER 4, 1915 6 PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS mB CENTS ON TRAINS 4' f CRD IN AKRESSIVE KINSTOM HILLS ARE PRESIDENT : If ILSON MORS. GALT.YED Tnv'TTS'TTTS TFT) I i ! BURGLARS MADE BIG HAUL AT 'GRAINGER STORE FRIDAY NIGHT Place of Messrs. Speight and Fcrrell Loser by $150 SERBS RETIRING TO GREECE WILL Ml Believed They WiH Be Nen Jtlwr Interned Nor bis V armed by Greeks' YONMACXENrNWOUKTZD t( to Embassy, kustbe recalled, toe SPIRIT S HE GETS READY FOR SAILING Will Exercise "Rights ,as American" and Visit the Belligerents FURNISHING COTTOh ' . .' ". . :;. 10 HARE MNI1I0NS DECEMBER EIGHTEEN TliASDM'jflHED Objection-? to United States tfecausfe of TUir Part in Cqnspir?:r-British Jhy Rc'lcse la Gtabi Sife Con v ducts Nornret Applied For-Buenz and Two, Other Officials of )Iamburg-American. Line Draw 18-Mohths , .r Sente-jc.cA 9 Fourth a Year and Day, ta Atlanta Peni 4etr'.H?at On $lu,D00 4tac!ie Seij Vpa Berhstorff -Austrian to Follow -. . . , (By the Urn ted Press) Providence, Dec.' 4 The recall - of Bcy-ed and. Von Paper, will precede that of Austrian agents, it is reported to the JoWvJ tare . - w x Boy-ed Sees Ambassador. ? Washington! Dec. 4. Captain Boy ei today conferred with Von Bem 'slprf. ,!;' - ' - British May Refuse Safe Conducts. 'Washington, Dec 4. No safe con duct has been asked of the' British y. 'embassy for the recalled German at taches' It may refuse Ahem, it is re- Dorted. The German and Austrian ambassadors will not talk. : London Delighted. 1 LonclonV "Dec C-Tbe press today ioBlauded America's demand for the '. recaU of the German attaches. j i ... Austrian Likelv to Go ' Washington, - Dec. 3. Immediate wiuiawaTbf Capt, Karl; Boy-ed and ' CapJ.' Franz Von Papen, respectively, naval and 'military attaches, j. of the German embassy, has been requested v by the State Department. ' In malting . formal announcement of this action, late today." Secretary" Lansing said the attaches had, rendered ' them selves persona non grata to the "Unit ed States 'government : by improper ctiviti!Bt fa; wiinclio.''-.iwitJi.rilvl' 5' :aid' military matters. ? ; r'The secretary acted with the full 1 jtpproval of President Wilson, who is understood to have dejnjjjned thftt " ' toe ynited States shall be rid of for c.'gn officials Who. mak4 themselvea oJv . ' npsjo'u "by ictivty' harmful to the f i pest interests r of the .nation. The State Department macle , its request three days ago through. Count Von , jtsernstoru, toe Merman, ambassador. Announcement of the fact was with held as a, mattev o) courtesy to Got. many and to prevent ihe charge be ui'g anaile that "tKe" jury trying the warship suppry eonspiraors . of the I Hamburg-American" line in New York hac in 'an way been inlluenced. in reaching a verdict, r : ' No' repfyliad been received byt none is necessary,u'aji(i it is taken for - granted that th& ambassador will or der the attaches away as soon "as he i tiaa, exchanged, communications, with ,f BarliB" , - ' "' . , Official Washington tonight was 'speculating upon the "effect the action ,. might hvo on Vqllic opinioa in. Ger . wany. . information upon , that sub" it was-said in high, official cir . cles, would be awaid. with, interest,. . It was twderatoodi tonight that while in the case in New York n ng actually had been .proved against aptam Boy-Ea in view of the atten : . tion attracted- by the' case, ' officials review his record an4l determined that now was a good time to get both Capt. Boy-Ed and Capt Von' Papen .out of the United States.-: The State .Department does, npt Have "to have evidenctl but ean act. as it has done , jn the cases of ,the attaches, upon th question qf obnoxious conduct, i - ehtenpfs f;j flamburg-American ; H New 'York, Dec,' 4, Karl Buenz, managing director of the Hamburg American line, and George Koetter and Adolph II..rr.oister, company of- , fecials, we re, sentenced today to Oighr ,en month in Atlanta prison, fol- -'ing their, convictioa on t 'acy charge. Josopb Pbppi .fourth, got a year and -a 1 Hamburg line as df'sndj esed the no-'- f,.-e cr a e The f. I Appeal Bowls-UMilitary At- POPE'S REASON FOR WAR TO CONSISTORY - , By ALICE HOHE, (United Press Staff Correspondent) Rome, Dec. 4. -The Pope is expect ed to tell the consistory of cardinals that the war was due to failure of the Powers to call Christianity Into their councils, v He will say, it is thought, that the Hague is not representative of the world because the Vatican has not been represented there. ' Germany has already made infor mal suggestions looking to the estab lishment of peace, says a consistory . - .... ... report. . . BIG ORGANIZATION TO ADVERTISE THE SOUTH. Nashville," Tenn., Dec. 3. Perman ent organization of the Industrial As sociation of the South, incorporated, the object of which is to advertise the South, was effected here today. It is planned to raise half a, million dol lars, for 'publicity work. BANK CLEARINGS BREAK - RECORDS IN NOVEMBER !7.! W.' - . ,' .. . . . Bradstteet'a Take Most Optimistic v yiew ol Outlook Holiday Trade Better 1 Than Ever Collections Show Marked Improvement Mer- "chanta Replenishing Stocks. (Special to The Free Press) ' Richmond , Va., Dee. 4. Brad street's review says for Richmond and vteinity: . "A continued increase in the vol ume .of business is evidenced in the local market. Retailers are basy In oil linesB advanced sales of holiday good shave been above normal and dealers anticipate the largest holiday trade in recent years, basing their an ticipation on well employed labor and the good prices being paid for agri cultural products.' Depleted stocks are being replenished this is especlat ly true of country districts. Whole saler in praeticlly all lines report active business. . Local bank clearings. for the month: of Nrember were. $63,736,390.37.' An increase of $11 195, 298.3T, over October, this "year,! and an increase of $26,9Q822.79 over November, 1914. This is the largest single calendar- month. by the local banks. Railroad reports indicate im provement in . transportation circles. Collections show improvement. The same number of commercial failures occurred in this district in November, 1915, as in the same month of 1914. CHILD SMOTHERED IN PILE OF SEED "COTTON. :""r.-!-'-.'.-'r',;:-.jU, ; , ' -t Newton, ' Dec, 3.-sA - four-year-old child, of Lee Dsum, a farmer in Cald well township, wai smothered ' to death yesterday in a pile of seed cot-, ton. It nad" asked the mother to be allowed to play in the stuff, piled up by cotton pickers, and permission be ing granted, went out alone. Itvdug a hole in the pile and when the moth er sought it, found the lifeless body headforemost in , the hole, .the feet sticking out ;' !"' .r . . (By the United Press) " T -mto Dec. 4. Fire.'tiday des 1 tTe ' ;rr plant cf f -'C'J - r , r - - - DEPARTURE IS DELAYED Seemed Probable This Af- ternoon That Oscar II Would, Not Get Away Until After Needed Pass- ' ports Arrived, 4 o'ClocH C. H. STEWART, ' v (Unit4 Press SUff Correspondent) Jew York, Dec. 4. -Ford intends to visit belligerent countries despite the fact that he has no passport, he said today. He will assert his rights aa an American, going to all the war-1 ring nations, especially France and England. He intends opening a fac tory in England. - The Oscar II., the peace ship, was to leave at 2 this afternoon. . Excite ment waa great.." -"S Conference On December 14. Washington, Dec. 4. Meyer Lon don, the solitary Socialist congress man, says Ford, has invited, him to at tend a peace conference on December 14. v , l Party May Not Get Away Till 4. Washington, Dec 4. A Ford en voy left Washington at 11 o'clock, carrying the last passports for the pacifists, 207 in all. He cannot reach New York before 4, he said, although the ship was due to sail at 2, By EDWARD L. KEEN, (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, Dec. 4. The British press is ridiculing Ford on the day of his' departure. . The papers say no peace can be had before Germany is con. quered. .,'' . BAGDAD EXPEDITION RETURNING HUNDR'D MILES TOjTS BASE Arrived Within Ten Miles of the Turkish City When It Met Reverses Gradus , ally Driven Back Since, Is Admfssion of Officials V (By thd United Press) ? London, Dec. 4. (General . Town-, sh end's forces recently bound - for Bagdad, are retiring on the base of: Kutelamara, a .hundred v miles north of Bagdad, it is admitted at the In-. dia office. '.,. . ; The British arrived within ten miles of . Bagdad, their objective , in the drive, from the Persian. Gui&r s waek ago. .They were checked and driven! gradually back. , - BORDER QUIET, FUNSTON RETURNS TO SAN ANTONIO ' By" tho Unite!! Press) x :.! v Washington, i Dee. 4 Funaton fe returning to San Antonio, becaasa- of the .improved! condition on th bor dei it is reported at the war office. REYNOLDS DECLARES . - EXTRA BKJ DIVIDEND, WiastottrSalem, Dec, 3. la . addfi tion to regular quarterly dividend of 13t4 en fret erred and- 3 per cent on common capital stock, Xc J. Reynolds, today declare an extra, dividend e ten per cent,' all, payable January next. r-' " ' y .i i ' f Leiustep Head of Ceva City shot in the" tiugh" by a comp while the two were driving cattl. s. Dot'rsg was ; accidental, -it r e-1 t'..?-e ha been nt ac i ' v IT ':!, 15 Ji ( f tlumer of Probable Loci ; Uon; of Dnpont Branch Mill Near KUiston Stil Current la West Vlrgirt- . ia, Says Writer The, tumor that lanstoa will b the seat of, a, new , mammoth powder plant of th DuPont people, similar to, that at Hopowellfc is general in West Virginia, according to a letter lad by a. local official from that State. A Wee's Virginia, man last week wrote the Kinston. official that he had heard it reported; that a big txplosive works were to be built here, fie was mformedj that nobody hero knows anything about the report, and writing again, statoa, that it is having wide eireulation in hia part f the country. v The. i Chamber ot Commerce dis claims knowledge of the DuPonts' in. terest in Kinston and officers of the Chamber say there has been, no cor respondence on the subject 'MycV Fred. Sutton says he has lot the slightest idea that the Du font will build: a plant here, and lie h at. a Iqea to account for the rumor. , "Local mills are 'supplying cotton to the Hopewell plant," Mr. Sutton laysfc "and, it may be tact that t is intended to. erect a factory- here tor the preparation of cotton, The Hopewell mills do not finish the pro duct they put out; and it is sent to trther plants far' putting . it through the final process. The DuPonts may really be figuring oa locating a plant ncre. " It would not necessarily be a Very' dangeroas plant,' It. would be a logically aitaftted. plant. It miglit be of. large, proportions and, give em idoyment to tnousirtds.' " ' By the United Press.) r iB"sa""wa . - iv- TWO BRITISH SHIPS 4 SUBMARINED. 'fcondon, Dec. 4. The British steamers Middleion, of 2,500 tons, and Clan McLeod, of 4,700 tons," have been ' submarine. Four,f the Middleton's crew were killed, The Middleton waa sunk in the Mediterranean., Nineteen, of the crew' were landed. - The third en gineer was wounded. ( ' NEWS IN.BRIEF FROM . NEIGHBORING PLACES Col. George . Cable ' of Norfoljc will be the orator at the New Bern' Elks' annual lodge of sorrow Sunday., The annual banquet of the New Bern Chamber of Commerce wilt be held in the Gaston Hotel on a night in January.: ..:. '" ' ' .; New Bern, recently accused of be ing town of more deaths than births by the State Board of Health, claims. 5 birth against 7 deaths during November. "Passenger traffic is increasing, and business as a whole fs exceptionally good," say Col. B. S. Leardr general passenger agent o f the. Norfolk South ern Railroad. ( ' - State Fish Commissioner H. L. Gibbs is at Morehead City to parley with - a number ot oyster dealers who refuse to pay the ahuckers' H-. cense. " . ' - . N. Iff. Hammond, 8T, Is dead at Bethel. - ' The t Washington good roads boost ers Friday visited Greenville, Rocky Mount and other towns in the see-. lion, but failed to come . by Kinston. and New Bern, over roads which had been pointed out to them as excellent examples. 1 y' -,' :. Oscar Bryant, colored, is under in- diotmerrt at New Bern .for selling v Vky within ten. feet of the City X A policeman saw him in the. -. Jake Gaskins, also, colored, is .Jer arrest there charged with at mpting to sell "Colored water for ;: or. - ' ' Greenvllie l.s s '! IT C"t 1 r ' t jl aX 3 SO far. BULLETINS Ceremony In Prospective s Bride's Jlome Small , Company; No Gifts honeye:oon in the south Must Be Sfiort, as Execu tive Wants to Be Back In Capital When Congress Reassembles After Holi days Announcement (By the United Press) Washingttonfc Dec 4. The Presl. dent and Mrs, Gait will marry on De cember 18, it was today announced. The ceremony will be in the bride's home. ; The only guests will be im mediate members of the families. There will be no invitations. Quiet U desired and no- gifts are expected, It is believed: the honeymoon will be spent in the south, and is expected to be- ahort, beeaute of the reconven ing of Congress on. January 7. iwoshotinattb:pt TO HOLD UP MESSENGER New York, Dee, 3. Allan Card, ner, a bank messenger, waa fatally shot, and George De Brosa, his assnil ant, was dangerously wounded by W. F. Orleman another messenger, in DeBrosa's sensational attempt to steal A package containing $4,000 at the Fourteenth street subway station during the rush hour late today. The messengers are employes of theJSank of the "Metropolis in Union Square, near the scene of the holdup Gardner is. 18 years old, and Orle- man one of the bank's confidential messengers, is 29. Little is known to the police of DeBros, who. is about 30 years old. ,t , FAIR OFFICERS ARE RE-ELECTED WITH A SINGLE EXCEPTION Assistant Secretary Doug- las Declined to Accept Of fice for Another Year Directors Kinston'' Fair Association; Keep Leaders F. C. Dunn, president; Dr. J. M. Parrott, . first vice-president E. V. Weob, second vice-president, and Jr H. Canady, secretary, the very effi cient officers of the Kinston Fair As sociation, wore re-elected for another year at a meeting of the directors Friday night in the office of the Kin ston Insurance A Realty Co. The ex ecutive ' committee, comprised - by Messrs. P. Si B. Harper, J. W. Good- son, N. J. Rouse, J, F, Taylor and, H. E, MoseIey was re-elected, intact, It waa decided, .because of the de sire, on the, part of the directors to take much of the strenuous work of preparing for . the 1916 Fair off Sec retary Canady, who this fall was pro bably the most overworked man in Kinston because of his 'duties, to em ploy a whole-time assistant secretary for four or five months of next yean Mr. W. B Douglas, who has been in that capacityj declined re-election. Mr.' Douglass could tot, of course, sa crifice his private business to serve solely the Fair Association, for ' a third ot naif of toe year. It, was with regret that the directors allow ed him to give up the position. His efficiency and energy made themsel ves felt everywhere in the prepara tions for the last Fair. A committee was appointed to en deavor to increase the capital stock to not less than $10,000. ' There was discussion of the idea of inviting a big league baseball club to use the fair grour..!s for tr.v!nij;j next f ",'rr, b"t - move f : l1- to $20a in Goods Taken OlT By Night risitors No Clue Unidentified store-ireakers robbed. the general store of Speight A Fer- rell t Grainger of about $150 to $300 worth of merchandise late last night or early today. They left no clue, ' The officials believe the men had a vehicle. It. would have been almost impossible for two or three men to carry off the large quantity of stuff taken. Overalls, shoes, suspenders, knives and other articles were -stolen. Entrance, was affected through a rear window, ' , The securing of bloodftounds in an attempt to trail the robbers, was eon. tempi ated this morning, but the near est dogs to be had were in Beaufort county and the expons ewould : have been incompatible with the merch ant's loss. TARHEEL DISCHARGED FROM, BRITISH NAVY. Washington, Deq. 8. Frederick D. Eller, an Asheville, N. C, boy, who recently went to England on a cat tle ship and, enlisted in the British navy, has been released from the ser vice through the efforts of Consul General Skinner's office in London. Eller enlisted under the name of F. Di Moore, and at 'the request of hia relatives the State Department made representations for his release. , "KOBOM'WJlftS MR. ..' KTTCHIlfS JOB," SAID Calls Attention to Fact That No Fight on Chairmanship Yet Devel oped, and Thinks Revenue Raising Task Standing 'Em Off ,The expected fight against Claude Kitchin for Democratia leader in the House of Representatives, because of his opposition to the President's pre paredness policy, h'as failed to devel op yet. A man here very intimately acquainted with the Congressman de clared Friday night that there is not opt to be any fight: "there isn't a man in the House who wants the job. The task of managing the revenue bill, this year will: be a man-size under taking." It is freely predicted that, as inti mated several days ago, tobacco will come in, f p its full share of the extra taxation to be one result; of the in creased army andj navy appropria tions. "There will be a howl then. The newspapers "rubbing it into Kit chin now should take pains to can vass the sentiment in this district when the matter of the tobacco tax is broached," said the Halifax man's friend Friday night Tobacco, as is known to every child ami adult in the district, is. one of the big staples in the district) notably in, Lenoir and Wilson, canities. The "folks back home", will then be heard from,, all fight : . , Mr. Robert Strong, president of the National Bank; of Kinston, one of the staunchest opponents in this dis trict of preparedness as it is being prepared for, says: "We are going to have a battleship on Neuse river." Mr. Strong is quoted as having said there will be he necessity for prepar ing now. He, thinks it will be many years before our - possible, adversar ies, almost all bow at war; will re cover from the present conflict suffi ciently to. start a row on this side of the Pond., The United! States can be gin building up its defenses when the nations now being devastated start to recuperate, and can keep pace with them then. Preparedness advocates, however, who have heard similar ar gument before, say history offers no example of a nation that has ever had enough of strife. France in the Na poleonis wars, the American S'a' . i alter tha EevoV.! mi, sr. I a'.l, f.'. -r the V.';;r r-'-r-n C.2 Z'-'-'i, t.3 T '.it." ! i't t!.2 - t v. :r r 'v- Injury of Field Marshal In Serbia Slight, Said Ru mored Whitlock Will Qo to HaATfr Instead of Bel-' gium Opposition , (By the United Press) Petrograd; Dec. Marshal Vosv Mackenxen has been slightiy wouadh ed fat Serbia, sayi Copenhagen dis patch to the Novoe Vremya, f . r ' Ve Biasing's Dislike to Keep WhWeck Oat ef Betgivsa, . . London, Deo. 4. Berlin is silent oav the Holland report that Whitlock will return to Havre the temporary Bel gian capital, instead of to Brussels because of objection on the part of war Governor Von Biasing. Italy May Senjl Force to Salonika. London, ; Dec.' 4. delayed Rome dispatches hinting at an Italian plan to send troops to Salonika in addition, to those to Albania because of the complicated Balkan eitation, ' nave been received. It is said that Foreign. Minister Sonnino has assured French. British and Russian ambassadors that Italian-' tireop and diplomats, wilt to- operate in Greeee, , Wcn't Intern Serbs in Greece. Athpns Dec,'''44. part.'Qf the . Serbs army is returning from Mon- . astir to become refugees in Grece, . neither to be disarmed nor interned, says a official' report It is expected they will be allowed to join the Anglo- French at Guegvelk v The heroie Serbs rear guard at Monastic held, twenty times Hs number back, until vt waa annihilated. . , v Russians In Riga Sector Gaining. London Dec. 4. Geneva dispatches today asserted that the Russians- west. of Rigs- have taken twelve miles of German trenches and 700 prisoners., Fall ei Monaetis Officially Confirm! , Paris, Dec. 4. Ihe, war office today confi rnied the occupation ot Monastir by the- Austro-Germans, . ; ' Rains Hinder Operations in West Torrential rains have hindered the work of the artillery in the west. Sappers have- exploded a inine.be-'- ncath- German works and artillery ex changes have been had at Sappigneut and Grency, it is offloially stated. Greece Gives Allies Military Privileges. Copenhagen, Dec, 4k- Greece fcaa agreetb to give the Allies the nse oj her Macedonian railways and the Ae gea harbors, accosding to the Dcrlln. Tageblatt It says that this means that Constantino has practically de livered the whole of. Grecian, Mace. donia up. as a war. base for the Al lies. CURKEUESODT ' HSSJATEFiGIIT Washington,, Dec. 8. Senator. Jasu P. Clark of Arkansas was. chosen to day for president pro tempore of the. Senate by the Democratic caucus. Senator Dark defeated Senator Pom erene of Ohio-, after a- spirited con test The vote was 28 to 23. Senator Pomerene was si'n or 1 by members who urgod Ciat the Ar kansas Senator ahould not be- re- .1 r : i ed because of his revolt -'nst t! ship purchase bill, at the Liit, se?s! RAILROAD WOn KM AX V': KILLED UNDri? T2 W. Salisbury, Dec. 3. Jol.a, rv -, aged thirty-five, wa3 run ov?r t ; morning by the shop train on v.' i he had ' - 1 cninj to h!3 v . k ti the Si . s s ' I so la..: r. jured t : ; i a t' t A pass '..il. un-J'?r t ''- n 1 1 t
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