North Carolina Newspapers

DAILY the .bee mm jj jr i li JS lS voL.vii.-No:i&o :':' SECOND EDITION f EtNSTO, lfc. &, MONDAt, JANUARY 3, 19i6 tfbtJR PAGES TODAY , PRICB TWO CENTS FITS CENTS ON TRAINS CERTAIN THAT ROMffiE? WAS LOST PRESIDENT TO WARN JUSTICE JOSEPH II. GREAT BUSINESS IN THAT U- GEBIIAN8 TAKEN OFF WORLD OF AM OF II OF LARGE SUM FROII DTONTS WAS TAKEN VESSEL AMERICAN VE IITS GLOBE COURT PASSES AWAY IN LENOIR COUNTY li ...it ALLEGED EMBEZZLER WHEN PM SUE ID nniT ericAn . . i 'Jit. LAMAR Realty last moot SENT Ifplffcfi GAINST RiIil SSELS OYER Washington Still Awaiting Germany and Austria, Wrath That May Burst estllforroAre Known, als Without Uemg Asked, Bottom in Six" MinuteW-Slaugfiter Children As Complete As Assailants Nationality Determine (By the United Press) Washington, - Jan. . 3. -Official Washington is awaiting with anxie - ty and forebodings further informa tion regarding the sinking of the Persian. The officials worst fears' were realized with confirmation v of the report of the death of the Amer ican consul to Aden. Robert N. Me Neely. . . . Upon recent news that the attack was without warning,, it was believ ed possible that Austria or Germany would anticipate an American ' pro test and voluntarily disavow the at tack. This was predicted by Baron Zwiedinek, the j Austrian charge. - In all events, further facts - are needed .before, a protest by this gov ernment is made. It is believed there will be little difficulty in settling the nationality of . the submarine. Sur vivors declared they saw the wake ' of a torpedo, and had no doubt that the attacker was a U-boat. - Officers' and Passengers' Stories. ' Alexandria, Jan. 3. iSuryiving of ficer of the Persia, landed heir to day declared positively that the ves . sel was' torpedoed. There was no panic onr board, - declared Leonard Moss, a British surwivor. The loss of life was due' to the' fact that the Persia sank in six minutes and the fact that mdst of the passengers were at luncheon at the time when the ship was struck. The cresv could not use the boats on the starboard side because of the list of the ship. Most of -the passengers were just reaching the deck as the Persia went down, and were thrown into the wa ter. The number missing is between 247 and 255. Only 87 women and 2 of the 30 children on board were landed. More Ships' Submarined. London,, Jan.; 3.- The Glasgow steamer Glengyle has been torpedoed. She was the largest merchantman at tacked since the Luaitania and Ara bic. ,4 It is believed she carried no passengers. -tit is said, one hundred of the crew were rescued. It is be lieved many others were lost Tn Japanese steamer Kenkon Ma'ru haJ also- been torpedoed. The crew was - saved. . - C p. McNeeley No On Board Raleigh, Jan.' 3'.-Friehds of C. f. - McNeeley, brother ; to Consul Roberf , MeNeely, deny the Teports tiiat be a1Ied with the latter to -Aden to be the; consulate. ecrUiry. f D. " Mc Neeley is believed to ' be hi, Florida. Grrfnt Was Saved. ? Medford", Mass., Jan.' 2. A" cable gram announcing the ' safety 'of Char lesion F. Grant of Boston, a passen : gep on'the steamer Persia, sunk by a ubmarine in the Mediterranean was received' today by his mother and ais V Mrs. William Prfzer of this .cityi Thi piessage was sent by.Mr. Grant from -Alexandria and -consisted of the einglo word "savecl.'' ( Lankfjjg Astounded at Sinking -of fcWngyIe.4 . Washihgtoh,- ; Jan. 3. Secretary Lansing, informed today by the Unit ed i Press of the Giengyle'a sinking, declared he waa astounded, and re fused to make a comment. Secre tary Tumulty , phoned :the UniUd PHsa bulletin' to Preeident Wilson, j The Glengyle was sunk Sunday morning between Port Said and Mal ta, i She carried some passengers, it this afternoon developed. AH were , Unded. Crew merabera are missing. Overman Interested' iaMcXeely. Washington, Jan. 3 Senator Over With Anxiety FuIIp? Details. Cringing Before American Forth When All Facts of Lat- Will Hasfeh to Send p'isavdw Believed Vessel Went to of Women and Could Have Been Desired by of Submarine Not Hard ' to man of North Carolina, who appoint ed MoNeely, called at the State De partment today seeking further in formation of his reported death on the Persia. ; Austrian Charge Zwiedinek called upon Secretary Lansing today ' and discussed with him the details ob tained by this government on the sinking of the Persia. He was given copies of messages from consuls. He declared following the conference that he'feels American and Austrian relations. will continue friendly, m NORFOLK A NIAGARA OF A KIND ERE LONG - - North Carolina's Thirsty Wil Flock to Virginia Ciy ' to Help Liquor Dealers Get Rid of StocksWill Be Some New Kinds of Moonshine Stills In. Carolina After Nor. 1 ' Norfolk will be more popular than ever before as an excursion point the coming ' summer. Almost every ? Id' cat official arid ft avenue officer in TZ&st Caroling believes tha" Ten months remain in which the Virginia liquor men may dispose of their stocks, the Old Dominion going dry like North Carolina, Kansas and the other pro hibition States on November l. - Officers recall the excursions of the summer before North Carolina went dry" as a State. Nearly all the towns were then under local option prohibi tion, and special trains carried : the thirsty by big trainloads to insigni ficant "points of interest." Rich mond, too, will be a more popular city for many Tarheels in the sum mer of 1916. tri. Revenue officers say that the going dry of Virginia will have a material effect on their work, probably. There will be more illicit stills., Small Ones will be stuck u$ here and there and will be difficult to locate. , Every pre ventive measure known Will be util ized, but it is not likely ' that the "moonshiners" will ' be . seriously, in terfered i with .until their methods have been ; : gotten s next ' to by the "revenuers." It is the way of a man "treading a certain path," if lie has ordinary patience and ordinary determination to get around all hin drances. . That i is the thing in the nutshell. For - instance, T, smaller equipment, that may be put up in a kitchen or a garret, i used for mak ing "meal wine" and other highly al coholic beverages ' that have, lately come .into vogue. Meal , wine does not have to be distilled, .is riot very much trouble to make, and , is just as . effectual -a 9 -100-proof bottled in bond whisky., The operation of the maker , occasions neither smoker,' a clearing in a thicket nor the boring of welll - . -. , DOTTIE PRICE MARRIES idvmsHrbRtlto (By the Eastern Press) ; , New' Bern, - Jan. 8. JDss Dottie Price, who attempted to kill herself and very nearly accomplished her purpose some weeks ago, is now the bride of Bruce C. Swain of Norfolk. The ceremony was performed in New Bern Saturday. , Whew. Miss Price attempted suicide in a local hotel it was said that her' love for another rather than Swam, to whom she was then engaged, prompted her act There seems to have been a reversal of her affections, however, -and to day she professes complete happi ness. . ',. . s - - This Goverhnfiehf Wad Pr sons' 6n Boaf df Four Veg- an ahByfcX'r Mat. i v . (By the liniteoT Press) ' ' Washington, Jan. S.The French embassy has advised the Stat De partment that its government '. has given orders for the immediate re lease of the German subjects' taken from four American vessels by the cruiser Descartes off San Juan, a pro test had been made by the State De partment, n . .. Bryan on Pan-Americanism. : . Pan-Americanism was declared by ,JV. J. Bryan before the ' Scientific congress today to be a proper meant for lessening the' cost of military preparedness against foreign inva sion. - , START WORK ON NEUSE BRIDGE TODAY Work on the new steel bridge over Neuse river " to , replace Parrott' bridge was Expected to be started to day if a 'pile-driver and crew arriv ed from New Bern.' Mr. M. M. Jones of Washington; who is to superin tend the construction, was awaiting the arrival of the machine and men this morning.', A Virginia concern and Jones & Leach' of - Washington are to build the bridge, the latter the substructure and the Virginia com party the upperwork; The structure will post around $10,000.' Exemplifies love of CONVICTS FOR OSBORNE . (By the United Press) New York, Jan. 3. ''Tough Tony" Mareno, a Sitrg Sing honor prisoner, returned today ; after 1 escaping be cause he did not want to get Thomas Mott Osborne, the indicted warden, "in bad."- . ' , . FORD PARTY CAN CROSS TERRITORY OF KAISER . .,: " ' '. ""' " '''''' " " '- Granted Permission to Travel Over land to The HagueHave Until r 12th of This Month, Final Date Set By Pacificists, to Make Scenes In Wilhelmina's Peaceful Capital i By CHAS. P. STEWART, (United Press Staff Correspondent) Copenhagen, Jan. 3. Germany has granted permission for the Ford par ty to cross German soil to the Hague, it' is announced. -The conference there is expected to end on January IV The party will then' return to America. ' i Sf ACY SWORN W TO " SUCCEElf ROUNtREE AS JUDGE OF tlGHf H ..':.---' - - Huff v At Wilmington on Saturday Hon. Walter Parker Stacy was sworn in as Superior Court Judge of the eighth district to succeed Judge Geo. Connor, the' oath of office being ad ministered by Magistrate John J . Furlong. There was no- formal cer emony. ; The' swearing-in ' was In Judge Stacy's Office. Judge Stacy is the youngest judge on the bench in the State now. Ha has a wide experience, and is noted for his good judgment, v , however. "Poise and -equanimity of mind un der all circumstances" are said to have been the distinguishing marks of his career as a' lawyer and citizen. Judge Rountree, who is a native of Lenoir county, and is connected with many residents of Kinston by blood ties, Returned to lucrative private practice. He is personally known to every member of the local bar and is a frequent visitor here. He is to be affiliated- with lawyers of big repu tations in Wilmington in his private practice. -. .,, ' - ; Wilson Doctrine to Refute Autnority' ot Central "a A5iKohsaVTnenI v HURRIES tiul'ifsiuv It State Department and the, Whitis House Don't Try t6 Keep Country From Realizini? FiiTt Gravity of Situation That Carries a War Possibility (By the United Press) Washing6)n, Jan. 3. The j Presi dent's next message on submarine warfare is likely to be a message addressed t$ the world, with the an nouncement! of the WJlson doctrine of the rights of Americans the, world over. Technically, '' .it . will probably be included in the message to Ger many or Austria over the Persia inci dent, but will also be intended for all nations, especially Bulgaria and Turkey and the ' Central Powers. Car Sent for President's Return. .', 'Washington,' Jan. 3 The Pres .ident is expected to return here im mediately on a special car,lwhich has been rushed -to Hot. Springs to en . able him to "take charge of the crisis in ..the foreign relations. He is to reach . hero ( early, tomorrow.. He is expected to' immediately call a cab inet meeting. It is said at. the White House and the State Department that no effort should be made to minim ise the seriousness, of . the situation. It is indicated that a definite under standing of what the central powers intend to do about submarihe war- fare in future, will be demanded by this government immediately. It was the President's intention to re turn Wednesday; WAS TO BE MOST BLAMED American Munitions Mak ers Exonerated, by Head of the Oscar II. Pa6ifi-cists-kad Intended t6 Come Ilome Sooner ' New York, Jan. 2. Henry Ford, whd led the peace expedition which left here December 4, on' the steam er Oscar II.; for Copenhagen in ' the Hope' of bringing about a conference of neutral nations that would end the war,' arrived here today ; on the steamship Bergensf jord. He con firmed cable reports that his return had been hastened by illness, but said it made a difference of only a few days, as he intended when he left to come back. this month. Mr. Ford declared his views re garding the cause of the war -have undergone a marked change. When he left; 'he said he was of the pin ion thht bankers, manufacturers j of munitions and armament ..'were res ponsible, but he returns with the' be lief that it is the people themselves, those now being slaughtered, who are responsible. , The men doing the fighting have been, too content to let those who rule them do their think- ig, and they have not taken advan tage of their divine right to say lot themselves wnat they shall do ' and think, the pacificist asserted. ; BUILDING SOLD.; The building on Blount street re cently Vacated by L. A. Cobb tt Co, wholesalers, has been sold by F. F. Brooks to Mrs. Jacob F. Parrott. The consideration is said to have be'en $10,000. The building is of brick. The property has A frontage of 50 feet : . ' . F01T0UNDIT THE BOYS WHO WERE Snccumbs to Illness of Sev-i-af 'Moriths'-SS Tears . Old Georgia Democrat . Was Appointed By Taft. Held Onice Five Years (By the United Press) . -Washingrton, Jan. 3. Prompt ac tion will be taken by President Wil son in nominating , the successor of Supreme Court Associate Justice Jos eph Aucker Lamar, who died yester day. He will be a Democrat, it is be lievedeither Secretary of the In terior Lane, Frederick Lehman of St. Louis', Secretary of War Garrison, Secretary of Agriculture Houston or John Wl. Davis, solicitor general. Democratic Appointee Republican President Washington, Jan. 2 Joseph Ruck er Lamar, associate justice of the Su preme Court of the United' States, died at his home here tonight after An illness of several months. , He was 68 years old and had been on the Supreme Court bench five years. Associate Justice Joseph - Rucker Lamar had the distinction of being one of the few members of the court appointed by a President of opposite political faith. President Taft ap pointed him in 1910 with only two precedents for such action, those of Justices Jackson and Lurton. . Justice Lamar was born in Ruck ersville,T Elbert county, Ga., October 14, 1857. He attended the Universi ty of Georgia and later Bethany Col lege, where he was graduated in 1877. He attended the law school at Wash ington and Lee University, and "was admitted to the: bar at Augusta, Ga., li 1878. He lived at Augusta until appointed. . -f,, .ft ;v Funeral In Atlanta Wednesday. Washington, ' Jan. " 3. The Su preme Court adjourned Immediately when it met at noon, Until Thursday. Several of the justices will attend the funeral of Justice Lamar Wednesday at Atlanta. i MAPLEWOOD WONT BE EXTENDED WESTWARD Adminisfi'ation Plans to Enlarge Cemetery oh East! And South, May or Says City of the Dead to Be ; Third Larger, Probably Chief Burgess Has No Idea of Cost Yet Mayor Sutton this morning stated that reports that Maplew6od ceme tery was to be extended on the west were incorrect. It had been rumor ed that the administration intended acquiring property between the cem etery and Queen street with the .idea of ultimately 'extending" it to' 'the main thoroughfare.' Mr. Suttonthinks, he said, that land on the east and south of Maple- wood will be purchased for -the" nec essary enlargement. The -Aldermen at the regular meeting of Council. to night are expected to discuss "the matter, but, it is doubtful if definite action will then be taken Probably there will be added to the cemetery ground in area approx imately one-third of the size of the cemetery as it now is. Mr. Sutton could give no -estimate of the cost. sAyjanumisto lE BAJ) WEHHER tlONTH Local Weather prognosticators pre dicted that January ..will be a bad month, so far as weather is concern ed, or Eastern Carolina. Turner's Almanac, for many, many years the "standby" probably of some of the alleged "goosebone' i prognosticators, and usually fairly reliable to say the least, is said to prophesy as follows: . Wind and showers from 1 to 3; snow and cold from 4 to 8; damp, blustery from 9 to 13; pleasant from 14 . to 17; unsettled from 13 to 22; showery from 21 to 26; wind and rain from 27 to 31. , Almost Hundred and Forty 'Thousand Dollars Chang ed Hands In Addition 'to Transfer In Which: Act ual Figures Are Obscure A great big business was done in real estate in Lenoir county, last month. Town property to the value of $42,f 75 and country property to the value Jf $95,471, a total of $138,. 246, the records show to have chang ed hands. There, were 99 warrantee deeds recorded. Besides .the actual figures named in deeds,' a number of transfers were made, the considera tions of which it is impossible to get at, as In cases where "'omlnB,, corP--siderations of on dollar,' etc., are namd. and in '"love and affection" papers and the like. Then, too, some transfers have not been put on the record yet. At least . one big one, calling for $16,000, is known ot. The most paid for a town lot in the month, as shown by the records, waa $12,500, and the most for a par cel of rural property $11,447. The officials believe the realty business of December was the largest In the his tory of the county; but it would re quire untold work to go through the books to verify this. ' ' Among the recent property trans fers of more than passing interest was the sale of the Owen Smith res idence and lot on Heritage street to G. F. Simmons, for $4,000., Mi1. Simmons, it is understood," will build a brick stable on the ground after removing the dwelling. ' T ,- BRIEFS IN THE NEWS ' NEIGHBORING PLACES Mrs. Mary H. Tolson, 65, a well- known New, Bern woman, is dead. She was a sister of David, L. Fer guson of Pink Hil, this county, and is survived by her husband, several children and numerous other rela tives. .- 1 An aged white woman giving Wel don as her honre, stranded in' NeW Bern, was taken -in charge by the Salvation Army Saturday to be re turned home. She stated that she had joined the . American Rescue Workers at another place and was told to go to New Bern td meet an officer, who would install her as an alms-seeker. . The American Rescue Workers are not operating in this section now, having gotten in ill re pute in Kinston and other, places. , Asa Biggs ; left - Greenville where he had been located as editor of .the Reflector, to go to Fayetteville , to take a similar position on the News, n' morning paper, Sunday morning. Biggs Was a sailor before becoming a member of the Fourth Estate.' BIG DRAINAGE PROJECT, FOR CARTERET COUNTY New Bern, Jan, 3. Announcement has been' made that 30,000 acres of swamp land in Carteret county own ed by the Allison heirs, the State and others, jointly, is. to be sold for re clamation. The State's share is val ued . at $13,000. A Savannah, Ga., dredging company is expected to drain the land. .The reclamation ivork will be the largest attempted ih this State probably, save the Mat tamuskeet undertaking, now-nearirig completion. v CONGRESS GETS BACK TO THE OTD TUESDAY . Washington, Jan. 2-ongreas re convenes Tuesday ' to begin serious consideration : of momentous legisla tion confronting it. Before the hol iday recess little was accomplished beyond organization and extension of the emergency war revenue law. During the preliminary two weeks there were assurances on every hand that foreign relations and prepared ness would be the dominating feat ures of tV.e session. At Crbatair, WKefe He Had ' Been Hobnobbing With CeTebriffesIfetrayed by Wotnini-iSaid- to "Have Abscond With" $100,0b0 Detectives passed through Kinston Sunday night with Vernon W.' Pugh, alleged embezzler of $110,000 from, the ,. Dupont Powder Company, en route to Virginia. He is said to have, with, the aid of. two accomplices, swindled the Dupont company out of the money while . In the company's employ 'at the Hopewell, Va., plant. One of the others accused Is said to have been arrested and a "line" haa SSSh had on the other. When Pugn left Hopewell ' 'some weeks ago with hi spoils, alleged to have been sAcored by payroll mani pulations, ; he . came to the Croatan section of Eastern Carolina, beyond ' New Bern on the Norfolk Southern ' Railroad. . There he went under the ' alias of "Fred M. Scott" and pretend- -ed to be a lumber man of Savannah, .'' Ga. ' For some days he was a member of a hunting party at Croatan, with no less personages than CoL W. T. Dortcht United States Marshal, and . . Representativa Matt Allea of. Golds- .' boro as his fellows. It is said that ' Pugh even slept with the Marshal. . He had money fn big rolls And in sisted on paying bills that the party made. He was A "good fellow" all around, ' It seems that he "butted in" with the sportsmen At their camp. Reynold Allen of Kinston, brother to Aasemblyman - Allen, -was also - with the. party.. He casually mentioned in conversation at! the camp one day an Incident fn whkn a friend of his had : . figured at Hopewell. Pugh spoke up remarking that he knew the person. It developed later that the friend of ' Allen was the' Attorney who' had suc ceeded , in reducing - Pugh's bond be fore, he forfeited it by skipping from Hopewell. t '' It waa not until , the party broke up and Representative Allen was back in Goldsboro that he and the oilier members discovered the iden tity of "Scott" : He was telling , friends 'about the rthiarkabte liber ality of the stranger who' had made the hunters' Acquaintance At Croatan. A bystander instantly produced a pic ture., .".Is .that.the erson t", he-ask ed., v Allen immediately : recognized the likeness of "Scott." The . man. with the picture was one of a dozen detective's scouring the section for Pugh. Two or three were in Kin ston about the Same time seeking the absconder.; . ... Jhe man was located at Croatan and made, a prisoner. , He- had gone to that isolated neighborhood because , he knew that he was being searched for in all' the towns of Virginia and the' Carolinas. Mr. Allen - remem- , bered,' after being made Acquainted with the fellow's identity, that lie seemed to know very little about lum- ' bering. The party had immediately guessed : that there' was somethrmg out-of-the-ordinary about "Scott" when he was first introduced. , Ho might be an escaped convict, or a Ger man spy, or a secret service man of Some sort, they, conjectured. When Pugh first disappeared, the detectives flocked into resorts main- v tained by women in ' a, number of . towns. Pugh's weakness for the op- -posite sex was known to them. It was a demi-monde who dropped a hint as to his -whereabouts and sent the whole . crew scampering to '' this . section. "A friend of; hers," - she said, "was somewhere . in Eastern Carolina, but she could not locate him." .' It wae stated that Pugh had a bad reputation before going with the Du Pont Company, with whom he secur ed a position through false recom mendations., ' It became known today that neith er Representative Allen nor Colonel Dortch much relished the business f informing against Pugh. They could not hold back any information which they were asked to give, s.ea V at would have been abctti. t' a f " in the crime, but it (Cor.'.inueJ on I