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VOL.XVII.No. 191
UNITED STATES HAY
HMD UPON pUTflNS ' TOVtEASEIE
jja.lihjmijui.imi ui
President In Direct Charge
pected .to Take a HandReport JVom Penfield,vliak-
v Ing Unofficial Inquiries
Doubt About Submarining of Liner Persia, On Which
McNeely, Consular Agent, Was Drowned Confer
ences of Wilson and Secretary of State and Stone, and
jCabinet Meetings When Note Will Be Sent to Be De
termined Today, Probably
.' (By the United Press)
Washington, Jan. 4. President
Wilson took charge of the crisis over
submarine operations, when he re
turned here at 7:41$ a. m. today with
tys .bride, from Hot Springs, Va.
Congress also convened today, with
a promise of taking a prominent paijt,
in the International denouement .
The President's immediate plans
- $r(Volve a. eonference with Secretary
Jnsing, : cabinet meetings and a
--V conference with Senator Stone, the
chairman of the foreign relations
committee.."'.:,';-
The principal point to be deter
mined today is 'whether the' govern
i ment will protest , immediately or
wait .for further information. It
' may a be made immediately, . in the
hope of stopping the almost daily
slaughter. - -Ambassador . Penfield's
report upon his unofficial inquiries
into the Persia's sinking is awaited
eagerry, . Officials , still feel some
doubt whether the ship was submar
ined, and this further clouds the w-
. sue.
, ' . . . r
: Warlike Scenes In Washington; ",,:.;
Officials Await Final Reports,
v : Veterans, of .Congress, likened eon
' ditions today to those preceding the
Spanish war.. The steps being taken
are of the most ominous nature. The
: President has sought the counsels of
Congress to prepare for co-operation
' in case of a breach of relations with
central powers comes. The gravity
K of the situation is marked in all offi
cial circles. '.The government will
1 hold back until positive information
comes of, the details of the Persia's
linking. Congressional leaders will
, attempt to hold back debate tend!-
to make the difficult case more dan
: ' gerous until then.' ,
. President Says Situation Is Grave.
President Wilson this morning is-
sued a statement admitting the grav
ity of the situation. He declared he
is co-operating with Secretary Lans-
ing to obtain the full facts, and will
act then ' immediately. .'Chairmen
Stone of the Senate and Flood of the.
House, Foreign relations Committee,'
were called in conference. J. .
Scenes of Horror Described.
- London, Jan. 4. 'Scenes of horror
, preceded the final plunge of the Per
sia,' it is T-reported. The ship turned
turtle While the boats were getting
; way. Monster. .Waves washed, a
wore from the decks., i Only i twelve
of the. eighty, first-class passengers
.were saved. .- . ' .
The owners of ,the Glengyle, anoth
, er : big ship tecently torpedoed, say
ihe carried only five passengers,
"their . nationality unknown. -
Germany 'JShocked." :
" j Py CARL W. ACKERMAN,
: r 'CUnited Press Staff. Correspondent)
. Berlin, ..Jan.. 4. Regret is univer i
saUyexpressed Jiere over , the vsink
ihg of the Persia, just as the effort
was 'culminating 'for -Vie repair of
Teutonic-American relations. It had
been believed the submarine contro
versy was settled. The sinking of
the Persia was a hock to the public!
Comment is being withheld for fur-,
ther informaWon. -
TODAY'S SALES ON'
' TJiE-COTTON MARKET
r , Frc-m ?0"to ?5 bales 6f cotton r
' 'Ji fcre today,, by. buyers' reports.
at prices ranging from'O J-2 to It
- cents. New York futures quotations
; were:' - . Opert ' "
January . - i , . . . . ;;,U23
March . . . . . y. . . . , ... 12.61
y .. : .12.75
July '.. ....i2.9
October 19 ni
1
SECOND
f!AI(E M IPIhlEDIATE
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tTT-.f. vv.! 1.1"? f
of Situation Congress Ex-
Eagerly Awaited Yet Some
, ,
AN INTERESTING
WEEK ON EXCHANGE
Heaviest Buying In March. On New
York Cotton Market In Weeks-
Liverpool Prices Resumed. Soaring.
c (Totftfr GetUng SUple to England
. High Stimulation of the Market
. . v (Special to The Free Press)
New York, Jan. 4.-With the Jan
uary notices out of the way on Mon
day of last week the market has act
ed according to schedule. - March
sold at 12.22 at the opening Mon
day, and at 12.62 today, with a gain
of thirty points,, showing about the
advance sustained by the rest of the
list. : - -'
v The week has proved extremely
interesting, in that there has devel
oped the heaviest buying in March
that has taken place in any one
month since the heavy accumulation
in -July about five weeks ago. - In
three days it 'is estimated that one
firm took over 60,000 bales March
from the market, and this 1 cotton
was obtained with very little diffi
culty. Just what this buying Vepre
sents is a natter of conjecture, rne
fact that it took place in March, a
near position, instead of May or Ju
ly, would suem to Indicate that the
buyers' stand ready to take up and
pay for the cotton upon delivery. If
it were a speculative operation it is
reasonable to assume, that a later
position would have been chosen.
: -The buying of so large a quantity
of cotton . had a decided influence on
sentiment, inasmuch as with the Jan
uary liquidation out of the Way, Liv-
erpool prices resumed their upward
trend. Sufficient selling takes place
on every advance, from .Southern
sources, owing to the enormous quan
tity of cotton ' at ports and interior
towns, to make a rather slow, creep
ing market, but the undertone shows
decided resistance, and reports from
the south indicate that an improved
demand for cotton is very Tikely with
the turn of, the year.- -, ,
In addition to the buying of March
referred to above. Liverpool strad
dle .interests have beeM very heavy
buyers of, near positions. 'It will be
recalled that a great deal of cotton
was bought in Liverpool and sold , in
New York1 many months, ago, when
differences were comparatively mod
erate. With jshins . carrying .grain
and ammunition rather than' cotton,
and .'freight rates exhobitantly high,
the cost of getting . cotton', to . Liver
pool is so great that that market has
advanced to about 3c over New
York. This advance abroad has re
turned so great a profit, the houses
interested in the straddle have been
taking their profits and shifting, the
same operation forward v into July
August This position in Liverpool
is selling at a discount of about 40
points .imJer"tMarch-April, while they
ate able to sell July 'in New York at
almost 40 points above the price at
which they have been covering their
March. s "
. This demand for the near positions
has had a "decidedly stimulating ef
fect on the whole market, and many
who 'were not inclined ' to take the
buying side hef an: the holidays now
look for a more active . trade with
the pew year. xWfth' advancing prices
for all , commadities, .i we trust this
hope wHl . .be justified f by coming
events, and we take this opportunity
of, extending ' to you our best wishes
j jr a most prosperous ' 1916.
f ' ' . '. ' ; - .
! Col. "Fred. G-Ms.. the noted histori
' $n of Raleigh, will address the Car
i olina Club in Greenville tonight. , ;
EDITION
MOIENEGRINS ARE
IBNGlS
i unuLii .
H1 fl-'-l'- M "
Franz Josefs Men Attempt
JojyaHiBouijtMii.;, Held
By Enemy, From Which
They Make Austrians'
Hold On Base Insecure
By HENRY WOOD,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Rome, Jan. 4. A desperate and
important struggle is raging near the
Austrian naval base of Cattaro be
tween Austrian naval and. land for
ces and the Montenegrins.
The Austrians are attempting to
capture Mount Lowcen, retention of
which by the Montenegrins, threat
ens the Austrians' hold on Cattaro.
BABY PLAYED WITH
. - GUN? FATAL RESULT
Burlington, Jan. 3. The eighteen-
months'-old child of Ray Morton an
employe of the Lakeside mill at this
place, was instantly killed this' morn
ing when a gun it was playing with
discharged its load into the left eye.
ATLANTA MAN IS KILLED IN A
ROW WITH WIFE'S, RELATIVES.
Atlanta, Ga Jan. 2.J. B. Spier,
38, of Atlanta, was shot and killed
on the street here late today after
what the police said was an alterca
tion between him. his divorced wife.
her father and brother, over posses
sion of the Spier's nine-year-old lit
tie daughter, Dorothy. ' Dr. J. V
Bishop of Burwell, Ga., Mrs. Spier':
father, and her brother, H. A, Bish-
op of Atlanta, who were with her,
were arrested.
FIREMEOCSHOTEL
IN CONNECTICUT CITY
One Killed and Six Injured at Wa
terbury Many Suffering ; ., From
Expoeure Guests Leaped ' Four
Stories As Structure Burned
Dead Victim a Matt Cold Struck
Survivors
(By . the United Press)
Watei'bury, Conn., Jan. 4.-One
man was killed and six injured and
many are suffering from cold and ex
posure as the result of a -fire which
destroyed the. Conneebicut Hotel here
today. Many persons leaped "from
I the fourth story. , , ;
"i(By the United Press)
SWEDISH LINER SEIZED
BY GERMANS.
, Copenhagen, Jan. 4 The Swe-
. dish liner Ceylon has been seiz
ed by the Germans and escorted
into Swinemunds, it is reported.
COLLISION AT -GIBRALTAR,
SHIP SUNK.
London, Jan. 4. The British
liner Geelong, of the Peninsular
&. Oriental Line, has been sunk
in '-collision with the ; British
steamer Benvilston off Gibralta.
All hands were saved. The dam
age to 'the. Benvilston is vnre
' ported.. -
MRS. WILSON HAS HER
FIRSOOME-fiREAKAFST
New Mistress. ef the White House
Arrived at Executive Mansion To
day and Took Personal ' Charge
Has Task of Arranging Numer
ous Wedding Gifts as Initial Work
On Premises'
' ' ; (By f the United ; Press)
; Washington, . Jan.'.' 4.--The new
mistress of the' White House . took
personal charge today; ', The first
breakfast of the" couple ! "at home"
was bad .this -morning. The ifirst
work confronting the bride was ar
ranging the scores of wedding pres
ents. . . 5 . . : - '
WNSTON, N. O, TUESDAY,
THE CONCRIPTION
BILL HEADY, IRISH
not included: said
Sir John Simon Quits Cabi
net as Result of Oppo
sition to Measure
DERBY RECRUITS CALLED
Half pillion Unmarried El
igibles Who Refused to
Enlist Under Proposi
tion to Be Forced Into
Service Now ,
(By the United Press)
London, Jan. 4. The cabinet to
day finished the conscription bill. It
is now ready for f introduction. 'jThe
bill is the result,, it is announced, of
the failure of" the - Derby recruiting
scheme, under which over half a mil
lion available single men refused to
enlist. These will be called by con
scription. ,v-
Simon Resigns From Cabinet .
rPremier, Asquith today confirmed
reports that Sir John Simon, secre
tary of State for Home Affairs, had
resigned from the cabinet, owing to I
tha opposition : ta'i the conscription
campaign. The public is assured that
Ireland will not be included in con
scription. .
Derby Recruits to Colors Feb. 8th.
Sintrle men between 23 and '26
years of age, enlisted in the Derby
campaign were today called to the
colors, to report on February 8.
WOULD HAVE ;UNITED
ZiMERtCAS FORTIFIED
; IfAGALNSfTHEWORLtf
Washington, Jan. 3. Possibility bf
a 'comibinetl attack by two foreign
powers to break down the new Pan
American doctrine evolved from
maintenance by the United States
and acceptance by South and Central
American Republics of the Monroe
Doctrine , is one of the fundamental
bases for the national defense plans
formulated by army and navy sfcrat
egists. They believe it essential in
the formulation of a national mili
tary policy, it was learned tonight,
to provide against the eventuality of
an assault upon the doctrine by eith
er an Asiatic or a European .power,
or even by an alliance of two such
powers., which might hurl forces si
multaneously at the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts. '
A navy equal in strength to those
of any two world powers, except
Great Britain, and an army prepar
ed to fight for the integrity of the
Pan-American idea anywhere in i Pan
American idea' anywhere iri Pan-Am
erica is the ultimate aim of the plans
of the military, experts. t ' V
BELIEVES SMALL BOYS
ROBBED MAN'S SAFE
J. F. TJavis; a North ' street" '" fish
dealer who complained to the author
ities Monday that the safe in his
place was robbed of about $130 some
time . between Saturday night at the
closing. hour and Monday .morning,
stated today that he entertains sus
picion against small boys, not 'named.
: No -especial pains had been, taken
n closing the safej jt is -reported, and
access to it for the, thieves, who got
into the building without trouble, was
easy, it is supposed. No arrest had
been made this morning. S
AGAIN HERE IS , THE QUESTION
"WHAT IS. AN AMATEUR 7"
Chicago,. Dl., 'Ja&:4Wbat is an
amateur T " was the . question before
the U.! S. Golf Association - which is
to meet in annual convention here
today. Whether )a man employed by
sporting goods house is or can be
an .amateur will , be discussed. . The
ease of Francis Ouimet .'will be con
sidered. "Whether' Ouimet, by being
transferred from tbo golf department
to another department., by his . firm,
was placed . above criticism, will be
iscusseir ' '4
JANUARY 4, 1916
CONGRESS INTENDS
TO DISCUSS JiABlTS
OF ALLIES AS WELL
Won't Stop at Threshing
Out Crisis Occasioned by
Submarines' . Activities
75,000 Cases of Pellagra
x Last Tear . ,
Washington, Jan. 4. Committoe
consideration of speeches 1 on the
floor of Congress is planned on the
international situation. Sharp at
tacks on- the submarine campaign
and the Allies' commercial .interfer
ences a,re certain. , -
The . navy program hearing begins
tomorrow, and the army hearing on
Thursday. The Senate naval com
mittee today - considered ' Tillman's
bill for a Federal armor plant.
Blue Asks $100,000 to: Fiffbt vJ
Pellagra. . '
' Seventy-five thousand pellagra
cases, causing . a : tenth as many
deaths, occurred last year, Surgeon
General Blue today , reported to Con
gress, seeking .a 100,000 appropri
ation to investigate rural sanitation
as the cause. -'
To Keep Navy Officers ' 1 -
From Talking, '
Naval officers will not be allowed
to talk . in public, it was learned to
day, when Secretary Daniels refused
to allow Admirals Fiske and. Knight
to address the Chicago Commercial
Club. , . " ' -'
Senate Pays Respect to Lamar. .
The Senate today swore in Sena'
tor Smith of South Carolina and ad
journed .'out-. Of respect to the last
Justice Lamar of Georgia. ' ' .
VOTE BY TOWNSHIPS
,' " FOR
Advice of Commissioner " Wood, the
County's Good Roads Enthusiast
.Part of the .Townships .Would Cer
tainly "Carry," ., and Remainder
Would Very Soon Come "Tumbling
After," He Says
County Commissioner D. 'W. Wood
of LaGrange, who -invariably gets
off something on the subject of good
roads when he comes here to attend
the Board, meetingson first Mondays,
yesterday -declaretu he , would like to
see immediate IWil issue elections by
townships for beoUr highways. He
was frank to sa
he does ' not I
..A'..1l1v jfmwvw
believe a county! issue would' carry
ust now. There' are certain persons
in the county, comprising a numerous
clement of the voters,' opposed to a
ond . issue ' because- they, cannot be
come reconciled to the necessity for
improving the roads in " Klnston and
MoBeley .Hall townships -first, "Mr.
Wood stated.' The- Board's policy of
building permanent sand-clay high
ways in Kinston and Moseley Hall
before .beginning work in the other
townships was prompted by the im-
portanca of .Kinnton and LaGrange
over the other communities, he said.
The two towns arc the "hubs" in the
county.
"If we vote by townships some
townships ' will certainly vote f o?
onds." Mr." Wood said. "I wager
that before the work wis completed
in the progressive townships the oth
ers -would be Hum bling over them
selves to get a new; election."
, Commissioner ' Wood, commenting
jon the discontent in Kinston. over the
Recorder's Court, "stated that he hop
ed 'no one would get the opinion thai
UjiRecorder's Courts are not satis
factory. , The ? one in ; LaGrange, W
aid, is very' efficient. "Recorder
Joyner is a very capable man, and
the Court is ; self-sustaining. . ;The
entire ;oitizenry of the township of
Moseley Hall is .united In its praise
for the institution.- " ' ";;!.;. '
WILMINGTON HAS , -
"'NEW SHIRT FACTORY.
Wilmington-, Jam ai-The Warning
ton Shirt Company," a new enterprise
for this city, has leased the plant of
the (; Willard Rag , & Manufacturing
Co., and in a short time w$l begin
the manufacture of shirts,, its entire
output for two years having already
been contracted far, '
6 PAGES TODAY
COMMISSIONERS DID
NOT -ADOPT MEDICAL
INSPECTION SCirOLS
Declined to Appropriate
for Work Board of Ed
ucation Agreed to Pay
$100 Service Cannot Be
Be Had In Near Future
By not taking action either way
the Board of County Commissioners
Monday killed the movement ' for
medical inspection of school children
In. this county. The Board, x was
proposed, should pay about $200 In
the event the Board of Education
and the school authorities of Kington
and LaGrange should appropriate
fJOO between them,' apportioned like
this: Board of Education, 100; Kin
ston, 576; - LaGrange, $25. The
Bonrd of E1ucsition assented.' It Is
buiieved the Kmston Board of School
Trustees would . have, donated $75
readily.' There is small reason why
the LaGmnge trustees should not
have' furnished the nominal sum of
tot. ' G. M. Cooper of the State
Board of Education . was here last
Friday in the interest of the medical
inspection work now being conduct
ed under the . Board'; supervision,
The work is now being carried on in
Alamance and Rockingham counties
with agreeable results. Dr. Cooper
had hoped to send a man here about
the middle of the month for a stay
of 30 or 40 days to inspect every
white school child in the county, ren
dering a report on every child in
spected.'. . ' "' ' ' "- '
It is said ..the Board - of Comnvis
sioners reason for declining o ac
cept the proposition was that "there
are : too many - things ahead of ,the
wunty" to be provided ior from the
public rfund9. ' ,
4', It, is. known that if the county has
medical school inspection "under the
arrangement proposed it" will be
the not very near future.
in
WINTER OF GHASTLY
HORRORS AWAITS THE
SOLDIERS IN SERBIA
By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD,
Monastic, Servia. Dec. 24. (By
Mail.) 'Balkan soldiers suffer more
than those of any other nation. How
the r Bulgarians, the newcomers, will
conduct their medical corps,' remains
aJ!' l.- u.L -.-.. "-rir.a-i.. s - i . 'l
vo ue wvm, y uiier , unposttn jumost
insurmountable- difficulties on an ar
my in the Balkans,, owing to the few
roads and the almost , incessant mud
and rain. ;The Germans and the Aus
trians, iwitih their automobile ambu
lances, have dodged the' hardest' and
woret parts of Servia. The German
line extends down into Servia only
60 miles and the Germans seem sat
isfied with that, v There is little
chance of their, coming further. .The
Austrian line reaches only slightly
deeper into the ltitle Ally .country.
The Austrian's and the Germans ap
pear 'to have the single intention of
connecting with the Bulgarians, if
possible, in ;the northeastern tip of
Servia, and avoiding the Bad Lands.
But the Bulgarians will have vno
such easy going. Their wounded and
sick must be carried on springless
wagons drawn," oftentimes, by oxen
which , plod through the knee deep
mud in a slow and dismal procession.
Some of the difficulties that will be
faced j by the Bulgarian s may - be
measured by what I have seen along
the roads near Monasttr and in the
hospitals here. Most of the Servian
wounded suffer from 'gas gangrene,
owing to the Jlack of ettention impos
ed by the long, slow cart; journeys.
Small wounds that would have meant
only a week In the hospital if prompt
medical attention- could have been
given, are killing men -with pain or
poison. American aa well as Ser
vian doctors , are helpless against
gaa gangrene. Quinine is being tried
in Servia now and wounded men are
being given : doses almost unbeliev
ably large and potent and the doc
tars fancy that . the gas gangrene
victims , are helped slightly by the
new treatment. Explosive ; bullets
are another cause of horrible suffer
ing in the Balkan fighting; k
PRICE TWO CENTS
; ;; .tFTVE .CENTS CK;T2A!M3
COUNCIL WOULD AS!1
OF RECORDER ABOUT
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City Clerk Instructed Draft
Letter of Inquiry to
WHYSOUCITOR AP?LS
And Why State Warrants
Are Issued In the Cases
' Where, City Ordinances
v Are .Violated san.d Other
- Questions Propounded .:
Drafts of three or more ordinances
from -Recorder Wooten which he de
sired to have pasBod by City. Council
were" promtpiy' tabled -heft -f?ried
before Council at its regular meeting
Monday night - Members of the Board
of Aldermen laughed. According to
one' member . of Council, they thought
the 'Recorder .was trying to "throw
sand in 'their eyes." The proposed
ordinances, it was said by. one city
official today,. were ftxot worth. prinW
ing.? ,They pertained to the machin
ery of the Court. xQne .directed tha
Chief of ,Ilice, who is clerk to tha
Court, to pay over to the proper re
ceiving officer all funds without di
rectly settling with the Solicitor of
the Court for his fees or salary. There
is an ordinance now which covers this .
point and the money is turned into
the city treasury to be disbursed from
there, The Free Press , is informed. '
Alderman Webb moved for and thai
Council passed .an order directing tha
City Clerk to wrW ttfieJiecorder ask
ing him to submit";to Council uifori
mation on the following: - ,
Why State warrants are issued in
violations of city ordinances.
Why a solicitor is allowed to draw
fees' in trials for violations of muni
cipal ordinances. 1 : ' -1 '
By whose "invitation" a aollcibof
appears 'in cases which would tome
within 'the jurisdiction -of .a magis
trate were there n6 Recorder's Court,
The letter is expected to be writ- 1
ten' by. Clerk Coleman this afternoon.
One administration member said to
day ' that the. reason why Solicitor
Shaw appears in cases .which a jus
tice of the peace could try is that
in the past, when the Court was first ;
instituted he was "requested" to ap
pear and that no one has ever Stopped
him from appearing. ;The Solicitor,
the official supposes, does nat realize
that in each case in which he ap
pears a seperate request is necessary.
,The problpg ofthe Court by the ad
ministration will be watched with in
terest. The hearty manner in which
has- been." started indicates that
there wall be no let up until the Court .
conforms in its procedure wifli what .
the -AldeTmen think 1b proper. ,
It- appears, - from the 'Ordinance
suggested by Judge , Wooten, men
tioned above,, that the.. Court .would
like to, rid itself of some of the re
sponsibility 1 for, the .Solicitor's .seal
prosecuting petty -misdemeanors
and the like. "
IRS. DELANEY GOES
;:J0,S0Sl PRISON
(By the lEasteAi' Press)
New Barn, Jan. 4.-.Mrs. C. De
laney of Schnectady, TI,4 is here
to investigate the predicament of her
son, ,i Francis Delaney, ;accused of
flashing checks in -Norfplk, Raleigh,
Kinston and this city. plrs. Delan
ey said upon .arrival that wthen she
received a telegram fa&n the young
man ' stating, that hjkas in jail s'ae
declined to'accapt JbfeVrathfunea3 of
has story; thinking he -was scheming
to get money. ; Delaney married Dor
is Sheridan;,' a -fehoTus girl, in Kin
ston week before last he has gone
to fiewjyork.. She has declared he?
intention to "stick by" him when In
gets i out ;of trouble.- .
Mrs. .Delaney, the ? - - r.-r v .
will plead with the j ' 3 for 1
cy when, the you- - !; ;
to trial. .She ha3 c
thh:hs, to make - 1
I