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. TEE O'PtfEB ': ; rj h3 BR EE TUB WBATHC2 Fair tonliM n J ' hiuih ,coidr . , ; 4 18 " !, JU. .gev4..ry irkSST" KINSTOfy N. C TIfURSDAT, FEBRUARY 10, 1916 Tl -JTZZZT FOUR PACJES t :t t 1 1 VOL.XyjI.Np.220M SECOND EDITION PRICK TWO CENTS H arm iSnTflM am atn A rrjTiai isi A s: ATTHF i i ii in ii mi jii nil, rnrirr '.'iirrTiiTP rir UllLU MUMJ JJT CAROLINA'S 1AYMEN Dr. Lilly Presiding Ad; dresses by Prominent Speakers Today , IS THE BEST CONVENTION Far More Interest Than at Previous Gathering En rollment Expected to Go to 2,000 Delegates from All Over the State By D. T. EDWARDS, Free Press Staff Correspondent. Greensboro, Feb .10. Dr. D. Clay Lilly of Nashville, Tenn., presided at the big Laymen's meeting in West Market Street church today. He mad an address in which he showed the growing impetus the movement has gathered in all the cities he has 'visited.' There is much .more interest in this meeting than in the preceding convention six years ago. ; Dr. Liliy this morning called for ' Scripture texts showing biblical foun- dation for the movement. This was followed by a number of prayers Dr. Lilly referred to prominent laymen of the old testament and de clared that- the modern laymen have allowed this prominence to slip away from them., He sa& that reforma tion is at hand in which lays the prominence that is- to be restored through the enlarged service of lay- nen. . . 1 . " ' ' Dr. . Lilly Introduced Rev; George he Southern Baptist Convention, io- rdtA (it WVct Africa. - Tr. ftr. gave an interesting account of his work in equatorial Africa, telling of the wonderful effectiveness of physi cians in preparing the way for the breaching of God's word with con ' tinHnr . newer. His XDeriences brought sadness in that he found dif ficulty in convincing those people of his limitations. The work is calling for co-operation between Christian men, he said. ' The great audience sang "Rescue the Perishing," and Dr. Sylvester Newlin, pastor of the Friends church f High Point, spoke on the pastor's missionary opportunity. He was lis tened, to with much interest and ap ; plaus. i. Dr. Lilly suggested that the pastor, himself the leader, must be led. :The audience sang, "I Need 1 Thee Every Hour," after which was introduced Dr. C. J. Thompson of Ra leigh, who in a strong address,: spoke of the present world crisis and its meaning to us in America. He de clared some present day facts in the mission world to be . transition which the non-Christian world is un dergoing and new attitude toward Christianity as a turning away from . prejudice to confidence. A great spi ritual awakening is very marked, he declared, and the present crisis is one evidence. He showed wherein the Christian world is . weak, and closed by showing our needs to be' a ChristfenriktB vision and compassion for thfe lost world and a self -giving. Denominational conferences. are to be held this afternoon and the regu lar program towght The. enrollment will probably, reach 2,000. Men are here from U parts of .the .State. . Scales Presides Over ..." f Opening Session. ' . ' 1 ' " Greensboro, Feb.. 10 Twelve hun dred delegates were present last ' night at the opening session of the convention tthe Laymen's Mission ary Movement in North Carolina in West j Market ' Street . Methodist church. 1$ is expectedtfiat the num ber will o to 1,500. by" tonight. Hon. A M Scales, chairman of the xe Jv cutive; committee - of the convention, Presided over the first session in the .. absence of Dr. D. Clay Lilly of Ten nessee, who had not arVived. Dr.: John N. .Mills of, .Washington, D. C, a noted lecturer, addressed the convention Wednesday night. "A Tourist's View of Missions.; Rev. J. A. TJ. ftipley of China spoke"" on "Winning China. for Christ." Rev.' NAVY AND MEKQIANT; MARINE. CHIEF NEEDS Nation Needs Them Worse "tii Anything, Daniels Telia United States Chamber of Commerce- Constructive Program of Admin istration Will Result In Complete Navy Shortly in (By the United Press) Washington, Feb. JO. A merch ant marine and adequate navy are the Nation's chief needs. Secretary Daniels today told the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. The Administration program is a con structive one, he said, and .by" 1921 the United States will have a com plete navy. GERMAN SEAPLANES ATTACK KENT COAST London, Feb. 9. Two women and one child were injured this after noon when two German sea planes raided the Kentish coast, dropping bombs. Three missiles fell on the outskirts of Ramsgate and four near a school at Broadstairs. The mate rial damage is said by the war office to have been confined to the shatter ing of glass. A number of naval and military aeroplanes and seaplanes ascended to attack the Germans, but ithey im mediately retreated. SCHMIDT MUST GO TO .CHAIR, SAYS GOVERNOR (By the United Press) Whitman Refuses to Interfere In Execution of Unfrocked Priest Convicted of Murder of Sweetheart -Will Die Sometime During Week Beginning Monday in the Electric Chair - J f ?y the United Press) . . Albany, N. Y., Feb. 10 Governor Whitman has refused to interfere in the execution of Hans Schmidt, the unfrocked priest, who murdered An na Aumueller, set for next week. Execution Next Week. Albany, N. Y., Feb. 9, Hans Schmidt, the former priest convicted of the murder of Anna AumuMer in New Yoirk jn, September, 1913, must pay the penalty f of his crime in the electric chair in Sing Sing prison during the week of Feb. 13. Gover nor Whitman tonight declined to in terfere with, the execution. NEWS OF THE DAY j , . E OTHER CITIES The proposition to consolidate four rural schools in Beaver-Dam town ship, Pitt county, for which a spec ial election was held, failed to car ry. The advocates lacked five votes. , The police at Washington have 16 gallons of whisky, a revolver, and a pocketful of ammunition and "Hhe Baltimore Kid,", colored. The "kid" had the whisky put off at a rural station and ' drove ' into Washington with it. The police were on to the ruse. ' Mrs. Fannie Williams has been keeper- of the CAven county poor house 29 years. She celebrated the anniversary by dining the commis sioners.;.. , y; r. ' ' ' Beaufort county will have, a coun ty . commencement of the public schools in March or April.- , Twenty dollars and the money which he had paid over for two berths was the award of Superior Court at New Bern to W. E. Turn bull, who asked $3,000 from the. Pull man Company. , Turnbull and his wife missed a train and the conduc tor lei others have the berths, but the Turnbulls caught it at another point. i . F. Love of Richmond, another of the speakers, had, for, his subject The Message and Mission of Christ' Allied meeting f of women, non-re-jfistered men arid colored people were in progress in other places at the same hour. -. r . ' ' ' Speakers for today are Rev. Geo. Greertif Africa; Rev. J. G. Dale of South Carolina Dr. Lilly, who will preside; Rev. C. J. Thompson of Ra ieigh; F S,,C; 1 'vaie,.T of AUar ""Cronk of Columbia. ". Pinson of Nash .ev. P..:W. Patton NOT TO BE HAD YET Reported In New York That German Commerce Destroyer Had Been Ta ken After, . Ung Figljt With British Battleship (By the United Press) Hamilton, Bermuda, Feb. 10. Nothing is known here yet of the re ported capture of the German com merce raider Roon, by the British battleship Drake, reported in New York dispatches, after a three-hour battle near the Bermudas. Reported Capture of Roon. New York, Feb. 10. It was report ed here last night that the German cruiser Roon, which is supposed to have directed the capture of the lin er Appam by the Moewe, had been captured by the British battleship Drake, together with two merchant ships in company with her. The re port said that the Drake took 32 of ficers and about 720 men. The scene of the capture was said to have been near the Bermuda islands. The Drake, it was stated, lost an officer and 18 men in a fight with the Roon, which lost a third of her comple ment. y A query to Hamilton, Bermuda, brought a reply that nothing was known there of the action and cap ture. STORES WERE TAKEN FROM STANDARD BIL TANKSHIP BY U-BO'T Washington Asks the Aus trian Government for Ex planation Captain De cfares Petrolite flew Am erican Flag (By the United Press) Washington. Feb. 10. A memor andum asking Austria to investigate and report on the action of a sub marine in stopping the Standard Oil tanker Petrolite has been sent by the State Department to Vienna. This action followed receipt of af fidavits from Captain Thompson, who said the vessel was flying the United States flag When stopped, btores Were taken off. ; i WOMAN SHOOTS TWO SONS AND SUICIDES Fort Worth. Texas. Feb. 9. Mrs. Nina Kelly, aged 28, shot her two sons, eleven and eight years of age, then killed herself here itoday.' One of the boys, physicians believe, will recover. Mrs. Kelly conducted a boarding house. The woman and her husband have been separated some time. ' '';'' ' NEARLY ALL COUNTIES f REPRESENTED AT THE -N. C. ROAD INSTITUTE ' (Special to The Free Press) Chapel Bill, Feb. 10. Nine-tenth of the counties in the State are now represented at : ttoo North Carolina Road Institute - in progress 'here. Among , the speakers so far have been Prof. Collier Cobb, -on the sub ject of "Good Roads n Other Lands," ,W. S. Fallis, Steam Shovels.f Pro fessor Williams, "Relationship f Su perintendents : and Engineers to Highway Commission8,"s and others. These and other experts led in dis cussion of various topics of interest to road builders. FISHERIES BUREAU IS I v FORTY-FIVE YEARS OLD. .Washington, Feb. i The 45th an niversary of its establishment was celebrated today by the United States Bureau of Fisheries. ! with the un veiling" of a' tablet in memory of its founder. Spencer Fullerton BairdV OF IOWA MAN HAD NO EFFECT ON BRANDEIS' CASE i i feay friends of President's Nominee for the Supreme Court Bench DIFFERENCE OF IDEAS Between HimselJ and Bos tonian All That Clifford Thome Proved, Declared Supporters of Lawyer Are Confident, Say (By the United Press) Washinjrton, Feb. 10. Brandeis' friends are confident of the outcome of the hearing on his fitness for the Supreme Court, as the result of the apparent failure of Clifford Thome, Iowa Railroad Commissioner, to im press the Senate judiciary sub-com mittee with his charges. The majority thought Thome sim ply proved that he and Brandeis were of different ideas about how to conduct the rate case, it is indicated. Statement by Thome Denied. J. W. Carmalt, Interstate Com merce Commission examiner, flatly contradicted a statement by Thome yesterday that , he (Carmalt) was surprised at an alleged statement by Brandeis that the railroads should have more money. Carmalt said he told this to Thorne himself. Brand era, said Carmalt, was employed to develop all sides of the case. PLENTY OF MATERIAL AT WEST RALEIGH TO BUILD UP COQD NINE 1 1 i ' ' ! (Special to The Free Press) West Raleigh. Feb. 10. -Fifty can. didates have shown up on the A. & M. diamond for the baseball team this year. Practice began Tuesday with a large number of players re porting, and a stiff batting practice was engaged in. Picking a team will be a rather difficult jab this year on account of the large number of play ers reporting who have had experi ence and with good records on high school teams. But it will more than likely be the case that members of last year's team wall have first op portunity to cinch the positions. Those of last year's team showing up were Evans and Webb-pitchers, Winston and Lewis, catchers, John son, first baseman, Hodgirt, second baseman, Wheeler," shortstop, and Thrash, outfielder. (By the United Press) FRENCH PREMIER IN ITALY. Rome, Feb. IOj- French Prem ier ArUitide Briand arrived today to confer with King Victor ma nueL ORISSA SAFE IN FRENCH PORT. . New York," Feb. 10. The Brit . ish. liner Orissa, rumored to have been -sunk t by m German com merce raider, baa put in at the. French port of St Nazaire. She was. crippled when she struck a rock. . ' , HOUSE TO SAIL ON 20TU. -London, Feb. 10. Cot House expects to sail for New York on February 29. He expects to see Premier jAnquitfy and Sir Edward Grey before sailing. PLOT TO GIVE AWAY . ARMY SECRETS. . , , Boston, ftb. . 10 Dictograph evidence laid to indicate a plot to betray the secret of Boston harbor fortifcations to the Ger mans, wiR be presented to the Federal Grand Jry. i i V ., ' r- ' JiT ' . " ' t.."- - ARMENIA RELIEF. Washington, Feb. 10-Senator Lode bas proposed an Armenian Re lief Day. v . BULLETINS GERMANS HAVE LOST HEAVILY ALONG THE LINES DP BRITISH it Y: U 'go; Casualties iin 10 000 More Than Allies Lost In game Sjector in Sep tember pH"cnsivc7r,iffht in; at Heights of Vimy . i 'i. . , ij , (By the United Press) London. Feb. 10. German losses, in the last ten days along some lines totalled sixty thousand more than the British lost in the September of fensive. The Frewh, counter attack ing, are seeking to capture Vimy Heights, overlooking Lens Douai, held by the Germans. No Montenegrins Armed New. ' Vienna, Feb. 10. The disurming of Montenegrin troops h:s been com pleted by the Austrians, it is said officially. Russians Gaining In Persia. Paris, Feb. 10. Russian troops are steadily pushing back the Kurds and Turks,' commanded by Germans, throughout Persia, it is reported. Turks Resume Massacres, Reported. (Geneva, Feb. 10.-The Turks have resumed the massacres of Armenians, according to dispatches received to day. Thousands of men and boys have been shot and many girls sent to Constantinople and sold into Tur kish harems, it is reported. BABY WEEK WILL BE IN THIS mi IS PROBABLE ' - - - ( . Mothers' Club Interested am Appoints Committee to Ask .Doctors Cooper ation National Observ ance Week of March 4th The sanction and interest of the Mothers' Club in Baby Week is tak en to mean tnat tne weeK, oegin- ning March 4, will be observed here. The observance, under the' auspices of the National Children's Bureau, will be Nation-wide, and most towns and c'ties of 'the size of Kiivston and larjrer will, participate. Tho Mothers Club Wednesday af ternoon appointed a committee to so licit the alrf of the physicians. The latter, as A body, several weeks ago announced their willingness to help. A program, it is expected, will be arranged by the club and the doc- tars jointly, and a campaign started to arouse the interest of the com munity in the matter. ' Misses Watson and Jennie Shaw. of the City Schools, talked to the club at the meeting Wednesday. They advised that children be kept from picture shows during the times when they; should be studying, and asked the mothers with children enrolled to visit the schools. Miss Shaw brought a suggestion from Superin tendent Caldwell that the club use its influence toward the employment of a community tnorse. BEV1DERE BROOKS OF t .WKTfRW, UNION DEAD ' (By the TJhHed 1 Press) h h ' New York, Feb. lO.Belvedere Brooks, vice-president and general manager of the Western Union Tele graph Company died today. NO STRINGS TO PRESENTS I ' TO EPISCOPALIANS, SAY New York, i. Feb. fl. The Protest ant Episcopal, Church will consider the acceptance ot Rockefeller Foun dation, donation for its university and hospital at Shanghai, China, pro vided that such acceptance fdoes not interfere in any way with our, own control of our church . Institutions,! according ,. ta resution, adopted here today by the board of foreign mission? cf th.; cha'-.-h. HITCHCOCK THINKS .,, ...HUGHES BEST MAN Former Poatmaster General Would Like to See Justice Nominated for Presidency Disclaims Telephone Conversation With Staunton, Van Man on That Subject, However (By the United Press) New York. Feb. 10. Although he denied flatly as purely a fictitious story of a telephone, conversation with II. Brown Allen of Staunton, Va., in which he was said to have de scribed a movement to nominate Jus tice Hughes for the presidency, F, II. Hitchcock, former postmaster gen eral, today said he is strongly in fa vor of Hughes' nomination if it can be brought about. He believes him the strongest candidate. REPORT OF TODAY'S COTTON MARKET . Eight bales of cotton had been sold on the local exchange by 3 o'clock to day. Prices ranged from 91-2c to 11 l-4c. New York futures quota tions were: Open - 2:120 March 12.05 12.02 May 12.25 12.22 July 12.39 12.37 October ,..12.40 12.42 December 12.64 12.55 POCTORS 10 MEET AT - THE CASWELL SCHOOL Second District Physicians Will Be Guests of Dr. C B. McNairy on March 8, When Convention Is Held Here Dinner at the Institution- May Be More Than 109 In At tendance - i The sessions of the Second District Medical Society, to hold a one-day meeting here on March 8, will be con ducted at tho Caswell Training SchobV "DrTC. B. McNairys invit ation to the Lenoir County Medical Society to use the Central building at the Rchool has been accepted. Chil dren of the school will render a pro gram of some sort for the hundred or more visiting physicians at 10:30 a. m., nfteT which the society will be dined by Snpt. McNairy. The busi ness session will be held in the after noon. Drs. McNairy. Stanley Whltaker and George Kornegay are a commit tee from' the Lunoir County Society to receive the vistting M. Ds., and assist in entertaining them. New Bern, Greenville, Washington, More head City and Beaufort and a num ber of smaller towns will be repre sented at the meeting. HUGHES NOT IN RACE FOR PRESIDENT, SAYS Washihjftorf, Feb. 9. Representa tive Slemp, chairman of the Virgin ia Republican committee, today made public a letter from Justice Hughes declaring: "I am totally opposed to the use of my name in. coniection with the nomination and to the se lection or instruction of any dele gates in my interest directly or re motely. " TRANSATLANTIC TRIP i WIH;BE MADp IN VERY FW HOURS, PREDICTS London, Feb. 10.-In twenty years travelers will go from New York to London in fifteen hours on giant aero planes capable of flying 200 miles an hour, Claude Graham-White declared in a published article today. - '- WOULD INVESTIGATE AND INDICT BRIDGE PLAYERS. Madisonville, Ky., Feb. 9.-;-Society matrons of MadisonviHe were per turbed today over instructions de livered to the Hopkins county grand jury to investigate all bridge parties and "indict every woman, no. matter who she la, if she is caught playing cards for booty." - PECULIAR FACTS ABOUT WELL KNOWN PEOPLE. x Washington, dJ C, Feb. 10. Dr. Gary T. Grayson, president Wilson's physician, wanted to go to Europe with the JJftd Cross surgeons, but the Pre ,ifnt wmilJn't release him. LUSIPA MATTER OFF WAITING UST ilJINllrjlEK M J St . VI' Formal ExcKange In few pays ExiecteJ tQWin4 Up Irxcidcrit.v WILSON PACKS TILLMAN In Plan to Rush the Armor Plate Plank.Bill Reven ue for Defense Up Be fore Ways and Means ,CommJttee$uarv FJrst (By United Press) Washington, Feb. 10. Official Washington expects to see the close of the Lusitania 'question" early ' in next week. Germany "final 'accept ance of the American demands is ex pected by then-if satisfactory" ai Ex pected. Secretary Lansing will im. mediately cable this government's ac ceptance, - ' President Approves Tillman's Plan. President Wilson has approved the plan of Senator TiHmwrto push the government 'armor plate plant till. Tilman'a reply has-threats by plate manufacturers, k coming up in spe cial order Monday. National Defense Revenue Up. 1 The problem of raising revenue for national defense was taken up by the ways and means committee to day. The first action was to draft a. resolution retaining the sugar du ties. . :l: " Keating Bill Sure to Paaa, ; ' ' ' : , Say Friends. 'l i The Keating' Chi1HLabor bill is practicatly certain of passage, it1 friends today said. : The House hear ing will be on February 15, with a rapid report promised: OHIO GAS BOOM DYING j AND INVESTORS LOSE CASIt atveland, O., Feb! 10. The gas boom in this vicinity is over, too many persons wanted !togel'rich at once, and as a result Investors have tost hundreds of thousands' of dol lars. Experts today placed the gas flow in Cuyahoga' eounty fields :' at 35,000,000 ubic feet pet day. A year ago it was 100,000,000, and the field was rated as the most active in the world. Hundreds of wells, driven at a cost of $6,000 each, are being pull led, and the piping sold for ?G00. Most of the gas being used here is piped from West Virginia. f 4 -i KANSAS WOMAN CAMPAIGNS FOR SEAT IN CONGRESS Topeka, 'Kaav Feb. 10i 'Declaring for national good roads, river im provement, old age pensions, rural credits and nation wide prohibition, Dr. Eva Harding of Topeka, is out for the Demooratie nomination " for Congress in" the first district;' Dr. Harding holds that r men and .wom en working together can turn out better laws ' than one ez legislates for both. In her announcement. Dr. Harding declared against the grow ing spirit of militarism in this coun try." ; . SUGGESTS MEANS FOR y EDUCATING OFFICERS By the United Press.) Washington, Feb. ; 10.-HMilifcary scholarships to the number ef 250 a year for boys willing to enter mili tary college's, was advocated by Pres ident James of the University of Il linois today before the House Mili tary Committee. - ' THE ODDEST STORY IN THE DAY'S NEWS. ' Cleveland, OVFebV 10.--II. H. Knapp, prone to do what his name implies after the alarm clock rings in the morniag, vsed to get lip, shut the thing off, and go back to bed and oversleep so Much that ho got three more arousers, put one in each cor ner of the room an l e av, by the time he has r " m- ' r-f shut t - i i T ' ' '
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