DAILY
TUB WBATHBI
Raia folWd bf Chariot
Coldat Toaiabi
PRESS
TKE HOKE PAPEB
VOL. XVII. No. 231
Congress leaders
MSON TO BK
DEltRMINATlON TO
iii-. . . . .
UatK; Kitchin and Mood
if ours Without Success
Favbr of Warning to Citizens Against Traveling On
Armed Merchantmen Not Expected to Take Any Ac
turn Until Next Week
Definition of Armament
ment Will Try to Avojd
Base Idea of Postponement of Decree On, However
(By the United Press)
Washington, Feb. 25. Senator Gore has introduced. a
bill making it illegal for Americans to travel on armed
vessels in tune of war, and a
cans to stay off such vessels.
Senator Jones introduced a resolution requesting the
Tresident not to break off relations with any country and
place the United Stated in such a position as not to be
able to avoid war with honor. The Jones bill said the
honor of the nation is in the custody of no one man, but
in the people, through their representatives in Congress,
and that it is the duty of the President to lay the details
of complications which might lead to war before Con
gress. Both the Gore and Jones resolutions were tabled.
.Representative McLemore plans to ask a hearing for
his I ill for the warning before the House foreign affairs
comn ittee. Republican Senator Lodge today issued a
statement supporting the President's stand.
Prejiejent's Stand Not Shaken by
-Argument of Opponents .
Washington, Feb. 28. The President's refusal to ac
cept, the armed merchantmen decree is unchanged after
houifs of conference with. Speaker Clark, House Leader
Ki$nin and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, Flood. No action will be taken in Congress at
lonef nflar
The upshot of the situation is that the President has
flatly refused to budge from the plan to insist on Ameri
can rights. Sfakr-Glarktoday said the House is over
whelmingly m favor of the resolution to warn Americans
off armed liners. Clark, Kitchin and Flood, favor the res
olution. Mr.,Clark said the House's decision is not ex
pected before' next week.
Senator Stone is skeptical. Clark today expressed
the hope that Germany will delay the new submarine pol
icy. Secretary Lansing today had a ten-minute conference
with the President before the cabinet meeting at eleven
o'clock. No information could be had from the State
Department to justify a belief that Germany intends
a postponement of the decree.
Germany Expected to Bend.
London, Feb. 25. Germany's latest reply to the Am
erican representations, asks Washington to define its
opinion of what constitutes offensive armaments, say un
confirmed Amsterdam dispatches. The reply is stated to
be on its way to America, and is due to reech the the
State Department in one or two days.- The indications
are that Germany is seeking to avoid a break.
Letter' From President to
Senator Stone.
President Wilson's letter to Sena
tor Stone, chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, made
public last night, follows:
"My Dear Senator:
"I very warmly appreciate your
kmd and fratik letter of today, and
fool that it calls for an equally frank
reply.
"You are right in assuming tihat I
shall do everything in my power to
keep the United States out of war.
1 think the country will feel no un
easiness about my course in that res
pect. Through many anxious months
I have striven for that object, amidst
difficulties more manifold than can
have been apparent upon the sur
face; and so far I have' succeeded- I
DO NOT DOUBT THAT I SHALL
CONTINUE TO SUCCEED. The
coarse which the central European
powers have announced their inten
tion of. following in the future 'with
regard to undersea warfare ' seems
for the moment to threaten insuper
able obstacles, but its apparent mean
ing is so manifestly inconsistent with
explicit assurances recently given us
by those powers with regard to their
treatment of merchant vessels on the
Ligh seas that I must believe that ex
planations wiB (presently ensue which
ill put a. different aspect upon it.
have no reason to question their
ood fiith'or th'eif fidelity to the
promises in the past and I, for one,
feel .confident that we shall have
-none in the future.
Oar Duty Clear. - .
"But in any event our duty is clear.
No nation, no group of nations, has
SECOND
cannot infulence
AN INCH FROM IllS
UPHOLD U J. RIGHTS
Contcr With President for
House Overwhelmingly In
Germany Will Ask American
Believed Imperial Govern
Break Nothing Official to
resolution warning Ameri
the right while war is in progress
to alter or disregard the principles
which all nations have agreed upon
in mitigation of the horrors and suf
ferings of war; and if the clear rights
of American citizens should ever un
happily be abridged or denied by any
such action, we should, it seems to
me, have in honor no cnoice as w
what our own course should be.
No Abridgment of American Kent's.
"For mv own part, I cannot con
sent to any abridgment of the rights
of American citizens in any respect.
The honor and self-respect of the r
tion is involved. WE COVET PEACE
AND SHALL PRESERVE IT AT
ANY COST BUT THE LOSS OF
HONOR. To forbid our people to ex
ercise their fights for fear we might
be called Upon to vindicate them
would be a deep humiliation indeed.
It would be an implicit, all but ex
plicit acquiescence in the Violation of
the rights of mankind everywhere and
of whatever nation or allegiance. It
would be a deliberate abdication of
our hitherto proud position as spokes
man even amidst the turmoil of war
for the law and the right It Would
make' everything ' this government
has attempted and everything that it
has achieved during this ; terrible
struggle of nations as meaningless
and futile. :
"It is important to reflect that if
in this instance we allowed expedien
cy to take the place of principle, the
door" would inevitably fee opened to
still further concessions. Once accept
a single abatement of right and many
other humiliations would certainly
(Continued on Page Three)
T
EDITION
greeks Beginning
TO INCLINE TO THE
ALLIES MORE, SAID
(By the United Press)
Rome, Feb. 28. Public opinion
in Greece in veering toward
intervention on the side of the
Allies, my dispatches. The
capture of Erzerum. General
Scrral's visit to King Constan
tine and the failure of the Bui
gars to attack Saloniki, as well
as rumors of ponding interven
tion, are affecting the Greeks.
RESTORE PLYMOUTH
TOWN TO ORIGINAL
APPEARANCE, PLAN
(By the United Press.)
Boston. Feb. 25. When the ter
centenary of the landing of the Pil
grims is celebrated at Plymouth in
1920, it will give people who visit
hat historic old town a chance to
ice it as it was 300 years ago. The
Massachusetts State Commission on
he celebration visited here today and
went over the forty plans they have
under consideration. A canvass of
he members seems to indicate a gen
eral sentiment favoring the central
feature of the celebration being a
agant at , Plymouth, with a possi-
ole reproduction of it in Boston.
Whatever is finally decided, it is cer
tain that the original Plymouth town
n Ieyden street will be reproduced,
jo those who come to the celebration
may see Plymouth as it was when
the Pilgrims landed there.
GANGWAY FOR LITTLE ,
SUGAR-COATED JOYS
Telephone Operators Prove i iirj
Have Good Intentions They Are
Going to Smile This Year Even If
the Subscribers Can't See the
Crinkles rn Their Vlsaues Pro
fessionals, They
According to a telephone monthly
publication, the Kinston telephone
operators in a belated meeting adopt
ed the fallowing 1!H6 resolutions:
"We have resolved to be more
courteous to subscribers, and to con
vince our employers that we are in
terested in our work and moan to
niajte Kinston the banner office.
"We believe we will bo successful
;n making our work a profession in
stead of a burden! (Punctuation not
literal.)
"We will strive to give the public
less room for complaint, and make
them feel that we are giving tihem
the best service obtainable. (Good
hearted girls.) i
"As the year 1910 rolls' on, our
motto will be: 'Smile and give ser
vice.' "
BRIEFS IN THE NEWS
OF OTHER TOWNS AND,
COUNTIES OF SECTION
Capt. C. S. Ridley of Wilmington,
in charge of this engineer district,
Col. Langfitt of Savannah and U. S.
Engineer H. T. Patterson of New
Bern are at Cape Lookout to inspect
the harbor of refuge work.
Mrs. Ballentine Smith, said to be a
wealthy resident of (Baldwin, N. Y.,
died of pneumonia at Mansfield, Car
teret county. She was spending the
winter in Mansfield. The body is be
ing embalmed for shipment to New
York.
New Bern is to be put oft the cir
cuit of wrestling towns r,in North Ca
rolina and Virginia, Max Schmidt, a
well known .mat artist Us to locate
there.
CAROLINA GIRL IS ,
'- ... - r J, - -.' r y
MISSING IN RICHMOND
Richmond, Va,7 Feb. 24. The po
lice were conducting a search "today
for Miss Esther Craven; 19-years old,
who has been missing from tiie home.
of Mrs. A. Fowter, 517 North Elev
enth street, since February 10th. At
the time of . her disappearance the
girl was employed at the local, offices
of the Chesapeake "and Potomac Tel-
rphone Company. Her home is ia
Franklinville. N. C. '
KINSTON, N. C.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1916
GERM'MS KlAKE VtRY
LITTLE HE4DWAV , IN
k. y t, A fc - ' , (
OFFENSIVE
Murderous French Fire Is
Holding. Back Teutons;
Supplies Stopped
BUZZARDS IN ARMENIA
Russian Pursuit of Erzerum
Garrison Hindered, But
Slav Iliffht Win; Is Cov
ering Ground In Direction
of Trebizond Port
(By the United Press)
London, Feb. 25. Paris dis
patches say JofTre has arrived at
the Verdun front and is directing
the defense. The news was
greeted enthusiastically in Paris.
The Kaiser is personally direct
ing the offensive.
London, Feb. 25. The French are
now holding their own against the
great Uerman unve at Verdun ex
cept at minor points, says a Puris
ispatch. The Crown Prince has
been under fire at the three Verdun
forks, lie was exposed to a murder
ous fire from French field redoubts
and trenches from which the Allied
army shelled the German advanced
positions. The French are bombard
ing the latter so heavily that the
tcrmans are unable to bring up their
upply trains. French and German
air fleets clashed above the field dur-
The titanic struggle in cut
woods is believed to nratrk the begin-
ing of the greatest German offen
sive since the battle of the Maine,
Severe Weather in Asia Minor.
Petrograd, Feb. 25. Blizzards
and snowstorms are hindering the
pursuit of the Turks, fleeing from Er
zerum. The Russian right is pro
gressing rapidly toward Rizeh. east
of Trebizond. The Slavs have dis
lodged the Turks from their posi
tions in the Bideswith and Sakhne
mountain passes, in Persia. I he
Turks are retreating to Kermansah.
Offensive About Checked Now.
Paris, Feb. 25. The German offen-
, ... . - i e
sive at veniun is snowing signs oi
slackening, it is officially said.
There were no night attacks, and the
artillery fighting is less violent. The
French artillery is holding its own
on a 25-mile front. Indications are
that te offensive is checked, at least
temporarily. The French are organ
izing in new positions at Beaumont,
on the heights east of Charnpncu
ville and at Ornes.
Germans Claim to Have Taken
10,000 Prisoners. t
Berlin. Feb. 28. The French los
ses have been, heavy, and the Ger
man what were expected in the Ver
dun offensive, it is officially said. Ton
thousand prisoners have been taken
b.- the Germans. Hix fortified vil
lages and a number of farms have
been taken.
WEEKLY PAPER PAID
COMMITTEE IS TOLD
Sullivan, Editor of Colliers,
Says $25,000 Was Ifis Fee
From New York Publish
ers in the Ballinger-Pin-
chot Controversy
: (By the United Press)
Washington, Feb. 25,-UJollier's
Weekly paid Louis D. Bfandeis $25,-
000 for his services in the BaMinger-
Pinchot controversy, Mark Sullivan,
the editor, today told ' the Senate
committee r investigating Brandeis'
fitness for the Supreme Court.
A New Bern bank is .offering , to
loan pig club, boys money with which
to buy. Wooded stock.
BOIL DOWN COURT'S
PROGRAM OF SECOND
WEEK PRESENT TERM
Some Cases Arc Eliminated
From Calendar for the
Coming Six Days
WEEKS CASE DRAWN OUT
Cause Has Occupied Nearly
Three Days of This Week
Argument Ran Over
From Thursday Night-
Two Speeches This A. M.
The Weeks vs. Telephone Co. case
in Superior Court was not conclud
ed Thursday night as was expected.
Two speeches remained to be heard
this morning, and the indications
were at the convening of court to
daythat the matter would not go to
the jury before noon. This tedious,
hotly-contested case had been in
hearing since Tuesday afternoon.
The jury was expected to get the
jury case after dinner, Clerk Heath
said at 1 o'clock.
Because the Weeks case, in which
the Carolina Telephone & Telegraph
Company is being sued for nominal
damagos for alleged failure to re
move telephone wires when requested
to do so in order that a house might?
bp moved, has taken up so much of
this week, the calendar for the se
cond week of the term was today cut
nWP aCS'tesJ'y- The calendar for
Monday, February 28: J "tvsi
f)8. Hughes vs. ; Moselc-y.
107. Weldon vs. Railroad.
11. Matthews vs. Isler.
108. Copeland vs. Howard.
Tuesday :
109. Hill vs. Railroad.
11(1, Potter vs. Walton.
Warttirs vs. Page.
Wednesday:
l'JK. Hunter vs. West.
131. Kinston Cotton Mills vs. Con
way.
lfcnj. Stanley vs. Davenport.
134. N. C. Mutual & P. Ass'n. vs.
Joseph Battle.
l.'t.r. Rosenblatt vs. Kinston China
Co.
Thursday:
142. J. A. Taylor vs. leiioir Oil
& Ice Co. and City of Kinston.
144. Lngston vs. Dale.
147. Morgan vs. Rountree.
123. Wooten vs. Goldsboro Lumber
Co.
Friday:
170. Parrolt vs. Forrest.
Hi!). Parrott vs. Rouse.
lti'.h Hwrvey vs. Hamilton.
1;. Tarden vs. Harden.
124. Ives & Co. vs. LaKoquc.
CRABTREE'S CASE GOES
OVER UNTIL TUESDAY
The case against C. W. Crabtree,
arrested Wednesday night for tieing
up and boating his 17-year-old son,
was continued in the Recorder'sCourt
Thursday afternoon to Tuesday's ses
sion. Crabtree will be tried by jury.
That the defendant's alleged crime
was not nearly so heinous as was in
dicated by State witnesses and the
officers who made the arrest is said
to be the conviction of several of the
authorities. Crabtree, who admitted
that he whipped the boy because he
would not go to school, is said to
have resorted to seemingly severe
measures to discipline the husky
youngster. Friends of the accused
man doubt if he was cruel in punish
ing the lad.
PECULIAR FACTS ABOUT
. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE.
Chicago, Feb. -25 Governor Dunne
of Illinois has admittedly a ' poor
memory for names. He says it al
ways has been failing he seems un
able to overcome. ' Recently while in
Washington, it caused the Governor
some discomfiture when he couldnH
for the life of him recall the last
name of his son. Richard's fiancee.
FOUR PAGES
GERMANY TO DEMAND
RELEASE OF SHIPS
SEIZED BY PORTUGAL
(By the United Press)
Amsterdam, Keb. 25. d'er
many is expected to demand I ho
prompt release of the German
merchantmen Kci.ed -at Lisbon,
Kay wireless advices. Indignation
at Kerlin Is high.
More Ships Taken.
Lisbon, Feb. 25. Kifht Ger
man steamers in St. Vincent har
bor have been seized by order of
the Portuguest Government.
CLEVELAND INDIANS
SAIL INTO A MONTH
OF WORK IN SOUTH
Cleveland, ()., Feb. 25 With the
loparture of some -from here within
th next 48 hours and the arrival of
others already on their way, the
Cleveland Indians will be ready Feb
ruary 29 to sail into a month's stain
gent practice for the l!)lti season.
Heaven knows they need it. The in
and out fielders will start work the
29th. For the last week eleven pit
chers and four catchers have been
ianbering up at New Orleans under
the direction uf Manager Lee Fohl,
who will start his second season as
manager this year, and Ray Chap
man, shortstop.
NO REPORT YET ON THE
HOPEWELL EXAMINATION
Although weeks have passed since
he body of Mrs. Rachel Hopewell
was exhumed near Stonington oreek,
to permit of an examination for poi
son traces, the State chemist : to
whom the vise-era was sent has mado
no report, says Solicitor Charles L.
in 'cnai'ge yfXM' pMecution of ' the"
woman's husband, charged with her
murder.
Hopewell is still in jail jt New
Bern. His trial is expected to come
off in April. Abernethy has writ
ten to the chemist in Raleigh, in
quiring what progress has been made
in the examination.
TODAY'S SALES ON THE
LOCAL COTTON MARKET
About 15 bales of cotton were sold
here today. The best price was 1 1
cents.
New York futures quotations were:
Open 2:20
May 11.15 11.14
May 11.37 11.35
July 11.66 11.55
October 11.79 11.70
December .. 11.94 11.87
YOUTH CHARGED WITH
LARCENY OF JEWELRY
Norfolk, Feb. 24. - Fiianklin llcas
ley, 19 years old, of Fuyetleville, was
arrested this afternoon by Detective
Mercer of police headquarters, on a
charge of grand larceny.
Beasley was arrested at the in
stance of Solicitor A. B. Breeee, of
Fayetteville, who came to Norfolk
this morning with a warrant for the
arrest of the young man. Beasley is
alleged to have stolen a diamond ring
and a watch and an opal ring, all
valued at about ?2U0, from a jeweler
by whom he was employed in Fay
ettcville.
MACE MAY BE LYNCHED
IF TAKEN; BIG REWARD
Asheville, Feb. 24. Reports from
Morgan-ton at 10 o'clock tonight
stated that Charlie A. Mace, who fled
to the mountains lieyond Morganton
after killing his wife during a quar
rel at their home, eight miles from
Morganton, Tuesday night, was still
at large. Since the full details of
the murder, said to be an unusually
brutal one, have become known, pub
lic indignation has increased and tel
ephone messages are to the effect
that' there is much talk of lynching
Mace should be be captured. The
State has offered a reward of $500
for the capture of Mace,.' dead r
alive. .
PRICK TWO CENTS
riVE CENTS ON TRAINS
MANY VESSELS LOSE
WAV IN DENSE EOG
OFF ATLANTIC COAST
Two Steamers In Collision.
Several Grounded Off the
Virginia and North Car
olina Shores Rescuers
Go to Aid of Vessels
(By the United Press)
Washington, Feb. 25. The Mer
chants and Miners steamship Crctal
is steaming slowly to Norfolk follow
ing a collision with the steamer Dor
othy. The Cretal transferred her
passengers to the Dorothy. The hea
vy fog caused many vessels to run
aground, the coast guard headquar
ters today said.
Shipa Aground on Virginia and
Carolina Capes.
Norfolk, Feb. 25. The Old Dom
inion steamer Brandon, from Rich
mond to this port, arrived here today
after grounding in the James river.
Unidentified vessels are ashore at
Cape Lookout. A Spanish ship
aground at Capo Henry freed her
self. A tug and the cutter Seminole
arc rushing to the aid of distressed
craft.
THE LITTLE BATTLE
WITHIN THE BIG ONE
ON WESTERN FRONT
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS.
Jan. 25 (By Mail) A feud in the
middlo of a big war, that is What
this position of Hartsmannswiller.
kopf is; a feud just like they have
r or r rencn onu:u wui numiy mm
will German officers, that this posi
tion on the western battle-ifront baa
no moxe and no less importance than
scores of other points elsewhere 'bo-
tween the sea and Switzerland.
Every few days the French and
German communiques mention scrap
ping on the knob in the Vosges
the French on April fi, charged again,
took all they had lost, together with
the big rock on the far side of the
summit.
Humiliated, the Germans prepared
a counter attack which they launch
ad April 2, taking everything back
to and including the summit, where
they were feverishly set to work or
ganizing the position so it would be
stronger that ever. All night they
worked, but with the dawn came the
Blue Devils, as the Alpine Chasseurs
are called, swarming up the precip
itous slopes of "Old Armand," and
despite machine guns-, rifle fire -and
bayonets, they reached the top and
put the Germans to trout once more.
Immediately the Germans tried to
rally but failed, though they estab
lished trenches within seven yards of
those of the French at the top.
So the struggle for the top of the
mountain goes on. To hold it is an
honor. To win this honor many sol
diers have died. To the layman their
death may seem vain, foolish, use
less, but to the soldier not a drop of
blood has Jwen wasted. For in war,
victory or defeat depends largely on
what the French call "moral," and
to hold the top of Hartsmannswiller
kopf helps the moral of the whole
army of the Vosges.
mountains known as "Old Armand,"
cr Hartsmannswillcrkopf. One might ,
imagine ithat the side holding this
crest held the key to Paris ot to Ber
lin. It is not so. It's simply the
feud going on, each side determined
to have the honor of holding the top
of the mountain. It is like the strug
gle about a flag; a matter of pride in
taking and holding.
The quarrel began exactly a year
ago. A small detachment of French
chasseurs established , an advance
post on the summit of Hartsmanns
willerkopf. They -.were surprised by
a larger force, surrounded and beat
en. This was on January 15, 1915.
Fortifying the position strongly as
an observation point, the. Germans
held the crest until March 23, when
the French stormed the hill, took the
trenches at the top, and captured 10
officers. 34 non-coms and 313 men,
all unwounded. t
Early In April the -Ceirmans re
captured part of the lost trenches but