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ABLY FR tee kc::e pafeb ; THB WEATURS Rain tonight pnd tomorrow 0ar i'tfllilt fcOL. XVII.No. 237 SECOND fJDltlON KlNSTON, N C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1916 FOUR PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS FIVE .CENTS ON TRAINS 11 f i y TEflRIFIC OFFENSIVE MSHIES ALONG HU LINES TODAY; Swiss Reports Positive That Teutons Intend Gigantic Assault on St. Quentirt, Only 20 Leagues from Paris Trebizond Will Fall Into Hands of Slavs Without Re sistance, Persian Advices Say Garrison Would, Be Trapped Between Two Confident That Allies Will Hold Own In West Ger mans Shifting Artillery and Greatest Struggle Yet Ex pected to Begin at Verdun (By the United Press) LONDON, Feb. 29. Suddenly shifting their attack, the Germans launched a heavy drive on Verdun from the east, aiming to squeeze the French out and threatening an enveloping move ment. Frightful German losses are believed to have caused the Kaiser to cease massed assaults on Verdun. LONDON, Feb. 29. The decisive battle at Verdun is beginning. Checked on Pepper Heights, the Germans are bringing up their heaviest artillery to blast away the trerifches. There has been indescribable slaughter at the ruins of Douaumont. The Teutons are today attacking jflong a hundred-mile front, after a lull due .to the shifting of artillery. Paris is confident of the failure of the at tacks, although expecting the Teutons to fight desperate ly at the renewal. Swiss dispatches insist that the Ver dun, attack was but a diversion, and say the Germans are ready for a great attack now on St. Quentin, only 60 miles from Paris. . Ottoman Forces Evacuating Trebizond. ;Petrograd, Feb. 29. The Turks are hastily evacuat ing the Black seaport of Trebizond and neighboring, cit iesbefore the advance of the Russians, say Tiflis dis patches. The evacuation was necessitated by the ap proach of two Russian forces. All Attacks Repulsed. Says Paris ' ' , . . .EARIS, Feb. 29 All, German attacks at Verdun dur iner the past 24 hours have been repulsed, it is said offi cially. The French are entirely in control of the country f n a Ti 1 . Ji. .1 it.li AT "I surrounding uouamont. n is aamiuea mat, me ijennans have captured the village, of Manheulles, eleven miles from Verdun, arid are driving now to force the evacua tion of Verdun by a squeezing process. The loss of sev eral trenches in Lorraine was admitted; but these have been recaptured, it is said. The heavy bombardment continues. The Kaiser watched the Verdun battle today in a 'fierce storm, despite the warnings of physicians, prisoners said. ! German Hospitals Crowded. , LONDON, 'Feb. 29. Over forty-five thousand Ger mans have been killed at Verdun, the central news says a 'dispatch from Amsterdam. Eight thousand corpses stilt line two miles of the front. Endless trains of the wounded are arriving at Metz and the hospitals at Cob- ' lentz, 'Treves, Cologne and other German cities are over flowing. . , German Report On Battle. BERLIN, FEB. 29. The Germans have captured a . small armored work . northwest of Douaumont, itisoffi cially said. Nearly seventeen thousand prisoners have been taken in the Woevre region, east of Verdun. The Germans have passed Dieppe, Abacourt and Blancee, and captured Manheulle and Chamlon. " BANKER RUNS MACHINE OYER BOY; MAY DIE Salisbury, Feb. 28. With a crush ed hip, a hole in his head and a bad ly bruised foody, Joseph Owen, a 1-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Owen of Salisbury is in a critical condition at a local hospital tonight as a result of being. run over this af ternoon by a 5-passenger automobile owned and driven by Mr. W. T. Bus hy, assistant cashier of the People's National Bank here. DIAZ GOES TO MEXICO 16 START NEW REVOLT Washington, Feb. 28. .Felix Diaz, who has been watched for several months by Department of Justice re presentatives because of suspected activities in violation f of ' American neutrality, apparently .i has left the United States for Mexico with the intention ; of launching, a revolution gainst the Carranza de facto gov ernment. Information reaching" offi cials here indicates that he hopes to organise, and lead the troops , of his . native State, Oxaca, and such other forces in Southern Mexico as he can gather about him. General Diaz left New Orleans Friday for Havana. fir THE GERlli iSSREtt MILS ENEMY T URKS feVAEUAlt fcltY Approaching Armies Paris Is OFFICER KILLED BY MAN HE SOUGHT TO ARREST Rocky Mount, Feb. 28. (Defying arrest, George Collins, a young white man of Faucette township, Halifax county, yesterday fired upon and fa tally wounded Deputy Sheriff CM. Hawkins. The young man was sought on a warrant by the officer charging him with having jumped a hoard bill, and with a shotgun opened fire on the officer, inflicting a wound in the stomach that resulted in . Deputy Hawkins' -death within a few hours. THEY SQUIRT $1,000,000 WORTH OF PERFUME. Kio de Janeiro,; Feb. 28. All Bra zil U preparing for the annual three day Mardi Gras carnival, early in March. The annual carnival cele brated in Bio de Janeiro, as a gorg eous spectacle claims to far over shadow that of Venice or of New Or leans.' It is estimated: that $1,000, 000 was spent' on siphons of. perfume alone last year. PECULIAR FACTS ABOUT,. . WELL KNOWN J2. Washington, Feb. 29. Leader Kitchin wears 1c V 1 drooping from a corner of h when' a briar : pipe, black 4 isn't in its place. . PLANT MAKING GASES FOR ALLIES BLO WN UP Damage $50,000 Only One Man In iured Company at Woburn, Mas Uad Received Threatening Let ters and Employed Large Force of Guards, But Could Not Prevent the Explosion. (By the United Press) Woburn, Mass., Feb. 29. A thun nerous explosion today blew up a building of the New England Manu iaciuring company, malting gases for the Allies' bombs. The company had received threatening letters, and the plant was heavily guarded. The building was blown high into the air. The men escaped except one injur ed. The loss will exceed $50,000. GIRL BRIDE'S CRIME BEING INVESTIGATED (By the United Press) Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 29. The defense of Mrs. Katherine Harrison, fifteen-year-old bride, charged with the murder of W. L. Warren, will be that she saved the State the trouble of execut ing him for assault. The defense contends that she is a child, and cannot be tried. Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 28. The grand jury today began investiga tion of the confession alleged to have been made by Mrs. Katherine Harri son, that she shot and killed W. B Warren, hotel proprietor who, she charged, had wronged her before her marriage. She 'became the bride, of Harrison, who is 20 ,years old, two days after Warren's body was found a road near here December 22, 1915. 4 WfljT SOME OF THEM ARE DOING WITH THE EXTRA DAY IN YEAR (By the United Press) Minneapolis, rer. zv. ten civic organizations chose today, an unusu al date, for launching a campaign against mosquitoes, in this city sur rounded by a State that has 10,000 lakes. It is planned to eliminate every puddle in the state where wa teir stagnates. Dallas, Tex., Feb. 29. Three bish ops, Luther E. Todd of St. Louis, W, R. Lahbuth of Birmingham, Ala.and E. E. Hoss of Muskogee, Okla., were here today to aid in planning the Methodist membership campaign o be inaugurated in Texas and New Mexico, March 12. Tulsa. Okla., Feb. 2D. Tulsa busi ness men selected the extra day in the year to celebrate Prosperity Day. in addition to the usual carnival fea tures, a battery of public speakers will tell Tulsa what a regular city it is. ELECTION RATTLE OVER RACE PROBLEM (By the United Press) St. Louis, Feb. 29. After a stiff legal fight against the holding of an election on the subject, St. Louis vo ters today are deciding by ballot whether negroes here'ishall be com pelled to live within residential dis tricts selected for Jhem. The Segre gation Bill, as the plan is called, would prevent whites and negroes from Kvmg in the same blocks and would compel white persons to move from their homes in blocks the ma jority of whose residents are negroes. Negroes would be prohibited from living in blocks in which the major ity of the residents are white. Should segregation win, negroes and white interests opposed to, the proposed law, will attack it as unconstitutional, they said today, on the ground that it is discriminatory. ' ; . ; DAVIE COURTHOUSE AT v y KOffiMiE BLSNi Winston-Salem, Feb. 28. -The Da Tie county courthouse at Mocksville was destroyed by fire tonight ?Th origin is not known. The building was erected five years ago and cost over thirty thousand dollars. A one week's term of the Superior Court opened there this, morning. ' SAYS BRYAN CERT'N TO UPHOLD WILSON AT THE CONVENTION Will Attempt Nothing to Embarrass President, De clares Democratic State Chairman of Nebraska After Talk With Bryan (By United Press) Washington, Feb. 29. The uphold ing of Wilson by Bryan for renomin ation is expected to lead to a solid Nebraska delegation to the conven tion n favor of Wilson. He won t seek to inject into the platform, pre paredness nor the diplomatic policy for repudiating Wilson, it is authori tatively stated by Judge W. H. Thompson, the Nebraska State chair man, following a visit to Mr. Bryan at Miami. Judge Thompson is a per sonal political friend and adviser of Mr. Bryan. The people misunder stand Bryan, he said. DAVID EVANS TAKEN IN PAMLICO COUNTY IS NEW BERN STORY (Special to The Free Press) New Bern, Feb. 29 David Evans, negro slayer of Joe Mc Lawhorn, superintendent of Pitt county roads, is understood to have been taken in Pamlico coun ty. PROGRESS OF THE SUPERIOR COURT Hughes' vSi Moseley, an action con cerning a note, was concluded in Civil Superior Court today, the jury find ing for the defendant, colored, in all the issues. THE ODDEST STORY IN THE DAY'S NEWS Dallas, Tex., Feb. 2!). Mayor II. I) . Lindsley celebrated his tenth birthday today) Ho would be forty four yesrs old had he been born one diy earl'er. As it is, he has a birth day only (.nee every four years, and II) 00 being a centennial vear he had none from 1898 to 1!)04. It wa.i chiefly 'hrcugb Mayor Lindsley's in fluence that Da.'Iaj made the $100,- 000 offer' for the Democratic national convention. BULLETINS (By the United Press) SHIP SUNK BY MINK. Copenhagen, Feb. 2!). The Gothenburg steamer knippla, of 500 tons, has been mined south of Faltiterbo, outside Swedish territorial waters. Fifteen of the crew and two women passen gers were saved. THOUSAND PROBABLY LOST WITH SINKING SHIP. Paris, Feb. 29. The French auxiliary cruiser Provence, Hunk in the Mediterranean Saturday, it is officially reported. A thous and persens are believed to have been lost Eight hundred . were saved. , Ten boats are at the scene of the disaster seeking survivors. The Provence was formerly ; a trans-Atlantic liner. Some sur vivors have been landed at Mal ta, some on the Greek island of Melos. AT LEAST SIX DEAD v IN MINE EXPLOSION : (By tha United Press) Cumberland, Md, Feb, 29. Six Persons are reported to be dead and twenty-injured, bur ied, tinder debris by aa explosion in the Davis Coal and Coke Com pany' mine at Kempton, W., V. HUNDREDS OF HIGH SCHOOL ORATORS TO DEBATE BIG ISSUE 'Preparedness" to Be Dis cussed In Spring State wide Contest Aycock Cud to Winning School After April 14 (Special to 'I'lit' Free Press) Chapel Hill, Feb. 29. The jue.s tioM of preparedness will bo thresh ed out in 315 North Carolina high schools this spring. Already 2,000 yoiuitf debaters in the State high whn:;Js, from Murphy, Cherokee county, in the west, to Manteo, Dare county, in the east, are working on the, question, "Resolved. That the United Siates should adopt the pol icy of greatly increasing its navy." On March 31, 1,200 of these debat ers, who will have been chosen as re presentatives in preliminaries held in their respective high schools, will meet in a Slate-wide debute on this question of preparedness, the occa sion being the annual triangular con test of the High School Debating Union. Each debating team enters this contest with the view of win ning the Aycock Memorial Cup, the trophy provided by the inter-collegi-ute debaters of tho University of North Carolina. Kach .school enrolled for this con test is grouped with two others for a triangular debate, every school having a team on the affirmative w.ido of the question and one on the negative. Tho schools winning both debates send their representatives to Chanel Hill to compete for the Ay- cock iup in tne nnai contest, to lie held here April 14. ; The ;iligh School Debating Union, ecnd'-ierrd by the Bureau of Exten sion and t'he Dialectic and Philan thropic literary societies of the Uni versity of North Carolina, was or gaiiissed in lf12-Ki. In the first year if the union's existence, !)0 schools in 40 counties took part in the debates, umi the Pleasant Ciarden High School f Cuilford county, won the cup. In Hill, IbO high schools in C4 coun ties pa'rtieiputed and the Winston Ssulem high school was awarded the cup. Last year 250 high schools in !)0 counties entered the contest and the Wilson high school was the win ner of the cup. PROMISES TO REVEAL BIG GRAFT IN CHICAGO C-hicapo, Feb. 28. Asserting that the Eatitoti-Rowe Kraft controversy wrs a miliar event compared to reve lations which he would make Seymour Shidmaii, attorney for Mrs. Waller Page Eaton, former head of the So cial Welfare Department, who has charged feho had been compelled to (rjve up part of her salary for the benefit of a member of Mayor Wil liam Hale Thompson's family, today declared he would bring forth a wit ness who would reveal extensive sal ary splitting in the city hall. Today's hearing on the Eaton-Rowe case itself developed littlo of interest. HENRY JAMES, NOVELIST, DIES BRITISH CITIZEN London, Feb. 28. Henry James, the, novelist, died today. Henry James was born an Ameri can but died a British subject In July, 1915, he took the oath of alle giance to the Crown, explaining that he had Jived and worked in England for forty years and had developed such an attachment for the country and sympathy with its people that he desired to throw his moral weight and personal allegiance into the Brit ish cause in the European war. BUFFALO BILL ATvi 71ST MILESTONE TODAY Cody, Wy o., Feb. 28. Colonel ; W. F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," Indian scout, showman and character dear to the hearts of the youngsters of three gen erations, is hale and hearty , at his home here today, his 71t birthday - AURORA WANTS SEMI- PRO. BASEBALL ASS'N Firnt Town to Respond to Proposi tion for League is Smallest Con sidered Believed Likely Combi nation Would Be kinston, (iretn ille, Washington. Aurora, Wil liamston, Plymouth Aurora, the smallest town of the ight proposed by Lawyer Lindsay Wanreti for the semi-pro. East Caro lina league, is tho first to respond to the proposal. "We will be there with balls on," was the message that Warren has had at h;s office in Wash ington from the Aurora fans. Tint town will employ four professional iron, that uuing the maximum per mitted in Warren's plan, and will guarantee a self-supporting club. Aurora has not a thousand poula tion. It will send a dozen represen tatives to the meeting in Washington on March 15. Copies cf Mr. Warren's circular letter forwarded to Kinston fans out line his scheme in full. "I believe th:it if this plan is adopted, the ex panses attached therein will be very small and that the league, will be practically self-supporting." be says. "A schedule of fifty games would be sufficient" each team playing two at home and two abroad every week. He would like to see 'at least sis teams in the a-ssociation, although ho has ad dressed interested parties in eight towns. The 'safest combination that wild be devised, probably, would-be Kinston, Greenville, Washington, Aurora, Plymouth and Williamston, . this last named three being small places but "enthusiastic and willing to put up the money." ENGLAND FEELS QUITE CHESTY OVER ITS BIG ARMY NOW IN HARNESS By WILBL'U S. FOKUEST, , (.United Press Stuff Correspondent) "London, Feb. 16 (By Mail There is a brand new germ in the British air. Atmospheric atoms that had the general effect of something akin to gloom several months ago and which prompted British statesmen and public alike to speak less con fidently about the final outcome of the war, have disappeared. Those atoms have been replaced by bright er colored atoms; peppy, optimistic little tikes. From the big government buildings in Whitehall to tho smallest London shop there is a marked change in the conversation. Every man in tho street knows that Britain is getting rrady for the big show. The aver age Britisher still throws out his chest if the navy is mentioned, lint today he will show a broader ex panse of shirtfront when it cornea to talk about the army. The predomin ant topic of interest has become the Tommies. With about 4.000,000 men in khaki, England is preparing to do things' in tho spring, on land. That is com mon talk. No Britisher has lost any of his confidence in the Navy, but he lia-i given up hope thai th" Ger man fleet will come out and fight, so he is leaving the navy to control the seas and taking for granted that it will. Cabinet members, peers and plebi ans alike look forward to the spring campaign. The government leaders who six months ago modified their earlier pronouncements that "Ger many must be crushed" to tho gen tler assertion that "the war cannot cease until tho enemy has evacuated France and Belgium and restored the rights of smaller nations" are today reasserting the former statement with vigor. The reason is said to be new confidence in the army. 0. r heath, charlotte cohon Man, suicides ' Charlotte, Feb. 28.0. P. Heath, senior member of tho cotton firm of O. P. Heath & Co., idiot and killed himself in his ofljee here today,- ? He was qne of the oldest merchants in the cotton business in this section and one of the largest operators. . Two years ago he met financial reverses, but was apparently doing a thriving business at this time. . He was about 60 years old and leaves a family, also several brothers,- who are prominent cotton manufacturers in thi j".V. ANOTHER CALL DOM FOR V. BERNSTORFF FHOM SECT LANSING Head of State Department Does Not Like "Impro per Publicity" REBUKE IN A STATEMENT Remarks That Quotations From Latest Memorand um From Berlin Made Public In U. S. Did Not Come from Officials (By the United Press) " New York. Feb. 29. The go ing into effect of the merchant men decree is now a matters of bour.s. Fight big liners are rea dy to sail from here with hun dreds of passengers. Six Itali an vessels have armed at New : York and are now ready to sail. , Several ships are now in the war zone. Wfts'.iington, Feb. 29. Secretary Lansing today administered another direct-- rebuke to Ambassador -: Von Earnstorff for what he believes to.... ho improper publicity. He issued a statement announcing that state ments of the contents of the German memorandum outlined by Von Bern Uoiff yesterday were not made pub He by himself, nor the department, fcid that no statements have been made expressing the Department's views of th memorandum. The statement followed the printing this morning of - purported paragraphs fxera. .the. .memorandum. . "Mr, Lansing' conferred with Prest.. (font Wilson to&ay'proccding the cab' net meeting. v v , The text of the German memoran dum obtained by the. United Press says Germany will keep its pledges made in the Lusitania matter, so far a j, peaceful merchantmen . are con-; cerned, but that the presence of guns Implies intent to resist. -r Submarine can't warn liner if the liner plans to fire, the memorandum says, and cites n secret British admiralty order . to attack submarines. The reason f or submarines-is that they fear attack. AMERICAN MURDERED BY VILLISTAS, SAID (By the United Press) Washington, Feb. 29. Grover ('. Vain, an American, has been murdered at Pome, Durango, Mexico, by Villistas, says a State' Ilepaj'tmciit report. Labor con ditions in the i Mexican capital . arc unsettled. HAITI IS NOW A REAL PROTECTORATE OF U S. Washington, Feb. 28 The Swnato late today unanimously ratified the treaty wkh Haiti under which the United States assumes a protectorate over the turbulent island renublic. taking over control of its finances and police, guaranteeing its territo rial integrity and undertaking to do-. velop its resou'rees. The treaty has already been approved by the Haitien Congress and its terms virtually ara in operation under the eye of a strong American .marine expedition. FIRE IN LUMBER MILL EARLY TflS MORNING The East Kinston Company exting Lshed.a small fire at Hines Bros. Lum ber Mill, East Xinstun, at 5 a. m, today, before the downtown firemen arrived. The btite was in a boiler room at the plunt, "damaging the roof some. ' Tho damage was stated to ba Slight. .. The firemen' responded in a rain. ' -' . -... 1 . . .: - : ... ' . ' . - . The .Pitt codnty ' Republicans SaN nrday in a short convention appoint ed delegates to the various eonren-. tions. No speeches nor resolutions wi-e heard, ' if v. If m I'll4 iO :-&'V-r 1 I it t s Nov J. h J; V , It i 1 i : . .... . . . . . .8 alio ed linent i jction. tionfs, were Ik J.N.
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