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KINSTON, N. C, THURSDAY, MAUC1I 2, 1916
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PRESIDENT ANDXONGRESS TO EIGHT TO
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nVAlllEAKS OUT IN SENATE
No Action Expected In House Today Representatives
Confer With President
dencc,,Says Chief Executive, But Vote Straight Out on
Objectionable Resolutions
Vhoie Matter of International Relations In Own Hands
Until Showdown, When War-Making Would Be Left
Congress, Point Made In Upper ChamTjer Senator
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Lodge Urges All Support
(By the United Press)
Washington, March 2. The President and Congress
are to grapple to a finish in the fight on the warning reso
lutions. The outcome is doubtful. American and Teu
ton relations are in the balance. Action is unexpected in
the House today. The delay is believed to be favorable
to the Administration. Representative Floor today vis
ited the White House and Secretary Lansing, to get in
formation. Representative Garrett of Tennessee con
ferred with the President. Mr. Wilson reiterated his de
sire to have a real vote on the issue, and not a vote of con
fidence. Trouble Breaks Out In the Senate.
. Washington, March 2. The congressional-presidential
conflict broke out in the Senate today when Leader
."Stone interrupted discussion of the Shields bill to make
'a statement on the Gore warning resolution. He admit
ted that he and the President were not in agreement as
to the former's policy.; He stated that the attitude Mr.
WilSon follows is disposed to support the contention that
merchant ships are privileged to arm for defense, but
does riot define defense. If a submarine should attack a
lint and Americans suffer, it would hold Germany to a
strict account. If Germany persisted in its course he
would call attention of Congress as the war-making body.
Senator Stone said his view is that an armed merchant
man carrying munitions is in every fundamental sense a
" -warship. He said the President should aid Congress iri
bringing Germany and England to terms, to relieve the
acute situation. He requested that Congress adjourn to
night until early tomorrow. He said it is essential thai
the President know that Congress will support him if it
can bring about a solution of Che problems.. He is in fa
rvor of putting the Gore resolution to a v(ie today.
Senator Lodge, Republican, urged all support for the
piiPTTOJlUM
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VIEiA, IS MJMOR'D
Dispatch Says Wounds May
Be Responsible for Bul
gar's Illness, Officially At
triDlftccf to Bronchitis
Carmen Sylva 111
(By the United Press)
London, March 2. Carmen Sylva,
Dowager Queen of Roumania, and a
noted poet-aulthor, is critically ill
with bronchitis, an Amsterdam dis
patch says, .and her recovery is un
likely. The eame report eaid the
Bulgarian Cza, Ferdinand is suffer
ing from hrrmMiitis. -.
W. 1..1' . 1JJ..I..J I
Anarchist?
London, March 12. A Rome wire
less message carried a report that
Czar Ferdinand is ill. He is rumor
ed to be suffering jfrom wounds re
ceived in an attempt to assassinate
him on his trip to Vienna, says a Zu
rich dispatch, which also reported
Hs illness.
NEWS OF A DAY IN
NEIGHBORING TOWNS
Woodsen Van Hook and Miss Hat
tie Cozzena are en route from Beau
fort county to Florida, expecting to
set married at Florence or Charles
ton, or wherever ; else ."the; train
stops long enough." V T -
James S. Groves, prominent in" the
development of Virginia Beach and
for twenty years a leading Norfolk
business man, who died recently in
Washington, D. C, was a native of
this State, and brother to II. jr.
Groves of Craven county.
'ilESOLUTIONS: THE
Won't Have Vote of Cpnfi
Mr. Wilson Would Take
for the President
ONLY ONE AL1IED SHIP
HAS BEEN SUNK SO FAR
Single Victim On First Day After
Armed Merchantmen Decree Be
came Effective Was Russian Ves
sel, Lost With 18 Lives French
Craft Submarined on the Day He
fore, Reported
(By the United Press)
London, Mar. 2. On the first day
after .the arrived merchantmen decree
became effective the Russian steamer
Alexander Wentzell was sunk, with
a loss of 18 lives, say dispatches.
Mine Sweeper Sunk.
Havre, Mar. 2. The French mine
sweeper Aurevoir was submarined
Tuesday. The crew was saved, accord
ing to the advie'es.
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FIFTY THOUSAND LOSS
ItfWlMflOT
Wilmington, March 1. At a par
tially insured loss of $50,000 . the
Tidewater Power Company machine
shop, two city and one suburban
electric car and much material, were
burned at an early hour this morn
ing. No one v was injured. Before
the ruins stopped smoking the offi
cials laid plans to replace the build
ing - and cars. .
BALTIMORE ORIOLES
TO TRAIN AT RALEldH
Baltimore, Uit March 1. To get in
condition for the exhibition games
booked here early in April with ma
jor league nines,. the '' Orioles will
spend ten days,in the Sunny South
the last of this month. Raleigh, N.
C, has been selected by Manager
Dunn ' in preference ' to Wilmington,
or Rocky Mount, amT the hirds will
leave here on the evening of March
21, and get back on the morning of
April 2. .'' ' ' ' "
BETTER BUSINESS FOR
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Increase of 20 Per cent In Groiui Re
venue In January Facta and Fig
ures Given Out By Comptroller of
the Ftiff System Show That Pros
perity Has Returned in Good Meas
ure (Special to The Free Press)
Washington, March 2. The re
sults of operation of the Southern
Railway Company for ,tho month of
January, and for the period of seven
months ended January 31, compared
with the same month and period in
1915 and 1914, exclusive of interest,
rentals and other income charges,
were announced today by Comptroll
er A. H. Plant as follows, the eom-
partson with 1914 being made for
the reason that in 1915 .the effect of
the business depression was reflected
through the revenues of the com
pany:
Gross revenue, Jan.. 1916, $5,583,-
021, an increase as- compared with
1915 of $935,019, or 20.10 per cent.,
ind a decrease as compared with
1914 of $150,948 or 2.63 per cent.
Operating expenses, taxes and un
collectible railway revenues, January,
1916, $4,077,303, an increase as com
pared with 1915 of $131,025, or 3.32
per cent., and a decrease as compar
ed with 1914 of $601,887, or 12.86
per cent.
Corresponding results for the sev
en months' period aire as follows:
Gross revenue this year, $39,964,-
815, an increase as compared with
1915 of $2,546,236 or 6.85 per cent.,
end a decrease as compared with
1914 of $2,756,193 or 6.45 per cent.
Operating expenses, taxes and un
collectible railway revenues this year,
$28,194,706, a decrease as compared
with 1915 of $1,573,638 or 5.29 per
cent, and as compared with 1914 of
$3,357,517 or 10.64 per cent.
SOLICITOR AND POSTMASTER
, IN AFFRAY AT LEXINGTON
Lexington, March 1. Solicitor
John C. Bower of this judicial dis
trict, and Postmaster Saw W. Finch
of Lexington, engaged in a fisticuff
in front of the courthouse this morn
ing. The cause of the trouble has not
been ascertained, but the affair cre
ated quite a sensation, as both men
stand high in the councils of the
Democratic party. .
REQUESTS THE FAVOR
AFTER MANY YEARS
Jim Driscoll Was Promised Any
thing He Desired to Fixht the Mer
rjmac (Jovernment Will Keep Its
Word He's Coing to Panama. Ca
nal On Warship as Guest of Uncle
Sam
(By the United Press)
Washington, March 2. Jim Dris
coll, of the Hampton, Va., Soldiers'
Home, will get a ride 'to the Panama
Canal on a warship. He belonged to
the monitor's crew in the war between
the States, and was promised any
thing he wanted for fighting the
Merrimac. He has asked Assistant
Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt to
be permitted to take tho ride. The
next battleship going to the canal
will stop at Hampton for him. "
ONLY VICTIM GERMAN
AIR RAIDER INFANT '
LESS THAN YEAR OLD
(By the United Press.)
.London, March 2. A raiding
seaplane today dropped 4 bombs
on English soil. Two wrecked
parts of. houses and a third man
gled a 9-months'-old baby, who
died in a hospital . ;. -
GERMANS IN PORTUGAL
FLEEING FROM COUNTRY
Lisbon, March J!. A majority of
the German business houses here
have been closed, and sixty leaders
of the colony left today hurriedly for
Spain on receipt of reports that Ger
many would declare war against Por
tugal. .
C W.- Henderson,," a well known
Vanceboro man and 'foreman of a
section gang,, died-suddenly- at his
home,. - J
ANOTHERFORT LOST
E
ENEMY CAN'T USE IT
Devaux, Southeast of Dou-
aumont, Evacuated and
Being Shelled
GRAND ASSAULT LIKELY
Germans Expected to Make
Another Iig Attack On
Verdun Now Massing
i Troops In Argonne Im
portant Movements On
(By the United Press)
London, Mar. 2. German artillery
has reopened the bombardment of the
French in the Verdun and Champagne
sections, say dispatches from Paris.
This may be the signal for a resum
ption of the offensive at Verdun to
shield movements in dther sectors.
The French are replying vigorously
to an attack upon Fresnes, Southeast
of Verdun. The grand assault is ex
pected soon at Verdun. Wounded are
still pouring into Paris and Germany.
French Give Up Fort and Shell It.
Amsterdam, Mar. 2. Unconfirmed
German reports say the French have
evacuated fort Devaux, at Verdun,
Southeast of Douaumont. It is stat
ed that the position was wrecked by
artillery. French artillery is pre
venting its occupancy, however. The
Germans are concentrating in Ar
gonne, it is said.
Germany Prepared for Declaration.
Amsterdam, March 2. Germany is
prepared to declare wrfr on Portu
gal, immediately, in the event of an
unsatisfactory reply to the note de
manding the release of seized ships,
says a Berlin dispaitch.
Four Fishing Vessels Sunk.
London. March 2. Four Lowestoft
fishing smacks, the Trevose, Tyron,
Reliance and Harold, have been9unk.
The crews were landed. No word
had been had of the sinking of any
armed ship, but 'the submarining in
dicates a renewal of general subma
rine operations. An Italian sail ship,
the Eliza, has been sunk, according
to dispatches.
PisHians Soon to Join British.
London, March 2. Moving toward
the positions held hyHhe British in
Mesopotamia, the Russian conquer
ors of Kcrmanshah are" within forty
miles of the Persian-Turkish border,
say dispa'tches.
Austrian Squadron Chased Into Port.
Athens, March 2. Allied warships
in ths Adriatic have pursued an Aus
trian squadron into Cattaro harbor,
says a Corfu dispatch.
Lull During Night.
Paris, March 2. A lull on the Ver
dun front continued all night, it is
oljjciailly reported.
Unchanged Situation, Says Berlin, i
Berlin, March 2. The situation on
the western front is unchanged.
BULLETINS
(By the United Press)
.Ac
CONSCRIPTION ACT IN EFFECT.
London, March 2 Married men
of the. ages between 19 and 27
years will be called to service in
a few days, by an order effective
on April 1. The conscription act
is effective today.
ANOTHER REPORT THAT
U-27 WAS SUNK
New York.'March 2. Rumors
that the German U-27, which
sank the Arabic,' had been des
troyed by a British patrol ship;
have been revived by publication
in the Times of an account pur
ported to be official.
REPORT OF YARN'S DEATH
UNTRUE, SAYS DEPARTMENT
: Washington, March , 1 A report
that GroverC. Yarn, an American,
had beert murdered near Durango
City. hy Villa-forces, was announced
today by the State Department to be
untrue.
BY FRENCH. BUT T
DUPLIN COMMENCEMENT
KENANSYILLE ON TENTH
High and Public School of County
to ParUcipate In Program LasUng
Throughout Day Declamation and
Recitation Contents, Parade, De
bate, Athletics and Other Features
(Special .to The Free Press)
Kenansville, March 2. The an
nual commencement of Duplin coun
ty's public and high schools will bo
held at Kenansville on Friday March
10. The officers who will be in
charge of the commencement arc: J.
D. Beaty, chief marshal; B. C. Sisko,
piesident of the Teachers' Associa
tion, and Miss Viola Bowden, secre
tary. The Board of Education is
comprised by L Miu)llcton, chair
man; A. L. McGowan, M. F. West
brook and County Superintendent of
Public Instruction M. H. Wooten. A
brass band from Rose Hill will fur
nish the music at the commence
ment. The following program has
been arranged:
10:00 A. M. Call to ordor, B. C.
Siske.
10:00 to 1015. Devotional Exer
cises. Rev. A. O. Moore.
10:15 to 10:30. Welcome, Mr. Lon
Middleton.
10:30 to 11:30. High School De
clamation and Recitation Contest.
11:30 to 12:00. Delivery of Diplo
mas, M. H. Wooten, county superin
tendent. 12:00 to 1:00. Parade, "beginning at
Baptist church, J. D. Beaty, with
assistants.
1:00 to 1:30. Recess.
1:30 to 2:30. Grammar School De
clamation and Recitation Contests at
Court House.
2:30 to 3:30. Debate at Court
House.
3:30 to 4:00. Awarding Prizes, R.
I). Johnson.
4:00 Athletics, at Masonic Lodge
Grounds.
Scholarship contests will be held in
Grand Jury Room, at 10:30.
Reading Contests, in Solicitors'
room, at 1:30.
Spelling Contests in Commission
ers' Room, at 10:30.
Writing Contests in Register of
Deeds' Room, at 10:30.
High School Contests in Clerk's
room at 10:30.
GREENSBORO C. E.
CONGRESS ACTIVE
Fifteen Unions Have Central Body
Which Directs Affairs of Organi
zations In the Community Pres
byterians Have Most Unions In
and Around City, Six In Number
Personnel
(Special to Tho Free Press)
Greensboro, March 2. Recently in
tho First Presbyterian church here,
a meeting of the congress of the city
Christian Endeavor Union was held.
This congress is composed of the
officers and chairmen of the stand
ing committees of the City Union,
the presidents and corresponding sec
retaries of the Young People's Socie
ties, and the nuperinlondents of the
Junior and Intermediate societies,
together with any State officers (re
siding in Greensboro. The congress
decided to meet regularly on the last
Thursday evening of alternate
months and always at the same
church. Grace M. P. church was
decided upon as a 'meeting place, it
bolng the most centrally located.
There are now eleven Christian En
deavor societies in Greensboro, dis
tributed among the churches as fol
lows: Presbyterian 4, Friends 3, M.
Protestant 1, Moravian 1, Reformed
1. and Christian 1, while just out
side the corporate limits are two
Presbyterian societies, 1 Friends,
and 1 Union society, making a to
tal of 15 societies within a radius of
one mile of Greensboro.
WOULD PROMOTE NAVAL
. OFFICERS BY SELECTION
Washington, March ,1. Promotion
of naval officers by selection instead
of by seniority, an increase of 50 per
cent, in officers of all grades, crea
tion of a war reserve list and resto
ration of the popular, old rank of
commodore are proposed in a bill
drafted by the Navy Personnel Board
and transmitted to Congress - today
Mil BLOOD OF 2 WHITE MEN ON HANDS,
DAVID EVANS, CRAZY BLACK, ELUDES MEN
BENT ON CAPTURING HIM, DEAD OR ALIVE
leader of Pftt County Convict Mutineers Who Killed Jos
eph McLawhorn With Pickaxe, Late Wednesday Shot
and Wounded Seridusly Redding Smith, McLawhof n's
Successor Victim In Hospital Here, Cannot Live
Slayer Slept In Barn With Searchers All About Dogs
This Afternoon Have Trail and Fight Between Hunted
and Hunters is Expected to Occur Not Likely , Evans
Will Be Taken Without Battle.
(Special to The
A report from Avden this
that the man-hunt for David
onsible for the death of one white man and probablv
another, was in progress with renewed vigor. .-. A trail
picked up by the pack of bloodhounds this morning was
lost, but recovered again shortly before 3 o'clock. The
desperate neero is expected to cive battle to the posse.
and the pursuers are ready to shoot him down on sight;
Redding Smith, Evans' latest victim, is still alive, but
no hope is held out for him.
REPUBLICANS SLAY
JOHN M. MOREHEAD
Charlotte Man New Na
tional Committeeman J.
E. Cameron Alternate; to
National Convention
Large Attendance
John E. Cameron of this county
was named an alternate to the Na
tional Republican convention by the
State convention at Raleigh Wed
nesday. John M. Morehead of Char
lotte was chosen National Committee
man; Frank Linney of Boone, Sta'te
Chairman; Thomas Settlo of Ashe
ville, J. L. Lewis of Randelman, W.
S. O'B. Robinson of Goldsboro and
James J. Britt of Asheville delegates
to the National convention; Clarence
Call of Wilkes, L. L. Wrenn of Siler
City, H. S. Williams of Concord and
Mr. Cameron alternates; John E.
Fowler of Sampson and John A. Hen
dricks of Madison, State electors;
Hugh Paul of Washington, George W.
Stanton of Winston-Salem, J. S. Bas
hight of New Bern, J. J. Jenkins of
Siler City, Gilliam Grissom of Greens
boro, A. F. Surles of Dunn, R. H.
Beisecker of Lexington, J. D. flor-
sett of Spencer, John Motley of Char
lotto ami C. A. Dickey of Black
Mountain, executive committee.
"It was a beautiful meeting," said
W. Jas. Jordan of Snow J.H11. here
today on his-way home from Raleigh.
There were 1,200 delegate's ftjttlng
in tho convention in the Raleigh au
ditorium, by Mr. Jordan's estimate.
"Butler controlled the convention,"
this morning's newspaper reports
said, Mr. Jordan holding to the opin
ion that neither Butler nor Duncan,
who was deposed after long service
as National Committeeman, but More
head, was the "whole show," how
ever. The State ticket was left up
to the primary, Mr". Jordan, who had
been mentioned for Commissioner of
Labor and Printing, may 'try. for the
nomination,' although he is being se
riously mentioned as a possible candi
date for -Congress.
The State convention was in ses
sion 10 , hours, adjourning late at
night. . .
Republican Chairman T. B. Brown
of this, county remained over in Ral
eigh for a few days' visit to relatives.
ROOSEVELT WILL NOT
ALLOW NAME IN ILLS.
" (By the United Press)
New York, March 1 2. Roosevelt
withdrew his name for the fourth
time from a primary, declining to Jet
it be used in Illinois., ne had declin.
ed the honor in Nebraska, Minnesota
and Michigan;
DUNCAN AND CHOOSE
Free Press) . ..
afternoon at 3 o'clock said
Evans,. the bad black, res-
David Evans, the fanatical negro
"minister" who, on February 16th
killed Superintendent Joseph Mc
Lawhorn of the Pitt county roads
force with a .blow from a mattock,
late Wednesday, "got" ..his second
white man, Redding Smith, who, pe
culiarly enough, was McLawhorn 'a
successor as supervisor of roads.
An Ayden physician, named Friz
selle, saw Evans, who had ibeen at
liberty since the murder of McLaw
horn, on a road near Ayden late
Wednesday. In spite of the fact that "
the black pulled his cap down over
his eyes, he was Identified. The doc
tor notified the authorities in Ayden,
and a posse was immediately organiz
ed and. ent put" to capture Evans. ;
Smith was sent for, and went to th
scene with bloodhounds from the con
vict camp. With Smith, was Another
white man and a negro trusty. Evans,
hiding in woods, understood the bus
iness of the trio, took careful aim at
the man with the hounds and fired.
Smith, wounded fatally,. , , fell, .in
structing the colored trusty to take
his gun and use it. . The trusty fired
at Evans but missed,, and th , de
mented fugitive got safely ,away. mj
Sheriff JMcLawhorn (from Green
ville, Sheriff Windley from Washing
ton, bloodhounds from Washington,
and, it is said, Tarboro, and dozens
of men in automobiles rushed to the
cene. Between 75 and 100 men beat
up the country in .which . Evans was
hiding all night long, while that wor
thy, chilled by a cold, driving rain,
took refuge in a barn and it is Reliev
ed, calmly slept, regairdless of t the
consequences, ,a ,44 Colt .revolver,
taken from McLawhorn when he was
killed, in a pocket of hlsoat. . That
revolver, it was believed, still had
five bullets in i'W and the searchers
were reasonably certain that Evans
would not be taken alive. This morn- -ing
his trucks were found about the
barn in which he spent the night, and
a pallet on the inside. The map, -however,
had slipped out, and may
have escaped through the cordon of
men thrown around the section. The
barn in which Evans laid is several
miles from Ayden towards Vancebo
ro. '
Smith, a large, fine-looking man,
was brought to Memorial , Hospital
here. Dr. Albert Parrott operated on
him about 10:30 o'clock and closed
up several fearful holes made by the
large bullet in the , victim's intes
tines. Smith was conscious this
morning, but his .physician admitted
his condition to he "extremely criti
cal" There was hardly a chance for
him to recover, it was stated. His
wife, who came from their home
near Greenville, arrived Wednesday
night io be with him." . ,
The man search continued : this
morning with recruits for tha posses.
At. 11 -j'ekek Evans had succeeded
in evading the searchers, however. If
taken alive, which no one anticipates,
he.wilL be brought to Jail in Kin
ston. '. Pitt county j officials admit
that they could not possibly restrain
die angry people of . tho county.
Sheriff Taylor here this morning 6ald
he had made no preparations to re
ceive Evans, nor does he expect tha
man to be taken alive. Erans has
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