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PA ' . IKE n:2 FSxff L Jl lr-.ii.lJL THWBATHBX , ftm and Caeb TonifHI Piobabiy Kain Tomorrow ' f SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. O, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1916 FOUR PAGES FXICE TWO CENTS -FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS .HE.miiBMlN TOE BROKEN OERH'NS BENT UPON BOARD OF ELECTIONS TOM PENCE DIED IN VILLAy RUNNING AWAY, HAKES MEXICANS (P IP I PIS PROVEDf GERMAN SUBMARIN . -. LJ JJ. X: 11.'-' jA' SJj SL dJ.'J. Iiil. MAW OF FOR LENOIR WASHINGTON TODAY JOIN HIM OR BE SHOT; A TRAIL OF DEATH SUi:hUSS; AMtKIANS LOST, THO'. 2NDF RflERIS; v.. IND Hi; STORIES OF SNIPING TODAY mil ILLKLOd Jl12? " I" I " I Jl 'I - .11 II II II l4 llll 5 VERDUN COUNTY NAMED ON BATORD'r llfll president and Secretary of emblirig tfatts oft ' tiis&ter In CHannelLlttle Doubt That' Torpedo Caused Sinking Bodies Recovered Many Passengers Declare In Water Bit of Metal man Torpedoes Discovered In Wreckage Crisis Be tween Imperial and Washington Governments Most Se '. i . - - -. . rious Since Outbreak of the War' v.: v (By the United Press) London, March' 27. Late this afternoon the Embassy announced that all information led to the belief that no American lives were lost in the Sussex disaster. Severance of Itelatidhs Seems Probable. (By IU)BERTj J. BENDER, United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington March 2T. Diplomatic relations with Germany probably will be broken off if this Government finds that' a German submarine attacked the Sussex, ac cording to a, high Administration official. Wilson and Lansing are awaiting 'th-O facts. Botli are urging, haste in assembling them. Tney today cbhf erred at length over tie telephone. It is authoritatively stated that the belief is general that a torpedo was responsible for the disaster and loss-of American lives. A piece of bronze metal sim ilar to4hat used in German torpedoes is reported to have been.found' in the Sussex wreckage. Determine America's Policy; Now. , Washington, .Mar, 27. President Wilson aad Secretary Lansing; today arranged to jointly consider the facta obtaiaablft concerning itHe sinking of : tie Sussex With ithe los of American . lfiitW-witiV they must determine Wily America's policy in perhspa the moat serious crisis in the two-yeans' submarine controversy, if it tums out ithat a submarine really sunk the Sussex. At Least One American Dead. (By, Charles P. Stewart)' (United 'Press Staff Correspondent) London Mar. 27. At least one American, it now seems certain, was tost when ithe Sussex was sunk. The America!' Embassy today announced that Mfe Calliope Anastasia Fen nelle of New. York is missing. Twelve bodies havo been recovered.' Both, the American (Embassy and the Admiralty today, continued investiga- tionr The majority of the survivors at Parrs declare positively that the ship was submarined. Liner Minneapolis Sunt; 11 Dead , London, Mar. 27. Eleven persons ; were killed wheinthe iiner Minneapo lis, of 15,000 tons was submarined in the Mediterranean J last Wednesday, said an Admiralty statement today. Many Declare Torpedo ''Responsible. iParis,, March. 26. The great ma jority of survivorB of the Sussex, both Americans and those of other ration alities, who have reached France as sert the vessel was -torpedoed and xnax mere is no question . ol any warning ; having; been. ? given. . None of them saw a mine or indications of one, whereas, the greater part of those whose stories have been given assert that they saw the wake of a torpedo. , . TL. Americans Believed Lost The total number of victims is still unknown. ; It is estimated vari ously at fifty to eighty. Of the Am ericans, it now is regarded as certain that Miss Elizabeth Baldwin was killed.'.. It is believed her father, Pro fessor J. Mark .Baldwin,' was lost end that possibly Mrs. Baldwin perished. TKJCDEST STORY IN THE IiT.VS OF THE DAY (By the United Press) ' : St Good, MinnsMareh 27, Thfe town's whistKnj well is to be inves tigated bySUte geologists. The well is one of the greatest freaks in the country. Surface temperatures are the same as temperatures in the bot tom of the 74-fool well ,d changing temperatures between the two cause the well to emit a whirling noise. State Ask for Haste In As They Saw Wake of Missile Similar to That Used In Ger- KAISER HAD TRIED TO PRY nMY OUT OF WAR German Propaganda Skilfully Man- aged' and Verdun Offensive Means Employed Failure at the French . Stronghold Knocked Teuton Plans In Head Desperate Attempt Dis closed Today (By ithe United Press) Paris, Mar. 27. Germany has been trying to detach Italy from the Allied ranks, it was learned today when the super-war council of the Allies con vened. iBerlin Had planned to effect the coup through shrewd propaganda and a' Verdun victory. Failure at Ver dun doomed the Teuton plan. MILLIONAIRE ON TRIAL . ft X . J. .. - " 4 ON WHITE SLAYE CHARGE (By the United Press) Chicago, March 27. Afiter -many delays and postponements, ; William JRufusi Edwards, millionaire' St. Paul lumberman, went to trial here today, charged with having violated tho Mann act Ada M. Cox, a stenographer who once sued 'Edwards for 'breach of promise, is the prircipal witness against him. Edwards had secured several continuances from the : Fede ral court; one because of his wife's approaching' motherhood,'? next be cause of Wis baby's illness, and fin ally, early this month,' because ho himself was suffering from nervous prostration. Edwards' counsel planned to attack Miss Cox's character,' it was said, and has arranged for transportation for 25 witnesses from ' many places to Chicago. - PRESIDENT HAS A NEW LITTLE (KAffl)KAUGIITER Philadelphia, 'March 26-A daugh ter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Fran cis Bowes Sayre hero today. She is the second granddaughter of Presi dent Wilson and will be named Elea nor Axson Sayre, for ; Mrs. Sayre's mother. " Mother and child were re ported tonight to be doing well. GOLDSBORO TO GET IDEAS FOR FAIR FROM KINSTON Goldsboro, NTC, March 27. Lo cal fair boosters will visit Kinston in the next few days to get informa tion of the methods of conducting the successful Ten-County Fair there." The first Wayne county fair is ex pected to be held next falL The New Bern jihd Smkhfield fair officials will also be called upon, ' Press Correspondent Declares Frencfi City Ts Invulnerable USE INCENDIARY BOMBS Teutons Evidently- Trying to Wreck Town, But Un able to Secure Any Mill tary Advantage Russi ans Driven to Attack By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, (United Press Staff Correspondent) Headquarters of the Verdun French Armies, March 27. Thrice baffled at Verdun,' the Gecjhanfl now are seem ingly bent on destruction of the city, Daily they hurl about 350 incendiary shells into the business and residential sections. From a military standpoint Verdun is unscratched. Otherwise the city appears doomed to become anoth er Ypres, or Rheims or Arras. ' 5 'During the ibonvbardment I' entered the underground city. It was built many months ago. in preparation for what is now occurring. The French expect further heavy attacks, but say they are foredoomed to failure. Verdun seems impregnable. Cer tainly it cannot be taken without an enormous loss. Verdun Bombardment Continues. Paris, March 27. T.e Germans to day continued to bombard he Ver dun sector. There were no new infan try actions, the war office reported. Russians Lose Heavily. viBy CARL W. ACKERMAN, (United Press Staff Correspondent) Berlin, March 27. The First Siber ian army corps, of 40,000 men, has been practically exterminated in fruit less attacks against Von HJndenburg's front, dispatches today said. The Rufl' sians were driven to the attacks ' by their own artillery, said the advices. Russian Attacks Repulsed. Berlin, March 27. The repulse of further heavy Russian attacks with enormous Slav losses as reported by the war office. FRENCH TROOPSHIP IS REPORTED SllNK; LOSS OF LIFE GREAT, SAID (By the United Press) Berlin, March 27. A French .T transport from Salonika has been mined and sunk with great loss ' of life, according to Athens dis patches. Only 73 persons were . saved. ' BUILD NEW CANNING PLANT ON ISLAND IN CURRITUCK Elizabeth' City, Marh 26. A can ning factory with a daily capacity of fourteen hundred cans in !n process of construction ' at Waterlily, on Church's Jsland in (Cumttfck coun ty. BULLETINS (By the United Press) THREE ALLIED SHIPS SUNK. London March 27. TKree more vessels, two of them British, the steamer Cerne and the . fish car rier Khartoum,4 aiid the French steamer Ilexbe, have been sunk within the last 24 hours, with probable loss of fife. GERMAN TORPEDOBOAT SUNK. ? Berlin, March 27. One of the ; : German torpedo boats which' en gaged the British off the Frisian coast on Saturday is believed to have been lost, the Admiralty to day admitted. Two German pat rola also were sunk. ' - TEUTON STEAMER MINED, SUNK. Copenhagen, March 27- The German steamer Gretna has struck a mine and sunk with the loss of ten lives, outside Goltxlow, - P. S. B. Harper of This ; City and It G. Creech of taGrangie, ; DeinocraNtici Mfemliers; John E. Calhc ron of Grainger, G. O. P. P. S. B. Harper of Kinston, R.. G. Creech of LaGrange, Democrats, and John E. Cameron of Jrainger, Re publican, comprise the Lenoir Coun ty Hoard of Elections. They were named by the State Board in session at Raleigh Saturday. The State Board of Elections ruled that a candidate's expenses begin when he takes his first Step for elec tion and not when he formally an nounces himself, passed a resolution in regard to expenditures of State Senatorial candidates and decided to meet on June 5 to canvass the State presidential primary returns and for ward the results to the national con ventions. All the county boards were named. Thoso of other coun ties in this section are: "Carteret: J. H. Davis, Beaufort; Luther Hamilton, Morehead Ci'ty. and J. F. Duncan, Beaufort. Crav en: William Dunn, Jir., New Born; R. A. iNunn, New Hern, and E. L. Mallard,' New Bern. Duplin: J. A. Gavin, Jr., iKenansville; W. J. Gra dy, AlbertsonV and L. M. Cooper, Kenansville. Greene: F. L. Rouse, Snow Will; B. P. D. Albritton, Hookerton, and J. W. S. Beaman, 6now Hill. Jones: D. J. Dixon, Trenton ; II . A. Parker, Pollocks- ville, and Lewis King, Trenton. On slow: George A. Hurst, Jacksonville; G. W. 'Brady. ' Jacksonville, and A. Jarman,' Richlands. Pitt: S. J. Everett, Greenville; S. T. White, Greenville, ' and Henry T. King, Greenville.: Sampson: I. C Wright, Clinton; M. J. Newman, Clinton, and II. Grumpier, Clinton. The first two named of each board are Demo crats, the third Republican. NORFOLK AND HOUSTON HAVE COSTLY SUNDAY FIRES; LOSSES GREAT Norfolk, Va., March 2G. Two fires of unknown origin caused damage estimated at $2(52,000 in this city ear ly today. The Progress building, in the heart of the wholesale district in Water street, was completely destroy ed, the loss being placed at $237,000. The plant of the Colonial Cereal Company in Bramblcton avenue was also destroyed, the kms being $25,000. Houston's Loss More Than $500,000. Houston, Texas, Match 2Gv iFari- ned by a sttff breeze, fire of undeter mined origin which started in the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway cotton sheds here today destroyed about 4,100 ibales of cotton and bad ly damaged the warehouse of the F. W. fleitmann Company, hardware dealers, and several residences be fore it was brought under control. The loss was estimated at $530,000. WILLARD GOT NEARLY FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR TRIMMING CHALLENGER ' MOR AN; KANSAN TOH1R0KEN ITAND WAS FASILT THE BEST MAN New York, March 27. Fight ex rts whose predictions were dis per proved by tne resuic or taturaay ight's Willard-Moran bout in Ma dison Square garden were Dal. Haw kins, Tom Sharkey, Sam Harris, BiU ly Rocap and Billy Gibson. They had picked Moran to win. Congratulat ing themselves today, upon their judgment are Jim Conbett, Strangler Lewis. Joe Choynski, James J. Jef fries, Robert Filzsimmons and Geo. Considine, who expected Willard to retain the championship won from the negro Johnson at Havana last year. ' ; '. . ' ' : l The fight went tho scheduled ten rounds without 2 K.-O. Willard broke his right hand in the third, but the big champ, had all the best of the scrap' in seven rounds. The third was given to Frank Moran, and the Complications - Caused De raise of Sec'y National . Democratic Committee WAS NORTH CAROLINIAN S! i -t -t r Brilliant Newspaperman Was Friend to Thousands Bright's Disease, Pneu monia and Heart Trouble Combination Fatal to Him Washington, Mar. 27. Thom as J. Pence, Secretary of the Na tional Democratic Executive Com mittee,' died at his home here this morning, after a long 111 - ness due to' complication. There is no attempt by the Demo crats here to conceal -their sorrow, Close friends of the brilliant young North Carolina newspaperman throng. ed his quarters. Many of them gave signs or actual gnor. fence was popular with thousands of persons here.-. , Since coming to' the .Capital Tom Pence had lived in,, unpretentious quarters, in keeping with his modest unassuming nature. His line" char acter earned him a great coterie of admirers and he was a good mixer in snite of his innate reticence. The President and' scores of Senators and Representatives had: taken personal interest in his illness. Bright's dis ease, bronchial pneumonia and heart disease combined caused his demise No hope had been entertained for him for wecksand last night phy sicians told his intimates ithat the end was near. Pence was regarded as almost in dispensable to his party. Merit rath- er .than powerful frienda secured him his high position, and he made good from the beginning. Hie funeral plans have not been announced. It' is expected that the body will be carried to North Caro lina for burial. MAY BE DEATH BLOW . : TO THE'fflOVIES THERE (By the, United Press) Winnipeg, Man., March 27 The kibosh was thought today to have been put ori' the movies here. A tax of 20 Scents for every seat occupied during any amusement performance in Winnipeg has been officially order ed. ; Theaters ;in. other towns in the province pay 19 cents a seat. War revenue and compulsory economy on the part of the public are the causes. GUILFORD BEATS U. of N. C. Greensboro. March 27. The Guil ford College nine defeated the Uni versity of North Carolina -.'baseball team 2 to'l, hero Saturday afternoon. i eighth and .ninth were regarded' as drawn, but Uhere was little of credit for the- Pittsburgh man in the deci sion in his favor after the 'third phase; . . ,. . - ; Moran took a lot of punishment. Several times he appeared to be all in. He bled profusely from the face and one eye was in severe condition for a part of the match. But he was game Willard lacked aggressive ness and remained cool at all times, using his left effectively in the close rounds as well as his injured right throughout. Jess weighed in at a few ounces less than 2G0 pounds; Moran weigh ed 201 1-2. Willard's reach is 83 1-2 inches, Moran's 78. V Gate receipts were $151,254. Thir teen thousand qersons saw the fight Willard received 47,500, Moran $23.- 750.;'; : . ' - ... - (By the United Press) Columbus, N. M., March 27. Many drivers of incom ing wagon trains today , reported encountering Mexican snipers along the Casas Grandes-Columbus road. No Americans-were hit. Washington Doesn't Believe Stories. Washington, March 27. War Department officials today discounted sniping stories from the border, saying that no, word of casualties had been received since the troops crossed. - . j " Change of Ships at Tampico. Washington, March 27. The gunboat Marietta has , been ordered to Tamiico, relieving the battleship Ken tucky, lying off the harbor. Villa Threatens Peons; Trail of Death. (By E. T. CON KLE, United Press Staff Correspondent) El Paso, March 27. Leaving a trail of dead and? wounded, Villa is fleeing southward from Namiquipa, to- ward the Sierra Tarahumare mountains, according to ar my advices. Ie is forcing upon peons the choice of being shot or joining, him. . . , , A NEWGREAT LAKES SHIPBUILDING BOOM Cleveland, March 27. Cleveland lake ports are experiencing tho greaV est ship-building boom in years. Ship yards and drydocks are working day and night. Employes, mostly skilled, arc scarce, and wages are 10 to 15 per cent, higher Ihan in past years. 'About 127,000,000 is nivested in contracts in Great Lukes ship yards for vessels to be delivered within the next two years," said II. C. --Estop, editor of a marine trade paper hero. "Sixty-six ships have been . con tracted for by Great Lakes compan ies, Four companies .will .deliver the bulk of these ships.'' ' RUSSIA FEARS FINNS . MAY START REVOLUTN Copenhagen, March 8. (By Mail) Possibly forecasting 'a serious in ternal situation in Finland, all mili tary cligibles have been forbidden to leave the country, it became known here today. Finns between ages of 19 and 41 must remain in Finland pending tho Czar's decision to draft them into the Russian army. There are, approxi mately, COO.OOO men in Finland avail able for military service. Less than 4,000 Finns have joined the Russian army to date. All ports of exit aire now closely watched with tho utmost vigilance bythe Russian 'authorities. REDNESS: TALK OF mi iiMiaii li rn rv tnv n i NO III IN Xn liaNlrl.N Lynchburg, Va., Mair. 2(5. '"Pre paredness" is the .great word on ev ery tongue in America today, 'and rightly so," said lion. Josephus Pan els, Secretary of the Navy, in his address tonight on "Preparedness From God's Standpoint," before an enthusiastic audience made up large ly from V. M. ICS. A. members and other religious workers of Lynchburg. DR. M. CLARK ACCEPTS CALL FROM CHARLESTON Greensboro, March 20. Rev. Dr. Melton . Clark, who has been pastor of the First Presbyterian church here for ten years, announced to his con gregation- tonight that jie had decid ed to accept the call recently tendered im by the Second Presbyterian church of Charleston, S. C. He will leave, in a few weeks. WILLIAMSTON MAY BACK OUT FOUR-TOWN LEAGUE. 'A if:' (By tho Eastern Press) Washington, N. - C, March 27. Promoters of the East Carolina semi pro, baseball league admit Williams ton may not stick. The Greenville, Washington and Aurora members of, the governing organization are con ferring with Farmville fans ini tie hope of getting that town in the league in the event Williamston does quit. - ; . -' . ........v.., , . ... KkL. Si PRESIDENT EXPECTED 1 V VETO BURNETT BILL Iouse By Dig Majority Today Vot ed to Retain Clause Requiring All Immigrants to Be Able to Read and Write Language ot Own Coun-.; try Vote of Representatives 225 to 82 (By tho United Press) ' Washington, Jflareh 21, By a vote' of 225 to 82, the House today retained in the Burnett immigration bill tho clause requiring all immigrants Wbe able to read and write their own lan guage. The President is expected to veto the bill. " KPERTS FORECAST ' r J- GREATEST SLAUGHTER ; OF WAR IN SPRING By WILBUR S. FORREST, (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, March 15. (By Mail) J: Men who have been in closest touch with every move of the world war to date are beginning to forecast that the next five months will bring an unparalleled burst of buttle, attended, by the worst bloodshed in the world's history. . -.' , Throughout all the theaters, tho coming spring will see the greatest' activity of the war, attended ly the slaughter which conditions make in evitable, the military experts are saying, v j Nor will the slaughter be limited to soldiers, some forecasts declare. . It is believed in some circles that sep pclins will take heavy toll, of civil ian populations .in many quarters. Reports from FriedriehBhafen, on Lake Constance, say that the zeppe lin factory there is turning out 12 or' 10 zeppelins a month. ' The Ger man Paraeval and Schultz-Lange fac tories, located elsewhere also are re ported active to' on rxtent often times their normal output. NEGRO WOMAN KILLED; f: SEARCH FOR HUSBAND , Fayetteville, March 26. Fannie Smith, a colored woman, ,was found dead by a roadside . near "Myrtle Hill," the country home of S. - II, Strange, this morning,' and officers are tonight seeking her husband, Ar thur Smith, who is missing. , THE DAY ON LOCAL ' COTTON EXCHANGE Five bales were receipts on the lo cal cotton exchange today, prices ran ging from 10 1-2 to 11 1-2 cents. New York futures quotations were: May .11.90 11.93 July -;'-V....t.,'.;,12.05 12.04 October 12.12 12.14 December v. .........125 1121 January 12.34 124 J. A. Wiggs," police chief of Wil son who shot and killed Phil.. Worth, colored, Friday, was on Saturday ex onerated. Worth w'a3 said to Lave oeen resisting nrrest wnen i.ie i killed him.