THE 0-P.FEB THE. WEATHEB Balo inno VOL. XVII No 309! SECOND EDITION . KINSTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1916 FOUR PAGES TODAY Acfi Strains 11 . i . , VILLA eJ JlEqRUlTliNOlPIiiNCE VON BUELOWl SENATE JllCIAjlY COMMITTEE BY VOTE KAISER MAY FORCE ITALY TO DECLARE WAR AGAINSTB'RLIN EPISCOPALIANS TO IET IN; ELIZABETH CITY1 COMING YEAR Annual Council of Diocese East Carolina Came to End Tuesday Night MIEol, Ut I lit PA I ltd rULLUWi IN WILL BABLY BE TEN TO EIGHT ON PARTY LINES TODAY ; -'V OFFENSIVE,: STATED WAKE OF AMERICANS AMBASSADOR TO U.S. ends 'lv- Ten Thousand Killed in the BattleThat started Un; Tuesday JNight MEN USED i THEIR i KNIVES Great Gray Tide Rolled Up- on French, Positions Until TrOOpS Grappled Both OJJ T!fnll "Dofl, T Fire Heroism (By the United Press) Paris, Hay 24 Following a terrific onslaught. : the Germans have : penetrated the French front . west of.' the Meuse, the war office today admitted. All other attacks were repulsed. Paris, May 2JU-Ten thousand men have gone down to slaughter in what is rapidly becoming the bloodiest' en gagement of the three months' bat tle of Verdun. The Germans last night rojled, up 80,000 against the Frenchi works-); ' on ; Dead Mas JBSOi, hil W Mm time and m rmkail the French kfendimr Douau- aiont. ;. After bathing the French po sitions from Thiaumont to Douau mont in a steady roll of fire, the grey columns rushed the works in the .face of a machine 'gun : spray, coming to .dose grips. Groups of men struggled so close together that only knives, could be wed.. WS.MSTORSrHElP FOR ENFORCING PEACE Taft Asks Them to Communicate to Churchmen Plan of the League to Enforce Peace. Which Becks to Establish International Court of Conciliation No Disarmament Yet ., Ex-President; William, H. Taft, as head of a special .committee of the League to . Enforce Peace, recently wrote to ' preachers,, throughout the country asking them -to inform their parishioners on (the prosram of the organization which is to hold its first annuel assemblage Friday and Saturday of thia week. Several oth- e? prominent members of the League affixed their signatures. Ministers in Kinston to whom let ters were eeat, are Rev, Willard 0. iBodell of the' Church of the Eternal Hope, Universalis t and Pasttfr B. P. (Smith of Gordon . Street Christian churchy . . "There is no reasonable ground Ho hope that the nations of the world will disarm and create an interna tional police. We have not got that far," says the letter. But wfb seems practically possible that at the end of this war the nations will be will ing to enter a league to enforce the submission of all disputes to an in ternational court or council of con ciliation, for a complete examination before war can be declared." ' FRANCE WILL SHARE MUmidNSWftHTHE CZAR, SAYS; PETR0(TD (By, the United. Press) Petrograd, May .24 The French, with plentiful supplies of munitions, now are undertaking to supply Rus sia, through ArchangeL The Hud son Bay Company is said to have of fered all ita 160 ehips to earry mu-j , nitions from , the United States to Kussia without profit ' VICE-PRKIPENT: IS : GRADUATES ORATOR J (Special to The Free Press) ..dreensboro, May 24. Vice-Presi-! dent Marshall made hte literary ad dress at the commencement exercises of the State formal and Industrial to-e here yesterday. I As Forces Withdraw Band- itsick Upr .Peons jn qiepVon Bernstorff at Wash- Country Evacuated-Say Chief Is Coming Back to I Command Forces (By the United Press) Columbus.j M.. M.. Mav 24. Villa bandit8 are xecruems ia wake of J the withdrawal of the American f or- according to information from Remnants of bands that Pershing; dispersed are conscripting peons at the pistol point,' saying Villa is com ing back to lead them and. promising them rich loot. BRIEF, NEWS NOTES FROM THE NEIGHBORINCI - TOWNS AND COUNTIES Mack Blount, colored, supposed to have fallen from a Norfolk Southern freight car, was killed by a train on 5 the Netfse river railroad bridge at New Be Tuesday. One leg was se- I vered and the boAy badly cut P- Commencement exercises of ithe Greenville schools will start Friday. Pastor B. P. Smith of Gordon Street Christian church, has been asked by the Federal Council of the Churches of IChrist to bring to the attention of his congregation "a na tion-wide effort for the relief of the sufferers by the war ' in Europe end Asia. on ''Memorial Sunday, May 28V or on as near a Sunday as may be practicable." 1 Probably other Jo- I cal ' ministers have been similarly 'appealed to- The council T proposes to acquaint the people with not only the relief plans, but - "a Movement that shall prepare our Christian churches to Iplay the vital part that belontrs to them in the period of reconstruction and reconciliation that must follow the close of the war." SHRINERS HOLDING SPRING CEREMONIAL AT RALEIGH TODAY (Special to The Free Press) 'Raleigh, May , 24. Nearly 2,000 Shriners are here for the two-dav Spring ceremonial. Members of Oasis patrol and friends from all over the State are present. A long parade at 10 this morning was re viewed by the Governor. . John K. lUameron of Kinston, as Illustrious Chief Rabban,. is one of the big personages of the patrol. INOUIRV; INTOJ THE SAFETY AMERICANS IN IRELAND LIKELY Resolution Favorably Re ported Investigation of British, Blockade Proba-r ble Motive of Another Re solution, Thought (By the United Press) Washington. May 24 An injuiry into the safety of . Americans in Ire land was ordered in a resolution fav orably reported to the Senate by the Foreign Relations Committee today. The committee also reported reso lution asking .for the executive de partment's report to the Senate on V.iat obstacles stand in the way of sending relief to Poland. This is said to be aimed at the British block ade. If-so it is deeply significant, as it is the first time the foreign re lations committee has '.-ermitted Sen ate discussion of jne biocka.ie. Reported He Will Succeed ington Embassy ANOTHER SIGN OF : PEACE Say Diplomats Former Chancellor Active In that Respect Von Bernstorff Expected to Go to Anoth er Important Post (By the United Press) London, May 24. The Exchange Telegraph stated this afternoon that it had learned on authority that Prince Von Buelow, ex-German chan cellor, is slated to become German ambassador to Washington, replac ing Von Bernstorff, as part of the rearrangement of the German diplo matic service. The statement is un corroborated, although it has been frequently 'reported that Von Bern storff was slated to be recalled to fill an important post in Europe. Diplomats today said that' if the report is true it is another indica tion that Germany plans to move for an early peace. Von Buelow's name has been fre quently connected with peace rum ors, 'especially during his long stay in Switzerland. SUFFRAGISTS OF THE NATION TO ORGANIZE .TOWS PARTY' JUNE (By the United Press) Chicago, May 24. All is in readi ness for the thousands of women who will attend theNiVoman's Party con vention heie, June 5, 6 and 7, in an swer to the call of the Congressional Union, Suffragists from all enfran chised States will determine how Ihey can throw their votes in the next election in order to 'best serve the cause of nation-wide suffrage for women. The last day of this convention will be the first day of the Republican conclave, v (it... f COMMENCEMENT OVER AT ELON COLLEGE (Special to The Free Press) Elon College, N. C, May 24. Dr. James I. Vance of Nashville, Tenn., delivered the literary address at the closing exercises of the Elon College commencement here yesterday. JOHN! NEIL F01D GUILTY. OF TAKING PART IN REBELLION Secret Courtmartial for the Irish Professor Who Was President Of , Sinn Fein- ers'-Organization Was ' Once Civil Officer 1 1 (By the United Press) Dublin,. May 24. John McNeil, president of the Sinn ' Fein rebels, and a professor in an Irish univer sity,' was today convicted of partly pation in the rebellion. McNeil for merly was a civil officer of the Four Courts. He was secretly courtmar-tialled,-having been arrested on. his return to Dublin.- He had left there after, clashing with Sinn Feiners over the advisa bility of starting the rebellion ome time before the hostilities broke out Subscribe to The Free Prcr. '-, By the v Washington,. May 24. The Senate Judiciary Commit tee today recommended confirmation of Louis D. Bran deis as United States Supreme Court justice, by a vote of ten to eight, on strictly party Senator Shields of Tennessee, who arrived m the last minutes, voted with the Democrats, favoring confirma tion. Cummings was not present, but his vote was allowed against confirmation. Members favorable to Brandeis are jubilant. A protracted fight is expected in the Senate, with a filibuster likely, when Brandeis name is reached within a week or so. A division on party lines there, however, is expected to give the nominee a comfortable margin. PARTELLOIflIIAIS COURTOT MURDER Alleged Slayer of Harry Stein, Said to Have,Been 111 In a Norfolk Hospital, Returned Tuesday Night Cases Today Several cases were disposed of in Superior Court this morning. .None was of especial importance. The court planned to commence the case against David Laweon. col ored," 12, charged with killing a younger colored boyt this afternoon. Margaret Partcllo Back. . Margaret Partello, alleged slayer of Harry Stein, who was not in court when her case was called early in the term, returned Tuesday night from Norfolk, where, her counsel states, she was seriously ill. She is said to have been in a hospital. It is supposed (that her case will come before the end of the week. Tuesday's Cases. Cases disposed of Tuesday were: Charlie Gregory, bigamy, judgment suspended and costs with certain sti pulations. Robert Dudley, carrying a concealed weapon, six months. J. E. Gibson, resisting arrest and dis orderly conduct, two months, lobe Williams, assault, $15 and costs. Walter Mewborn, assault with a deadly weapon, judgment suspended and costs. Adolph Parker, assault with, a deadly weapon, not guilty. HOW RUSSIAN FISHER mMbrigadegot: to the firing line (By the United Press) Petrograd, May 24. The spirit that animates Russian women to fight was shown among the fisher-folk col ony at Novgorod recently when Pe- legeva Mandrin returned wounded from her regiment after fighting in seven actions. She recruited sevonty girl warriors among the fisherfolk and when Gen eral Kuropatkin arrived from his es tate at Pskoff he fell on her knees hnfnrn him and imolored him to allow the fisher girl's brigade to go to the front. Kuropatkin refused .because worn- en are "not allowed" in the Russian army. So they cuV off their long hair, dressed as men ' and scattered themselves among the troops over the ithousand-mile front. These fisher-girl warriors rely on the unwrit ten law of Russian regiments ; for their protection. LITTLE .B0PR()WNED IN SPRIII j UP-STATE Hickory, May 23. Sam, the three- year-old on of P. A. Jliller, e local liveryman, was drowned in a. spring near hU honw' in -the suburbs of Hickory. . ' United Press) lines, , FIRES INiFARH; RESIDENCE CONTINUE TO BURN Number in House On H. P. Lof tin Plantation Nearly 30 Since Saturday The Cause Yet Unexplained Experts Asked to Aid A series of mysterious fires which started in a 'tenant bouse on a farm of H. P.' Lof tin, four miles south of here Saturday, continued today. It was estimated- this afternoon that nearly thirty blazes had occurred at intervals of . (from a few minutes to a few hours. What, causes the fires is a puzsle to Mr. Lof tin,' T. W. Chase, the tenant, who with his family lives in the room dwelling, and numerous other ptrsons who have' Been them break cut. State chemists from Raleigh will be brought to the scene if pos sible. Federal authorities in Wash ington also have been appealed to. It seems not to be the house, but the contents which are so peculiarly affected. ? The furnishings have been moved out of the house. Part of them were taken to a dwelling a short distance away. Almost imme diately when taken to the other house a piece of matting burst into flames. The fires have been seen to break out without moment's warning, in bedclothes and articles of furniture, garments hanging on walls, etc. The family of Chase are a normal lot. They are greatly perturbed and cannot sleep in the house. There is nothing unusual about the residence. It is a frame structure, and has stood for a Ion? time. Two outbreaks occurred this morn ing. BRYAN MAY RUN FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN AS PROHIBITIONIST Chicago, 111., May 23. If he Will consent to. make the race, William J. Bryan may be selected as the candi date of the Prohibition party for President. Recent statements of M,r. Bryan were discussed by Prohi bition party leaders here today. BULLETINS (By the United Press) NAVAL BILL REPORTED. Washington, 'May 24.A bill reported , to the House by the Naval Committee today carries nearly $361,4)00,000. One item calls for the expenditure of $3, 000,000 on the Norfolk yard. iBrownsviJIe, May 23-Col. Louis Morlin, charged with planning a Mex ican uprising, and Victoriano Ponce, were shot to death when they ' at tempted -to escape from Texas Ran gers last night. Expected to Give Personal Affront by Visiting Aus trian Forces, on Frontier. Demand in Rome for De claration Now (By the United Pre.) Rome, May 24. The demand in some quarters that Italy declare war on Germany follows the announce ment that the Kaiser expects to visit the Austro-Italian front,' whore Ger man troops will aid. A widely circulated report is that the Kaiser hopes to force war de claration by a personal affront like visiting the Austrian Crown Prince's headquarters. SAYS TIME SOON SHALL MERGE WITH ETERNITY Evangelist Bridgers at Queen. Street Methodist Church, Tell Hearer That Peter Wrote of the "Last Days" In Fourth Chapter Special Service to Be Held On Thursday Morning The message of Mr. Luther B. Bridgers last night to his hearers at the Queen Street Methodist revival service was a striking one, and one delivered with much power. He read4 a part of the fourth chapter of I. Peter and pointed out that Peter was there writing of the 'Jast days, This period, the evangelist declared, we are now going through with, be cause we are now living Ah the dis pensation of the Holy Ghost, which will comparatively soon be over, when time shall be merged into eter nity. v.':; .'y:-; Again Mr. Bridgers appealed to the church to right itself in the pres ence of God, calling especial atten tion to the question "And if the righteoue scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and sinners ap pear?" The "ungodly, he held to be the unfaithful follower of Christ who thus became a hypocrite, which character always receives the scorn of the world just as, upon it, was heaped the most scaitbing rebukes of Christ. It was in this way to church mem bers who might realize a lack of Christian grace in their lives that Mr. Bridgers addressed himself es pecially. And when the altar call was made a large number thus con- victcd came forward and solemnly reconsecrated themselves to the com ing of Christ. ' Following up his general discus sion of the baptism of the Holy Spi rit, Mr. iBridgers "this morning ap pealed to a fine audience ' to realize that all Christians may know an ex perknee of grace much deeper am' richer than comes through mere con version. This deeper experience comes if Christians will pay the price for it by complete self-renunciation and full willingness to assume the Ctoss of Christ. Mr. Bridgers called especial atten tion to the service proposed fo Thursday morning. At that time he Will discuss "Holiness and Prayer, or "The Deepest Secret in Prayer." Services morning and evening at 10 a. m. and 8 p. m., respectively. CRAIG AGAIN HEADS SCOTTISH SOCIETY; CANADIAN SPEAKER (Special to The Free Press) Red Springs, N. tL. May 24. The Scottish Society of America in an nual ' convention here yesterday - re elected Governor Locke Craig . of North Carolina, president of the or ganization. Dr. James A. MacDonald, editor of the Toronto (Canada) Globe, and Governor "Craig were epeakers. A committee to -continue the canvass for an endowment for Flora llacDon a3J College here was appointed. HONORS FOR LOCAL MEN, Rev. J. H, Griffith, Dr. I. M. Hardy and Mr, G. V, Cow per Get Places on Boards . of Trustees or, Important Committees The closing session of the annual Council of the Episcopal Diocese of 1 East Carolina,' in session here since Saturday night, was held in St, Ma-; ry's church Tuesday night. " ' Rev. Lester Bradner. Ph." of New York, Educational Secretary of the General Board of Religious Ed-r ucation, a profound scholar and a native of New England, made an ad dress principally on the subject of Sunday school organization. .Bishop Dasrt Darst delivered hia charge ta the clergy, commenting on the splen did opportunities offering to advance the church's work . In the 'Diocese.' Delegate R. R. Cotten, . from St. Paul's parish. Greenville, offered a , resolution of thanks to the rector, h vestry congregation , and friends of fy'j, parish for the hospitality with which the Council had been re- t ceived and entertained, r The resolu tion was adopted by a rising vote. The Gloria in Excelsis was sung, the Bishop pronounced his benediction, ml the 33rd Council nassed into his tory. , i Local Clergyman Again Editor of Organ. Tuesday afternoon's session was a. full one for -the delegates. Many sub jects of importance , to the church were discussed and much business disposed of. Rev. John H. Griffith; rector of St Mary'a parish, waa' unanimously re-elected editor-in-chief of the official organ of the dio cese, the Mission Herald. He was the editor for the past year., The Council was informed . that for the first time the journal is out of debt, for which credit is due Mr. Theodore Partrick. Jr., of Clinton, the 'enter prising young business - manager, v, Local Men Trustees of Institutions. -Dr. Ira M. Hardy of1 St. Mary'e was elected a trustee of the Thompson Orphanage at Charlotte, a position of Statewide importance, since the institution i maintained by all three !' dioceses in North Carolina, - Rev. J II, Griffith . was flattered - by beipg named a trustee of St., Mary's Coli lege, Raleigh. The conciliar . elec tions occupied a goo!, part of the af ternoon. Bishop's Salary Increased. The Bishop's salary was increased from J3.000 to $3,600, In addition -to the salary the Diocesan head Is furnished the handsome bishop's house at Wilmington and expenses. Rev. John IL Griffith was re-elecU ed chairman of the Social Service Commission, and Mr. G. V. Cowper of Kinston was elected to the com mission. - ' '' The report of Mrs. James G. Stat- Woman's Auxiliary and Parochial Society, for the, conciliar year, read at a joint meeting of both houses at the afternoon session, showed that more than $3,000 liad been given to various phases of woman's work through the Auxiliary for the cause of missions. - , ' : Elizabeth City Next Year. - The 1917 Council will be held in Elizabeth City, beginning on May 15. -, The Finish at St. Augustine's. In St, Augustine's church, colored, South Independence street, where the colored delegates met during tbe Council, the final , service was held Tuesday evening- simultaneously with that in St Mary's. Revs. J. W. Her- ritage, J. B. Brown, S. Alonzo, Mor gan and R. I. Johnson part. -at vL (Continued on Y: T r:c)