j The Home Paper . Ml The Weaker Fair Tonight VOL. XVIII. No. 81 FIRST EDITION KDtON, Jf. O, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 191$, FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS Vf.VTinA t't'i ', .T1':'TT : ..." t. - . , '. t.y SERBS TAKING REVENGE ON RETREATING BUIGARS; ENGAGE CLOSE IIANut fluHTINli UN HOME SljJL V 1-1 1 J T- irv . ... rrencn ana Russians j&ngagea VYim liuiffanans ai vne Point, Italians Hammering Them at Another, Allied Crossing: at Two Places Use Knife and Bayonet ww.vwW. .H..H 7 tor Occupied by Russ, Gain Ferdinand's Armies, Falling: Back From Greece, Offer Slight Resistance to London, Sept. 19. A steady downuour of rain has halted the British operations in the Somme.' There has 1 i. i J. . S..1. A? ' 'A- "I . nu 1 TTn!M oeeu hu important ngniing, according u; wiiw ai iiaig, but the British have entered trenches arQund Ijtichebpurg unci T.nhniie nf ffiroA n1sfa anrl falron nrisriners. The Allies have J&ssS mc ociuo ugiiuiiu uilaUiTOiwuye suu ui wlc"ov r ftwwe.uie jretreav uuu ugu Aiuaiiia iaaw wuaw. aiicj uayc taKen a -series. 01 eignts. Tneuuigars-irom jvarnacnai- an have CrOSS(fc therf " siah and Frenpn tTopsyejejgaitheA. Bulgars at Ke- naif, in Serbia i 'Practically ;all the;territory captured in the recent BuJffaceinyasipn of Greece, has been recaptur- ed. The most savage fighting has oeen where the. Serbs anci nuiars nave- vuuui iulu vence. the Serbs are flinorinff garian lines with knives and 1 v f" 1 1 . . ; . to-nana ngnung is occurring norui oiustrove. ine um, gars are steadily, retreating" northward and. have put up slight resistance, except at Fiorina, where they defeated a numper pf rek yplunters wh of ought with j excep tional bravery. V " ; ' V '.' Italians In Action in Balkans. r Paris. Stent: 19-A mnst. tm"lf A Tf,,! Uwuam,w o.,. . rAne yermajiaxjroKe.out H- vuaxnpaiHU num.. iasu lugnu, aLucmpuu uuiu BwCB,lini,oniid'fco(m Newport News, to against DeadY man's. Hill, northwest of Verdun, where Glasgow, was torpsdoed or flUn!c bY a there has oeen little .ijgnxing Kussians m the Uhampaign all is a erain serene, savs the were delivered west of the Sousain-Somme road, the Ger mans losing heavily. M v . 1 , : German Admission of Losses. ' ' . ' , Berlin, Sept.' 19.-The " Germans have,, surrendered trenches to the British east of Ginchy.ahd north of Com bles, but repulsed the Frencrj south of the Sonime, neai; Belloy and Vermandevillers, it is. officially reported, i TROOPS LEAVE FOR EL PASO LAST HALF nn nmnir" nrnnnrrrn III- IVl-Hi 1kPIIIM Kll v m mm mm m m um mm m m Ul IILLill) 11L.1 UIULU (Special to The Free Press) " Camp Glenn, Sept. 19. -TIm move ment oftroops from here to the bord er will probably be commenced Thurs- . day afternoon - The First infantry, cavalry . ambulance company,- and field hospital are expected- to get away then, going by way. of New , Bern and Wilmington. .The Second infantry will go up through Kinston May; probably during the daytime. : The, Third infantry will leave Satur- daV. - RriflrttA 1lPHflrmntaM will a . T! l , -i--.Ai : w ursi iram ouu s it is not ja just aow me engineers wui ber moved. - Company B of engineers, , ejtd ta come down today or tomor ?F Thy may come through Kin atojjj Winter clothing, including ov ercoats, are to be issuedat El Paso, Where the brigade is to be assembled as one command. . ... PULD TAKE LICENSJE A FTlOi'I T.IEIBER OF BAR i Fyetteville, Sept 18 The first disbarment proceedings in the histo T of Cumberland county, were start ed in the Superior Court here this a'tefnoon against James H. Johnson Hope Mills, a member ofXthe Cum '''iand bar. . The case, which' is a 1 action to deprive Johnson of his Uene, based on twoNconvictions el!inK illegal quantities of wine as presented to the court or ENEHIT, IN FEROCIOUS . 1 ht'ji t t f . 1 1 Is. " v J. t'HVK-i:-- ;'.' berjuans,, doming. mcK, inl Assaultine Invaders Ger- Expedition Checked "Without Allies the-Serbian frontier in two : cuiiuicl. ii(iitt;r , ur , i e i themselves against the Bul bayonets. Desperate hand- J 11. - j r .a . mi. - t-..i I Vtolenfc hattlft la occurring be- ,,fnf V, Plao MAiirf!ic n nve vioierjL atiactta on, uw ior several .weess, - ine checkea the attacks ana now war office.; ahe onslaughts' DIG Hi'-llllll II LIKE BRITISH HAVE . (By the United Press) ' Washington, Sept 19. Twenty seven tractor. similar to those con vertsd into "land dreadnaughts by the British, will soon be a part of the Unite States army's war parapher- nalia. The same Peoria (Illinois) firm which supplied the E'ritish with foundations for the armored fighting machines, has contracted to build huge tractors for this government. They will' be delivered in 0 days. TWO REPUBLICANS lANI 'A DEMOCRAT JOIN IN - SPtAKll At MM Clinton, N. C.,' Sept."' l9.In be tween Senators Moses Clapp of Mia-, nesota and J. J Parker candidate for Attorney General, who addressed a Republican political, meeting tierej ues, respectively. Democrats in; the audience shoved kallet S. (Hot Stuff) Ward of Washington, N C, whose famous nerve "nd "eloquence asserted themselves and resulted in the squelching of Republican ardor, in the pinion of Democrats. Ward de liberately demanded where was the Republican party to begin with, rip ped up Clapp's rather dignified, gen tle argument with rough-edged al legorical blade and calmly sat down, convinced that Parker could not alter the score. Nor was another tally sdJed, it is claimed by the majority party leaders. . CAR WOMEN OF COUNTRY ASKED TP JflIN IN. M WW MM (By the United Prass) , I ..., "ew "nc, sept. Housewives m vwy 'f ?.? I art asked to attend a aeastotf of the Bread settee ;0f. the National Housewives' League in an effort to en to meet the increasing price of The condition is very criti- the 'League, today said, "'both for the producer and the 'consumer1 CHICAGO BAER TAKES OWN LIFE IN TROUBLE Chicago, II!.," Sept, 1& The j sui cide of Joseph Tuma, of 4he Tuma f"'"f' B"k' "lv1; ,";t"?t"n Wy n Chicago' private bank fail nrM and m general inquiry into ftese ingtituHons. Tuma'g hank, tie state attorney liaid. was io have been in- vestigated, The , banker's counsel, however, said the bank is solvent." Tuma stood n a pior,'.fired a shot into Ws head and toppipd into Lake KELYINIA' TORPEDOED. " SAJS ONE SURVIVOR New York, Sept. 18. torpedo sank the British ship Eelvlnia, car rying 28 Americans, according to G. W, njilard of Richmond, .Va., one of American, who arrived at New KYoB - k today on ie Gunard Liner Tus- Dispatches from England left jn doubt the queifloh-wBRSertKensr- mjne on September 2. ccordinjr to piiiad, the Keivinia was torpedosd at 2 o'clock in the. mominff -vithiut any warning having en given HANDSOME SCHOOL TO BE BUILT WINTEpLl ' (Special to .Thij Free Pxes'i) ; Wintsrville, ; , ept.; 19. Tha Bap. ist church is expected to erect here a model school house to replace the main building of Wmterville- High School, destroyed by' ftre .started by lightning some weeks f. ago. ' The building will cost about $25,000, it is reported, and will bo modernly equip ped. . OLD NEGRESS VICTIM OF ROBBERY ON STREET (Special to The Free Preas) Washington, iN. C, Sept. 19.- An elderly colored woman lost $52 when she was about to comply with- a pursesnatcher's request for the change of a bill in front of a bank on Main street here Two negroes have been arrested on suspicion and one of, them will be identified as the thief, it is expected . , ., . , . . 1 ., . . r.rr, , BATTLES OF DRY LAND DREADNAUGHTS AS RESULT INTBODDCTION OF NEW BRITIS ji ARMORED CARS INSOLE, IS PREDICTION LONDON, Sept 19, Great battles between fleet of land dreadnaur'iU may result from the introduction of the new ar mored car "tanks" in the Somme by the British. A Somme correspondent says that in. "one short hour the tanks did more military service and killed more men than all the zeppelins that ever were." He wires that there is a possibility that be fore the war is over there will be land battles between whole fleets of these "dreadnaughts, or terrestrial monsters, each huger and more horrible than the last. t- Only one of the "tanks" has been destroyed in the Somme, it is learned. Ie the center of Rouleau Wood, where there has been fierce fighting, i of f e ? t fi rs li-s v-' '1 u nose buried in the earth l.ttwo t C ' lir.fs. f a bam'raue between the I I;' 'i :. ! i l!.w i! c!. -Ir i i U riot r ' . ' ! ii t ' .' , NATION MADE GREA lAJON STRIDE IN WAY- OF HEA Til IN DECADE I. ft i Lowest IIortaiitf Rate the Country! Has Ever Had Recorded in 4915 Only 13.5 Out of 1 Thousand Died the Country Over (By the United Press) , Washington, Septv 19. Only 13.5 persons out of e, very thousand in thx United States in' 1915 died, accord ing to a. report by the census bureau today. ; This was th lowest mortali ty irate ever recorded in the coun try- ..-,.. .. ' , "Widespread awakening i of - the people, of the country, trether with the progress in medicine and sanita- tjon, Tsultcl in;-the saving of 170,' QljOLlives duriiig t)e year over 1905, a decade ago," the bureau aaid. Ths decrease was 16.7 per cent during the ten years. . AGAIN AROUND HALF MILLION POUNDS OF TOBACCO ON MARKET Not quite halfa million pounds of tobacco was old here Tuesday, ac- coidi't to warehouse estimates at 2 o'clock; (Prices were about as ' good as Mnday'the average being prac tically' a$ high, as any of the season. according -to soms estimates. Should, the. sales during the next three daaverage as much in quan tity aj.those of Jiahday and Tuesday the two-million mark will be passed easily. CHIEF . ORMILITIA.DEAD Washington, Sept, 18. Major Gen eral Albert L. Mills, chief of the bu reau of military affairs, holder of the army medal of honor for bravery un der iire, builder of the new West Point, -and former president of the army war college, died here today af telr,. fifteen' hours' illnese from pneu monia. ,' Apparently he was in the best' of health when he left his desk at the Wair Department late Saturday after noon.. No funeral arrangements had been made tonight :.) ; .. . PULLMANS FOR TROOPS. vThe Tarheel soldiers wiUlride to Tex,as in;PuJlpian"carSj;'iAlong train of "empties'", wont, through at 4:15 p. rn. IJonday headedjfar Cmp Glenn. CUT OFFIis fKIGCi?B ;.- FINGER GOES TO PRISON London, Sopt. 18. Charles Stock dale, London, blacksmith, has just been sentenced 'by eourtmartial to a year in prison for cuiiiiig'ofi kta trig- lger finger to escape conscription. i LIVE WIRE HEN -ARE CIIOSEN Ta ASSIST mg. Pay Pageant to Have Its Director; Selected . for i Qualification and- Enter prise Mr. Harvey Cj. Hine3, Chief Mar shnl for the coming fair, today an nounced the following as his assist ants: '' '; '' ' f , , '. L. M. LaKoque, in charge of decO' rated automobiles. J . J . Stevenson, automobiles for officials and guests of . honor. H. II. McCoy, commercial floats.' T. Y. - Moseley,' industrial floats. O. F McCrary. ., agricultural float ' . .' E, B,. Lewis, fraternal and educa- tjona) floats. ; . , , Dr. Lunsfordf Abbott, mounted marshals. ... ,. v ... Dr. W". C. Knox, ,knigh.,, J. F. .' Jlopker, Jr., patrol, to be aided by the Boy Scouts. ', i Leonard Oettinger, marshals' ball. Mr. llines is' preparing to write a thousand irepresentative men In. ten surrounding counties to request them o set M marshals, or as knights mounted, plumed and sashed, and carrying. Jincea-parHcipate in pe pavade, and "the tournament that is o be a, feature of opening day. That to;irnimnt is to be an oldrfashioned affair,, full f thrills and color and ,'ranring lioves. Mr. Hinea expects f.tlly tOO men to accept. The parade will be a tremendous affair. Last year's was on a grand scale, but this one cannot be describ ed with an adjective of smaller, callr bre""than prodigious ori aoinething squally imptreesive. It is to bet made up in sections on dirrerantr Btreets, each section to be assembled under the supervision of itj assistant chief marshal. . ' , . The floats will be especially at; tractive. It is planned to have scores of commercial. ' industrial and agri cultural floats in the pageant -There will be, possibly brick 'houses , and wooden houses on wheels, represent ing the brick and lumber lines; pedi greed pigs will, grunt from minia ture wheeled pastures if the pig club boys do what is expected of ; them; the cotton industry will,b,e played up, from the growing etalk to finished garments.. Mr. llines, is giving. ov er a big part of his time to- prepara tions for. the occasion. BROGDEN FUNERAL TODAY 3 The remains of the late Mr. John Pi Brogdea, who died Monday morn ing, wre Tuesday morning taken to Trenton for interment at 11 a. m. The family and relatives and friends from the city and upstate, accompan ied the body.5 Rev. John H. orifflth, rector of St. Mary's Episcopal church, went to conduct the service, r There was an unusual quantity of flowers. Acting as pallbearers from the home at MoLewean and Gordon streets to the Norfolk; Southern station,, where the body was put aboard a train for Cove City from there to tie Uken over : the highway to Trenton, were Messrs. Prentiss Woo'cen. Jos. Daw son, George Erry, S. L. Stough, L. Linton and Frank Quinerly. SOC Miss , Miss Nan Fisher has returned to Fayetteville after a visit to Miss Ger trude Jones. - ,. i ' Mr. L. II. Cannon of New Bern was here Monday. .''; i . Rev. W.'-Marshall Craig went to Wilmington Monday. Mr. John Jarman of Jacksonville was Jiere Monday. Mr. T. H. Moore went to More ead City Monday. Mr. F. W. &mitli has Teturned to New .Bern after a short stay with friends here. 'r. and Mrs. Cicero Duncan of v Tc-ri are here for a short visit. J. F. Stil-.es spent M-mJay in '. -. " y ' ! to N (AID CHIEF WM. WBM LAW, MEXICO HOBBIES OF HUGHES ONRESUMAI Republican andidate Be- gins ccqnd Campaign Tour at ' Peoria Pleased Oytfc getting Back Into the Field, Said - : By PERRTJ ARNOLD, . (United Press Staff Correspondent) Peoria, 111.,. Sept. 19. Nominee Hughes chose Peoria from which to hurl forth faTs first speech in his sec ond, presidential campaign tour. The G. 0. P. candidate waa plainly pleased to resume the campaigning. lie intends to make the leading is sue the eight-hour law and has new djita on Mexico.- ' - , PRESIDENT WILL MAKE - F1R5T PHECH SATURDAY New York,, Sept. 13 The Democra tic NationaJ j . Committee announced here tonight that President Wilson win maice ms nrsc speecn or me cam paign .at'"Shadow jAwn next Satur day at 3 p. m. to the businessmen of New Jersey."' Meftlieri of. all cham bers of commerce and business orga- nizabiona in the fetate have been in- vitod. The President intends, it waa said, to discuss fully the provisions of the eight-hour railroad law. Cotton sold high: on. the local ex change Tuesday, j The only seven bales marketed brought from 14 to 151-8 cents. -New York futures quotations Were; o - - 1 . Op9n 2, p. m, ; January , M ... , ,, ,,16.04 March, .....16.10 16.34 MayU', I.:.. 16.35 16.52 October .. ..'...i.... 15.71 15.93 December V .15.94 APPEAL TO l PEOPLE 0 CflnoN TO AID IN RAISING STATE'S PPOfi l MSHALI; FID; PEOPLE'S FIGHT . The following appeal is made by the Finance Commit-, tee, for North Carolina to raise the State's 'part of 'TIhe Wilson-Marshall 'Campaign Fund : " " " ' An Appeal to the People, ' ' "Others im'ay foljow the 'Lords of War," who tide among the corpses of mankind. We follow the President of tbo United States and seek inspira tion of humanity that aspires to high er things." We must have money to defray the expenses of the Democratic presiden tial campaign: This is the people's campaign and it is all important that it be conducted with the people's money. " . . . : 'There are innumerable items of le gitimate expense never thought of by the average person. ? To (mention only a few, there is the cost of main taining national and divisional head quarters, printing and mailing tons of literature and millions of letters, of effecting organizations in every town in every one of the forty-eight States, In preparing and distributing publicity matter, in maintaining a speakers' bureau, in printing and cir culating pictures of candidates, etc. A Record of Achievement, The Democratic Party has been In control of the government for nearly four years, and in that timo . has written more of constructive legisla tion than any other administration in the Nation's history, and guided the ship of State safely through crises more numerous and more grave than had arisen in the preceding fifty years of our diplomacy. The Democratic administration has ko- t the country' out of war, v.hi'8 preserving its honor onsulliej and l It ha3 rrePare fJP adeq-jate pre- l ! ' '.-i P7i'r.-t p-ct'' i f tiy DKICERATS TO OPEf J UPiWItli BIB GUHS FSlSglLAi Remainde,r, Qjf. Caiapa;ga B,? ness Fasjiion LEADERS GETTING EU3Y Things to Hum as Soon as President ; Gets Back v Remarkable Tribvite Paid Executive at Columbia Big Silent Crowd , By ROBT, Jf BE.N.P&R, , (United Press Staff Correspondent) . Washington, Sept 19. -There is to ' , . .. ..... , . . '. ,'. .. r . ., be more political noise 'at Shadow Lawn from now on. The President, Chalriman Vance- MoC:mick and , other political leaders h,aye decided that the political horses are to .be, spurred up all the way down t the. xe-4 majnder of the stretch. There are to be several big, "Jersey Days'!. , and rfOperv - IIcu?e Days" at : Shadow, Lawn, together with occasional saU lies into the surrounding States. Some heavy artillery 13 being unlim- s,-.-. '.,;; i ".;.,! ?.. ;-; : bered. , , . ::.-.: .: : ! :, , .v.. ... ' The Democratic leaders admit the campaign has been , necessarily lag ging for, the last week or . so. But from the time the president. eet3 back to , the summer .White Hpuss th'ngs a-ro X ba sot. h,umniff. On leaving Columbia, S. C.V tha President was accorded a remarkable tribute by several. thousand-persons who stood silently, the men , with, their hats off. As the train pulled out, there was no sign i( of cheering. Upon entering his car the President said "That was splendid." F NORTH: MBfiUM - . . . foe. . - It has preserved that etricl neu , trality which Washington .decjitred should always be the policy of( the United States. f'lt has followed in Mexico flic poI icy of Lincoln, wno'asserted the' right of that unhappy pcopfe'W order their own 'government.' ' H Kv Dinner Pail Is FulL ' It has estajliahed prosperity mora general and genuine than all th9 people ever enjoyed before, mo tp&fc every dinner pail is full, every fac tory working, every man epiployed, x and the average of wages higher.- . : It has giyenthe t.ation a system o? J finance land banking Uiat hjejded; ijl fir-3 panic and depression when tli whole structure, of European cred.t was destroyed by war, and whic'tj overwhelmed other neutral nation whose statesmen lacked the foresight and eapacity of America's Democrat ic ' statesmen. ,-. i It has amended the anti-trust law making guilt personal, defining it fjr the first time without 1 ambigui' ; f and. preventing radi (nionopoly wj , prohibition of interlocking direct r ates; and has set up in the Fedi ; I Trade Commission a court of bu .! ness. - ... Labor Not a Commodity. ,. It has taken labor out of the c'. sificathm of commodity and biJ aspire to the hier t-r""i it rat ally craves without f-.sr of fu:.' ment for' s djl: ?. It h.u a.Tardcl t'.a far: r credit nnJ diminished t' e ! (Ccntinul c-i r " 1