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VOL. XVIII. No. 81
FIRST EDITION KDtON, Jf. O, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 191$,
FOUR PAGES TODAY
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SERBS TAKING REVENGE ON RETREATING
BUIGARS; ENGAGE
CLOSE IIANut fluHTINli UN HOME SljJL
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rrencn ana Russians j&ngagea VYim liuiffanans ai vne
Point, Italians Hammering Them at Another, Allied
Crossing: at Two Places
Use Knife and Bayonet
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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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
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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.
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(By the United Prass) ,
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"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.
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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
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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.
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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
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(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
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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
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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. , ,
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' 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
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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