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Volume 2; Number 80. ',
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Only Nine
Days
,i Race for Automobiles and The
'' Other Big Prizes Offered By
The New Bernian is Now
Reaching The Most Exciting
Stage Candidates Cannot
Afford to Relax in Work.
EACH W SEES !
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TODAY'S LEADERS
.' Mrs. Janie Arnold 70,050
Bessie Tolson 69,575
- i1 . Mrs. C. D. Thomas 66,040
- I; Mrs. J. C. Thomas 65,460
', ' Ada Holton 5,440
- i Lela Dawson 63,225
Mrs. Ben F. Williams 63,165
" Mrs. E. S. Barbour 63,026
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THE PRIZES:
$845.00 Overland Automobile
Ford Automobile
$150.00 Bank Account
,r $100.00 Victrola
$65.00 Kitchen ' Range
Standard Sewing Machine
$30.00 Lambert Kitchen Cabinet
$25.00 Wrist Watch
Two $65.00 Diamond Rings
Tnink of it only nine more days
to work and win the prize you want.
The contestants who are willing to
work, and work hard during this
time, are the ones who will win.
Better get out and secure enough
subscriptions to win the . prize of
your choice. Any of them are worth
yeur very best effort.
Nine more days and they are very
short. But the honors of winning a
prize will not fly. They will cling
a'constant reminder of the esteem in
which the winners are held by their
friends. But the finish aye! It is
still a debatable question who the
winners will be. I
The NEW BERNIAN represents-;
tives ai well as contestants, are but-'
tonholed every day and asked the lat-
est reports in regard to this or that
one's chances for success. Invariably
they are told from now on it is an
equal chance among the ' hustlers, j
Don't lose heart because your favor- j
ite's name is at or near the bottom of !
the list or tabulated report each day I
That candidate may be wiser than
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deemed. There is no telling how j
many votes she may cast before the
final ejosing of the polls, Monday,
March 19.
A The longer the campaign continue?
; the more of an enigma it seems to be.
vOne day one candidate will seem to
i be getting the better of her oppon
j ents, and the next day another would
. forge to the front and there is no
telling what a. day will bring forth.
There are a bunch of live-wire con
testants in the race and no one has
secured a mortgage on any of the
prizes. Up to this time it is any
body's race and the contestants who
, make the' best or the nine days that
remain of the competition-will either
spend their vacation riding in their
own Teat or win one of the other val
uable prizes. .
We are living in a commercial age,
the .age of accomplishments and of
5 big things. The small or ordinary
1 affairs which eur forefathers content
' ed themselves with doing are left to
the care, of the office boy - or clerk
i st this time. '; When wo think of mon
r ey ft is in large amounts. t,
,, For 'the first twb periods of '-the
campaign the candidates were after
" subscription payments.1-' -H did,, hot
Tcally matter whether they were
large i or small. they meant votes; but
" now it's different, r The "Club" vote
schedule. i -.smaller hence the pay
ments must be larger. The. law of
average must be maintained.
The club certificates issued on each
$15 worth of subscriptions, in addi
tion to the regular schedule of votes,
secured by any contestant during the
closing .period' are the keys to suc
cess in the contest, and. those who
make the best use of the nine remain
. ing working days, and secure the
most of fhese certificates are the
ones who can count on being the win
ners ofthe two Automobiles, and oth
er prizes. Have you paid close at
tention to the schedule of votes? One
NEW subscription payment for two
y-s.rs will give a' Vandulate 10,900
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More
of Contest
AFTER DODGING
Took Long Course Around The
North of Ireland Has Smoke
Screen Apparatus.
OF
NEW YORK, March 7. Equipped
with the new smoke screen apparatus
for eluding U-boats the White Star
liner "Baltic" was eased into the pier
at 8 o'clock tonight. She reached this
port just two weeks after her ninety
six passengers went on board at Liv
erpool. Besides the smoke screen
funnel, the "Baltic" took further ex
traordinary precaution against the
possibility of submarine attack. The
liner took an unusual course around
the north of Ireland and it is thought
that this step resulted in a voyage
without even a distant view of an
enemy vessel.
In the ordinary course of a trip she
would have docked here in 8 or 9
days.
Anxiety for the safety of the White
Star liner "Adriatic" increased here
today when no news was received of
her.
GETS PAY FOR MAIL
CARRIED IN CIVIL WAR
COLUMBIA, S. C, March 7. J. M.
Ward, of Belton, S. C, was summon
ed to Edgefield to receive payment
for services of his father in carrying
the mails in the sixties during the
war between the States. Ward ac
cepted the money due for half a
century. ,
i AWho are those people who are
cheering?" asked the recruit as the
soldiers marched to the train.
j "Those," replied the veteran, "are the
j people who are not going." Satur-
; ()ay Journal.
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Wife Slayer is Confined in Pitt
County Jail Committed a
Brutal Crime.
GREENVILLE, N. C, March 7.
Joe Zemar, the Hungarian who mur
dered his wife at Pactolus, is now
resting safely behind the bars of the
Pitt county jail here.
'The date for his trial has not been
set. Either he cannot talk English
or else he refuses to do so; at any
rate, he has asked for a Mr. Merritt,
of Washington, who can talk . Hun
garian, to act as his interpreter. An
effort is being made to get Merritt
to come here. v ' . . ,
No trial ,will be held until the offi
cers, can communicate with him
through an interpfeter.
Two of The Children Run Down
By N. S. Train Are Able to
. Leave Hospital. '' '
GOLDSBORO, N. TJ., March v 7.
The condition- of the members of the
Cavanaugh. family, who were, run
down by a Norfolk Southern passen
ger , train, as they ' were crossing a
trestle near the union passenger sta
tion Friday night, and but for 'the
quick action of the flagman,' James
Adams, would all have probably met
jnstant death, is considered better to-
The two smaller children left the
hospital yesterday and physicians say
that Mrs. Cavanaugh, who was more
seriously injured, will recover.
Tie f:i-n;iv of .:"-. r .- ! r r
BALTIC ARRIVES
ZEMAR REFUSES TO
GREATLY
VILLA T OOPS
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DURflNGO CITY
Systematic Looting of The City
Is in Progress, Says Report
Reaching Border.
EL PASO, TEXAS, March 7. The
Villista troops captured Durango City
again today, according to reports re
ceived here tonight by Federal agents.
Systematic looting of the city is in
progress.
Villa is reported to have recovered
from the wound in his leg and com
manded the 13,000 men who entered
Durango City. Villa agents here
claim that Villista troops were vic
torious today in a 36-hour battle
which has been raging near Casas
Grandes.
TO USE IS TOOL BIG
American Born Mechanic Put
Under $800 Bond for Dese
crating The Flag.
BOSTON, March 7. Augustus von
Hagen, of Risindale is American born,
but he was held yesterday by Judge
Hay in South Boston under an $800
bond on a charge that he had used as
a bench wiper and a tool cleaning rag
the United States flag.
He is twenty-three years old and
is a skilled mechanic, employed un
til last Thursday in a South Boston
factory. His aggregate pro-Germanism
among the employees there led
him into many quarrels. He was
discharged.
The police were told by men in the
factory that von Haeen had slashed
an Old Glory in two and contemptu
ously used the parts as cleaning
cloths. They made a search of his
effects when arresting him. In a
trunk they found the two soiled
pieces of the national ensign,
SUCKER" MAKES $40,
THEN TELLS POLICE
LOS ANGELES, March 7. Meet
ing two affable strangers,' who tola
him how he couud win big money on
horse races, William Balfour, of Bis
bee, Ariz., reluctlantly put up $2.
The strangers soon returned to him
with $40 winnings and suggested that
he put up a big bet. Balfour, how
ever, not so gullible as he had been
judged, walked blithely away and then
reported the matter to the police.
The . Anti-Tubercniosis , Society
Anxious to Make ifieork as
Effective as PossMe.
(By Prof. H. B. gftith) ; -
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The officers and fitmberg of the
Anti-Tuberculosis : Society i wish to
'keep the public reminded of the Red
Cross, - Nursing Service in the city.
The white' nurse's office telephone is
registered , as 1 Anti-Tuberculosis So-,
ciety, the number being 156. Mes
sages telephoned to the school office,
No. 198, will be delivered to her if
no one responds at 156, '
i The colored nurse may be reached
at telephone 259. The telephone is
registered ... as New " Bern,., graded
school, colored. ' s
, The officers of the organizations
directing the service, both white and
colored, are anxious i to make the
work as effective and efficient as pos
sible. rf.;....-'.v";!, .--'.v
Recently the former white nurse,
Miss Gibbes, resigned: Her place haB
been filled by Miss Eva Friedmann.
She is well prepared for the work
of visiting nurse, and the officers of
the local society are wall pleased with
the way she has taken up her du
ties. Miss Friedmann has had some
special training in infant welfare
work, and this feature of V.w s.-r-
1 GAPTUR
DF NURSING SERVICE
PRESIDENT STILL
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DECISION TO SOT
RESPIBILITf
Convinced Constitution Gives
Him Power to Arm Merchant
Ships Attorney General's
Opinion Holds That President
. Doesn't Need Any Authority
From Congress.
WASHINGTON, D. C March 7.
Despite his determination to arm Am
erican merchant ships to brave the
German submarine zone, President
Wilson, tonight still withheld his de
cision to act upon his own responsi
bility. While no announcement was
forthcoming it was known that the
legal and diplomatic advisors of the
President had definitely decided that
under the constitution the chief exec
utive has the necessary power to place
guns aboard American vessels'. But
the formal announcement of the de
cision and the formal orders of the
action were withheld, while Republi
can and Democratic forces in the Sen
ate agreed on a limitation of Senate
debate which would clear the way for
a bill granting full armed neutrality
authority to the Prfcident if an ex
tra session is called. '
From Attorney General Gregory
the President received an opinion
which sustained the contention that
the president has all needed authority
to protect American lives and rights
at sea. The Attorney General held
that the authority conferred by the
constitution could not be changed or
diminished by limitations imposed in
laws passed at any time. The opin
ion was not made public.
After going over the Attorney Gen
eral's opinion the President conferred
at length with various Senate leaders
on the cloture situation in the upper
house. He then called in Secretary
Lansing who for an hour went over
all of thg details of the proposal to
arm ships and all of the developments
whfch might follow such a step. Sec
retary Lansing, it was learned, is im
patient for the president to take im
mediate action.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels is
ready tonight to move at once to arm j
merchant ships.
The ultimate decision to arm Amer
ican ships is expected to bring to a
head the dragging negotiations with
Austria..
Killed H. B. Manning, Who Was
Acting as Peace Maker, on i
, ' -' Christmas Eve." .. ' .
TARBORO, N. C, March 1-J. W.
Hodges, who killed H. B. Manning in
a dispute, Christmas eve, is being
tried for murder today in the ' Su
perior court, which is in session here.
The case is arousing much interest
as both men are well known through
out this section. , '
Hodges and1 another mart were, en
gaged .in a shooting contest and be
came engaged" in a dispute. .. Man
ning attempted to act as peace-maker
and got shot by Hodges for his
trouble, v
BOY FINANCIERS CRAZY, .
. SAYS WOMAN DOCTOR
CHICAGO, March 7. Boy promot
ers and wizards of finance, painters
who, pursued by visions, finally attain
distinction in art, and erratic invent
ors Who by chance or otherwise per
fect some device, probably are victims
of paranoia. . . . ''
Such is the contention of Dr. Har
riet B. Alexander. - i '
'I call to-mind a recent instance
of tin artist who was awarded great
hnir fr his work, even thoutrh at
i' t t e 1 ,. was tK VHfm of Ivil-
UPON HIS 01
J. w. HODGES Oil.
GEN, GOMEZ ANO
HIS ENTIRE STAFF
BEEN
CAPTURED
Backbone of Cuban Revolution
Has Been Broken, Menocal
Believes.
TED KILLED
HAVANA, CUBA, March 7. Gen.
Jose Gomez, fomenter of the present
revolution in Cuba has been captured
together with his entire staff. With
its leader and his chief lieutenants
prisoners the backbone of the revolu
tion is regarded as broken.
Official information of the capture
was conveyed in a dispatch to Presi
dent Menocal from Santa Clare this
evening. Presumably the capture
was the outcome of the battle report
ed yesterday. Gen. Solano is reported
to have been killed.
AT WASHirJGTOrj. N. G.
Vice President to Discuss "The
Crisis That Fronts Country"
Monday Night.
WASHINGTON, N. C, March 7.
Hundreds of out of town visitors are
expected in Washington on Monday
night to hear Vice-President Mar
shall deliver a lecture at the New
Theatre on "The Crisis That Con
fronts the United States Today."
Mr. Marshall Will leature only in
three cities in North Carolina
Washington, Charlotte and Winston
Salem. His talk here, following recent
developments at the capital, is cer
tain to be of vital importance. There
is no question but that a record
breaking house will be in attendance
to greet him on his first trip to East
ern Carolina.
WOMAN'S TEETH MAY
DECIDE MURDER CASE
LOS ANGELES, Marcli 7 The fate
of an alleged murderer rests today
on a diagram of his wife's teeth.
Benton L. Barrett, aged rancher, is
accused of killing his wife and step
son and burning their bodies in a
brush fire. Attorneys for Barrett
contend'that bones found in the ashe;
were "planted" and that Mrs. Barrett
is still alive.
Detectives recently obtained a dia-
I gram of Mrs. Barrett's teeth from a
Forth Worth dentist and will compare
it with the teeth found in the ashes.
LaFollete and Stone are Highly
' Lauded For Defeating Ad-
j ministration Bill. ,
AMSTREDAM,' March 7. Senat
ors La Follette and Stone were high
ly lauded in Berlin official press com
ments as "representative' of the best
spirit in America'," according to dis
patches received here, summarizing
the editorial views on the Senate fili
buster. " " '
As a whole, the German press ap
pears to regard the filibuster as "a
proper stemming of Wilson's unreas
oning ambition and voicing the sober
sentiment of 'the ' .American people
who do not propose to join in the in-'
sanity of war.'' . '
START LABORATORY TO
PHOTOGRAPH THOUGHTS
LOS ANGELES, March lab
oratory for the photographing . of
thought waves has been established
at Krotona, the theosophical institute
at Hollywood. There is no doubt that
etheric waves can be recorded on a
sensitive negative, according to of
ficers of the institution, who have a
number of plates with black spots on
them to prove the theory.
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PAPERS IN GERMANY
PRAISING
SENATORS
(1 Hified Form (If
Cloture Agreed Upon
TALE OF FOREIGN
INTRIGUE TO BE '
TOEO IN COURT
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Sekunna and Chakraberty To;
Appear Before Grand Jury
Today.
SECRET SERVICE
NEW YORK, March 7. The ever
widening tale of foreign intrigue in
America will be recounted tomorrow
to the Federal Grand Jury. The Grand
Jury will have as its task the diges
tion of a mass of new spy plot data
which came into the possession of the
government as the result of the ar
rest of Dr. Ernest Sekunna, a citizen
of Germany, and Dr. Chakraberty, a
native of India. The investigation is
expected to come close to revealing
the inner web of German intrigues
in this country.
An examination of papers to be tak
en before the Grand Jury established
the fact that both .nen have been
connected with the German secret ser
vice and have correspondents in all
parts of the world. Chakraberty
frankly admitted today that he had
received large sums of German mon
ey and that he was laboring "to make
Germany a factor of control in th
East in order to maintain a balance
of power."
"In the province of Bengal," he
said, "there are 70,000 members of
the volunteer corps who caa be sum
moned to arms against the English
through underground channels."
The names of both men were listed
in Wolf von Igel's little black book
of agents. The authorities are cer
tain that the task of supplying the
munitions for the Indian revolt was
being looked after by Captain Hans
Tauscher of the German reserve army
who left this country with former
Ambassador von Bernstorff.
FEAR PNEUMONIA
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Physicians, However, Hope For
Recovery of Mayor of
Tarboro.
TARBORO, N. C, March 7. Phy
sicians are fearing that pneumonia
will set in and retard Mayor Keech's
recovery from the wounds inflicted
upon him by W. B. Nelson, the al
leged blind tiger, who also shot and
killed two policemen last Saturday.
Mr. Keech spent a fairly comfortable
night last night (and, unless pneu
monia sets in, physicians believe he
will recover without a relapse.
Nelson is still in jail here. Every
effort is being made to have him
tried in this week's court, although
it will be Saturday before the case
can be brought up.-
The man. wjio is looking for trou
ble needs no signposts."
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OFF HATS IN COURT
Woman - Lawyer Learns
One
in
Rule of Procedure Not,
Her Law Books.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 7 "When
Miss Christina A. Turner, a youthful
addition- to the California bar, ap
peared to prosecute' her first case she
learned one rule of procedure not
contained in her law books.1
"Are you the attorney ' in this
case?" queried the judge. j ,
Miss Turner answered in the af
firmative. - ',, V ; . . , '
ram
AS 1ST TAK
Lawyers always remove their hats4aughte? of Mrs. John . Jvttiith, Tan
before addressing the Court," she
i'-- tolsl, kindly, hut firmly.
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Democratic and Republican Cau
cuses Agree to Lay It Before
Senate Tomorrow to Clear
Way For Aiding The Presi
dent in Internationa Crisis.
TAKE II WEEK TO
:e IS VOTE
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 7.
A by-partisan alliance in the Senate
of the United States was tonight pre
pared to overthrow the traditions of
more than a century and limit debate
in the upper house to meet the pres
ent international crisis.
A modified form of cloture was a
greed upon by both Democratic and
Republicans in independent caucuses
and it will be laid before the Senate
tomorrow with administartion lead
ers convinced that it will finally be
adopted.
The adoption of the cloture proposal
would clear the way for an immediate
call of an extra session of Congress
to vest the President with full and
complete power to protect American
rights at sea. The change in the
Senate rules was formed by a joint
committee of the Democratic caucus
j and the Republican caucus and within
a few hours was endorsed by both
caucuses.
"There will be some opposition to
the cloture rule on the Senate floor,"
said Senator Lewis, of Illinois, whip
of the Democratic organization, "but
it will pass without a doubt."
It was stated that the leaders antic
ipated about a week of debate on the
new proposal and that it would be
forced to a vote at the end of that
time. If an effort is made to filibus
ter against the proposal the Democratic-Republican
alliance is prepared
to take drastic steps in parliamen
tary practice to halt the opposition.
The rule adopted by both caucuses
would allow two-thirds of the Senate
to limit debate on any pending meas
l ure. The rule as adopted read:
, "That if at any time a motion
i signed by sixteen senators to bring
i to a close the debate upon any pend
i ing measure is presented to the Sen
'ate the vice-president shall at once
! slate the motion to the Senate and
lone hour after the Senate meets on
the following calendar day he shall
lay the motion before the Senate and
direct the secretary to call the roll,
and without debate the presiding of
ficer shall submit to the Senate by a
aye and nay vote the question: 'Is it
the sense of the 'genate that the de
bate shall be brought to a close?'"
The rule provides that no senator
shall be entitled to speak more than
one hour on this question.
Senator Walsh opened the rules
fight by presenting a motion to adopt
all of the rules of the last Senate ex
cept those which the cloture proposal
will supplant. -
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In One Instance Motorman Puts
! Car Out of Commission In
Stopping So Quickly.
Joseph, the small, son of Mr. and
Mrs. ; J. H. Harrell, was slightly in- -jured
yesterday when he was knocked
down py one of the" cars of the New
Bern-Ghent Street Railway Company.
The child was " playing on Metcalfe
street car near the corner of Broad
when he ran directly iii front of an t
approaching car and it is believed by
eye witnesses to the accident that all
that saved the life of the little boy
was the fact that the car waa going
at a slow speed, due to the fact that
the motorman was in the act of stop
ping t for a passenger' to get pff,
when the child got on the track. Ex
cept a few bruises and' scratches, the
child was uninjured. ' . ' i
Another ' accident ' was narrowly
averted 'almost at tha same place
yesterday when Mart" the small
CAR BARELY MISSES
i SMALL CHILDREN
in front of a car. In some way the
'motorman stopped his car so quickly
' fVt it v:at v't out of ceinri:-'-- :m P" i