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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1916
Page
1
Report says Russian and Beuton forces are engaged in a high intensity battle along a frontline area with heavy artillery and troop movements. Both sides push for gains as casualties and material losses mount amid harsh winter conditions.
London reports doubt over death toll from the Persia disaster as 158 survivors are landed and officials indicate most of the 200 to 300 crew were lost. American consul Robert N. McNeely at Aden is presumed drowned while Charles H. Grant of Boston survived. Officials await full facts and possible Austrian involvement.
Robert New McNeely Monroe attorney and new American consul to Aden aboard the Persia submarine in the Mediterranean Thursday. He was a University of J Allen Austin roommate and was known as a bright young senator. McNeely, 32, former Union County representative and state senator, had taken high committee ranks and earned a foreign post appointment in September before boarding the Persia.
President Wilson to return to Washington from White Sulphur Springs to handle the new foreign policy crisis sparked by the submarine campaign in the Mediterranean and the Persia sinking. Secretary Lansing orders Vienna to seek submarine nationality while the consul in Alexandria notes a 4.7 inch gun on the Persia, a detail that may influence the case.
High Point opens the new year with 2000 pupils resuming classes amid opening exercises by Rev. C P Coble and Superintendent Haynes. Principal Marr lauds workers and cites Asheville engineer John J Clarke who died in a rock slide. Substitutes and new entrants noted. one high school vacancy fills temporarily.
Washington Jan 3 arrangements are under way for the funeral of Associate Justice Joseph Rucker Lamar who died last night of gradual heart failure. He will be buried in Augusta Georgia where he long lived, and the court will adjourn in respect. Lamar served on the Supreme Court from 1910 and was famed for hard work and precise opinions.
Latest AP dispatches from the Russian front describe continued heavy fighting with Russian forces under Gen. Ivanov and Austrian offensives aimed at straightening lines. Reports say Russian advances extend beyond the Strita river as clashes involve two major offensives in the Balkans. The Central Powers plan an attack on Saloniki area while Greece protests air raids and consular arrests. England weighs Asquith’s military service bill amid Irish division.
London reports the British steamship Glengyle has been sunk with around 120 passengers and crew aboard. About 100 survivors were landed. most aboard were Europeans or Chinese. The ship sailed from Shanghai November 25 and was last seen near Singapore December 6 before presumed loss in the Mediterranean.
The St Oswald a British government ship of 3810 tons built in 1905 and owned by the British and Foreign Steamship Company of Liverpool has been sunk, reportedly in the Mediterranean.
Washington reports Secretary Lansing said Garrel’s dispatch from Alexandria stated the Persia carried a 4.7 inch gun. The con sul’s dispatch paraphrase in the state department omits this detail with no explanation. Dispatches of this nature are paraphrased to guard secret codes.
In Baltimore on January 3 a large crowd of about 5,000 gathered for relief meetings for Jews affected by the war. Officials estimated the fund raised between 50 000 and 75 000 dollars.
Mrs Florence Josie Kearns wife of E A Kearns died at 1 30 this morning at 206 East Russell street after two years of illness. She was born August 4 1876 in Randolph county and was 39. Survived by her mother husband two sisters and a brother. She leaves three children Jessie 10 Edna 8 and Frank 5. Funeral Sunday at 2 pm from Wesley Memorial Church with Dr Gilbert T Rowe in charge and pallbearers J W McAnadly J E Marsh J W Clinard S L Davis H S Ragan W A Hayes.
H A Ferguson dies at age 64 at his home near Cox and West Green streets Sunday afternoon at 1 30 paralysis listed as the cause he leaves a wife two daughters and two sons. The funeral from the residence Tuesday morning at 9 conducted by Rev J M Hilliard.
Gordonsville Virginia fire endangered the business district before Charlottesville fire department arrived. More than 12 buildings used as store rooms with residences above burned. Damage estimated at 60000 dollars, partially insured.
The U S State Department says France has ordered the release of German subjects recently captured from American ships on the high seas by the French cruiser Descartes.
The obituary reports the death of Justice Lamar Jr. in Augusta Georgia last night. Details are limited in the readable text and no further arrangements are provided.
Reverend A Ve Jaxon opened a Sunday morning series on the religious forward movement at the First Baptist Church. The first sermon titled Happy New Year invitation urged invitations to the unsaved and unenlisted, linking happiness to serving the Lord. Upcoming topics include plans for the new year, Thunders of Efficiency, and The Highway of Holiness.
J. W. Mangum 34, manager of the Hornet Supply horse department in Oxford, was run down and killed by a Southern switch engine in Durham at 3 this morning. He had been in the city on business since Friday night and was alone when the accident occurred near Austin's crossing.
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