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VOL. XIX. No. 205 SECOND EDlrioii KINSTON, N. C. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1917 . PRICE TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS FOUR PAGES TODAY ITALIANS OUTFIGHTING ENEMYj HAKE SHAMBLES OF COUNTRY HETWEEN PIAVE BRENTA Austro-Germans Reinforced by Franco-British Operat ing Offensively as Well as DefensivelyArtillery Blows Jluns Guns Out of Emplacements Teutonic Losses 50,K)00 in Fortnight of Allies in Fine Spirit brai (Jermans Attempting to Recover Lost Ground yvitn snjaii unance roiius uo uver rop and Uhase Enemy Out of Trenches of (By the United Press) London, Nov. 26. Foreign Minister Balfour on au thority of the King today denied that a secret meeting of the privy council was held in war. Italians Thrashing Invaders. With the Italian Armies, Nov. 26. The crucial battle across the 11 mile ?gap between the Brenta and Piave rivers is swinging in Italy's favor. The armies locked in a death grapple for days are fighting bitter ly. The Italians not only are win ning defensively but are fighting ocensively. Their guns pour a cease less rain of shells on the German Austrian 'lines. The enemy's esti mated loss is ,0,000 in two weeks. Italian aviators have performed wonderful service, locating German and Austrian batteries by fluttering close over the enemy's lilies. Ital ian troops advancing find the ene my's guns blasted out. of their em placements. The enemy's drive is still serious. but the morale of Italy's army officers and men is the best during the war and most -complete confidence is expressed in an ulti mate victory. ; .... .. French. Drive Ahead Again. I London, Nov. ?6. Petain ,, backs up Haig. While Germany was des perately combing her lines for rein forcements against the British ad- vance on i jimnrai Tonnv h rnnw struck a sharp, sudden blow out of Verdun. First, and second lines of the enemy's defense positions and 800 prisoners). were captured as the net result of ifihis. localized attack. Over more than two miles af front ground iwas taken. This is a high; ly important ector of the enemy'f K T?i-,..rt C XT .... . .1 unci . xT7uvix uajituiieauA North of Hill S44 strong fighting is in progress. , . Along the Brijnsh front General Byng's war machine is forcing the righting. Around Cambrai, spurred by Von Kindenfcurg's demands "that all important ground around Bourlon be retaken at all costs, lOown Prince Rupprecht is violently counter at tacking the British advanced lines, Positions have been taken and retajcl en and held and lost" half a dozen times, but the British igrip on Bour lon Wood itself is unshaken. Baking Commissfsa of Cracker Men to Help Administration Food Administrator Berbers Hoov er in line with President Wilson's proclamation, of .November 7th, plac ing the baking industry under the di rect jurisdiction of the Food Ad ministration, effective December 10, has appointed a committee of the c raker industry to draft the regula tions governing the control of the in dustry and to eerve in an advisory capacity. " 'ST.'! The committee has already held everal meetings in Washington and formulated baking regulations eon- cerning the conservation Of wheat flour, eugar and shortening. When these vitally necessary first steps of conservation shall have ieen com pleted the committee will direct its attention to further constructive Work in the production and shipping W the greatest quantity of cracker products, -which by reason of their Nutritive value in concentrated form and unusual keeping qualities give ttem a high piece in war time and industry a . conspicuous position to w ww. ( ' ?'; ? , Danger Yet, But Armies Hard Struggle Axound Cam Two Lines Over Wide Fron July, 1913, which advocated Means' Trial to Start at Concord Monday; Home Town (By the United Press) Concord, N. C., Nov. 26. Gaston Means is to face a jury here today. The fight to bring Gaston B 'Means to trial for the murder of his, wealthy benefactress, Mrs. Maud A, King, of Chicago and New York lhas been full of sensations and legal technicalities. Means, who formerly lived at Concord had for some time been em ployed as Mrs. King's private secre tary and business advisor.' Fast Life. According to testimony at the preliminary trial, Mrs. King's apart ment in New York City had been the scene of many "white light. parties," including dice games in which it is alleged thousands of dollars changed bands, and in Which according to the testimony, Means played a promi nent part. Early in August Mrs. King went to Concord, N. iC. On August 29 she was shot to death at an isolated point near Blaekwelder Springs, sev era! miles from Concord. "Accidental Suicide." A coroner's jury at Concord re turned a verdict of "accidental sui cide." . ..... ... i Relatives of the dead woman, how ever, demanded a furtner investiga tion. At the same time New York and Chicago authorities began to dig into the history of Means in these cities. Several letters alleged to have been written or received by Means were unearthed. The authorities in charge of the investigation claimed these Ieters showed Mean nad "squander ed" 'large stlms of Mrs. King V mop. ey to his "own advantage.' The authorities declared that , Means feared Mrs. King about to learn of the misappropriation of her funds. In the meantime Means was tak en . into ' custody and on September 24 and 25 was given a preliminary hearing before the Cabarrus County Grand Jury. Expert Testimony. , At their . hearing .New York anq Chicago gun experts testified that it would have been impossible for tht dead' woman to have shot herself in the manner -indicated by the wound which resulted in her The defense declared Mrs. King had stumbled and that in her effort to regain her balance the revolver was accidentally discharged. On November 1, Means was in dicted for first degree murder. His attorneys entered a plea of not guilty. .... Declaring that local sentiment at Concord, where the Means farily had resided for years, could not be relied upon, the State sought a change of venue or trial by jurymen from another county. On November ? Judge Cline ov: erruled the State's, motions for a change in venue and "ordered the trial set for today. New England negro troops, about 500 strong, bare arrived at Camp Greene, Charlotte. BRAZIL WANTS GIVE ivYliETiiol DO AGAINST ILAISEF Participation South Ameri can Fleets Discussed a interallied Conference a j?aris Another Meeting s at London 4 (By the United Press) Paris, Nov. 2tf. Cooperation of fleets from South American Allies was, discussed today at the Inter- AUied conference. Brazil is anxious to lend aid with its navy and merchant marine, it was announced at the meeting. Allied representatives wi! meet at London soon to discuss the econo mic and industrial situation. ' Assist ant Secretary of the Treasury Oscar T. Crosby will represent America. Dementia and Death Result From Injury Received in Runaway When a team of mules collided with his mule and cart at Queen and King streets late Saturday Dave Taylor, colored, Was thrown violent ly to the ground. His feet became entangled in. the reins, his team bolt ed and Taylor was dragged a dis tance of about half a block. When people got to him after the runaay mule was stopped Taylor was violently insane. He raved on the way to the hospital and several men were required toliofd him in the conveyance, He died Sunday. His dementia and death Sesulted 'from injury to his head. Taylor was a, farm, .tenant of good disposition. He was a middle aged man of family. He resided in ,the Sandy Bottom section. War Briefs Taijiana Romonoff, daughter of the deposed czar and a former grand duchess of Russia, is en route to America. She escaped through pull ing off a mock pilarriage with a son of a farmer chamberlain. Caslmir Majewski, teaman, home at West Olive, Mich., was washed overboard from a destroyer in the war zone and drowned several days ago, , Bumper world crops of potatoes, corn, oats, irice and sugar beets are announced by the United Stotes De partment vt Agriculture. Three American sea flyers were picked up' by a French patrol boat re cently after having been lost 60 hours. Their plane was drifting. ..... Windjammer Thought He'd Add Sentiment; C. O. Did Add Some. (Special to The Free Press) Washington, Nov. uVAa , an American transport carrying U. S. Marine to Europe was leaving port, somewhere, sometime, the marine bugler aboard sounded "taps," which is thp military way of saying "Good night" Now the commanding of ficer of the transport didn't think it was "good night" for his packet and saw no humor in the marine bugler's premature , surrender to tie "tin lizzies of the sea." Nor could the young sea-soldier see the point when he was given "three days bread and water"! to ponder over his "wheeze. It's serious business .to joke at sea in times like these, and after his enforced Hooverizing, the bugler is convinced that that is so. COTTON About 40 bales were sold Monday. Prices ranged from 27 1-2 to 29 cents. Futures quotations were: Open. Close. January 29.00 29.65 March 28JP ...29.24 May 28.50 29.01 July 28.33 28.87 December 3Q.0O 30.45 GERMANY TRIES TO BUY JAPANESE OFF , , ..(Byth Unitid ifresf) Amsterdam! Nov. 23. Germany has again attempted to detach Japan from the Allies and been refused, ac cording to word received here. It, is reported that Gerpiany offered . la pan Kiao-Chao and, , announced will ingness to discuss the future of fhe occupied islands Jn the Pacific as the price of Japan's retirement from the war. k SEE DRIVE MEETING WITH GREAT SUCCESS Small Upstate Towns Have Sold Mote By Now Than They Did All of Last Season Some Places Go Into' Business for First " Time Raleigh important Center. Dr. L. B. MctBrayer, executive sec retary, State Red Cross Seal Com mission, says, that such reports 'as are being received indicate an un precedented sale of seals this sea son. The doctor says: "No Red Cross Christmas seal has ever sold at Acme untir this year. We have already received an order from Mrs. T. V. Moore, chairman, for three times as many as (the ilrst consign ment, which has already been sold. At Clarkton, Mrs. !F. A. Harring ton, who came near winning the pen nant in the United States for the lar gest, per capita sale last yearj sold 1,000 the flret afternoon and has sent in for a second order. At Murphy last year the sale only amounted to 900 seals, but Miss SMargaret Toland, chairman, has already sold 3,000 and made a second order. At Tryon the sale last year was only 400. The first consignment fjhts year to Mrs. P. S. Kirschner, chairman, was 1,000. She arrange. wifh the Boy Scouts to conduct the, aal-an4 -they closed them out the first afternoon. Mrs, Kirschner. has made a secon4 and third order, each one being larger than the first, and we are expecting to hear from her again soon. At North Wilkesboro ttie sale last year amounted to 7,166, but iMiss Frances Smoot, chairman, has already dis posed of 10,000 and ordered as many more." , Those mentioned above are for the most 'part comparatively small plac es, but some of the larger places are doing as well. Raleigh last year sold 103,818. This year their first consignment amounted to 125,000 and for their second order, Mrs. W. X. Withers, chairman, asks for an additional 175,000, totaling 300,000, and serves notice that she may need more. The Woman's Club in Ral eigh,, which by the way ,5s one of the finest organizations of women in the State, if niot in the South, is spon sor for the seal sale and Mrs. Withr era is appointed by the club. The receipts from last year's seal sale were used for the purpose of orga nizing a public health nursing serr vice at Raleigh, which is perhaps the best nursing service In the State, and the receipts from the eal sale this season will be used to continue and enlarge it, EACE PROPOSALS AT. HAND. Washington, Nov. 26. Bol sheviki proposals for an arm istice and peace have been laid before President Wilson and will be carefully considered by the President and Secretary Lansing. Whether an answer will be sent has not been determined. EASTERN CHAIRMAN. . New York, Nov. 26. Elisha Lee will be chairman of the com mittee for directing tfie rail roads East tt Chicago under the new plan of operation. MOW asC wFT - READ THE ADS t CITY TO PURCHASE SUPPLY FUEL FOR KINSTON'S POOR Mayor Authorized Buy It- Action Approved by Fuel Commission and Others. Will Take Written Order Get It From Municipal Storage Place The City Council at a special meet ing Monday "authorised tfre Mayo? to purchase SOQ cords of wood to be supplied to the poor of the City- only upon order of the Superintend ent cf the United Charities or recom mendation of a clergyman. The wood will be stored at the municipal elec tric plant. Fujl Administrator N. J. Rouse and representatives of . the Chamber of Commerce, the fuel dealers, the fuel commission and other interests met with the aldermen end unanimously approved the action. Bat If s Well Known That Our Hogs Hang Around the 'Shineries The North Carolina turkey is a bum choice. . , Especially, if he happens to come from around Kinston, Wilson, or Winston-Salem. He has bad habit. A New York "expert" has discov ered that the turkeys in North Caro lina and Virginia "chew tobacco." . The- United Press supplied The Free Press with the following Mon day afternoon: "New York, Nov. 26. Market Ex pert Foy issues advice on how to pick Thanksgiving turkeys. He warns against Virginia and North Carolina brda, saying they chew to bacco, which makes the meat bitter." Now what do you "know about that! . . O, Farmer John, youlil admit that since time immemorial the turkey has been one of your best friends as a "wormer" of tobacco, but did you ever hear of one chewing the weed. dipping snuff, or anything of the sort? May Have Get More Red Cross Seals to Supply Local Needs The sale of Christmas seals for the Red Cross is under way here with a vim. The woman's committee scoured the business district Monday for purchasers among the merchants and professional men Mrs. John 11. Griffith, chairman of the Red Cross Seal Committee, stated that early reports were "very encouraging." Mrs. Griffith thought it possible that the 30,000 stamps received would be quickly exhausted. ' . Mm. Thomas Bickett, wife of the Governor, ' addressed Goldstro wo men Monday on war wrk. The State's teachers at their an nual assembly this week will discuss conservation. The assembly will be held at Charlotte. Will Taylor of Raleigh was fatally injured by a fall from an automo bile Sunday. .? WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST. ' Issued by the .U. S. Weather Bu reau, Washington, D. C, for the week, beginning Sunday, November 251917: For South Atlantic and East Gulf States: The weather will be fair and cold Sunday and Monday 'with freez ing temperatures and . frost as far South as central Florida; slowly ris ing temperature after . Tuesday with generally fair weather. ipSTATE NEWuHj LITTLE RED SCHOOL IS A NUISANCE AND Board of Education Com mittee Hits it With Brick in Report to Body CONSOLIDATION COMING Keeping Up Nearly Half Hundred Institutions of Assorted Sizes Too Much of a Burden to Tolerate , Any Longer The country school here, there and everywhere in , Lenoir County seems to be a doomed institution. A spec ial committee of the oard of Edu cation Monday made public a re port to the board condemning the "neighborhood" one or 'two teacher school as a troublesome institution and going on record as favoring con solidation of the many units of the county's system, The report deals especially with a situation at the Maple Grove dis trict. The committee, comprised by Joseph Kinsey, superintendent; G V. Cowper, chairman cf the board -nd P. A, Hodges, member of thr board, states that while it does no' believe It necessary, it will interpose no objection to the beard contribut ing f GO toward the removal of the Maple Grove School to another point since the contribution was agreed upon some time ago, but makes it plain that such matters in future should not be given consideration except where consolidation is pro posed. regarding the "general situation" the rtfe-rt says:, "It is a ,-11-known fact that for the past six r.'.;tfu there seems to have been a perfeo "nidemic within the county of demartda - .he estab lishment of new email and the change of the location af ,'.:- already established. The frcquc .y and urgency of these petitions and demands from various sections of the county, have been in such propor tions as to make It necessary for 'iSe board to make it position clear, empru.l.': rnrt final. i"he 'demands upon the board ij:- l'.?e "rdinary pur-im-ie c.f general Education, w.J l.e object noiissirily incidental to such purposes, are ui ihw time so large that it seems almost certain that it will be necessary to ftce a deficit for the coming year, if ttie school terms required by the Constitution are to be provided for, and the provision of such school terms is the first and micst sacred obligotion of this board. If the demands for changes of lo cations and the building of new small school houses now pending be fore this board were all granted, it would hinder and retard the educa tion of the children aim greatly add to the present embarrassed financial condition of the board. Consolidation Cry of the Hour. "Outside of and beyond this con sideration (this board is earnestly looking forward to the consolidation of district in this county, whereby the number of school buildings will be greatly reduced and each school building enlarged in size, and in number of teachers, so as to have a system of high schools in the county which will favorably compare with the graded schools In the city. The whole trend of modern educational thought is in line with this view. The granting of the present demands upon this board for the change of loeatien in schools. and buildings of new schoolhouses, would, in our opinion retard our progress towards consolidation for 10 years. In view of the foregoing consideration, and especially the uncertainty of condi tions in the future due to the pre sent world war, we believe it the duty of the patrons of the schools to suf fer some slight inconvenience, rath er than expend the sacred funds (for the purpose of educating the peo ple) in a' manner which in the end would retard general progress.- "With the foregoing in mind, we 1A NOW KM STILL LESS ABOUT II Dissatisfaction With Lenine and Trotsky and Their Ways Doing Business DON! REPRESENT PUELIC According to Cadets Here is Fellow Who Might Accept Peace if Germany Will Hold Her Troops in Russia Just Same (By the United Press) . Potrograd, Nov. 26. Lenine's peace proposals appear to have start ed to break the structure of the Bol shevik! government. The E'ohheviki Soviet is dissatisfied with the Lenine-Trotsky offers. ' 1 k Depujy Kamineff today suggested that there be no peace with Germany unless she promises not to withdraw troops from the Russian front for use against the Allies oh other linos. Bitter criticism was voiced at the dictatorial methods assumed by such proclaimers of rule of the people as "rotsky an'd Lenine. Germany's refusal to negotiate Is expected to alienate ether Bolshev ik! supporters. The cadet party de sires that Trotsky's and "Lenine's statements be not regarded as' rep resenting the people's wil. Monarch y's are arranging and leading a movement for restoring such a reg ime. No Mere Titles. Petrograd, Nov. '26.The " Bol iheviki government has abolished nobility titles. In a proclamation today it announced confiscation of property of corporate nobles, mer chants and burgesses. Odd boinga. Petrograd, Nov, 26.-nFratrniia-tion cf Russian and enemy troops North nf Narotch Lake, near the vil- If.ge3 of Skrobpva and Obokhovscht china, is announced. Fusillades and Hcnutinor onerations have occurred on the Northern, Western, South western '.and Roumanian fronts. Strong Turkish forces have been re pulsed on the Caucassian front, Southwest of Gumikhama. No of ficial statement of 'today's activities was isbucJ. therefore earnestly recommend that t the board adopt the following as it's Pu'.iey in reference to the matters above set fort, to-wit: No New Srhools. "a. That no new schools will be built where there is a present school reasonably available to the pupils. "b. That where the county own) a school lot and has already built a building thereon suitable for school purposes, it will not change the lo cation, except upon' the most urgent and absolutely necessary reasons, . . j i 1 T RUSS m OW SHE'S STANDING and jn this connection the fact that the school is not in the exact cen ter of the tei-ribsry Included lit the district, and that tho residences of the patrons at a particular time have become so located that the school building is not in the center of such residences, will not be considered suf ficient reasons for change of location. Transfer of Pupils. "c. Upon- request, pupils will be transferred from one school W eny other which may be more conven iently located, either from a point of distance or condition of travel. "d. That whore it becomes abso lutely necessary on aevount of rea- ' sons falling within the purview of these recommendations either to build a new school or to change tfie location of one already oullt, such lo cation will be placed as nearly as possible in the center of a territory included in the District as it prac tical, and the fact that at the par ticular time there are more resi dents living in one portion of the district than another will not be con trolling since the school is b Ael not for the conditions of. the pre nt, bat of the future. (Contnraesi on page t'ires)
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