PTT ' p . .,'1 -PUBLISHED TWICE-A WEEK WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS VOL. XXXV No. 61 KINSTON, N. (X, WEDNESDAY- JANUARY 26, 1916 PRICE IV CENTS PARIS GOVERNMENT URGES ESTABLISH BLOCKADEJT ONCE Asks That Further Protes tations Front Neutrals Be Not Awaited SWEDEN TAKING STEPS Committee of "Defense" Is Appointed by Stockholm. Reason for Immediate Action by Britain's Fleet. Discussion in Parliament (By the United Press) London, Jan. 25. France has urg ed England to declare an immediate actual I.Jockado against Germany without waiting for further protesta tions from neutrals, it is reported on the eve of the matter's discussion in Parliament. The blockade advocates profcs3 a large majority. Reports that the Swedish Parlia ment had appointed a committee of "defense" is one cause for a demand for immediate action. TEXAS MOB LYNCHES ALLEGED MURDERER Mayficld, Accused of Slaying Parents j and Brother, Claimed Alibi, and the .A Jury Failed to Agree On His Guilt Was Middle-Aged Taken ( From Jail at Boston, Texas, and Hanged (By the United Press) Boston, Texas, Jan. 25. A mob took J.' Mayfield, 61, charged with killing his father, mother and broth er with an axe,' from the jail here, and changed ( him. A jury, had dis agreed as to" his guilt. He claimed an alibi. VON DER GOLTZ HAD ' A NARROW ESCAPE German Fieid Marshal Was Passen ger On Turkish Yacht Torpedoed In the BosphoniB a Month Ago, the News of Which Has Just Been Had All Passengers Were Res cued, Reported (By the United Press) Athens, Jan. 25. The Turkish im perial yacht Artogroal, with Field Marshal Von Der Goltz as a passen ger, was torpedoed in the Bosphorus four weeks ago, it has Just been learned. All the passengers were rescued. EDMOXDSON DECLARES 5 HE'S FRAME-UP VICTIM. ' New Bern, Jan. 24. F. A. Ed mondson, Greenville banker accused of violating the Mann white slave act, is here seeking evidence which he says will prove that he is a conspiracy- victim. Miss Eulalia Dud ley has testified that Edmondson criminally assaulted her on a sleep ing car. The case is to come up for the second time in Federal court at Washington, N. C. CHARLIE STANDS ON TRENCH AND LETS 'EM FIRE AWAY. Northern France; " Jan. 24. A wooden),, effigy of Charlie Chaplin, looted from the front of a picture show in Yorkshire, and brought to France jis daily hoisted up over one of the trenches to the fury of .the Germans who subject Charlie to se re punishment. One bombardment Jted two hours and resulted in lit tle material damage. MOKR DEFENSE-WILL OCCUPY THREE WEEKS Providence, Jan. 25, -Tie State's ease in the Moot, trial was not fin ished last night, but ia to be today, wiA the testimony of Police Inspec tor Ahearn and Capt. Monahan. The deflnse is expected to take ,three weeks. GRAHAM AND CRAIG ATTEND CONFERENCE Presiding Officers at Today's Ses siuns of Social Service Meeting In Charlotte Governor a Speaker National Children's Bureau Head to Make Address Tonight Inter esting Topics (Special to The Free Piok.i) Charlotte, Jan. 25. The third day's sessions of the N.Tth Carolina annual Conference on Social Service have for their topics cu-rnit exam- pies of social progress in the Siatc, . , tne .State, county and munir-pr.lity and social welfare and organization of society and State for the welfaro of the child. The following addresses wore on I the program this morning: "Wel fare Work and the Tenant Child," .Miss Mary Livermoie, Robeson county; "Social Work of the Sand Hill Hoard of Trads of Aberdeen."' John K. McQueen, Pirn-hurst; "Guil ford County and Her Public Morals Law," Hon. A. M. Scales, Greens boro; "Rowan County Community Building," Mrs. J. P. Moore, Salis bury; "Orange County Social Prog ress," Prof. K. C. Branson, Chapel Hill; "Travelers' Aid and Its Exten sion," Miss .Julia Yopp, Greensboro; "Greensbro's Public Welfare Work and Plan of Organization," Dr. Mil ton Clark. Greensboro; "Sulemburg, Sampson County as a Social Center," Mrs. W. J. Jones, SaU-mburg; 'Other Examples of Social Progress,' five-minute talks by members of the conference. Dr. E. K. Graham, pres ident of the University of North Ca rolina, was in the chair. i This aftarnoon Governor Craig is presiding. He will be a speaker, to gether with W. T. Bost of Raleigh, Iliden Ramsey of Asheville, A. W. McAllister of Greensboro, Hon. C R. 'Woodruff of Philadelphia, and others. Tonight Miss Julia Lathrop, director of th3 National Children's Bureau; Dr. Howard Rondthnlef of Winston-Salem, J. Walter Long of Greensboro and others will address the conference. SMALL SALES ON COTTON EXCHANGE Fourteen bales fo cotton had been sold here today by 3 o'clock, the best price paid being 11 1-2 cents. New York futures quotations were: Open Close January 12.00 12.07 March .. 12J7 12.15 May 12..SU July 12.50 12.53 October 12.5C 12..V! ENGLISH TO COLLECT DAMAGES FROM MEXICO London, Jan. 8. (By Mail) The Foreign Office is accumulating com plaints regarding seizure of British property in Mexico, it was learned today, pro presentation to the Car ranza government. The Inter-Oceanic Railway of Mexico, has asked the government to find out when it can have back its lines. At the an nual meeting of directors, Chairman Arthur Hill reported that the road was commandeered by the "govern ment of Mexico" in 1914, and that he had no knowledge of its condition. The Guaycle Rubber Company, whose properties were also com mandeered in 1014. has lodged a pro test with the Foreign Office. GREAT ACTIVITY IN 4 NEW YORK FIT TODAY Dividend of 1 1-4 Per Cent On Steel Common" Declared and Common Stock Rose to 84 7-;To Be More. One Faction of Directorate Oppos ed Dividend. " - (By the United Press) New York, Jan. 25. Steel Com mon rose to 84 7-3 today with a live ly scene of activity m the pit, fol lowing the report of a dividend of 11-4 per cent., to be issued late to day. Morgan Frick rushed here to Vote the dividend. It is hoped it may be more. One faction of the Board opposes any dividend. KITCHIN TELLS THE PRESIDENT HE DOES NUT LIKE HIS IDEA For Tariff Commission Tarheel May Support It, However ANOTHER CHANGE POLICY , r . TT TT , business Men Have Urged Appointment of Commis- sion to Prepare for Up heaval at End of War Will Be New Body (Ry the United Press) Washington, Jan 25. House Leader KiU'iin told the President to day that he did not approve of the Administration's tariff commission plan. He may support it, however. Business Men Want Commission. It is officially stilted that the Pres ident is for a tariff commission to invevrt-igate economic conditions with a view to making recommendations for a schedule suited to all demands afier the war. It will be a similar body to the Federal Reserve Board, and will not displace the latter. This change from Mr. Wilson's attitude cf a year ago,- caused, it is said, by the urging by business men all" over the country of preparation for an un heaval at the end of the war. Both bodies would continue investigations. The expected bill will shortly be re ported by the ways and means com mittee. IN AERIAL RAIDS N' ENGLAND, 010 FRENCHMEN'S TOWN New Offensive of German Airmen Being Conducted Vigorously Dunkirk Bombed One Flyer Cap tured by Gunners London, Jan. 25. Four German raids on English Channel ports with in 48 hours, with the bombarding of numerous villages behind the French lines, have marked the inauguration of a new German air offensive. Dunkirk was bombed by two aero aeroplanea this morning. One ma chine was brought down at Nieuport. GROVER C. WEST OUT OF COURT IN NOTED A. WITH D. W. CASE (Daily Free Press, January 25) The locally famous West-Myers case was settled at i.aurange Mon day, when West pled guilty before Recorder ' Joy tier to assaulting S. Myers, his brother-in-law, with dead- y weapon. West some months ago shot and seriously wounded Myers, who at one time was expected to die. A family dispute caused the shoot ing. He finally recovered, the case came up in Superior Court here and was sent back to the LeGrange Re corder. Both men are prominent. The Recorder suspended judgment upon payment of costs and fined West $5 and costs for carrying the revolv er, the total of fine and costs amount ing to less than ?25. so Moscow, la, Jan. 24 Idaho house wives and Idaho farmers are gather ing here today to attend the Idaho University's third annual class in household and agricultural econom ics. During the week there will be organized the North Idaho Municipal League and a Good Government con ference. The State, chicken show be gin today, too. REPUBLICANS WON'T MAKE ANY PROMISES FOR COL ROOSEVELT Name Withdrawn From Three Primary Ballots, Pointed Out Campaign to He Based on Democra tic Extravagance, Etc. (By the United Press.) Chicago, Jan. 25 'Ropublicr.fi lead ers are reticent in their views over the entrance of Roosevelt into tilt' Republican presidential race. It is pointed out that his name was with drawn from three primary ballots. Charles 1). Hillcs' speech yester day indicated that the campaign charges against the Democrats are to be wanton extravagance, the for eign policy, imposition of the war tax and alleged ineflViency. RULER OF ORIGINAL COMIC OPERA NATION OF REAL LIFE DEAD By WILBI K 8. FORREST, (United Press SUIT Correspondent) London. Jan. 8. (By Mail) The news that King Ross of the Cocos Islands has laid him down in the shade of the palms and licd was ca bled here today. The brief message rings down the curtain upon the last act of the first ruler of the real, ori ginal Comic Opera Kingdom The Land of Cocos which lies upon the shimmering silver lap of the South Seas, a diminutive emerald world in a setting of pink coral reefs. Andy Ross was a Scotch adventurer who, after a roving youth, discovered and decided to cast his lot as king with the motcly inhabitants of the little story-book kingdom. From 1827 un til his death he was uie oddest King, with the queerest subjects and the most extraordinary domain in all the world. His was a kingdom where the arrival of Sinlsad the Sailor, Al ice in Wonderland, Gulliver and the Boy Who Could Not Ijearn to Shiver nd Shake would not have seemed un usual. Ross was king, court, government j and owner of this group of Indian Oc-tn isles, twenly in all. whose on ly excitement in history occurred dur ing the present war the destruction of the German cruiser Kmden by the Australian battleship Sydney, oh the Coco's coast. King Ross was the third of his line. In 1821!, an English adventurer named Alexander Hare settled in the islands with a number of slaves giv en him by an Indian potentate. Two years later Ross, a Scotchman, redis covered the islands and determined to colonize them. He returned in 1827 with a party of Scotch and he found Hare in possession. The two factions settled by dividing the islands equally. Finally, however, the natives swore allegiance to Ross and he and his descendants have rul ed their story-book kingdom ever since. BULLETINS tBy the United Press.) FLOODS IN MIDDLE WEST. Peoria, III., Jan. 25. Reports that a dozen levees have been swept away and many acres of farm lands flooded, have reach ed here. GERMANS GAINED, THEN LOST. Paris, Jan. 25. The Germans penetrated the advanced trench es of the French near the mouth of the Yser, but later were driv en out. FREIGHT IN COLLISION WITH PASSENGER TRAIN (By the United Press) Middletown, N. Y., Jan. 25. A dozen passengers were injured when a freight train crashed into the rear end of an Erie passenger train to day. ft, GERMAN REPLY LAST LUSITANIA NOTE IS NOT SATISFACTORY Indicated that Forecasters Took Too Much for Granted GIVEN PRESIDENT TODAY Diplomatic Situation More Complicated Note to England About Finished. Preparing to Inquire of Turkey in Persia Matter (By the United Press) Washington, Jan. 25. The diplo matic problems multiplied toduy. The administration practically ended the draftiing of the new protest to Eng land regarding restrictions of Amer ican commerce. It will go forward in a few days. The German note on th'e Lusitaivia was received at the State Depart ment and tho White House. The administration ook steps to day to inquire if Turkey has any in- formation regarding the singink of the Persia. German Note Unsatisfactory. That un unsatisfactory rather than a satisfactory turn was given tho Lusilania negotiations by the last German note has just developed, it is believed. The White House an nounced that the printed forecasts showing 'complete concession to the United States' demands were unjus tified by the facts. The President is to confer with Secretary Lansing tomorrow. AUSTRIAN EMPEROR IS CRITICALLY ILL No Confirmation From Au stria of Franz Josef's Ill ness French Airmen Used a Hundred Bombs In the Balkans (By the United Press) London, Jan. 25. Although there is no confirmation from Austrian sources of the serious illness of Em peror Franz Josef, Paris and London papers declare his conditions is crit ical from acute bronchitiis. The re ports emanated from Rome. Berlin Report of Mesopotamia Situation. Berlin, Jan. 25. The Turkish sol di era east of Kutelamara have been reinforced by the arrival of artillery and infantry, and from Bagdad are repulsing every altempt of the Eng lish to advance to the relief of Gen eral Townsend's besieged garrison. Great Air Raid. Saloniki. Jan. 25. More than one hundred bombs were dropped by the 45 French aviators in tht recent at tic!; on Monastir Mid other Serbian cities, in the greatest air raid ever in the Balkans. BIG LEAGUERS AGREE TO PLAY BASKETBALL (By the United Press) Bos-ton, Jan. 25. -Four baseball professionals wintering in Boston have agreed to play basketball on the tentatively organized Boston Baseball Five. They are Leslie Nun amaker, the big Yankee catcher; Hal Janvrin, Ham Connolly, who played third base and the outfield for the Washington . Senators; and Rabbit Maranville. It is expected that there will be no difficulty in filling out the team. Coach : fend Manager Bob. Fowler probably will try to get a game with a team similarly picked from the professional baseball men of New York City. REPORTED CERTAIN EXHUME BODY MRS. HOPEWELL TODAY Ixirnl Coroner and New Bern Physi cian Go to Stonington Crwk to Secure Viscera of Woman Alleged to Have Been Poisoned by Hus band Report to Be Made The body of Mrs. Rachel itopowcll, for whose death her husband, W. R. UoeweH, is now in jail at Now Bern, was to be exhumed near Stonington Creek, four or five miles from here, today. Drs. J. F. Patterson and Ray Pollock of Now Bern, appointed by Superior Court for the purpose, ar rived here at 10 o'clock and were ac companied to the place where tho corpse was interred Inst Summer by Coroner Eugene Wood. It is alleged that Hopewell poisoned his wife, who was a native of this county. The stomach will be sent to Raleigh for examination for traces of poison. State chemists will make a thorouh inspection of the viscera. Hope-well several months after the woman's death married a widow in Craven county. Her husband had died only u foiw months before and it was suspected in some quarters that he had met the samo fate as Mr. Hopewell is said to have, but no evi dence to warrant her arrest was dis covered. Tho examination by the chemists at Raleigh, should it fail to develop poison signs, may result in Hopewell's discharge, but if traces are found he is expected to be ar raigned for first degree r.. order. It will be several days yet lxfore a re port is had. FAIR PROGRESS IN . THE SUPERIOR COURT Cases Against Sydes and Potter andrf Negro Defendant Settled Record er's Judgment Sustained Second Trial of Man Who Had Lota of Whisky Resulted in a Six Months' Sentence The Superior Court now sitting for the one-week January, mixed term is making fair progress. Al though there wall probably bo some few hard-fought cases, the criminal docket should be cleared away in time for some little of the civil bus iness awaiting attention to be tried, it is believed. Cases disposed of Monday after noon were: J. F. Potter, having more than tho legal quantity of whisky in his possession, six months on the county roads. C. M. Sydes, as sault, etc., $100 and costs or six months on the roads. Albert Gran by, aiding in abortion, not guilty. Sydes' case was up on appeal from the Kinston Recorder's Court. He drove an automobile into a buggy occupied by two negroes, injuring both. The higher court simply sus tained the -Recorder's judgment. Pot ter was arrested at Falling Creek curly one morning by the sheriff, lie had a trunkful or more of whisky, it is alleged. The case was up for the second time, Potter having formerly been fined $1 and costs. Granby was charged with having given a negres3 a drug for unlawful purposes. )lc was sent up to Superior Court by a magistrate. No case of import ance is expected to come up this af ternoon. N ATION'S SHEEP AND CATTLEMEN SETTLE AN OLD FEUD TODAY El Paso, Jan. 25. The ancient feud between cattle and sheep men, dating back to the old days of the open range when the rival stockmen were wont to shoot on sight, was of ficially declared off today. The Am erican Live Stock Association and the National Sheep Growers' Association began their annual conventions here together. About 10.000 delegates are in attendance, representing every feeding district west of Chicago. The cattk men "will make a fight for an open market and against light com petition by the packers. Practically every State organization already is pledged to back this campaign. The entertainment program will inslude roping, branding and riding con tests; afternoons at the Juarez races, bull fights, open air barbecues and military '. drills at Fort Bliss. The conventions will last three days. ANNUAL CONVENT'N OF STATE FORESTRY ASSOC'N BEING HELD Gathering of Representa tive Men of State at New Bern PROMINENT SPEAKERS Conservation of North Ca rolina's Timber Resour ces Main Topic Busi ness Sessions Today and Sightseeing Wednesday By II. Cult Braxton Now Bern, Jan. 25. Tho sixth an nual convention of the North Caro lina Forestry Association was form ally opened at 10 o'clock this imorn ing in the rooms of the New Bern Chamber of Commerce. Representa tive lumber . men and many leading citizens in other lines are here to discuss the conservation of the State's great timber resources and hear ex perts of National renown speak on the subject. A number of the principal speak ers on the program were not able to bo present and sent their regrets. These included Governor Craig, Con gressman John Small v and ohens. President C. I. Millard of tho Roper Lumlier Company made a proposition to secure for the State as large a. tract of land as is deemed necessary, for practical forestry demonstration purposes. Mr. Millard's idea was regarded as perhaps the most impor tant to bo brought out at the morn ing session. Mr. C. C. Smoot of North Wilkeeboro made an interest ing address outlining the ways in which lumbering and the Allieil in dustiies take from the State's forests hundreds of thousands of dollars per annum and replaco nothing. . Ho urged protection of the woodalanda. Attending the convention from Kinston are Messrs. W. B. Douglass, Orrin Weeks, II. Gait Braxton and Barron G. Caldwell. Tonight at 8 o'clock State Geolo gist Joseph Hyde. Pratt is to present an illustrated lecture on "Forest Conservation in North Carolina." A short business session will wind up the convention. Tomorrow morning the visitors will be taken on a trip through adjacent timber operations, to seo how the pine is cut in this sec tion and get an idea of the immense resources of the regionin woods pro ducts. FIRST EXECUTION OF ,A QUAKER TODAY Bellefont, Pa., Jan. 24.- Pennsyl vania toduy had its finrt double exe cution since the gallows gave way to the electric chair in 1913. George H. March and Rowland S. Penning ton were put to death soon after day break at the new penitentiary near here. They killed S. L Pingerton in Delaware county more than two years ago. Pennington blackjacked him and March kicked hLm to death as he lay before them begging for life. Pennington is said to be tha that Quaker ever executed in Penn sylvania. The men battled stubborn ly for life, carrying their case to tho Supreme Court and then obtaining four reprieves in order to apply re peatedly to the Board of Pardons." STARTING CAMPAIGN EARLY AT BUG HILL Whiteville, Jan. 23 News reaches Whiteviilo that Bug Hill township, in the southern part of Columbus county, is after the honor of firing tha first gun in the Democratic cam paign this year, and that prepara tions are well under way for an old time Democratic love feast at Guide, or some place in the township, about the middle of February. : v - Minneapolis, Mirm Jan. 24. Lor in Solon, star Minnesota University football captain, deposed for alleged profess ronalism, is expected to enter, Pittsburgh University. t-