PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK WEDN ESDAYS AND SATURDAYS - VOL. XXXV.-No.8S KINSTON, N. C SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1916 PRICE FIVE CENTS SPIES OF GERMAN AT'ACK WAS HURLED BACK WHILE BRYAN TALKS WITH WAR WITH CARRANZA SEESIS INEVIT'BLE; PERSHING ORDERED STOP WHERE HE IS; SOLDIERS AND CITIZENS HAKE TROUBLE imiTrn CTiTce PREFERS Bft'AK WERE I UllIIUJ OIULU Lit liiOlIT TO ONE V LITTLE HOPE lilH IANY WILL CONCEDE NOTHING TfljTIIE GERMANY cimmr II I11L OF COLUMBUS RAID Von Der Goltz Lets Cat Out I ON WAR SITUATION Tapers and Officials Declare ' Not Bow, to Wilson's Ultimatum Kaiser Gets Note, Forwarded From Berlin ters Sinking of Another Ship Would Be Provocation ' for Break Unless Commander of Submarine Had Not Received Order In Accordance With America's De mand May Be Ten Days Before Teutons Make! Up Mind Wilson Spoke to 'Dallying r (By CARL W. ACKERMAN, United Tress Staff Correspondent) ' ' " (Copyrighted By the United Press.) t Berlin, April 21. "Germany will concede nothing more," was the statement of Admiral .Vonv Holtzenderff, chief, of the admiralty staff, , today. He does not desire a breakl He denied that a submarine sank the Sussex. German People Will Not Permit Empire to Bend. . Amsterdam, April 21. German newspapers declare Germany never will yield to Wilson's demands. ;The Vossiche Zeitung calls the note a "bluff." The Post says Germany "prefers trouble without to trouble within' Backing down, it says, would cause the latter. kaiser's Reply Won't Come for Week and Half. ... Berlin, April 21. The text of the American note has been telegraphed to the Kaiser at the army field head quarters. - It is being published in the newspapers. The reply is not expected to be made before the end of next week.. Nothing But the Direct Issue, - , , (By ROBT, J. BENDER. United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, April 21. President Wilson's demand that Germany stop immediately the submarine campaign against merchantmen applies only to the matter, directly in hand! If Germany complies, the other questions V will ,be settled later. President Wilson .will not be satisfied with anything else. Another Submarine Tragedy and Break Certain. Washington, April 21. The torpedoing of another neutral vessel, particularly if Americans were aboard, would cause a German-American break unless it were shown that orders issued had failed to reach the subma rine's commander.- DAMAGE AND DEATH TROM A CLOUDBURST to TORNADO SOUTH , (By the United Press) Dubuis, Miss., April 21 A do zen houses were wrecked and two steamboats sunk by a tor nado here today. A cloudburst filled the streets -ib a depth of ten feet. One woman was killed and one hurt in Mobile, Ala., by a wind storm. EYIDEXE ALL IN IN CiSE AGAINST YEGGS SUtesville,' April 20. The taking of testimony in, the noted postoffice robbery cases against Old Tom Dowd, Grady Koonta and James Hackett, alias Brooklyn Slim, on trial in Federal- court here, was concluded this evening and the case will probably reach the jury by 'tomorrow .noon. Over, fifty witnesses, coming from several States, testified for the gov ernment, and six for the- defense. IlIliETINS ; (By the United Press) 4 SHIP TORPEDOED r AMERICANS SAVED. Washington, Apr. 21 i A Hosting mine sunk the Nor wegian steamer Terkje Yiken off Lisbon Tuesday, the American C ,Cmsul there today reported. wo Americans in the crew were saved. . . ' .,' POSTPONE ERANDEIS MATTER. , . Washington, April 21. The Senate judiciary committer to 'y postponed action on P.ran dtw' arroIntrnrU. a Imperial Government Will to Grand Army Ileadcfuar the Point and Won't Permit BANDIT HOLDS UP A I TRAIN, SHOOTS MAN GETS ONE THOUSAND (By the United Press) New Orleans, April 21. A lone bandit held up a Red River pas senger ' train, shot a messenger, and .escaped with a thousand dol lars today. CONGRESSMAN TURNS TO FARMER TO TEST FREE SEEDS Washington, April 21. To make sure be is not deceiving his constitu ents, and that he is not being dweiv? ed by the Agricultural Department, as well as to experiment in the pro duction of first class vegetable seed, Congressman Jesse S. Davenport of Oklahoma today donned a pair i. of blue overalls and -hied away across the river from Washington to culti vate a seven-acre farm and practice on the government's seed crop. ILLINOIS AND TEXAS WOMEN TO HAVE FRONT -SEATS .Chicago, April 2Jt.--When thirty thousand women from the United States and other nations meet in New York on May 22 for the 24th bien nial meeting of .the General Federa-f taon of Women's-Clubs, the Illinois delegation, by appointmerft, will have the very best front seats. - SAY. WAREHOUSE LAW WILL COST COTTON GROWERS TWO MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. . Dallas. Tex., April 2L A cam paign to force repeal of the State cotton "warehouse law was inaugur ated at a meeting of ' the Ginners Association of Texas here today. The ginners clam the' law accomplishes no direct good for the producers, and that it will cost the farmers of this State ?2,l)OO,0U0 next year. of Bag in Confession, It Is Stated BERNSTORFF IS EXCITED After Eierhth Demand for Return of V on Igd's Pa pers Ambassador Riches to New York - Wilson Knew Before Ultimatum Washington, Apr. 21. Investiga tion of the alleged German connec tion with the Villa raid at Columbus is awaiting the return of the Ameri can ''expedition,. The alleged spy, Von Der Goltz has made a state ment being investigated by the Jus tice and State Departments. Ger many's Mexican activities are be lieved to have played a part in fram ing of the President's ultimatum. . Many Consuls, Etc., Suspected.. New York, Apr. 21. A Nation wide Federal Grand Jury investiga tion into the activity of German ag ents will result from a statement by Von Der Goltx. The German Consuls at Chicago, Buffalo, El Paso and St. Paul are named. Von Bernstorff Hurries to New York. Washington, Apr. 21.-The German Embassy regards the Von Igel case extremely important It today made an eighth demand or the re turn of the papers seized. Ambassa dor Von Bernstorff went to New York for the same purpose, . WOULD BRING SOUTH'S PRODIGALS BACK HOME Railroad Man Proposes Co-Operation of All the People of the Sec tion With Industrial Agents, Com missioners of Agriculture of the States and Secretaries of Boards of Trade Daily Fru Piess, April 21) "It is estimated that during the past 'decade more than 60,000 of our best Southern farmers, with their boys and girls, have deft the South to locate dn the newer States of the West and Northwest," says the.in- dustrial agent of the Norfolk & West ern Railway Company. He advances a very plausible rem edy for this evil, as follows: "Al most every family in ithe South has one or more relatives or acquaint ances that have ' gone into other States. If all of us would write our State commissioners of agriculture, the agricultural and industrial agents of the railways and the secretaries of the boards of trade in nearby cities or towns, giving a list of the names and addresses of these people who have left us, it would enable these agencies ito get in touch with them and send attractive literature por traying our own advantages,, with the probability that many of these people can , be interested in investi gating the opportunities that have developed in the South within ithe past'ten years." Dr. Clarence Foe, here last week, deprecated the fact that "they are still going,", although in far smaller numbers, of course. They can't or won't realize the advantages . . that are just developing in this section about to set ithe pace for the world. FIFTEEN CONSECRATED AMERICAN AMBULANCES STARTED TO THE FRONT New York, April 21 Fifteen huge motor field ambulances, one of them the gift of William' ; K. Vanderbilt, Sr., left this port today for service on the battlefields of Russia, after having been consecrated by dignitar ies of the Greek-Catholic church in this city. The other fourteen cars were bought with cash contributed to the American Hospital and Ambu lance Service in . Russia. Counter Assault Resulted ' In Recovery of Trenches and Extending of Lines Lieutenant ' of Crown Prince Recalled, Said . (By the United Press) Paris. -, Apr. 21. The - Germans have attacked along a mile of front from the Northeast of Verdun, after cannonading. The French, counter attacked, recovered lost trenches, and advanced their lines, capturing many prisoners. The German losses were heavy. Field Marshal Called to Berlin. London, Apr. - 21. Field Marshal Von Haeaeler, the German Crown Prince's chief lieutenant at Verdun has been recalled. PERFECT BILL FOR A DOZEN REGIONAL LAND MORTGAGE BANKS U. S. Washington, April 20. A .bill to establish twelve regional land mort gage banks, as part of the adminis tration rural credits legislation pro gram, was perfected today by the House Banking committee and will be urged for passage next week by the House leaders. The proposed banks would make loans on land through national farm loan associations. REDFIELD TAKES THE COMMISSIONERS FOR A SAIL ON GOVT. CRAFT Wilmington, April .20. Secretary Redficld was host today to the Na. tional Association of Fisheries Com missioners on a trip down the Cape Fear river to Fort Caswell, which was. inspected by the secretary and his guests. The trip was made on the lighthouse tender Cypress. GOING ON IN OTHER EASTERN CAROLINA TOWNS AND COUNTIES Pitt county has had another forest fire. About a thousand acres of the moat valuable timber in thecounty, three miles south of Greenville, has been burned. The New Bern authorities have been unable to discover whence came the body of an infant -carried by a dog through-the streets there a day or two ago. The body, badly de composed, has been reintenrod and the coroner's investigation is being left open. Improvements are being made to the interior of the Atlantic Hotel at Morchead City. , Walls are being calsomined, the lighting ipant ; en larged and the sewerage service ex tended. W. F. Aberly of New Bern, a timber man, says undergrowth in forests should be burned off in Feb ruary to offset the danger of fires in the spring and summer, such as have swept off half a million dollars' worth of woods in the past week. PAPER CALLS UPON WHEDBEE TO STATE WHAT HE4YILM0 (By the Eastern Press) : Washington, N. C, April 21. -The weekly Progress, an anti-Small pa per, declared yesterday that Judge H. W.Whedbe of Greenville should make a statement of his intention re garding his supposed Congressional aspiration. The Progress intimated that Whedbee should relieve the minds of his friends in the First dis trict one way or the other, or that candidate to oppose Congressman J. II. Small, of this city, should be sou-; hi c be where. Tells Them Wilson Has Not the Authority to Start J Hostilities HOT FIGHTING PRESID'NT . 1 Commoner Informs Solons That Chief Executive Can Only Conduct Diplomatic Relations; After .That They're the Big Show (By United Press) . Washington, April 21, William X Bryan today conferred with mem bers of Congress. He informed them that Congress holds the sole, power of declaring war. The President can only carry on diplomatic, relations, he said. He believes the majority of Congressmen oppose war. , ' Bryan said he was not fighting the President. ; He urged arbitration. Secretary Daniels a nnounced . the Summer fleet maneuvres, including defense games at New York: and Bos ton. The personnel of the navy is being , increased. , ' JAPS PROTEST THE IMMIGRATION BILL Washington, Apr, 21. Japanese Ambassador Chinda today conferred with the President on the Immigra tion Bill. Japan objects to classifl cation with Hindoos and restriction of the number of immigrants. A FLASHING STREAK " OF VOTE-GETTING All This WeekThe 40,000 Extra Vote CIoscb Saturday Night Can didates are doing their BeatThey Deserve Your Support . (Daily Free Press, April 21) In checking over the results for the week it was found that a great number of good reports had been turned in. Among some of those who turned in the best reports are Miss Roberta Aldridge of LaQrange, route 5; .Miss Fleeta JMarshburn of Dover. Miss Sadie Waller of Kinston, route 5; Mrs. W. G. Morris of the city, Mrs. Lillian Worthington of jGrain- gers, Mr. H. L. Pate of LaGrange, route 3; Mrs. Emily1! Maxwell of Pink Hill, Miss Gertrude Maxwell of Re saca, Miss Allie Oello Gaynor of Kinston,- Mrs, Clara fiecton of the c'vly. Mrs. Delia Gooding of Kinston, route 7; Miss Glenn Suggs of Snow Hill, Miss Delia Hyatt of the city, Gor don Boney of tho city, Mrs. Claude Smith of the ity, Mrs. E. A. Best, ' Miss Laura Robinson of Deep Run, Miss Nannie Stanley, Miss Janie Hardy, Miss Dora Diamond, Miss Le na Grady and Mrs. Jay Smith , of Leon. These are some of the con testants who have turned in excep tionally good reports and deserve the support of the public. ' Tomorrow night at nine o'clock the big extra vote offer of 40,000 votes on the five NEW six months ' sub scriptions to the Daily. Free Press and the five NEW yearly " eubscrip- tions to the Semi-Weekly will come to a dose. This will end the first pe riod of the contest. This will have been a most important week for by the time that it is over the great majority of the public will have de cided whom it is best for them to support during the final period which starts Monday and lasts for three weeks. If you have any promises be sure to collect them and turn them in Saturday for the votes are higher now than at any time during tbt contest. Be certain to make a systematic canvass. Take every house and everyone you meet as you go along. You will want an automobile to en joy the warm summer nights. This is your opportunity to get one." Carranzista General at Chihuahua Has Hands Full Am erican Newspapermen Stoned; Assailants Arrested Aviator Forced to Flee Before Hail of Bullets Troops North of Parral Dared to Proceed Further Carranzistas Concentrating In Force Villa : Is Not Dead, De Facto Government Officer of Bank Declares. Bandit Not Even Wounded, It's Thought, and May Be Hiding in State Neighboring Chihuahua ' (By the United Press) ' ' J- Chihuahua, Mexico, April 21. Military Commander r!iit(nMn Vtna nnnnnnnail rnaitl trilir fViof t Vl O Vlfkflv f1jlim ed to have been Villa's was not that of. the bandjt, but ia nnoWo fn eamivo ofinifo infnrmntinn nf Villa's where- abouts. 4 j J ' ' Consul Letcher today reported that Villa was not at lL . . Lnlit. 1 .v. n r. An4-A1 4- r y rtTft VvVA-n wounded. ' s' ' Carranza has prohibited American aviators flying over Mexican cities and barred from Americans use the Mexican telegraph and telephone syslem's. . Villa is reported to, be in Durano State unwounded. Carranza Evidently Intends Attack Americans. , Washington, April 21.' Movements of Carranza sol- rliofC! ara "rlionniof irifr" trt rvffipiol ?rflps C,frrSlT7.Sl an- parently plans to check Pershing's southward advance. The withdrawal may be nearing; Scott's report Is expect ed to decide the Government's course. The communica tions line has been stretched. Officials are still hopeful that the Carranzistas intend co-operating with the Am ericans.. ' " - . , , Aviator Fired Upon. ' WashWtnn Anril.21 The War Department re ports firing upon American aviators at Chihuahua some time ago. The Governor of the State apologized, and tvoriii-0ri ?v?Ti!ri w'ffi trio RrinnHntr Plan to Destroy Advanced Troops. , San Antonio, April 21. Pershing, has withdrawn his advanced detachments to save them from a threatened general attack, according headquarters. The troops plan to destroy them was Condition Critical. , Chihuahua. April 21. Consul Letcher reported today that the Parral fight was not Other attacks are believed to here saw Carranzistas fire tor Wednesday. Citizens also fired. The aeroplane was evidently seeking a landing; it fled toward San Antonio, Mexico. . General Gutierrez says he does not know wheth er Villa is dead or alive, the body has not been found. The Americans have been ordered not to proceed south of Parral. A thousand American cavalrymen under Col. lirown and Major . Tompkins Parral. Newspapermen have rez arrested the assailants. murring against the Americans. Gutierrez is holding a trainload of oats and hay sent to American troops. " ELDERLY BLIND TIGER NABBED BY POLICEMAN (Daily Free Press, April 21) . James Newsom, white, 68, arrested by Patrolman Claud Sumroll in King street Thursday . night, was today convicted of retailing in the Eecou-d-erfs Court He was sentenced to six months on the county farm. Cato Sandlin, arrested a week and a " half ago hy Policeman Sumrell, was i also found guilty . of retailing and was offered a chance to leave tho county and pay a small fine. He was given two weeks in which to choose between banishment and a road sentence. BELIEVES MEN ON DARK ROAD TRIED TO ROB HIM . (Daily Free Press, April 21) At a dark place on the Dam mad between the city and the iron bridge, Thursday evening, Bingham Bouse, a convict guard, was ordered to stop by men who, House believed, intended to rob him. Rouse was riding a bi cycle. He speeded np and escaped. There were two or more of the hold up men. House identified none, nor does he know if they were white' or colored. Officers searched for . the men without finding them." J to staff officers at 'Funston's fell back from Parral when a evidenced. the only clash of the kind. have occurred. Americans volleys at an American avia are concentrated north of been stoned here. Gutier The Mexican troops are mur- POLLOCK REGISTERS WITH ELECTION BOARD FOR STATE SENATOR (By W, J. MARTIN) Raleigh, April 21 W. D. Pollock of Kinston today registered with tho State iBoard of Elections as a Demo cratic candidate for the State Sen ate from the Seventh district; R. W. Harris of Dillsboro as a Republican candidate lor State Treasurer, and C. R. Pough of Elizabeth City as a Republican candidate for State . Su perintendent of Public Instruction, ASSAILANT OF WHITE UIXL 1ft VlULiA IS SENTENCED TO DEATH Nottoway, Va., April " 20. John Williams, the negro who assaulted a young white girl near Blackstone, this county, on March 29, -vhile tho young girl, accompanied by a young er' brother and sister, were on their way to school, was sentenced to die in the electric chair hero today. Tho jury was out only thirteen minutes. Williams will . pay tha penalty for his crime on May 26. -u' Mayor ' Sutton is at Kenansvil! today.