The JKjnston REE P. is 1 1 M " 1111 1 " " 1 f "" "' t r1 9 " - 1 PUBLISHED' TWICE A WEEK-WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS V OL. XXXV. No. 91 KINSTON, N. C WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1916 PRICE FIVE CENTS nn tn .n0 n uv 11060, ill! Sill Sit j V s 'EI, NATIONAL GUARDSM EN OFTHREE BORDER STATES CALLED; OBREGON WANTS TIME LIMIT; SITUATION IS ADMITTEDLY SERI'US Seven Americans Escape From Raiders After Overpow ing Guards; Bring- Three Mexicans Back With Them New" Mexico, Arizona and Texas Add More Than 5,000 to Frontier Army Mexican Ambassador Pleads for More Adequate Protection Agitator From Oth ve Side of Line Responsible for Raids, Declares; Fears Others Coming Final Conference Will Determine If Obregon Will Back Down, Washington Says (By the United Press) Washington, May 9. Scott's messages to Secretary Baker say the conference with Obregon is probably end ed, and that efforts to obtain an, agreement have been shattered. Official today said the situation was bad. May. Be One Last Conference. Washington, May 9. Obregon demands a time limit on thQ stay of the Americans in Mexico. America will re fuse to the limit, it was decided at the cabinet meeting. This government's policy will be to continue to refuse. Scott and Obregon are expected to have another confer ence. This will determine whether they can agree. Daring Americans Escape; Bring Guards. Marathon, Texas, May 9. Seven Americans captured by the Mexican raiders overpowered their guards, and escaped to the American side, bringing three Mexican captives, say dispatches. Scott's Messages Cause Militia to Be Called. , Washington, May 9. For the first time since the late Spanish-American war, the , President today called for .State militia to assist regulars in an international crisis The militiamen of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas were called. They are to be used for patrol duty on the bor der, consequently action by Congress will be unnecessary. The militiamen will add 5,360 officers and men, fully armed and equipped to the American forces. Besides or dering the militia out, four regiments of regular infantry were ordered to the border from Plattsburg, N. Y. ; Mad ison Barracks, N. Y.; Vancouver, Wash., and Fort Law- toivWash. '-mm- The decision to call the militia followed a conference between the President and Secretary Baker, after Baker had received two long code messages from General Fun ston. Announcing the decision, Secretary Baker declared it meant an unchanged policy toward Mexico. General Fun ston was authorized to dispose the militia and, regulars in his discretion1.' ?$he. .militia will be , available for use in Mexico. ' i necessary, .t It would . require . action by Con gress,; however. Therea're-'npw 'eignteenj thousand regu lars in .Mexico, and ten thousand on the' border. If the militia were sent into Mexico, they would have to be en rolled as volunteers. : While the militia order was being issued, Mexican Ambassador Arredondo was urging Secretary Lansing to strengthen the border patrol, saying that was the only iWay to prevent f urtherraids. He said the Glenn Springs raid was planned andexecuted on this side the border, and that several towns were selected to be the objects of , future f raids. I. Villareal, a . Mexican agitator, was the ,leader of this movement, Arredondo said. - Interventionists Active On Border. ): El Paso, May 9. Working unseen, interventionists are active all along the border, striving mightily to upset the Scott-Obregon negotiations for a solution of the Mex ico situation. 'While Mexican authorities suspected today that European interventionists had prior knowledge that the Glenn Springs raid would be made, there was a dis tinct suspicion here that the guiding force lay nearer to home. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ANOTHER DAY WITH MEET AT G0LDSB0R0 ' : NO SALES OF COTTON 'Special to The Pre Press) ,1 (Daily Free Press, May 9) Goldsboro, May 10. The annual No cotton was eold here today. De convention of the North Carolina liveries were 12 bales at 12 cents. ; Funeral Directors and Embalmers New York futures quotations were: ill be commenced here fhis evening. May . .12.66 12.88 to continue through Thursday morn- July 12.76 , 12.98 in. There will be nothing mourn- October ...........12.92 13.15 ful about the session, the advance December .. 13.05 ,13.32 uard, arriving today, declare. January .. ..13.09 13.35 GUARD JOUR POSITION; LEADERS IN DANGER Guard your position well on""tnis last lap of the great race. The leaders of the two districts have changed practically every day for tho past week, and you cannot af ford to alow up a bit this last week. On Saturday night, May 13th, The Daily Free Press' great. Golden Fes tival will close, the count will be made, and the winners will be declar ed by the judges, who will be select ed from the representative men of this community. The announcement of the names of the judges will be made in Thursday's issue of The Freo Press. At that time will you be a win ner? This week will tell, so work as you never have worked before, and don't stop until the final closing hour of 9 o'clock next Saturday night. Rules and Conditions of the Clos ing Day of Great Contest Rules for the Closing. 1. The contest will close promptly at 9 o'clock in the evening, Satur day of this week, the 13th. The closing hour will not be extended for one minute after 9 o'clock under any circumstances. 2. No money will be accepted for votes unless accompanied Ijy sub scriptions to the Daily or Semi-Weekly Tree Press, and of such , length that conforms to the rules of the con test. 3. No personal checks will be ac cepted by the Contest Manager an payment for subscriptions on Satur day, the closing day. If you get any checks, have them made out to your self and have them cashed. 4. Be sure that you have all of your reserve votes in the ballot bosr not later than 9 o'clock in the evening. 5. The last count of the votes will he made by the Contest Manager on Wednesday night and the results printed in The Free Press on Thurs day. The ballot box will be immedi ately sealed and locked after this count, and the keys delivered to the chairman of the judicial committee. 6. The final count will be made by three disinterested business men -of Kinston. The names of the judges will be printed in The Free Press on Wednesday or Thursday of this week. These judges will break the seal of the ballot box and begin the count as soon as possible after 9 o'clock on Saturday night. The judges will pro ceed to count all of the reserve votes that they find in the ballot box and will then add their total to the total count made by the contest manager as shown by the standing on the list printed on Thursday. The result of this count will be the basis on which they will award the prizes according to the rules of the contest. 7. If there is in your mind and mis take in the count of the contest man ager as appearing in the paper on Thursday, you must notify the con test manager not later than 5 o'clock on Friday. Failure to notify the contest manager will be considered absolute legal acknowledgment that the. final count is correct up to that time. " '' 8. Do not trust to the mails the last day to bring in your reserve votes or any late subscriptions. Ev- erything to count in thisr contest must be in the contest manager's office promptly - at nine o'clock, Western Union Time, Saturday night, May i3th. - --i A:-;-;;:';H':ii 9. Do not ask for any inside in formation in regard to the standing, of any of the contestants, for none will be given under any circumstan ces. No one knows anything about the standing of any contestant but the contestant in question. All of the contestants will receive the same and impartial treatment that has been the feature of this contest -All prizes will be awarded strictly on the merit of the contest. j 10. The last day of the contest; Continued on Page Three) ' 4 VM K ft i At. -tot? r x- "m ' W , Jfc i . 'A .P " - 0 ' V HON. CLINGMAN MITCHELL, CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE MR. MITCHELL SPOKE HERE MONDAY NIGHT INTEREST CAMPAI Greeted by Representative Audience His Candida cy Protest at Arrogance of Present Congressman. At LaGrange Tonight FOURTH OFFENSIVE AT VERDUN PROVING COSTLYTO GERMANS Hon. Clingman W. Mitchell of Aulander, Bertie county, address ed a representative audience of Kin ston voters at the Courthouse Mon day night in the interest of lii.s can didacy for the Democratic nomina tion from the Second Congressional district to succeed Hon. Claude Kit chen, majority flooT leader of the House. Hon. N. J. Rouse introduced Mr. Mitchell and spoke of his long ac quaintance and admiration tor him. Mr. Rouse told of the substantial cre ative work '.hat -Mr. Mitchell, had done in the interest of church, school and the material welfare of his sec tion. A farmer, banker, merchant, man of affairs and honest citizen, was Mr. Rouse's characterization and in troduction of Mr. Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell did not make an ex tended speech, nor one which might be classed as a typical political ad dress. He took occasion to speak fa vorably of the progress of the sec; tion and growth and prosperity that was in evidence here, and assured his hearers that he did not come to speak disparagingly of Mr. Kitchin or to criticize him for having hi3 own opinions. He said that he was not an office seeker, that he much preferred remaining in private life, but that he had yielded to what he thought was an insistent demand for a protest to be voiced against the attitude of Mr. Kitchin during the past two years toward the essential administration policies. He did not think that the opposition of Mr. Kit chin to the plans as outlined by Pres ident Wilson in carrying out the par ty pledges met with the approval of the people of the district. He admit ted that there probably were many voters in the district who would vote for Mr. Kitchin simply because of the high place tlfat he had attained in the House, and that in spite of their disapproval of his attitude they would support him. Mr. Mitchell re ferred to a statement printed in the Greensboro News soon after his can didacy had been announced in which the Washington correspondent of the Mews had said that he was authori tatively informed' that'" the White! House looked with disfavor Crown Prince Has Lost 10, 000 Since It Commenced Day Bsfore Yesterday Prisoners Confirm Belief of New Drive On City Paris, May !). The German Crown Prince has lost ten thousand in dead and wounded since he renewed the Verdun drive. German prisoners to day confirmed the belief of the French officials that the present viol ent assaults northwest of Verjjn constitute a fourth great attack on the fortress. any effort to dislodge the majority leader at the present time, and said that he had consulted with a close friend of Mr. Kitchin at once, and said to him that if such report could be sustained by creditable informa tion from the White House that he would immediately withdraw from the race. He had no object in antag onizing the administration of Presi dent Wilson, and he still stood ready to withdraw if it could lie shown him that he was embarrassing the Presi dent in his candidacy against Mr. Kitchin. Whether the people of the Second district showed their disap proval of the work of Mr. Kitchin on June 3d, or not, and whether he him self was nominated, the protest had already had its effect on the attitude of Mr. Kitchin he declared, and he claimed that the district would be even more benefited because Mr. Kit chin would be forced to recognize the will of the people and yield his own views to those of his constitu ents. If Mr. Kitchin was re-nomiri-ated and continued his domineering and arbitrary course, there would be further protest two years hence, h predicted. Mr. Mitchell closed his remarks by calling attention to the argument of Mr. Kitchin in the fight for his broth er against Mr. Simmons, in which he asked for support for his brother on the ground that the State must send a man to Washington who would support President Wilson. Mr. Sim mon g, he said, was doing the very thing that Mr. Kitchin said he would not do, and that Mr. Kitchin was do ing just what lie had criticized Mr. Simmons for and predicted that he, Mr. Simmons,' would do11 if entrusted with Knottier (term. IThis point was considered by many as the most upon forceful that Mr. Mitchell made UNARMED FREIGHTER SUBM WD; SUNK npp mm mm rnnu'. nrmnMV uav ui i luiun uuiu i i uui i j uLiuuiui i mm HAVE GOT HERSELF IN BAD WTHBUi . White Star Liner Cymric, of 13,000 Tons, Goes to Bot tom 110 Persons On Board Saved No Passengers Had Been In British Admiralty Service, But Restored i to Company Some Weeks Ago, Line Officials Assert Crew Being Landed This Afternoon Vessel Carried Big Cargo of Munitions Washington Uncertain Yet If Newly-Made Pledges of Imperial Government Were Violated Expert Says Warning Due Ship (By the United Press) London, May 9. The 13,000-ton White Star liner, Cymric, was torpedoed yesterday by a German submar ine. She sunk at 3 o'clock this morning while attempting to make her way into an Irish port. All of the 110 officers and men of the crew were saved, said a Lloyds dispatch from Queenstown. :No passen gers were aboard. The ship carried a huge cargo Of mu nitions. , . , OITicial Washington Expresses No Official Opinion. Washington, May 9. Fear that, the sinking . of , the White Star liner Cymric would upset the settlement of the American dispute with Germany over the.suhmarine warfare just as tho settlement was becoming, a fact was dissipated by a dispatch from Consul Frost at Queens town, saying the Cymric was on 'Admiralty serviced ' State Department officials are uncertain if the torpe doing did not constitute a violation of the pledges. -One department expert said that if the Cymric was unarm ed the Germans ought to have visited and searched her, unless the vessel fled. Even if the, ship was in govern ment service, he said, it di( not entirely excuse Germany.' Governments are permitted to run unarmed ships and ask for the right of visit and search, he said. ' Was In Service of Company, Say Owners. New York, May 9. The White Star Line today de nied that the Cymric: was in Admiralty service. Offi cials said she was being used as a freighter.. ; She was withdrawn several weeks agq from the Admiralty Ber viqe. They said the ship was requisitioned early inthe war, but later restored to the line. Crew Being Put Ashore. London, May 9.-The Liverpool American consul wir d this afternoon that the crew of the Cymric is being landed in Bantry Bay, Ireland. , . , TRY FOUR NEGROES FORALLEGED THEFT OF AN AUTOMOBILE (Daily Free Press, May 9) Willie Blizzard, Pete Colie, Hamp IlargeU and James Joyner, colored were tried in the Recorder's Court to day for the temporary larceny of an automobile owned by Chas. Hatch, colored. The quartet were arrested near Emporia, Va., and the machine, claimed to have been damaged some, returned. All were discharged save Blizzard. Judgment in his case was withheld until Wednesday mornincr. Colie, Hargett and Joyner claimed that they hired Blizzard to drive them to Virginia. SAW. SPIRIT OF HUSTLE IN KINSTON Durham's Mayor Expresses Thanks for Hospitality Extended Carolina Municipal Association ' Here We'll All Be Royally Treated If We Go to His City, Declares Mr. Skin? ner POOLROOM MEN ASSERT BEST PATRONAGE GOES ONLY TO CLEAN PLACES (Daily Free Press, May 9) Poolroom proprietors here declare they will petition City Council to make licenses contain a clause that in the event gambling is found to be practiced in any such place the li cense will be revoked. To "elevate" the amusement is the purpose. They want as high a class of patronage as possible, the proprietors intending to appeal to Counci assert, and this cannot be had in a place under sus picion. They will ask constant po lice supervision. CHURCH MEMBER HAS OPPORTUNITY HERE (Daily Free Press, May 9) . The church member will have a good opportunity for "his say", about the worship next Wednesday night in the Gordon Street Christian church. The topic for the prayermeeting will be, "What Element in tho TuLlic The following letter toiThe Fwe Press from Mayor Benjamin S. Skinner of Durham explains itself: "I have written to the . Mayor of your good city expressing my appre ciation of the hospitality extended to us during our eighth annual conven tion of the Carolina Municipal Asso ciation, which met with you ' last At the . -j ' last week. At the same time I want ed to let you know directly of ay appreciation of your cordial welcome and liberal hospitality. "Kinston seems to have taken on new !!fe during the past few years, and I could see nothing hut the signs of thrift, energy and progress among your people in every particu lar. I was very much impressed with your beautiful streets, and sea no reason why' such adequate pave ment should not be a great asset to the City of Kinston. ' "You and the good people of your progressive municipality are always welcome in Durham. With' kind re gards, lam, ' " Yours, very truly, "B. S. SKINNER, "Mayor."" Worship Are Most Helpful to Met This will afford opportunity for em phasis upon what is helpful and also what is not. Each member is asked to think about the topic and come prepared to have a part iry sugges tions or joining in the discussion. , Mr. ' a C Howard will lead f meeting and prepare tl.e way fv full and iree discussion. T.. will welcome any s;: . Mirk! .Lnt of the j