North Carolina Newspapers

EClNSTQN Free HE PRESS.'-: ''IP'' PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK-WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS VOL. XXXV No. 92 KINSTON, N. C SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1916 PRICE FIVE CENTS CONFERENCES COME TO END RESULTLESS AUSTRIAN STEAMER CHAMBER (WERCE TO ASK PASSENGER FRENCH REPEL TWO HEAVY ATTACKS ON WILL URGE ENTIRE ASQUITH IN DUBLIN, ORDERS HOLD UP OF COURT-MARTIALS AND BAKER ORDERS SCOTT. TO CAPITAL TORPEDO'D MTIIOU COUNTY GET ABOARD AMERICANS PREPARE AGAINST ATTACKS WARNING RY ALLIES SHED AT QUEEN ST. VERDUN STROllI'LD GOOD ROADS WAGON Contraction of Line In Mexico Namiquipa May Be Most Advanced PositionEntrenchments Being Thrown Ud Columbus Surrounded by Defensive Works- Warlike Orders for Guidance of Civil Population Mil itia Begins Arriving Today Situation Up to Diplom atic Departments of Two Governments Scott and Ob- regon Did Their Best, Says American Secretary of of War Border Patrol Regarded As Sufficient (By the United Press) Washington, May 12. Secretary Baker today tele graphed General Scott to return here and General Funs ton to return to San Antonio at their discretion as the re sult of the unsuccessful conclusi6n of the border confer ences. Baker's announcement was that the two generals, Scott and Obregon, had earnestly sought a basis for com mon action, but failing had left the matter up to their respective diplomatic departments. Army men consider the border patrol as it now stands sufficient. Just now absolutely no plans are contemplated for increasing the militia forces there. Warlike Preparations In Progress. Columbus, N. M., May 12 Withdrawal of the advanc ed American forces from San Antonio, Mexico, is in ful swing. Motor truck companies are assisting in the move ment. Though Coloma Dublan is mentioned as the outer most point of the proposed new line, many here believe the contraction will stop at Namiquipa and the Americans there will rush to completion of defensive works to meet possible attacks from hostile forces. Defensive prepara tions were completed here today when infantry put the finishing touches to a system of trenches surrounding the city, and an order for the conduct of civilians was issued bv the military commanders. Two militia companies are expected to arrivelodav. The whole New Mexico State militia is expected Saturday or Sunday. Situation Worst Yet; Washington. May 12. The border situation is more serious than at any time since the troops crossed the bor der. This state of affairs confronted the Administration today, by reason of the failure of the hi raso peace con- ri 1 i ?J A? 1. ' ierences. serious caDinei consideration is uemg given the problem. The chief question is that of withdrawal, Carranza insisting that this be done before the other questions are considered and the United States insisting that it cannot withdraw the troops until the border raids have been suppressed. Carranza Will Make Another Demand. Washington, May 12. The State Department will pass the situation up to Carranza now, the military con ference having failed. Arredondo is expected shortly to renew Carranza's request, made a month ago, that the troops be withdrawn at once. The cabinet spent most of its session today discussing the Mexican situation. No reply to Carranza's request is contemplated until after Arredondo again presents it formally. Sank In Adriatic Was Un armed U. S. Won't Pro test No Americans On Board Attack Classed With Cymric Case (By the United Press) BerHn, May 12. The Austrian passenger liner Rubrovnik has been torpedoed. She was sunk without warning in the Adriatic, according to dispatches. The Rubrovnik was un armed. America Won't Bother Self About It Washington, May 12. Unless Am' erican citizens were aboard the Dub- rovnik this government will not pro test the attack. This was the offi cial view and it was said that even if it was proved the attack was illegal it probably would be placed along side cases like those of the Yosaka Maru and Cymric, which were tor pedoed without warning, but on which there were no Americans. TELEGRAPH MEN IN CAPITAL MAY QUIT Strike Threatened Because of Dis charge of 11 Operators Because, Organization Head Alleges, They Were Suspected of Belonging to the Union National President Is Backer (By the United Press) Washington, May 12. A strike of local telegraph operators that would seriously hamper communication with the Capital is threatened as a result of the discharge of 11 opera tors by the Western Union. Presi dent Guy JJtakely of the local organ ization todaycharged that the men were dismissed because they "were suspected of belonging to a union." S. J. Konekamp of Chicago, presi dent of the national - organization, promised to back the local union "in ny step it takes." ' (By the United Press) REP. DYER PROPOSES REBUKE TO ENGLAND ' FOR THE EXECUTIONS By the United Press) Washington, May 12. Representa Dyer of Missouri today intro duced a resolution making" Congress formally to denounce the action of Great Britain in executing the lead- of the Irih rebellion. ; : . . ALLIES MAY SEIZE GREEK RAILROADS. Berlin, May 12. The Allies have determined to use force if necessary for the use of Greek railways for the transportation of Serbian troops from Corfu to Salonika,' according to an official statement published in Petrograd newspapers on May 5. ARMS EMBARGO PERMANENT. Laredo, Texas, May 12. The government embargo on ammu nition which became effective a month ago has been made per- : manent, reports today said. ABLE SPEAKERS AT BAR ASSOCIATION CONVENT'N Even a Philadelphia Lawyer On the Program to Be Pulled Off at Wrightsville Beach Next Month Harry Skinner of Greenville Is to Preside Judge Bond Among the Speech makers (Special to The Free Press) Wilmington, N. C, May 12. Pres ident Harry Skinner of Greenville will preside over the annual conven tion of 'the North Carolina Bar As sociation at Wrightsville Beach on June 27, 28 and 2D. The following is the program for the occasion: Welcome address by C. D. Hogue of Wilmington; response by A. M. Scales of Greensboro; address by T. W. Shelton of Norfolk; address by J. C. Buxton of Winston-Salenn; ad dress by Walter G. Smith of Phila delphia; address by Judge W. M. P.ond of Edenton; business. Meeting of Commandery. There will be a regular meeting of St. Paul Commandery No. IS. tonight at 8 o'clock. Important business will bs up. Would Have Two Stops In City When Union Station Is Completed Ticket and Baggage Facilities Only at Depot, Though (Daily Free Press, May 12) The Chamber of Commereo direct ors Thursday night received favorably the report of the chamber's commit tee on the union passenger station for the Cummings i to at "the Junction," continued the committee to handle the remainder of the business of the station except approval of the plans, and deckled to ask for a shed for a stopping place at the site of or in the neighborhood of the present Queen street station. The shed would sorve only to shel ter the passengers who might desire to alight from or board trains in the vicinity and would not care to go the additional half dozen blocks to the union depot. A ticket office will not be requested, nor baggage facilities. The committee, comprised by Mes srs. I. W. Mewborn, (J. i . Harvey, J J. Stevenson, H. E. Moseley and E V. Webb, will with representatives of the Atlantic Coast Line and Norfolk Southern railroads go before the Cor poration Commission in Raleigh in i few days to ask the commission to hange its order directing erection of the building at Gordon and Independ ent streets to cause construction at the site newly determined upon. Plans for the station are expected to be submitted to the full chamber. The Germans Today Twice Vainly Assaulted Dead Man's Hill Positions Italians Getting Best of Fighting, Says Rome fHGH POINT BUILDING STREET CARS FOR N. Y. High Toint, May 11. The South ern' Car Company has just received an order from .the New York Rail way Company for 70 street railway cars to be used on the New York street railway line. TWO KILLED IN WRECK ON SEABOARD AIR LINE Raleigh, N. C, May 12. Flagman W. C. Mingela of Henderson and Fireman Thomas, a negro, were kill ed, and Engineer Kit Stephenson of Raleigh, scalded about the head and face when Seaboard Air Line passen ger train No. 7, southbound, was de railed at Manson, N. C, ten miles north of Henderson, at 9:30 last night. v SLUNG MUD CARELESSLY AND GOT SELF ARRESTED . ; ' (Special to The Free Press) Washington, N. C, May 12. John Hollowell was the defendant in a Snud slinging" case here. Not al legorical mod bat the real stuff was thrown by Hollowell into an auto mobile occupied by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Thompson ami Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hooker. Hollowell was shovelling on a road. Hollowell declared he did not see the car. A jury exonerated him. - BRIEFS IN THE NEWS NEIGHBORING PLACES (Daily Free Press, May 12) Thirty-six gallons of whisky were seized by 'the New Bern police Thurs day. A negro was arrested. Twelve and one-half cents straight was paid for 233-'bales of cotton pur chased by New Bern dealers. This promises to be a record- breaking soft crab year for the Morehead City and Beaufort catch ers. The production is enormous so far. IF WHAT INA SAID IS TRUE SHE IS A BRICK There is a railroad coupling pin, twd inches thick, at the police sta tion which Ina Falk, colored says her husband. Will Falk, broke over her head. Some inches of the pin are missing. She has a smalt abrasion on her head. The provocation is al leged to. have been the sticking, of Will with a hat pin. - CHECK FOREST FIRE IN DISMAL SWAMP SECTION Norfolk, Va., May 11. Reports tonight from the fire swept district of the Dismal Swamp are to the ef fect that residents of the sections en dangered have checked its progress, but great danger will continue until there is rain. UNREGISTERED VOTERS "SHOULD GET BUSY NOW (Daily Free Press, May 12) If men unregistered want to vote on June 3 they should hasten to put their names on the books. The reg istrars today called attention to tho slow registration. Books will be open in the city on Saturday for the First precinct at the Courthouse, and for the Second precinct at the Eagle warehouse. The registrars will beat those places all day. (By the United Press) Paris, May 12. Two heavy Ger man attacks against the Western slopes of Dead Man's hill were re pulsed today, tho war olfieo said. Cannonading continued in the re gions of Avoncourt, Douaumont and Vaux. On the Austro-Italian Front Rome. May 12. Austrian attacks against Italian positions on the Gor- tz front were promptly checked, the war office today announced. "Our for ces were victorious in an intense ar tillery duel," said a statement. STAGE ALL SET FOR LAST ACT OF THE FREE PRESS CONTEST ON SATURDAY Chamber of Commerce lie news Agitation for Bond Issue Will Bring Per sons From All Townships Together for Talkfest Contest Manager's Final Count Ap pears in The Free Press Today Ballot Box Is Locked and Scaled Final Count to Determine Winners JUDGES Mr. W. A. Allen, Bookkeeper at Farmers and Merchants Bank. Mr. Clarence Oettingef, Secre tary Kinston Insurance & Realty Co. v, Mr. J. A. Bizzt'll, bookkeeper at the National Bank of KinHton. SOLDIERS FROM FORT CASWELL TO FRONTIER WHmington, May 12 Tke 31st Co., Coast Artillery Corps, com manded by Capt Francis Cooke, a North Carolinian, is en 'route from Fort Caswell to the border, together with ten o'her companies from the Atlantic and Pacific eoasts. , : l FIRE DESTROYS M'ADOO HOTE AT GREENSBORO Greensboro, May ll Fire this af ternoon at 3:30 broke out in the Mc Adoo Hotel and "three hours later the three-story brick building, covering a fourth of a block lras smouldering The loss is roughly estimated at from $100,000 te 150,0O0, only par tially insured. The final count to be made by the contest manager appeared in last evening's issue of The Free Press The list will stand as it was printed last night and today until the final c.unt is made by the judges Sutur dpy night. If you have any correc tions to be made on the count as it appears today, be certain to do H before tomorrow noon, as after that it will be too late. If you have any votes that you have not got credit for, explain it to the contest man aper and he will be glad to correct all errors. The ballot box is locked and scal ed. The key is in the hands of the judges. And by the way. it is some seal. The box has guarded ihe inter est of millions of votes. The judges will have soon' broken the seal that the contest manager so carefully set upon the guardian of the contestants' future, and the final count, which will spell pleasure and satisfaction lo many, will at the same time add further incentive to the woe-begone losers to hasten on their dance of apology. Final Sprint. There still remains the final sprint to be made tomorrow. Without that final spurt those who stand near the two touring cars could not hope for success. And as the last few hours give place to the last few frenzied minutes, the contest manager can not refrain from repeating the old well-worn warning, "do not overlook a single subscription, no matter how small it may be." You cannot afford it. , As the end approaches, do not let your energies abate. j . Bring Them In Early. Again get your subscriptions in early in the day. Don!t wait until the last minute. And above all things if you have any thing to ask the contest manager about, o r if you have anything to look up, do not wait until the last minute, for there is going to be something to do the last few hours and the contest man ager wont have time to do anything but to issue votes the last few hours. So if you wait until the last hours or so, do not expect to have the con test manager answer any foolish Questions or to settle any dispute re garding your, votes. All such ques tions will be gladly attended to at any other time. Bring in your re port early. (Daily Free Press, May 12) Good roads and-the expenditure of as much as $300,000 or even more to r.ecure them were discussed by direct ors of the iChamber of Commerce Thursday night. Overwhelming sen timent for improved highways was exhibited by the members present Discussion lusted for some time. Dr. .1. M. Par rot t, the chamber's roads hooster. was one of those who pressed for quick action in the matter. The chamber, long favoring a better sys tem of highways for Lenoir county decided to get right down to work to get it. A meeting will be held here some time in June at which good roads will be the sole topic and to which every planter and businessman in the county will be invited. "Scouts" will be sent out to round them up, and they will be dined and entertained at tho expense of the chamber. And ev ery mother's , son will hear nothing but good roads until he is willing, if not already so, to throw in his ballot for a reasonable bond issue. JUDGE ALLEN THINKS THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT IS TOO BIG Washington, N. C, May 12. "Tho First judicial district as it stands to- day is exactly the same size and contains as many counties as it did over a hundred years ago. Other districts have been spilt up into two and three parts but absolutely no change has been made in this one," said Judge Oliver . Allen in Superior Court here. The district is so large that it has two Federal courts in it, while one Superior Court judge has to care for all terms held in the Superior Courts, Judge Allen remarked. KILLED WOMAN HE WAS INFATUATED WITH AND ENDED HIS OWN LIFE Norfolk, Va., May 11 S. B. Beat- ty night train dispatcher for Chesa peake and Ohio Railroad at Norge, near Williamsburg, Va., this after noon shot and killed Mrs. Vivian Fra- zier Marsdcn and 'then blew out his own brains. Beatty was infatuated with Mrs. Marsden. FUNERAL DIRECTORS MEET NEXT YEAR IN BURLINGTON; ELECT (Special to The Free Tress) Goldsboro, N. C, May 12. The North Carolina Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association yesterday elected F. E. Vogler of Winston-Salem president and J. R. Wood of Ox ford secretary-treasurer and other officers, voted to meet in Burlington next year, and adjourned the annual convention here. .. a . SAYS NO DECREASE IN COTTON ACREAGE SOUTH Premier Investigating the Skeffington Case; Was . Claimed Illegal SITUATION GROWS WORSE Affairs In Irish Capital Ad mitted to Be In Bad Shape Skeffington's Relatives Say Was No Cause for His Execution London, May 12. Premier As- quith, arriving in Dublin today to as sume charge of the situation there admittedly growing more serious daily, immediately ordered post ponement of further courtmarbials pending the outcome of his investiga tion. He expects specially further to investigate the execution of editor Skeffington. ,,i Relatives of Skeffington declare he was executed without cause and with out the semblance of a trial. , SOY BEANS SHOULD BE GROWN IN LENOIR CO. Ideal Fall. Feed for Hogs, Says Farm Demonstration Agent Is Easily Raised Meat Cannot Be Produced Profitably On Corn at $1 av Bushel. McCrary Advises Experimentation (Daily Free Press, May 12) "Every farmer in the county should raise his own meat and have soma to sell," declares 0. F. Mc Crary, county farm demonstrator, in a circular issued today. "Every far mer in the county knows that to do this with' corn that is worth $1 a bushel and without pasture means little or no profit. Every fanner knows also that corn alone is a poor feed. "Too many hogs have been raised at a loss t the fprmer. For thi3 reason some farmers are found who raise no hogs at all. He is a wise farmer who stops the leak when he ' finds it. "The soy bean crop, if rightly used, will help you solve the hog problem and turn losses into prof its. If you haven't 'tried this crop for a fall pasture, plant an acre or two now. It is not too late. Plant in 3 1-2 feet rows with 600 pounds of acid or 300 pounds of 8-2-2 and it will do well. Plant not over 1 1-2 nches deep and cultivate twice as . ou would corn. Turn jlour hogs in on them when the seed are well formed in the pod," NEGRO BOY SHOOTS, KILLS WRONG PERSON Washington, N. C, May 12. James Darden, 15, shooting at Ellis Marsh with a small rifle, missed his mark and killed Arthur Clark, 11. - Darden s in jail. All the boys are colored. The cotton stand in Eastern Car olina is not at all good, according, to Farm Demonstrator O. F. McCrary. He takes issue, however, with, agri culturalists who have been quoted as saying that the crop, planted was far short. A much was planted as in 1915, he thinks. The acreage planted in the South is as great as that of 1914, McCrary says he has been reliably informed. FURNITURE DEALERS AT WINST ON-SALBI Winston-Salem, May 1. About a hundred members of the North Car olina Furniture Dealers Association are attending the semi-annual con vention here. . . i. '; , THE DAY ON LOCAL COTTON EXCHANGE (Daily Free Press, May 12) Eight bales of cotton were sold ' here by 3 o'clock today, all bringing 12 cents. ; New York futures quotations -r May .4.....;. 12.S0 July "., .,'.. 12.P" October .. IV December i" Jar.-.