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PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK-WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS
VOL- XXXV.No. 93.
BJNSTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY J7, 1916
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TYPICAUHIStt FARM ER UPSET PLANS OF GERMAN FLEET SA1
NOBODY WISE ABOUT
FORTY THOUSAND AT
BIRMINGHAM TODAY
THE FREE PRESS POPULARITY CONTEST
CAME TO CLOSE SATURDAY NipHT; AUTOS
AWARDED THE 2 LEADING CONTESTANTS
CASEIN! AND GER MAN G0V1T WHEN m BE-EN. RfltlTB T
HOW BIG NEW ARMY
WILL BE AT WINDUP
FOUNlr liUAT AT ISUtATtD COAST POINT RUSSIAN PORT RIG
FOR VETS.' REUNION
HE
KlNSTON
John McCarthy Discovered Footprints Three Persons In Offensive Sea and Land Si
Sand and Notified Constabulary Police Found Case- multaneously Monster
roent After Long Search Knight On Trial for Life New Ships In Service
for High Treason Protested Innocence, But Dropped
Paper Which Told of Need of Afore Ammunition and ITALIANS MORE ACTIVE
Guns for Insurrection Plotted Rebel Emerged From L
Sea When Boat Collapsed Servant Girl Saw Him Expected to Renew Off ens
Sir Roger Blamed Richard Morton for His Undoing ivG With More Vigor
Villages Cleared of Al
But Soldiers Only Artil
lery Fighting In West
lty John H. Hoarlcy,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
' Rome, May Id. Austrian troops
have abandoned an advanced position
before Rovereto, expecting a heavy
Italian offensive toward Trent. All
: Adigo iriver valley villages upon
which the Italians are expected to
nir.5 nave been clcareu ot non-com
hatants. Three hundred thousand Au
(By the United Press)
London, May 16. John McCarthy, a Kerrv countv
J .'1.1. J ll 1 X 1 1 ' . . X
larmor, wim a imcK insn Drogue, upset tne plans pre
pared a month in advance in Berlin for Sir Roger Case
ment to. lead a rebellion to sweep all Ireland. The fact
was. disclosed today when the preliminary hearing of the
case ol Lasement and one of his Irish prtMier confeder
atew, Daniel Bailey, was resumed in now Street police
court.
McCarthy's Story.
McCarthy said that on Good Friday morning, while
walking along the coast near Tralee he noticed a small
boat near the, shore. He went to pull it in, and saw foot
prints of thrPP TlPrsnns in rhp snnrl Wis snsnlrinn wns strians now are concentrated on the
aroused and he sent word to nearby barracks. Trcntino-Tyroi front.
Serceant Heme nf the Irish rnnsrahiilnrv ronk nn the Big New German Ships Steam for
Itiga
London, May If Rumors that the
Germans were about to begin a sea
and land offensive against Riga were
revived today, by Copenhagen dis
patches, saying that a German fleet
had left for Riga
The new superdreadnaught Vor
Ilindenburg and other fighting mons
ters are reported to be in tha fleet
No Infantry Fighting in West.
London, May 6. A small German
grenade attack northwest of Thia-
mont farm, northeast of Verdun, fail
ed utterly, the war office today re
ported. Elsewhere on the Verdun
front only the artillery was active
.story here. He said the police immediately scattered
over a wide area along the coast- After a considerable
search Casement was found in an old fort at McKinna.
He first protested vigorously against his arrest, declar
ing Richard Morton was the author of his misfortune.
As he was escorted to Ardferdt barracks he dropped a
paper on which was written, Await further instruc
tions. Have decided to stay. Further ammunition and
rifles needed. Send another ship."
Casement Came Up Out of Sea.
Mary Gorman, a pretty servant, identified Casement
as the man she saw emerging from the water, a collapsi
ble boat haying capsized.
RESTORES AMERICAN
FLlG TO SERVICE ON
THE PACIFIC ROUTE
(By the United Press)
New York, May 16. At a special
meeting of .the stockholders of the
resuscitated Pacific Mail Steamship
Company here today, it was expect
ed that an increase in the capital
stock ml he authorized, making the
amount $4,000,000 instead of $1,000,
000. New money is ito be provided to
pay for three vessels recently pur
chased.
This insures the restoration of the
American flag to the Trans-Pacific
service.
SUFFRAiGETTES STORM
CONGRESS THROUGH A
LINE GIRLS IN WHITE
WILL BE A THOUSAND
TRAP SHOOTS IN YEAR
OHIO TO DECIDE IF
INSURANCE CO S CAN
COMPETE WITH STATE
Columbus, O.. May lf The Su
oreme Court of Ohio today will hear
arguments in the suit brought by
Attorney General Edward C. Turner
and the State Federation of Labor
attacking the right of liability insur
ance companies to write workmen's
compensation insurance in competi
tion with ' the State.
Eighteen Ohio companies are de
fendants. , V' j
NARROW ESCAPE FAMILY
FROM, BURNING DWELLING
(Special to The Free Press)
New Bern, May 16. Capt. Dixon
end family narrowly escaped 'being
burned when their home At 35 East
-!ont street was destroyed, together
with all the contents, by fire ot un
determined origin. ,-. '
(By the United Press)
Washington, May 10. A spectacu
lar parade and demonstration were
staged this afternoon as women,
Congressional Union delegates who
have traversed the country on the
"Suffrage Special," presented their
petitions to Congress. The peli:ions
were from the women of the enfran
chised states asking suffrage for the
entire Union.
Three hundred school girls dressed
in white, bearing staqs roped togeth
er with purple, white and gold
Rtreamers, formed aisles up the
broad, impressive steps of the Capi
tol as the delegates marched in with
their petitions.
ALLEGED MOONSHINER
ACCIDENTALLY KILLED
Benson, May 15 John Denning
was shot and instantly kilkd in a
raid on a still which he, H. M. Lucas
and George Williams are said to
have been operating. Denning'?
death despite the fact that he was
resisting arrest was accidental, the
fatal wound being inflicted whin De
puty Marshal Moore stumbled and
fell, and his pistol was accidentally
discharged.
PROPOSE GOOD ROAD TO "
TRENTON FROM CRAVEN
i . - "
(Special to The Free'Press) ;'
Dover, N. C, May 16. Local iusi
itessraen are interested in a proposed
sajidclay road from this town to
Trenton. -Construction of the high
ly practically assured,
holt-morgan Mills
SOLD UNDER HAMMER
Fayetteville, May 15 The Holt
Morgan Cotton Mills, situated here,
were sold at public auction today
under a receivership order and went
to' W. D. McNeill, agent, of Millen,
Ga, representing Miles T. Hoffman,
of Philadelphia, for $122,500.
(By the United Press)
Chicago, May 1( While the wave
of preparedness is sweeping the
United States today thousands of
trapshooters are perfecting their aim
to be ready in case President Wilson
calls for help. ,
Trap shooting in the United States
this year is more spirited than ever,
The military fever has brought out
a bunch of rookie shooters and indi
cations are that before the season
is over fully 1,000 tournaments of va
rious sizes and descriptions will have
been held.
CALIFORNIA SINGS OF
THE RIPE OLIVE TODAY
Oroville, Oil.. May 10. -"California
Ripe Olive" day was celelvated
here and elsewhere in the State to
day. The festival was intended to
call attention to recent growth of the
California olive industry. Governor
Hiram Johnson issued a proclama
tion, urging all citizens to celebrate
by eating olives.
WILSON WILL GO TO
CHARLOTTE TWENTIETH
(Special to The Free Press)
Washington, May 10. President
Wilson has finally decided to visit
Charlotte on May 20th.
NEW NORFOLK SOUTHERN
SHOPS ARE COMPLETED
New Bern, May 16. Machinery is
being installed in the new shops of
the Norfolk Southern" Railroad here,
erected to replace buildings burned
several months ago.
MEXICAN BANDITS
WRECK TRAIN WITH '
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE
(By the United Press)
. Laredo, Texas May 16, Mexi
can bandits burned to death 150
passengers and wiped out one car
load of the train guard, in wreck
ing a train carrying a thousand
persons at Ayausoo, near Mexico
City, according to reports "of sur
vivors reaching Mexico City. -
Senate and House Leaders
Charge One Another
With Altering Figures to
Suit Opposite Sides Had
Decided, But
(By the United Press)
Washington, May 15 After the
House and Senate conferees had sol
emnly decided, or though they had
decided, how big an army to give the
United States, it developed today that
nobody knows just what size it act
ually is.
Chamberlain charged that Hay
reducing the figures to please the
ttle army men in the House. Hay
retorted with a statement that Cham
berlnin increased the figures to please
the big army men in the Senate.
That Many More Expected
On Thursday, Big Day
of Annual Meeting
CAMPS IN OPEN PLACES
BULLETINS
(By the United Press)
MARCH AN I) REPORTED KILLED
Paris, May 16 General Mar
chand has been killed at the
front, reports today said.
TURKEY APPEALS TO KAISER.
Athens, May 16. Enver Pasha,
the Turkish dictator, today sent
a personal appeal to the KJiiser
for men and munitions to aid in
checking the Russian drive on
Bagdad, according to private
Constantinople advices.
NEXT LEGISLATION OF
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
Policy Outlined by Supt. R. L. Davis
Keep Liquor Out of Clubs; Pre
vent Advertising Prevent Sale of
Cider and Wine Wants Assem
blymen Who Favor It
(By R. L. DAVIS, Supt.)
The Hoard of Trustees of the An
ti-Saloon League, at their meeting
on February 21, 1910, fixed our legis
lative policy for the next General
Assembly. The legislation proposer
as follows:
1. To prohibit clubs and other pub
ic places irom storing or Keeping
quor for beverage purposes
2. To prohibit the advertising of
ouor in any way, even to trie sale
f papers that do advertise it.
8. To prohibit the sale, or manu
facture for sale, of wine and hard
ider.
4. To prohibit the delivery of li-
uor lty puliiic carriers and me re-
eipt of the same.
5. To make it unlawful for anyone
to have in possession, for any pur
pose, more man one-nail gallon oi
spirituous liquor.
6. To provide for the seizure and
the confiscation of any property
automobile, wagon or anything else
used in transferring liquor for ille
gal purposes.
Now that the policy of our crgan-
ation has been declared, it remains
for the workers to get busy and car
ry it into effect. The legislation ask
ed for is in keeping With the various
temperance reports and resolutions
that have been passed, in the last
twelve months, by the churches in
their annual gatherings and, there
fore, it is confidently expected that
the church folk will line up solidly be
nd the Anti-Saloon League in
working for this legislation.
The one thing needful to secure
this legislation is the election to the
next General Assembly of members
who will vote for it; and it is up to
the prohibitionists of every county
nd senatorial district to see to the
election of such men. The State pri
maries will be held in June, and ev
ery candidate for nomination should,
as soon as he announces his candi
dacy, be interrogated to know if he
will support our proposed legislation.
and our" influence should be givetf-Ho
the candidate, or candidates" who
ill support it.
Women Entertained In
Homes Irvin Cobb to
Be Speaker Tonight
Four Cities Want 1917
Reunion
(By the United Press)
Birmingham, Ala., May 1(!. Con
federate veterans and Sons and
daughters of the Confederacy, num
bering nearly 40,000, thronged Bir
mingham today for the 2Uh annual
re-union. As many more, it is esti
mated, will arrive on Thursday, the
closing day.
Thousands are encamped in army
htyle at the fair grounds and in the
parks.
Birmingham has opened its doors
to the women accompanying the vet
erans. Washington, Motngomery, Memphis
and Atlanta are asking for next
year's reunion. Irvin S. Cobb is on
tonight's program for a speech.
Miss Glenn Sugg and Mr. II. L. Pate Winners of Max
well Touring Cars Machines Went to Same District,
Second Miss Sugg Had 11,385,350 Votes; Pate, 9,694,
475 Diamond Rings to Miss Eoline Padrick and Miss
Sadie Waller; Watches to Mrs. W. G. Morris and Mrs.
George Taylor; Bank Accounts to Mrs. Claud Smith
and Miss Roberta Aldridge Skilled Accountants
Checked Up the Final Figures
(Daily Free Press, May 15)
TANKERSLEY GOES TO
JAIL FOUR MONTHS
Salisbury, May 15. Four months
in jail was the sentence imposed to
day upon Engineer A. Tankersley.
charged with manslaughter. After a
hard-fought trial last week Tankers
ley was found guilty in connection
with the wreck of a football special
in Salisbury, November 24lb, when
two Charlotte business men were
killed and a score of others injured.
DOZEN SHOTS SHORT
R ANGE; NO ONE HURT
(Special to The Free Press)
Washington, N. C. May !(!. M.
M. Jones, a deputy sheriff, anil Luth
er Allen, negro owner of two 'Suit
cases of whisky, emptied their revol
vers at each other at a distance nf
just exactly 10 feet, a few miles
from here. Neither was hit! His
ammunition expended, Allen fled.
PITT COUNTY NEGRO
BOY KILLS ANOTHER
(Special to The Free i'im)
Crecnville, May 1(1. llenvy Kelly,
colored boy, shot and killed Roy
Kin-am, another boy of his ace, at
House, Pitt county. They were play
ing. "You don't believe I'll shoot
you, do you?" Kelly asked, Ho null
ed the trigger. Kelly is in hiding.
DRESSED UP
FOR ELKS' CONVENTION
(Special to The Free Press)
Washington, N. C, May 10 Wash
ington "hi decorated to the limit for
the State convention of the Elks
here Wednesday and Thursday. Pur
ple and white predominate in the col
ors of thousands of yards of stream
ers and pennants.
REPORT-QFJTHE JUDGES
Kinston, N. C, May J3, 1916.
We, the undersigned, duly appointed judges of The Daily Free
Press Contest, do hereby assert that we- took possession of tb,e
locked and sealed ballot box at the close of the contest tonight, broke
the seals and made the final count. We desire to Bay that we found
all according to the published rules, proceeded to make the final
count and awarded the prizes according to the list of winners at
tached. W. A. ALLEN,
J. A. BIZZELL,
C. OETTINGER,
Judges.
Capital Prizes
Miss Glenn Sugg (11,385,350 Votes) Maxwell
Touring Car, purchased from Kinston Garage, Inc.
Mr. II- L. Pate (9,694,475 Votes) Maxwell Tour
ing Car, purchased from Kinston Garage, Inc.
First District
1. Miss Eoline Padrick (2095,055 Votes) Dia
mond Ring, purchased from Mewborn Jewelry Co.
. 2. .. Mrs. W. G. Morris (2,014,000 Votes Gold
Watch, purchased from Mewborn Jewelry Co.
3- Mrs. Claud Smith (1,299,775 Votes Bank Ac
count, $25.00, First National Bank.
ScconcJ District
1. Miss Sadie Waller (2,205,900 Votes) Diamond
Ring, purchased from Mewborn Jewelry Co. '
2. Mrs. George Taylor (2,069,225 Votes Golr4
Watch, purchased from Mewborn Jewelry Co.
3. Miss Roberta Aldridge (1,630,825 Votes -Bank
Account,'. $25.00, Farmers & Merchants Bank
Both of the splendid Maxwell cars offered as capital
prizes in the great popularity contest of The Free Press
were won by contestants in District No. 2.
The contest closed Saturday night with interest at
fever heat. The winners of the capital prizes made re
turns which they had held for the closing hours and
which forged them far in advance of the field of competi
tors. Promptly on the stroke of nine, the contest man
agers, Messrs. King and Gibbs, began closing up the de-'
tails, so that the judges, who were Messrs. W. AAllen,
of the Farmers & Merchants Bank; J- A. BizzelL""of the
National Bank of Kinston, and Mr. Clarence Oettinger
of the Kinston Insurance and Real Estate Company,
could complete the work of counting the ballots and mak
ing the awards.
METHODISTS, NORTH,
ENDORSE UNION OF
CHURCHES SECTIONS
. (By tha United Press)
Saratoga, N. Y, May IS. The
General conference of the Method
ist Episcopal church today adopt
ed a report endorsing the proposed
union of the churches of the Xortb
nd Sooth. "' '
Count Made in Dank.
Mr. J. A. Rizzell clippen the rib
bons which held the seals on the locks
of the big ballot box in which the
votes and credit slips bad been de
posited. The judges took the ballot
box to the Farmers & Merchants
Bank where behind locked doors to
insure privacy and bar interruption,
they proceeded upon the final counts
which, with the assistance of the ad
ding machines in the bank required
about two hours.
Prizes Awarded Today. .
Some of the successful contest
ants remained about the streets
awaiting the final decision and went
home happy in the knowledge that
their splendid efforts had reaped re
ward. The actual disposition of the
prizes was not undertaken until this
morning. They were given out as
the contestants made application for
them.
The final returns of the contest
have not yet been analysed. A fur
ther report will be (made because
there has been manifest interest ra
the part of the public in this great
undertaking of The Free Press. Suf
fice it to say here that the splendid
work of the contestants during the
past six and a half weeks has netted
In the neighboring . sne thousand
subscribers on the Da3y and Semi
weekly lists. . .
Contestants Worked Faithfully
The management of The Free Press
is duly appreciative of the splendid
work that has been done by each and
every contestant who has worked so
faithfully.
The contest was conducted in ac
cordance with the rules laid down at
the beginning and every contestant
was absolutely given a square deal
and it is gratifying to know from
the contest manager that no com
plaints or other incidents marred the
conduct of the contest. Of course,
naturally there is disappointment on
the part of those who failed to win
prizes and we regret that there were -not
enough prizes to insure every
contestant one. The contest depart
ment did all in its power to . give
stimulus and assistance by way of
suggesUon to all the contestants
alike.
Complete Vote.
The complete Tote( of all contest
ants is as follows:
DISTRICT No. 1.
Miss Mary Farmer, Kinston. 69,700
Miss Sarah Faulkner, Kins. 280,153
Mrs. Mamie Fitzgerald, Kins. ES0;3
Miss Barbara Emory, Kins.-n r "
Mrs. Coy Stroud. Kinrton .... :
Mrs. Clara Becton, Kins', -i.
Miss Maggie Hi-'.t, I"
Mrs. M. L. Bras v I
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