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Week; Opening "Ses
sion Today
VfPh of Cargo at Norfolk or Newport ' News Rio
Hears That Bremen WiU Call There, 3Vhich Manager
Denks--Sister Craft of Monster at Baltimore Expect
ed, ,0n This Side Ocean Shortly-KoenigBig Submer- NORTH IS REPRESENTED
sible Putting Out Load Naval Officer Detailed to In
spect Deutschland Will Not Be Permitted On Board Enthusiasts Discuss Con
Unless He Is Backed by the Law Stated
versation, jGame Preserv
es, Management, the Ero
sion Problem, Etc. Gov.
Craig a Speaker
' (By Car! Groat)
Baltimore July 11. With no restrictions. Captain
Hughes and customs men this afternoon boarded the
Deutscftland to'inspeet her for armament. The? action
was taken on permission of Manager Hilken after Cap
tain Koenig had agreed that the men could not learn the
secrets of the ship's construction.
"Potentially Warship," Say Allies.
Washington, July 11. Great Britain and France will
do everything in their power to prevent the United States
recognizing the Deutschland as a merchantmen, the em
bassies of those governments today admitted. They de
clare the submarine is potentially a warship, a naval ship
being unable to determine whether or not the submarine
is armed. 7t
DeutschlancT Won't Stay Long.
Baltimore, July 11. Manager Paul H. G. Hilken of
the Ocean Transportation Company today -admitted that
the Deutschland would probably take on a part of her
ratoirn cargo at Norfolk. He denied, however, that the
Bremen, a sister ship, will dock at Rio De Janeiro. The
departure of the Deutschland Undoubtedly will be with-
. - V A t 1J1 i 11 1 JJ 1
in ten days, information is naa mat a smaii neei oi suu- The southern Forests and Thoir
marine freighters will soon be plying between North and piace in the Nation's Timber sup
South Americas and Germany.
HttffHes' Visit Must Be Enforced. ' v
Baltimore, July 11. If Captain Hughes, U. S.N., will
present proper government credentials to Captain Koe
nig he will be allowed to board the Deutschland.
Koenig declared today that Hughes must be entitled by
Jaw to make such an investigation before he would over
step his orders hot t& permit any one aboard. The cargo
is oeing unloaded today.
Freight Sub. Headed for Rio.
ijia De Janeiro, July 11. The State Chancellor today
was-omcially informed that a sister ship of the Deutsch
land is now crossing the Atlantic. It will arrive here m
ten days, the newspaper Rua declared.
Deutschland May Leave This Week.
Newport News Va., July 11. nans nave ueen com
pleted for bringing the Deutschland here to complete her
loading. It is believed her departure will be much sooner
than, the North German Lloyd officials have given reason
to believe. It may be within the week. 1
Don't Want IT. Naval Officer to Examine Ship.
Baltimore, July. 11. Manager liilKen oi me utwu MaMgement m southern Yellow
Transportation Company, owners of the -Deutschland, (pine," Henry e. Hardtner, president,
announced personally today that the company will object urahia Lumber Co., Urania, La,
to uaptam Hughes, a mvy Department expert, v&auuu
ing the ship. - " .7," '
'ULJ l4i;.llM.--rM
(Special to The Free Press)
Asheville, July 11. Many dele
gates are her for the Annual South
ern Forestry Congress, to continue
through tho week. ' This morning'B
program was s' follows:
Invocation Cishop J. C. Horner of
Asheville.
Address of Welcome Gov. Locke
Craig of North Carolina. v
'Welcome to Asheville Ilon. J. E.
Rankin, mayor of Asheville. .
Response from the North Dr.
Hujjh Baker, dean of New York Col
lege of Forestry.
Response from the South John
i'aul, Birmingham. Ala.
Addresses: "
ply," Hon. H. S. Graves, Chief U. S
Forester.
"The Forests in Relation to the
Upbuilding of the South," Dr. Clar
ence 'J. Owens, secretary Southern
Commercial Congress, Washington
"Re-Establishment and Protection
of Big Game in the Southern Appa
lachians," ' Mr. Edmund Seymour,
president American Bison Society,
New York. ,' " , "
The program for the afternoon
session to begin at 2:30, isf
Addresses:
"Forestry in the United States,'
lion. Oiarles Jjatnrop FacK. presi
dent American Forestry Association,
Lakewood, N. J.
"The Part of the Women's Clubs
in Forest Conservation," Mrs. W. T.
Lingle, president N. C. Federation of
Women's Clubs.
A Practical Example of Forest
wwm PARTS S Gf RMANS THINK THE EMPERORS OF GERMANY AND AUSTRIA ASH
CONTINUES TQ -GAIN BIG OFFENSIVE WILL BULGARS TO AID IN STEMMING ADV'NCES
FAIL; PEACE RESULT OF ENEMIES INTRENTINO AND OALIEIA
Number . of Deaths There Allies Continue to Gain, Ferdinand Declares to Withdraw Troops From . Greek
Increases. 10(1 Per Cent
In 24 Hours
However,: Peronne Less
' Than Mile Off
TWENTY REPORTED TODAY MANY TOWNS CAPTURED
Nine Monday Strenuous Berliners Say, That When
.. . i
Efforts Seem Futile 270 British Public Learns of
Babies Have Died Since
Scourge Started : In. New
York City
Frontier to Help Hard-Presscd Austrians Means to Be
Attacked Immediately by Allies at Salonika Teutons
Think If Slavs and Italians Continue to Gain Rouman
ians,WiU Be Encoi?raged to Join War on Side ottthe
Entente Powers, Squeezing Bulgaria Between Fpes. on
North and South Czar at Sofia Doesn't Know How to
Act; Will Consult With Staff -
Losses and That Teutons'
Lines Hold, They'll Give
Up V '
(By the United Press)
New York, July 11. Despite pro
digious efforts to curb the infantile
paralysis scourge, New York re
ports today showed an increase of 100
per cent, in the number of deaths in
By HENRY W. WOOD,
(UniU-d 1'reftJ Staff Correspondent)
Pans, July 11. TwentjMrwo vil-i
lages, fortified to the higfiest degree
by German efficiency, hav been cap- j
WARNEFQRD, WHO FIEW
TO DEATH WITfl UVS.
MAN. TO GET MEMORIAL
(By the United Prets)
London, June 19. (By Mail)
Fifty-eight ,Warnefords, from almost
every corner of the world, have club
bed together to erect a memorial in
Ilighworth church, WilU, to Tlight
Lieut; Warneford who destroyed . a
zeppelin, and who was later killed
while flying with Henry Eteach Need
ham, the American writer, in France.
Rev. H. L. Warneford, after his
nephew's feat, realized that the deed
was so striking and had -been given
such world-wide attention that on the
strength of it he might bring the
widely scattered Warneford family
together. He traced the family back
to the year 745. He also traced mem
bers of the. family to various corners
of the earth with the aault that th
eppelin, bomb has reunited the War
neford family. . -
SAILEGED POSTOFFICE V
M rmm nvn?
JjfVWvwiU V lull
Salisbury, July 10. Charged with
blowing the safe and robbing the
Spencer postoffice of $500 in money
J. W.;Farlow, alias Jerry Towler,
ged 30, arrested here Sunday, was
eivea a hearin befor U. S. Com-
"The Erosion Problem of the
South and Its Relation to Forestry,"
R. S. Maddox. iF Tester, Tennessee
Geological Survey, Nashville, Tenn.
Tonight there will foe an in
formal ireecption to visiting delegates
by the Women's Clubs of Asheville
at the Battery Park Hotel.
BULLDOG BROUGHT HIM .
LONG PRISON SENTENCE
Columbus, O., July 11. 'With no
charge other than "being a tramp,"
against him, Owen Hadey is serving
a sentence from one to three years at
the Ohio penitentiary here. He is the
only conyict in the pen under that
charge ' . " , ' . '
A fculldof proved his undoing. He
But "Kinston, N-.C-Jn a neat enterea a nouse at wapaKonew,
square label will be necessary for J where tne Houseware was alone, me
the cardboard and, coupons to count dog backed him" up. against a wall
for anything. The label will be print- kePt him there untd the sheruT
ed on, and there will fee no trouble se- j came.
curing packages" thus inscribed. ,; ;
The piano will be on display at the
J E. ' Hood - & Co. drug store from
now oni ' Piedmont, Chesterfield and
Fatima fronts and coupons will count
in the contest f.. - ,; ' - '' '
Tha leaders in the recent motor
cycle contest, in which nearly 50 per
sons competed, were W." A. Rawles,
who won the machine, 1,361,795 votes;
I. J. Sparrow, 799,306; H. F. Stall
ings, 544,840; Pres. Harper, 114,685;
Douglas McDaniel, 8,890 Harry
Morton, 760; J. O.: Temple, 2,490;
Sidney Hart, 1,375.
NEW CONTEST WILL B j
LIMITED TO THE CITY
Tobacco Company Will Have "Kins
ton. Nl C" Printed on Coupons
and Package Fronls, and Only
These Will Be Accepted As Votes
On Handsome Auto-Pianc
; The new contest that the Liggett
& Myers Tobacco Co. is to inaugur
ate here will be limited to Kins'ton,
A handsome auto-piano, "worth $500,
is to be the'prize for the" person aci
cumulating . the most cigarette box
fronts and coupons. -;
(By tie United Preas) w
Rome, July 12. Kaiser Wilhelm and Emperor, Fran2;
Josef have sent an urgent request to Czar Ferdinand that
he dispatch Bulgarian troops to the Galician, and Trentma.
fronts to help check the Russian and Italian offensives,
said Geneva dispatches today. , . ' . ' ' '.
' A delegation of Atjstro-German diplomatic ana mili
tary olficials personally carried the message to Sofia Sunr
day. They told Ferdinand that continued Italian and
t. ,-,cna irrwuTrl KylntT TfnrtiTYinnia into the war on
wW 7T tZL ySd1 "I the A;g,rench 8ince tha the side of the Allies, and that Bulgaria then would ; be
BrTkiyn Lay ,B ab offens've ten v- squeezed between Roumania on the North and the Allied
etuiMie, mw a oare mue irom tne fft,a in pa nn thA SOUtn. ana crubueu.
Ferdinand replied that withdrawal-of the Bulgarians
from the South would invite immediate attack from Sa
lonika; He promised, however, to submit an appeal to
the Bulgarian staff. ; '
tv,0 ctooilv nrlvance of the Russians m southeastern
ruiHii bi ana ibkc a village, i j.v wwv.v " " ' , : .,V 1 v tl.m,n!im
London. July u.The MUah ia.t Galicia has caused the withdrawal of several Hungarian
night carried by storm Contalmaison divisions from IrCnUHO.
village,
ine touai number or deaths in
Greater New York since the epidem
ic started is 270.
BULK OF
LOCAL POPULATION
IS 0000 CITIZENRY
French advanced lines, is the nejet im
portant prize toward which the
French are advancing. It is .almost
within the grasp of General Fochcs'
army. . 1
BritiHh Storm and Take a Village.
about
raged
Judge Recalls Courtesies
Received Here In .Charge
to Wake Jury
SHADOW OF A MOB'S ACT
rioacs uver JLenoir and
Greene Counties Con
ceded,' He Contends, Jos
ephBlack Shouldn't Have
Been Lynched
missioner, W. H. Hobson here today
and held in a bond of f 10,000 for Fed
eral ourt . .
DR. CAMEDS NURSE
INRICHlNDSra
Kichmond, July 10. Friends of
Miss' Ethel C. Harwood. a pretty and
attractive' trained nurse of this city,
were given quite a surprise when
they learned of her marriage here
Saturday night, to Dr. George A.
Carr, a prominent dentist of Durham,
N. C, who recently divorced bis first
wife, Mrs. Bettie Hunt Carr, as a re
sult of her being named defendant in
a $20,000 alienation suit brought by
Mrs. Richard E. Xendall of Richmond.
Subscript to The Frea Press-
The Raleigh Evening Times Mon
day evening carried the following
story:
"Judge Uond, who was at Kins-
ton recently, and made the people of
North Carolina sit up and take m
tice, is in Raleigh, opening court here
today. While sneaking at length up.
ontho growing disregard for the law
during his charge to the grand jury,
he paid his tribute to the people of
Greene and Lenoir counties and ex
pressed bis regret that the people
who were, in fact, not good citizens,
should have acted so as to invite the
investigation which had assumed a
phase of absolute publicity.' , ,
"Judge Bond stressed the import
ance of letting things be "done ac
cording to law. The man who com
mitted the crime,' he said referring
to William Black, 'is now in the death
house awaiting execution, while the
man who was lynched 5by an excited
mob, it is now conceded,' had done
nothing for whho be lynched.'
"The judge nas careful to call at
tention to thv courtesies he received
from the people of Lenoir county. He
has not been in Greene, but he said
he greatly deplored the fact that a
mob . should float a shadow over the
better classes of whicli the main bulk
of the counties is constituted.
"The judge repudiated the idea that
the people of either? county are law
less and expressed the hope that the
small number who took the law into
their own hands should be brought to
Justice." . '.,
Chapel Hill," July , 10. The an
nouncement in the Sunday papers,
under a Durham date line, that Jim
my Hickman, left fielder for the
Asheville baseball team, would prob
ably coach the University of North
Carolina baseball team next year has
no basis in fact, according to Grad
uate Manager Charles T. Woollen cf
the University.
northeast of Albert,
which furious fighting has
since the offensive opened.
Germans Foresee Failure and Peace.
By CARL W. ACKERMAN,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Berlin, July 11. The Allied offen
sive will end in defeat within a few
weeks and be followed by negotia
tions for peace, is the opinion of wejl
informed Berliners. The1 people' are
unanimous in believing the attempt
to force the German Kne is doomed to
failure. Feeling prevails that when
the extent of the British losses is
known in England, coupled with the
fact that the German lines are in
tact, the British public will demand
peace.
BULLETINS
" (By the United Press)
CRUISERS IN NEST BRITISH
PATROL CRAFT.
Berlin, July 11. At least four
, and pos'jly five, British patrol
boats t ore destroyed by the Aus
. trian cruiser Novara in an en-
gagement off Otranto Road, the
Austrian admiralty today" an-.
nounced. Nine persons were res.'
cued. ':',vw
CLAIMED CIIiDREN
UNLAWFULLY HELD;
HABEAS CORPUS WRIT
SENATE INVESTIGATES ;
RUSS.-JAP. TREATY.
Washington, 'My1 11. -Senator
' Lewis today introduced ? resolu
tions directing Secretary Lans
ing to report whether the ' new
Russian-Japanese treaty is not
likely to close the open door of
China and result In disaster to
American business interests.
Armed with habeas corpus writ,
Sheriff Taylor went to Pitt county to
day to secure the persons of Ross,
Roxy, Gladys, Albert, Ruby and Em
ma White, children of a widow Hw'Xt
on the farm of Steve Harris in Sand IKUf-MUVINll MUilfc I
TT Ml l Wt ' f . i 1 ' Vii i ,
urn townsnip. ims writ is returna
ble before Judge 0, H. Allen.' It
seems, according to Sheriff Taylor,
that Henry Turnage, Bob McLaw-
horn, Leslie Harris and Bob Harris,
Pitt county relatives of the children,
took them from the mother, after the
death of their father, and are unlaw
fully detaining them.
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HAS SERVED-PURPOSE
STATE IS GETTING
f . t ?, Sit, ' IF - ft. J If'- . . ., .
DP B'HIND MFRS.
IMPURE ICE CREAM
Washington, July . 10. Secretary
McAdoo today ordered withdrawn
from Federal Reserve Banks at 'Richr
mond, Atlanta and Dallas $5,000,000
each, placed there last September to
assist in moving and marketing the
crops. The withdrawals will be
made July 15, the Secretary an
nounced, because the deposits have
served their purposes.
product you sell is not ice cream but
a compound ice cream or Something
sold as a substitute for ice cream,
provided- for by the ice cream regu
lation," says a statement just issued.
"The regulation provides for the
sale of products that are not stand
ard ice cream. If the regulation is
not complied with the officials will
Ingrcdi-1 e t0 Dean na yQ re uing
I Trii t timliifi- act sAom . . r
CntS Cannot -Be Made Ice cream cannot be made , from
From Milk Alone, Said milk- To make ice cream reuirc9
I not less man uiree or inree anu one-
half parts of cream to one part of
. (Special to The Free Tress) jmilk. The proportion of cream and
Raleigh, July 11. The Depart- milk that can be used depends npon
ment of Agriculture, whose duty it is I the richness of them; that is, upon
to enforce the State food laws, has the milk fat that they contain.
Inspection of Plants Prom
ised The Law , Requires
Statements of
SEC01INFI. NEEDS
ABOUT, HU WOMEN
TO FILL UP.
Recruilinff-Detail lyork
inif Every Big Town In
Eastern , Carolina
Bern Asked to Furnish
Some Rookies
About a hundred men are still
needed to bring the Second N. C. In
fantry, at Camp Clenn, up to a peacct
minimum; Recruiting parties are In
every important town in the eastern
part of the State to round up this
number. New Sera, which baa no
representation other than one officer
in the regiment, is being "worked."
Lt. V. A,. Faukner and Corp. Ros.
E'arrus secured two here Monday f or, ,
Company B. The local command still .
has a serious Bhortaae. , :
Miij. J. I. Brown, Retd., w,ill accept
applicants for enlistment after' the .
return of the new recruiting detail
to Camp Glenn. ' He will send them '
to the reservation foikjnedical exam
ination at Government expense.
spent a good deal of time in effort to
cause the ice cream dealers of the
State to know the requirements of
the law, and how to comply f with
them.;-,. ;;' ' .
If your product is not standard
ice cream, then you must" show to
your customers by ' placard in your
place of business or by. tag or label
on the freezer r package that the
Inspection will be made soon and
places where ice cream is made' or
sold must be clean and in a sanitary
condition. s ' ' . '
As yet no prosecutions have been
made of the ice cream dealers, but
they have been given ample oppor
tunity to comply with the law, and
In the future violations will have to be
reported to the courts.
CRAIG SAYS HE WONT ;
WITHDRAW TROOPS ;
, UNTIL STACY SAYS SO
Asheville, July 10. Answering
protest from the people of Wilming-
on regarding the presenoo of troops
n that ci'.y, the protest being sign
ed by IredHl Meares, Goveraor Craig
tonight telegraphed Judge W. P. Sta
cy, that; he would not withdraw tha
troops stationed! tie re until ' Judga
StaCy thinks it best.
The Governor'a office yesterday was ;
in receipt of' a telegram front Wil
mington requesting the executive to
order ' the withdrawal of the coast ,
artiljlery 'companies sent there as a
precautionary measure in case" of
trouble incident to the strike sow o
there by-the street car employes.
FUNERAL OF CAPTAIN i
BOYD ARLINGTON, TOO AY
; Washington, Jul7 11. The funer
al of Capt. C T. Boyd, killed ht the
Carrizal fight, was held in Arlington
cemetery, todayi Cavalry from Fort
Myer and District National iluard ar
tillerymen'' were the escort. ' The pall
bearers were former classmates of
the cavalryman at West Point, i .