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;: vr 'JL.'t 'rv'"t- f" rr:."' FREE PRjHS5 m .a PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK-WEDN ESDAYS AND SATURDAYS mTURDAYrJULY"15t 19?6 CARRANZA SUGGESTS LACK OCEAN TpfL GAIETY IN FRENCH FOREIGN TRADE FOR HABEAS C'RPUS CASE SHEPHERD'S -TALES ... 4. II 1 .1 4.-. . f h : ( BIGGEST GAIN YET COMMISSION OF SIX IS BLAMED BY SOME CAPITAL TODAY; IS YEAR EXCEEDS SIX OF PRIVATE AVERY OF THE HORRORS 0 BY ALLIES IN THE TO SETTLE TROUBLE FOR SHARKS' AND HALF BILLIONS TOON THIS P. M. WAR WAS FEATURE WESTERN OFFENSIVE VISIT Would Have Three s From Each Country; No Offi . ' ' cials Eligible INQUISITORIAL POWERS Plan to Be Formally Pro posed to State Depart ment Soon Would Have Sessions Held on Border and in the North By R. J. BENDER. (United Tress Staff Correspondent) ...Washington, July 14. Acting Secretary of State Polk today submitted to President Wilson and the Cabinet Carranzars sug gestion for the appointment of a commission to settle the Mexican problem for all time, It became known that the President heart ily approves the plan and will O. K. it before leaving on s yacht- . ing trip this afternoon, after which Polk will tell Senor Ar redondo it is acceptable. Washington, July 14. The plan which Carranza believes will settle the differences between the United States and Mexico was today made known, and is expected to "be submit ted to the State Department in a few days. . . " Carranza proposes a commission of three men from each country who would be directed to work out a com plete series of remedial steps, prob ably involving the border patrol . They would have inquisitorial powers, Neither Arredondo nor, Fletcher would bo members, nor Would ' any member of the State Department or the Mexican Foreign Office. Nego tiations are expected to start on the iborder and later he transferred to some northern summer resort. ; yy ' " 11,1 ,'! .. ', ' JA 'Xii f ;. VILLA DEMANDS THE SURRENDER CAPITAL CHIHUAHUA, REPORT By the United Press) -. , El Paso, July 14. Villa has demanded the surrender of Chi huahua City, according to, a well founded but , unofficial report. General Bell today said he had received reliable information of disaffection of General Trevino, commandant at Chihuahua City.' from the Carranza Government. DR. WHITAKER SUFFERS STROKE OF PARALYSIS Dr. R. A. Whitaker suffered a slight stroke of paralysis Thursday at his farm in Jones county. Dr. 'Whitaker was visiting the plantation with several others, who autoed out with him. . , . ; The physician was hrought to his Washington avenue home Thursday night, and this morning was resting quietly. POLK SAYS NO NEED TOR ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING BIG SUB. ,' (By the United Press) Washington, July 14. Follow ing a report of the neutrality boi Acting Secretary of State Polk said today that there was no need -for a formal announce meat regarding the submarine, Dentschland. This is taken to Mean that the Dentschland is a merchantman and will be 'al lowed to clear. ...... , ' : ' r.: v-: Food Supply; From Waste From X liners Dining- Rooms Cut Off Body of Boy Victim, Badly Man gled. Recovered . Washington, July 14 Secre tary McAdoo today issued in- fttruetions to all coast guard and life-saving stations to co-operate in every way with local authorU ties to minimize the man-eating, shark menace. ' Matawan, N. J., July 14. The ter ribly mangled body of Lester Still- well, victim of a shark on,Wednes day, today was recovered from the waters o, Matawan creek. Great jag ged wounds on the abdomen and breast showed when the shark's teeth closed over the 12-year-old body, which rose to the surface with in 300 feet of the attack. Fisheries Bureau to Investigate. Washington, July 14. Officials of the Bureau of Fisheries consider the series of shark attacks on bathers along the Jersey and New York coasts serious enough to warrant an investigation. Some believe the great falling off in ocean traffic, with the consequent reduction in the amount of waste from the palatial steamship dining roms. caused a food shortage that drove the sharks close to shore. AUTOS BOUGHT WITH V P NOW Saya..;Ik:':j.Stroiig('..Maii of Facts and FiguresBig Business In Ben zine Buggies Don't Tell Anything About Prosperity," Declares Argu ment Against Whisky Mr. R. C Strong of the National Bank of Kinston make3 the interest jig statement that, in his belief, the big business in automobiles in East Carolina now is not indicative of un due prosperity. Grading the years of ;he past decade or two as bad, fair and good, he claims that this year is proving to be "fair." Mr. Strong in conservatively optimistic. It isn't ny remarkable prosperity that is :ausing every fellow in nearly every nook of the woods who is able to purchase in auto, he thinks, but ;hs money that formerly went for Whisky-now is being spent for gasp- tiim and the whisking, buzzing things that eat it up. Which i3 better, for automobile serves many good urposes. V hat an argument for the anti-sa- loonists! From many separate an. arles it presents spikes and thorns to graze the sides of the anti-prohibi-tior.t.U. ' ,.". y ' Mr. Strong presents the following bright little bit of advice "to mar ried men who cannot get along with out booze": (It isn't original; It con es from Richmond. ) 'Start a saloon in your own house, the only customer (you'll have no license to pay). Go to your wife and give her ?2 to. buy a gallon of i(sky and remember there drinks in a gallon. Buy your drinks from no one but your wife, and fey the time the first gallon is gone, she will have eight dollars to put " tyto the bank, and two dollars to start business again. Should you live 10 years and continue to-buy from her and then die with snakes in your boots, she will have enough money to bury you decently, educate your ild, buy a house and lot, marry a decent man, and quit thinking about you entirely." - ; , BIG REALTY COMPANY h FOR WEST CAROLINA Greensboro, July 13 The organi sation of the Piedmont Investment Company, began in Charlotte yester day, was completed in Greensboro last night. This company, which is a real estate enterprise , has been chartered " under , the laws of North Carolina with an' authorized capital of a quarter' of a million dollars. Commemorates Fall of the Bastile Better ' Spirit Prevailed Than In Two YearsTroops Many Na tions March By HENRY WOOD, (United Presto Staff Correspondent) Paris, July 14. Paris celebrated Bastilo Day, the birthday of the French Republic, with a spirit of gai ety unprecedented since the war be gan. Hundreds of thousands swarm ed the sidewalks as Russian, Belgian, English, Australian, Senegalese, In dian and French troops marched from the Invalides across Alexander bridge, built, to commemorate the Russian-French alliance. GOING ON IN OTHER E. CAROLINA TOWNS Chief Engineer F. L. Nicholson of the Norfolk Southern Railroad, who has just completed an inspection tour over this part of the Dsaufort divi sion, states Xhat the road is in good condition. i The North Carolina naval reserves will leave Saturday morning for Nor folk, to board the battleship Louisi ana for the annual training cruise. A number of States will have divisions on board. Geo. F. M. Dail of Snow Hill has been adjudged bankrupt. The first meeting of creditors will be held at New Bern on July 28. UNCLE SAM HAVING A ( TIME KEEPING FISHES OUT OF WHEAT FIELDS (By the United Press) Washington, July 14. Uncle Sam is having an awful time keeping his fish in the rivers and lakes where they belong. They Just will go hik ing off into the farm ftclda' and nos ing around among the shrubbery. "We placed 11,000,000 trout and oth er fish in Colorado and Wyoming streams last year," said a govern ment official today, "and a large part of them were carried into irrigation ditches, thence out upon the fields, where they either were caught and eaten or died and made fertilizer. We wish somebody would show us how to prevent this." I'l :; 1M f. .' vs. t. i ,f.t DF JUDGE CLARKE TO THE SENATE TODAY (By the United Press) Washington, July 14. Presi dent Wilson has decided to nom inate Federal Judge John H Clarke of Cleveland to be asso ciate justice of the Supreme ... Court He sent the nomination to the Senate today. ' . ! BULLETINS (By the United Press) FINE TRAIN SHOT INTO. Maples, bid July 1 Four per- '. sons, including a woman and ba by were painfully injured when a'; charge of buckshot shattered ' glass on the observation plat form of the Pennsylvania's crack New York and Chicago Limited near here today. It is believed a young, boy did it. , .. RIOTERS IN CORK. Cork, Ireland, July 14. Several hundred rioters today paraded the streets hooting the British raldiers and smashing recruiting office windows. Soldiers d . persed thera . 1 WILSON SENDS NAME More Than Four Billions Exports and More Than Two Billions Imports -Much Better Than Any Previous Year (Special to The Free Press) , Washington, July 14. Exports for the fiscal year just ended with June amounted to $4,345,000,000, and the imports were valued at $2,180,000, 000; making a total foreign trade for 'the year of over six and a half billion dollars, which Is much larger than any previous total in the histo ry of American commerce. These fibres were announced "today by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, with the explanation that the figures included for June are an estimate based on the final May sta tistics. It was in 1872 that our foreign tralJ first exceeded 1 billion dollars. B ' 1000 it had cross the 2 billion dol lar mark, by 1907 had exceeded 3 bil 1:ok, and by 1913 had risen above 4 Ullion, remaining around that level until the year just ended, when the (5 billion mark was exceeded. Im t oris first exceeded 1 billion dollars' value in 1903 and are now a little more than twice as much as at that time. Exports first rose above 1 bil- lioa dollars' value in 1892 and are now four times as much as in thav year. . Thirteen great clashes of exported articles yield a total estimated at 3,024 millioif dollars for 1916, aa ap-ainst 1,321 million for all other ar ticles. The fallowing table Bhows the cemarkablainjjifeases which have oc curred in exports of this group dur ing the last two years: Leading Articles of Export. Classes H916 1915 1914 ' Mil'n Mil'n Mil'n Iron and steel . ..618 220 251 Explosives . .,,,.473 41 . 6 Raw cotton ......370 376- "610 Wheat and flour ..314 423 142 Meat3 . . ' ...270 206 143 Copper mfrs. ....170 109 14G Mineral oils .....165 134 152 C'rass and mfrs, ,.126 ' 21 - 7 Autos and parts . .123 68 33 Chomicals,-ete. ...123 46 2? Cotton mfrs,.-. ri. 412 72 51 Refined sugar . . . 80 26 2 Leather 80 65 37 Estimated upon basis of 11 months. POPE MAY OFFER NEW . PEACE PROPOSITION Allied Successes If Great May Con vince Benedict That Second Anni versary of Beginning of World Struggle Will Be Propitious Time to Broach Subject (By the United Press) Rome, July 14.-r-Pope Benedict to day reported that Church circles ars preparing a second appeal for peace to be made on the second anniversa ry of the war, only two weeks off. Issuance is said to depend on Allien successes, which if great, may con vince the Pope that the time is pro pitious. JUNIOR NAVAL RESERVE CAMP OPENS FOR UNCLE SAM'S EMBRYONIC SALTS (By the United Press) New London, Conn., July 14. The parade ground of Camp Dewey, sur rounded by a big grove of trees on the banks of the Thames, is swarm ing with cadets today at the opening of the summer session of the United States Junior Naval Reserve En campment. ":" , if - Over - two hundred American youths of 14 years and over are al ready enrolled and recruits will be received during the two months', ses sion. United States army and navy officers are on hand to give the boys instructions in naval and military tactics throughout the summer. Admiral George Dewey, for v,hom National Guard Fighting Hard Soldier's Attempt to Secure Discharge from Kinston Company Ar my Represented (Special to The Free Tress) Wilson, July 14.-jCo1. W. C. Rod man, commanding the Second N. C. infantry, and Major S. T. Ansell of the Judge Advocate-General's depart ment, Washington, representing the National Guard, and Hon. D. L Ward of New Bern, representing Pri vate Avery, Co. B, Second infantry, are here this afternoon to appear in a habeas, corpus hearing for Avery's discharge before Federal Judge H. G. Connor. . ' Avery, a Dover youth, enlisted in the Kinston company some , months ago, without his parents' consent, he declares. They claim that he is un der age. Avery has not subscribed to the Federal National Guard oath, but took the oath in the North Caro lina National Guard. The military authorities are bitterly contesting the action to compej his discharge. They threaten to prosecute him for perju ry in falsely swearing to his., age. i : h ; :! TIN CANS SWAPPED FOR. TICKETS LOCAL THEATER TWO WE'KS Manager of Grand Inaugu rates Laudable Cleanup Plan 10 Cans Good for a Matinee Admission City Approves Eight hundred tin cans dumped in front of the Grand Theater this af- ernoon meant 80 matinee admissions fo children. , For two weeks Manager Harry Stallings. by permission of the city authorities, who will have the cans miuled off, will exchange a matinee cardboard for every 10 cans brought ta ihe theater by a kiddie. 'Little advertising had been done before today, but Mr, Stallings say3 his plan is working very satisfactor ily already. .... . , . FOUR DROWNED IN DAY IN VICINITY GA. TOWN Valdosta. July 13. Three children of Henry B. Phillips of Stoclaton, Ga., Henry, aged 14; Elizabeth, aged 10, and a boy of two, were drowned in the Alahpa river there late today, ac cording to a message received here. t'enjamin Pafford, 18, of Mill- town, Ga, was drowned in the Ala paha river near Mill town today when he dived from the railroad bridge. ' ' Subscribe to The Free Press. BIG NAVAL COLLIER IN DISTRESS OFF S. C. COAST; GALE ON (By the United Pres) Washington, July 14. The naval collier Hector is in distress off Char leston. a radiogram to thd t Coast Guard service today, said. A gale is raging at that point. . ; The . cutter Seminole is rushing from Wilming ton, N. C, to her assistance, the' training camp was named, is the honorary commander in chief of the reserve; while Josephus Daniels, sec retary of the tiavy; Franklin Roose velt, assistant secretary; Governor Whitman of New ..York and Mayor Mitchell of New York are honorary vice-presidents. Press Association Convcn tion Closed Interesting Sessions in Durham On Thursday Night Go to Morehcad City In 1917 (By II. Gait Braxton) ' Durham, July 14. The 43rd annu al convention of the North Carolina Press'- Association cam to an end Thursday nijrht when Editor E. E. Britton of the Raleigh News and Ob server, President-elect, was inducted into office, and the reins, so to speak, were transferred from the- genial James H. Cowan, editor of the Wil mington Dispatch, to his successor, The closing session was featured by the most interesting address of Mr. W. G. Shepherd, noted war re porter for the United Press. Mr. Shepherd, like others in the service of tho United Press, is a young man ef energy and daring, and the sto-' ries of his experiences at the various battiefronts of Europo indicated that ho had been in some rather hazard ous situations. His graphic descrip- tkm of the yrst zeppelin air rair, which occurred in the City of Ant werp in the fall of 1914, was gra phic indeed. He said that there were thirty thousand Belgian Boldiers dis tributed throughout Antwerp. ; Al lights were extinguished in anticipa tion of the raid, which had .been pre dicted for some days, and the sol diers were instructed at a riven sig nal of a gun of ono of the outstand- standing' forts to bogin firing aim lessly in the air until : they had ex hausted their ammunition and for several hours this bombardment of the atmosphere continued. A pecul iar thing Mr. Shophord called atten tion to was that nobody was reported killed from the shower of bullets which literally rained for some time. There were ten or twelvo killed by the zeppelin bombs. Another interesting . feature of Mr. Shepherd's narrative was his ac count of the cholera situation on the Austrian and Russian fronts, where vast numbers of soldiers were brought in as soon as any cholera nymptoms developed and given beds in straw in a concentration camp to await the ravages of the disease, the course of which was usually about 24 hours. Mr. Shepherd was very accommo dating and invited questions ' from his auditors. ! One of the. questions was, "What was the chief factor in bringing about tho splendid organi zation and efficiency in the Russian Army?" Without hesitation Mr. Shepherd replied that the abolition of the use of alcohol in his estima tion, had more to do with thn ad vancement among the Russian people than had any other contributing fac tor. Thursday Morning's Session. Thursday morning the Association gathered in the East Duke building of Trinity College and listened to an interesting program. As stated in yesterday's Free Press, the election of officers was held at that session. The selection of a meeting place for next year precipitated quite an in teresting discussion. It was evident from tho outset that the Association desired to go either to the seashore or the mountains and Morehead City had sit a representative to convey its invitation, and after various mo tions, one of which wan to leave the matter to the executive committee, and another to have a referendum of the entire membership, this latter be ing declared unconstitutional, More- head City was selected with, the pro viso that reasonable rates and other satisfactory arrangements with an assurance of first-class service can be had, and Secretary John B. Sher- rill was delegated to pass upon the provisions. Other officials ; elected not included in the list given in The Free Press Thursday were Mr. Ro land F. Beasley of the Monroe Jour: nal, second vice-president; Mr. G. W. Whitehead of .Wilmington, tfrird vici president; Mr. M. L. Shipman, State Commissioner of Latior and Printing, In Smashing Attack Today British Made Material Advance in Somme LONG FRONT IS BROKEN Germans Gave Way for Dis tance of Four Miles Heavy - Fighting Contin-ues-Battle, One Sectpr On for 18 Hours By EDWARD L. KEEN, 1 (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, July ' 14. The , British ; broke through German lines on four miles of the front at dawn in - a smashing blow that swept the Teu tons out of two villages and out of tho Trones woods, for a distance of a mile. This was the greatest sin a;lo gain since the super-offensive be jran thirteen days ago. Heavy fight ing continues. Battle On for 18 Hours. Berlin, July 14. A great battle. has been going on for more than 18 hours in the region east of Corttal- maison, where the British have re sumed their heavy attacks. The lighting is extremely violent on both sides of the Somme. , DISAGREEMENT INTHL r FIGHT PICTURES CASE Syracuse,' N. Y., July 13. A dia lgreoment was reported today toy the iury in the case of the government igainst James E. Johnston, manager f ; the Madison , Square Garden, and ive others indicted for bringing pic tures of the Johnson-Willard - fight ver the Canadian border for exhibi tion purposes. . , . CALL OF THE WILD MARRED PLEASURE COLORED FEASTERS Black With a Knife 'Kicked Up" Two Men and a Suit of, Clothe Cut Exciting Few Minutes In To bacco Warehouse Where Hundreds Were Having Banquet Two persons were cut when Esley Watts, a waiter, ran amuck with tnife in the midst of more than 600 tegroes in a 'banquet in the Central pbacco warehouse, at Heritage and , Xorth streets late Thursday night. fohn Smith, another waiter who Was jfficiating as master of ceremonies, received several slight cuts on ' is lead and face, and had his nose split. fie is not in any danger. Ezeklel " Wooten, who intervened, was cut on in arm. Julius McCalup, another pa ificist, had a perfectly good coat spoiled when Watts' knife came in :ontact with it, narrowly missing McCalup's shoulder. .:. Local colored people were enter taining several hundred visiting del ates te a convention of the Daugh ters of Ruth, a colored Odd Fellows uxiliary. Watts was among thosa Present The master, of the feast,, 5mith, advised order f of such an oc- jasion. ; Watts , "perked up." t He wiled upon John Smith and there was no colored Pocahontas to inter ere. Men prevented him from mak ng sausage meat otT Smith, however, j It was the only ttoward incident. ". Watts was fined'?l5 and costs by .he Recorder today. . listorian. Mr. William Laurie Hill ) Maxton, the venerable poet-lanr-)ate of the association for many fears was, of course, retained, and ie old executive conuuittee consist ing of Major Henry A. London of Pittsboro, Henry B. Varner' of Lex ington, James n. Caine of Ashcville, ind T.' F. Lassiter of SmiUifieli fhe President and Secretary are ex officio members of the executive cc! tnittee. :
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