WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1916
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WELCOIIE ATTACK; ON
BERLIN NEWSPAPER FEW MORE DOLLARS
RECAPT'RE
CTY TO HAVE JBNLY
ONE POLICE CHIEF,
BY Bt
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SAYS BREMEN ; LOST ADDED TO FUND FOR
A
INTERSTATE Cflf,i
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ON WAY TO AMERICA
tHIAUM'NIADMIT'O
VOL. XXXVI. No. 13
HUGHES
GERMANS
HfllSON;
DEFENDED
IDEA Iff iNYESTIOTN
TROUBLE
REP
mm
SSION
WEST
DECISION
(Government Inttfycntldn and Arbitration Not Favored
NoVonfcwsddtorrmdDlelM
Awards Presidents of
tives of Nearly All Roads
cuss Workers' Demands
Hundred Million Dollars
C. C Probe Not Proper
Not Empowered to Fix
Pay
New York,' Aug- 8w-It is reported ninety-four
per centof the men favor a strike of the Broth
erhood of Trainmen, following official tabulation )
of Ihe ballot. . '
New. York. Aujr. 8. Presidents of the four brother
hoods and representatives of
attempt. a settlement of the
national walk-out ot trainmen;. .me Dromernoous, aru nut
favorable to government intervention. Uhey are dissat
isfied with recent awards of the arbitration boards and
not with the. principle. .They oppose an Interstate Com
merce Commission investigation on the grounds that the
commissioners, are nut emuypeu uu uui, cuiijuyycu w
fix wages.
Now York. Auir. K Nearly ninetv-nine ,ner cent of
ii milwWn CfUocfw. t'cttnif voilMnfli rnf aA
till' tUHIJlU V VJJL WIG LJiClObX H UlObllV i Uili UUUU IVVU
to strike,
HK HUMAN FLESH
III I LI? lil 01 All V IN
PEOPLE OF ARMENIA
(By the United Press)
""BosfoiCAug. jTtather" than
starve to death, Armenians are
: eating human flesh,' according to
cable from a "high diplomatic
authority", tn Turkey He says,
the Armenians, driven practical
ly to animaL life, have devoured
She bodies of executed comrades.
TEXAS FAVORS A DRY
AMENDMENT, DEVELOPS
Houston, Tex., Aug. 7. An official
canvass here today of the vote cast in
the recent Democratic primary in
Texas showed that the proposal to
submit a constitutional amendment
for S(4le-ivfde prohibition received a
fajforaWe majority of 2,103 votes.
mm WANTS TO BE
COLORADO COVERNOR
(By the United Press)
.Denver, Aug. 8, The Democratic
State Assembly met here todi.y .to
nominate presidential electors and a
state ticket. Julius C, Guntcr, form
er justice of the Colorado Supreme
Court, was practically unopposed for
the nomination for Governor. Six ad
herents of Woodrow Wilson will be
named as presidential electors.
ROBO KILLEil-Orf R;
YARDS IN GREENSBORO
Greensboro,. Aug. 7. An unidenti
fied hobo, probably Wm.' B. Biggs,
was instantly killed by: train No, 12
On the yards of . the Southern Rail
way here at 12 o'clock last night His
"cad wa3 baily crushed between the
tender and the barrgage car; ,
SLIGHT WRECK ON THE
SOUTHERN; TWO HURT
Marion, Aug. 7-Train No. 36 was
wrecked three miles east of Marion
Hs morning at 8:10, the engine and
one car leaving the track. No one
as seriously, injured, though the en
rineer and fireman received slight in
juries. The train was in charge of
Conductor Parker .. and Engineer
mcs. The passengers "were trans
I'Ted V work trains and a wreck-
?f"w was ""hed to the place.
Brotherhoods and fccpreserita-
in United States facet to Dis
for Wage Increase Totalling
a Year, EtcLaboir Thinks I.
Because Commissioners Are
225 railroads. met today to
trouble which may cause a
fifi SQUADRON
DEFEATED itAUAN,
IS BERLIN REPORT
, (By the United Press)
Berlin, Aug. 8. Austrian and.
Italian fleets engaged on August
2 in the Adriatic, says an official
Austrian report. The Austrians
registered many hits. It is Said
"j the Italians "disappeared." ' i ,
The fight, followed art Austrian
raid on Wolfctto.. The Austrian
units were undamaged.
MAY NATIONALIZE THE
CANADIAN RAILROADS
(By the United Press)
Winnioeur. Man.. Aug. 8. Investi
gation of Western Canada's railways,
with a view of possibly nationalizing
transcontinental lines, at least so. far
as the handling of mail is concerned,
was started hero today. Alfred H
Smith, president of tho New York
Central lines; Sir y'H;r.Ty Drayton,
chairman of the Canadian board of
railway commissioners and Sir Geo,
Paish, . well known ' British statisti
cian, formed the commission of -investigation.
. . .
STARS m STRIPES
AND U. S. NURSES IN
" HEART OF BIBLE LAND
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS,
(United Presto Staff Correspondent)
Pptrno-rad. July 0-fBy Mail) The
Stars and Stripes today flap' in
breezes wafted across fields famous
in the United States, as the land of,
th3 Holy Bible. The flag flies free
over the door of an American hospifc
T -ortiprp nretty American girls and
able American doctors care forRus
slan sick and wounded." r -.- .
The hospital is at Khoy.. 45 miles;
mnfh of Jul fa. on the frontier be
tween Russia andPersla. To the
northwest, of Khoy the icy dome of
Mount Arrat stands lined - against
rhe skyline, 17,000 feet high, or near-.
Jy 2,000 feet higher than Mount Blane.
Her'e Noah's arc is supposed to Jiave
rested after the flood. .
'To the southwest of Khoy lie the
slones where Abraham and Isaac tend-
nri flocks. There, too, is the
va
.n of the most famous of afl fa-
mmis crimes, the murder of-Abe! by
his brother Cain. ' r
Tbre is ao railroad from Julfa to
Khoy an J the dirt road is very bad.
It takes lour horses to pull a earri-
, ' ' ' " . :l U 1- i-' .'.I'., -1 m. .
War Department Authority
tor Denial That Latter
Had Been Given Specia
Privileges In Mexico, De
clares
(By the United Prcs,
Washington. usr. 8. Congressman
Harrison of Mississippi denied "on au
thority of the State Department" to
day that Cleveland II. Dodge, politic
al supporter of President Wilson, had
bean given special privileges to ship
arms into Mexico, as intimated by
Representative Rodenberg of Illinois.
Harrison assailed Candidate Hughes
for consulting on the Mexican sit.ua
tion with Senator Fall," whose hobby
is intervention, and Henry Lane
Wilson, "discredited ambassador."
PERSONAL LETTER TO
KAISER FROM WILSON
(By the United Press)
Berlin, Aug. 8-A personal letter
from President Wilson regarding Pol
J ash relief has been delivered to the
Kaiser.
fi T0
GO TO THE BOTTOM
BF E mm
But Wishes Military Diffi-
culties Gotten Out of Way
First, Says Ambassador
Rehabilitation to Be Dis
cussed
(By the United Press)
Washington, Aug. 8. Mexico is
willing to broaden the scopo of the
I conferences to include a discussion of
i economic rehabilitation, according to
Ambassador Arredondo, but wishes
' military matters to be settled first.
The American commissioners will
be ; named today, probably. .
TURPENTINE MAKER .
MET AWFUL DEATH
(By the United Press)
Gould, Ala., Aug. S. -Thomas P.
Crave-tte, superintendent of a turpen
tint? plant, vas today blown by an ex
plosion against a brick wall and re
boojided into a vat of boiling oil. . Ho
is dead.
MONKEYED WITH BOMB
CONTRIVANCE, KILLED
Colorado Springs, Col., Aug. 7
I John Dorr, injured while working on
an infernal machine at his residence
here last evening died today without
having regained consciousness.
TEXAS REPUBLICANS
HAYE THEIR MEETING
(By the Sastcrn Press)
San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 8. The
Republicans are holding a State con
vention here today. Owing to the
fact that 99 out of every 100 Texans
usually boasts "he never scratched a
Democratic ticket," it was expected
to be rather a lonesome affair.
CLARK IN . CONGRESS ;
THIRTY-THREE YEARS
Washington, Aug. 7. When Repub
lican Leader Man . reminded ihe
House today that Speaker Clark has
just passed his 33rd anniversary as
a member of Congress, Republicans
and Democrats rose and cheered , the
Speaker for several minutes. v
(By the United Press)
Beme Aig. 8.-The
German submersible
Bremen was sunk by
an accident to her
machin'ry on the way
to America, accord-
ing to the Tageblatt
of Berlin.1
(By the United Press)
TURKS DON'T MENTION
DEFEAT.
Constantinople, Aug. 8. An
official statement of the advance
of Turkish troops makes no men
tion of a defeat claimed by tho
Rritish to have been inflicted ,east
of the Suez Canal, in which it is
stated the Turks were driven
back 18 miles and lost 3,000 pris
oners. The statement says the
Turks are as far as Romsrti.
BAR HARBOR SUMMER
COLONISTS TO HOLD A
PREPAREDNESS SHOW
Bar Harbor,' Me. Aug. 8.--Tho pre
paredness cabaret, another summer
iversion for soaldty folks at their
cottages here and something of ai;
nnovation altogether, will be staged
hero tonight. The preparedness cab-
arntr will hfl tnnwfA )v t.Vuv nonp.rjil-
.. ' " '
ty ballet under the direction of. John i
Murray Anderson. This is the first
of a series of specially named cabar
et performances. Among the patrons ,
and patronesses are: Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Damrosch, Mr. and Mrs. John
Ogdcn, Mr. and Mrs, Alfred Anson,
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard ,M. Thomas i
and others.
niJllW UVW IV I V1I1U
RICO TO JOIN FAMILY
New York, Aug. 7,-General Cipri-
ano Castro, ex-dictator of Venezuela,
their family in Porto Rico
Castro, who was detained at Ellis
Island on his arrival from Barbados,
has been ill for the pa3t five days. He
locked himself in his stateroom and
declined to sec any one.
IRISH WOMAN IS NON.
COM. IN SERB ARMY
. Paris, Aug. 7. Miss Flora Sandos,
an Irish woman, who is a sergeant in
the Serbian army, has arrived at
Toulon on her way to rejoin her reg
iment after a holiday, in Ireland, ac
cording to tho Matin. '
Miss Sandes was in Serbia when
the war broke out and joined a hos
pital as a nurse Later on sh en
listed as a regular soldier and went
through the last campaign, - taking
part in the disastrous retreat to Du
raaeo. -.j.-.r
A MEXICAN STATE
CHANGES CAPITAL
Masatlan, Mexico, Aug. 7. The
State of Sinaloa government, which is
said to be loyal to Carranza, has mov
ed its seat from Mazotlan to uliacan,
wfrsre there are few bandits and con
sequently more "security. The Culia
can region also affords a better sup
ply of meat . Milk and other foods
are scarce, however
Mr. J. B. Dawson has gone for a
short business visit
Subscribe to The Free Press.
Kinston's Contribution for
Flood Sufferers Is Now
$766.4 Need for More
Money State Has Given
Over $35,000
(fJaily Free Press 8lh)
The additions o the local contribu
tions to the Flood Sufferers' Fund
wer3 only three in number in the zi
hours ending at 2 o'clock this after
noon. Cash added was $8.50. The
State Fund increased several hundred
dollars Monday. It is between $35,-
000 and $M,000.
The local committea again calls at
tention to tho need for more money
in Ihe devastated sections in Western
Norlh Carolina. Although the floods
subsid-xl weeks ago, the need for as
slntancc for the sufferers is more ap
parent now, with the 'work of restora-
ion in progress, than before.
'Contributions here since reported
Saturday were:
Previously reported .$742.41
Cash 7.00
L. E. Isler ;. 3.00
Cash v. .50
John Whitty & Sons. Pollocks.
ville .. 5.00
J. Leslie Johnson -. . 1.00
Capt. G. D. Hawks 2.00
lisciplcs church, (colored)
through Edith Murrill ....... 1.58
Handed in: by Dr. Codrington.
colored, to The Free Press!,
donations from colored per
sons: ':'....
Mrs. Rosa A. Jones .......... .10
Paul A. Hodges t . . . ,25
Arthur Williams .. 10
Jane 'Pollard .10
J. R, Edwanh . .25
Edgar Brown ........ , 25
Sam Giles 25
E. J. Itlount 25
n ir - n.
, b
35
St. John'.s Free Will Baptist Sun
day school . ... . . . . .., ;
1.00
.25
,75
Mrs. Lorenza Isier .. ........
T. H. Islar
Grand total to date $766 64
V A-it;-;..
f YORK BACK
Til flIH 1 1 Ornrifr
g lHUSilflfiL! ULElLiL
Employes' Right to Orffan-
izc Admitted Uiffgest
Victory Yet for National
Union Trolley Men, It Is
Thouffht
(By the United Press)
New York, Aug. 8. Normal car
traffic was resumed today after more
than a week of the strike. The com
panies refused specifically to recog
nize the Amalgamated Association of
Street Electric Employes of America,
but recognized the men's rights Co or
ganize. It is agreed to receive a commit
of the men to treat for settle
ment. The victory so far is the greatest
ever won by the union. . It followed
triumphs- in Chicago and Boston.
' None previously was as peaceful..
U. S. INVESTIGATING
LETIMBRO'S SINKING
Washington., Aug. 4. American
consuls in Italy were directed today to
report on the circumstances under
which the Italian mail steamer Letim
bro was shelled and sunk by a subma
rine in the Mediterranean. Dispatch
es from. London yesterday said the
submarine continued firing after ..the
liner "had stopped, and that many
members of the passengers and crew
were believed to have loft tlic'r lives.
Terrific Fiffhting Continues
Around the-Works,
However
TRIED OUT A NEW SHELL
Teutons Introduced Project
ile That Blew Into Ten
Thousand Pieces on Con
tact; But Missile Seems a
Failure
(By the United Press)
I'aris, Aug. 8. Tho Germans re
apluml 4-ho ctrong Thiaumont works
northeast of Verdun in a powerful
ussault early this morning, it is off!
;:ially admitted. Fighting is still
raging around the redoubt.
Lust night a terrific 'bombardment
and five; violent attacks in target
force wore directed against the French
positions from Fleury Jo Thiaumont
edoubt. They were repulsed near
Fleury, 'but in an attack at Cuille
mont, north of the Somme, .the Teu
tons reached tho outskirts of the vil
age. A iww shell with a "fragmentation
of ten -to fifteen thousand pieces was
introduced. The shells have burst
ormerly into five or six pieces. The
Germans are believed to have tried
glass shells to secure the high "frag
mentation, rowdcreu glass was
found where tho shells t had fallen,
These were later abandoned because
the fragments were too minutes, it is
believed.,. Tests of German shells to
ay show the fragmentation to be less
than one hundred, 'The advantage of
the French is immense.
Germans Attack Australians..
London, Aug, 8. Threatened with
an enforced retreat from the strong
Leipsig.iredoubt and fortified villages
round Thiepval, the Germans are
attempting to .dislodge the Austral
ians from Hill 101 on the Possieres-
Thiepval highway. A heavy bombard
ment is following four repulses.
New Slav Offensive.
Petrograd, Aug. 8. Russians have
captured the Galician town of Tlum
irz, ten miles southeast of Stanislau,
a powerful new offensive on a 17
mile tront southeast of Lembcrg, it
s said officially.
Italians Begin New Offensive.
London, Aug. 8. Heavy Italian at
tacks on the Isoniso mark the begin-
ing of a new powerful offensive, in
the opinion of Rome correspondents.
HIRTY CARS ENTERED
FOR PIKE'S PEAK RACE
(By the United Press)
Colorado Springs, Aug. 8. About
thirty famous auto speed kings hero
have entered cars for the race to the
top of Pike's Peak day after tomoi
row. Drivers from the east will com
pete against drivers from the west.
The start Will be made 5 miles from
the bottom of the highway and the
finish will bo made at an elevation of
14,109 feet above sea level.
PROMINENT LUMBEMAN
LEAPS FAR TO SUICIDE
(By the llnited Press)
, St, Louis, Aug. 8. George K.
Smith, secretary of the Yellow Pine
Manufacturers' Association and'' the
National Lumber Manufacturers As
sociation, leaped to his death today
from the fifteenth story of the Boat
men's bank building.. ..t
PRATT SAYS WESTERN 1
CAROLINA OUGHT TO
GET ALL ROAD MONEY
. Asheville, Aug. 7 Declaring that
even the great flood calamity which
ruined the roads of Western Carolina
can be turned into a tolessing. Dr.
Joseph Uy-ii Trait this - afternoon
Office of Night Chief Abol
ished;. Heath Becomes
Assistant, Same Pay
WALL ST. NEAR DOCIOWN
. ' ' . '' ( mi.' i ii. . S
Was An Alley, But an Im
portant Thoroughfare ,
To .Be Paved, Together
With 41-2 Blocks on Oth
er Streets "
(Daily Free Press 8th) ..
City Council Monday night decided.
to dispense with one of Kinston's
two , chiefs of police. ' For several ;
months the city has had the distinc-'
tion of being the only place in tha
world with , two , heads with equal
rank and 'pay of. one departments
The situation might have been com-
pared with the Nicaraguan army, for
cno personnel ox une lorce wap oo i-a.
officers. Alderman Wobb moved that
the office of night chief be abolished.
The action of Council was unanimous
ly in favor , of the motion. Night
Chief Heath, whose administation of
the department nocturnally had been
satisfactory and whose ability is un-
luestioned, was named assistant chief,
o retain the same salary as hereto
fore, while Day " Chief Skinner was
sleeted chief just . straight chief.
Both officers are generally t popular. ,
ind conditions have gradually im
proved under their vigilant Watchful
ness and energetic efforts to squelch
rime. Criticism oj ,t;ha ,"fxak", ac
tion of Council in naming,, two. chiefs
is aid by administration mwnbwrn i1
have had most to do with the deci-
ilon to go back to 'the bid order ' of
things, "'
Walnut Alley, between North and
Blount streets, on the square between
Queen and Heritage, Monday night
'ijecamQWall street. The City Coun- .
il changed the designation at the in
stance of Messrs, N. J. Rouse, A. S,
Copeland and P..S..B. Harper, and
ftpr. that action granted a petition
for paving the street, which is only
block long, Tho three gentlemen
above aro among those owning prop
erty along the thoroughfare; nearly ,
all the , property-owners signed the
petition. The street is an important
one for wheeled traffic, especially in
the tobacco season, when it is a
shortcut" for hundreds of vehicles
and frequently relieves congestion on
North street It is not a financial
center, however. Mr. Harper states.
that ll does not come under the jur- .
isdiction of the Mayor of Dogtown, -Mr.
-Rogue Rouse, who will in all
likelihood bo delighted with the.aris
tocratic appellation bestowed upon it
though, for it adjoins his domain on
the west. Along with authorisation . '
of the paving of Wall street, Council
granted petitions for1 asphalting - a
block on Norpi street between Mc:
Lewean and Independent streets, three
blocks on Independent between Blount
street and Lenoir avenue, and about
one-half of a block on McLewean
south of the present end of the pav v
ing at Bright.
Messrs. J. II. Canady, secretary,
and P. S. B. Harper of the Kinaton
air Association, asked Council to
furnish the grounds west of the city
ith water and lights during tho .
coming exhibit This 'was granted. .
Very little additional wiring will lave
to be installed, and a temporary wa
ter pipe of small size will be run for "
distance of 2,600 or 2,800 feet to
the grounds.' Members of Council evi-
dently would have preferred putting
down a permanent water line, but it
was estimated that because of the x
pensiveness of pipe a temporary line
would be preferable this year. A per
manent line just now would cost pos
sibly 1700, f . - . ' v
started a movement to secure for
Western North Carolina the whole, or
at least a major portion of $114,004,
recently allowed by the government
for road work in this State. He de
clared that the people of Eastern Ca
rolina were willing to let the west
have this money. -' ,