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PTT it rr i i i ON il-li 1 1 ' ii ! ii. n -.i.n I n- -i. ii.i.i im i n . .. in - ?w .It PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK-WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS VOL. XXXVI. No. 25 KINSTON, N. C WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1916 SERDS TAKING REVENGE ON RETREATI?G BULGARS; ENGAGE ENEr.1V IN FEROCIOUS CLOSE RAKGE FIGHTING ON HOME SOIL WOMEN OF COUNTRY ASKED TO JOIN IN BIG BREAD MEETING NATION MADE OREA LIVEffE flEN ARE HOBBIES OF HUGHES DEMOCRATS TO OPEN UP VITH DIG GUNS m SHADOw'LM STRIDE IN' V. OF (jllUutN TO ON RESUMPTION ARE HEALTH IN DECADE t AY ASSIST FAIR CHIEF MARSHAL x French and Russians Engaged With Bulgarians at One Point, Italians Hammering Them at Another, Allies " Crossing at Two PlacesSerbians, "Coming Baclc,,, Use Knife and Baronet : mans Get Into Action Around Dead Man's Hill In Sec , tor Occupied by Russ. 'Gain Ferdinand's Armies, .Offer Slight Resistance to (By the V London. Sept. 19. A steady downpour of rain has .halted the British operations in the Somme. There has Ibeen no important fighting, i but the British have entered nAd Laboue at three places k iThe Allies have crossed the. Serbian frontier in two places, advancing on the Bulgar base at Monastir. There "lire Serbs fighting on their native soil for the first time i since uie retreat tnrougn iiuanu isi wmtci. cjr vc itaken a series of heights. s The Bulgars from Kamachal San have crossed the frontier north of Lake Ostroye., Rus- . sian and French troops have engaged the Bulgars at Ke nali,,in Serbia. . Practically. ill the territory capture in ;,the recent Bulgar invasion of Greece, has been recaptur , fed. The most savage fighting has been where the Serbs ind Bulbars have come into tvenze. the Serbs are flinging" Parian, lines with knives and 0-nana ngnung is occurring norui oi ustruve. iiie dui . ars are steadily retreating northward and have put up flight resistance, except at Fiorina, where they defeated a number of Greek -volunteers who fought "with excep tional bravery, . ' ' ; , .Italians In Action in Balkans. ' , :Paris,'Sept.'19.-i-A!most violent battle is occurring be tween Italians and Bulgars east of the Beles Mountains, in Macedonia, it is officially stated. h - The Germans broke out in five violent attacks on the Champaign front last night, attempting bold strokes - against Dead Man's Hill, northwest Of Verdun, .where , ;there has been little fighting for several weeks. ' The . Russians in the Champaign checked the attacks and now Sail is again serene, says the war office. The onslaughts .were delivered west of the Sousairt-Somme road the Ger mans losing heavily; , German Admission of LosSesJ ' , " "Berlin,' Sept. 19,--The 'Germans . have ; surrendered tenches to the British east of Ginchy and north of Com- i hies, but repulsed; the .French iijelioyanavermanaeviuercv mm LEAVE FOR EL PASO LAST HALF OF VEEK, REPORTED .v - (Special to The free Press) v Camp Glenn, Sept. 19 .'The move ment of troops from liere to the bord er will probably be commenced Thura-dajr- afternoon. The First, infantrjf, cavalry, ambulance company and field hospital -'are expected to get away then, going by way, of New i Bern and WHmlngton.;irhe Second infantry will go up through Kinston Friday, probably during the daytime. Th Third infantry will leave Satur day. Brigade headquarters will ac company the first train out( It Is not known just how . the engineers will . be moved. Company B of engineers, new outfit from Charlotte, is ex pected to come down ioday or tomor row. They may come through Kin ston. . Winter clothing, including ov ercoats, are to be issued at El Paso, where the brigade Is to be assembled aa one command. WOULD TAKE LICEIISE . " 'FR03 LEBER OF BAR -1 Fayetteville, Sept 18-The first disbarment proceedings jn the histo ry of Cumberland county were start ed In the Superior Court here this afternoon against Jtraes H. Johnson of Hope Hills, a member of the Cum berland bar. The Case, wnich is a civil action to deprive Johnson of his license, is based on two convictions for seeing illegal quantities of wine, il was presented to the ourt on e?j facts. ' in Assaulting InvadersGer Expedition Checked Without Falling Back From Greece Allies United Press) . according to General Haig, trenches around Richebourg and taken prisoners. contact Eager tor re- themselves against the Bui bayonets. Desperate hand- south of the Somme near is viiKiauy icpuibcu.i- BIG ARMORED CARS LIKE BRITISH HAVE FiAliERICANAiV (fey the . United Press) Washington, iSept. 19-Twenty-seven tractors similar to thos con verted into "land dreadnaughU by tho British, will soon be a part of the United Stites army's war parapher nalia. The same Peoria (Illinois) firm which supplied the British with foundations for the armored fighting machines, has contracted to build huge tractors for this government. They will be delivered in 30 days. TO) REPUBLICANS BD A DEIOCRAT JOIN IN SPEAKING AT CLINTON Clinton, N. C, Sept. 19. In be tween Senators Moses dapp of Min nesota and J. J." Parker, candidate for Attorney General,, who addressed a Republican political meeting here yesterday on National and State is sues, respectively, Democrat in the audience shoved Hallet 3. (Hot Stuff) Ward of Washington, N. C, whose famous nerve and eloquence asserted themselves and resulted v in the squelching of Republican-ardor, in the opinion of Democrats. Ward de liberately demanded where was 'the Republican party to begin with, rip ped up Clapp's rather 'dignified, gen Ue argument with a rough-edged al 'egorical blade and calmly sat down, c&nvinced that Parker could not alter the score. Nor was another tally dded, it is claimed by the majority rty leaders. - (By the United Press) , . ' New York, Sept 19. Housewives in every corner tf the United States are asked to attend ft session of the Bread Committee of the National Housewives' League in an effort to determine what steps should be tak eti to meet the Increasing price of bread. "The condition is very criti cal," Mrs. Julian Heath, president of the League, today said, "both for the producer and the consumer." ' CHICAGO BANKER TAKES OWN LIFE IN TROUBLE Chicago, 111., Sept." 18. The sui cide ' of Joseph Turns'," bf the Tuma Savings Bank, a private institution and the indictmentf fonr private bankers, were the latest developments today jn Chicago's private bank fail ures and a general inquiry into these institutions. Tuma's bankr the State attorney said, was to have ' been ' in vestigated. Th ' banker's ,. counsel, however, said the bank is solvent Tulms stood on a pier, fired a shot into his head and toppled into Lake Michigan. - . -y ' OVINIA TORPEDOED, " SAYS ONE SURVIVOR New York, Sept." 18. A' torpedo sank the British ship Kelvinia, car rying 28 Americans, according to G. W. Billard of Richmond Va, one of the Americans who arrived at New York today on the Cunard Liner Tus- cania. , 4. Dispatches from England left tn doubt the question whether the Kel vinia, fcound from Newport News, to Glasgow, was torpedoed or sunk by a mine on September 2. According to Dillard, the Kelvinia was torpedoed at 2 o'clock in the morning :thout any warning having been givsn HANDSOME SCHOOL TO BE BUILT WINTERVILLE (Special to The Free .Bres'i) Winterville, .Sept 19. Tha Bap tist church is expected to eroct here model school house' to" replace the main building of Wimterville 4 High School,, destroyed by fire started 'by lightning som weeks ago. The building will cost about $25,000, it it reported, and will bo modernjy equip ped. - t OLD NEGRESS VICTIM ' OF ROteERY ON STREET Washington, N. C, Sept. 19. An elderly colored woman lost $52 when she was about to comply with a pursesnatcher's request for the change of a bill in front of a bank on JMain street here Two 'negroes have been arrested on suspicion, and one of them will be identified as the thief, it is . expected. BATTLES OF DRYiLAN RESULT i INTRODUCTI AREIORED CARS IN SOI " (By "the Unked Press)", , . LONDON. Sebt-lCreat battles between .fleets of land dreadStaur'jta msy result from the introduction of the new ar mored car "tanks' In the Somme by the British. ' A Somme correspondent says that in "one short hoof the tanks did more military service and killed more men than all the reppelins that ever were." He wires that there is 1 possibility that be fore the war ia ever there will be land battles between whole fleets ef these "dreadnaughU,'' or terrestrial aaonaters, each auger and more horrible thsa the last. ' .- Only eee bf the "tanks" has been destroyed in the Somme, it Is learned. Ik the center of Boaleabx TVood, where there has been fierce fighting, one ef the View monster lies with its oe buried fat the earth between the Opposing lines, forming a barricade between the DiKi.-h and Germans. 1 How it was destroyed is net revealed in the dpakhes. 1 - - - . " I Lowest Mortality Rate the Country Has Ever Had Recorded in 1915 Only 13.5 Out of 1 Thousand Died the Country Over ': (By the' United Press) Washington, Sept. , 19. Only 13.5 persons out of every thousand in thy United States in 1915 died, accord- Ing to a report by the census bureau today. .This was the lowest mortal! tv rate evr recorded in the coun- try. . , 1 "Widespread awakening of the people of the country, together wjth the' progress in medicine and sanita tion; resulted In the saving of 170,- 000 lives during the year over 1905 a decade ago," the bureau said. The decrease "Va s 16.7 per cent, during tjie ten years. j - ' AGAIN AROUND HALF MILLION POUNDS OF TOBACCO ON MARKET Not quite half a million pounds of tobacco was sold here Tuesday, ac cording to warehouse estimates at 2 o'clock.- iPr ices were about as good as Monday's,' the average being prac tically as high as any of the season. according to some estimates-. Should the sales during the next three days average as much in quan tity as those of Monday and Tuesdatf the twq-mtllion mark will be passed easily. . , PINK HILL'S STATE ; HIGH SCHOOL OPENED ; FOR ITS FIRST TERM (Special to The Free Press) Pink Hill, Sept 19. The new State High School here opened yes terday with interesting and appro priate exercises. The Board of Trus tees and a large number of patrons Were present and took part in the ex ercises.' County Supt. Josepn JUnsey addressed the pupils. .! It was grati fying to the authorities to note i that the required number of high school pupils (20) to make this a State-aided school Wr present on the Open ing day. A large number ..is looked for during the week. Among ! thi visitors at the opening were Miss Ad na - Edwards, ' home demonstration worker, and Alias Hattie Parrott, su pervisor of rural schools. MEETING COUNTRY CLUB. " The directors of the Country Qub will meet at 8 p, m. Wednesday in the office of the Kinston Cotton Mills, to pass on important business. D DREADNAUGIiTS AS ON OF MltlSli III. IS PREDICTION Each Section of Biff Open ihg Day Pageant to Iiave Its Director, Selected for i Qualification and prise ' Enter - (Daily Free Press--19th) (Mr. Harvey C. Hines, Chief Mar shal for' the coming fair, today an nounced the following as his assist ants: L. M. LaRoque, in charge of deco rated automobiles. . J. J. Stevenson, automobiles for officials and guests of honor. ) H. H. McCoy, commercial floats. T. V. "Moseley, industrial flbaU. O. F. , McCrary, ., agricultural floats. ' ' . E. B. Lewis, fraternal and educa tional floats. . ' Dr. Lunsford Abbott, mounted marshals. Dr. W. C. Knox, "knights." r J, F. Hooker, Jr., patrol, to be aided by the Boy, Scouts. . : Leonard Oettinger, marshals' ball. Mr. Hines is preparing to write a thousand (representative men in ten surrounding counties to request thern to act &s marshals, or as knight; mounted, plumed ' and sashed, t and carryjrg ' lances participate in the parade and the tournament that is a-be a tcnture of opening day. "That tournni; nt is to be an old-fashioned affair, full tf thrills and color and prancing horns. . Mr. Hines expects illy f00 men to accept , The parade will be a tremendous affair. -Last year's was on a grand scale but this ene cannot be describ ed with an adjective of emallencali. bre-4-than prodigious or something qually impressive. " It is 'to be made up in sections off oifferant etieets, each section to be assembled tinder the supervision of its assistant tAief marshal. , , The floats will be especially at tractive. It is planned to have scores of commercial,.! Industrial and agri cultural, floats in the pageant. There will ; be, possibly brick ? houses . and wooden houses on wheels, represent ing the brick and lumber lines; pedi greed pigs will grunt from minia ture wheeled pastures if the pig club boys do what Is expected of them; the cotton industry will be played -up from the growing stalk to finished garments.' v Mr.-Hines is giving! ov er a big part of his time to prepara tion! for' the occasion; ' , ; $- . 0. P. EXPECTING RIG 'TIMEfflEDNESDAYPJI. The Republicans of the county look for a big attendance at the opening speaking of their campaign in t the Courthouse here Wednesday after noon. John t. Parker, a bright West Carolina man who is out for the At torney-generalship', will be the prin- ipal speaker. Mr. Parker so far has proved the best worker that the G. . P. has In the field in the State. Democrats are invited by the: Re publican executive committee to hear the visitor. The meeting will be Com menced promptly at 2 o'clock. Mem bers of M?. Parker's party front ev ery part of the county are expected to be present . 1' BROGDEN FUNERAL TODAY (Daily Free Press 19th) I The remains of the late Mr. John . iBrogden. who died Monday morn ing, wre Tuesday morning taken to Tronton for interment at 11 a. m. The f.traily and relatives and friends from the city and upstate accompan ied the body. Rev. John H. Griffith, rector of St. Mary's Episcopal church, went to conduct the service. There was "ta 'unusual quantity of flowers. Acting as pallbearers from the home at McLeweaiv and Gordon, streets to the Norfolk Southern station, where the body was put aboard a train for Cove City, from there to be taken over the highway to Trenton, were Messrs. Prentiss Woo 'ten. Jos. Daw son, George W. E'frry, S. L. Stough, S. L. Linton and Frank Quinerly. Republican Candidate, Be gins Second Campaign Toiir at Peoria Pleased Over Getting Back Into the Field, Said By PERRY ARXOjLD, (United Press Staff Correspondent) Peoria, 111., Sept. 19. Nominee Hughes chose Peoria from which to hurl forth his first speech in his sec ond presidential campaign tour. The Q. O. P. '. candidate was plainly pleased to resume the campaigning. He intends to make the leading is sue the eight-hour law and has new data on Mexico. ' PRESIDENT WILL MAKE HRST SPEECH SATURDAY New York, Sept. 18 The Democra tic National . Committee announced here tonight that President Wilson will make his first speech of the cam paign at 'IShadow Lawn" next Satur day at S p. m. to the businessmen of New Jersey, -Members of all cham bers of commerce and business orga nizations in the State have been in vited; The President intends, it was said, to 'discuss fully the provisions of the eight-hour railroad law " - Cotton sold high on the local ex change .-Ttiedajr.;"Th- 'only seven bales marketed brought from :14 to 151-8 cents.' (- jNew York futures quotations were: ' ' " ' " Open . 2 p. m. January 16.04 ' 16.19 March 16.19 16.J54 May 16.35 ,V 16.62 October ., ,15.7l', . 15.83 December .. ...,1. . . . . .15.94 - - APPEAL TO PEOPLE DF TO AID IN RAISING STATE'S PORTION OF WILSON-MARSHALL IUNDj PEOPLPS FIGlIT The following appeal is made by the Finance Coramit tee for North Carolina to raise the State's part of . the Wilson-Marshall Campaign Fund: An Appeal to the People, i "Others may follow; the Lords of War, who ride among tho corpses of mankind. We follow the Presidont of tho United States and seek inspira tion of humanKy that aspires to high er things.". We must have money to defray the expenses of the Democratic presiden tial campaign. This is the people's campaign and it is all important that it be conducted with ; the people's money.- " v v . There are innumerable items of le gitimate expense never thought of by the average person. To mention only a few, there is the cost of main taining national and divisional head quarters, printing and mailing tons of literature and millions of letters, of effecting organizations : in every town in every one of the forty-eight States, in preparing and distributing publicity matter, in maintaining a speakers' bureau, in printing and cir culating pictures of candidates, etc A Record of Achievement " The Democratic Party has been In control of the government for nearly four years, nd in that time has written more of constructive legisla tion than any other administration in the Nation's history, and guided the ship of State safely through crises more numerous and more grave than had arisen in the preceding fifty years of our diplomacy. The Democratic administration has kept the country out of war, while preserving its honor trasullied and unstained. It has prepared for adequate pre paredness against aggression of ar.y Remainder of Campaign Li FougRt Ilonest-to-Good-' ness Fashion LEADERS vGETTKG BUSY Things to Hum as Soon as President Gets Back Remarkable Tribute Paid V Executive at Columbia Big: Silent Crowd ' , By ROBERT J. BENDER, (United Press Staff Correspondent) ' Washington, Sept. 19 There Is to be more political noise at Shadow Lawn from now ort. The PreetSenl, Chaiiriman Vance JMcCeVmick and other political leaders have deefdedf that the political horses are to t spurred Up all the Way down th,re maihder of the stretch. There are to be several big "Jersey Days' and "Open House Days" at Shadow Lawn, together with occasional sal- ' lies intd - the surrounding States. Some heavy artillery is being unlim bered. t The Democratic leaders admit tfce campaign has been necessarily lag , ging for the last week er so. But irom tne time '. m f resident gets Back to the summer White ' House things are to be bethumming. On leaving Columbii, S. C, the president was accorded a remarkable tribute by several, thousand persons who stood silently, - the men with their hats orT. As the train pulled out there wa no sign of cheering. Upon entering his car the President said "That was splendid." NORTH CAROLINA foe. . , "It has preserved that strict neu trality which Washington declared should always be the policy of the United States. Jt has followed in Mexico the pol icy of Lincoln, who asserted the right of that unhappy people to erdsr their own "governments - Dinner Pail Is FuU. It ha established prosperity more' general and genuine than all the people ever enjoyed before, so that every dinner pail is full, every fa. tory working; every man employed, and the average of wages higher. H has given the cation a system ef finance and banking that shielded It f;f ai panic and depression when the whole structure of . European cred was destroyed fcy war, and which overwhelmed other neutral natfona whose statesmen lacked the foresight and capacity of America's Democrat ic statesmen. . It has amended the anti-trust laws making guilt personal deSnir-j it for the first time without amlguity, and preventing trade mtjo'.y with prohibition of inteifcking d'rectoc ates; and has set up in the I Jeral Trade Commission a court of Imsi- DOSS ' m - - t Labor Not a Cotn modify. It has taken laW out of t' e os sification of commoJi'y ..-.! 1.1 it aspire to the L'her tl!ri it j n ally craves wi'.out far ' I ment for so !. L"j. It h.i3 a.T.-r.! I r f - . ere Jit and c ' I
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