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VOL. XVIIL-No. 16
KINSTON, N. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1916
CONFIDENCE OF THE
LIKELY
TO MAKE NO
ROUMANIANS STILL
BRITANNIC CASE TO Nffi
PUBLIC IS SOUGHT LAST VICTORY FOR
BY PIL COMPANIES WILSON; SENDS WIRE
HAVE AN APARTMENT
GREAT AFFAIR OVER
ITS GRIEF NOR JOY
RETREATING D'EORE
GERMANIC ADVANCE
BE PROBED BY THE TTRIE -
lEffTTESIPlEiSifP
ft -.j "f (i v , '. i . ''is i
. i ... '..' ' '-? ?
HOUSE FEW MONTHS
STATE
TO VIENNA
WIMRINE
Investigators Hear Pleas
fnr Tss Susoicion. Bet-
'-.-,;r.g
ter Credit, Etc.
WOULD LIKE SPREAD OUT
And Become More Helpful
to the Country Santa Fe
Injunction Case Held Up
Pending Conference
Of
Government and Roads
(By the United Press)
Kansas City, Nov. 23. The Santa
Fe injunction , suit against the
Adamson eight-hour law. set for
hearing today before Judge John C
Pollock, was postponed indefinitely
pending the result of a conference be
tween railroad officials and govern
ment representatives,
ltiulrouds Have Inning at
Probe Hearing.
Washington, Nov. 23. Pleas for
more aaecfuate rauroaa iacmues
less suspicion of railroad manage-
ment and better credit conditions,
were made by the railroads today be
fore the Newlands railroad investi
gating committee . A. P. Thorn,
couniii' for the roads, la slated to
bespeak a broader, more helpful at
titude to rail lines '.so that they may'
spread out, increase American busi-
ness and better serve the public.
STOCKS WITNESSES
CAME HOME; JURY'S
SLOW IN STARTING
Declaring that they would rather
be in the Lenoir county jail than at I
large in Duplin county, several wit-
nesses summoned to Kenansville to
appear against Samuel Stocks, al-
leged lyncher, before the grand jury,
returned Wednesday rather than to
spend the night in the Duplin county
seat town. They include Chief of
Police Skinner and Deputy Sheriff
H. V. Allen. They left again on
Thursday. The grand jury was to
start its investigation in the after
noon. A former grand jury return
ed a bill "for Instructions," neither a
true nor an untrue finding.
Stocks was indicted following the
lynching of Joseph Black, colored,
who was taken from the Lenoir coun
ty jail last spring. He is from
Greene county, which, ' local officials
believe, furnished most of the lynch
ers. Th.2 case has attracted much at
tention. Kenansville, to which the
place the case was transferred under
a change of venue, is difficult to com
municate with. Solicitor Henry E.
Shaw, active throughout the several
investigations of the lynching, is in
charge of the State's ease at Kenans
ville. Sentiment in Duplin is saJR to be
in Stocks' favor. A weak fjoint for
the prosecution, it is reported, is that
a detective named Barnes, who work
ed tip the alleged evidence against
Stocks, has not been located.
BIDS ON AIRCRAFT
tulf RAVf OPENED
(By the United Press)
, Washington, Nov. 23.- The War
riAMrffMAni J 1 I .1 - . 4 mo
military hydro-aeroplanes. Prices
.ranged front $12,000 to f 20,500,
wtth apeeds f caging bp to 90 miles
an hour and climbing power to 6,500
t in ten minutes.
GOLDS BORO NECsn aiirf.stt.tv
; Dennis Row, colored, was arrested
a lumber mfll her T Thursday on a
4 pia from, GoMsboro. . F-S told
s u naTTiiRon, v rested
: 1 n
film Q t.
e was vs-
t hill
i a
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7 w.
President Replies He's Ob
liged . and Sends Well
WishesDefeated Can-
dldate Held Out Until
Uncertainty Cleared
(By the United Press)
Washington, Nov. 23. Prenident
Wilson's reply to Hughes' congratu
latory telegram was: I am sincerely
ablidged to you for your message of
congratulations. Allow me to as.suro
you of my good wishes for the years
Lo come."
Hughes Telegraphs Congratulations.
Lakewood, N. J., Nov. 22. Chas.
E. Hughes, Republican candidate for
President in the recent election, to
night sent to President Wilson a tel-
I egram congratulating him upon
his
re-election.
In his telegram Mr. Hughes said:
"Ifeeause of-the closeness of the
vole I have awaited the official count
in California, and IMw that it has
been virtually completed, permit me
to extend to you my congratulations
upon your re-election. I desire also
to express my Dest wisnes lor a sue
cessful administration.1
HOPEFUL DEMOCRATS
WILL CONTROL HOUSE
Washington, Nov. 22. 'Representa
tive Oldfield of Arkansas, who ia a
I membor of the Democratic Congres
sional Committee, and of the lieu
Lommitteo on Waye and Means, pre
dieted today that the Democrats will
control the next House.
"I have followed closely the pnliti
c.il battle waged for seats in the
House in the close States," said Mr.
Oldfield, "and the Republicans have
but one more seat than the Demo
erats stand solidly together and thcr
is every reason to doubt if that will
bo true of the Republicans. Any
slight defection in the Republican
ranks would yield tha control to us
n. l if this very likely contingency
loe.-i not arise we shall tret cnn;;-e!
U a result of the vote of the imle-
ivmlent morn't.ers. " ,
OPULATION ST
Open Revolt Against Ger
man Deportation Order:.
Men Shipped Over Line
Must Work or Serve Sen
tences (By the United Press)
Amsterdam, No. 23. Two months'
imprisonment is the punishment
rr.cted out by the German authorities
,o Belgian deportees who refuse to
io the work their captors demand,
according to the newspaper Echo
De Beige.
The population of the Belgian city
of Lessines has openly revolted at
the deportation orders and attacked
the " railway station, smashing win
dows. The German commandment
threatened to punish the whole com
munity. ALASKAN RATES WILL
. BE SUBJECT HEARING
(By the United Press)
- Washington, Nov. 23. The second
of three hearings the Interstate esm
merce commission is holding in Its In
vestigation of Intra and inter-Alaskan,
' rail, rail-and-water freight ; and
pr singer rates is being held today at
J. -an. The third e-i last Witt b
c: r Mile Decemlcr i
RAILROAD STATION
IN A BELGIAN C!T
Businessmen Favor Plan
for Big: Building to Care
for Maybe Score Small
Families Would Be Mod
ernly Equipped
Kinston's first apartment house
buili for the purpose is about to be
come a reality. W. ii. Douglass
staled Thursday that he would un-
if l;ik- the promotion of a company
o.- the purpose, and that the pros
iii.'ls were decidedly bright, what
uriih the interest of substantial busl-
snien in the proposition and the
sh irlagn of dwelling houses. He an
no meed that he would get busy in a
thy or two.
It is proposed to erect a building
eontalning not less than GO or f 75
roums, and to cost not le3 than fifty
Ui nisand dollars, to have every mod
2!i convenience and be four or five
stories high, fireproofed and equipped
wvh modern lire escapes, and of at
tractive appearance One man, Mr.
iiut'lass said, has evinvtd his inter
e ' lo the extent of proffering a
convenient site and offering to take
i nerit block of stock. Kinston is
fr.Xnjr a living-house shortage which
"vinidly becoming serious. Rentals
higher than in Wilmington and
ul , n -: as high as in the big towns
ij' tale. Mr. Douglass believes the
;., artn on house will bo erected with
in '.he rc-xt few months,
CSOSS OF GLORY FOR
COOKS IS NEW PLAN
(By the United Press)
Washington, Nov. 23. -Delia has
n.nie into her own and Mirandy and
feV.rah. For loyalty "below-stairs" is
lie recognized and "cook" is to bo
rewarded.
A movement is under way here to
iv a;d medals or testimonials of
faithful service to all domestic ser
in s of proven worth. The move-
ir.'vit is sponsored dv Washington
!) women, as a step in solving the
van! problem, and combating the
e r meiv epnpmerai, and mercurial
i-acteristics of domestic help."
Tie badge, or cross of honor, will
lc, hp valued by "cook" for its in
1 i'l-ic value, but will be treasured
a "maghty good rec'mundashun",
a sort et carte-blancne, ;is it were.
iiKhful servants will thereby not
m:T'T under the stigma of their
hiftless co-worke-rs, and will never
.'tint for a good "place." The long
iffering mistress will, it is hoped,
.wake to a new emancipation under
':. 1 new regime.
''77
IIL PEOCFED WITH
PURCHASE CLUB SITE
The Governing Board of the Cas
well Country Club at a meeting oh
Wednesday night decided to go ahead
-.i:h the j urchaso of 10 acres of the
..ropcrly at Gray's Mill on which pro
moters of the club have an option,
.ml to begin actual construction of
the building, the preliminaries for
v ilch have been in progress some
,i ;ys. The plans for the building
have not been given out.
MUST HAVE LARGER
TIPS ACCOUNT WAR
(By the United Preasl
St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 23. The ten
cent tip in St. Paul was officially ta
ln jed, by resolutions of the Hotel
Bellmen of St. Paul today. At the
intermission between the icewater
glide and the suitcase shuffle, at the
annual bellmen's bail, resolutions
wore passed trrging that tips be rais
ed to 15 cents on account of the war.
During the ball, the orchestra direct
or was. under orders to ring no bells
with the mask, and so water pitch
ers were allowed tn sight. "What's
the use of taking the Joy out of fife "
E. J. Ryan, president of thi club,
Mid. , ' . - .
Death of Franz Josef Will
Not Be Cause of Usual
Biff Demonstration and
Assumption Will Be Very
Quiet
(By the United Press)
London, Nov. 23. Vienna will not
n .'.!e her sorrow nor her welcome
i the formal observance at the fun-
er.il of the deceased Emp.ror of the
."sumption of tho throne by his suc-
'sr, Karl Francis Joseph. Vienna
;);ucnes today indicated a depar
u.e from the rigidly formal, richly
.civmoniai customs wnicn nitonrto
aavo ma iked the passing ot a mon-
.itch. Tho pall of war will be-cloud
even the pall of sorrow. Vienna lit
e.aily is wrapped in a shoud, draped
in black. Franz Josef's body will lie
in stale in the imperial palace.
President Wilson
. .j it, p.t.j .
Washington, N.iv. 22. Prosidoi
Wilson toib.y sent tb.' following mes
sage of condolence to Emperor Karl
Franz Jo;v; h o" Austria-Hungary
.ipr-n reef'1! (f word of the death of
the hue Emperor Francis Josef.
"I beg of Your Majesty and the-
Imperial and Royal Family to accept
'ho sincere-t sympathy of Mrs. Wil
son and myself in the great lost
which y.ui have sustained in the
(u:;in c: your illustrious uncle, lor
whom I entertained sentiments of
high e;teem and regard. I also 'ex
lend to yo-.ir Majesty the condolence
of the government and people of the
United States and convey to you my
he.!! wishes for your personal well
'.eing mid prosperity."
Tho President addressed the new
u!er as It is Majesty Karl v ranz
Joseph, Emperor fif Austria, King
of Bohemia and Apostolic King o?
Hungary."
GOING ON IN OTHER
TOWNS AND COUNTIES
OF EASTERN CAJMLNIA
(Daily Free Press 23rd)
A Greenville supposed "drunk" fir
ed a revolver bullet into a restaurant
there while diners wore at the ta'iles.
No one was hit. The man with the
pistol was in an automobile and sped
to safety.
The modern dance is more danger
oti3 to society than the open saloon,
declared He v. J. D. Waters, a Chris
tlan (Disciples) minister, in a -sermon
a.;. A yd en.
A hundred laborers are at work
crrvtrtNTing a 'box and veneering
plant at Ayden.
Charlet Harper was seriously in
jured in a lumber mill at Reelsboro
when he fell or in some way was
thrown against a saw. A thigh was
laid op:n and other injuries in
flicted. Goorgo Andrews was killed when
a big drive wheel in a James City
lumber plant bursted from centrifugal
force, lie was knocked through the
building by a flying piece. He was
badly mangled.
BELIEVED ROBBERS
EXPRESS WAGON GOT
mm IN MONEY
(By the United Press)
Chattanooga, Nov. 23. Two
men who held up Fred. Cornlel
son, a Southern Express driver,
are reported to have obtained aa
high as forty thousand doilar.
CornielsoB reported the robbery
whea ho staggered through jthe
; Express company office hjrj JPJ
vestlgatiort. The t .
, , , c Iroa, Lumber Com-
1.-2 t ; 3 !) fj
Fall Back to New Positions
No Fighting in Vfest
Aviators Active War
ships Worst Teuton Hy
droplanes
(By the United Press)
Burhares, Nov. 23. "We retir
ed from Craiova," says an offi
cial Roumanian report. The re
tirement continues from points
In Jiul Valley to old positions, it
is also announced. In the Atl
Valley Roumanian troops are
maintaining their positions.
Paris, Nov. 23. Lieut. Guy Nem
er downed his 22nd German battle'
plant last night. All was calm along
the entlro front today, it is said offi
cially.
Wnter and Aircraft Clash.
London, Nov. 23. A succensful air
raid against German hydroplanes by
naval forces is announced by the ad
miralty.'
!umania Silent.
t .indon, Nov. 23. There Is omln-
c.'.i! silence at Bucharest respecting
'!' fate of tho armies which Berlin
ib.ims to have been encircled south
' thj Danube, causing considprable
ir.-visinei-s here. There has been no
ports from Bucharest since Sunday.
LARGELY BY THIS
!!order Training Adding 150,000
Vi-iirs to Nation's Life, Discovered
by Army Poc'ors Some of the
Beys Would Lose Thelr's, Though
Ry WEBB MILLER
(Unit.d Press Staff Correspondent)
El Paso, Tex., Nov. 23. About
ir.000 years is being added to the
;- rre'rate life of tho population of
fK United States by the Mexican
" iluaticn." Instead of spreading
!e:th and disablement the campaign
t. Mexico and the mobilization of the
national guard are adding from a
i.v months to years to the life of
every civilian soldier, army physicians
declare. statisticians nave ngurea
hat. the average added to the life of
-iCh guardsman will be nearly a year.
After four to six months of traln
:? like an athlete, working in the
n-en air, sleeping in a tent and eat
ing simple food a hundred thousand
guardsmen will go back to civil life
vith a new lease on life.
Major James F. Edwards of the
medical' corps of the Pennsylvania
militia 'has been making a close study
cr the general effects of the inten
ve training upon these men from
r.ffk'o, factory and farm. In civil
iifn he is director of Public Health
the city of Pittsburg.
' Nearly eveiy man on the border
will be benefited immeasurably by the
'raining he is undergoing," said Ma
jor Edwards. In most cases the in
struction in personal hygiene and
right living will influence the militia
men forjrears. ,
"Even -now the Jlfferea in the
health of our men can be noticed.
Several months of daily exercise in
'.he open air and sleeping In a tent
cannot but benefit. It Is worth a doz
en vacations holled into one.
"But most Important Is the effect
of the army diet. Most civilians eat
too mnvh. And Intemperance is eat
ing i3 nv.ie dangeroui 'ban any oth
er form of intemperance. For four
months our men have freenveating
the simple palatable army ration.
They don't eat too much and the
food value of what they get is com
puted scientifically. This - regime
with plenty of exercise cannot fall
to add something to the lives of our
citizen soldiers."
E'at there Is no pleasing everybody.
To tine nan undergoing this training
It sometimes' loses the vacation
physical r"tra!rr!ng 'tin g
just bar! I,. r.
UTT - ff
Sinking of British Hospital
Ship May Have Serious
Effect On Relations of U.I
S. and Berlin Govern
ment
(By the United Press)
Washington, Nov. 23. Destruc
tion of the great British hospital ves
sel, Britannic, today seriously threat
oned to enter into the tanele oossi
Mo from the submarine complications
u .1. it:j j
many. The reported presence
American surgeons aboard the veS'
sel rendered tho case one for serious
reflection of possible serious action
to bo taken in connection with oth
er.s which may show transgression of
German pledges and International
rules.
taken mer?ly aa an indication of the
ir Ihn li-rr C rt wnit irl n .1 i cm lT-wir
ng, in the event there were no Am-
means aboard. Under the rules oil
... . . .
the Genoa convention, hospital ships
- . j. i e . . i i ft t I
a.e immuniiiu irom bccbck. ouds -
quent changes have not
affected this
status of ships engaged on errands
of mercy, hence If American sur
geons were aboard they are entitled
to the safety of the law. The case
has been added to the list of sub
marine cases now being probed.
Ill ONLY . A 'SHORT
TIME; MIDDLE-AGED
Santa Rosa, Cal., Nov. 22. Jack
London, the author, died at his (Hen
Elen, Cal., ranch near here at 7:45
onlght, a victim of uremic poison
t.... t .-.l .! m 1... .i.vi
nd was found unconscious early to-1
day by a servant, who went to histnA instituUng, was Jioniaed; v .he
oom to awaken him.
London is survived by a daughter
ho is a student at the University of
California, his mother, who lives in
Oakland, and his wife, Charmltfn
London. Mrs. London was with her
husband when death came.
London would have been 41 years
ld on January 12.
Mr. and Mrs. London recently re-
turned from a sojourn of several
monbhs in the Hawaiian Islands, and
have been living on their Glen Elen
ar.ch, one of the most elaborately
luipped in Northern California.
LLIES WILL HEIR
ABOUT DETAINING
'INNOCENT MAIL1
Washington, Nov. 23. The Allies'
delays in forwarding "innocent" mi'l
after seizure will be attacked in ths
forthcoming reply to England's mail
seizures note. I
Around 75 bales of cotton were sold
here Thursday, at prices ranging
from 20.02 1-2 downward.
New York futures quotations, were;
Open.
0.20
20.38
20.60
18.63
2J.05
Jan.
Mar.
May
July
Oct.
Dee.
20 00
20-22 1
on jo I
208
lo-23
FAIR WEED; SALES' fEE
A CLOVDT DAT
Sudan's Institution Attend-
edBy BW ilftrwg.oi Fez-
Wearers iFrom
of StatesKinston
resented
Rep-
"Wedneeoay waa certaisly f rest
old day. It was the biggest day New
Bern ever had. The wi was put
on the map," declared t Mfo Fred.
Sutton Thursday, reyiewimt the
events contingent upon the hi stall a-
rlon of .S'udan! Temple; Ifcfej&oli-
na'a second Shrtner outfit. There
were wearers of the fea present fromi
many Virginia, tNortn. ana South Ca
rolina and Georgia town, a welf as
national ronctMnanes &M visttors
from ether regions. One hoadred
and nine caodldate were fottlatedi on
Wednesday night .These indnded
Dr. B. W. Spilnuui, the noted. Bap-
, , , , ' ," .tv l vfii.
I m
ston ras largely represented. Most
of the tocaV dfefetlort Wtiirned in
laMomubiies Wednesday nlih4L -
Other temples in this region are
1 . j v.
X TlC "
the territory, and bne'Vtf the tkaig-
est in the 'country; Slredive of Nor
folk, dmar of CbhihHbla aha Ya&Vab
of Atlanta. ' Kinstoir'Shffiers belong
to Oasis an4 Khedf'ptt'lf
optional wit3i tm 'a' W' ienher
they will transfer to the newTeaarpje
or not. It Is incumbent upon all
Shriners of clies in which tenrples
are located to belong to their Ixnnt
torr.pla, but" the surroundling country
is not affected hy tnlsregutation.
Thtere were htihdredi1 bf fex-wear-
sts present at fhe frnfftutrdwtnehid
fng a number of e&rftfeVrfaef
bttnds were e kantf fShfmt tftartotia
arid' Norfolk, togmkw wlA9MMn'a
rum eorP M aer wosteautiara.
KWfcwfcv'fWt.J la
1 hiH in Shriwdom- and may be ext
l,"?t05.at 01 088,8 r Tea,WM
I amonir the "to doirj" mi liaiwl
Daddy Walter S. Ljdell, twho did 7
founded the cult in Norflj X3arolma.
I Pofentate of the TleW tfifmpte"ls 'A.
I ? Anofews ofKarSTgH. Kfttsbon
1,83 no na m temple.
J- T D1 ttf WoWoflt ''akrf'Xkki.
ton' Potentate of KhedSrve f Temple,
I heaed the Vlrginm cltya eelegatKm,
I a hundred strong. The Norfolk Vir-
ginian-ilot printed Mr;s .jpeara , pic-
turo m the froa$ 9 $''
KILL
Asheville, Nov. 22-Killing- three
' curs with the aid of a!(.22 caJrber
rifle and a 'possum dog is an unueit-
i! feat, but that Is wnat Lawrence
I ml Ira Cogbum, two brdth'ers of
Cruso, Haywood county, acanitlish
ed a few nights age. The brothers
'oeated a Iack bear and two toalf-
ri" cubs. The big bearotjWay
Wfi a small bullet in .her, and the
brothers "kitted the two" cubs." They
wacKea tne oio: ear and drove her
up a tree -where she wa killed. "
4I0URSC? .KOaiEJBT
Portland, OYe.,v Jfdv. 2S.X Ibrty-
eiht httrs rof labor a weel T&hr'for
women will ne pfaeetf oeforir fntr ire-
th second Monday ia f atravryVV tha
Consumers' Leagae Pcttlmd.
.' . . .
. t un act previdea that weateBny
Bot -work for wages ner taaat 48
hours a week. . It doaa aot. howevew
JOliimitihelr labor Veishl 'W
I dav. Tile 1de I that wnmAn na
workore I tJi'S Cv t;;- '! a,
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