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PUBLISHED TWICE A WEE W E D N ESDAYS AND SATURDAYS
VOL XV1U No. 17
KINSTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 291916
PftrCE tlVE CENTS
EVERY SfflER TO
RALEIGH PREPARES
BRITAIN DECLINES
FOUR INJURED, TWO
CRAZED IN HELD A GHEECMBOUT IJ1SE W1AN1A :
DEFEND
MAKE FIGHT AT THE
SEE AMBASSADOR OF
JAILED AS RESUL
AT BAY FOURTH CABINET IN TO PLAY 1111 HUE,
from villvs m
WSS& AS'MBLY
HERE SAFELY
OF CUTTING AFFRAY
AFTER SHOOTING 1 THAT MANY MONTHS IS GETTING WED
chose
CROWD
r
i
Carranza Strips Border
Plaices of ((jfarrlsons; Sft
uation (Mtical
RELIEF IS PAYS AWAY
Big De Facto Force Hurry-
1 inff to Raiise Siege May
Arrive Too Late Assault
Goes on Without Cessa
tion
(By the United Press)
El Paso, Texas, Nov. 27. The at
tack on Chihuahua by four thousand
Vlllistas under the personal command
M Villa is still in progress, United
States agents here today declared
They based their statements upon the
action of the CariAna authorities In
ending every available soldier in
Northern Mexico to the besieged city.
From Santa Buenf Ventura the
garrison of 150 Carrarizistas is be
In withdrawn, together with the
garrisons, at Namiquipa, Cases Grah
dee said 'Guzman, numbering about
ioO each. These are being rushed to
Chihuahua over the Mexican North
west iRailway to Juareii Where they
ill toe transferred , to the Mexican
Central.
t General Gonzales today announc
ed that General Mayeotte, with 3,500
de facto trifmis la makrag a forced
jtarcti 'northward from Santa Rosa
lla. It will ' take several days for
hint to arrive because every bridge
south of Chihuahua baa been burned.
MRS. INEZ MILHOLLAND
BCSSEVAIN PASSES OUT
Los Angeles, Cal., Nov, 26. Mrs.
Iner MllhoH'and Bolesevain, widely
known suffragist and Welfare Worker,
died In a hospital here shortly be
fore midnight last night after an ill
ness of ten weeks. She was thirty
years old.
Mrs. Boissevain was stricken sud
denly while addressing an audience In
this city during the recent political
campaign and fainted on the platform
at the meeting. She Was removod to
a 'hospital and her husband and par
ents rushed from iNeW York to Join
her here.
'Mirs. iBoissevain's illnss was diag
nosed as aplastic anemia and blood
transfusion was resorted to in at
tempts to improve her condition.
BLACK VICTIM JOKE
MABAtljOSE SHAVE
2ebulon, Nov. 27 There . came
near being an electrocution here when
James Smith, colored, was made the
victim of some practical jokers. He
Was given In either hand an end of a
piece of wire. The middle point of
the wire was Inserted into a socket
for which the lamp globe bad been
removed and the current twitched on.
When the resultant commotion was
over Smith Was found lying under an
Ail tank and it took the services of a
doctor to revive him. -
BORNCTMjEFFSOIl
' WAS CtnEt EXfeCDttVE
7 Waxahaftie, Texas, Nov. 27. Mrs.
Narais Barns, born when" Thomas
iefferaon was president of the Unit
ed States, wilL celebrate herllOth
tilth anniversary (tomorrow. Her
ttree daughters, the eldest of whom
89, and many xff;her 110 grand
nd a-wet-grand children will be at
tie celebration. Mr, Burn died to
ago. ' ; vr,;r'-ii -'v,..
; Born in Madison county, Tenn, No
vember ,26, 1808, the now Hrs. Boras,
whose maiden name was Yar borough,
Texas with her father's
at the age of ten. ' '
Capital Cltir Wants to Be
the PcrlHaneiii Meeting
Place4 Three Others
Want 1917 Convention of
Tarheel Pedagogues
(Special to The. Free Press)
Raleigh, Nov. 27. (Raleigh's ho
tela are daily making reservations
for teachers who will attend the 23rd
session Of the North Carolina Teach
era' Assembly here (November to
December 1, and one week in advance
of the first business meeting the
guarantee of an unprecedented at
tendance Was complete.
At this session the city means to
make its bid for the assembly's per
manent favor, but invitations from
three of the State's larger cities to
make the 1917 sitting Of the teachers
in another town, 'revives the fight of
Raleigh against the State and hold
ing the teachers yet another year will
be the persuasive job to be undertak
en by the business organizations.
The compliment is to the bearers of
light Who eohipHse the most popular
convention of the score or more who
visit Raleigh annually.
The 1916 assembly promises the
most variedly interesting program.
New organizations that bring into
the larger federation another section
of teachers or school-Workers, will
bo here for the first time. In the as
sembly proper are the associations of
grammar grade teachers and princi
pals, of county superintendents, of
city superintendents, of music teach
ers, of high school teachers nl prin
cipals, city high school teachers and
principals, of school boards, and of
the department of higher education
LIFE AGAIN SWEET FOR
SUPER-FASHIONABLES
New York, Nov. 27.No lunger
need tenants of William Waldorf
Astor's super-fashionable Apthorpe
lpartments hold hands to their eyes
as they roll up to their home in im
ported limousines.
The, so they (thought, hopelessly
jross, materialistic sign, advertising
tho commercial matrimonial agency
in the property at 385 West End ave-
l.uc. is today removed.
The sign which has just come down
was put in place years aso bv the
ate Fritz "Cupid" PodzSUs. The
war took it down. 'Johann Rlnglau.
who was Podzjsus' partner, has boon
cooking in tho Kaiser's army for the
last two years and when recently he
.'ailed to meet payments, foreclosure,
now successfully concluded, was
started.
PREPARE FOR SAILING
OF CHRISTMAS SHIP
(By the United Press)
New York, Nov. 27. iBoxes, bales
ind bundles of supplies to form the
:argo of the American "Red Cross
Christmas Relief ship for the bene
fit of Syrians were arriving at Red
Cross Bush terminal in Brooklyn to
day the last day of their availabili
ty. The relief ship is to sail for
Beirut, Syria, about December 1.
The shipment Will be Chiefly cloth-
.Persons who intended ' to make
gifts but delayed too long still have
opportunity. On account of the fight
ing on the Somme immense stores of
hospital 'supplies are needed. Mon
ey donations made the Red Cross for
these supplies will be applied , quite
promply. , : . V1 ., iU v
SATURDAY PDOreALL
At New; Haven, Yale 6, Harvard 3.
At New' York, Army 15, Navy 7.
At Chapel Hill, Virginia Fresh
men 19, larouna r resnmen 7. . .
(By the United Press)
London, Nov. 27. It is
officially announced that the
British Government has re
fused a safe conduct for
Count Tarnowski, recently
appointed Austrian-Hungarian
ambassador to the
United States.
The action is unexplain
ed.
BLACK GAMBLERS PUT
UP FIGHT TO ESCAPE
ARREST BY DEPUTIES
pitched battle between officers
I negro gamblers at "The Adkin"
Sunday resulted in the taking of
h:eo prisoners and the wasting of
nbut 15 shot3, with the injuring of
no one. Col. II . E. Shaw, Solicitor
tho local judicial district, looking
dewn from his home on Liberty Hill,
aw a rams in pnoirress in a hollow
n the bank of "The Adkin," the
ream which mark;": (lie extreme
st;rn boundary of the city. He tel
honed the Sheriff's office. Depu
s H. V. Allen and N. B. Evans
went to the place and surprised 10
,to men and a woman, the men all
;un!ed with a game. The blacks
irtod a retreat, one or two firing as
iey ran. Mr. Jim Flowers, Col.
haw's law partner, joined the offi-
in the chase. The white men
aimost had the darkies corralled at
on5 point, but all except three man-
aired sto make their get-away. Part
of tb.3 negroes went Into a briar
a'most impenetrable, and one, clalm
to be fhot. is believed to have re
ceived his injuries from briars. He
went to a" doctor. The officers re
ceived information which may lead
to the arrest of five others from the
captured nion, who are John Leo Ilat-lc;-,
Will Porter and John Ward. A
: e elver was taken from Ward. The
wu.ipen had not been fired, and Ward
:. believed to have had no hand in
th- shooting.
'tIMKK THAN A. THOUSAND
TELEPHONES IN KINSTON
There are now a thousand and thir-:?--..;(.
ven telephones operated from
he local exchange. The, thousand
i ,rk was passed recently. Nine hun-
.'?L-d and twenty-six of the phones
r:s wUbin tho corporate limits. Man-
aor tJmisau oi tne evenango says
g-distanco talking also is breaking
si; rccoMls. The number of tickets
r out-of-town calls since the sum
mer has been astonishing. The cham-
ion long-distance talker of the city
ur.;il recently was a colored junk
Act, who called Harrisburg. Pa.,
ami other Aortnarn places aimort as
icqueniiy as some peoplo do the
rrocer down the street.
HERZOG WILL BE CHIEF
SPUR TO GIANT OUTFIT
By HAMILTON,
(fulled Press Staff Correspondent)
New York, Nov. 27. When John
M:G;tjw put over the deal that sent
Oristy Mathfwson to Cincinnati as
n :.i:;gei- of the Reds, and brought
Cha:!ey Hnrzog to New York to
pl.ty second base for the Giants he
accempHshed one of the brightest
mines of his somewhat brilliant ca
reer. R.gardlesa of McGraw's manager
ial ability, and regardless of how the
Giants stand up next year, there is
cne thlnu that will be just as evident
as it was when the New' Yorkers
hang up their " historical winning
streak last fall. Charley Herzog will
be there in fighting and driving his
team mates to greater effort.
More than one close student of
baseball gives Herzog more than half
tht credit for , reviving the Giants
last fall. His Irresistible enthusiasm,
his fighting mood on rail occasions,
and best of all, his ability to make
those playing with him spurt at the
name speed simply catapulated the
Giants into that winning streak. "
Eight Pitt and Lenoir Coun
ty Men in Near-Riot In
South Kinston
ONE MAN SERIOUSLY HUR1
Lem. Taylor In Hospital
With Throat Gashed
Clear Across No Bai
for Assailants of Loca
Party
(Daily Free Press 27th)
One man is in the hospital with
his throat cut. three others are car
rying injuries mare or less painful
two are in jail and the authorities
believe they are on the track of two
others wanted, a3 the result of a cut
ting affray which assumed the pro
portions of a small-sized riot in
South Kinston late Sunday night
Following the fiRht Lem. Taylor and
Paul Wooten went to Memorial
hospital, tho farm;r in a serious con
dition from a knife wound clear
across his neck, and Wooten with a
slight knife wound on his face, and
an apparently serious abrasion on his
head, supposed to have been made
with a plpce of scantling. Frank
Hay and Amos Dawson were the
others injured. Dawson has a knife
wound 14 inches long on his back.
Hay was stabbed in one side, the
wound being about half an inch deep
and three inches long, has a gash six
or seven inches long on his breast
and his chin is split open. Wooten
was knocked senseless,- But it was
found at the hospital that his injur
ies were not serious en'ough to hold
him there.
In jail av2 Thad. Braxton and Har
ry Jones, both of Pitt county. .The
Shorlff'3 office says Joe and Holier
Braxton, brothers of Thad. Braxton,
are likely t be arrested in Pitt dur
ing the dav. The men will be held
bailess pending a change in Taylor's
condition.
W. A. Harris, a brother-in-law of
one of the Braxtons, accompanied the
Pitt county men to this city in an
automobile. When the trouble start
id be ran uptown for tne police. He
later told the Sheriff that the party
had had more than two gallons of
wine, and that his companions seem
ed to be about intoxicated- Harris
himself had his coat ripped almost in
two. Sheriff Taylor, policemen and
physicians hurried to the place on
South street, where the affray occur
red. Taylor, Wooten and Hay are
Kinstion men, while Dawson Is a res
ident of Lon.iir county. The story
they told the Sheriff was that they
saw the Pitt men on the street, and
'hat as they passed them "one word"
was passed by someone on one side or
tho wth:r. Tho cutting, they said,
started in "the twinkling of an eye,"
and was over almost as quickly. The
Braxtons and Jones fled after the
cutting. Two were arrested in South
Kinston, while Jones and Thad Brax
ton are believed to have walked to
Ayden. near which place they live.
None of the men cut is believed to
havn been armed. Harris told the
Sheriff that the Braxtons and Jones
had been quarreling among them
selves in a house in the neigh'or
hood before the attack on the local
men. Jones and Joe Braxton are
believed to have been responsible for
the injuries of Taylor and Wooten.
. Around 75 bales of cotton had been
sold here by 3 o'clock Monday, buy
ers , estimated. The high price was
20 tents.'
New York futures quoattions were
- Open Close
January ... . . .t, ..... .20.99
March .. 21.14
May .. .....21.30
20,81
20.95
2114
July ;. 21.45
21.18
(By the United, Press)
Philadelphia, Nov. 22 The po
lice urp trying to Identify a man
who, crazed by a stab wound In
his back, nhoi four persons last
mum. and held a crowd or a
thousand people at bay and es
caped several hundred shot fired
at him before he was captured.
VERMONT DEMOCRATS
DID THEIR LITTLE
PART FOR PRESIDENT
New York, Nov. 25. Wilbur W.
Marsh, treasurer of the Democratic
National .Committee, made public
lore tonight the official statement
of caimpaiarn contributions and dis
bursements which will bo filed In Al
bany tomorrow In compliance with
h? law of New York State. Mr
Marsh announced that there is still
deficit of more than $300,000.
The statement, largely a duplicate
of the one filed in Washington, gives
ho total amount contributed to the
IVmbcratic fund as $1,581,548, of
i'ch $4f,558 was received in
imounts or less man siuu. in me
number of contributors, Texas led
with $14,622, with an average of $4
person. Every town In Vermont
with over 500 population sent a con-
ibution, the total from that Stat:
ing approximately $14,000. Re-
erring to Vermont s snowing, mr.
Marsh said: "If the same rate had
r-nn maintained throughout the
mntry a campaign fund of more
han $14,000,000 could have been
iilsed by subscrpidion."
BONT PINCH, TICKLE
AND COAX 'EM, A NEW
DICTUM OF THE POLICE
"Superfluous arrests" don't look
oid to J. Felix Skinner, chief of
ice. He is discouraging "pinch-
n:r. To an unintormed person tnifl
ms unpoliceman-like, but Chief
kinncr's idea is exactly in line with
tho policy adopted long ago by many
th:; department heads in the big
ies. "Tell 'em not to do these
hings; give them a chance," is hts
plan. The number of arrests made
i:i a month in this little city looks
big. It would indicate that the po
lice aro on their jobs; but it does
nr.t necessarily indicate that they are
on their jobs in the right way all the
time. In recent years the local' po
les force has improved rapidly. It
ij now a splendid outfit for A place
like Kinston. The men are invari
ably iptelligent, willing, neatly uni
formed and courteous. Skinner be
lieves the 'respectable outfit" should
become "educators." Desk Sergeant
Fescue, who used to be a newspaper
ma n would go him one further and
have a course on municipal govern
menit taught In the public schools,
have the cops, make friends with the
kids on tho streets and teach them
what little they can about the busi
ness of aviation in preparation for
tho Great Ultimate. "Some rural
visitors regard the pfclice as friends
especially employed to collar and cuff
and lock them up," is one officer's be
liE.f. "We are goine: to get that idea
cut of their heads." , Every publica
tion of consequence dealing with mo
dern police methods comes to the lo
cal station, and many good things
from them aro being stored up to be
put into practice.
SEVEN LOST LIVES
: IN BURNING HOME
Cape May. Nov. 26. Lewis .Wil
son, his wife, mother-in-law. .'and
four children were burned to death In
a fire that destroyed tho Wilson home
in West Cae May early today. . The
family was asleep wnen the 5 Are
broke out, and neighbors found it Im
possible to save any of them. It b
believed the fire originated in 4 defec-
tive flue.
(Continued from Page Two)
Rome. Nov. 27. Athons dispatches
declare the resignation of the Greek
cabinet is imminent.
Greek dispatches have several
times indicated imnendlnir dlftnnlntinh
or the Lambros cabinet, formed Oc
tober 10. A Teport was had on Sat
urday that the Minister of Justice
had resigned. This is the fourth
ministry formed in Greece in fourl
months.
CARRANZISTAS HIT
VILLI'S AUTOMOBILE
Chihuahua City, Nov. 25. Via
Conrierfo Marfa ,Nov. 2ft. Francisco
Villa's automobile, which was being
used by him to direct his campaign
against the Carranza troops, was
struck by shell fire today and was
abandoned near Fresno, southwest of
the city.
The shell holes and bullet marks
Wre plainly sebn on the sides of the
big automobile when it was found on
the battlefield after Villa abandoned
it and rode away on horseback.
BIG LUMBER PLANT
DESTROYED BY FIRE !
Wilmington, Nov. 26. Fire of un
determined origin destroyed the plant
of the Waccamaw Lumber Company,
at Bolton, twenty miles south of Wil
mington, entailing an estimated loss
of $200,000, insured, early this mdrn-
ng.
(By the Unked Press)
TRAGIC bEATH
THEATRICAL MAN.
New York, Joseph Brooks tho
noted theatrical man, either
jumped or fell from the eighth
story of an apartment here to
day and was Instantly killed.
U. C. V. INVITE PRESIDENT.
Washington, Nov. 22. Presi
dent Wilson was today invited
.'n attend the annual encampment
of the United Confederate Veter
ans in Washington in May. It
will be the first time the encamp
ment has been held north of the
Mason and Dixon line.
GERMANS TAKE A TOWN.
Berlin, Nov. 22. Alexander has
been captured from the Roimianl.
sns In Wnilnchla, says an bffirtal
German statement. The German
advance down both sides of the
Atl rlvr-r valley threw the enemy
behind the Popologue sector.
SOLDIERS' HEALTH GOOD.
It having been reported that a
Kinston soldier on the border, a
member of tho headquarters compa
ny of the Second North Cainollna in
fantry, was seriously 111 and had been
transferred from El Paso to Hot
Springs, Ark., The Free Press Wrote
Us soldier correspondent at Ft. Bliss
for a statement as to the man's con
dition. It follows: " , is
about to dle from ovetreating. His
hot springs will come later, when he
Will be kept constantly on the spring
from the heat, I Imagine. Whoever
aid he was sick, though, went o the
last degree of prevarication. If this
lad croaks it's going to be from indi
gestion or lost of breath because
there won't be any room In him fot
breath at all. We are all well. We
hope to be home Christmas 1917,
t
PAVING Will ALL BE
r ITO&fflED If EW DAYS
,,The paving ton which the city has
expended betwten $400,000 and $450,
0QO -will be oompleted during the
next week . oi ten days, probably.
There will hale been finished abont
ISO blocks, ' or" between ' 10 ,and 11
miles of asphalted roadway, and
somethlntp 'more than a ' scftre ' . of
ciilps of. pare! aicieWallts, . j ;
BULLETINS
Voti FAlkerfiayft'S Aviators
' rf tfefiigees
LONDON IMttOPlFUL
That Wailachian Armies
May Esfcipe fYdm '' h$
German Commander "flas
Laid for Them Ntit ; a
Big Capture Repartecl
(By the United Frets)
London. Nov. 27. News Jlrom Ger
man sources tfitttad renBWsl f Vbpe
here today that Roumanla may axtrl-
:ato herself from the precarious posi
tion in which her Wwlachlnn forces
have been placed by General Von
Falkenhayn's exceedingly 'brilliant
strategical campaign. Hie prime oa
3!b for such nope Is the utter lack in
all of the German dtfrdiaf fdpor'ta of
4ny claims of large eaptaftea 1ftf fcHj
ohers rr material, ftthe ftoumani-
vn army is that actually trappwd by
the encircling movement arfetmd Xr-
lova, it is regarded as certain that
German reports . would have chron-
clod the big cajpturea by now.
Von Falkenhaya Modest.
By CARL W. ACKERMAN, ,-
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Headquarters "of General Von Fal-
kenhayn, Tranylvania Alps, .Nov.
27. "Our task is to destroy the Rou
manian army, and tiia we are doing
is best we can." So spoke Genaraf
Von Falke1inado5 HW fcrdwa
Were wrinkled but hit tyea sfpirklmf
as he submitted to d.uJtlms Ycon-
;crniig m vlctortotia . Wotrresf
aftaJMt Roumania. 1 5 : . . jX
"Our flyers," he eonUnnefl "report
Roumanian roads blocked with peo
ple and wagons, fleeing from Utthi
Wallachia toward the Alt'. ; river.
This is the terrible part of the .war.;
That soldiers should puffer ia war,
but jthat women aid little children
shout' be ut td sucn miseiy. 'lhat
is terrible. But it was fcttflmtataV
holce. Tvoumfinia played with '.' fir
:oo long. ftTow Ae ht etHfift butned."
Bflchares't Aflftifta Retire Aeht,. "
Bucharest, Nov. . 27. Retlrtoent
'rnm the Alt, and also from Topoloa
lightly eastward, of the iRownanlaa
irmies is oflksially reported. ;'-.
Nature Aids Defense. , ,
Petrograd, Nov. .--ythe retiring
'.voumanian army in western wai
achia is taking advantage of all oat
iral obstacles td resist Voit Fttlken-
hayn, it is said officially. Havin
"rossed the Danube bee SraAniUa.
he Teutons haVte placed bbstrvatloa
osts on the river Vede, ocWpytng pe-
utions between Valent and - RUie-
wade.
ot Much Fighting In Wast.
Berlin, Nov. 27. -A French at
tomDt to force an entrance in th4
southern part of the St. Pierre-Vaast
iWood, without artillery preparauon,
,vas repulsed by UCfrmah machine
vun fire, it Is said offldafly. Minor
Ighting only it in progress afotfg the
Somme. East Of Gt WlShJlf, a
French raid fcgamat a 3rtflan '- post ",
failed. ,: ,v v -
n&iro nnur
UlL0 Ur.lAU Ull
(By the United Preat)
Washington, Uar .2TvThe cov.
ernment and railroad attorneys today
marshaled mtertbl for what Ati-"
tmed to e -tite f eatest " ir5dtt.rial
contest in Mceni yw, the test of
fhe'Adimlon'eight-hOar At
torney TJenfefal GM'gof f'h Li Son
il 'charge for Vfie teVei'U.t n'
britnerhc6otfici.U f...'i V i V'e
fines "will keep
ceedicjs. ,
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