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V.,: TTfc REE . 14. PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK-WEDN ESDAYS AND SATURDAYS VOL. XVIII. No. 27 KINSTON, N. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1916 PRICE FIVE CENTS IJf BRAWN BV THIS mm m m ootham prepares lawson says leak INVESTIGATION OF REVIEW OF WILSON 2. FOR FURTHER PEACES BIS S01AYIMADE OVER SIXTY fiflV'NHT 1FE1 EXCHANGE SHOTS ON HAD TO CLOSE CP Of? ACCOUNT SICKNESS IFE AND PRflPFRTY CONFERENCE, 11181 Ml M APRIL ' MILLION WALL ST. BORDER IS STARTED AND ALSO PREVIA1 KJNSTON ESS. ADMINISTRATION Affords Basis for More In terprctations of the Pres ident's Peace Soundings Wilson and Lansing Re main Discreetly Silent (By the United Press) Washington, Dec. 28. Fc?r that the present peace negotiations will fail and this nation then must clear its date oj' the submarine sit uation with Germany grew apace today. But as stated yesterday President Wilson intends to push the peace work to the limit to avoid rny possible subsequent un pleasantness with Germany, if possible. Both President Wilson and Sec-Tet-.-y I rising, however hive decided to maintain distinct silence on this. 'This ir. due it is believed to the fact that they do not wish to appear to ba wcsrir.g a chip on their shoult!c when pence is beinjr talked. There ta new no mistaking officials bcliftve that President Wilson's peace rote, t the t'elligeronts against un bridled rctn of war which would in volve cither American h'ves or rights, sines this Government's attitude in :ue i:obiions which effect proper ty i-j rot compared to the violation effectinc; life., the warning i3 general ly tcrpreted as directed against the central powers. V.e-l'm Thinks Answer Helpful. - Berlin. Dec. 28. The general opin ion m Berlin is that the German at rwer to the Wilson note warmly ap pointed the President's intentions, and perhaps added practical srijprcs-ti-wa for V.-.C conclusion of peace, the nrers hnrersu today announced. It also raid the Teutonic answer was hsnded to American diplomatic rep resentatives at all the Central Pow ers' capitals. It is to be noted that .i. :'.""ve cispatcn apparently wa filed befo'-e the text of the German not bu the text was jriven prefer ence and came through first. Confidential Terms Vi ith Note. Washington, Dec. 28. Germany's if'-vwer to Wilson's pence note reach "! the State Department today. It n "fated by an official that nothing rorfidential was attached to the an swe- although it had been suggested t"' Gernviny might frive her terms euy- -in an accompanying mes sage to Gerard for transmission here. Tl, . ... i"pie3 sent rr.e President are understood to he practically the same w the press text. Switzerland Gets Same Answer. Amsterdam, Dec. 28. Germany and Austria have replied t Switzer land's reiteration of President Wil son's peace suggestions with practi cally the same phrases in which they acknowledged the American note, German dispatches today said. MILITANT SUFFRAGISTS ARE STILL MILITANT IN A DIFFERENT WAY By WILBUR S., FORREST, (rcitcd Press Staff Correspondent) London, Dec. 1. (By MiI)-Eng land's militant suffragettes .are still on the warpath. t -But the battle of the .militants has turned frpm smashing windows for votes to an .energetic campaign ageipst passive war maker and, pa cifists.,, - ,. . "fhf stiff ragettt raies.are prin cipally lighting for tig battles," Miss Jejs Kenney, one of tlfe leaders, ex plained tdiay. -Most important' is . campaign to fofce Engjand'a min- utera to fght the warv,to finish. "' k fiffhtl"S ibl Souft Wales f Jfeace cranks abound; W are .pnhe; Clyde,:, in Scotland, T- tfsfa. are' interfQring-.with ?T-f-srfinj lastly, we'" are' send:' ig- tur wJ1l'e's L.io rnoniAii -u ' to 1,'p t -j v; .. . . Growing Peeling, In Wash ington that First Chief lias Not Signed Protocol, and Is Submitting Coun ter Proposals (By the United Pres.;) Washington, Dec. 28. That Carranza 'has not signed the troop withdraw al protocol, but instead has again submitted counter; proposals, is the. growing belief here. This is so even in those official cir cles, where earlier today the hope was e:p;esed that the first chief ul timately would sign. Men in close tench with the situation said they believed Carranza will swk nnott.br ;ic:ce conference. Such a request i. expected to be subiniVH by Ciiair-rn-.n Cab'-era of the I'-C'lcrn Ci'mmis Aion when he sees Secretary Lane early this afternoon. cones Ti e farmers were n'.'i cole the CiU'istmas holidays Tue.l. rating iV, am! .here ve. e no receipts ( 'r.; loc.il j cotton market. The local market J ivj'ild have ottered from lu to lb l-:. fu Now Yo.k January closed 2D pciats higher than the opening fig ure. sew TorTf qfiotations: Open 10.r)0 i';..S'j lT.'Jii 17.4.) i:..t: Close lfi.TO 17.10 17.,'ii) 17.47 l"i.fii) f si : fary il:,rch r..- .. October Spot . . No local receipts, ing evidence of a M.DO The market priv little stiffening. New York January closing figures 40 points above opening. There was : plight decline after the openir.g, jut this was soon overcome. Today's New York quotations: Open ("lose January 17.28 iuarcn I,.) n. .1:1 May 17.;0 17.S2 July 17.5-1 17.92 Octaer 15., 7 lli.36 There were no local Receipts or? the cottcn exchange Thur?i!ay. Lo .'?! buyers ate not lockinp icr much, if any, oT the fleecy stip e t-1'3 week. One local buyer vai in posi tion to offer an'advaitee of f oat cue i:t1 !i quarter cents over trie ma "Let for Thursday a week ago. New York Quotations. Open January 17.37 March 17.73 May 18.00 July 17.98 October 10.4(1 Spot Close 17.03 .34 .02 12 17. in TORNADO SWEPT ARK. LEAVING DEATH IN TP AIL Little Kock, Ark.. Dec. 27 Hrports tonight from virtually all of the and larger settlements in the '.rea swept by yesterday's tornado in South Central Arkansas place the r-itr-'ber of killed at 12 and the injur ed at 50. No accurate estimate of the property damapc was . available toniprht, although acme reports indi cated that the loss might reach $3, 000.000. Six of those killed were white per sons. Frank and James Bridges, students at Ouachita College, who were spending the Christmas holi days with relatives, were crashed to death when their home at Double Wells, was' demolished; ,, Albert ;KL. Schwartz, ' fanner, was killed near England and three ' children,' Choice and ' Allalee :: Padjret , and. ; France ?pot, -Vera li"eJ .-near C? "'".!. ' .. - . j - 'Blily, the Great, Will Des- ccud Upon Wicked and Worldly American Metro polis With All Force of Remarkable Organization By GEOIIGE MARTIN, (I'nitod Press Staff Correspondent) New York farces, both s Dec. 28. Powerful iter and henirtn, are li"!"!' lip 1 e today for the case of Ttilly Sunday vs. Broadway, Wall stuet. ;,., mi.i, et al which goes j to trial April 1. what port of reception Sunday arH his old-tmie shoutinir Methodist camp meeting style will get in the world's j ravo-t, ial c che'-.t, wic'-rcdest, most ma , i: ihe subject of much ' ::!-. alr.t'on amonpr the residents. ' It will lie a baUle royal, a'-d prep- i'"t:!ii.; rre bein'r maje accordingly. T.trn id'vay. as Mroadway, seems tc have paid little heed to Sunday's piers. Rut scratch the surface and vcu fii'd that what Cyclone Davis ct!!.? The Kovs cf Kooxe and Boodle arc not asleep. Tht; !H!l,'j;-c!-ent "Billy, though busy willi Iiosi.m, i watch'ng carefully t-rv move !p 1:'s p-e'iminarv cam- ij.ri. brre. " ?;"r.:Lv it Al'eady a small army i are organizing the big wn. "!:i!!v S.ind.w, Incorporated," with 0f - u na j. Kf.csc oi.cr. jr., as ore 01 j the principal stockholders, is offi cially in exHencc in New York City. Plan-; fnr the erection of the mnm Tiot'i t:i'iernac'e, the great pine and T.wd'.ist tervnle for the spiritually .mwa.-hc.l. are well under way. Comml; !i-e!Tip:: and women have !i"i '.v! the city into sections and the rr.pul .ii.'iii mti c - cs for organ iza ';a c;i a house to house and man to ;t rt basis. Xo one hr.s l.een neffleeted. Bible meetinK and sons: services will be held d-'!y on the Xew York Curb .! '! .1 tiie portals of the New York ."' re'; r:..ba:uro. Wall Street will r- i for the spiritually un- .i ! :. That work i:; even now un-.!.- way. 1 :bly. Sundry faces the V.iv of a lifetime in New York. V.'al! Ptreet, whone hall mark is Mi 'ts sbiM in' a I -rnb; Bohemia, with its looe leaf ledger weddings, j bf-er.der souls and sun god cultn. Tl shims, steered i'i squalor and ie;- :: la'ioti frc-m which uptown res--'ct; ' i'iitv ilistilh pure gold. The homes of the gunman with bis r: -'I t sra'e of murder prices ,p ! ( f the printed la.ly who drives ij.-j! -ine and reckons her in ?ome in ?ix fiirures. All these and fore are bete for Sunday to deal with. Tlirr.er Rodeheaver, Sunday's choir dire"'-.', cxr-ects to organize a dou ble cinir of 8,000 to 10,000 voices. Ccv-fe G. Dowie will lead the -.'170 t'ail hitters from Philadelphia -.d e' -p'.hct o. some of them having been converted seven years ago. Those will be used to prove that S i"day conversions are not "flash in the pan" work. Xothiit: is being left undone to nave the wav for Sunday's triumph mt !! !.::' ie upon New Y'ork; nor, on 'he other hand, is anything left un-r!-Tto to pave the way for Sunday's triumphant advance upon New York; ncr. on the other hand, is anything left undone to circumvent his efforts. RUSSIAN LINES PIERCED BY HUNGARIAN FIGHTERS (By the United Press) Berlin, Dec. 28. The capture of three thousand more prisoners, bringing the total Russian soldiers imprisoned during1 the engagement ahont'fiimnicu-Sarat ' to ;ten thous and, la. anno I officially. ThevX3ei-sushed beyoikl Eim-rcB;?r-rst. "hji he Hungarian, sol "r? V i ioHiteait , pierced the '' " etl rrdlua- o j Predicts Lack of Quorum Both Houses When In vestigation Is Called Will Last for Weeks, It Is Thought (By the United Press) Washington, Dec. 28. Over sixty million dollars , was made in Wall Street bv those having advance infor- : mat-lOll on Wilsons' peace , note, according to a tele - !?vr,m received today from Thomas Lawson by Kepre - putative Wood. The message said if it is actually i believed in Washington that there I tvoulii be u real investigation to last i fc - weeks into the alleged leak, j 'here would pot be a quorum in eith- i r- tne tioase .senate aiomiay. 'ere wonld ' e a shi'tin? of bank sugar nit.i sinihir to tho.so in ligation days. WJMZ MEN'S ANTI- mm league m. y the U:n;M Tress) Lexington, Ky., Dec. 27. Special trains from St. Louis and Chicago and ; necial cars from all parts of the country wiii start for this place to- r'.i:rht with several thousand members the Students' National Intercolle giate Prohibition Association's rin tioral convention here tomorrow. W. J. Bryan is to be tihe big feat ure o" the meeting; and it is plan ned to give the Commoner the orga nization's assurance that has its com pete support in his national prohibi tion fi.Tb.t. Mr. Bryan js expected to outline some of his plans for na- l:onal will e prohibition. 1 December The 31. convention BIEHTIfi SUK iDKS BECAUSE OF HUNGER. London, Dec. 28. There are r?;u'y food demonstrations in the the chi'-'f cities of Austria-Hungary, where great misery is felt and hundred. of suicides occur red during December, it is re ported by Exchange Telegraph dispatches from Geneva. CLYDE LINER IS SAFE. Boston, Dec. 28. The coast gunrd received word that the lost Clyd steamer Ozama was saie in Block Island harbor. THMGS THAT oy GKrfS i ''MM i i i MARBLE j MALL . I ' I i fk i l.r - rV ' " Kentuckians and Mexican Snipers Still Gunning for Each Other Three Hun dred Shots Fired Thurs dayReports Conflict (By the United Press) El Paso, Dec. 28. Be cause of conflicting reports of affairs, an investigation w under way looking into 'the outpost skirmish early 'today between Mexican and 1 American snipers and a pa trol of the 3rd Ky. Guard, in wfhich more than 300 shots were (k'ed across the Rio Grande by guardsmen after a fusilade of shots came from the Mexican side. The entire city wa.i aroused by heavy fir ing. P.egular army officers in the vi- i-i'iity declare they heard no Bhots fr.-m the Mexican side, while other officers of the guard on patrol duty state that scattered firing continued :'or several minutes from the other bank. GREENSBORO FLANS FOR mtm HOTEL SOON Big Stock Company Organized and Papers Forwarded to Raleigh for Incorporation Will I'uribly toit $320,000 and Be Complied 1!l!T Greensboro is planning to put the finishing touches on her plans for a big hotel. The agitation has been on for some time, and a big stock company has been organized to build a palatial affair to cost about three hundred thousand dollars. The Grepsboro News of Thursday morn ing makes the following statement: By Christmas, 1917, Greensboro will have her new hotel. This was "ssurel yesterday when the second lay's work of the hotel committee re sulted in complete success. The $75, 0G0 capital stock which had to be :ilacod "with .business men and others here was subscribed for and the com mittee, losing not a day, has for warded proper papers to Raleigh to the Secretary of State for the imme diate incorporation of the Greensbo-, ro Hotel Company. This means that in a year's time possibly a month or two mor or less this city will have a $320,000 hotel which will probably surpass in beauty and con venience any hotel between Washing tan and Atlanta. Subscribe to THE FREE PROSS &EVER UhPt BYRNES I 1 1 I ' i r l 1 1 1 -ill Some of the Eventful Inci dents of Worldwide Mo ment Staged During Past Four Years at the White House By ROBERT J. BENDER, (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Dec. 28. President Wilson faces a new year fairly teem ing with the portentous problems in international affairs. Peace discus sion in Europe with the President as one of the foremost characters in the drama loomed large on tne year's horizon. Behind this vision however, there rose Intricate and dangerous questions of trade and di nkmocv. the readjustment of work! affairs and the economic revolutions bound to follow the close of the war. In brief, 1917 promises to be the most eventful twelve months of Mr, Wilson's administration. The year nevertheless made its bow at the White House mildly, inaugurating no changes in the President's regu !ar program of daily work. Lookinp back on 1916 the calendar pap;e3 disclose twelve months of al most constant strain at the White House. "Our own rights as a nation, the liberties, the privileges, and the perty of our people have been pro foundly affected" as a result of th war, the President declared recently The White House itself has housed iome of 'the most dramatic scenes in its history. Full details way neyw be told of the dramatic conference between the President and adminis tration leaders in the library of the executive mansion when it appeared inevitable that the United States would be drawn into war with Ger many. It was then the President told Sen ator Stone of the Senate foreign re Intinms committee that if another American life were lost as a .result cf violation by Germany of hej pledges to this country on submarine warfare, the only course left open to him, was to sever diplomatic relations with Germany. And questioned as to whether or not such action would mean war, the President " replied he had 'been told it would. It was followed by an effort to pass resolutions in Congress warning Am ericans off armed ships. There was another dramatic con ferenee in the White House. The Gold room, famed for its Spectacular social events during years gone hy was opened to - crvnfreree between he President and 6D0 railroad train men in an effort to ward off a nation-wide railroad strike. This was followed by the appearance of rail road executives, representing mil lions of dollars of capital, and for days the conference went on to no avail. Immediately afterward the Presi dent went before Congress and forc ed the passage of an eight-hour law, averting the strike. Then came the election. The Pres dent himself tells an interesting sto ry of the occasion when the returns gave the result first to Hughes and then to Wilson. During Tuesday evenme he wai with Mrs. W lson and his daughter, Margaret, m the library of the man sion hearing the returns. They were a dubious lot of returns, and after ail the New York papers had award ed the victory to Hughes there seem ed little hope for him in the outlook. "I retired about 12:30," the "Presi dent eaya, ttlimg of his feelings, and at that time the situation could not be termed encouraging I was 'having the next morning when my daughter, Margaret, who has risen early in order to "eaten a Vain for Now York, came up and informed cne I was elected. ' " 0, paw!' I f to for, Vhat c3 j it !? 1 1 ' ivc t cf Attendance at Others Gut to 50 Per Cent. Because pt Prevalence of he Measles and MumpsNo Health Officer ... The need fof a whole-time health officer in the county la made teare apparent by the fact that two of tha county schools were forced to close prior to the holidays oh account of the prevalence of measles and the mumps. The Hugo and Sand Hill schools, the latter one of the largest in the county, employing three teach ers, suffered from the epidemic of the disease to that extent ' ,v" Not only were these two schools closed, but teachers' reports in the office of Supt. Kinsey for the month of December show a considerable fall ing of in attendance at most of the schools. This decrease, attributahle to sickness, ran as high as fifty per cent, in some of the schools the week just before Christmas. v About a year ago the County Board of Education undertook to adopt ' .suggestion of the health department to have medical inspection in tin schools, but the county commission ers could not see their way clear to make a small appropriation for the work, and nothing was accomplished in that direction. -? -i , , i - J'wS SPORTS WINNERS OF 1916 Profcssional Baseball. World's iChampiona- -Boston Amer- icans. National League Champions- Brooklyn. American League Champions- Boston. National League Champion Bats man Hal Chase, Cincinnati. American League Champion Bats man Tris Speaker, Cleveland. National League Champion Pitch er Grover C. Alexander, Philadel phia. American League Champion Pitch er 'tfabe Kutn. Boston. r Football. Leading Eastern Team Pittsburg. iBig Nine Conference' Champion- Ohio State University. " Leading Pacific Coast Team Uni versity of Washington. Leading Middle Western Teams4 Leading Southern Teams Georgia Tech. and Tennessee. Golf. National Amateur Champion CJias. Evans, Jr., Chicago. National Open Champion Chas. Evans, Jr., Chicago. : t Professional Champion James M. Barnes, Whitemarsh Valley Country Club, Pa. ;);', 'ennis. National Singles Champion Norris Williams II, Philadelphia. National Doubles Champions Wm. M. Johnston and Clarence J. Grif fin, San Francisco. National Mixed Doubles Champions Willis E. Davis, Cal., and Hiss Eleanora Sears, Boston. National Women's Singles Cham, pion 'Miss Molla Bjurstodt, Norwyt National Women's Doubles Cham pions Mies Molla Bjurstodt, Nor way, and Miss Eleanora Sears. Bel- ton. v Turf. V' Biggest Money Winner JCampfire,. owned 'by August Belmont during tha season, and sold at the close. i. Light Harness Horses. Trotting Champion "Leo 'Axwor-. thy, 1:58 1-4, world's recprd. Pacing Champion Napoleon Di- rectrect, 1:591-4. . ""! AniemobOea. ' . ; - " - ! National Champion Dario Rested Trap Shooting, ; ; - " Grand "American ' HandicAp John F. Waif, MUwa-ukee. !; -" vi World's Profenonet Ch.T hn- f ...e s