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' Kin Free THE ston mms. y PUBLISHED TWICE A WEE K-. W EDNESDAYS AND 8ATUKDAU -. VOL XXXX.froI 26 1 ' KPiSTON, N. C. SATURDAY, DECE31BER 28, 1918 PRICE FIVE CENTS 5 BATTLE FLEET BACK FROM NORTH SEA IN REVIEW IN HEAVY SNOWSTORM; MONSTER SHIPS OF NAVY REACH PORT AT 9 A. M. Daniels on Presidential Yacht Sees Craft Pass In From Anchorage Opposite Bartholdi Statue Mightiest Un its of American Armada Pass Through Narrows While Thick-Falling Flakes Blind Spectators to Bulk of the Big Squadron Street Parade of Men Who Stood Ready Behind Guns Germany's Navy Dared Not Face. Illumination of Men-of-War in Evening Destroyers and Air Scouts Lead Them In PRESIDENT REVIEWS (By the United Press) New York, Dec. 26. In a swirling snowstorm the American fleet coming home from the war passed through the narrowi shortly after 9 o'clock this morning. The Gloucester, a low flying air-' plane and two destroyers preceded the first of the big dreadnaughts. The snowstorm created a condition of low visibility shrouding all but the nearest battlecraft from the watch ers who thronged the shores on both sides of the narrows. Secretary " Daniels reviewing the ships from the yacht Mayflower, dropped anchor off the Statue of Lib erty at 9:30j The ships anchored in Hudson Rhrer at 10:30. Tugs carried the men ashore from the ships fo a parade. The parade started at 1:30. It passed the re viewing stand at 2:30. The fleet will be illuminated at 7 p. m. A dance at the 71st Kegiment armory will be held at 7:30, '.--. "I In the fleet, which is commanded by Admiral Henry T. Mayo, are- the following ships: Pennsylvania (flag ship), New York, Texas, Arkansas, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona,' Okla homa, Florida and Utah. The Utah and New York are division flagships, MORE RIOTING AT Britain Will Care for Her Soldiers' Graves in Distant Countries (By the United Press) London,- Dec, 14 . (Tify Mail).: BeautifiJation and care of thousands of 1 cemeteries in every part of the world will' he undertaken by Great Britain as one of her after-the-war . ' duties', f -'. K-Wf; Plans- for the work already are be ing worked out by the imperial war graves ' commission which recently sent! to France Sir Frederick Ken-, yon, director of the British Museum. Kenyon, who made a survey of the situation, made recommendations for laying out and care of the Cemeteries which the commission adopted. No priwite memorials will be per mitted ' in the cemeteries. Head stones will be identical for men and officers alike as memorials of equal , sacrifice. A corps of architects and "landscape gardeners soon will be sent to France to plan the central memorial for each cemetery .and de- cide on plans for its care and beauti Ikation. - , It is planned to eroct in each cem etery a cross and another monument which, it is proposed, will be "one great, fair stone of fine proportions, 12 feet in length, lying raised upon three, steps, of which the first and third shall be twice the width of the second, and that each stone shall bear, in indelible lettering, some thoughts or words of sacred dedica tion.'' This stone in each cemetery will 'be near the eastern boundary. Arrangements wlill be made in all cemeteries in which Indians are 'buried to conform to their caste and . creed practices. -- ' Although the majority of British sdMiers fell in France and Belgium, cemeteries will number hundreds in other lands, some of which are Meso potamia", Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Gallipoli, Malta, Mudres, Gibraltar, Bulgaria, Italy, Cyprus and China. It is expected work of establishing the cemeteries will require several years. Because of the fact that thousands of Britishers were buried where they fell in France' and Bel gium, the work will fee made most complex. impossible to transfer the battlefield graves. BERLIN; NAVY ATTACK BUILDINGS Many Killed More Trouble Feared Unter Den Lin den Scene Sanguine Fighting Relations With Porte Severed? Tells Sammies Country's Proud of 'Em; Dines ' With Officers IWAS DRAMATIC MOMENT When Chief Executive Stood Before Conquering Troops Visit to Billets- Old Woman With Flow ers Held Up Party (By the United Press) Copenhagen, Dec. 2G. Street fight ing took place Monday and Tuesday at Berlin, dispatches received here state. Sailors laid siege to the foreign office and government build ings in that vicinity.- Many persons were killed in Unter Den Linden. Further disturbances are feared. Turkey Huns' Enemy? Paris, Dec. 26. Copies of the Vossiche Zeitung received here say relations between Germany and Tur key have been severed. Palace Shelled. Copenhagen, Dec. c26. Troops and civilians are joining revolting sailors t Eerlin, according to a dispatch from the German capital. A dispatch sent Christmas night said the gov ernment's position was becoming more dangerous. Details of the riot- ng received here tell of considerable destruction in the course of a hard fight.. The sailors arrived at' Berlin at 7 p. m. Monday. The command er at Berlin, his adjutant and other authorities turned artillery on the sailors, who were holding the royal paalce, and began an intense bom bardment. The walls were shot full of holes and great 'porches were de stroyed. The balcony from which the kaiser made his famous speech at the t beginning of the war was smashed and windows were broken. Kansas Became Great Soldier State After One War; What Now? tllillT THOUSAND OF (By the United Press) 1 I. L lMl fMMV; Topeka, Kan., Dec. 2G.-As the ! Lt It TLILIltHU Kansas boys begin to come beck from the war; and the problem of placing them on the Kansas farms, already pretty thickly populated, is consider ed, the boys' fathers are telling how it was done when they returned from the war, following demobilisation of the Union army, The conversation usually leads to the conclusion that there is no land loft in Kansas for settlement by the returning soldier who has little be sides his strength and determination as capital. There is some land still unhome- steaded in the extreme western part of the State, but it is not suitable for farming. Some of it might be made suitable by irrigation, but no young man who needs to farm for a living could afford to do the irrigating. It would have to be undertaken with public money, and it is fairly certain that there won't he a lot of public money available for the purpose when the boys get home as they already are getting home. The farms from which most of the Kansas boys went will reabsorb most of them without" much difficulty, just as most "of the rest of the country wSH reabsorb most of its quota of soldiers, leaving the unemployment problem not much worse than it was before the war, after peace condi tions have taken the place of war conditions. The question of displac ing woman labor is not so important n Kansas as in the manufacturing states. When the boys came back in the OO's Kansas was practically all vir gin prairie, ana the nomesteau law offered the returning troops such in ducements to take up claims in the new country that they swept into the State like a flood. Kansas had sent to the Union army more soldiers than she had voters, without the use of conscription. When those who were left alive from the 16 Kansas regiments returned, they were ac companied by tens of thousands of strangers. The Kansas State Historical So ciety estimates there were loO.ooo war veterans m the State in 1885. Other thousands had come and gone during the 20 years between the close of the war and that date. Many had 'been chased 'back East during the . first few years of their settle ment by armies of grasshoppers that foraeed the country -much more thoroughly than any of the boys in blue had foraged the invaded South Kansas was distinctively a soldier State. With the energy and enthus iasm of returning conquerors Who had been given a chance, they broke out the prairie, built roads, made their humble homes, -and turned a lesert of coarse grass into a garden empire. The land some or. tne late comers paid $5 an acre for now sells for from ?2.r0 an acre up. There were no bolshevik! among those re turning soldiers, and nobody worried about the social, economic, or indus trial unrest, that might follow their demobilization. There was lan (By the United Tress) London,. Dec. 2$. England is ready to give President Wilson the greatest welcome ever ac corded a distinguished visitor or conquering hero. This in a holi day throughout! Britain "Hott ing Day.'' The London police are prepared to handle the big gest and most exuberant crowds since the victory celebration. The crowds were out early, fill ins? the streets through which the President will ride. (By Webb Miller) With the Army of Occupation, by Courier to Nancy, Dec. 25. A vast sea of tin hats, wave on wave, swept past President Wilson as he review ed 8,000 American troops at Langres today. He told (the officers they would get the kind of peace they fought for and that everybody at home was proud of them and just waiting for tlio chnnce to acclaim the soldiers conquering heroes on their return. The men represented many divis ions- it was a dramatic moment one of the most dramatic in history when the President of the United States stood before the American boys who had come so far from home to fight and win and congratulated them on their victory. After wishing the troops a happy New Year, remarking upon having had to bid them a merry Christmas so far from home, the President had dinner with the officers of the 20th Division. All present wore decora- ions. Then there was a long motor trip in the rain, with occasional flurries of snow and flickers of sunshine. The President visited soldiers' billets. He was cheered all along the routo by the inhabitants. The party halted once when an old French woman ap peared carrying flowers for Mrs. Wilson. There's Big Work to Be Done Overseas; Two Big Tunnels Planned (By the United Press) London, Dec. 11 (By Mail). Kail road tunnels under the straits of Dover and Gibraltar are projected as part of English and European recon struction. Plans already have been prepared. It also is proposed to construct a railroad ifirum "Gibraltar along the northwestern coast of Africa to Da- kkar, Cape Verde, or Bathurst. This, it is planned, would make possible steamlnKit connection with Ira;'.il by which a traveler could go from the Mediterranean to Soulh American in five days. Con nections from England and r ranee would bo almost as quick. WILL BE CHANGE STATUS OE GUARD (By the United Press) Washington, Dec. 2il. That the general staff's recommendations for the country's future .military pre paredness will not include the use of the national guard is the belief of some War Department groups. I no practical killing of the national guard through the decision of Aet- ng-Judge-Advocate Ansell will nec essitate the substitution of another method' of reorganization of the uard in practically all states. NO MOB VIOLENCE; NEGRO MURDERER IS SAFELY IN PRISON Grapevine Humors Dis counted by Sheriff at Snow Hill Positive James Warren Alive and at Greenville KINSTON NEVER HAD BETTER CHRISTMAS; QUIET, BRIGHT DAV Good Cheer and Peace; No Accidents; Beady Bever age Banished KEPT WITHOUT BLEMISH "James Warren is in the Pitt County jail at Greenville. Reliable persons who have been there to see him have so informed mo," declared Sheriff J. K. Herring of Greene County to The Free Press Thursday. Talking over long distance from Snow (Hill, the officer stated that Warren would 'be kept at Greenville until the time of the trial in Greene County. More Happiness Than Ever Before Sammy Was Home and Santa Claus Was Generous Health Situation Better It was the auietest Christmas Warren last week shot and fatally Kinston ever had, and probably the Denver iiugnes, white harm est. The wontW Krif wounded J. merchant nt Lizzie. Warren is col ored. The shootinor occurred over a rivial account. Hughes died soon after being shot. Warren was at arge until Tuesday. Rumors of quiet disposition of Warren or his body as early as last aturday have interested persons in Lenoir. Greene nnd Pitt counties, and the temperature moderate. In the average home there was "more of Christmas" than a year ago. And hundreds of walking Christina pre sents stalked around, back from the camps, ijast-hour shoppers Tuesday riddled the store stocks. . There were almost no drunks, and almost no disorder. The elixir of There has been no lynching, Sheriff jnga was extraordinarily scare, and LOPERS ARE ARRESTED AND MAN LOCKED UP Bowden, Dec. .20. Ed. Cooke, 28 ear-old white man who eloped Sat urday night with 13-year-old Gladys Baars, daughter of Daniel D.iars, has been arrested and placed n jail at Gbldsboro to await trial on the hargo of seduction. Cooke and the girl left Bowden i buggy Saturday afternoon. It was iscovcred about 7:30 Saturday night that they had gone nnd a search wa nstituted. They were seen walkin;. on the railroad during the forenoo Sunday. Monday night officers saw the coudIb get on the train at Genova Jour mules Ibalow Qoldsboro. The girl took a seat in one end of the coach and Cooke at the other end The officers took tha pair into cus tody. THEY WEAR i GOLD STRIPES. Bryant Ipock, wounded in the stomach, and W. II. Heath, minus an arm, passed through the city recent- y en route to their. homes at Cove ity from overseas. They were among thousands of wounded who Pass the Stuff Around; British Sailors to Get $70,000,000 Prize Money London, Dec. 12 (By Mail). Thousands of British sailors are im patiently waiting to receive their share of the naval prize fund of $70,- 000,000 to be obtained from the sale of ships' goods seized by naval ships during the blockade of enemy coun tries. The sale and the distribution of prize money, is under direction of H, W. Lovell, marshal of the admiralty and prize court. Good seized include two live alli gators, woolen underwear, hairpins, dried fruits, tobacco, metals, nitrates and other chemicals, pearls and hu. man hair. 1 RUTHERFORD COUNTY HAS SUCCESSFUL RAT KILLING. Raleigh, Dec. 26. Despite the fact that the epidemic of influenza made it hard to carry on a rat-killing contest in Rutherford County', C. C. Proffit, county agent, reports that In some cases it will be ! the boys and girls did kill a total of 4,012 of the rodents during a contest which he recently conducted. Auth orities of the Agricultural Extension Service at Raleigh figure that a sin gle rat will destroy $2 worth of food in a year. According to this, Kuther EMANCIPATION DAY. Kinston's colored residents will celebrate Emancipation Day January ford County has saved $8,024 worth after a lapse of several years. A of food by the simple elimination of parade and exercise will be held. 4,012 rats. enough for all, and the terms were 1. T.X.J. 1 TM .ima I " "ou,i"- ' "'" returned on recent convoys. that causea oy ram dripping mrougn their shanty roofs. In 1SS1, when the old soldier rule was practically complete in Kansas 90 per cent, of the legislature was composed of old soldiera, and the same class of citizens held practically all the city and county offices in the State. The old boys have retired from most of the public offices now, and are ready to turn them over to the new returning army. Meantime the men who were too young for the first war and too old for the last one, and perhaps had their hands in the little Spanish-Philippine episode, have been helping the old boys hold on till the vounar fellows eet fcacK from uer- many. THANKS CITIZENS FOR SERVICES RENDERED MN WAR-SAVINGS CAMPAIGN (Special to The Free Press) Winstonalem Dec. 20. While the work of the" war-savings cam paign is to be continued until January 1, Col. F. II. Fries, State director, took Christmas as the occasion to express his appreciation to the citi izons of North Carolina for the ser vices they have rendered in the cam paign throughout the year. He says that while the amount of money call ed for in the State's allotment has tiot yet been raised, the campaign is a success. The value of its thrift and other uplifting influences worth all of the effort and expense that it has cost. MR, LEWIS' SANTA CLAOS LETTER TO THE PARENTS OF BOYS A WAITING DISCHARGES (By E. B. Lewis) I have had m-iny requests mothers to assist in securin br.ck to school, and .those who hat from urgent business matters, and depend- dis-jents, should be released as early as charges from the service for their .possible, where they could be spared 30ns. 1 tnim: the difficulties en countered and the reasons for vex atious delays' in so doing can be best shown by relating my own experi ence with the secretary of the navy. Following is a copy of a telegram and the reply: BULLETINS (By the United Press) CRITICAL TIMES. Washington, Dec. 26. Bloody fighting occurred at Berlin around the royal palace Tuesday,- advic es to French diplomatic officials today declared Sailors hurled bombs into the palace and ad joining buildings. At 11 a. m. a truce was called. The dead numbered 68. Many were wound ed. . WILSON REACHES DOVER. Dover, Dec." 26. President Wilson arrived here today from France on his way to London. - Hon. Josephus Daniels, "Washington. "My son Donovan, private, 402nd Cb., T. Battalion, Marine Corps, , Paris Island, S. C, has applied for j discharge in order to continue course ' at university. He writes this morn-' ing that he cannot get leave Christ- J mas because he has applied for dis-: charge. Please have discharge is-, sued by the 22nd or instruct com- 1 manding officer there to give , him I furlough. "ELISHA B. LEWIS." "December 19, 1918. "My dear Mr. Lewis: "I have your telegram of today asking for the discharge of your soa from the naval service. "I have already given orders 'that Have your son apply to his confmand ing officer -ana state fully his rea sons for desiring to return to civil life, and his case shall have atten tion. "Sincerely yours, "JOSEPHUS DANIELS." The Pullman Car Company once received a complaint from a patron stating that he had been greatly an noyed by bedbujrs the night before in his berth on the sleeping car. He received a prompt reply thanking him for the complaint, also stating that they had never had such a com plaint before and were greatly morti fied as well as surprised to know the facts, By accident, the complaint of the patron was pinned to the com pany's reply, and he saw written across his letter in blue pencil, "Send this d d fool our regular bedbug let ter." It looks like I got the Navy Department's bedbug letter. In re ply to a message impossible of mis understanding I am advised to do exactly what I stated J had already done and there is no reference what- the young men who desired to gojevcr to what I requested. Herring asserted to The Free Tress Saturday, I think it was, through the instrumentality of Greene Coun ty searchers two negroes were ar rested in Pitt. The sheriff of Pitt and Judge H. W. Whedbee of Super ior Court drove to tho place Where the price of the small available sup plies -almost fabulous. The police blotter's December 25 page was most uninteresting. It may be that tho lozens of Stills raided in the past three months reduced the moohshin- ng fraternity's facilities until little the men were taken and told whites whisky could be made for the holi- gntnereu there that these men would day9 although it had been said by assist m locating warren" u tney Some authorities that plants- were were pot trouwe.i.. ino possemen plentiful enough. Anyway, some- assured them that violence was not thing happened to keep the juice from inienuou ami mat an tney wantea wou(j.be consulmefs, was the apprehension and trial of jCurb on' Willie. the negro. "Tho search was unsuccessful. Rain came on and hindered it. Fin ally, Tuesday morning, I was notified of the arrest of Warren and his com mitment to jail at Greenville. He was positively identified. The same two negroes may have aided in his apprehension.' Sheriff Herring is positive there has been no violence nnd that' none was intended. It seemed that from a short time after the crime the peo ple of Greene were bent only upon bringing the slayer to trial. Her ring himself is of this opinion, stat ing it in a professed conservative mood. Three Stills Raided Before Christmas; M. D. Leads One Posse Three pre-holiuay raids on moon shine stills were reported by the Sheriff's office here. One in South west Township, where a cold plant was located, was reported Monday, tho others Tuesday afternoon. Fireworks also were comparative ly scarce. Young Kinabon was all but deprived of a favorite holiday di version. Such as ivere obtainable were of the harmless sort. Nowhere in Lenoir County was a shooting through malice or (by accident re ported. ' . There was much journeying jto and fro on trains. Hundreds came, in to pend the day and other hundreds went , away to visit relatives and friends at other places. No Time for Dancing. Christmas eve the manager of a South Kinston dance hall for negroes notified Police Chief Hamilton that the hall would be closed at midnight for a one-hour intermission as per custom, reopening at 1 o'clock. 'No," said Chief Hamilton, "we're not going ts work it exactly that way this time. Well close at mid night, and then at 1 o'clock we'll not reopen." He added something about not desiring any cuttings and shoot ings. So there was no trouble in that vicinity, although the manager, William Dixon, colored, did get pinched later for carrying a gun. Remember This! Tha holidays from now until Now Dr. J. M. Hodges, prominent Mose ley Hall physician, his two sons and Year's will be quietly kept herq. The another man destroyed a plant on public is apparently keeping in mind Dr. Hodges' farm. It was located within 400 yards of the physician's residence, in spite of which fact the operators were not identified. The still was cold when the "posse" raid ed it. They had been formally dep ulized by the Sheriff here. ine Laurange ponce engineered a raid near that town. Sheriff Taylor Thursday said Winfield Rouse, Wil liam Rouse, Doc. Grady and Thomas Hill were at the still and that war rants had been issued for them. One the party was named as tho sus pected operator. tho Health Bureau's warning against public gatherings. It seems that the influenza is getting no worse if it is not actually improving, and the health authorities say that by fore going a few pleasures the public may sscape a second tragic epidemic . Question of Camions; French Railroads May Get Tough Competition AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL "MOVIES" SENT TO RUSSIA. Washington, Dec. 20. The Depart ment of Agriculture has supplied to the Committee on Public Information more than 20 motion pictures show- ng agricultural production, high way construction and forest worK in khis country, to be sent to Russia, at he request of the Russian Primor- koye Provincial Zemstvo, for use in epicting the advanced practices in these activities in America. 1ST DIVISION SUFFERED BIG LOSSES AT THE LAST. Wilmington, Dec. 25. In a letter to hia wife here Lieut. J. H. Sailing peaks with horror of the losses suf fered by the "Wildcats" or 81st Di- ision in the .last two days of the war, right on rp t i tl o'clock on the Ufch of Nove In the lasrt few hours Capt. J t. Loughlin and Lieut. W. H t Davis of Wdl mington lost r l.cs, ' (By the United Press) Paris, Dec. 6 (By Mail). What will become of the thousands of mili tary automobiles and trucks , now in France? is a question frequently heard. It is possible, according to some sources, that the French trans portation system may be practical- mous camions. ' The French, army alone has thous ands of big trucks, which not only carried supplies, but dashed from one part of . the front to another with troops. Should these trucka be turn ed to peaceful pursuits, railway traf fic would be reduced greatly. It is likely they will play a big part in the work of reconstruction, at. least. CZECIIO-SLOVAK COINS. London, Dec. 14. (By Mail). British mint officials aro interested in plane of the Czecho-Slovak nation. for new coinage. The- coins will ba based on the French, franc.
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