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The Kin R ID) . ID ID 1 I P. "V": y .. jJs lit. . -j PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK-WEDN ESPAYS AND 8ATUBDA1I VOL. XXXX No. 51 KINSTON. N. O: SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS bolshevists may revolt in austria and: jczechoslovakia; hungary turns eorhally, Peacefully to socialism TAFT AUTHOR FOUR MISS SHOTWELL TO 'JOHN CAMERON GOES ' ' .' ' '"Ml,'''''.' f I t " i i t." . : vhll mm HELD FOR COURT; SMALL BAIL EXACTED BY FOSCUE CHARLESTON TEACH THRIFT FOR TO STAJE HIGHWAY PARIS THE RESERVE BOARDiBOOY FOUR YEARS mm CAROLINA SOLDIEpS ON RACING MERCURY Military Mission at Vienna Tells Government Allies Are ' Ready to Increase Food Supply People Excited Over Events in Hungary New Army at Budapest Draw ivg $90 Per Man Monthly Bessarabia Proclaims In- dependence and Begins Attack on Roumanian Forces Occupying Country Pooh to Demand That Germans Aid in Getting Polish Garrison Established at Danzig (By: the United Press) " Berne, Mar. 27. A Bolshevist uprising in Austria and Czechoslovakia is imminent, according to advices re ceived here. Any move in those countries against the Hungarian soviet government is expected to precipitate trouble. "The British 'mi Mary mission at Vienna, it is re ported, has notified the government that the Allies are ready to increase Austria's food supply if order is main tained. The Austrian population is greatly excited over events in Hungary. ' ' (Copyrighted by the United Press) 'Budapest, Mar. 25 (10 p. m.) The new soviet republic was firm ly established today without .disorder or bloodshed, with amicable relations continuing 'with the i Allied repre sentatives. All aliens and Allied soldiers arc at complete liberty. The poularity of British and American officers not diminished. Everything' in the country has been socialized, from the army down (o baths. ThUt 'reorganization has been accomplished with the apparent approval of the wealthy and aribto erotic as well as the poor and hum ble. The red army is being organiz ed jityrely on a volunteer basis, con scription being abolished as soon as the communist government took hold The soldiers are paid $90 monthly. "They- are clothed," fed " and equipped without charge, and in addition re ceive extra pay for support of their ' families. ',, Bessarabia Says She's Free. Warsaw, Mar. 25 (Delayed). Bes sarabia has proclaimed its independ ence, established a soviet republic and begun an offensive against the Roumanian army of occupation, a dispatch from Chotin announces. iBeczjarabia is a former province of Russia bordering Roumania on the northeast. It has been claimed and occupied by Roumania. Danzig Be Occupied Soon. ionaqn, Mar. zy. The .Fans cor respondent of the London Times states he understands the big four have decided that Marehal Foch shall demand that the Germans fa cilitate the landing of Polish troop? at Danzig. A Big Health Problem for the United States (Special to The Free Press) Washington, Mar. 2(7. Fifty per cent; of the 25,000,000 boys and girls of school age have physical defects that : impede normal development, Willard S. Small, school hygiene specialist of the Federal Bureau of Education, said in an address before the American Public Health Assoc iation. ' : ' After declaring that the Nation's need of physical education is imper ative, the' speaker pointed out that 2,500,000 men in the first draft were disqualified for active military ser vice because of physical defects. j The physical education needed must assume physical activity as the hasic thing, the speaker added. There must be wholescme physical environ ment, individual physical examina tion and record, and medical super vision of schools. : ; BULLETINS I MORE TRANSPORTS. i Washington, Mar. 27. The return of American troops from France will be speeded with the commissioning of the first 12 German liners loaned the United States , for transport The German steamship Cleveland was commissioned at Spithead on the Thames yesterday, the Navy De partment announces. DEMOBILIZATION FIGURES. Washington, Mar. 27. The War Department announces that incomplete reports up to March 19 bring thetotal of discharged enlisted men to 1,381,698. Written at Request of President Ex-President Working With Present Executive By Means of Cable, Stated (By the United Press) Washington, Mar. 27. Ex-Prosi- dent Taft is working by cable with President ; Wilson- in an effort to amend the league of nations coven ant so. as to make it acceptable to the opposition Republicans. This was officially disclosed when the White House let it be known that the peace conference at raris is working on four amendments writ ten by Taft at the request of Wilson. Vessel Beats "King of Neth erlands" Across From France Headquarters 30th Division and Other ;i I. t i t -,-, - Units Aboard EXPLAINS GENESIS OF HORROR STORIES (By the United Press) Charleston, S.. C., Mar. 27. The transport Mercury, racing with the Koningen Der Nederlanden, arrived here shortly after daybreak this morning. She brought na'tionul guard troops. Thousands lined the water front to view the troops, who will be sent to jCamp Jackson. SOth'g Headquarters Aboard. Aboard the Mercury are units of the 30th (Old Hickory) Division, headquarters of the Seventh and Sixth Infantry Brigades and several other units. Local Educator Goes to Government's Employ Will Work in This State Handsome Present From Lenoir Teachers Miss Mary G. Shotwell, assistant Governor Gets as Good a Republican as Possible to Serve Wth Three Demo cratic Members Is a Progressive John E. Cameron of Lenoir County Army Rumors Largely Responsible For Yarns About Conditions at Brest Little First-Hand Dope States. to GASOLINE DOI TO 14 CENTS MEMPHIS (By The United Press) Memphis, UVlar. 1. uasoljne is selling . at 14 cents a gallon in Mem- nhis. nrnekirallv nnn-Jialf the nriee 1 , - .7 1 1 11. . ., 1L. charged a week ago, as the latest explanation is prooaoiy lounu m u.e develnnment in an old-fashioned cut- lack of communication for individuals VANGUARD OF 30TH WILL LAND; CHARLESTON FRIDAY, Charleston, (Mar. ' 27. According to official : advices the transport Koningen; der iNederlanden with the vanguaid of the-30th Division, in- By Fred S. Ferguson eluding the famous 115th Field Ar (United Press Staff Correspondent) tillery, will reach here shortly ' after Paris, Mar. 10 (By Mail). Judg- noon. This probably means that the ng from reports drifing back to I troops will remain on board until Europe, (America is now getting all I early Friday morning because of the the thrills of the old "blood-curdling" desire to get the imen to Camp Jack- stories that have been drifting around I son in the daytime. France for months and ; some of them for years through returning soldiers. They are the product of one of the greatest rumor factories the world ever saw the Allied arm ies. The stories of the "horrible" con ditions at Brest, and of many men dying there( are i probably traceable to this curious f eatoe of army life. Most of the stones which were so glibly spun to New York reporters probably originated on, the boats en- route to America. One man heard another tell someone of what some one eke had told him, and by the time the boat docked everyone on board was Drobabiy convinced -that men were "dying like flieB" at E'rest. The record of the Brest camp, as described by a United Press Corre spondent recently, after 'visiting Brest, disproved some of the stories. But "horror" stories will continue to reach America. The best off-hand ting war between the Standard Oil Company and the Gulf Refining Com pany, StiH Wasn't Quite So Near His florae; Oscar Hardy Makes Correction "Evidently your informant was mistaken in either the location of my residence or the location of the still found tip this way last Friday," Mr. Ocar Hardy writes The Free Press from his Seven Springs home, "as your paper stated it was found about : 400 vards from tnv home. It was about one and one-half miles from' my home. "While I don't feel in the least of fended at the error, yet the article was calculated to leave tne wrong in the army. As an example, imagine what would happen in your town if there were no newspapers; if conditions of threatening death constantly pre vailed; if there was a big fire, or an explosion every night; if you had no responsibility other than that of do- ng some particular job assigned to you, while someone else saw that you were fed and had a place to sleep. There being no newspapers, the only way you would have of learning what happened at these fires and explos ions would be through what someone told you. DONALD rCcALL, Second Lieutenant, Company B, " Tank Corpa .'.' ; ; Lieut. Call jR'aa. decorated for conspicuous bravery In action near Varennes, France, Septem ber 26, 1918. During an opera tion against enemy machine gun nests west of Varennes, Lieut. Cull, then corporal, was In a tank with an officer, when half of the turret was knocked off by a direct artillery hit. Choked by gas from the' high explosive shell, he left the tank and took cover in ' a shell hole thirty yards away. Seeing that the of flctr did not follow, ami think ing that he might be alive, Corp. Cull returned to the tank under intense) machine gun and tdii-ll fire and carried the ollicer ovoe a mile under machine gun ami sniper fire to safety. Lieut. Call's home Is at Larchmont Manor, X. Y. superintendent of schools, of Lenoir jhos been appointed Republican mem County, has resigned to become field :ber of the new State Highway Corn- director for thrift educational work (mission. The Raleigh News and Ob- the Fifth Federal Reserve D is- server Thursday said the Governor trictr Miss Shotwells territory will be the State of North Carolina. The Government has recognized thrift ns a great factor for national betterment, and the work started dur. ing the war will be continued during the yeare to come. Experts will Irill the subject into the millions of school children. i . Miss Shotwell is a native of Ox ford. She was educated at Trinity College. She taught in the Kinston Schools three years, has been super visor of rural schools in Granvilla County and for the past two or three years has been assistant superintend ent in Lenoir County. Miss Shotwell told the County Teachers' Association about hec in-' tention to leave the county a few days ago. A love feast followed and tears flowed freely. Afterward Miss Shotwell found a handsome brooch in her room, with no explanation of its presence. No step has been taken, to employ a successor to miss onotweii. Negro Trusty Describes Al leged Robberyt Conspir acy in Magistrate's Court. First Degree Trial for Principal Will Gorham, colored convict who Wednesday confessed to two rob beries of dwellings, , Wednesday eve ning entered a plea of guilty before Magistrate K. F. Fnscun anil vu . naa named t rank (Page f Aberdeen, committed. J Ha is bein"liM hail. jainca iv. inorjjieei or winscon-saiem and James G. Strikeleather of lAahe- ville and 'Mr. Cameron to constitute the commission. Pago will serve six years, Camer on four and the others two. Mr. Cameron represents the eastern third of the State. "Governor Bickett did decidedly better for the miml ity les for Superior Court. ' Gorham will be tried for first degree burglary. E. W. Mincher, white boss f con victs, ,who was arrested following Gorham's arrest, having been impli cated by the latter, was held in ?50 bail on the charge of receiving stolen goods f and having- knowledge that it was stolen. (Magistrate Fos- representative tnan he might have," cue considered the evidence weak as necause ne could have appointed him to Mincher. Rainy April Would Be Big Help to Bonds, Say "Praying for rain" may be re sorted to by good roads advocates here during the few days preceding April 15, when Lenoir County will vote on a bond issue for $2,000,000 for road improvements." Hhe trea son is obvious, f riends ot better highways would have the mud deep over the county about the time the election is held, as a first-class ally to the pro-bonds faction. COTTON. Local receipts! Thursday were heavy. Prices ranged from 24 down ward. ... . . BIRTH REGISTRATION : AREA TOO LIMITED, Washington, Mar. 27. The Unit ed btates is behind in a very lm portant feature of ' its national ac counting, according to a pamphlet just issued by the Children's Bureau lUnited States (Department of La bor. Only 20 States register the W) per cent, of their births necessary for them to be admitted to the birth registration ' area of the United States. These States include little more than half of the population of the !oountr Most irfodern Euro pean countries have very complete sysltems of birth registration, and have had them for years. for two years instead of four. Mr. Cameron, says the News and Observer, "is a practical farmer and a robust Republican, and stands for good schools good roads and the beet interests of rural North Carolina. In addition he has had considerable travel to enlighten him on the work of other states. He is a Mason of high standing in the fraternity." Lieutenant Page, chairman of the new commission, recently returned irom t ranee, uovernor iBickett ap pointed Uiim because he Carved in roadbuilding work with the am Gorham on the stand declared that Mincher had put him up to robbing E. A. Adrey, a confectioner, of a sum oi money which Adrey at the time placed at about $300, and John T. Hearne of $202. It was after the robbing of Hearne during Tuesday night that the negro, a trusty from the county stockade, wa (racked down and arrested. - Gorham told a straightforward story, but it was not born out en tirely by other witnesses. Thad Tyndall said he had seen gold coins, identified as Adrey's property, in the overseas, it is said. France has mod- possession of Mincher. Ed. jBarnei el highways.. . colored, was a witness who knew no- There is general approval here of thinir" about the matter, fc id. the Governor's choice of Farmer supt Frank Rhem aid Mincher had Cameron to be a member of the shown, him the coin on the road and board. He is popular with both Dem- ,Mked if he thoueht Gorham had ocrats and Republicans in Lenoir 3toen them. Rhem said he had re-County- ' iDlied that he " suessed not nnd t.ht The board will assume He duties Itw w. nf vln. : iti.J April 1. AMERICAN SOLDIERS " MAY STAY IN CHINA. No Annette Kellermans Among These Monkeys How Taxes Will be Raised Pay for County Road Bonds New Orleans, Mar. 27. A monkey detests water. There are no Annette Kellermans among the Simiane. A imnression on some neonle that do not mnnkev refuses to cross a stream. The amount of bonds to be sold to produce the necessary funds to' con struct hard-eurfaced permanent know the circumstances. I Was not Theie icharaeteri f;ics have given roaaa, inorougniares, nignways, ana .wnro f thp Wntinn nf the still, hirtl, tv a. new idea in the minds of bndges in the county is to be de- though I had formed an opinion there (members of the Audubon Park com- was one in the swamn or wooas I mission nere. witn me reauii, where it was found." monkey island will be established in TTio Vret Prps Is ld to civs Ithe renter of the lake at Audubon space to Mr. Hardy's letter, and is Park, gratified over his good nature in The island will be provided with the matter. He continues: "If you trees and a jungle, dear to the men "1 don't mind. I would be. elad if you key heart, and the tribe oi monies would publish a; short item in the lo- imported from the Central and South cals' which would throwa little dif- American forests, will be able to Iferent shadow on the matter, as 'a swing from limb to limb and desport large- still found about . 400 yards themselves with as much freedom as from the residence of 0-scar Hardy, they did in. the days when they were a prominent resident of .that sta tion,' is a little bit too near to be a comfortable feeling unless I had (By The. United Press) Richmond, iMar. 27. Reports from Winchester, where a mob assembled t night on account, of the death of Raymond Shackelford, alleged boot g?W shot by officers of the prohi bition department, indicate that the -"wroance has - subsided. No can i or MILITARY TRAINING V ' k CORPS AT UNIVERSITY. "home" in their native jungles. ALLENBY AT CAIRO; BETTER Chapel Hill, Mar. 27. tA unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will be established at the University (By The United Press) Cairo, Mar. 27. General Allenby, of North Carolina within the next conquerer of Palestine, who has been troODS from h pm Yin a Koati re. nrn ap thro a vwl arrarHintr tn nre- annotated military commander ef e'ved bv fha ii;M.nfn...i rr I . xroiw M 'rvrfnrH Ii fjrvnt' has arrived here. It is of Iicers aav th nK -j.i nnj l.,k;) .r.r.ii'.finn fmm no men f-raVv announced that the situation desirinir to take the course 14 more continues to improve. Opposition to than the necessary quota of ,100. the British authorities is dying out Bay the moh wa nrforltf an,T n time was any indication of ftolenx shown. trrom tne cnamDcr oi commerce, poses would produce tvi.bvv. to provide for the retirement of the first series of bonds, $150,000, in five years, and to pay interest at 6 per cent, on the whole issue, will re quire about $120,000 a year for the first five years. The present rate of 45c for road purposes will produ irw). meretore we muet raise the rate now levied for road purpo3 es from 45c to 80c, an increase of 35c, and this on the road tax aleno. It does not change or raise in any ,way the remainder of the levy, which jis for other county purposes. The amount to be raised during the first five years is larger-than for any sue ceeJing tive-year period because a series i matured each period, paid for and done with forever, and the interest on that series need no long une series is to mature every live er be provided for. The amount to years, beginning June 1, 1924, the be raised each year for the last five last series maturing in 1949. - jyPar period will be only $50,000. To provide for the payment of the It will be seen from the foregoing principal and interest, as each be- (that hard-surfaced, permanent roads, comes due, our road tax rate must thoroughfares, highways and bridges, be increased materially. A proper 'can be built everywhere in Lenoir estimate of this increase must be I County they are needed, every square based upon -the revaluation of prop- foot of land doubled and trebled in erty already ordered hy the General 'cash value, every convenience of ci Assembly for 1920. Our county val- vilization brought to every man's uation is now about $11,000,000, It door, the county placed in the van is reasonable to believe that a re (guard of progress and acclaimed ev- valuation "will raise that to $15,000,-,ery where the brightest spot in the 000 of more. With that as a basi, South, hy raising our road tax 35c the present rate of 43c for road pur- on the hundred dollars. termined by the County Highway Commission when duly constituted and elected as provided in the net. The consensus of opinion, however, with those who have given it much thought and consideration, is that $1,500,000, or less, will be sufficient for all our purposes. The act provides that the first se-1 Ties of bonus to be issued shall be $150,000, the second $200,000, the third $250,000, the fourth $300,000, ; the fifth $400,000, the sixth (all the remainder) $200,000. , Peking, Mar, 27. -The headquart ers or the American! Expeditionary r orce in unma has issued a new order that may result in a number of American soldiers who have serv ed four years remaining in China to take up civilian work. Discharges have already been made from the marine guard m Peking to accept aertion that positions in the consular service. The new order reads os follows: "The American minister thinks he can ob tain employment for good men who wish to remain. Tuberculosis Among upon being pressed by Attorney Henry E. Shaw 5n the cross-examination, Mr. Rhem said he had not no ticed the coins very closely or ex amined the inscription! upon them. Sheriff Taylor told of the events leading up to the arrests and the ar rests. Mincher was not on the stand. A watch of considerable value said to have been purchased by Mincher from Gorham for $8 was in evidence at the trial. : .-. Gorham made the interesting as- it was behind Minnie Sumrell's stcTe, South Queen Street, late Tuesday night, that Mincher gave him his instructions for the Hearne robbery. '' ''-r- H ,V Evidence was that Rhem and Mincher left the red light "section about midnight TJuesday jnight. Returned Soldiers PAM"C0L , (By the United Press) Washington, Mar. 27. An aston. ishingly large number of ' eoldiers have contracted tuberculosis. Nearly 40 per cent, of disability claims filed with the War Risk Insurance Bureau show that tuberculosis hae undermin, ed the soldier's health. ; The board has found that it is best to sen! these men to small towns or into the country where they may ob tain employment under more favor able conditions than they would get in the city. Fifteen women of Alliance, Pam lico County, incensed over the oper ation of a moonshine still in the vi cinity, raided the plant Sunday night, according to the Morning New iEtern- ian. The still was described as of 'mammoth" size. "They divided the worm into lo parts' and carried it out of the woods. Men of the com munity were summoned to help de stroy the heavier parts. The oper ators were away when the "raid" was staged. SEEKING DIRECT CABLE COMMUNICATION TAMPICO. (Manufacturers' Record) An effort is being made by the chamber of commerce of Tampico to have direct cable communication with the port resumed. This may be ac complished by making connection with the Vera Cruz-Galveston cable which ' lies three miles out in the Gulf from Tampico. It is also pro- 1 "A-. 1- ' . - '1 1 posea to oring uuuui, n possiDie, aiit p. If 1 t reduction of telegraph rates between rtiEfflC .Veiy lUIUillCer T Jl Tl - 1 1 1 . . lampico points. FIRST VISIT HERE IN MANY YEARS FOR HIM. Mr. Frank M. Harper of Raleigh, regional 'director of the -"U. S. School Garden Army," was here Thursday conferring with the school authorities. Mr. Harper said it was his first visit to Kinston in many years. ; He was surprised to see the changes in the old town, although he recognized a few landmarks, happily. He renewed acquaintance with num erous residents. ' ' ' ? ' and Rio Grande border is Wanted for list AMERICA LOST ONLY 125 SHIPS TO SUBS. (By the United Press) Washington, Mar. 27. American shipping suffered comparatively . lit tle at the hands of German subma rines 'during the war, according to omplete figures on Allied and neu tral sh'p losses made available to day. Only 125 vessels were lost, compared to 3,147 British. The Free Press has a list of hun dreds of Lenoir County men serving n the war. It will publish, the whole list shortly in bound form. It wants to omit no name. Please send in the name of any volunteer you may know of not already , printed in the -list which has been carried in this paper for . a week past.: In case of doubt telephone it anyway. The office" will see that there is no duplication.--Here are-latest additions: , ' McXinley White. , " . ; Emmett Jonen. . Gravilie E. Johnson. lr. George L. PritcharA Harvey 11. Suttj& SONS." .
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