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TMB DAIiL tEE HO"E P.FER - . i VOL. XVlt-No. 8t SECOND EblTION KINSTON, N. G, FRIDAY, JUL Y30, 1915 FOUR PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TUAINS ipiSlfpfflpKpl SWISS NEUTRALITY OBREGON DEFEATED ALLEGED EVIDENCE HODGES SUGGESTED FEDERAL OFFICERS TO INSPECT ALL OF GREAT LAKES SHIPS sit mm mmmm p VIOLATEft VILLA FORCE SOUTH OF CITY OF TORREON THAT BRITAIN WAS !o MIlE FOR WAR MUNICIPALLY OPED GAS PLANT KINSTON i ' GOV'T IS'lNFOIUlD - ' JA. MIX Ml , . Ciiwllt Fi fctj tmi KAN UR'S if ,i . Gold, 1umc documents ana Other Things Are Being Removed r , U .inn'mt i limit t dknl TU DAlfc . Dili AKIiUxKl Guns Being Removed From Fort Prominent Families - .. , , ' 1 .2, giut CityRef usees By Trainloads To Blow Up Munitions (By the; United Press) bmdon, July . 30. The Russians hit begun the evacuation of War- uw With the removal of all public documents ana irwraurcs. f X " uariKS are pending gold, to, Petrograd. Many prominent families have left the city. Outgoing trains are carrying large crowds ef refugees. The work of re moving the heavy uns from r the great fortress of Novo Georgiewek, northwest of the city, is being pushed. The munitions the Russians will be i forced to leave are to be blown up. STARTED Address fitter to Chamber of Com merce Asking : for Assistance In Equipping the Primary School Grounds as Temporary Location ConsideraUon Tuesday. : The Mothers' Club of Kinton is in wrested in the 'playgrounds move stent and are planning to start to im fxlintp.lv nuin tha orounda of -the primary school. A letter- signed by executive officers., and a special' com' mittee of the Mothers' Gub has been ddresd to the Chamber of Com' merce and delivered to Secretary Sut ton, asking the club's co-operation, The matter will be brought before the directors of the civic body in their regular' meeting next Tuesday night Secretary Sutton said in commenting on the -action of the MothersS Club that he Vas' delighted that they had taken "hold of the matter and that he felt the provision of a playgrounds here would fill a much-needed place, and that he was sure the suggestion of the oitohers would be favorably received by the Chamber of Com merce. r j For some time past the question of playgrounds has been agitated and yie Chamber of Commerce had the yiatter up quite actively about a year ago. A committee was appointed to look out for suitable sites and several were investigated.' For various" rea- sons action was deferred, and for some time little has been done looking to the establishment of suitable re creation grounds for the boys and girls of Kinston. Victory for turks iVEil HOSSIANS AND ALLIES LOSE WORKS ' ' ' j Trench on Gallipoli Taken ! LSSt Night Slavs Defeat- ed and oCD Of Them Taken j Prisoners on Front in thei Caucasus tily the. United Press.) ' ,,, London, July 30 The Turks are Counting , haVy batteries ; in y the Creek quarter of Tatavla, according i Constantinople dispatches. Tre"d t Dardanelles Taken By the Turks. Contantinople, July 30. .lively en- Kwnenu with the Russians, with a Turkish victory, are reported at the war office. The Russians ' were i de- 'eated on the Caucasus front' losing 300 in'pi'iSbners and a quantity of no-1 nitons. The Turks captured a tonth on the CIlopo'a peninsula in a E'oiit surprise attack. Three-xear ight Ended When Sentence of Law Was Carried Out In Sing Sirtg-Wife Was Faithful : ': L I '. ' . to the End m UnUod Press) ," Ossining, N. Yv July 30. Becker was electrocuted lind pronounced dead ttet th shocks., He declared his innocence , to the last He carried a picture of his wife, pinned on his prison shirt to the dea chair. -M,-v: , , Becker issued a dying statement at 4 o'clock this morning, passionately reiterating his innocence. Thomas Mott Osborne, the warden pf Sing Sing, left the prison for i walk just before the execution as j protest against capital punishment Osborne In Fiat. Fight Following ExecuUon. . Ossining, N. Y, July 30. Warden Osborne o Sing Sing today mixed Jn a fist fight with . Patrick McDonald, confidential, agent of Superintendent ot .State Prisons Riley. It is uncer tain who struck the first blow. Os borne swore out a warrant charging Riley with assault in the third de gree. -; ...-v Mrs. Becker Prostrated With Grief. Wow VsivL .Titlv SM ilTia PanlrAl prostrated .with grief at her home jn Ossining, when Becker was executed, arrived at her home here early (his morning. She almost had to be car ried . up, the steps to the house. Ossining, N, Y., July 12.rOharls Becker's tljree-year . fight for life, which .ended today when the big steel lever in. Sing. Sing's execution cham crashed on the current that drpye the life from his body, was the most bitterly foujrht in New York court annals. . Twice had the convicted police lieu tenant had his hopes raised only to see them tumble about his ears. Since June 18, this year, however, when the Court of Appeals that once had saved him from the chair, refused to grant a motion to re-argue the appeal, he had been rather resigned to his fate, although he professed hope to the end. It was exactly three years ago last Sunday that Gambler Herman Rosen thal made the. utterances that sealed his fate when he first publicly ac cused Becker of being a grafter. Ro senthal, in a published statement, swore that Becker was his partner in the Forty-fifth, street gambling house. The police lieutenant, he said, had in vested $1,500 with him. Amplification of these charges followed daily from then until June 14, when Rosenthal made an affidavit of his charges, which was published in New York newspapers. The next day he agreed to? go before .the grand jury the fol lowing day and tell what he knew of New York's police . graft Shortly after midnight of the 16th Rosenthal was eating a , late supper in the grill room of the Hotel Metro pole in , Forty-third street, just, off Broadway. A. young man, twhose identity never was clearly established, appeared at the door and beckoned him. Rosenthal was afraid bis ene mies would get him, for he had con fided as much to . District i; Attorney Whitman when he made his affidavit but he rose from the table and went out the door, r'vjil.Vi'Vvi As he stepped from the door into the . street, his frame silhouetted against the brilliantly lighted hotel interior, four men, 5 standing on the curb, fired simultaneously and tne gambler dropped, to the sidewalk. His death was instantaneous. ; ' J ; ' The murderers ran across the street jumped into a long rey car, the en gine of which was running, and were whirled away while the crowd was gasping. Everything was confusion, but a citizen glimpsed the number on the mar in the mele, nd it was on thia threat that District Attorney Whitman built the case that sent five men to their death. . r- Rose admitted he had hired the car and collected the four gunmen, "Gyp (Continued on Page Three) Formal Complaint to For eign Office Belgian Ves sel Sunk Details of Sub- ; marine Operations to Be Withheld (By the United Press) ; London, July SO. Switzerland to day protested to Germany against recent violation of its neutrality by German airmen, according to a Ber lin dispatch. - The Belgian steamer Prince Albert of 1,800 tons, has been mined , and sunk, the admiralty announced. The crew were saved. Orders have been issued to the cen sor's office that hereafter full details regarding the operation of German submarines will not be passed for publication abroad. . , ,. i. GREENSBORO TYPHOID EPIDEMIC FROM DAIRY Greensboro, July 29. Dr. W. S, Rankin of the State Board of Health, spent yesterday and today here, and accompanied by Dr. Hyatt, the city physician, made a thorough investi gation of the so-called typhoid fever epidemic here. He came here upon in vitation of the city authorities. He said that 95 per cent of the cases in Greensboro could be traced to a sin gle dairy that had used well water in washing the vessels used in the dairy. Mount Olive, July 29. A ten- months'-old child belonging to Mr. end Mrs. James Pridgen was choked to death at their home here . this morning by getting a green pea hull in its throat ' J r ? GERMANY HAS YET UNCALLED; ENGLAND STARTS SECOND YEAR OF THE WAR BETTER PREPARED HUNDREDS OF AS SEEN IN PARIS , , By, yiliiara .Phiyp Simms, (United Press Stsff Correspondent) Paris, July 30. One year- ago to morrow, tne general moDiiizauon or der was posted in France calling the men to the colors, This was war! To day her .leaders, consider the crisis passed and that victory is only a question 'of tame.!-".'" ':'";i;' jtThe minister of waft.M. Alexander Millerand, has announced that the German offensive is broken, and that the defensive soon will be. Prime Minister Rene Viviani, in an interr view granted me, declared German resources in money and supplies to be a bad way, and M. Victor Augag-; . . Mm T 1 ..1J neur, -Mmtster oi we xsavy, nas w me that Germany's - submarine war cannot have any effect on the final issue. , , . ,. ... . j-. -France, therefore, is confident hut not ever-confident She realizes that tiere is yet much work to be done, She argues, however, that if Germany with her flying start, and an army in the pink of condition, and at its max imum strength, could not shatter the French army, caught off its guard by a "brusk attack," the Kaiser's forces are helpless now. For not only has France recovered from- that sudden first blow when she stood alone to re ceive it, but is fitter now than at the start of - the war. The English are daily increasing in number and the Russian avalanche is considered inex haustible. ."- V-.''V. " Any Frenchman, or Frenchwoman will tell you it is only a question of time. . . , . . -- ' ' . ,,' '.. - ' ' . . France has astonished the world by her staying qualities, by her unanim nffivoo?Wb ' atshrdlu atshrdl uatda ity of purpose and by her accomplish ments. . When "you take your summer va cation, let your, horns paper, The Free Prt-t foTbw you. Adores cLar.jei as often as yoa No Trouble In, Capture of Zacatecas Torreon ' Ob- ? .. .... , ... .,; ; Ject of Three Constitution alist Columns, Says Car- ranza Report 1 (By the United Press.) V Galveston.. July 30. Direct reports from Obregon, forwarded to the Car rancista consulate here, said . today he had intercepted a large Villista force south of Torreon, inflicting a se vere defeat He captured Zacatecas without fighting. ' Obregon, Trevmo and Arieta are said to be converging upon Torreon from three directions. . , OKUlilA UD JAPANESE CABINET QUIT GOYERNMT Premier and Ministers Resign As a Result of Recent Dissensions In the Empire Mikado Considering Very Grave Situation; Has Not Accepted Resignations, Is Report From To kio . '-' ' .' (By the United Press.) a; Tokio, Japan, July 3L Count Oku- ma, the Japanese premier and the cab inet have resigned. The Emperor is considering the action. He has not yet accepted the resignations. IRVING CALKINS TO LIVE IN GREENVILLE. Morehead City, jfuly 29. Prof. Cal kins, who has been instructor of danc ing at the Atlantic Hotel, will leave that place Monday to go to Green ville where he wHl be located in the future. - ; ii r li J L.' TiUSANDS OF Mi FOR SERVICE FRANCE VIEWS THE FUTURE WITH OPTIMISM AS SEEN IN LONDON By Ed. L. Keen, , (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, July 30. England starts upon the second year of the great war with decided advantages over her po sition of twelve months ago. . She has command of the seas. She has an army, trained and in training of nearly three million men. Her "ex peditionary force," in France is now firmly entrenched in a position re garded as impregnable, even if the prospects of making a successful gen eral offensive movement are not im mediate. Her airmen have establish ed beyond question their superiority in skill and daring over those of the enemy. She is building a great aer ial fleet She has at last begun with all the resources at her command- material and human, to manufacture a preponderating quantity of arms and ammunition- of the right sort. She has back of her a united nation and a united empire. The war' found her unprepared not only from the military standpoint, but politically. The liberal (government was apparently riding t or a , fall. There had been all but mutiny in the army. The Irish "had become more turbulent than ever. Sir Edward Car son had, established his "Provisional Government of Ulster," and revolution was In sight India was seething with sedition. Even Canada had shown signs of tiring of the restraint of the mother's apron string ; Industrial unrest was at its height 'Altogether, things were in a very bad way." Now, most of these troubles have disappeared. Some of them remain ed longer than others, it is true. It has been a year of readjustment Lib erals and Conservatives, Radicals and Tories, now sleep in the same bed. So far as the Irish disaffection, upon which the Kaiser so fondly thanks to the lack of nndeistanding on tLe part of his emiaricx i.i con cmeil, that vani.ib.el i.!,nost over Germans Say. They Have Papers of Belgian Diplo- mats Written Six. Years Ago In Proof of Their . Contention Publication (By the United Press) Berlin, July 30 The Nord Doutsche Allegemeine today began the publica tion ' of alleged secret reports, the Belgian ambassadors to London. Ta- ris and Berlin made six years ago, The reports are said to have been on ly revealed when the Germans found the documents after the capture x of Brussels, The reports of the ambas sadors of Belgium are alleged to sup port the German theory that England was responsible for : the war. . The letters, it is alleged, state, that the English alliance with France and Russia was harmful to the peace of Europe.:'-' MORE FIGHTING AT THE LABYRINTH Paris, July 30. Striving to recap ture the "'Labyrinth, the Germans precipitated a fierce hand grenade fight last night lasting until morn ing. The fiercest combat was around Souches. ASHEVILLE WOMEN WANT HOME FOR DEGENERATES. Asheviile, ) July 29. One hundred of the representative women of Ashe viile, at a mass meeting held yester day, decided to ask the city commis sioners to appropriate. $1,000 each for the erection of a house of refuge for the women of the ' vagrant type of this city.' ; AS SEEN IN BERLIN By Carl W. Ackerman, ' (United Press Staff Correspondent) Berlin, July 30. Germany's assets after a year's warfare can be summed up thus: ? . Possession of Russian Poland, Bel gium and . Northern . France terri tory as large and rich as New Eng land and New York. The Fatherland entirely free of the enemy, save for a small strip of West ern Alsace. Powerful and active submarine and zeppelin fleets. , A tradition for the navy. An army still, capable of offensive operations everywhere in the 1 war theaters. And hundreds of thousands of men capable of bearing arms, not yet called to the colors. Finances unimpaired the only bel ligerent which has not borrowed hea vily, openly or in secret, in foreign lands, and which has neither declared a moratorium or cancelled public debts. f, ' . A million citizens in neutral lands ready to return home and help Ger many recuperate after the war. , Territory practically undamaged by the ravages of war. Germany's losses during the year's struggle are; i;i 4 , ; Over one-half of her colonial em pire, captured. " All her overseas commerce tempor arily destroyed. . Two hundred and fifty thousand soldiers killed. Expenditure of about $2,500,000. RABBI MAYERBERG IN , . V GOLDSBORO 25 YEARS. Goldsboro, July 29. Rabbi Julius Mayerberg came to Goldsboro twenty-five years ago today and tonight a special service was held ; at Temple Oheb Sholom of which he has been pastor - for a quarter of a century, commoinoraticg that event, . Former Water and , Light Superintendent 'Confer red With Directors of the Chamber of. Commerce . Will Ask Bond Issue Au thority from Legislature Horace Hodges! formerly superin tendent of the Water and Light De partment here, now of New Bern, Thursday night told the directors of the Chamber of Commerce, who' had asked him to come here to give them his ideas on the subject, that Kin ston should have a municipally-own ed gas plant by all means. Some o( the directors discussed, the project from the side of private ownership, but the expert derlared H his opinion that it would be better even to wait years, until the Legislature in 1917 would pass an act enabling a bond election to be called, the election could be held and a plant installed, than to invite private capital to oper ate the works. . Mr. Hodges estimated the Initial cost of .an "adequate" plant at $00. 000. He said that in numerous in stanced in this part of the United States city-owned and operated gas works furnish the product for light ing, fuel and heating at a cost less by 25 to 35 cents a thousand cubic feet than that charged by private opera tors. '. . " - i ' -;. . . . .. , The directorate passed a resolution asking the administration to have an act enabling the bond election passed at the next session of the General As sembly, which will not be until the spring of 1S17 '-. , , , - Pipes are now being put down by the city under streets being paved, to avoid having to tear the surface up later for the purpose. In the event the bond election should fail and pri vate capital should establish a plaht in the city, these mains will be sold to the concern. CONVICTED OF MURDER OF LITTLE DAUGHTER. New York, July 29, Uyman Lieb- man, charged with .having killed his 7-year-old daughter by throwing her down an airshaft, was today found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury in general sessions. Pending a motion to determine the sanity of the prisoner he was remanded to the Tombs. MOTHERS AND FATHERS, IF YOU FAVOR CONSERVATION OF THE HEALTH OF YOUR BABIES, W THE PETITION DlW A MAIL SEND OR BRING , The City Council meets in regular session Monday night At that time a strong effort will be made by the opponent of the anti fly ordinance to cause its permanent repeal. These opponent have been circulating a petition, and it is reported that they have secured many signatures of people who did not understand what they were signing. ' If you favor bettering the health of Kington and saving the lives of the babies, ACT AT ONCE. CUT THIS OUT, SIGN AND SEND TO THE FREE PRESS To the Honorable Mayor and Board of Aldermen, City of Kinston, North Carolina: I (or we), the undersigned, favor the conserva tion of health in Kinston, and to that end we advo cate the institution of modern methods of disease prevention. We favor the elimination so far as pos sible of the filthy fly, and earnestly request you to reinstate the anti-fly ordinance, requiring the regu lar cleaning of. the breeding places of this deadly pest Signed , (To be signed by either men or women.) ' Address ......... N. B. Blothers of IOnstcn, thi3 h cr ; : : 1 ity for you to cast a ballot fcr l"!:y. Commerce Department . to Investigate Reports, of "Cranky" Vessels STATEMENT BY G0:.!PERS Pid Not Say German Money Started Munitions 'Plants Strikes "Efforts" ; Have Been Made, jThough, He Asserts . (By the United Press.) ' Washington,., July ' 30. Reports having reached the Commerce De partment that other "cranky" passen- .: ger ships beside the - Eastland Are -. operating on the Groat Lakes, depart ment officials today stated that a spe- . clal inspection of air lake craft will begin shortly. ' American Assaulted in Mexico).1 . Urgent representations will be made by the State Department to the Zapatistas at Mexico City demanding an explanation of an assault upon Al len Mallory, an American, mail car? rier, whose automobile was stopped between Pueblo and v Mexico City. Mallory was arrested..' It is believed punishment of the guilty parties will 1 be demanded.' Gompers talks Again. : t . . While admitting that an "effort has been made by representatives of For eign governments to corrupt some la bor men and have strikes inaugurate ed," President Gompers of the Amer ican Federation of Labor today denied ' that he -ever said "German money? y , started the, strike at Bridgeport - or other munitions plants. . . .,' Cotton Statistics. "- , Census reports show 6,799,666 tons of cotton soed crushed, and 832,401 running bales pf linters produced in the crop of 1914. v EASTLAND yRECK IS ' SIEZED BY OFFICIALS (By the United Press.) Chicago, July 30. Acting under orders of Federal Judge Landis, U. S. Marshal Bradley today seized .the wreck of the Eastland and placed it in charge of officials of the Justice Department . - ' TO FREE PRESS
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