I "V; ; : ' ".! ; i i i: PR I I'fiB WEATHER flit ind lolder flifM aad tomorrow . VOL. Xyll. No. 193 SECONDEDITION KINSTON, N. C, SATURDAY, JANUAliY 8, i916 6 PAGES TODA PRICE TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS ! ! I i-4 i RlfSSUNSWAGING AND MAKING GAINS Capture Trenches From the Austro-Germans On One Line, Reported MILLION MEN ENGAGED On the Tarnopol-Trembowla Front Slavs Attacking the Teuton Invaders In the Styr Section, With kovel As Immediate Objective (By the United Press) London, Jan. - 8. Fierce fighting along the River Styr is reported in dispatches today. The Russians are assailing the enemy lines east of the ItOIKytMfct town of -Kovel, and. have taken iiro lines of trenches. . There is also an important engage ment in progress northeast of Czer- florwitt along the Tarnopol-Trembow la line, where nearly a million men are engaged. The Russians general ly are making advances, it i sreport- ed. ' " , -. . AJJies Occupy Milos. - Berlin, an. S. -Anglo-French sol diers have occupied the Greek Island of Milos, ' according.1 to - Athens re ports, tl jg stated that the Greek public is indignant. ' . . PRESIDENT SENDS LETTER iW THANKS TO WILLIAMS. Washington, Jan. 7. President Wilson wrote ,to Senator Williams of Mississippi today, thanking- him for his address ijn the Senate yesterday supporting Mr. Wilson's foreign pol icy .end preparedness. In the address. Senator": Wtfliams said the' United States mut be ready to defend itself , .from "bully big" following the Euro pean rar. vi n JMTCF FIGHT TO - IOSEAT JUDGE GARY " (By Hut .United Press) ' New yorjk, an. 8. -A battle to Un-set-Judge Elbert S. Gary as head of the Steel Trust has been started, -t is rumored. THIRD STATE ROAD INSTITUTE BE HELD AT "HILL" FEBRUARY ' (Special to The Free Press) , Raleigh, Jan. 8.-The third road institute of North Carolina will be held at the University, Chapel Hill. under the auspices of the State. Uni versity, the State'' Highway, Commis- sion and 'the North, Carolina? Ceolo, gieal and Economic Survey, Febru ary 7-12, 1916, inclusive. The two previousinstitutes have proved", of great value to the engineers and su- penntendents attending them, and it a the purpose of the director to make this, one of eveii more practical value.. 1 ' ? ! . A 'subject which will .be given spe cial emphasis- this year .vis that of road maintenance, and in : this con nection there will be given illustrat ed lectures instruction in the patrol system and actual-. demonstrations vof the se of 'the rood drag .and other implement which have ,been-r- found usefvll in the maintenance .of public roads, .i; I1,.' . s . - . k t EC?iZLLl TELLS OF THE 'HATIOriAL PROSPERITY Y-.- 'Washington, Jan, 7. Secretary of I ; Commerce Redfield, ih" a memoran dum on business conditions transmit- ted to President Wilson today, pic-1 turcs Jhe country Jts .in the,u most f .prosperous state of its history. .The I earning, is added. -though, that the -war's inflation of commerce will last on'y unUl the war's end, and that business foresight alone will prepare the United States for peace. The slump that wijl follow the war abroad, the summary declares, must A WAITED FOR YEGGMEN IU lUMfc BAlK; THEY W Gang Thought to Have Robbed Pennsg rove, N. J, Postoffice Foist night Ago Attempted to Rob Safe Containing Pay Money of DuPoat Employes Waiting Detective Got Three of Them ' ." - (By the United Press) Pennsgrovs, N. J., Jan. 8. Two weeks ago the local postoffice ws robbed. - Yesterday, being . the pay day of the DuPont Company, detect ives on the acene allowed yeggmen to break open a safe in the office and then opened a terrific gun fight Three of the six were captured. , , MARION EXPECTS NUMBER NEW ENTERPRISES SOON. Marion, Jan. 7. The -secretary of the board of trade reports several new industries in prospect for Mar ion during the coming year. A new cotton mill, ice plant, slack cooper age mill, spoke and handle factory, and a brick mill are assured if local capital can ibe secured to meet the demands of the investors. There Is every evidence of an abundance- of local capital in the near future. A DUPONT PLANT IN INDIANA BLOWN UP. Terre Haute, Ind.. Jan. 7. Tele phone advices from Stoy, JU., today were that the plant of the DuPont Powder Company there had been! de stroyed by an explosion of nitrogly cerine. Overheated boilers were said to have caused the explosion. . 1 STRIKERS SLAY ANI - . :.. . til BURN IN SUBURB 0! f. nil Many Wounded, Some, Fa tally A Private Police Chief Reported, to HaVi Precipitated the Trouble Militiamen On Hand iV f (By the United Press) ' ; Youngstown, Ohio, Jan. 8. Twen ty-two hundred State troops .today took charge of the steel strike situa tion in East Youngstown, following the riot-of last night. 1 . t Strikebreakers were jeered .when quitting work, and the chief of .the companies' police force tired a ;snot and was attacked., it is reported 4ay. . Saloons were fired and looted, and the ames ' spread to a jewelry Store and other buildings. Some Injured Fatally. Youngstown. 0.,, Jan, 7. Nine per sons were shot, four probably fatally, four- business buildings and ;two buildings of the Youngstown Sheet end Tube , works were burned and a mob' of 6,000 people battled with pri vate police . at the plant v early this evening as the day shift at the mills in East Youngstown wrere a strike Is in progress left work. Firemen from Youngstown arrived on the scene, ' but c the crowd drove thein, away; Many shots were fired and the firemen departed amid a hail of stones. v t. - Troops Ordered Out Columbus, Jan. 7.-TWO regimentf of Ohio national guard the fifth and eightli comprising a total of ap proximately ,1,600 men, were tonight ordered r by Governor , Willis to. pro ceed at. once to .Youngstown for ser vice in connection with the suppres sion or disorder in. connection witn the strike of tf el workers. MfflY tolARIES ARE PtEBGINTO WILS0 (By the United Press). Washington, Jan. 8. The Presi dent's nomination at the St.' Louis convention, long regarded as .a ver tain ty, is assured by the pledging of delegates to him by many State prl maries.' it is said here."- find Americans ready to take their share of the world's trade unhamp ered , by provincial notions. ' False xalues created by unusual conditions, he fears, may loll the United States into a fancied commercial security. OHIO PLEDGf S TO AMERICA nip AND BERLIN Von Bernstorff Gives Wash ington Government the ' News Today h ONLY REPARATION LEFT it'. As International Question All Incidents Closed Let ting the Persia's Sinking Go As Unsolved Mystery, May Be Decision (By the United Press) Washington, Jan. , 8. A final set tlement of all submarine controver sies with the Central Powers, includ ing the Lusitania and Persia inci dents, was predicted today as the re sult of Von Bernstorff's note for both Germany and Austria to the United States. He has binding pledges from both nations that in future submarine operations will be conducted by biter national law. , - The only question left open now is that of reparation. - ' ' '.'-; The failure of the two countries to receive any report on the Persia Sink ing may leave that as a final mys tery. ..-,. J y - . ' -4 United States Thoroughly . Satisfied , By Last Note On Frye. t I . Washington," Jan. 8 The last Ger man note in the Frye can has been given out after being withheld since November 30. It reveals a complete agreement to the American conten tion that passengers of vessels sunk by German warships should .not be put in small boats unless the sea was calm or land near," The- note also agrees to '.the naming of experts to aiibilrate. indemnity and other issues at stake. . , i , , Ford Party Arrived In The Hague Today,- After Crossing Germany From Copenhagen Germa'ns Treated 'Em Fine ! ty CHAS. P. STEWART, (United Press Staff Correspondent) ' Amsterdam; Jan. 1 8. The ' Ford peace party arrived in Holland from Copenhagen today, by a special train through Germany. . . The members declared they receiv ed the most courteous treatment in crossing Germany. r - . , . . NO SIGN OF VERDICT IN NEW HAVEN CWB (By the United Press) New York, Jan. 8 There has been no sign of a verdict from the Jury considering the New Haven directors' caset :The jury asked for additional exhibits today. ' t ' - CHURCffiM. ACCUSED - - THEFT HALF MILLION Embezzled Sum From More Than a i Hundred Persons r Alleged Al bert P. Millet of Rhode Island Ar rested; Sensational . - Case Said . He Lost the Money Gambling In War .Stocks.. S . : (By the. United Press) . Boston., Jan. 8. Albert Miller, Jr., a Providence broker accused of embezzling a half million and losing it In war stocks, has been arrested. He was questioned today by officials. Miller is ,a- prominent churchman. His victims number more than a hun dred, many , of them women arid or phans. ' The- case is most sensational. SOLEMN VIENNA 1 1 . PACIFICISTS S A f E SENATE COMMITTEE M liS IN; THE FAV'RABLI REPORTS ni Trti rmiTii inur iirruniiv iiiciinurr uuiuii iir 1 1 mm huh i ixmumn FROM STEEL PLANTS TO G0Vf.it. IN STEADY Tavcnner Cites Knox, Ba con, Satterlce and Oth ers As Instances . IN THREE DEPARTMENTS i f "Armor Plate to Washing- ton" plder Senators Back Up Gallihger In Asking ' j Withdrawal of Nomination of Ruble (By the United Press.) Washington, Jan. 8. Further in vestigation 1 of the Navy League by Representative Tavenner of Illinois has disclosed the fact, he said today that there is a beaten track from the armor plate and steel plants of the country to high 'officers of the Navy, Justice and State Departments. ', Knox, Bacon, Satterlee, Beekman and Winthrop are cited as instances of men related to the steel business having gone into government offices having to do with the-nation's for eign war policies, v.-' ; 1 Ask President Withdraw Ruble's Nomination. Washington, Jan. 8. Request has been sent President Wilson by the older Democratic' senators, asking him to withdraw the nomination of Federal Trade Commissioner Ruble. He is opposed by Senator Gallinger. VIRGINIA MILITIAMAN GOING TO FRENCH FRONT. Richmond, ,Va Jan. 7. Capt. W. McKee DunftAquartermaster in the Virginia State guard, is booked to sail tomorrow ort the French liner Rochajmbeau to Join the American ambulance service at Paris. ' it t (i i t I "Male Suffrage' Was thi Outgrowth of Republican Institutions, Why Should Not Woman Vote?"-Eh-dorses Amendment ! (By the United Press) Washington Jan.. 8. -The Senate Woman's? suffrage committee today favdraWy reported the Susan B. An thony . amendment proposing a con stitutional amendment. . . ' The committee declared male suf frage was the outgrowth of Repub lican institutions and there is no rea son why woman should not vote well. - - . as PLAN FOR SHIPPING : :" l' COTTON TO GERMANY Washington, Jan. 1 President H. N. Pope of the Texas Farmers' union, outlined today to Congressmen from thei'Cotton States the Union's plans for shipments of: cotton to Germany by way of Sweden. , He said the cot ton, would be concentrated at Hous ton, that the first ship would sail on February 1, and that regular sail ing's were planned. The cotton would be shipped, Pope, said in ships own ed by- native born American citizens and will fly the- American flag-. , The cotton' has been- sold fo 27 Cents' a pound delivered at destination,' and will net the farmers about 20 1-2 cents. - , The market price is about 12 cents and the British .Government has been paying for cotton seized...' Inasmuch as Great Britain, and Germany both have put cotton on their contraband lists, this latest move - may revive the contentions-of the United States against their action. OFFICES BE PASSED ALONG WITH SETTLING OF BILLS Pay-Up Week Begins Mon day Morning at Begin ning of Business MATTER OF CO-OP'RATION Banners to Be Put Up by Chamber of Commerce Calling Attention of Citi zens to Occasion Every Dollar Will Help Cause "This is Pay-up Weekt Pay your bills end Pass Prosperity Along." That is the slogan dopted by the Chamber of Commerce Committee for Pay-up Week, the first in Kinston, which begins Monday morning when the shops open and ends next Satur day at the close of business. The mot to Is being painted on at least three banners which are to be strung up across the principal streets today. Pay-up week is expected to be a success; in fact, It can be nothing but success, for no mark has been set and no one has been occasioned any great amount of trouble to inaugurate it. ' The result achieved can never be estimated. -,It is' a matter of con science, partly, and cooperation. Ev ery citizen of Kinston is called upon the Chamber, of Commerce to do his best, thus, proving his allegiance to the famous "Kinston spirit." Ev ery dollar that can be spared to make good accounts helps just that much, and every responsible' person in the community should try to pay up" some. The purposely negligent and "can-help-it-but-don't" elements Are invit ed to apply the oil of thought to their clogged-up consciences. ;. ; . DANIELS WILL HAVE TO DISCLOSE FACTS IN FLETCHER R 'PORT Secretary Wanied to Keep Conterits From Fordgti , aftlbris Senate Passes Lodge Resolution Tells of Ease of Invasion (By the United Press) Washington,' - Jan. ' sASeeretery Daniels has been instructed by unan imous vote of: the Steliafe to ; make public the report of Admiral Fletch er, declaring; that, a foreign fleet would be able to land troops on the shores of. the United, States, with the passage of Senator Lodge's resolu tion. Mr. Daniels Wiis opposed, to giving out. the report on the ground that he did not want foreign nations to know its contents.' . . DESCARTES' CAPTAIN IS . ORDERED TO USE CARE. Washington, Jan. 7 The ; State Department' wa advised today by Ambassador .Sharp, at Paris, that the French government had ordered the captain of the cruiser Descartes to act with great care and circumspec tion and not to stop any morei Am erican vessels. The cruiser recently stopped three in Porto Rican waters and removed Germans who have since been released,' : srl. ) BULLETINS Harden's Magazines , Suppressed. : ;Btlini Jan. 8 Maximilian Har Berlin, Jam f 8. MsximiDSn Harden, the brilliant German l ' Journalist, has . been prohibited from public speaking and writ ing for the remainder, of the war. His magailm have been suppressed. . " , PROSPERITY TO n FR0W BULLETINS OF i STATE HEALTH BOARD Shallow Well and Open Closet of the Country Home Condemned Cancer Preventable But Cannot Be Cored Except by Removal; On Increase . Books aa Spreaders of Tuberculosis "The great need Of the South to day is the improvement of the rural home.? says Dr. A. W. Freeman of Washington, D. C. The ehaUow well and the ooen closets are where the rural home is ; weakest, he says, "They should 'be condemned. Cancer is increasing, aaya the State Board of Health. "There is but one real cure cor cancer take it out. ' So-called cancer cures are swindles." Consult surgeon right off, the Board advises. ' The disease comes from "too much pressure or irritation on some particular spot, such as results from a cigar or pipe on the lip. a broken jagged tooth, on the toncrue, a corset stay on the breast, etc. ",' . Keep children" at home when they show signs of illness, is the advice of medical experts. "By sending your own child's tliW In danger, you also endanger the life and health of other children." Books are disease spreaders. How ever, "although a library book may be grossly infected by a tuberculous patient and while that Infection may remain active for at least a few days, the infection does not survive a pe riod of one month," which is some consolation, ' BIG LUMBER PLANT IN SOUTHWEST PART OE CITY i MAY CLOSE Rumored, . , Apparently, - On Good Authority, Kinston Manufacturing Co. Will Suspend Permanently Deal En Route Here , : kinston stands a chance of losing one of its foremost manufacturing en- tdh-prises. -. Rumors were circulated Friday night to the efTect that the big lumber plant known as the Kin ston Manufacturing Company mill in Southwest , Kinston had been, closed down permanently. William Hayes, general . superintendent of the . Kin-ston-Carolina Railroad & Lumber Company, today, stated that this was not correct. Mr. Hayes declined to give 'put anything for publication, however, and would not make a direct reply, to the interrogation if there is a possibility for the mill's permanent suspension. , , It Is stated upon good authority that the big plant is apt to be closed down before many days, and the ru mors of Friday night were hot with out foundation. J. T. Deal, the prom inent Norfolk capitalist who has been more or less interested in the industry for some time, is now on his way to Kinston,' it is .believed ' on business connected with the mill. . Mr. Deal is the promoter of the Deal railroad into Duplin county and is interested in a large way in the timber business ift this section. The loss of the mill to Kinston would be a blow that would be felt to a considerable extent. ; A large num ber of skilled men. drawing good wa ges, and common laborers would .be driven to seek employment elsewhere. Some of the skilled mechanics, it is certain, would leave the city. THE PRESIDENT NAMES JEWISH RELIEF DAY January 27 to Be Proclaimed Aa Oc casion for Contributing to the War Sufferers of Race In Europe Sen V ate Resolution Will Call for Con gressional Action, It Is Expected (By the United Press) , . . Washington, . Jan. 8. President Wilson has named January 27 Jew ish Relief Day, and will issue a pro clamation" calling attention to the needs of the Jewish people in Europe as a result of the war. The procla mation will be followed by a Senate THE GODS MAKE MAD ! THEY WOULD DESTR0Y4EC0RDER Judge Wooten Replies to Aldermen's Questions of Conduct of llis Court SAVOR OF CONTEMPT, SAYS , ",.v: ! ; ;: , . , ..5';J-';,-'1"'':'0 - i..;- "Inform. Yourselves, I, and, Not Sadden Me With Your Suggestions' One Quest tion That of a Two-By-Four Lawyer, Ite States - In response to a letter from City Clerk W B. Coleman,' who had been directed by Crty Council to inquire of Recorder T. C. Wooten, v 'Why1 State warrants are being Issued' by his court for violations of the cit; ordinances; at whose invitation doe the solicitor appear to prosecute ti . , violators - of city ordinances ' wn cases are not resisted; if fees not K tilled by the act establishing the B ';. corder's court are not being colleV ed, and if it is true that in rin cases as many as three warrants ; , Issued for what is generally cotr ered one offense t" Judge Wo Friday night mailed a lengthy it -ment to the Clerk in which he ' "It gives me especial delight tcf ' swer your four questions." , l , "The Board of Aldermen n a , , knew," states Judge Wooten, s. ' the Recorder's, Court is a creaWrv - legislative enactment and i inde pendent of all persons and muuiCipal J. control. It is above your honorable ; Board t in origin and jurisdiction.' and . the ineundoes so forcibly suggested ? in your interrogations 'bordtir tin contempt of eourfc.''. 1 "oprt first question It is by rea- son' , of the gross .neglect, carelessness and indifference of. your board" that ' State warrants are lain issued tot violatioms of "city ordinances, "Ybu j have an imperfect and , void code of ordinances, some of Vhich are absoy! lutely obsolete nd r in contravention of the criminal statutes of the State., Various sections , do hot denomK ' nate .the. offense or specify a penalty or a punishment. This delect , ru.is t throhgh your entireucodV until you' reach the end, then they conclude by . saying that !ii all brdinarices not spe-, cifying a nne'or penfalty the offender shall be fined not more than S50' or imprisoned for 30 days. This defect caps thvUmax of defects.' The-Su- . perior and Supreme Courts havi'de-V " clared these, ordinances void ''every : into they have eonty. before them, - basing decisions upon uncertainty bf punishment" The Jfudg'e states thijt "therefore, Jn this aelptesa condition resorted tt any. limited knowledge of the law and cur&l the defect 4n many InstancesL byAsing State war-' rants." . He says h'ewent before the, Board asking foi remedial action,- "What has been 'done t .. Nothing!" ; J "Those whom the" Gods would de- troy, ;v they first make mad," ho," quotes significantly, , .','. 't t "My delight increases when I tin- dertake to answer your second ques- tion." HYear' the Solicitor has p peared in a number of' these cases without fees, and I know of no case ; of this character in which- he has collected fees." . It would be a viola-. ; tion of the law, he states, for the Re- , corder-to assume the role of prose cutor, address the jury and express ., -his opinion 3 to the case. "Is it not best for the Recorder and fair to -the defendant to call in the Solicitor -ind let the Recordert mind be blank f as to the' facts T it i I assume' to judge, prosecute and act as jury the court, is 4 .Veritable farce, This is 1 why I cag ui" the Solfcitor. In the name b B"eftv if I am wrong veU ; it with thfc rnantlb of charity, because I believe-In, ju -'" i fair dealing!" " l'No," tj'h i4. a -d are not' be ing coH ( xl,says. ." -Wooten.. KNot ...it of fyn '.t,-r passed . thro. ;e- Recorder's huxC Costs as fixca Ly law and fines as f, the" Court are collected ly a of yr r own choosing:, whose L. is v .-hed for." He ass for i mat' i and evidence." Us c,uot (Continued on Toss i i -). by v 1.1 ! Ill' n ; I i