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VOL. XVIL-No. 190
SECOND EDITION
KINSTON, ft O.MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1916
FOUR PAGES TODAY
PRICE TWO CENTS ' 1
FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS
THE KG"E PJFEB
BIG TURKISH FORCE
CAN BE FORWARDED
TO
Two Hundred Thousand
Released From Service
At the Dardanelles'
"A GLORIOUS - FAILURE"
Way London Regards ."'the
Abandonment of Galfipo
li Campaign British and
French Fleet Is Availa
ble for Service Elsewhere
. (By the United Press)
London, , Jan. . 10. Two - hundred
thousand of , the fittest .Turkish sol
diers have been5 released for service
in other theaters jby; the withdrawal
of theAlUe'yro'ni'J.GipoH.".;They
. will be sent, with many big: guns,
either "to the Sues " campaign or to
Arabia, in an gOri to drive the Brit
ish out of Mesopotamia. , "'
1 .No hint has been given as to What
disposition is to be made of the Al
lied troops. A large fleet of .warships
is released f $. the other theaters by
the abandonment of the campaign,
The .withdrawal is called here "the
most-glorious failure in history."
Berlin Says , British In Arabia
Are Hemmed In.. . '
Berlin Jan.: 10. Ten .thousand
Turks have surrounded the British
; expedition at .Kutelamara, it is re
ported. London Tells Altogether
Different Story. , - K ' f
. London,. Jan.? 10. -The British se
verely defeated the Turks in Meso
potamia, it is officially announced.
"They bveca,ptutd'- large number
of the .XUrks' guns. The battle last
ed several days, it is announced. Gen
eral Nixon., m eommand of the Meso-
potamia caJtymignhas -been' retired
on account of.il. health."--
GOOD PRICES FOR --.1
COTTON HERE TODAY
Twenty-eight bales of cotton had
been sold here today by 3 o'clock.
Prices ranged from 11 to 11.92 1-2.
New .York futures quotations
were;; Open 2:45;
January , , 12.46
12.35
12.56
12.28
12.75
12.65
March ,
May .',
July . ,
October
. .12.65
I 12.86
.13.02
.12.75
RIOTING AT NIAGARA'
FALLMlM
Strikers, Smashed .Windows More
Than Thousand Walked Out The
Trouble Started' With Tot Work
era and Spread to Other Depart
mentsPolice Reserves Quelled
Mob Bent on Mischief
(By the United Press)
Niagara Falls, Jan 10. Riots at
the plant of the Aluminum Company
of America today shattered windows
in the plant with clubs , and stones.
i Police .reserves dispersed the, mob.
The strikers are holding V a mass
meeting. - " '
t .Three! . hundred striking pot work
ers have been "augmented by a thou-
sand "strikers fromt other depart
ments.; ' : - ; ... - .
w. v. Krra::;i argues
AcilLjr :::atg;g bill
Former Governor Tells House of Re
.'Preseritdtives Labor Committee
That Children In the South's Cotr
ton Mills Would Be Injured More
OTHER THEATER
Than J3wners , Passdge V of the
!vlt 11 MesRiir -.; -
. (By the United press).
Washington, Jan. 10. hild em
ployes in Southern cotton mills
would be injured more than the ope
rators by the passage of the Keat
ing child labor bill, according to ar
guments by former Governor Kitch
in . r Noi ih Carolina - before the
I: ' ' I-' '-or Committee today. -
PROTEST TO ALLIES
KOW GETS ATTENTfN
OF THE ' OFFICIALS
Phases of Note to London
' Outlined; Submarine Is
sue In Background
SHUSHING PRECEDENTS
To Be Cited In Message to
f.Great Britain Interfer
'"ference With the United
'States Mails One Matter
' of Contention
(By the United Press)
Washington, Jan. 16. The subma
rine controversy has , been relegated
to I the background today, and the
State Department is preparing a pro-
testof the Allies' seizures of Amer
ican merchandise.
The . note to England is to declare
that all precedents have been revers
ed in putting an embargo on cotton
and some other articles now called
contraband. The plan is to publish
the message soon. The note to Eng
land also will protest interference
with American mails.'
Lusitania Case Being Closed Up.
Washington, Jan. 10. The Lusita
nia case will be settled within a week
Von Bemstorff and Lansing confer
red. The former sent a tentative
draft of an agreement and approved
by the President to Berlin for the
Kaiser's approval.
When a negro washerwoman's
home burned at New Bern Saturday
big pile of clothes which was the
property of her patrons, was carried
across -the street to' seeming afety:
A spark set fire to the pile and every
garment was consumed. -
WILLIAMS
THAT GOUGE PUBLIC
Recommends Empowering
of Department of Justice
to Bring Action In Usu
ry Cases Reserve Sys
tem Boosted Deposits .
(By the United Press)
Washington. Jan. 10. Recommen
dations that the Department of Jus
tice be empowered to prosecute na
tional banks guilty of usury and that
laws be passed to prevent bank fail
ures are made in the annual report
of Comptroller gf the Treasury Wil
liams. During the first year of the Feder
al Reserve system bank deposits in
creased $2,081,000,000, says the re
port,' proving that the calamity pro
phets were wrong.
HE HAS REPUTATION
FOR TALKING A LOT
,. (By the Eastern Press)
Washington, N.,0.. Jan. 8. In a
speech to members of a Baraca .class
here JL'S. Ward, member of the local
bar, said tjie preparedness movement,
by which it is "proposed to drag our
young men away from civic work and
put them, behind gnns and on board
ships to slay other men. and to des
troy property," should be checked.
Mr,. Ward advocated "such forts"
As are between the Argentine and
Chile! ; He told of the incident whkh
happened in the Andes once upon . a
time when, as the result of arbitra
tion, ir"Tf'-H(ies of the two nations
ff MVW J. VH
the dedication of a sta-
towering above the
dner these' mountains
e than that these coun
rr," is in effect the in
famous memorial bears.'
for si
tue 4
douds
should
tries
scrip'
JURY DISAGREED AS
ti) GUILT OF FIVE
OF NEW HAVEN
Retrial for William Rocke
feller and Four Others,
Stated
SIX FOUND NOT GUILTY
Arrangements to be Begun
Immediately for a New
Hearing at Which Gov
eminent Will Put Forth
Best Effort
(By the United Press)
New York, Jan. 10 Arrangements
for the retrial of William Rockefel
ler and the four othervNew Haven
directors on whose guilt on conspir
acy charges a Federal jury yester
day disagreed, will be begun at once,
it is, said at the district attorney's
office. It is believed it will be some
weeks before another jury is drawn
. The government is to bring its
heaviest forces to bear.
Six Not Guilty, Said Jury.
" New York, Jan. 9. Six of the eleV'
en former directors of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail
road, charged by the government
with criminal violation of the Sher
man anti-trust law, were found not
gtiilty late today by the jury that for
nearly three months has been trying
the case. The jury disagreed on the
five others.
Those acquitted were: D. Newton
Barney, Farmington, Conn.! Robert
W; faft, Providence, R. I.; James S,
Hemingway, . A. Heaton Robertson
and Frederick F. Brewster, New Ha
ven, and Henry K. McHarg, Stam
fcird, Conn.
Those on whom the jury disagreed
were: William Rockefeller, New
York; Charles F. Brooker, Ansonia,
Conn.; CM. Pratt, Brooklyn; Lew
is Cass Ledyard, New York, and Ed
ward D. Bobbins, New Haven.
The verdict was returned at 4:30
o'clock this afternoon after fifty-one
hours of deliberation and the jury
was discharged. The final vote on
the five defendants upon whom the
jurors could not agree, stood 8 to 4
for acquittal,
R. L. Batts, chief counsel for the
government, announced that in due
time he would move for a new trial
of these five. This will be done, he
said before any effort will be made
to try the six other former directors
of the road that were indicted, but
who obtained the right to be tried
separately. "
From the time the case was sub
mitted to them at 1:30 o'clock Friday
iafterndort, the jurors took in all eigh
teen ballots. The first stood six for
acquittal, four for conviction and
two blank. It was not until Satur
day that they reached the eight to
four alignment.
NEARLY FOUR MILLION
BALES LESS OF COTTON
Ginned By January 1 From Last
Year's Crop Than From 1914 Crop
By Same Date 10.643,783 Bales
Against 14,443,146, According to
Report Given Out By Census Bu
reau Today
I By the United Press.)
Washington, Jan. 10. Cotton gin
ned prior to January 1 totalled 10,
643.783 running bales, as compared
with 14,443,146 bales prior to Janu
ary 1 of 1915, counting round as half
bales and excluding linters, the Cen
sus Bureau today announced,
MRS. ftQiiLR'S TRIAETS :
X EgJN At PROYIDENCE
. , (By the United Press)
Providence, R. L, Jan. 10. Mrs.
Elizabeth Frances Mohr, widow of
Dr. Frederick Mohr, was placed on
trial for the murder of her husband
today, , ,
J . .
kv uinuuwiLimuL
HELD IN G0LDS60R0
WILL BE STRUNG UP
In Face of Rumor That the
Men Suspeced-t)f Mur
dering Anderson Gurley
Would Be Lynched Sher
iff of Wayne Went to Bed
"There was never a thing in the
world to it," said tho Sheriff of
Wayne county witl regard to a rumor
that negroes held i Goldsboro on the
charge of murdermg Anderson Gur
ley might be lynched, in an interview
with The Free Press today. "Why
we have a law-abiding population,
I have heard of nothing which would
indicate any intention of lynching
the darkies. No, I do not believe any
of Gurley's neighbors ever entertain.
ed an idea of coming to the city to
get the men out of jail. On Satur
day night I retired, in my own home,
at an unusually early hour. That
shows how much I thpught of the
rumor. Mot a single extra man was
on duty at the jail."
Anderson Gurley's body was found
in Neuse river late Thursday, near
Goldsboro. He was a prosperous
planter. The head of the corpse bore
many bruises, indicating that the man
had died from clubbing. He had been
robbed of money known to have been
in his possession a few hours before.
John Richards and three other ne
groes are held in the Wayne county
jail. Richards, who is about 21 years
of age and has "a yery4ad charact
er," implicated j two others. The
Wayne Sheriff Relieves both will
prove alibis. The! fourth man is like
ly to be cleared also at the prelimi
nary hearing In a day or two. Rich
ards, the Sheriff says, confessed and
named the two others in an attempt
to rid himself of some of the respon
sibility. He disposed of articles iden
tified as having been owned by the
dead man, and alf of this has been
recovered.
COLLECTIONS GOOD
IN SPITE OF ROUGH
'Pay-Up Week" Started
Today Sighs to Call Cit
izen's Attention to Occa
sionMerchants Will Be
Greatly Benefited
"Pay-Up Week" started off witii
bad weather. Collections, say some
merchants on Queen street, were
very good during tne nrsc nan or
the day. The inclemency kept them
down, of course. 1
The Chamber of Commerce is not
in a position yet to estimate the re
sults of the first day.. Nor will any
accurate estimate of the total collect
ed on back accounts ever be had for
the present "Pay-Up Week," Kins-
ton's, first. ,The next one, it is ex
pected, will be better planned , for.
There is a certainty in the minds of
the business men, however, that the
benefits derived from the present oc
casion will be material to- the indi
vidual merchants. ' - 4
The largee signs prepared . ) by th
Chamber of Commerce calling the
attention of pedestrians in the busi
ness district to their duty, and what
is expected of him by the Chamber
during this week will be strung late
this afternoon, Weather permitting.
(By the United Press)
RUSSIANS INACTIVE NOW;
REPORTED.
Berlin,. Jan. 10. The Russi
slans have temporarily aband'
oned the! ronslaught in Volhy
nia, Galicia and Bessarabia,' it
ia reported. ' i j i
REPORT'D
BULLETINS
WILSON TO
... c
ADORES
PEOPLE OF NATION
ON DEFENSE -ISSUE
To Make Speech in New
York or Baltimore On
January 17th
UNSATISFACTORY REPTS
Given Him By the Prepar
edness Leaders In Con
gress President Takes
Personal Charge of Cam
paign to Effect Program
(By the United Press)
Washington, Jan. 10.--President
Wilson is taking personal charge of
the battle for preparedness, and will
soon appeal to the people 01 ine
country to lend support to his fight
Unsatisfactory reports by adminis
tratiott supporters determined him to
take personal action. He will make
speeches in Baltimore or New York"
on the preparedness ieeu.
The President will confer with
Chairman Hay of the Houe military
committee and other leader at an
early date on forcing the defense
plans, through. , , , , ( -
THREE MEN KILLED
IN A DUPONT PLANT
Explosion In Machine Shop at Car
ney's PointNight Workers On
Boat In , Delaware Shaken Off
Their Feet Fear Paralyzes Two
Whole Countryside Shaken
Lights Put Out ,
(By the United Press)
Wilmington, Del., Jan. 10. Three
men were instantly killed by a ter
rific explosion in the machine house
of the Carney's Point DuPont plant,
just after midnight.
The blast shook the countryside.
The night shift had just embarked on
ferryboat at Long Seacti to cross
the Delaware. All were knocked off
their feet. Windows, were broken
and lights put out. Two men were
paralyzed with fear when they reach
ed the other side. .
SAYS PREPAREDNESS
WILL PRUSSIANIZE
THE UNITED STATES
(By the United Press)
Boston, Jan. 10. Speaking in Fan-
euil Hall this afternoon before the
closing session of the conference of
the Society to Eliminate Economic
Causes of War, Raymond L. Bridg-
man, publicist, declared the most vit-
purpdse of preparedness is not
preparedness for war, but prepared
ness against war. lie said in part:
"Nor Is oiir piirpose of prepared
ness against war;, not that we may
not be able to fight successfully, if
we are forced, but that we may not
be forced. , . .
"The present popular craze for pre
paredness, for war leads straight to
militarism. Prussian preparedness,
the very root of modern militarism,
was the direct cause of the exhaust
ing armaments of modern European
nations. Militarism inevitably pre
verts national moral sense. It breeds
treachery," the policy of f rightfulness,
cruelty, slaughter, the trampling of
treaties as scraps of paper, the sink
ing of Lusitanias, the murder of the
Armenian nations, the shooting , of
Edith Cavells. Human nature is the
same in America as abroad That is
what preparedness for war will do
for us."
NEWSPAPER LORD,
BURNHAHI, IS DEAD
London', Jan. 9. Lord , Burnham
died today after an illness of more
than a month. "
Lord Burnham, the proprietor of
the Daily Telegraph, was the last of
the old school of London newspaper
owners. Born Edward Levy, on De-
HON
CAROLINA
IS GOING TO BUILD
LINE TO JpUAIf
Surveyors Started Work at
Pink Hill Today Dis
tance 18 Miles
PARALLEL TO DEAL ROAD
Not Known When Actual
Construction Will Start
May Ultimately Be Two
Lines From Duplin Sec
tion to This City
Three surveyors who arrived here
Saturday afternoon commenced lay
ing off the line of a proposed extern
sion ol the Kmston-caroiina uau
road from Pink Hill to Chinquapin
this morning. The distance ia about
18 miles. It is practically , certain
that the extension will be built, for
passenger and freight service, simi
lar to that had from Kinston to Pinlj
Hill. The surveyors will be through
with their work in 80 days possibly,
hut it Is not known when actual con
struction will be commenced, nor
can it be learned if the JCinston-Car-
olina, which is subsidiary to the Nor
folk Southern, intends carrying the
line beyond Chinquapin ultimately.
The new line will run parallel with
the J. T. Deal Railroad, from Chin;
quapin to Pink Hill, connecting with
the Kinston-Carollna at the latter
point. The Deal r6ad was built pri
marily for logging purposes, but now
is handling passengers and general
freight in addition to timber. Should
the Deal road build, on into Kinston;
as is expected in well-informed quar
ters, there will be two 'roads running
parallel from Kinston to the rich
Chinquapin section.
SCHWIfER GETTING
FELLOWS
FROM THE JOURNALS
"Raw Deal" for Newspaper
Men at The Hague No
Tobacco, Liquor or Meat.
They Wired In Too Much
About Party's Rows
By CIIAS. P. STEWART,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
The Hague, Jan. 10. Fifty news
paper correspondents with the Ford
party have been quartered in a Dutch
sanitarium because the hotel enter
taining the party is full. No tobac
co and liquor are allowed there. No
meat is had at meals.
The correspondents today declared
that Mine, Schwimmer arranged it
on purpose, on account of the cabling
of news of the rows by delegates.
SCOn WOULD HAVE
CONSCRIPTION NOW
Chief of Staff Tells House Commit
tee AH Youths Between 18 and 21
' Mould Be Drafted for Army Ser
viceEngland Should Have Had
Conscription Before War - Broke
- Out, Declares
(By the United Press)
Washington, Jan. 10. Gen. Scott,
chief of staff, before the .House Mil
itary Committee today advocated uni
the ages
versal conscription of men between
the ages of 18 and 21. He said Eng
land would now be stronger if it had
established conscription before the
war.'-':
comber 28, 1833, oldest of a f amily of
eight children of J. M. Levy, he as
sumed, in 1875, the surname of his
uncle, Lionel Dawson, and was Ed
ward Levy-Dawson. On October 13,
1892, he was created a baronet, and
on July 31, -1903, he was raised to
the peerage, as Baron Burnham - '
kinston -'mm-
CO. SHUTS DOWN AND
MAY NOT StAfif UP
Indications Are That'Kin
ston Is Likely to Lose; .
Big Enterprise -!V
ALL UP TO NORFOLK MAN
J. T. Deal Not Certain He
Will Renew Contract,
With Kinston - Carolii
,R. R. & Lumber
sir a l-- .tA
; ivuuiy uj'ue uut oi Tm.
The Kinston Manufacturing Conw
pany. as it is popularly known, in
Southwest Kinston, was expected to
suspend today.' About 250 men, it is
estimated, including logwoods labor-;
ers, will be out of employment The
estimated ' weekly' payroll ,; is some-'
thing like $3,000, or 3,500. It is not
known if the laiTtj will be operated
atrain or not. i If the Kinston Manu
facturing Company does not renew its
contract by which it took over the
operation the mill will not resume
work. , . ' ' ,
The situation, as explained by of
ficials of the Kinston-Carolina Rail
road & Lumber Company today, is
about as follows: Something like
four years ago the Kinston Manu
facturing ' Company entered into a
contract with the K.-C. R. R. & L.
Co. With " tho cutting of a certain
amount of timber, as stipulated in
the contract, the K. M. Co. was at
liberty, after three months' notice,
to throw np the- contract. . This it has
done, the three months' notice hav-'
ing expired last week. , The Kinston'
Manufacturing 'Company, as is gen-"
erally known, Is J. T. Deal ami inter
ests with possibly others. t "
At the mill this morning it was
said that operations will cease this
afternoon or Tuesday, "for a time.'
Upon being asked about' the renewal
of the contract the manager stated
that Mr., Deal himself does not know'
what will be. done. - Mr. Deal is in
Norfolk. , He had not made up his
mind on .Sunday, it was stated.
It is said on excellent authority that
in the event Mr, Deal does not con- '
tinue operation of the big mill and
timber woods the Kinston-Carollna
Railroad & Lumber Co., will make'no
effort to run it, and that the enter
prise will probably be lost to Kin
ston, with a business amounting to
hundreds of thousands of dollars. -r -
'LANS OF THE STATE. .
NORMAL FOR SUMMER
Greensboro, N. C, JaftV 10.-Plana
for' the summer session of the State ,
Normal College are already forma""
lated and President J. I. Foust U
npleting the details of them. To
day he made the announcement that .
the summer session in the collegi- '
ate course will open June 1 this year .
and close July 27, making eight full
weeks of work The teacher train
ing school will begin two weeks lat- . .
ter, June 15, and close on the same -date,
July 27. The new course, the
housekeeper's training school, will
open June 15 and last through July '
27, and the teachers institute will be
conducted for two weeks, July 13-17,
inclusive. ' . , .
BRITISH BATTLESHIP 1
KING EDWARD YIL IS
SUNK BY MINE AT SEA
London, Jan. 9. The British bat
tleship King Edward VII has been
sunk as the result of striking a mine.
The news was received by the admir
alty in the following statement: v
"H. M. Si', King Edward has struck
a mine. Owing to the heavy sea she
had to be abandoned and sank; short
ly afterwards. The ship's company
was taken off without los sof life.
Only two men were injured."
The King Edward was a batleship
of W.S50 tons, laid down In March,
1902. She had four 12-bch, fwr 9.2
inch and ten six-inch guns She l.: 1
a' complement of J77 tie??,
I