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32. TfiE H0J:E - PAPEB Rata tMhrfit wJ n- , VOL. XVn. No. 213 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1916 FOUR PAGES TODAY , PRICK TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS M 1 MARINES HAKE '1Y WITH LOOTERS CAL FLOODED DISTRICTS PRESIDENT ASKING ftfllfe wyiUY IHkod FKcsS MOIL HOUSE MAY HAVE SECURED IND IN TRIP TO BERLIN Correspondent Wires Ger many Will Admit Blame In Lusitania Matter DEMOCRATS TO GIVE WILL CLEAN UP THE CITY BEFORE ASS'N OF OFFICIALS MEETS May Be Special Clean-tJp Week During Spring Famous Men Apt to Come to Kinston on Occasion of Meeting of Mayors BIMABE GERMANY KAID DVER F SOLID SUPPORT TO THE NEW SHIP BILL CAN NEVER BE HADE 9 - Ul I f J it I CAPITAL BACK siiims m arfs RENOI FRUITLESS PREPAR'DNESS .4 Twenty-Six Killed in First 'Attack'by a Zeppelin, ' v However 1 TRYING OUT DEFENSES ..... taint, 4r . MiMitlKMi m n J - X'' pPQlin In, First Raid Got . 1 - In, Its Work Before Aero- planes Watching for It Could' Get to Chase Many People Injured (By the United Press) Paris, Jan. 31-No damage was done 4n a second zeppelin raid here last 'night. Bomlra exploded harm lessly in fields. French aeroplanes forced the enemy to rise to a great . height tand pursued. It was a gas . machine. It is believed the raids on Saturday and Sunday nights were for , the purpose of testing out the defenses,' s preparatory to greater raid.'' -Twenty-six persons were killed and thirty-two injured in Sat urday's raid. The property loss was less than $100,000. ' ManyKilled In First Raid. Paris, Jan. 30. Thirty French ae roplanes searched the remote air re gions above Paris last night for a zeppelin raider, of whose appearance warning had been given. By the timet it had reached the edge of one of the old quarters of the city several . . of the Airmen were able to make out its pale- yellow shape 14,000 v feet from the earth. Frightened, doubt S ; lesaH)y. the. numerous warplaoea ". ing . (toward it,' the 'zeppelin wheeled ; and . drove at full speed northward, dropping in Its trail into the darkness- eargo of about three and one half 'fens' of bombs. Then continu ing Jts flight at a great altitude, the airship vanished. ' Twenty-four persons were killed 'and twenty-seven injured in the raid, according tor en official statement given out today. Ten severely wound ed were , placed in hospitals. REUpVES OF THE MOHRS ON THE STAND j" '..' -v- ' . Doctor and Yeoman Accused of Insti gating His Murder .Never Legally Married,, Physician Alleged to Have Told LaUerV Brother-in-Law Sister of Victim One of Today's Witnesses. (By the United Press) Providence, Jan. 31. Eugene Sul livan of New' Bedford was the first witness today in the Mohr trial. He wfts jasked to identify a letter the doctor wrote, demanding a cessation of iutterances defaming his wife. Mr. Sullivan 'testified that Dr. Mohr told him ?that they were never legally married. - Angered, Sullivan left, then telling his wife, whose sister Mrs. Mohr is, how he got the letter. The next witness was Mrs. Ella Ho gan of McEwensville, Pa., sister to Dr.' Mohr. , i Testimony that Mohr denied the parentage of the children of Mrs. Mohr was given , by Mohr's, brother from a letter. Gustavus Mohr is on the. stand. . , THREE DEATHS IN ONE , ' FAMILY FROM PNEUMONIA ' '- ": ' -""' H. ' ; ' ' "' ' ' Magnolia, Jan 30. Gaud Johnson died yesterday. His, death is the third- to occur in the same family in the. last few day, his wife and daughter having died a few days ago, all succumbing to pneumonia, nd there are still three others of. his children rery ill." WHY GIRLS SHOULD : WEAR BIG SHOES. lioa Angeles, ' Jan.- SL Tight hoes make bad tempers, according to bulletin issued by the Young Women' Christian Assn here. The first requirement of a girl , seeking rk through the Y. W. C. . A. here how i wear big shoes. Mexican Robbers Shot By Men Sent Ashore From Naval Vessels 30 Bodies FoundHundreds Flee ing From New Danger (By the United Press) San Diego, Jan. 31. Looting ghoul are, cutting the cars and fin gers of women's corpses to obtain jewels, it is reported, m the flooded district in the South. Hundreds are fleeing from greater new floods. Marines are reported to have shot several Mexican looters. Thirty bod ies have been recovered. The resi dents of Imperial Beach have fled. The Otay, San Luis and San Pasqual valleys and TIa Juana, Mexico, are devastated. Relief work is organiz ing. The worst of the trouble in those neighborhoods is over and the dams are being strengthened. Marines and Sailors in Charge. San Diego, Cal., Jan. 30. (By Ra dio to San Francisco.) Looting, de scribed by Rear Admiral Fullam, commanding the Pacific reserve fleet as "the worst I have ever eeen," broke out today in the Otay valley. flood-swept by the breaking of the Otay dam last Friday. The lower valley was turned into an armed camp patrolled by marines and sail ors from the battleship Oregon and the cruiser Milwaukee and South Da kota in San Diego bay,, with' orders to shoot looters on sight. The sailors and marines toiled hard to recover the bodies of those iwho lost-their-4ivefl in the disaster f and at sunset 29 foodies, some of which were ftiutilated, had been gath eMSd together. The loss of life in the Otay valley now is estimated at 50, while reports that the cloudburst in San Luis bay and San Pasquel valleys cost more than ten lives brought the probable death list in ibis section to eixty. DISTRICT? MEDI CAl , SOCIETY MEETS IN KINSTON IN MARCH The Lenoir County Medical Socie ty will on March 8 entertain the Medical Society of the Second Dis trict, at its regular meeting, accord ing to announcement by Dr. Z. V, Moseley, secretary of the local so ciety, today. . There will be possibly 150 physi cians here for the occasion, said Dr. Moseley. They will come from a number of counties and include some of the best known medicos in tins' part of the country. The business session will last only two or three hours, hut a social program to be ar ranged by the Kinston M. Ds. will fill the day up nicely for the visit ors. . ....... .... A. & M. VICTOR IN THE .DEBATE WITH A. P. I. (Special to The Free Press) West Raleigh, Jan. 30. The liter ary societies at the A. & M. College are rejoicing at the victory which their representatives won last night over a (team representing the Ala bama Polytechnic Institute. The A. & M. speakers were D. A. Monroe of Moore county, nd J. F. Williams, Jr.. of Charlotte. ; Their opponents were Messrs. Armrong Corey and D. D. Saunders. The debate was judged by Chief . Justice Walter Clark, Hon. R. W. Winston and Sec retary of State J. Bryan Grimes. FRANCE RELEASES ' COTTON FOR SWISS. Berne, via Paris, Jan. 30. The French' government, after lengthy negotiations, v has released 16,000 bales of American cotton that had been stored at Havre and Boulogne and which could not be forwarded on account of the war. i ; There is great need in Switzer land for cotton, some of the mills already having suspended work; Speaks in Cleveland, Illino is and Wisconsin Cities Tells Hyphenated5.iti- zens America Should Be . First In Their Hearts (By the United Press) Chicago, Jan. 31. The President's special left here at 10 o'clock this morning, due to reach Milwaukee in time for dinner. "America First." Milwaukee, Jan. 31. President Wilson in a speech here this after noon called upon the citizens of this section, a large proportion of them foreign born, to think of America first and prepare themselves for that citizenship which recognizes but one Nation that which feeds them and afTords them homes and liberty and the right to rise to any position. He was received with enthusiasm such as marked his audiences in Cleveland and Pittsburgh. En route here from Cleveland he made brief talks from his train to crowds at Waukegan, 111., Racine, Wis., and Kenosha, Wis. He leaves at 4 o'clock for Oiicago, where he speaks tonight. HOW DUKE OF .GENOA ; 1 'SUBS' FOR THE KING ITALY, AT FRONT By HENRY WOOD, (United Press Staff Correspondent) Rome, Jan. 20. (By Mail) The Duke of Genoa who "subs as King at the Quirinal while Victor Eman uel is at the front, is fast proving himself a formidable rival of ths latter for the affections of the Ital ian people. King Victor, however, seems in no way disturbed. Eight months ago he asked his august un cle to come down to Rome and "sit in" for him. Until his return from the Italian front this week the King had not even returned to Rome to see how his "sub" was getting away with the job. There is perhaps no other royal family in Europe whose members Would do such a thing. The House of Savoy now includes, be sides King Victor and the Duke of Genoa, the Duke of the Abruzzi, the Duke of Aosta and the Count of Tu rin. The five are cronies. Each has had the rigid military or naval training required of every male member of the house, and each is ; considered competent to lie King. Victor, would just as soon trust one as the other. lie chose the Duke of Genoa because he was the eldest. He figured the younger ones could bet ter serve Italy in their respective positions as military and naval com manders. The choice met with dis approval only from the Duke him self. ECLIPSE OF SUN TO BE SEEN HERE ON THURSDAY A partial eclipse of the sun will be visible in thi3 scetion Thursday. It will make its appearance about 10 o'clock, and will be apparent as a partial eclipse in the United States, Mexico, Central America and the northern portion of South America. In Central South America the eclipse will be total. The eclipse as it will appear here will show one half of the sun's disk obscured by the moon. The total eclipse will first be visible in the Pacific ocean, and will sweep across the northern part of South America and will end at sunset just south of Ireland in the Atlantic ocean. Five eclipses are predicted for this year three of them eclipses of the sun and two of the moon. - . . HIGH FLOODS NOW SWEEPING INDIANA Brazil, Ind., Jan. 31. Water high er than in the 1913 floods is sweep ing the section. The waters are; still rising. - - - ' . . ' WASHINGTON OPTIMISTIC Reported Imperial Govern ment Is Preparing a Note That Will Confess Liner's Sinking Was Violation of International Law (By the United Press.) Washington, Jan. 31. "Optimism over the Lusitania sibuation was awakened here today. The hopes of the officials are largely Iwsod on a report from Carl W. Ackerman, the United Press correspondent, that the Berlm Foreign Office is preparing to send a note, following a clearing up of the matter, made at conferences of Colonel Mouse 'and the Foreign Office. M The final outcome may be an ad mission hat the sinking was techni cally Illegal under international law. Lansing and Congressmen ' Confer. "International relations were dis cfussed today behind closed doors by Lansing and the House foreign af fairs and appropriations committees. He asked for an increase of the State Department's fund, and touch ed upon the international situation, especially the Department's confiden tial work. , SENATORIAL COMMITTEE APPOINTED INVESTIGATE FITNESS OF MR. BRANDEIS (By the United Press) Washington, Jan. 31. Senators Chilton. Fletcher, Walsh, Clarke and Cummins have been namfid a sub committee to investigate Brandeis. Clarke and Cummins are believed to be opposed to the confirmation of the Boston lawyer for a place on the Su preme Court bench. ITALIANS HAVE ALL DEST OF SITUATION IS ROME STATEMENT Now In Better Position On Front Than Since Out break of War, Declared Have Taken 30,000 Pris oners and Many Guns (By ths United Press) Rome, Jan. 3l-Thirty thousand Austrian prisoners, many guns ami thousands of rifles, are declared to have been captured by the Italians since the beginning of the war. It is declared that the Italians now are in strategic positions which give them control of a large part of the front BULLETINS (By the United Press) SUCCESSFUL FRENCH AIR RAID. London, January 31. Bombs thrown by French -aviators la the Freiburg raid destroyed a military train. '' Jtilling and wounding a number of soldiers, said a Zurich dispatch. , DEATH REAR ADMIRAL' , ALBERT BARKER, RETIRED " Washington, Jan. 30-Rear Ad miral Albert S. Balker, retired, who served from 1862 to 1905, died at his home here today of pneumoniai Admiral Barker was a native of Hanson, Mass., and Was 72 years old. Modified Government Own ership and Commission Supervision Features of New Measure Charge I. H. C. With Monopoly (By the United Press) Washington, Jan. 31. Senator Gronna will bring charges in the Senate demanding an investigation of the existence of a binder twine trust, said to bo the International Harvester Company. He today charg ed that the company's control of the world's sisal supply. Ship Bill Introduced. 'Objection of the Democrats which blocked the ship purchase bill last year, is believed to have been re moved by the bill introduced today. Modified government ownership and regulation of all shipping by a new shipping board are, the chief features of the new measure. Solid- Demo cratic support, it is believed, will be given the measure. FIRST TERM SUPERIOR COURT OF YEAR ENDED AFTER BUSY SIX DAYS Superior Court came to a close Saturday evening. It was the first term of the year and lasted only a week. Judge Allen,, who presided, will remain in the district for the next five months, holding the courts at Kinston, Clinton, Kenansville and Jacksonville. Before the term was declared end ed Judge Allen changed the sentence of a young white man named Pot ter, convicted of having more than the legal quantity of whisky, from six months on the roads to an equal term in jail, with privilege to the commissioners to hire him out. Rol and Turner and George Bursell, two small boys who were arrested re cently in Petersburg, Va., on the charge of robbing a North , street fish dealer of about $130, were tried for forcible trespass. They were re quired to pay the costs and give bonds for good behavior, and Judge Allen secured assurances that both would be kept out of all temptation for mischief, when not in school. MAN DROWNED IN CREEK WHEN AUTO TURNED OVER Aslieville, Jan. 30. Skidding down a bank caused by a fill on the Fair view road at an early hour this morning an automobile owned and driven by Harry Shope of this city, overturned into a creek, pinning Clyde Williams, a young white man, face downward in the water, where he drowned. Five other occupants of the car, including two mysterious women, were thrown clear of the car and escajHjd with slight bruises. 'Only the hatsbolonging to the women remained to explain their presence when rescuers arrived, the women disappeared in some unknown man ner. LAMAR MUST GOTO PEN. FOR TWO YEARS (By the United Press) Washington, Jan. 31. David La mar, "wolf of Wall Street, must go to the Atlanta Penitentiary for two years, the Supreme Court decided today in dismissing the appeal of Lamar, convicted of impersonating former Representative Palmer. SAYS BATTLESHIPS IN GOVT. YARDS COST MORE (By the United Press) Washington, Jan. 31. Battleships cost more to build in government yards than in private 'plans, Admir al Taylor said to the House commit tee today. He urged, a division - of work between the government and private yards. The executive committee of the Carolina MunicipiU Association is expected to meet in Greensboro dur ing the coming month to decide upon who will Ihj invited to address the association st its annual meeting here in May, the dates and other de tails. It is practiclly certain, as announced in The Free Press some weeks ago, that Mayors John Pur roy Mitchell of New York and Blan keivburg of Philadelphia will he in vited to make speeches at the con vention. At least one of these is ex pected to come. Among the topics for the conven tion will be sanitation, paving, police organization, fire equipment, play grounds, parks, bcautification of ug ly spots in towns, the social evil, etc., and experts will be selected to make addresses upon those subjects. Mayor Blankonburg, for instance, is famous as an organizer of munici pal bureaus. For the first time there will be a large party of officials other than mayors present at a convention Of the association. There will be at least three-score chief burgesses of North and South Carolina cities and towns here, and: fully as many com missioners of departments, aldermen, police and fire chiefs , and others. Kinston. for a small city, will have nKJl0.Pl10W) the.vlsitors in Jts new paving, electric plant, etc, It is said the city will be thoroughly cleaned up before the coming of the officials from other places, and a special "cleanup" week may ibe observed. FLEET LOOKING FQR MISSING SUBMARINE (By the United Press) Washington, Jan. 31. The K-5 is still unheard from. The whole fleet is searching the coast off Charleston for the submarino, missing since last night. . PAMUCO. COUNTY MAN ACCUSED ROBBERY HERE It is understood that Clinton Mor ris, a Pumlico white man, will be ar rested for thl larceny of a gold watch and $"19 from a man in Kinston. The New Bern police were on Saturday asked to apprehend him, but it seems that Morris was not in that city but had gone to Pamlico county from Kinston. The alleged robbery occur red Friday, it is said. The victim's name haj not been divulged. NEWS OF A DAY IN NEIGHBORING TOWNS In praising the juries of last week's .Superior Court at Greenville, Judge II. W. Whedbee said he had never known jurors to render ver dicts that pleased the court as well as theirs. Rev. H. N. Blanchard at Green ville is nursing a black eye. He was splitting wood when a chip flew up, striking him on the cheek and eye. After having been in service three quarters of a century, the fire bell at Washington, one of the largest in the State, has pealed its last It was purchased some years before ' the War Between the States, and was a gift of the "ladies of the city to the City of Washington," according to the inscription. It gave warning of hundreds of fires and some dots, and was used as a signal for troops in '61-'C5. The bell was considered un necessary with telegraph fire alarm apparatus. - .J.. : . . ' ' New Bern gave about ; $150 for Jewish Relief, until Caesar Cone Sent an agent there. He secured sev era! hundred dollars more, Iwing-in the t,! 1 r- 1 ) r. . f" '". ' . 1 r t Admiralty Chief at Berlin 1 1 Says Non-Combatants Only Would Suffer J PLENTY OF SUBMARINES To Hamper British Fleet in Baltic "Germany Pre- ' pared for Any Action"-"-War Can . End Only , By Allies' Backdown, Says By CARL W.; ACKERMAN. , (United Tress Staff Correspondent) " ; (Copyrighted by the United Press) Berlin, Jan. 81. An effective blockade of Germany is impossible, , Admiral Von HolUendorff, chief of the admiralty staff, declared today : in an exclusive statement s , " , "England can't stop commerce in the Baltic between Sweden and Den mark," he said. JThe only effect tha blockade could have wouhL be upon ; the women nd children of Germany T and neutrals. Germany is prepared . . for any action. Commerce is now normal. British submarines in the Baltic have been unau'ccessful.' ; We long ago prepared for that emergen cy. We have everything necessary. The war will last until we are 'victor, ious or until the Alhes find that they can't crush us. We have new fifty submarines. Some were .lost,- butJJ , went .through the British nets un damaged. , .. . - ' , wv: PROiTirnviLLiooK:;" KINSTON OYER FIRST So That New England Community Expert Is Expected to Make Ad- dress on Local Condition Ad dress In One of Public Buildings Will Be Interesting , to All Khv stonians. Predicted Mr. Edward W. J. Profitt, tiie not ed New Englander Vho is to address the Chamber of Commerce and pub lic here Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, has foeen in New Orleans. ' where he addressed the National Foreign Trade Council. Mr. Proffit is expected to arrive here at 4:41 p. m. Wednesday, in the company of General Passenger Agent H, S. Leard and possibly other offi cials of the Norfolk, Southern Rail road. He will have made addresses ' . !n Charlotte and Raleigh en route to Kinston. His coming to this section Is being extensively advertised, for he is recognized as one of the lead ing community betterment , authori ties in the country, and the East Ca rolina towns are expected to receive ', some excellent advice from him. Mr.. Proffit will be taken for an auto ride around the city before speaking, and may adapt his address largely to lo cal conditions as he sees them. His theme will be municipal progress or something of the sort, but just how he will handle it, or the lines he will touch upon can only be conjectured. '' Either the "Courthouse or-lhe"City ... Hall will be the place of speaking;--The Chamber of Commerce is desir ous that every citizen who Is inter ested be present to hear the Rhode Island man. : " ' .. Mr. Proffit will visit New Bern, Washington and Wilson on the 3rd and 4th. '' .';;'.;:.!'..-; 'S"---.'?'': NERRO ALLEGED TO, HAVE BRACE OF WIVES 1 Ernest Cooper, colored, will be tried before, the Recorder Tuesday on a charge of bigamy,' Cooper, according to counsel, was sentenced to a term on the roads here for t . and a. with his Kinston wife, and married her on the advice of looal authorities. The New Bern police say he was married to a wo man there on March 23, 190t, anj that t'.e v.-m- m an 1 f.njr cV.'. ' . s
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