s . .. i r. il . A TIE ,WATILBR i r Fw tonicKt Mil tomorrow ..r-.-v. VOL. XVIL-No. 253 Second feniTioN KINSTON, N. Oi SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1916 6 PAGES TODAY JPBICB TWO CENTS JNVP. CENTS, ON .TRAINS INDICATIONS THAT IHUTIA NOT -GOING IpHlEflRflllT AWAY, HE BELIEVES MENCH iAIIEN IN - 1 - HOUSE EXPECTED TO VOTE ON HIE My SeasiiptSk President .Favors Hay Bill .for 140,POO;Men,:,ItJs 1 Understood ; . CHAMBERLAIN HOPEFUL MOllDlliAGlEilffiii'PEN mmmm SERES DARING k .. .,. . .... j INFORMED SUBMARINE SYSTEM I FLIGHTS AT NIGHT r TORPEDOED (Cqt $o3d grips' Rearing ljqpRfl! v7uc.iMauoik.ccioiiu -uiuieu oiaies asks permission for Use of Goyernment-ControUed .Railroad In Mexico Uy atpops-wiiQ esaie nree orqer&tates way tionarVlye Line, Otncially Said at War Department (,By the United Press) . , ' Washinohairch 18.4-!The nlWd States has asked or will 4'sVpermission Sot the. expeditionary, force to use a government-controlled railway in Mikico. Funston'is said to have asked for the permission Dodd Approaches .Villa's Position. San Antonio, March . 18. Col. Dodd's column is within thirty miles of Villa's forces in the Galena district, is .in formation that came to Funston's headquarters today. An engagement may occur in a few hours if Villa has de cided to make a stand. . Sending Many Mexicans Out of U. S. , t Whplesale , deportation .from ;New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California, of Mexicans is believed to be affiliated - with ' a ,Felix Diaz-Villista movement, "reported impending,1 or activities here of 24 prominent Mexicans, former Huerta cabinet members, which caused an inves tigation last week. AjliSayBaker. , , '., Washington, March 18. All is quiet in the portion ot Mexico containing American troops, say War Depart ment reports! Secretary Baker said the only excitement nafl oeen'.ai xainpico, jana mac oniy lempurary. Dodd pundred Miles South of Jfjne. l-JEl i?asp March IR-jColDodd and his cavalry col umn have passed Janos, a hundred miles across the bor der! without firing a shot on Aeroplane scouts are today guiding Pershing's troops, Additional troops are reported to be crossing the border. Funstqn has asked permission to use .the Mexican 'rail ways. ' ' " (J . ' (. ; vtikffl'i The Peon sentiment in the Torreon district is strong ly anti-American. Villa is reported to be in Durango. NEGRO CHILD BiNED: . ISEXPECTEDfODIE Fire Department Was Called When Small Girl Ran From House In Blazing Clothes Josephine Smith's ' Daughter Cannot Recover, Believ ed Small Fire In South Kinston Today !. ' ... A four-year-oU daughter ef Jose phine Smith, colored, who lives in f an alley near Macon street, was. burn ! ed fatally, probably, 'Friday eyening about 7 o'clock, when . her clothing 1 caught fire, The child ran from; the : house and was . badly seared before persons caught her. and extinguished the flames.Physicians said sihe would nat recover. An alarm .was turned ' in and the department made the use- less run to the scene. , ! ., Today at 8:45 a. m. the firemen were called to the home of John I Scarborough, colored, in South Kin gston, where a blaze was extinguish ed after rifling5amage 'had been ? done. A defective flue was given as fthe cause. - The department was called out be : tween 3 and 4 o'clock today by a false, alarm, . - '' " YOUTlEAjpriF CI BERlM REGARDLESS London, March 18. You may .be as American as you please, but as .a cor respondent in Germany for the press of your own country, you will figure inevitably as a "herr" In the Eng lish newspaper. The mere fact that Cart w. Ackerman of nhe United 1ress' for instance, came from Indi ana, doesn't make him any exception. He is considerably quoted in London dallies, and it is always as "Herr Ackerman," or as ' "Herr Karl W. Arkermsn." ace. ereindit Arm De- Deportation of Mexicans from Reconnected jth Keyu-. "IiejQw the A -I the entire trip, it is reported. THE Nephew of W. T. Hines Saw Where Villistas Fought Slocum's Soldiers alnd' Murdered" Non-Combatants Execution Done by - Troopers Was Not Fully Told of In Eastern Press J. M. Hines ofeming, N. M., describes a Visit to ithe 'battlofield" at Columbus, N. MM in a letter to his uncle, Mr W. T; Hines, of this city. The field which was the scene of the Vfytiatas" attack was about two miles south of Columbus and jon ly SO yards from the. border. he states. A large party from Deming who visited it took away Mexican saddles, 'revolvers, cartridge belts and plunder of nil .kinds. A silver mounted saddle which he saw wa3 a handsome affair and rather different rom the ordinary. - ' "They burned the dead Mexican soldiers. There wero 48 in' one pile and 29, in another. The ones that fell out of the town and away from the road were left where they fell, however. T Forty to a hundred Mexi cans were killed on the-other side of the border. Theire were about forty Carranza troops stationed at ' the boundary gates where the shack that answers to the name of customs house is located, and one troop of our men- were scattered along the line."; ' , The Villistas had to stop in their retreat to cut a fence, says Mr. Hines, and American troops ambush ed them ithere and "got a big bunch of them." Garranza's men did not fire a .shot. An American officer stop ped by a Carranza soldier shoved his automatic into the Mexican's person. He' passed! Two companies of in fantry wereexpected at Deming for the town's protection when Mr, Hines wrote. Eastern newspaper accounts, he said, were severely criticized at Doming. Will Discuss Resignation p Von Tirpitz Next Week, Expected , STATEMENT BY GOVMENT Kaiser Will Outline His Pol icies, .ThoughtBills In Parliament Would Pre vent More Agreements i Except as to Liners, Said By - Carl W. Acker man, (United Press Staff Correspondent) Berlin, March ,18. The resignation of Admiral Von TirpitE will figure v. r in the Reichstag's debate of the sub marine policy next week, it is gener ally reported. It is possible that he government will make a statement of its policies with the intention to conserve the rights of neutrals. Bills in the Reichstag. The Liberal party has introduced bill dn the Reichstag directing the chancellor to make no agreements with cither nations limiting Germa ny's submarine warfare except : in cases Ki passenger ships A similar bill was introduced by the conserva Hive party. SpipiNJJOJH LEGS: PEARL GRAY , . : WASTED NOlULLETS John Joyner, colored, exhibited pis tol' ball wounds in both of his legs at a hearing in LaGrange on Fri 'day afternoon. Pearl Gray, also col ored, was fined $20 and assessed the coats for the shooting. 1 The assault occurred at a farm some miles from LaGrange, and fol lowed an altercation. Gray, it is said, had, at ithe point of his weapon', or dered a party of blacks to hold up, expectig an attack from them. Joy ner did not stop, and Gray fired two shots, effectually and with artistic ef fect. John McLaughlin, colored,; was among ithose present and ammed. Someone restrained him from using his gun. McLaughlin was not tried. JUDGE CALLS THE MANN ACT )iN UNFAIR AFFAIR (By the United Press) Atlanta, March 18. The most dis reputable girl lis made an equal with the most moral girl by the Mann act, Judge Newman today said, in charg ing a jury, which acquitted . H. L'i- gou of violation of the law. BARBER, MILLIONAIRE,, TO FOUND GREAT FAJtM COLLEGE ON HIS PLACE (By the United Press) Barberton, 0. March 18. Ohio C. Barber) millionaire maker of matches, now 74, plans to make "the best far mers to "the world' at greatest agricultural school in America." Bar ber Is drawing plans to convert his famous $3,000,000 3,500-acre ; farm. Anna .Dean, into an agricultural school adjunct of the Western Re serve University, Cleveland. " Accord ing to Barber, his institution will ri val M; A. C, Illinois, Wisconsin, or Cornell, in agricultural teaching and experiment work. MEMBER ALLEN GANG REPORTED K (By the United Press); ML Airy, March 18-jack Allen, a member of the famous Allen clan of feudists, has been killed in the mountains, says a rr port. iled Consul at Amsterdam Be- !J..... :7i.,.r IT,,,,; , . davits in flatter AMERICAN ; FAMILY SAFE Germany. Hears 4 British , s Submarines IWere In. the Vicinity of Spot 4 Where Tubantia Sunk, , But Lon don Admiralty" Denies (By the United Press) Washington, March 18. An official report from the Amsterdam consul today tended to clinch "the- reponcs that the Dutch liner Tubanua, with Americans aboard, was torpedoed. The message to ithe State Depart ment said two ship's officers on look out swore she was torpedoed, and that most of the passengers held the f aane view,, The Americans, Rfchard Chilling, representing "a New York life insurance company, wife and daughters were unhurt. Four are still missing, it is said. It is as sumed ithat the consul is gathering affidavits. Hinted British Submarines to Blame. Berlin, March 18 Amsterdam cor respondent of the Vossische Zeitung today telegraphed that two British submarines were in the neighborhood of the Tubantia on the day before she sank. Denial From London. ' London March .18. The secretary of the admiralty today denied .he Berlin report that British submar ines had been near the Tubantia. All Hands Saved. Amsterdam, March- ,18. Every; person aboard the Tubantia when she' was sunk is reported by the compa ny to have been saved. THE -JIMMIE GLASS S .SMALL BOHEMIAN, ASSERTS Chief of Police at Washing ton Declares Kidnapping Stories Are Boshw Wo man's Club Insists Mar tin Sheriff's Search Frut less (By the Eastern. Press) Williamston, N. C, Mar. 18. The Sheriff of Martin county late yesterday visited a gypsy camp at Parmalee and after a thorough search returned and declared that . the.e was ho child with the band answering the description given ? of 'J muni e Glass, the "movie boy," 'kidnapped in Pennsylvania some months ago, ' Washington, N. C, Mar. 18. Richard Roberts, the chief of police here, today took ehatrp issue with statements to .the effect that a party of gypsies who left here this week for Martin county had with them Jimmie Glass, . small son of a New Jersey family : kidnapped in Pennsylvania May 12, 1915. . ' ' - , ! 7 There was a boy with ,the band, Roberts says, of about the same age as ithe Glass boy, but of unmistakable Hungarian - or Bohemian extraction. The champ was watched closely, he declares. He calls the rumors "bosh." The president of the local Woman's club is positive that a boy of Ameri can parentage, blue-eyed and light of hair, was concealed by the nomads. A New Bern report cays the police there hold to the same theory aa the woman. George B. Waters f New Bern has been appointed a deputy U. S. marshal. Here's One National Guard 1 9go iga.- ' ed His Kit and Greased His Pistol SecoW ' In f antry.Prepared (By the Eastern Press) Washington. N, C, Mar. 18. "The sSeeond florth Carolina intfan' try could assemble at , Camp .Glenn, Morehead ,City, .on 0 hours' notice, Col. W. C Hodman, tho commanding officer, said (today. Colonel Rodman da just up from a eick bed. "There would be only one thing that could prevent mobilization of the regiment in that time failure of the railroads to furnish' facilities," he stated. There are .800 men in the Second, and if war strength should be called for it cpuld be recruited to the necessary 1,500 or a few more in half a week, the . 'Colonel , said. "If the regiment should be (rushed to the ilront, how ever, it would probably depart with peace strength and have drafts as signed to it somewhere en route or at the general mobilisation point He does not expect a call for the National Guard in the "(immediate future." ".The Second would be one of the first regiments called for. Its equipment fa identical with the ser vice paraphernalia , of the New York and Illinois troops Jhe best in the country, he said. Col. Rodman leaves tonight or in the morning for Wash ington. ' OPEN UNIVERSITY'S NEW ATHLETIC JIELD m THIRD OF APRIL Messrs. O. F. York and J, f. Mit chell, .traveling passenger agents, re spectively, of the. Southern and Nor folk Southern railroads, were here Friday evening. ,It was, stated by Mr. Mitchell that a" special train would be operated from Goldsboro to Chapel Hill on April 8 for the open ing of the new athletic field of the University of North Carolina. The baseball iteams of,. the U. of N. C. and U.. of Va. will. play their annual game at. The Hill en that date, Mes srs. jMitche and .yqrk stated. TO BOOST CANNING : ' ' " "CtOBS'JN IEN0IR ; JCannjng.club work is 0 be given an impetus in ,Lenoir county, it is probable. A week or ' two ago a representative of the' Wayne County Tomato Club secured big orders from Kinston merchants for fruit packed in Waynes "Why buy them?" "Why. say gTOcerymeh in 'reply to the ques tion, "they are as well packed as any, and put up under the supervision of an expert in hygiene, which is not al ways the case in the big canneries. Then, too, the product is eelect. Can they compete with the big fellows? They aire doing it" FOUR OF KAISER'S SK.SQNS INJURED JN ttjE WAR SO FAR Amsterdam, Mar. 18. The wound ing of Prince Oscar of Germany on the Russian front makes four of the Kaiser's sons who have suffered bod ily injury in the war, according, " to accurate journalistic records here. Only the .Crown , Prince and Prince Adalbert .have escaped thus far. Au-: gust Wilhelm, : the Kaiser's fourth son, was wounded during the battle of the Marne by a bullet in his left awn. The second on. Eitel Frederick, was thrown from his horso ' in October, 1914, and Buffered a damaged knee. Joachim, the sixth son, was wounded by shrapnel in the right thigh ' in September, 1914. ' Joachim was also nearly captured by the Russians in the following December. He was res cued by a German aeroplae. Oscar, recently wounded, sufTers from palpi tation of the heart and collapsed from this complaint after a l :,'."o v 1"1S. Bombed Njimber .German . utiles, 'psiuons, oiavtons, Suppjy Pepots ALMOST UNPRECEDENTED Raid On Largest Scale Ever Known, Probably Thir ,ty-two (Separate Clashes" With Teuton Aviators on Western Battlefront " (By the United Press) Paris, March ,18. (French. avSators made five great raidB upon German cities and important positions last night, and engaged in 32 duels on the Verdun front, it is said officially. The activities of the last 24 hours were almost unprecedented. Eighteen aeroplanes attacked fthe railway station at Conflans, the sup ply depot of the Crown Prince for the Verdun offensive, and dropped 40 bombs. Another squadron attacked Sablons and the station ait Metz, and caused three fires at the station and many explosions along the railway. One -squadron dropped ten bombs upon the uerman aerodrome at Dieze, and five upon the AraaviUe station. , , No Fighting at Verdun. Berlin, March 18. The Verdun of fensive has slackened because of the weather conditions, it Is sai3, official ly "A heavy mist today hindered op erations en the entire front. IJIDN7 CHECK yATER PRESSURE TO LOWER MAIN; DID flICE JOB A really remarkable piece of en gineering was directed by John ,E. Weyher, Superintendent of the Wa ter and light Depantanont. on North Queen street at the verge of Vernon Heights Friday afternoon. Five hun dred feet of 10-inch water main was lowered a disitance of four -feet with the full pressure on, without a break. Only 10 men were employed in .the work, and it was completed in four hours' time. After the ditch had been dug the pipe was lowered grad ually until it rested nicely at the new depth. The work was preliminary to paying in that section. THE ODDEST STORY IN THE DAY'S NEWS. Xenla. O., March 18. In the grave exactly one thousand, six hundred and thirty-five times and still Jiving is Ithe unusual distinction of J. II. Rickman, who has just resigned as sexton of the Cherry Grove Cemetery after twenty-Jive years' service. SAN DIEfO EXPO. IS STARTING ITS SECOND YEAR WITH MEW ;NAME (By the United Press) San Diego, Oal., March 18. The San Diego exposition, now in its sec ond year, was rechristened at noon today "The Panama-California Inter national Exposition an Exposition of Peace.", While Son Diego made holiday and thousands thronged the grounds of tho palm-girded show city, President Davidson's toast to the exposition and to peace was re peated In the principal cities of the United .States and Canada. Nineteen nations, United States possessions, western and California counties are represented in the exposition. As the chimes of noon struck,. Davidson pro posed the toast to "an institution which promotes every fruit of civili sation that js being destroyed in the other hemisphere," and to fulfilment of "the highest obligations that can devolve on a people's exposition of ircjress." , ' Thinks Senate Will Pass His Bill and That a New and Larger Army Wijl Be Formed From Best Points - of That and Hays flVi (By United Press) , ; Washington, March 18-The House today debated the army increase bill, Speaker Clark taking the floor. .Many amendments were offered suggesting a larger increase. ' , . The Hay bill provides for an army of 140,000 men. : A vote is expected next week. President Approve Hay . Bill. . V' ' , The j President -has approved the Hay army . reorganisation Ml, iQhajav man pay of the .military committee today declared in the. House. 'Baker also approves it, he said. . - " The army, with a war strength of nearly 800.000, was recommended to the Senate in a committee report on the modified Chamberlain .bill. This is the largest force suggested by any proposed legislation. Chamberlain announced that he would ask ,he Senate on Monday .to lay aside all . other business to consider it.. He Jn dicated that theSenat would .pass tne oiii and tnat tne xiouse wra pass ithe Hay s bill, both then getting together to settle upon the final form and ize of the army. : H0,50L()RED1IENJHAP Jri SMAUSIZED BARROOr.1 Percy Lamonte "and Paul Brooks were arrested on whisky 'charges by policemen in the vicinity of" North street', .on the edge of Ithe business distirict late Friday night ' JThejnen -are said to have been t suspected or - some .time. Assistant t Chief JSkfnner v and Patrolmen Dupree .aSumrell raided houses in which the two were staying, .and seized -jthem and.ahout thirty 'quarts 'of ywky. It is believed the men, who are to be tried this afternoon, went to Nor ' folk together. They came to Grif ton by train and walked the' remain , der of the distance to Kinston) It is said.' They went tto jail in default of bait. ' .,,., .Lamonte and prooks .have .been re- sponsible for some little disorder in the southern and soupieaatern parts ,.: of the city, according to fhe airQiori- ties. It has been their custom upon returning from a 1nwp . to arfpiljb to take up positions Sn those sections . and dispense whisky to white a well as colored persons. - :. GW:HAS",NPW ENEMY TO DEAL WITH (By the '.United, Press) . Berne, .Switzerland, March ,18. German scientists aro concentrating their minds on methods of extennin ating field mice. As a result of the mild winter the mice have multiplied enormously and expert agriculturists say they threaten to damage the next crop seriously. In view of the enor mous importance of a full yield, .the government took the alarm immedi ately. ENYER PASHA TUTaiS U? AUYE,ITISnLrC:iZ)v (By the United .Press) Athens, March 18. Enver JPssha, reported assassinated or wou 1 ty an assassin, has returny-1 t C n sUntinople from a touT cf i say today's advices. IK tt. I . h ; ilk- 'if mm : jif- i IF' If II 1 . Mitt Li U ft' f ' 'if n - i t J -ill- !f 1.