DAILY
PRESS
THB WBATHB1
i ; ' , V' 1
Cloud? ud Wlmar Tcniahl
Probably Kaia Toomtdbw
VOL. XVII.-
-No. 254
SECOND EDITION
KINSTON, N. O, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1916
fatlCB TWO CHITS
riVK CENTS ON TRAINS
FOUR PAGES
, tit ;
IS I IS IIKIVl Mi VIA TflWARnS
PASSAGE BOTH HAY
GREENVILLE MAN TO
TBE HOME PAPEB . jjfe
g' ' .' f i. i I.1 I i l i n ". I i ,l i'ii
KA RAM
. M: fri f t; sV a i JJ..1 J. 'J f 41 X W a
SEVENTH , BLAZE IN
THREE DAYS WAS IN
BUSINESS DISttflCt
(
Upper Story of Dixie Thea
ter Building Gutted Mon
day Night
kftrrii liriitnr' iiiiirrnn nmirtfrn rtiunTtir
IN BIG FIGHT THAT
llEGMllE
AND JILLMAN BILLS
TODAY LOOKED FOR
BUILD NEW TOBACCO
FxU.Uil, VJltItt.UIH t!J dIAitd lAVALlu
IS VMITING TO FINISH BANDIT LEADER
LASTED SIX MONTHS
AND GETS EXCITED
WAREHOUSE IN CITY
flitter of Few Hours Before His End, Funston Thinks
De Facto Government Troops Friendly With People of
Mountain Section and American Officials Expect No
Further Opposition Mormon Colonists at Casas Qran
des Not In Danger Now Permission for Use of Rail-
roads Expected Carranza . Troops Engaged In Run
ning Battle rVith: Outlaws Fighting for Lives In the
Mexican Desert Country
(By the United Press)
San Antonio, March 21. "The next few hours may
tell the story." -was General Funstoh's comment today
on dispatches that Villista and Carranzista armies had
clashed and that Villa was retreating northward toward
where American cavalry is stationed. A night ride had
brought the Americans close to their quarry. Pershing
is being advised presumably of the Carranzistas' move
ments, and there seems to be friendly co-operation. More
troops are, leaving Columbus.
Carranzistas Co-Operating Nicely.
; Washington, March 21. Conditions in Mexico are fa
arable, it is officially said at the State Department. The
Department has had no confirmation bf reports of a Vil-lista-Carranzista
clash. One report told of the saving
of the Mormon 'colonists at Casas Grand and said the na
tives and Carranzistks' irt the trouble zone are friendly.
A protocol for united action by Airterica and Mexico is
hunting Villa is in preparation. Carranza is to grant the
ib of .the raiways l&merjcam; , ,
Villa Engaging Carranzistas But Running. '
El Paso. MirTch 21The
sdfln against Villa bandits; it
ported to be hurrying to reinforce the Carrarizistas at
Namiquina, now engaged in
lawk Villa is desperately
Canyon twenty miles east.
JiUlHS WILL PREPARE
TO PtfT END fO STRIFE
Mftftni"' of Military find Political
Leaders this Week to Discuss Mea
sures for Worthing Conclusion
Bore Teamwork by Entente Pow
er and Smaller Nations Is Pro
posed ,.(. (By the United Pres'sj
.. fe'lljMarcli 21. A greater en
tente, bringing France, Russia, feng
Jang and the smaller Allies into com
plete accord, is expected to result
from a conference of the military and
political leaders of the Allies late in
"this -Greek:"'" They will plan for con
certed action by the military and po
litical authorities to shorten the War.
KfNSHiN MIGffr BE -BENEFITTED
BY. NEW
NORTHERN BOAT LINE
Agents of a pojiKsed steamer line
- from Baltimore ito New Bern and oth
North Carolina port will meet
the New Born Chamber of Com
ftfeixe Wednesday night to discuss the
project. 1 is believed the line can
Be established without any consider
able difficulty.
'Kinston and Goldsboro merchants,'
says the New Bern Sun-Journal, 'are
jriuch interested, as St would mean a
savinj to tSeni in freights to
have their goods shipped to New
Bern isnd reshippfed via railroad and
smaller river boats. Several business
men from those towns are expected
to atrid the meeting here.'
i Kinston, being now the third, if
not the second town in importance as
; wholesale center in Eastern Coro
Hna, might be benefited considerably
: by the line, local dealers eay.
BRITISH AND (MAN
: LfrlTtOYERS IN FIGHT
tondon. March 21-Pour British
destroyers have engaged three Ger
inaA destroyers of the BelguSii coast,
Mya. the admiralty. Two German
64ts were nit by sheila. Four Brit-
-rs were wounded. It
: running fight . The Germans
was
fled
Americans will be in action
is thought Col. Dodd is re
a running fight with the out
trying to reach Santa Clara
It is feared he has escaped.
READY FOR ANOTHER
KIND OF WAR, SAYS
Runciman Declares Her Enemies, vVill
Never Allow Germany to Plan An
other World War, But Will Not
Throttle Nation to Starve Its Feo
pie Commercial Contest is Com
ing " (By the United Press) '
London, March Zl.Gertnany will
never lead ithe world in peaceful put-
suits, President Runciman of the
Board of Trade told me today in an
exclusive interview. "Throttling
Germany, and leaving her people to
poverty Is hot contemplated by the
allies, but preparations in peace to
a military end will never again be
tolerated," he said, lie believes Ger
many plans ah economic war after
the ' present conflict. "The Allies
know how to meet such," he said.
BULLETINS
(By the United Press)
carranzA Inquires
NUMBER U. S. TROOPS.
Washington,". Harch 21 Car
ranza has asked the number of
American troops employed in the
hunt for Villa, This was one of
(he fcueslions asked in connection
with the protocol. . The reason is
4 nriknbwh. Consul Rogers at Que
retaro was first asked. ' The
State Department today ihdibat- .
ed 'that it would approve deport
' dlfoii bf any persons on the bor
der fomenting trouble between ,
tfte American and the Carranza
governments. ' '
mifs in m NEWS
OF NEIGHBORING TOWNS
It is consider red likely that a cot
tonseed oil and ice plant, with ma
chinery adequate for taking care of
the ""municipal electric lighting ; con
tract, will be pot up at LaGrange.
CraVeri county's" Democratic jprUn
ary will be ileld on April 15. : ;
Mrs. Rache! Simmons, 73, la dead
at Pollocksville, following, long illn
ess.' .'" ; ""' . " - ' '. '
Vocieczko Bridgehead ,and
Surrounding Trenches
Now In Slavs Hands
NO SECRET AT VIENNA
Defenders Could Not Re
main in Position Battered
to Ruins by Russian Gun
ners Czars Troop's For
ty Miles from Czerriowitz
(By the United Press)
Berlin, Mar. 21. The Austrhlns
have evacuated the Vocieczko bridge
head and trenches Northwest of there,
endiag a six-months attack by the
Russians, it is admitted by Vienna.
The main position was battered to
ruins by the Russian artillery. It is
only forty miles from Czernowitz.
The Russians finally reached the po
sition and forced the Austrians re
tirement. Russians Before Trebizond.
Rd!me, March 31 Russians have
arrived at and are besieging the Black
seaport of Trebizond. A large force
of Turks is defending ithe city.
New Teuton Offensive In West
Paris, March 21. The Germans
have made further gains in a new of
fensive on the west bank of the
Meuse, it Is admitted officially. They
are renewing their assaults on the
Abahcourt-Manalcourt line. Lasrtj
night they occupied the southeastern
part of the Malancourt Wood, after
having sustained heavy losses. The
French artillerists were prepared for
an attack.
German Official Statement.
Berlin, March 21. The capture of
French positions north of Verdun
and northeast of Avocourt is report
ed officially. Twenty-flvfi hundred
prisoners were taken. Germans have
repulsed attacks by the Russians' to
the south of Riga. They also have
repulsed counter attacks at Avan-
ceurt.
Exploiting Brunswick
COUNTY TIMBER TRACTS
iSouthport, March 20. C L. Cot
ton, of Southport. and JDr,. (J B,
Ewing, of Fayetteville, real estate
dealers, have just negotiated a deal
by which the Garysburg Lumber Co.
hive ibecome possessors of large tim
ber interests in Brunswick A large
mill will be placed at El Paso. Col.
Cotton states that outside partifes are
showing a lively interest at present in
the Brunswick timber, and a number
Of timber tracts have changed hands
recently, and other decls are under
consideration.
ALLEGED SLAYER OF fi
JACK ALLEN JAILED
Roanoke Va., March 20. Will Mc-
Craw, allegfed blockader, who .hot
and killed Jasper Alien, last of the
Carroll county clansmen, near Mount
Airy, N. C, Saturday, was brought
here today from Galax, Va., by Sher
iff Edwards of Carroll county, be
cause of alleged hostility on the part
of eome of Allen's friends. McCraw.
Who surrendered to the sheriff, ' will
be held here pending hearing in April
at lliUsvdlle. " y f j,
DUWIARiWuWITE
GIRL ASSAULTED; to .
BE LYNCHING, SEATED
(By the United Pressy 4
Durham March 21 Miss Daisy
Webster, 16," daughter of a far
mer, John Webster of Durham
coiiHty, wftl today asStulted by a
negro. A posse is searching the
nearby woods. A lynching is con- :
'sidered certain if the black - is
captured.
'Most Extraordinary Case
Since Charlie Ross"
Mrs. Glass Said to Have
"Definite Clue" Will
Have to Be Disillusioned
"Mrs. Ella Glass, mother of 15-year-old
James Glass, who disap
peared last May at Greeley, Pa., wires
that she has a definite clue from Kin
ston, N. C. that the boy is near there
with gypsies, one of whose band has
confessed to stealing a boy," was a
message that came to The Free Press
today from Meredith, N. II.. signed
"H. N. S." The kidnapping was stat
ed to be "the most extraordinary case
since Charles Ross."
Chief of Police Heath knows of no
intelligence from this section to Mrs.
Glass, a New Jersey woman, that
would warrant the assumption on her
part. i
"Jimmie Glass is not has not
been in this section," says Chief of
Police Richard Roberts at Washing
tori. It was in New Bern that the re
port had its origin some weeks ago
that Jimmie Glass was with a party
of homads who passed through that
town. At Washington recently the
police searched the gypsies' camp.
"We discdvered," Says Roberts, "a
blue-eyed, light-haired youngster who
belonged with that band. His parents
certainly are not Americans." Most
gypsies are Bohemians or persons
from that part of Europe, and oc
casionally there creeps into a family
of them a child as fair as a Saxon.
Newspaper reports printed in pa
pers of this section evidently have
been distorted and Mrs. Glass given
a false hope thereby.
This May Explain It.
Washington, N. C, Mar. 21. The
Woman's Club sticks to it. Jimmie
Glass is in this section, the members
declare, alter nearly every officer in
the country has stated ithe opposite.
Mrs. Charles Little of this city has
sent Mrs. Ella Glass a letter telling
about the small child with a gypsy
hand near here and ctjmtaining news
paper clippings. The letter reached
Mrs. Glass today.
SMALL AND DINWIDDIE
HARD AT IT ON NATL
DRY QUESTION TODAY
(By the Eastern Press))
Greenville, March 21. John H.
Small, Congressman from this dis
trict, opposed to the national prohi
bition amendment, and Rev. R. II.
Dinwiddie, legislative representative
of the National Anti-Saloon League,
are debating the amendment here
this afternoon before a big audience.
There is considerable interest in the
meeting throughout the district. Mr.
Small is known to have sought the
clash with Dinwiddie, whose home is
in Washington, D. C, for some time.
LIFE JMPRI
AMRISTY; female SHOllLD not biein
THECHAIR, SAYS CRAIG; SHE IS GUILTIEST
By W. J. MARTIN.
Ralattrri ttikth 1 The ftovernor todaV commuted to
life imprisonment the death sentences of .both Mrs. Ida
Ball Warren and S. P.! Christy murderers of the wom
an's husband, G. J. Warren.
Commutation for th& woman was granted soieiy tie
cause she is a woman, and believing her the most guilty,
the action necessitated commutation for the man also,
the Governor said. -
Governor Craig declared electrocution of the woman,
would send a shiver through North Carolina. The majes
ty of the law does not require any woman to be put to
death, he stated. : T
Heeded National Protest. j
RaWh March 21. Governor Crate today commuted
to life imprisonment the death
Warren and S.-P. Christy, murderers of G. J. Warren,
the husband of Mrs. Warren. "He heeded a national pro
test against the killing.ofa
Vote on Armor Plate Bill In
Senate Is Certain, It Is
Reported
FIGHT ON THE SHIP BILL
Kitchin Must Be Assured
Permanent Government
Operation Is Not Intend
ed, Declares Amend
ment to Hay Measure
(By the United Press)
Washington, March 21. Passage
before itoday's adjournment of the
Hay reorganization measure in the
House, and the Tillman government
armor plate project in the Senate, is
the hope of Congress leaders. A vote
on the armor bill seems certain.
Voting on amendments will begin
at. 4 o'clock. There is some doubt as
to whether final action will be taken
on the Hay bill. The ultimate pass
age rf both bills is practically cer
tain.
Amendment to Hay Bill.
An amendment giving the Presi
dent power to call for reserves in case
o? war or threatening hostilities was
indc in the Hotj Hay bi'l. The ef
iect would be to increase the army
j.xty thousand wilhout a. -n ting ac-t.'-
by Ccr cress, ii the nun were
nreded.
Kitchin Speaks on Ship Bill.
House Leader Kitchin today an
nounced that he would vote against
the ship bill unless amended to make
sure that permanent government ope
ration is unintended. He is unfavor
able to putting the government per
manently in the shipping business, he
said. The bill is being drafted by
thp committee.
The Senate engaged in a heated fi
nal debate over the Tillman .bill. Mr.
Owunson, favoring, said the threat
to raise the price of armor plate In
case the government erected plants,
was cnoUgh to justify its passage.
Oliver, opposing, said the statement
that American plants are selling the,
plate cheaper to foreign governments
than to the United States was a lie.
BABY FIGURES IN A
FREAK SUIT IN MINN.
St. Paul, Minn., March 21. The
"Bollinger Baby" of the Northwest
was in district court here today. John
Hcnhlng is complainant in a suit for
$00,000 damages against the Twin
City street railway company. Hen
ning alleges his child, now four years
old, is a hopeless defective because
the street car company permitted ca
rousing, swearing and rowdyism on
one of its cars on which Mr. and
Mrs. Henning were passengers a
month ago, before the child was born.
- ; -
r-z ;
. ' V-: -
sentences of Mrs. Ida Ball
woman' ltwas declared
SOilENT TOR WARREN WOMAN
Will Be Fifth for Kinston
Permit Given Estimated
Cost $15,000 Location
Independent and Lenoir
Streets
A building permit has been issued
to S. T. Hooker of Greenville for a
tobacco warehouse, to be built of
brick at the corner of Lenoir and
Independent streets. The estimated
cost is $15,000. Isaac Rochelle is
named ad the contractor.
This will make the fifth sales ware
house in Kinstori. It is expected that
it will be as large as the average in
the city, although the dimensions
hare not been given out. The origi
nal costtareJy ever equals the actual
cost of construction of such a build
ing, ' so that it is likely that some
thousands more may be expended in
it. The warehouse has been contem
plated for some time, and it is un
derstood that its erection in North
west Kinston was anticipated but
protested by residents there. The in
tersection of Lenoir and Independent
streets is in ithe Northeastern part
of the city.
SEVEN MILLION JEWS
IN CONSTANT DANGER
More Than Half Those Outside of
United States Live In Fear for
Their Bodies and Souls, Saya Pevs
her Women of the Race In Amer
ica Have Responsibility They Can
Not Ignore
'We simply have to restore pride
of our ancestry," says Madame Bel
la Pevsner, the bright Jewish woman
who is spending two or three days
with friends here. "This is no mere
additional vanity, no unworthy self
sympathy. It spells a knowledge of
Jewish history, a true understanding
of the forces that have been at work
in the past, a love for the true that
has fought at great odds all through
the past, a readiness today, for the
sake of that past, to help Jews wher
ever they are in Russia, in Rouman-
ia, in Austria-Hungary to go to
Palestine." Mme. Pevsner reiterated
thoughts embodied in her address
Sunday afternoon to a large audience
of Jews and Gentiles at the Court
house: 'We Jews must be proud of our
ancestry. We are living in most crit
ical times, Everywhere fighting is
going on. Race fights race; nation
arms against nation; class rises
against class; sex, even, rebels
against sex. Everything, everybody
is not sparing blood if necessary, and
even life, for that passion of the hu
man heairt, recognition of its Worth,
its original, creative existence. How
stands it with us, one of the oldest
and greatest of the civilized nations?
In the midst of this fierce and admir
able struggle for independence, free
dom and individuality, are we un
willing to sacrifice time, trouble mon
ey and personal comfort for the as
sertion and the recognition of the
Jewish genius ? Are we among the
hybrids of mankind that alone do not
cherish pride of ancestry?"
, "About my life? Oh, I was born
in one country, educated in a second,
married in a third. It was a Kisb
ineff and the Dreyf liss case that made
mo a champion of Judaism. The out
rages shocked me into a realization
of the plight of the Jews. Since then
t have lived for our cause." Madame
Pevsner was born in the Holy Land,
but schooled in France. She believes
the Jewish women of America be
cause Uey are living and developing
in an atmosphere of physical, politi
cal and spiritual l&erty, nave a res
ponsibility they cannot ignore, to do
extraordinary work for the J2,000,000
other Jews, more than 7,000,000 vo?
whom are in constant danger, both of
body and aod." Mme. Pevsner ex
pects to take her leave for another
city this evening. Sh lias lectured
on nearly all of the continents;
ABLE WORK OF FIREMEN
Saved Many Thousands of
Dollars' Worth Property.
Origin Uncertain-Total
Loss Unknown Rutledge
Can't Run for weeks
The second story of the Dixie The
atre building on the East aide of
Queen street, between Gordon and
Caswell, was gutted 'by fire Monday
evening shortly after 8:15 o'clock.
Quick work on the part of the (Bre
men checked the fire's spread. After
it was certain that it was confined1 to
the Dixie building he department
spent three-quarters of an hour in
subduing the flames and, extinguish
ing 'them. The building1 was beln
used for storage, Stattlings & Collins,
owners of the Grand Theater, who
until recently operated the Dixie,,
having property valued at more than
$1,405, with no insurance, in it
Moving picture machines were saved,
and Mr. Collins stated itoday that
Stallings & Collins' loss would stand
at approximately $1,450. Scenery
on the stage, chairs, a piano, ?et.
were ruined. The piano (refused to
make a note alter the blaze.
The lower part - f the two-tory
building was not damaged to any con
siderable extent ? The firemen bent
every effort in the task and saved
many thousands of dollars -Worth of
valuable property adjoining. The
building is in the heart of the busi
ness district The bkse was fought
from the front and an alleyway in
the rear. It is certain that it had a
(rood start before it was discovered.
The fire was stubborn, rather hard
o eet at and raged for a few minutes
In a fashion almost discouraging o
the firemen. A brisk wind Wowing
blow made their work the more diffi
cult. Several theories are entertained aa
lo the origin. , V
Chief Moseley of the Fire Depart
ment shortly before noon today offi
cially estimated Stallings & Covins'
oss at between $750 and $1,000. and
hat of the owner of the building at
$1,000 to $1,200. "Loafers," he said,
were responsible for the fire.
It was the citys sevdhitn fire lit a lit
tle more than 72 hours. Damage from
the seven fires aggregated mora than
$20,000, possibly, and resulted la one
death and three narrow escapes.
Mr. 0. M. iRutledge, of ithe lum
ber manufacturing concern of Rut-
ledge & Co.. who lost the main mill
of their big plant in Southwest Kins-'
ton by fire Monday morning, today
Stated that it Would be between 30
and 60 days before the wrecked ma-
:hinery and building could be replac
ed and operations resumed. Tha
damage was between $12,000 and $15,-
000, he thinks it was estimated at
S15,00d Monday afternoon and tha
amount of insurance is not certain.
HELD ON WHITE SLAVE
Mimnn sm miii?tnim
UlAKbC At IUU1MUNU
Richmond. March 20. (Arrested
here on complaint of his wife, Mrs.
Bessie Lewman Addy, of Chapin, S.
C.t who eaid that he had deserted her
and three' children for a woman
known as Maude Bicker, whom he
met while they were living in Char-
lotte, N. C Jonas P. Addy, years
old, formerly a fireman on the South
ern railway, was held in $1,000 bond
by the federal authorities today on a
white slave charf-e.
Credit Guide Out
The new; Credit Guide for Towns
of this section compiled by the Mer '
chants Mercantile Association, is be
ing distributed. ' v ;
IT,
.Cm
r
jp 1
1
r
hi-
1 tf. .
i
Sit
f
V
If-'
i 1
ft
i1.