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VOL. XVII.-No.261
SECOND EDITION
KINSTON, N.C WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1916
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6 PAGES TODAY
PKICE TWO CXNTS
VIVK CENTS ON TRAINS
FREE PRESS TO GIVE VALUABLE
PEIZES IN
Two Tearing Cars, Diamond .Rings, Watches and Bank
Acccits WiD Be Awarded ,at the .Close cf.Smn
Weeks'- Unprecedented JfypH n for.Nw Subscriptions
In Kinston Trade Temtor Full Particulars Giyen
((onaSon? ppjep f-r Commissions Paid to Those Who
Fail to Secure pnzesHugdreds of Young Men and, Wo
men to Work for Splendid Rewards Contest Office
In Whiifc Block
On another page of this issue of
The Free Press there U an announce
ment which is bound to meet - with
the approval of every man, woman
and child, not only in the City of Kin
gton, but every viHage and every ru
ral route served by, the Daily Free
Press and Semi-Weekly Free Press.
-This announcement gives the details
of a Great Golden Festival and Vot
ing Contest, in which the Daily Free
Press and Semi-Weekly Free Press
will give away a fortune in prizes,
absolutely free, during the next few'
week There has. never been any
thing in this vicinity that could com
pare wkk this Great Golden Festival,
which the ; Kinston Free Press an
nounces tp; the- public today. - Thia
Golden Festival is at once dignified
and productive of great financial re
turns to all who take part in it. Every
person who 'takes an active part in
this Great Golden Festival will win
something. There will be a prize
awaitwrg you on May 18th, 1916, "no
matter .whom you may be. There
will be' eight prizes . of established
value, the largest of which are two
latest model Touring Cars. The va-
Tiotnsprh!erreilTsted below. All
others will win golden prizes in vak
ue, according to each individual ef-
MU ' i. if..
ObjectCirculation.
The object of this Great Golden
Festival is more circulation for The
Daily Free Press and Semi-Weekly
Free Pfcewj But instead of hiring a
crew of solicitors "to secure these sub
scriptions.;; the Kinston Free Press
Company prefers to give the ': value
ajl to the. public direct ' Hence the
Golden Festival. -
This Great Golden Festival is open
to every one everywhere. No mat
ter "What you want money for, no
matter what 'your ambition in life
roay'jbe, here is your opportunity to
get the start No, matter who you
are, or where you live, this Golden
Revival holds forth an individual
promise to you, you who are reading
-.this. If you want an automobile,
here Js your chance; your opportuni
tyan individual promise to you,
The Prizes. -
The prizes in this great enterprise
are m,any and of great value. There
are first of all, two of the-very lafc.
est mode J, fitfly. equipped, Touring
Cars. . These two earn will J o4rfl) .
cd to the, two. people in the contest
who secure the two highest vote to
tals, regardless, . of district limita
tions . . ,
w convenience, there are two
districts.; The City of Kinston is dis
trict one, and all territory outside of
the city . is district two. Each . of
these two districts will receive three
p' as loiiwr. The Fim
District One is
Genuins Diamond
.1? Inn nAAH4 i
Vk, 'purchased from the Mewborn
-eweiry ixxmpany of Kton; the
Second. Prize is a 14,K cum
. Elgm movements, purchased from
TTi JT- Vmlty P; the
1!,?? Bank Acunt of
135 ,t the First National Bank 'of
' ?!,St0m " Prize in Di8trict
rwo is a Genuine Diamond Ring ain.
uar tohe one offered in DishnVf rv
value, 75, purchased from the Ljmchl
-v-nry company; the Second Prize
s 14-K Gojd Watch, similar to
the watch in District One, purchased
front Newborn Jewelry .Company.
Third Prize U. Bank Account of
5-5 in the Farmers and Merchants
Bank of Kinston. There will b
awarded, after the two touring
ca,rs in order of the, standing in each
Strict. All others who tak. part
w the contest and do not win one of
.
these prizes will be paid a commis
sion, of ten per cent, as is explained
fn detail below.
Everyone Wins.
In' addition to this fortune, every
one else who takes an active part in
this Golden Festival and remains un
til the final day," May 13th, will re
ceive' a commission of ten per cent,
providing they do not win one of the
above awards. So you see that
everyone wins something. There is
no DOSsiWe chance for anyone to
lose. Many married people will en
ter in order to secure a little extra
income during theirspare hours, as
surfd. that their ambition. will be de
finitely rewarded.- Many young men
will enter and make an effort to win
one of the Golden awards to take a
college course, some to start a busi
ness of their own, and others for
special training. There will be those
who have thoughts of wedding bells.
The prizes will feather their nest. To
have a definite desire in life, is to en
ter this- Great Golden Festival of the
Daily Free Press and Semi-Weekly
Free Press,
How to. Enter.
There Is nothing hard to understand
about entering, or, iu fact, winning.
There is a nomination blank on the
other page, which counts five thous
and votes, when properly filled out
and sent or brought to the Contest
Manager of the Daily Free Press and
Semi-Weekly Free Press office, in
Whitaker block. Fill this blank out
and send it in, and the Contest Man
ager will be glad to explain all the
tittle details of this golden gift of
fortune. - As soon as you have nom
inated yourself, or been nominated
by a friend, you will need to start
saving 'the vote coupons which will
appear , in, th,e Daily Free;, Press and
Semi-Weekly Free Bress in a day or
two. You should, also ask H ybnr
friends and acquaintances to save
ithese coupons for you. In addition
to these coupons, all paid subscrip
tions to the Daily Free. Press and
Semi-Weekly Free Press will count
for .votes, for you, according to the
schedule printed below. Ask all the
people you know to subscribe for
either the Daily Free Press or the
Semi-Weekly Free Press with you,
then collect their money right on the
spot, ' and bring it to the Contest
Manager, and he will give you votes
fof it, which will be good any time
during the contest - The Contest
Manager also 9ias at his office some
special' receipt books And vote blanks
for your convenience. These are all
free. Call or. write, and he will see
that you are supplied with all that
you can use to advantage. In fact,
there is not a single cent of expense
to you connected with i this Golden
Festival.,; You can enter and win one
of the Tourine Cars or any other
prize on the list without the outlay
of a single penny if you so will it
The rules of the Golden Festival
follow. These rules will be strictly
enforced:
- Subscriptions may be secured any
where.' All arrears eubscriptions
must be PAJD up in order to vote.
Every candidate in. the, contest has
an. equal chance of winning one of
the Touring Cars or any other prize
on the list Candidates compete only
against candidates in their own dis
trict, for the district, prizes.
In the event of a .tie, prizes of
equal value, will; be given.
The Contest Manager .reserves tne
right to make any ruling which may
be, in his opinion, necessary, without
giving "any reason for doing eo.
a The Contest Manager reserves the
right to debar any candidate from
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ALLIES PROPOSE TO
KAISER
BEFORE
CHRISTMAS
Combined Offensive On All
Fronts Will Be Started
Before July
WAR COUNCIL CONFIDENT
Military Leaders Confer
ring at Paris Think Sim
ultaneous Blows On All
Fronts Will Drive the
Germans to Ask for Peace
(By the United Press)
London, March 29. Before the end
of June the allied armies will strike
simultaneous blows on all the fronts
to bring the Kaiser to his knees and
end the war before Christmas. The
combined offensive is believed to be
certain to result in that by the Paris
war council.
French Gains.
Paris. March 29. Three hundred
yards of German trenches in the Av
oncourt wood were captured in a viol
ent early morning attack. The Ger
mans lost heavily in a counter attack
northwest of Verdun.
Germany Claim Material Gain.
Berlin, March. 29. German troops
have broken the French front for
over J2.000 yards, capturing several
lines of trenches, in fighting ten
miles northwest of Verdun, the war
office today announced. The Germans
captured many prisoners and five
guns.
HIGH GRADE STEERS
GET FORTY DOLLARS
MORE A HEAD, SAID
(Special to The Free Press)
Washington, Mar. 28. That it pays
to raise good stock is illustrated- by
the experience of two Utah ranch
men who sent their steers to the same
market on the same day. Both ran
their stock" on National Forest range
under grazing permits, both used the
same amount of range per head, and
both paid the same grazing fee. One
gave close attention to the selection
of his breeding cows and used only
high-grade bulls. The other made no
effort to improve his herd. The own
er of the high-grade stock received
$40 per head more for his steers
than the owner of the common stock.
On some of the National Forest
ranges the stockmen club together, it
is reported, and buy high-grade bulls
which are owned as community pro
perty. Since the administration of
the 'Forests is in the hands of the De
partment of Agriculture, naturally
there is a desire to encotirage the
use of good breeding stock and to
eliminate the scrubs. y
Lieut H. N. Butler hak been trans
ferred from the Coast Guard cutter
Pamlico at New Bern to the cutter
Guthrie at Philadelphia.
HEX
ICANS: UNDERSTAND PURPOSE OETHE
TROOPSBAM, ACCOR
WARS t RECEPTIONS E
(By the United Prt)
, ELPaso, March 29,r-Continued peaceful relations be
tween the United States and Mexico seemed more, certain
today than at any time since the Viilistas made the Col
umbus raid. : Failure of organized attempts on. both sides
of the. border to transform the punitive expedition into
intervention pleased Carranza and American officials
here. Army officers emphasized the friendly reception
the American soldiers are getting everywhere.
SEEMS CERTAIN THE
ARMY HAS ASSUMED
Baker Exhibits Telegram
About Accident; Will Say
Nothing Further
NEGRO TROOPER KILLED
Saddler of Tenth Cavalry
Was Injured Fatally In
Wreck South of Line and
Died Last Friday, War
Department Announces
(By the United Press)
Washington, March 29. Saddler
George A. Hudnelt of Troop B, 10th
Cavalry, died Friday from injuries
sustained in a railroad wreck below
the border, the War Department to
day announced. Asked if this meant
that the troops had taken over the
Mexican railways, Secretary Baker
Said, "Save that you have been given
the entire telegram, I have no fur
ther comment to make."
Pershing Already Using
Mexican Railroads, Said.
San Antonio, Texas, March 28.-r
Confirmation that General Pershing
already has been using a portion of
the Northwestern Railroad, for the
transportation of troops was' secured
by General Funston today from what
was said to be an unofficial source.
This information included a report
cn the overturning of two cars and
the injuripg of ten troopers of the
tenth cavalry and several horses.
The accident occurred while the
cars were being itaken over a tem
porary track built around Cumbre
Tunnel, south of Casas Grandes. One
of the rails gave way and the cars
rolled down an embankment.
It was not believed here that Gen
eral Pershing's use of the railroad
prior to receipt of permission from
the Carranza government would en
danger negotiations being conducted
by the State Department, because it
was assumed he had gained permis
sion of those in charge of operations
of it-hat section of the line.
(By the United Press)
VENICE BOMBED AGAIN.
Vienna, March 29. Austrian
-aviators have bombarded Venice
for the Seventh time since the
beginning of the, war, it is offi
cially announced.
ENGLISH DOCK HANDS STRIKE.
London, March 29 Ten thous
and Mersey dock hands struck
today, following an overtime dis
pute. The strike threatens to
interfere seriously with transat
lantic shipping.
BRIEFS IN THE NEWS
OF NEIGHBORING TOWNS
Only six couples have been mar
ried in Craven county so far in this
month.
Stock is being subscribed for grow
ing Bridgeton-s first bank.
0 PUNITiVt COLM'NS
VERYWIIERE, STAT'D
CHARGE
WILSON. THUS. OF
CLEARINGUP WHOLE
SWRINE fEST'N
Administration Is Making
Flans to Put End to the
Controversy Now
METHOD NOT DISCLOSED
Has Severance of Relations '
In Mind?--If U-Boats
Were Innocent In Sussex
and Englishman Cases Is
sue Would Remain Open
By ROBERT J. BELDER,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, March 29. More than
the settlement of the Englishman
and Sussex cases is the object of the
present administration steps regard
ing submarine attacks. Complete
settlement of the whole submarine
issue, including disposal of the Lue
rtania case, is in the President's mind.
All officials believe that disposal of
the present situation means disposal
of the whole submarine question.
Failure in one phase means complete
failure in all, this, of course, on the
assumption that German submarines
attacked both ships. If conclusively
proved that they did not, the general
submarine issue would remain to be
settled, ? '..;
Englishman Tried to Escape;
Torpedoed After Stopped
Washington, March 29. The
Ward liner En f ashman, sunk a few
days ajjo, was shelled and torpedoed
after attempting to escape, accord
ing to affidavits of American 'survi
vors, cabled to -the State Department
from Liverpool. The captain said the
tried to escape, but was shelled, hove
to and was then torpedoed.
GRIFFON MAN PMD
TO SEE BIG MOTION
PICTURE, BUT DIDNT
A Grifton irn took his family to
New Bern in an automobile to see
"The 'Birth of a Naition," and pur
chased nine dollars' worth of tick
ets, "he had an idea he was in for
an evening of real enjoyment," says
the Sun-Journal , of New Bern. The
idea proved, erroneous. Hardly had"
the movie machine commenced its
singing monotone before urchins, ob
serving Patrick'e car unattended in
front of the theater, decided to take
a ride.
A friend noticed that Patrick's au
tomobile was gone. He informed the
owner. "Mr. ratncK at once iosx an
interest in the picture. An hour or
two later the police cornered up the
car. All the occupants but one leap
ed out and ran. The lonely one was
arrested. Patrick said he was "hot
in the collar," and intended to press
the charge against the youngster and
his accomplices if they were appre
hended. REPORT OF KINST0r( .
COTTON MARKET
Inclemency of the weather retarded
sales on the local cotton exchange to
day. The prices were about as good
as the average for the past few days;
New York futures quotations were:
Open 2:40
May'.. .11.96 12.00
July .. ........ 12.07 12.10
October .12.15 12.20
December 12.20 12.36
January . . .12.33 12.42
CAROLINA HAS GOOD BALL
; TEAM, COACH DOAK SAYS
Chapel Ml.- March 28 "A little
tightening up in. one or two places,
and Carolina will put out just as good
a baseball etam this spring as N ehe
had last season," predicted Coach
Poak -this morning.
TERRIBLE TRIPLE WRECK N. Y. CENTRAL
TRAINS NEAR AMHERST; 0 EARLY TODAY;
MORE THAN SCORE DEAD; MANY INJURED
Three Trains Piled Up In Indescribable Confusion In the
FogTwenty-three Least Estimate of the Dead
Scenes of Horror Bodies and Limbs Scattered Along
Track Steel Coaches Prevented Greater Catastrophe.
Famous Twentieth Century Limited Ran Into Wreck
of Two Sections at Speed of 60 Miles "Could Not
Have Been More Hideous," Says Survivor Woman
Who Escaped Unharmed From Wreck Became Mother
Shortly After
(By the United Press)
Cleveland, 0., March 29. At least 27 persons were
killed and 43 injured, some fatally, when three crack New
York Central trains, one the Twentieth Century Limited,
crashed in a fog near Amherst early today.
All the dead; and injured were passengers on an east
bound train. Steel coaches saved an appalling loss of life.
Passengers said the first eastbound section had slowed '
up when the second section crashed clear through the .
buffet and day coaches. A minute, later the Twentieth, -Century
struck the wreckage at a rate of 60 miles an '
hour, being derailed. Sounds of the cries of the dying
and injured were heard a mile away, " ,
Baby Born In Midst of Frightfulness.
Mrs. Mary Maiston of Indianapolis, who escaped un
harmed, gave birth to a. child in a day coach later.
There were gruesome sights along the tracks. Some' '
of the dead were so mutilated that they will never.be rec- 4
ognized. Many bodies had to be gathered up' in sheets.
Many bodies, and separate hands, legs and feet - were
strewn in. the debris. -
Hideous Scenes.
W. B. Bradley of Pittsburg said . a "more hideous
wreck could not be imagined. Up above ...the , engine
olthe second division, mixed with wreckage, were lying
bodies of dead and injured, mostly unclothed."- ; .
,. G. W. Kershaw of &mmerville, N. J., was, in the sec
ond coach from the one most badly smashed. He said it
was the "most; ghastly sight he ever saw."-. As he was,
leaving his car Kershaw saw, a man pick ; up . a leg. ;. Anv
other approached with a bundle in a sheet. It contained
arms and legs. - . . ,
SOIL SURVEY SHEET
Map By Geological Survey
Is On Great Scale-rEv-ery
Millrace and Bypath
Shown Will. Be Page In
Atlas of United States
Copies of the new soil survey map
of the'Kinston quadrangle," a ter
ritory comprising portions of Greene
and Lenoir county running not quite
fourteen miles north and south, and a
slightly less distance east and west,
were received at the Chamber of Com
merce office here today. , The copies,
to be distributed by the Chamber,
were the gift of Congressman Claud
Kitchin. .. : ; -
The map is a handsome piece of
work. The scale is a little more than
five inches to four miles. It bear the
names of Secretary of the Interior
Franklin K. iLane, Director Geo. Otis
Smith of the U. S. Geological purvey
and R. B. Marshall, Chief Geogra
pher. In making It he map Frank Sut
ton was the geoographer in charge;
R.. A. Kiger, J. B. Metcalfe, Jr.,
and Roscoe Reeves were in charge of
topography, and Sledge Tatum. Geo.
T. Hawkins, Oscar Jones and C. W.
Arnold of control. r ;
Every watercourse, rural school,
cross-roads hamlet, etc., in the quad
rangle is put down. .'
The Geological Survey is making
a topographic map T of the United
States. - ThU work has been in pro
gress since 1882, and more Khan. 33
per cent, of the area of the country,
including outlying possessions, 'has
now been mapped. . The areas map
ped are widely distributed, each
State being Tepresen ted. " The conven
tional signs illustrate "the maps niee-
Continual on Tage Ste
IliFilil
CAVALRY RE-MOUNTS
ARE BADLY lEill
if
Foreign. Governments Have)
Combed the Country for,
Horses and U. S War De
partment Has. , Difficulty
In Securing Them Now
(By the. United Press)
. San Antonio, March, 29. The Eu
ropean war has so stripped the Unit
ed States of good horses that today
United States army officers admit
ted a serious shortago of cavalry
remounts.
Ceneral Funston has combed Tex-"
as without result for available ani-'
mats capable of standing up under
hard campaigning. The buyers of
France, Italy and Great .. Britain,
have swept Texas bare of cavalry ani
mals. .
SL Louis, Kansas City, Atlanta,
Chicago and smaller horse markets
now are being investigated by - army
officers in the hope of obtaining a
sufficient supply in a hurry. Here
also, however, the army men found
that the buyer for tho warring na
tions of Europe had preceded them.
American cavalry . regiments : are
reported to be short now ' of re
mounts needed in red campaign work
and should many be, lost in fighting '
the problem would become grave.
State cavalry regiments," too. are re
ported as generally deficient in cav
alry animals.
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COAST GUARD. AERIAL CORPS.
.Washington, March 28. A coast
guard aerial corps, to be operated as
an arm of the coast guard service ia
peace and with the army or navy ia
war, is proposed in a bill introduced
today by Representative Montague cf
Virginia. .
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