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Manf Frcminent Citizens
NclSalicas Coming In I
fice Briskly, By Mail and
Press Is Receiving Compliments On Its Enterprise In
Offering Two' Maxwell
You nood not be afraid . of having
a lot of jepfsentative company, for
many people pi prominenco have al
ready entered the Golden , Festival.
It will be a dignified and entertain
ing campaign throughout, and will
afford you. excitement for , the next
few-weeks, as well as exceptional
financial .returns, i Only people of
good character Are: allowed to com
pete, therefore, you can go ahead and
send in your nomination and save
votes with , the positive ' assurance
that you -will b in good company,
and that you will be well treated.
In tomorrow issue of , The Free
Press wjU; appear the first vote cou
pon of the jGoMen Festival. This
coupon will be good for one hundred
votes toward either of these Touring
Cars or any other of these, six prizes
on the list. These coupons will be
numbered from one to ten, a differ
ent number appearing each day. To
morrow wHI be No. 1.. If these cou
pons are saved and voted in series of
any five consecutive numbers, from 1
to 6 to 6, and so on, each se-
be number one.' If these coupons are
saved and voted in series of any five
consecutive numbers! from one to
five, two to six, and. so, on, each se
ries will count five thousand extra
votes besides the regular one hun
dred votes which each coupon counts.
Tbesa'couDons will- be an important
factor m the'-winning of the prizes.
Of course'..it'ig. the' subscription
votes that count up the fastest, but
fhe common, yotqs, should not be over
opked 4n yvr campaign. Make cou
pons a ' secondary . consideration.
Everyone who gives you a subscrip
tion you should ask to save the cou
pons for you. i
Votes Reserved
-, Another very important feature of
Jhia contest is the fact that all sub
scription votes may be reserved af
Jer they have once been issued. As
tspt as you secure the subscriptions,
-bring or send them to the contest
manager at the Whitaker Building,
and he will give you a Vote coupon
far them. This ioupon once it bears
jthe contest manager's signature,, is
good at any time during the contest,
wen up to the last hour. - These
jotes do not appear, to your credit
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5IP0RTANT SECRET
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CODES' OF AMERICA
AmericamhassadorS and
Minister Make Complaint
to Washington Book
Was Stolen From Attache
In Balkans Before ' War
began
CARL W. ACKEBMAN,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
. Berlin, March 31fl-AmWadors
Gerard and ; Penfield ; and Minister
Van Dyke today joined in a protest
gainst the use of the present diplo
matic code.
It is learned that the American se
cret code was stolen from a Balkan
attache before the war begun. Offi
cials believe the American diplomat-
re ana naval codes are known
every European power." ,
to
Suleri'.e i The Free Tuss
SECOND EDITION
Are Nominating Their Friends.
to the' Contest Manager s Of
By Messenger The Free
Cars as Capital Prizes
on the published lists until you re
turn the coupon and it is deposited in
the ballot box. It will be readily seen
by this system that it will be impos
sible for anyone, even the contest
manager himself, to know how many
votes any candidate has, unless the
candidate himself desires to tell.
You must not hold your subscription
longer than forty-eight hours. This
limit is placed in order to protect
subscribers, so the proper credit may
be made on the books of the Golden
Festival.
The Prizes.
The prizes in this great enterprise
are many and of great value. There
are first of all, two of the very lat
est model, fully equipped Touring
Cars. These two cars will be award
ed to the two people in the contest
who secure the two highest vote to
tals, regardless of district limita
tions. '
For 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
prizes as follows: The First Prize in
District One is a Genuine Diamond
Ring, perfect cut white stone, value,
$75. purchased from the Mewborn
Jewelry ' Company of Kinston ; the
Second Prize is a 14-K Gold Watch,
Elgin 'movements, "purchased from
the Mewborn Jewelry Company; the
Third Prize is a Bank Account of
$25 at the First National Bank of
Kinston. The First Prize in District
Two is a Genuine Diamond Ring sim
ilar to the one offered in District One,
value, $75, purchased from the Lynch
Jewelry Company; the Second Prize
is a 14-K Gold Watch, similar to
the watch in District One, purchased
from Mewborn Jewelry Company;
the Third Prize is a Bank Account of
$25 in the Farmers and Merchants
Bank of Kinston. There will be
awarded- after the two touring
cars in order of the standing in each
district v
Every candidate who enters the
Golden Festival and does not suc
ceed in winning a prize will be paid
ten per cent, commission on all mon
ey turned in during the contest, pro
vided that contestant turns in $10
worth of new subscriptions in the
lost week of the contest.
Rather Than Year-to-Year
Schedule He Wants Ten
. Dreadnaughts and Plen
ty Battle Cruisers, Etc.,
Within Five Years, Says
(By the United Press)
. Washington, March 31. Secretary
of the Navy Daniels, resuming his
testimony before the House naval af
fairs committee today urged acon
tinuous program of building rather
than a year-to-year p pigram. He
Suggested a continuous policy for at
least five years, to build two dread
naughts yearly . together with the
proper number of battle cruisers,
scout cruisers, protected cruisers, col
liers, destroyers and submarines, and
the assembling of an aerial corps, to
make the navy really efficient - ;
Mr. Daniels also strongly urged
the defeat of any bill that might en
danger the government's lands which
DANIELS SUGGESTS
BUILDING PROGRAM
contain oil and fuel products.
LIKE
Y'DUN
FIGHT WAS RENEWED
Germans Wasted 20,000
Lives Without Making
Gains
BATTALIONS WIPED OUT
Attackers Suffered Severe
'Losses Both at Malan
court and Douaumont,
Recommencing Offensive
Both Towns Simultan
eously By CAUL W. ACKEUMAN,
(United FresR Staff Correspondent)
Berlin. March 31. The iron
grip of the Crown Prince's great
, army Li closing about Verdun.
Storms of artillery shells are
systematically preparing the way
for a great infantry advance.
Every day for weeks has been
utilized in completing the prep
arations for a decisive blow.
Four days ago the A fortified
villages of Malancourt and Beth
incourt, ten miles northwest of
Verdun, were hemmed in on three
sides. ' Malancourt fell today.
Verdun is ablaze in three places.
From hills captured by the Ger
mans I . distinctly saw heavy
smoke ; vapors over the city.
V London, March 81-The Germans
lost twenty thousand men in the re
newal of . the Verdun struggle on both
banks of the Meuse, experts today
estimated. Several (battalions were
exterminated at Malancourt. The
German losses in the renewed fight
ing about Douaumont also were ex
tremely heavy.
Malancourt Evacuated.
Paris, March 31. The war office
today announced that the French had
evacuated Malancourt village, but
firmly hold the two highways lead
ing to Bethincourt and Esnes. The
town was evacuated after terrific
German attacks.
INFORMATION FOR VETS.
TO ATTEND BIG REUNION
Chairmen of Committees Preparing
for Annual Encampment of the
Men Who Wore the Gray Birm
ingham Has a Plenty of Hotels to
Care for Crowds Tutwilcr to be
Headquarters
(Special to The Free Press)
Wilmington, March 31. The fol
lowing information has been received
by State U. C. V. headquarters here
from General W. C. Hooper, of Sel
ma, Ala., concerning ithc coming gen
eral reunion at Birmingham: Chair
men of committees are: Hotel, E. L.
Brown; Horses and Autos, Hubert
Drennin; Commissary, J. P. Phil
lips; Housing, F. W. Dixon; Spon
sors' entertainment, Oscar Under
wood, Jr.; all of Birmingham. Wil
liam C. Ratcliff is general secretary
at Birmingham of the reunion com
mittee, and all will furnish any in
formation. The following hotels may be com
municated with: Cosmopolitan, Eck
ert, Empire, Granada, Capital Park
Inn; Hillman; Jefferson, Morris;
Fifth Avenue; Molton; Metropolitan;
Southern and Tutwiler. The Tutwil
er Hotel will be general headquar
ters for the reunion.
BURNETT BEL PASSED H
IN H0USE.IN ENTIRETY
Washington, March 30. The Bur
nett immigration bill, with its liter
acy test and Asiatic exclusion provi
sions unchanged, passed the House
late today by a vote of 308 to 87. It
now goes to the Senate, where favor
able action is regarded as assured.
' The literacy test, about which the
fight against -the bill had centered,
was sustained, 284 to 107. This pro
vision has been the cause of vetoes of
similar immigration bills by Presi
dents Cleveland,, Taft anJ Wilson. ("
BLOOD FLOWED
WATER WHEN
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KINSTON, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1916
ANNOUNCE DEMOCRATIC
BATTLE CRY THIRT'NTH
Unlucky Day Selected for Banquet
to the President and Chairmen of
Executive Committees of the 48
States Will Celebrate the 173rd
Natal Anniversary of Thomas Jef
ferson.
(By the United Press)
Washington,, March 31. President
Wilson will utter the Democratic
party's battle cry on April 13 when
he speaks at a banquet celebrating
the anniversary of Jefferson's birth
day. The Common Counsel Club will
be the host Chairmen of the State
Central committees will also be
guests.
TWO MEN, LOT WHISKY
AND AUTOMOBILE TAKEN
Assistant Police Chief Who Swung
Onto Moving Car Was Persistent
Passenger Looking for Third Per
son Alleged by Two In Arrest to
Be Owner of Liquor Story Seems
Likely
Levy Creech and Worth Holt were
arrested and an automobile claimed
by Creech and about a hundred pints
of whisky seized by Assistant Chief
of Police Skinner after midnight this
morning. The couple, car and "con
tents" were taken near the intersec
tion of Queen and South streets after
a game of hide and seek. Creech and
Holt, the latter a boy in knee pants,
are believed to have gotten wise to
the fact that Skinner was after them.
They drove around in a random fash
ion and were finally brought to a
stand by the officer after he had male
a detour to head them off.
Creech stated that his home is in
Goldsboro, Holt that his is somewhere
in South Carolina, The former said
he maintained the machine as a pub
lic vehicle in Goldsboro and that a
"third person" had chartered it to
come to Kinston in. The authorities
are not altogether skeptical over that
assertion. A man who inquired at
the jail this morning to know if he
might see Creech and Holt may have
been the alleged absent one of the
trio, it is believed. Ho was denied
permission. creecn could not say
where the third person was when
Holt and he were arrested, he told
Skirinor. Both Creech and Holt de
clared they did not know the man,
The truthfulness of the declaration
is doubted.
When Skinner, shouted to the men
the machine was speeded up. He
caught it and hung to the side. He
held a revolver in one hand and
threatened to use it. The car was
stopped. It contained, besides the
whisky, articles of feminine apparel
and a pistol.
Creech and Holt, arraigned this
morning, pled not guilty. Their trial
was set for 5 p. m., today.
MOB OF NEGROES WOULD
HAVE TAKEN MURDERER
Faycttcville, March. 30. A mob of
negroes made an angry demonstra
tion against Arthur Smith, negro,
and confessed murderer of his wife,
when Smith was brought here this
afternoon from Sclma, where he was
captured this morning by-Chief of
Police Griffin of Selma. Nothing of
the kind had been expected, and there
is little doubt that the mob woultf
have got the man had it possessed a
leader.
EVERY ELIGIBLE IS
IN WORLEY SCHOOL
The enrollment at Worley school,
in this county, is precisely the same
as the census for its territory. Every
child on the census list is in school
there. New furniture, pictures, etc..
for the school were secured last
month by means of a benefit party.
Worley school is in the Pink Hill
group, and will participate in the
group commencement in Pink Hill on
next Tuesday, at which time Dr. J.
Y. Joyner, State Superintendent of
Public1 Instruction, will make an ad
dress and, - it is indicated, a large
number of Kinston people will visit
the South Lenoir town. A special
train will be run from this city over
the Kinston-Carolina Railroad.
HELD UP BIG SHIP
SINGLE-HANDED; HE
IS CALLED PIRATE
Ernest Schiller May Spend
Rest Life In a U. S.
Penitentiary
PULLED OFF RARE STUNT
Kept More Than Half Hun
dred Officers and Seamen
of British Vessel at Bay,
Looted the Craft and Es
caped Arrested Later
(By the United Press)
New York, March 31. A dar
ing plot to capture the 5,000-ton
Matoppa was revealed today by
Ernest Schiller. Schiller admit
ted others were implicated. He
said four companions and him
self had planned to capture the
officers and cow the Chinese crew
with a show of arms and dash
for the high seas.
Washington, Mar. 31. Ernest
Schiller, the "solo pirate," is likely
to spend the remainder of his days in
a Federal penitentiary, afid not to re.
ceive punishment by England for
seizing the steamer Matoppo. Man
time law authorities today held Schil
ler to be subject to piracy Jaw. The
hold-up occurred on the high seas,
just outside the 3-mile limit, and
Schiller Would not be answerable to
any charge except piracy in an Amer
ican court. '.
Hold-Up Story Reads Like Fiction.
Lewes, Del., March 30. How a
lone German' stowaway held up the
captain and fifty-six members of the
crew of the British steamer Matop
po, compelling them at the point of a
revolver to change the course of the
vessel and land him at the Delaware
Breakwater after he had rifled the
ship's safe and taken their valuables,
was told here tonight by Capt. Berg
ner, master of the Matoppo. The
stowaway, who says his name is Er
nest Schiller and that he had lived in
Hoboken, iN. J., for the past eight
months, is now locked up in the jail
here.
RETIRED OFFICER OF
EUROPEAN-ORIENTAL
SHIPS DIES IN N.C.
(By the Eastern Press)
Washington, N. C, March 31.
Capt, W. II. Littler, dead at his
home here, was a first cousin to a
famous English liner captain of, the
same name and initials who figured
in a ensationa! shipwreck some
years ago. Capt. Littler was an oc
togenarian, a graduate of Oxford, a
native of England, and for many
years was an officer in the P. & O.
and Red Star lines. Ho had made
scores of trips from British ports to
the Orient. Ho located on Pamlico
river about 22 years ago, and for a
few years was a conductor on the
old Washington & Jamesville Rail
road. He was one of the best edu
cated men in North Carolina and he
spoke several languages. He was a
consistent Episcopalian, and the vet
eran rector of St. Peter's church,
Rev. N. Harding, Jong his friend,
was selected to preach the funeral
sermon. His wife, a Frenchwoman
frm the Antilles, survives him,
RETIRES TODAY AFTER
MILLIONS OF MILES ON
THE BOUNDING BILLOWS
London, .March $1.- Thomas Kin-
sey, dean ol transatlantic pursers,
ended his eleven hundredth round trip
cross .the ocean when he arrived here
today and began his well earned re
tirement His first crossing was
from Liverpool to Philadelphia in
1853. Maritime experts estimate that
in his career of 63 years on the wa
ter Kinsey has traveled four million
miles. -: . - ' -
FOUR PAGES
VILLA WOUNDED IN LEG; HOT CHASE, OVER
Mexican Mountain trail; cavalry my
CATCH UP WITH RUNNING OUTLAW FORCE
American Soldiers Exchange Shots With Villistas Ban
dit Chief Shot As He Was Passing Through Guerrero
Streets Reports Conflict, One Saying Fugitive lias
Been Greatly Reinforced, Another That Chosen Small
Band Are Making Race for Life With Him -Quarry
Cornered, Lively Fight Is Certain End Soon, Fms
ton Predicts No Supplies Out of El Paso Yet Juar
ez Commandant Hasn't Order
(By the United Press) y '
San Antonio, March 31 American troops have clash
ed with Villistas. General
authentic though unofficial report that Villa had been -located
along the railroad bending eastward from Guerre-;1
ro to Chihuahua City, where
listas exehanp-ed shots. Funston said "our reoorts de
clare Villa has been creatlv
we can take him."
Outlaw Wounded; Dodd Hot
El Paso, March 31. -Villa is reported wounded m a
1pp rirHncr rlpsnprarplv' inward the. mountain ' fAst.nesu
ses of Western Chihuahua,
heels, it was reported today
bandit is stated to have gathered the best pi, his mounted
men in a band to make a
All with him are veterans who will fight to the last ditch. v
Rumors said Villa was shot in
Guerrero streets.
Supplies Out of El Paso Soon. "
Washington, March 31.
today there had been no positive refusal by any officer in
Mexico for the use of railroads. General uavlra at Juar
ez, is merely awaiting a definite order before permitting
supplies to leave El Paso. It is expected that the supplies
will start in a few hours. ; - ' . -
Conflicting Reports From
EI Paso. March ;31.-The
Carranzistas at Guerrero by
ed today. ,
Reports from below the
ston's official reports said Villa passed Guerrero Monday.
Army officers believe Dodd s cavalry is close on thr
bandit's trail. ' Fighting is expected hourly. . - . ' "
NORFOLK SOUTHERN
S SETTLED OUT OF COURT; SATISFACTION
FOR THE FIVE INDIVIDUALS CONCERNED
tailroad, Receiving Property Claimed to Have Been'
Granted It Many Years Ago, Protects Persons
Who Would Have Sustained Monetary Losses
"Damages" Aggregating 4,600 Awarded The Mat
ter Was to Have Come Up Before Federal Judge
at Wilson Today One House Will Have to Be Remov
ed to Another Neighborhood, Several. Off Extended
Right-of-Way Amicable Adjustment of Threatening,
Situation .
The now famous Norfolk Southern
right-of-way matter, which wai to
have been heard before Judge Henry
Connor, of the Federal Eastern Dis
trict, in Wilson today, has Jjesn set
tled out of court, it was announced
this afternoon. A . separate agree
ment was arrived at between coun
sel for the railroad and each of th
individuals involved, holding property
claimed by the Norfolk Southern
between East street and "the Junc
tion," in East Kinston, a distanco of
about a block.
The railroad company claimed that
ground for 1QG feet on either a:do
from the center of the main ; lino
track was rightfully its property
from grants made generations ago,
but that forbears of the persons
made defendants by a bill of equity
issued in the matter had squatted up
on it and been allowed to retain it,
until such time as the railroad should
need it. Eather than fight the case,
however, chancing thereby bad feel
ing on the part of the individuals
and causing some of them outright
serious embarrassment, since the
Norfolk Southern claimed to be con
fident of the outcome of the pro-
PKICE TWO CENTS -
mE CENTS ON TRAINS
Funston today received an
American soldiers and Vil
reinforced, but are confident
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- After Him. . ' ,
with Dodd s cplumn hot on his
to Gavira at Juarez. The
final desperate dash to cover.
the leg while riding through
:,'.
The War Department said
Mexico. v
reported execution of 172
Villa is unconfirmed at Juan'
', j J i
border today conflicted, inin-,
RIGHT-OF-WAY. CASE
posed litigation, the company sought
to "adjust" the matter with them,
and succeeded in. doing so ''satts
factorily," it i3 stated. , v . ,
J. II. Cummings, on the east, and
S. M. Harreli. George E. Kornegay, ,
Mrs. Lillian Perry and Mrs. John F.y
Wooten, on the west, are the individ
uais interested. "Damages" approx
imating about $4,600 wera agreed to
by the railroad. The home of Har
reli will have to be removed. It is
understood that he will receive 1- -700,
' to be invested in another site
and dwelling. A portion of Korne
gay's home may have to be razed, -it
is reported. Three houses owneiT
by Mrs. Perry and two !by Mrs.
Wooten will be accommodated easily
on their abridged lots, it is said, al
ter being moved. It is Understood
Mr. Kornegay will be awarded $900
against the possibility of a portion
of his residence having to ?e torn
away or the house having to be re-t
moved a little distance.
A formal decree in the matter U
expected to be issued by Jikge Con
nor, as well as one or more ju'j
ments concerning the status of min
ora interested in at least one 'cm
of the property.