VOL. XVII.-No.268 :,fv SECOND EDITION' KINSTON, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1916 FOUR PAGES ntlCE TWO CENTS IIVK CENTS ON TRAINS j. AMERICANlIBASSlf REPORTS TO S STATE LINER ZENT VICTIM BIGGEST SUM EVER SHAW WILL AHEMP DEPARTMENT SUSSBX;WAS'TORPEDO'D BY GERMAN SUBMARINE ; TENSION TIGHTENS SUBMARINE; HALF- PfiOPOSED; FOR ' THE TO HUNBR'D LOST LIVES DEFENSE OF COAST , - !" TBIALFOR vMURDER i Renewed Fears of Break With-Kaiser, That Might Re sult In War Attaches Scntby.iAmbassador to Paris to Investigate the Matter Discovered Conclusively That Channel Steamer Was Struck by Projectile From Teu ton Underseaboat First Positive Information Had By Washington-Prcsident and Secretary of State Ar range for Conference That May Determine If America ,Washes,Its Hands of Germany (By ROBERT, J. BENDER, United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, April 6. American . embassy attaches appointed to examine pieces of metal found aboard the Sussex reported today that their-investigatioa shows that . such pieces were parts of a German torpedo. Their find ines are based on comparison of the metal pieces with the ;'. structure of captured German torpedoes at Paris. The report made to the State Department is the first positive information this government has received that a i -u i A ii. . n . German suDmanne auacKeu me oussex. k The news immediately caused a tightening of the ten sion in German-American relations. Fears of a diplom atic break, with all the possible grave results, are renews ed. Shortly after the report became public the President and Secretary Lansing arranged for a White House con ference. &&t?;$ Attackers Made No Attempt to Rescue Persons Strug : gling in the Sea WENT DOWN FEW MINUTES Lifeboats Capsized in Hur ry of Getting Them Over Eleven Were Landed at Queenstown, Rescued by Steamer that Stood By GERMANS REPLACING F Seem Still Bent on Offens ive at Vaux Front Are Stripping Their Lines f From Soissons to the East for Reinforcements, Said ' (By United Press) London. April 6 Heavy concentra tion of Germans on the west bank of Hie Meuse, and resumption of the bombardment on the Vaux" front are reported from Paris. The Gentians ,re stripping their lines from Sois sons eastward for fresh troops and exhausted regiments are being sent to quieter sections of the line. Fienth Official Statement. Pris, April 6. The Germans reached Haucourt village last night in series of violent' assaults north west of Verdun, the -war office today announced. , Heavy German, attacks on Bethincourt were repulsed. ' The German advance was offset Vy an Im portant French victory in the Cailles woods. ' - . . - .-; ' , . . MARTIN CO. MAN IS SERIOUSLY -SHOT; A NEGRO ENEMY HELD Cecil Moore Wounded While . He Slept Condition Crit ical John Guilford Run ; Down by Dogs In Mar , . tin Jail at Williamston - iEWIS DEFENDS THE ":CITIZEN:50LDIERY (By the Eastern Press) ... Washington, N. 0., April 6. Cecil Moore, white, is lying at the oint of death at Everetts, N. C, and John Guilford, colored, charged with shooting Moore, is in the : Martin county jail at Williamston. A delay ed report states that Guilford is al leged to have crep Ito the window of a bedroom in Moore's home on 'Tues day night and shot him as he slept. They hal had cross words. - Bloodhounds from this city (trailed the coloied man yesterday. Guilford is being held baillesa. ; ' ' '' THE ODDEST, STORY IN THENEWS 9FTHE DAY National Guard Not a Political Or A janization, But a Patriotic One--, Vote Expected Soon On Striking Out of Federal Reserve Front the Qwpfwrlain Bill r ' ' - By Hie United Press) " 'Washington, April , 6-HotIy - an- ring the militia's critics, SenateM' today declared the national Uard a patriotic, and not a political w!ani2ation,.in opposing the Cham Main preparedness bill, on which a is expected on the striking out the measure of all provisions, for 1 Federal reserve. 1 DAN CUPIO MAKES THE . SCHOOL BOARD STEP LIVELY .V (By the United -Press) Mmadelphia. Anril fi-So -manv oc4 garden, teachers have beer! cap. red by Pan Cupid since-last sum -er that the! board of education held vAamuuinaD io nil ;ine Many marriages followed the. of the- garuen4 Usi: gummer J-ae rfiib,e Kst was virtually ex basted. " -lOntario, Cal, April 6. Y.! Etienne, Frenchman, spied "Mado in Ger many" on the razor his barber was using. 'Vive La France!" -And Etienne smashed the barber chair. "Abas les Bodies!" and a table was shattered. "Vive le. Jeanne d'Arc, vive Joffrc!" -r-a settee crumbled into ruins, ' the stove became debris, a mirror shiv ered and the chandelier swung. The neutral police came in. XiOINGON IN NEARBY H AtrnESMD ;GOUNTIES . - , . .- ...v. . ..... : . i ;i ... . An unidentified white woman is in a -New iBern hospital with a severe Wound oa her head, inflicted;, with some instrument, unknown to the ai thorities. .Her condition is uncertain- She is believed -to have gone to theJ hospital accompanied " by a notorious man-of the Pembroke section. Ed. Stewart is the new mayor of Washington, selected by the alder men to (ill out the unexpired term of Frank C'Kugler. resigned. tKugler had a year more or less to serve. Stewart is a. former maypr and re tired business man.' , . v . J-':" 'The winter cruising fjenoA for the coast guard cutter Pamlico has expired. (By the United Press) ' London, April 6. The Elder liner Zent lias been sunk. Forty-eight per sons lost their lives. . The captain ami ten survivors have been landed. Queenstown this morning said the Zent was torpedoed without warning and sunk in a few minutes. In an effort to get the boats over quickly nearly every one capsized. A submarine moved slowly ft", making no effort to save those struggling in the water. A steamer finally rescued those taken to Queenstown. ONLY TWO CASES FOR TRIAL IN JONES COURT . It is a remarkable term of court that Judge Devin of Oxford, a new jurist, is conducting at Trenton, ac cording to Col. W. D. Pollock of this city, just back from the Jones coun ty seat.- "There were but two cases and it a mixed term at that. There was one criminal case. A white en gineer was fined $40 and costs for shooting a black, after the defense had submitted. The court was engag ed on the xnly civil case, not a very important cause, when I. left. "There isn't a prisoner in the Jones county jail," Colonel Pollock says. Sherley Bill Would Appro priatc Nearly Thirty five Millions WANT MORE AVIATORS Heads Department Militia Affairs Advocate Million Dollars for Equipping National Guard Flyers In Number of the States (By the United Press) Washington, April C. The biggest appropriation for coast defenses in the country's history was introduced today by Sherley of Kentucky, car rying an actual appropriation of $21,- 997,000 for fortifications, submarine mines, field artillery and ammuni tion. In addition it authorizes con tracts aggregating $12,300,000. Want National Guard Airmen. : Washington, April C. lOol. Mclver and Captain DeWiltof the division of militia affairs of the War Depart ment, today urged an appropriation of a million dollars for a miliiUa avi ation corps, with sections in Virgin ia, Tennessee, California, Texas, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New York, Indiana and Rhode Island DEATH OF A VETERAN OF FOSTER'S RAID ON CITY News has been received here of the death of Mr. S. J. Langston at his home in Grifton recently. He was in his 85th year, and paralysis coupled with the infirmities of old age was responsible for his demise. The fun eral and .interment were at Sharon church. ' Mr. Langston was bom in Lenoir county, near : Grainger, in 1931, and resided there until four yearg ago. tie was a man of exem plary character, well known and very highly esteemed by his acquaintances. He was a member of the Free Will Baptist church. He served through out the War Between the States. He was injured during Foster's raid up- this city, having his horse to fall up on him. . He had been married forty years, and is survived by his wife and three children. (By the United Press) MUSS ADDAMS ILL. New .York, April 6. Miss Jane Adddms, the noted suffrag , 1st sociologist, is suffering from ' tuberculosis of the kidney and is in 'precarious state of health, al though her condition shows some - .improvement, , Emily Geebe Blich said today before sailing as ; Miss Addams alternate , at the Ford peace tribunal in Stockholm. REPORT.OF TODAY'S .' COTTON RIARKET Eight bales of cotton had been sold here today by 3 o'clock, the bst, price being 116-8 cents. ; New . York fu tures quotations were: Open" May 11-82 July-;; .....11.99 October .. .......... 12.16 December . . t 12.32 January 12 Jo 119 12.06 12.23 12.40 12.45 LA GRANGE BANK SHOWS SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS r:. Rouse Banking Company Held Annu al Meeting Wednesday Deposits "Increased $45,000 Dividend De claredOfficers Re-Elected Mr, N... J. Rouse Is President (Special to The Free Press) LaGrange, N. C, April 5. The stockholders of Rouse Banking Com pany held their annual meeting at LaGrange on Wednesday, April 6th. The report of the cashier showed the business of the bank ibo be in a grow ing ,and flourishing condition. De posits were $45,000 in excess of whaf they. were at the annual meeting in 1915; the number of depositors had grown so that now the bank has nearly 800. The stockholders ere highly pleased at itho showing made by . the reports of the officers, ' Afie large increase in the number of de positors and the general business of the bank showing that the institution rests upon the confidence of ' the bus iness community; and the ' deposits and large-aimount of available funds on hand and in banks, caused special gratification, that the - institution stood ready and . prepared to stand back of and assist the friends and patrons of the Bank in their business endeavors and activities. A dividend of 5 per cent.- was de clared out of the earnings, leaving in- tact the bank' surplus and unearned j interest, which last item amounlted to- several thousand dollars. The stockholders elected the fol- j lowing directors: K. E. Sutton, T. R. Rouse, C. P. Barrow, D. L. M. Fields, W, L. Hardy, R- G, Creech, Her bert W. Davis, John R. Wooten, Needham Grady, Alex. Sutton and N. Rouse. Upon Ithe adjournment of the stockholders' meeting , the Board of Directors organized by re-electing all the officers of the Bank; N. J. Rouse, president; C. P. Barrow, vice president; T. R. Rouse, Cashier, and John P. Joyner and Emory P, Rouse, bookkeepers. jf- Has List Witnesses from a Large Territory, Solici tor Declares THE SHERIFF IS SKEPTICAL Doesn't Think Members o Mob Who SJiot Joe Black to Death Ever Be Known to Officials "Per sons Unknown,", Verdict BIGGEST CHECK EVER ..... BEARS MORGAN'S NAME TNew Tork, April i. A check for slightly more than 70,703,600, said to be the largest ever drawn,j)assed through ' the New York Gearing House today, ' It was made by J, P. Morgan & Co. on a local bank to the order of the Canadian' govern ment in payment of ?75,000,00O par value ' fiveper cent", bonds' recently purchased by a syndicate of bankers. Solicitor IT. K. Shaw has started an investigation into the lynching of Joseph Black. He stated this afternoon that wit nesses would be summoned from all through surrounding coun try. Col. Shaw declares that he really expects to bring some persons to trial, for "conspiracy, breaking jnil and murder.' "They , had no right to com--' here and take that man out of jail and lynch hint," he stated. "That will nev,er do." The Solicitor is hoping to have a hearing by Saturday. ' , It is not likely that Will Black will be lynched when he is carried back to Greene county from the State penitentiary for trial oh May 15, ac. cording to what seems to be the gen eral opinion in official circles. Gov ernor iOraig is evidently trusting in the honor of the Greene county citi zenry in the matter; he is unwilling to order a change of venue because that would indicate that the law, in hi9 'belief, could not be carried, out in Greene. He did not set an earlier date, of course, because a jury of cool headed men in Greene would be a rare se't now; it i3 improbable that they could be secured. Besides, Whed bee, who has the confidence of'th people of this part of the State' in the fullest, will 'be the judge presid ing, ami every man. in lireene coun ty realizes that there is no alterna ive from, a death sentence possible for the negro who assaulted a white girl, beat a white woman and shot two nien, and whose father was lynched ill Greene county Wednesday for incendiary remarks and furnish ing the assailant with arms. ..... Kinston's frame of mind seems al tered today. Nearly everyone ex pressing nimseii. oeciares graurica tion over, the fact that after the Greone county men had raided the lo cal' jail" and seized Joseph Black they took the old darky back home witlh them to execute him. Officials do not like to taUk about the matter. Some will; some will not. So determined was' that mob that there was not a power in the county to stop them had all of Kinston been advised of their coming,", according to one. There are several persons here who ridicule, tha't belief. J.'I. Brown, commanding' the militia, said Wednesday night in reply to a query if, had he had an hour's time, could he have stopped them: "I know I ould have." He put emphasis on the "know," and seemed positive that with half a hundred disciplined men, far better armed than the lynchers, he could have kept Joe Black safe in the Lenoir jail. ' Regulations of the service or , State, laws forbid militia using blank .cartridges nowadays, forbid officers : parleying with mob men, give them the authority to !take over the Administration of a jail or any placev without "declaring . mar tial law, to go on duty without the Governor's order or .anyone else's and give them the privilege of acting first and reporting", afterwards. . , , It is not improbable that a battal ion of1, troops will go to Snow Hill 'to "preserve order'? during the trial, it is learned. from.a " higher-tip'?. source, A ranking National Guard f officer states that if anybody warits- to-fool with the militia" he is satisfied some body will get hurt. ': -'-','--; i Sheriff A. W. Taylor today jpave his account of the lynching! f . .. "I did not know Joseph Black was here. Sheriff - Williams of Greene UNITED STATES TROOPS , AND CARRANZA ADMIT THEY DON'T KNOW - WHERE BANDIT LEADER. IS HIDING; FALSE INFORMATION Villistas Deliberately Spreading Rumors to Handicap Pu nitive ExpeditionPart of Outlaw Army Believed to He Jn Country Between American Advance Guard and Main BodySaid Villa Has Only 250 Men With Him Many Arrests In Connection With Juarez Conspiracy Funston Doesn't Want Field Artillery Sent From De partment of Texas to Canal Zone Order Is Countermanded Washington, April 6. At Funston's request the War Department today countermanded the order for a squad ron of the Fourth Field Artillery to go to Panama from the Iirownsville district. General Funston merely said the gunners ought to be retained where they are. Villa Completely Lost to Troops. El Paso, April 6. Villa apparently has completely disappeared. Carranza and the American soldiers ad mit they have known nothing of his whereabouts since the Guerrero fight. Rumors are numerous, but these are con flicting. Villa's friends are deliberately spreading some to hinder the hunt. The latest information says Villa has now 250 men. With eighteen arrests here and fifty at Juarez, the insurrection plot is believed to have been completely broken up. l. Garcia Wishes Troops Were Home. El Paso, April 6. Consul Garcia, chief of the Carran- za officials here, today declared he favors . withdrawing of the American troops from Mexico. . . Expect Long Stay In Mexico. (By H. D. Jacobs, United Press Staff Correspondent) American Field Headquarters,; Near Casas-Grandes, April 6. The. consensus of opinionat Pershing's head quarters is that the object of the punitive, expedition is still far from accomplished. A long stay, in Mexico is expected unless an unexpected stroke places Yilla in the nanus oi tne uniiea caaies suuuers or iarraiizasuus. auk. Tenth cavalry's fight Saturday at Ojo Calientes, .which the American vanguard passed two; weeks-agof-shows the presence yet of Villistas between the Americans farthest south and the border. . - COLORED BABY -WAS INCINERATED FIRE One House Ruined, Two Damaged Carelessness of Girl Cost Childs' Life. Monetary Damage More Than $500 In Blaze Today A two-year-old boy chi'U was ere- mated, one house-was practically ruined and two other houses damag. ed by a fire in Carraway strept,this morning at 11:40 o'clock. , The fire, originating probably from a stove in a dwcliing occupied by Mark Dog- gett, colored, had gained much head way before the department was call- fed. ' The flames had communicated to two adjoining house, but the firemen quickly extinguished them. The child was the son of Doggeit. A 14-year-old girl had been left in charge of the house. She had gone out and the lire started in jher ab sence. One other child in the house with the infant saved itself. The burned child was almost incinerated. The itotal damage was between $500 and ?750. ) A;P.ERSON:DISLOYAL ToaiiiioT GOOD CITIZEN; SAYS S. M. Brinson Tells Lenoir People Constitution De mands Allegiance to the ; Cause of Enlightenment. , Coahoma Commencement WORKMAN INJURED. John Miller, white, fell from a house on which he was working in the eastern part fit the city this af ternoon, sustaining badly cut fingers and a scalp wound from landing on glass or other sharp material. ' ' county, anticipating an attack on the Snow Hill jail, elecreUy tok Black out and brought him to the jail here, cpmmg over.,a. circuitous route, by way of Grainger and (back streets of Kinston. - Ha. bundled , him. jinto the jail and told Jailer Allen not to say a word about his incarceration. Wil liams. - I suppose, (thought ; he had fooled the mobi He had not. It is believed that men of the Maury, Liz (Continued on Fage Two) ' . - Between 300 and 400 persons at tended tho Coahoma group com mencement at Coahoma ?chool today. Ail five of the -schools an the group Coahoma, McGo wan, : Mill Branch, Waller, and SMaple Branch were re presented, and schools in. Ithe vicinity not members of the group suspended for the day in order that the pupils might attend the exercises. They were transported in wagons to the group center. ' , , ': "- Visitors included Supt. Kinsey, As sistant Miss Hailtie Parrott, S. M. Brinson, of Craven, and Asst. Supt. Alice Bowman of Craven, and Mr. 0. P.-' Mc Ct a ry,-county farm demon s' rati. in Bgtjlt. A declamation medal was awarded ' to Miss Nell " Wooten of Coahoma Echool. The donor waa Miss Kath leen Wootorc of the Kinston schot)l3. Superintendent Kinsey made the pre sentation address. - Mr. Brinson made the principal address. His theme was (the import ance of education. He declared that any man who did not favor education was disloyal to the Constitution ' of North Carolina. A: "A dinner was set for the hundreds of visitors on the school t grounds. Barbecue, chicken and all the other native edibles were present in abun dance. It was a feast he-tily en joyed and ithe guests declared the Coahoma people most satisfactory entertainers. '. . , YA etory-telling contest, a musical program and games,' including ath letic contests, were features of the program, . . '