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KINSTON, N. O, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1916
FOUR PAGES TODAY
PRICE TWO CENTS
FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS
J J. J mA iSu.VNu the WEATHER '
ALLIES ARE ACTIVE
IN NEARLY' ALL THE
WAR THEATERS NOW
It fl
General Offensive On All
Fronts Indicated by To
day's Reports
NO CHANGE IN THE WEST
French Repulse Attack
Today Ridicule Ger
man Statement of Over
whelming Odds in Ver
dun Campaign
(By the United Press)
Salonika. May 11. Brisk artillery
firing along the Anglo-French front
in northern Greece is reported. The
Bulgarians are bringing fresh troops
from south of MonasUr, evidently
expecting an allied attack near Fio
rina. Italiaos More. Active.
Vienna, May 11. The Italians to
day attacked Austrian positions near
San Marino after violently cannon.
ading the Goritz bridgehead and Do-
berdo I'lateau. They were every
where repulsed, said the war office
Activity of Russian troops in East
ern Galicia and Volhynia is consider
ed unimportant.
Berlin Trying to Fool German
People, Say.
Faric, May 11. The French
repulsed with . bayonets and hand
grenades a German attack this morn
ing west of Vaux pond, northeast of
Verdun. French officials (ridiculed
yesterday's German official state
ment in which the latter declared the
'French at Verdun numbered 800,000.
The French said Germany made the
announcement so h German people
would believe the Crown Prince waa
confiiited by an overwhelming
force.
Berlin, May 11. Two ' vicious
French attacks northwest of Verdun
have been repulsed, the war office an
nounced, both breaking down under
a terrific machine gun fire.
VALUABLE BUSINESS MAY
BE SOLD BY CLCLE CO.
Inventory of the stock of the Kin
ston Cycle Co. is being taken today
with a view to the sale of the busi
ness to A. E. Rountree and George
Suggs. The company owns a half
interest in the lot and building, val
uing the interest at $0,000. The
stock and accounts are expected to
total $11,000 or $12,000. Members
of the company regard the sale as
all but formally made.
NOTHING DOING ON
COTTON EXCHANGE
No cotton had been sold here to
day by 3:15 o'clock. Deliveries were
fifteen bales.
New York futures tpjotations were:
Open Close
May .. 12.87
July . ...13.01 12.95
October 13.20 13.15
Member 13.44- 13.34
January ,. 13.43 13.37
TWENTY THOUSAND FOR
DEPOT SITE, ITS SAID
Twenty thousand dollars is the
sura that the railroads are expected
to pay for the Cummings site, on
hich the union passenger station. is
he erected, it was said on the best
f authority today.
COMMENCEIENT COL'D
COLLEGE THIS MONTH
- - - v -
The commencement of Kinston
Col,g, colored institution in Lin
In City, wiU be held May 17-19.
Vttit speakers are expetced to be
RnnS'VELT WANTFn.
iitrrnnn urniri n n i nn
iiuunmHiuLii
BUT ROOT WON'T DO,
Say Progressive National
Committeemen In State
mentUp to Republicans
to Do Something If Wed
ding Is to Be
By PERRY ARNOLD,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
New York, May 11. It is up to
the Republicans to make the next
move in the political game which
may result in me atnuauon ot tne
Progressives and Republicans, mem
bers of the Progressive National Com
mittee indicated today, when they is
sued a stalenjhnt saying they are for
peace, but not at any price. They
say Roosevelt is wanted, that Hughes
might do, but Root never!
MANY NEGROES ARE
BURNED TO DEATH
IN A PICTURE SHOW
(By the United Press.)
Norfolk, May 11. Three ne
groes were burned to death at
Wallaceton, Va., following explo
sion of a gasoline tank in a
frame movie theater. Most or
the victims were employes of
the Norva Land & Lumber Co.
The wildest sort of a panic re
sulted, many being seriously
crushed.
BULLETINS
(By the United' Press)
MAY AGAIN NOMINATE WILSON
Washington, May 11. Judge
John W. Westcott of Camden, N.
J., who nominated Wilson at Bal
timore, probably will again do
the same thing at St Louis, ac
cording to reports today.
REPORT ON AMHERST WRECK.
Washington, May 11. Too
much speed and foggy weather
are blamed for. the Amherst
wreck in Ohio on March 29, in n
report made to the Interstate
Commerce Commission by Inves
tigator Belknap. Twenty-seven
persons were killed and 47 in
jured in the wreck.
STAFFORD SENTENCE
REVERSED BY COURT
New York, May 11. The United
States Circuit Court of Appeals re
versed the conviction of Frank D.
Safford, a hotel clerk of Plainfield,
N. J., who was sentenced to nine
months' imprisonment on a charge
of perjury in connection" with the
now celebrated Rae-Tanzer-iOliver-Osborne
case. The decision of the
court was based on testimony given
by James W. Osborne, a prominent
New York lawyer, which was held' to
be hearsay, and therefore should
have been excluded by the lower tri
bunal. Safford was one of several persons
indicted for perjury as a result of
the identification of the attorney as
the mysterious "Oliver" Osborne
who, according to Miss Nazer, failed
to keep a promise to marry her.
AMMUNITION SEIZED
BY AMERICAN TROOPS
Laredo. Texas, May 10 One mil
lion rounds of rifle ammunition which
Mexicans attempted to smuggle
across the river into Mexico near
here was confiscated by troops here
today. It was believed the ammuni
tion was intended for ose of bandits
in Mexico. - .
Messrs. B. P. Smith and C V. Cow
per. The Merchant of Venice" will
be presented on the evening of the
18th. Leading colored people of the
State will be on the program. v . '
MRS. CARR PAYS MRS.
KENDALL BY VERDICT
Which Was Compromise Result
Scandal Suit in Richmond Court
Today Durham Woman Alleged
to Have Alienated Affections Mrs
Kendall's Husband All Prominent
(By the United Press)
Richmond, Va., May 1 By a com
promise verdict Mrs. Richard Kend
all of Richmond was paid $1,100 to
day by Mrs. Bet tie Hunt Carr, wife
of a surgeon-dentist of Durham, N.
C, for alienating her husband's &t-
fections. Mrs. Kendall sued for $20,-
000. The parties involved are social
ly prominent in Virginia and the Ca
rolinas.
$. H. ISLER IS CANDIDATE
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
noil Known farmer and lotion
Buyer Announces His Entry Ih
Capable and Successful HiisincMs
Man and Has Wide Acquaintance.
In the political announcements to
day appears the card of Mr. Sim II.
Isler, who is a candidate for county
commissioner. Mr. Isler has been a
resilient of Kinston for the past 14
years, lie has never before sought
or hold public office. He is a farm
er, cotton buyer and man of affairs.
He takes an active interest in mat
ters of public interest, is successful
in his own business affairs, and his
friends consider him "well qualified
for the important position .he seeks.
He is not on any slate, but will con
duct his campaign as he is privileged
to do by virtue of his citizenship. He
believes that belter results can and
should be obtained for the county
from the outlay that is being annu
ally expended.
Mr. Isler's wide and favorablo ac
quaintance with the cotton farmers
of this section, as well as in the city,
will make him a strong candidate.
NEW NAVY YARDS FOR
BOTH COASTS, MAYBE
Washington, May 10. Creation of
a commission of naval officers to in
vestigate the advisability of estab
lishing an additional navy yard on
the' Atlantic south of Norfolk and
one on the Pacific provided in an
amendment to the navy bill approved
by the House Naval Committee.
The bill was amended to call for
a l,uuu-ioot dry dock at Philadel
phia instead. of a 1,700-foot dock, in
order to keep within the $3,500,000
appropriation previously agreed on
for construction. The bureau of
docks and yards advised the com
mittee that a 1,700-foot dock would
cost $0,000,000.
The committee also adopted a pro
posal for a $31,000 appropriation fr
civilian training camps for the ma
rine corps. May 18 was set as a
date for a vote in the committee on
the building program.
COEUR D'ALENE MINE
: MEN'S BIG BONUSES
Wallace, Idaho, May 11. Nearly
$125,000 in gold was received here
today to he distributed among 4,000
miners in the Coeur d'Alene district
as a bonus for their work during the
month of April. The bonus for each
miner amounts to about $1' a day.
The bonus system, adopted by the
mine operators February 1, is gov
erned by the prices of the metals
produced mostly gold, copper and
silver.
VALUE LAKE TRAFFIC
IS RECORD-BEAKING
(By'the United" PressV"
Cleveland, May ll.-TrafBc on the
Great Lakes will be the greatest in
history this season, George Marr se
cretary of the Lake Carriers Aasa
cut.on, told the United Press tu&y.
The estimated total value of be
traffic this season will be SI 250,000,
0O0, as against a record mark of
$950,000,000 last season.
I . . f
Put a sharp edge on four campaign
ahd win a car ca the 13 th of May.
FUNSTON MAY CAL
FOR MILITIAMEN OF
MOUNTED BRANCH
Considering Asking for the
First Illinois Cavalry
Today
FRICTION ALONG LINE
American and Mexican Ar
mies Seem Anxious Now
to Get Together Furth
er Raids Exnected by Of
ficials In Border Countrv
(By the United Press)
El Paso, May 1 1. --General Funs
ton is seriously considering a retpics
to the War Department to call ou
the First Cavalry, Illinois Nationa
Guard, of Chicago, for border duty
More Raids Expected.
Marathon, Texas, May 11. A ban
dit raid at Blocker has convinced the
Federal investigators that an organ
ized system of assaults on the Am-
prienn border is boinir rnmeil our
Officials expect additional raids on
small towns within a few days, and
plans are being laid to frustrate the
plotters.
Friction Between Armies Intense.
El Paso, May 11. Despite the in
creased tension along the border
there is still prospect for a peaceful
settlement. Friction, however, be
tween the military forces has reach
ed the danger point and officials be
ieve peace will be hard to maintain
unless a full settlement is speedily
reached.
WATER PLANE DROPS
FIVE HUNDRED FEET
INTO THE
Two Persons Missing, Two
In Hospital and Another
Suffering From Shock
Bad Aerial Accident In
Vicinity of Capital
(By the United Press)
Washington, May 11. Thomas
McAuley, pilot, of Newport News and
L. P. Udder, machinist, of Cleveland,
are in a hospital at Alexandria, witn
n juries as the result of a 5110-foot
fall in a hydro-aeroplane into the
Potomac.
Charles A. Good of Ohio, and a
man named Acosta are missing.
Mayo Dudley, formerly a Norfolk
newspaperman, also a passenger, is
at his home here suffering from the
shock.
Craft Lost Propeller Blade
Washington, May 11. Dudley has
been removed to a hospital. r.co
herent stories from the rescued said
the machine lost a propeller blade.
The tugboat John Miller hurried lo
the scene and rescued the survivors.
It is believed the other two drowned.
The wrecked machine waa one of the
largest in America, and capable of
carrying 15 persons. . It was com
pletely wrecked. L. Z. Grants and
not Acosta was the name of 'ha sec
ond man missing. Both are believed
to have been drowned.
INTERNATIONAL CONY.
OF KING'S DAUGHTERS
s AND SONS IS ON NOW
Burlington, la. May 11. A five-
day session of the International Con
vention of the Kind's Daughters and
Sons opened here today. Delegates
representing nearly C3.000 people
are here from every. State and a few
foreign countries. Seta Low of
New York, and President Thomas II
McBride f Iowa Stafe University
are to be among the speakers.
WHAT EXCUSE FOR NOT
WINNING A CAR?
The End Is Only 48 Hours Away-
Over Twenty People Are Within
Reach of a Car Last Report to
Re Decwive Three '"Prominent
Men Named Aa Judges
Fortyight hours then the final
count begins. Forty-eight hours and
the contest for honors uid valuable
prizes will be history. Forty-eight
hours and the win.iers will be made.
Foriy-eight hours and the losers will
be the busiest bunch of people you
ever saw trying to explain to their
friends why they didn't win.
Who Will Win?
Yet, in industry there is pleasure.
The winners will feel that they are
amply repaid for the time that they
devoted to the contest. Tho winners
of the cars will have made a year's
salary in less than six weeks. And
the winners of tho other prizes will
receive no small rewards for their
time. However, the winners of any
of the prizes are just as much in
doubt today, two days before the
close as they were two weeks ago
There nre so many in the winning
class that a good final report by any
nf at least twenty-five will land them
the cars. Everything is going to de
pend upon the final report. Surely
this is the most surprising and the
most interesting contest that the
contest manager has ever been con
nected with. After becoming ac
piainted with the different eandi
lates and their friends, and know
ing how they have set their hearts
upon winning one of the cars, the
contest, manager cannot help but feel
regret that there is not cars enough,
so that each deserving candidate
might receive one.
Best Wishes.
However, it is all up to the con
testants and their friends, and if
there are any two in the contest who
are a. htue more ueservnig than the
rest, and who have shown by their
Work that they deserve the cars, the
wish of the contest manager is that
these two will finally triumph, and
that the highest honors to ho given
y the judges will be theirs.
Trip Judges.
The following gentlemen have been
appointed judges of the contest and
will make the final count and award
the prizes as soon after 9 o'clock on
Saturday night as the contest man
ager has the votes issued:
Mr. W. A. Allen, Bookkeeper, at
'armors and Merchants Bunk.
Mr. Clarence Oettinger, Secretary
Knston Insurance & Realty Co.
Mr. J. A. Bizzell, bookkeeper at
he National Bank of Kinston.
The ballot box has been locked and
sealed and the final count made by
the contest manager. The ballot box
will be opened by the judges who
will count all of the votes which
they find in the box and add their
totals to the totals that are printed
the paper on Saturday. The
rizes will be awarded according lo
this final count.
VOMAN GETS LIVING
COST DOWN TO DIME
A DAY; NECESSITY!
Uarberton, O., May 11. Grim ne
cessity and Mrs. Cretia Mclntyre, 02..
have battered the high cost of living
down to ten Cents a day. The- dime
covers food, clothing, fuel and other
necessities of life. Since November
14. 1915, Mrs. Mclntyre's income has
averaged ten cents a day.
STEEL CORPORATION
FAR; BEHIND ORDERS
New York, May 10. For the third
time this year .the monthly state
ment of unfilled orders of the Unit
ed States Steel Corporation issued
today broke all records. The orders
stood on April 80 at 29,551 tons,
in increase of, 498,550 tons over those
of March 31,- which broke the prev
ious high record of 8,5G3,9C( tons on
February-23.
The unfilled orders of the corpora
tion have more than, doubled in a
year. On April 30, 1915, they were
reported at 4,102,241 tons, since
which lime each, month has shown
an increase.
UNION PASSENGER STATION WILL 00 ON
CUH'INGS PROPERTY AT JUNCTION NOR'K
SOUTHERN AND COAST LINE RIGHTS-
Chamber of Commerce Committee Decided to Report for
Site Favored by Railroads Wednesday Night Corpo
ration Commission to Be Asked to Withdraw Order
Directing Construction of Depot at Corddn and Inde
pendent Companies Expected to Erect Handsome
Building With Parked Grounds Facing Caswell Street.
Believed Movement to Se cure Property Held By In
dividuals North Caswell Street Will Be Stopped
The union passenger station will
go on tne l.unimings property in
Southwest Kinston if the iCorpora
tion Commission approves that site.
That was the decision Wednesday
night at the end of n conference be
iwcen repro.sentat.ivcs of tho Allan
tic Coast Line and Norfolk Southern
Krilroads, and the Chamber of Com
merce committee appointed for the
purpose of investigating all the avail
able sites.
Three Siten Considered.
Three sites were under considera
tion when the conferees first yot to
gether in the afternoon. One of
these was the Gordon find Independ
ent streets site, referred to by Col.
W. 1!. Rodman, chief counsel for the
Norfolk Southern, as "the Corpora
tion Commission site" from its hav
ing been officially selected by the
Commission months ago. That was
soon eliminated by boih sides as in
adequate in nearly every way. The
Chamber of Commerce's committee,
in fact, decided against that location
on the day after the appointment.
Tho others were the "Wooten site,"
at the head of King street, and the
Cummings or "'Caswell street site."
Members of the committee strongly
favored the Wooten property. Other
sites were discussed, as the present
Atlantic Coast. -Line station site, but
all of these presented difficulties
which the railroads contended could
not be overcome except at great ex
pense to them. There were the ob
jections of sharp and dangerous
curves, acquisition of more property
than the companies could well af
ford to Invest in for a station in a
city the size of Kinston, damage to
private interests in the section and
others.
Action Supposed lo He Final.
Finally, about 10:Ii0 o'clock, tho
committee consented to the Cum
mings or Caswell street sit o. Upon
this agreement, the Chamber of Com
merce, it is presumed by members of
tho committee, will recommend to
the Corporation Commission that the
order Jor construction on the Iror-
don-lndependent si'e be withdrawn
and one issued for a building on the
Cummings property. iColoncl Rod
man state! to a meeting at (5 o'clock
that the railroads were willing to be
gin building immediately on the
Cummings property. Pluns are to
be drawn for the station there at
once. The property is a triangle of
ROCKEFELLER JUNIOR
AND OTHERS WILL BE
SPEAKERS TO Y. M. C. A.
(By United Press)
Cleveland, May 11. Delegates re
presenting 2,0'S Y. M. C. A., organ
izations throughout the world will
assemble here tomorrow to attend
the triennial international convention.
The convention will hear problems
confronting the young men discussed
by prominent men. Reports will be
heard from a dozen far eastern coun
tries and the method of administra
tion hereafter in those countries will
bo determined.
Among those scheduled to address
the meetings are: John D. Rockefel
ler. Jr., Raymond Robbins, Chicago
social worker; C. T. Wang, until re
cently vice speaker of the Senate
Chinese republic; John R. Mott, gen
eral secretary of the International
committee; Bishop William. M F. Mc
Dowell; Dr. John T. 'Stone, Chicago;
Dr. Douglas Mackenzie 7 Hartford,
Conn.; and F J Brockman, Shang
hai. ' ,
WAY
two or three acres, formed by the
junction of the A. C. L. and N. S.
The depot will sit well back from
and facing Caswell street, with
parked grounds in front and lateral
canopy sheds to the tracks of the
two roads, so that trains may tlis
charge and take on passengers on
their respective tracks. At least,
that is the supposition from tenta
tive plans. The Norfolk Southern
pluns new freight platform facilitiea
a short way north of the station.
There were three conferences held
Wednesday. The first was at 3 o'-(
clock, between the railroad men and
the committee. Another ot 6 was
between the directorate of the Cham
ber and the companies' representa
tives. That meeing resulted in the
whole matter being left to the com
mittee so far as the Chamber of
Commerce was concerned. The last,
at which the agreement was reached
after 10 o'clock, was between the '
committee and railroad men.
Participating in the conferences
were the following: Messrs. T. W.
Mewborn, E. V. Webb, J . J. Steven
son, C. F. Harvey and H. E. Mose
ley, the committeemen, and Col, Rod
man, Larry I. Moore,' counsel for the
A. O. L.; Dividon- Superintendent.
W. H. Newell of Rocky Mount, of
the A. C. L.; 'Division Superintendent
It. J. Hughes of Norfolk, of the A.
C. L.; Division Superintendent John
C. Lewis of New Bern, of the Nor
folk Southern; Chief Engineer W. L.
Trenholm of Wilmington, of the A.
C. L., and General Supt. J. D. Stack
of the Norfolk Southern.
Property Litigation May Be Stopped.
It is assumed that the Norfolk
Southern's attempt to "recover" pro
perty claimed by it between Caswell
and Gordon streets will be stopped,
since when notice was served on the
property-holders some days ago it
was stated the action' was caused by
the necessity of constructing tho
station at the Cordon-Independent
site. That necessity was obviated by
Wednesday night's action. Col. Rod
man has that matter entirely in hia
hands; he is en rout to Asheville,
and is not known to have expressed
himself publicly. General Superin
tendent Stack said today that he did
not know what action Col. Rodman
intended.
The Chamber of Commerce direc
torate will meet tonight to formally
receive the committees' report.
EZRA MEEKER READY
FOR ANOTHER COAST
TO-COAST JAUNT NOW
(By the United Press)
Washington, May 12. It was the
same old "limousine"' but a modem
ox-less chassis, that the same old
Ezra Meeker, 85-year-old transcon
tinental traveler, hauled out of iU
shed here today to look over ia pre
parat ion for Ezra's fourth jaunt from
coast to coast. : j :i
Meeker calls his renovated Vehicle'
a "schoonermohile." It's ll of that.
The top is the same, label-covered
prairie schooner top which Ezra's ox
en have dragged three times over
the roads between here and the Pa
cific. Under it Is an up-to-date, mo
tor driven chassis. ' : ' .
' Within a few days Meeker atarta "
for Olympia, Wash., a distance of
3,560 miles. Meeker iav tho original '
triple-exponent and proponent of a
aational, coast-to-coast highway. He
expects to drive over one before "Old
Man Time sets himv