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FREE THE HOME PAPEB THE WEATHER Unsettled VOL. XVIL No. 307 FIRST EDITION KINSTON, N. O, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1916 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS HVK CENTS ON TRAINS WRIANS MAKING FAILURE TO ELEC EVANGELIST NOW IN TEXAS MILITIAMEN MORE THAN HALF A HUNDRED CASES ON DOCKET FOR A WEEK MARKING i OE PAVING IS NATURAL AND IN NO WAY DAMAGES IT ESPISCOPAL COUNCIL PUTTING THRO' BIG PROGRAM THIS CITY HEADWAY iN DRIVE BRANDELD BE SECOND WEEK M. E REFUSED BE SWORN ITALIANS CALAMITV, he says REVIVAL CAMPAIGN FOR MEXICAN DUTY THE DAILY PRESS AGAINST Claimed by Vienna-16,000 Captured By Offensive Army BOTH LOSING HEAVILY French In West Hold Own, Resumption of Hard Fighting at Verdun The Teutons Driven From Po sitions by Countering (By the United Press) Vienna, May 22. 'Massing in hea vy force on the southern Tyrol front. the Italians are desperately but un successfully attempting to stem the Austrian invasion. Vicious counter attacks are being repulsed. An offi cial statement was issued today say ing i(,uuu Italians, including many officers, have been captured since the Austrian began the offensive. HOPING TO GET RED CROSS SUPPLIES TO GERMANY FROM U. S. (By the United Press) Washington, May 22. Hope is ex pressed in official circles that a working agreement can son be reached with Great Britain regarding the shipment of Red Cross supplies into Germany. The Spanish embas sy is working in conjunction with Assistant Secretary of State Phillips, Washington, May 22. "Justice Hughes does not recognize irrespon sible rumors," the Supreme Court Jusiice announced today through his secretary, answering a press associ ation's story quoting him as saying that the Republicans will nominate Roosevelt, and that "it will be of no use considering any one else." Further comment was refused. BRIEFS IN THE NEWS OTHER EAST CAROLINA CITIES AND COUNTIES The new cooperage plant of the S H. Adams Company at James City is in operation. A superior court jury at New 'Bern found for the defendant in the case of Taylor vs. Stewart, an action in which it was sought to recover dam ages for the death of Earl Taylor, son of the plain'tiff, killed by an au tomobile driven by a son of the de fendant. The plaintiff will take an appeal. Mrs. Mary E. Willis of New Bern came Saturday for a short visit. Miss Minnie Mae Sutton of New Bern is attending the Episcopal dio cesan council meeting here. Messrs. J. G. Bragaw and J. G. Bragaw, Jr., of Washington are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Ira M. Hardy. Mrs. J. C. Delamar of Beaufort is a visitor in the city. Rev. Howard Alligood of Bath, N. C, is attending the big Episcopal meeting here. ." '' ALLIES WONT Qtllt UNTIL BIG VICTORY HAD, SAYS BRIAND Paris. May 22 Premier Bri ' mad today told a delegation from. , the Russian Duma that the "Al lies eaa' regard , the future with confidence. Peace most result ot -from diplomatic intrigue but aly through a decisive Allied - victory that win restore reeognl- tioa of International law." Mr. George p. Psrrott f- Parrott Station is ia town today. . Subscribe Ia The Free Press. Chas. W. Eliot Declares Re jection Would Be "Mis fortune for Profession Court Business and the Country" ' (By the United Presi) Washington, May 22 Rejection of Brandeis for the Supreme Court would be a "grave misfortune for the whole legal profession, the court, all American business and the country," Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, Itoday wrote the Senate Judiciary committee. President Eliot's stand is directly opposed to that of President Lowell of Harvard. BAPTISTS AT GREAT CONVENTION BROKE ATTENDANCE RECORD Asheville, May 21. The 1916 Southern Baptist Convention which ends tomorrow has had the "largest attendance in its history, 2,125 dele gates having registered since the sessions opened Wednesday last. The largest previous attendance was ,930. Religious services occupied the me of lhe convention today and to- ight. Religious services occupied the time of the convention today and to night. Members of the convention occu pied the pulpits of virtually every Protestant church in the city, both white and negro, and many preached at country churches nearby. OLD ROMANCE OF SUNNY ITALY HAS H APPY END St. Paul. Minn., May 22 Seven years ago today, in a sunny little village near Naples, Italy, seventeen year-old Luigi Dimias cried as he told pretty Marianna Serpico, 16, goodbye. Marianna cried, too. He was leaving for America, to find her a home.- That he has accomplished, and a pretty little home it is, here in St. Paul. They were married in the cottage today. RUSSIANS JOIN THE BRITISH IN GARDEN OF EDEN, REPORTED News Enthuses London- Advance on Bagdad Soon First Time Slavs and English Have Fought Side by Side, Said (By the United Press) London, May 22. For the first time since Ae war began Englisn and Russian troops are righting side by side. They are in the Garden of Eden region of Mesopotamia. PROPOSED MAKE CORP. BROCKWELL A SERGT. Paris, May 21. Corporal Riff en Rockwell, a member of the Franco American fljnig corps, has been pro posed for promotion to the rank of sergeant as a reward for bringing down a German aeroplane netr Hart man's Weiler-Xopf on May 18. He wiM be decorated with the military medal. Corporal Rockwell formerly lived in Asheville, N. C, where his mother now resides. i Rev. Mr. Bridgers Talks to Big Congregations in the Queen Street Church- General Subject, "Bap tism Holy Spirit" Ajddressing large conservations both morning and evening, Rev. Lu ther B. Bridgers on Sunday bega the second week of the revival ser vices now in progress at the Queen Street. Methodist church. At both services Mr. Bridgers delivered an eloquent and powerful sermons to congregations that packed the audi torium and overflowed into the gal leries and Sunday-school room. The music consists of inspiring gospel songs, and is led by Mr. D Ward Milam of Atlanta, Ga., while a striking feature of the services is the soul-stirring solo with which Mr, Bridgers usually prefaces his dis courses. Unusual Series. The meeting has thus far been of rather unusual character for mod ern evangelical services. Mr. Brid gers is a firm believer in the "old time religion," and the old-time al tar service, formerly so universally practiced in Methodist revivals While he believes in the altar ser vice as the best way for seekers at church service, he enters the king dom in aTevival meeting, he has not yet, during the present meeting, ex tended a formal altar call. Live Up to Professions, Pleads. The burden of his discourses so far has been a plea that church members consciously "locate" them selves and steadfastly live up to the: own professions. Mr. Brh'ljrs does not mince matters in arraigning un faithful church members as traitors to the cause of Christ. He declares that neither church membership no ceremonial of any kind can save, but only the blood of KUhrist applied by the Holy Spirit to each individual soul. During the past week it has been his effort to impress on church members the thought that the cause of the realized loss of power on the part of the church itoday is the fact that it is cumbered with so many un faithful members, members who havt no religion; some of whom have nev er had any. "Baptism of Holy Spirit" This week the evangelist will take as his general theme the baptism of the Holy Spirit. His addresses both at the 10 o'clock morning service and the one at 8 in the evening will be aj discussion of this general theme. The morning services are well at tended and his hearers find them very helpful. Special prayer services are held separately by the men, women and young people of the church each evening in the church as a prepara tion for the regular evening service NEW BERN MAY GET ANOTHER LINE OF BOATS FROM NORTH New Bern, May 21. In addition to the line of boats which the M. H. Tracy Company of New York is planning to operate between New York and New Bern and which will begin operating boats within Ithe course of a few weeks, the Balti more and Carolina Steamship Com pany, of Baltimore, Md. planning to put on a line. also LAWYER KILLS THE SHERIFF GA. COUNTY Elberton, Ga, May 21-Sheriff S. N. Hailey of Elbert county, was shot and killed in the courthouse here to day by Arnold Worley, a well-known attorney of this city. Citizens were greatly excited and Worley was sent to Athens, Ga., as a precaution. It is said that Worley charged Hailey with being unduly rough with a ne gro prisoner and that the killing wai the result. . 116 Guardsmen Liable to Courtmartial Under the Dick Law WOULDNT HELP THINGS Can't Be Forced to Serve Though They Can Be Fin ed Officials Don't Be- lieve Will Be Trouble By CARL GROAT, (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, May 22. Secretary Baker today revealed that he had been officially advised that 11 Te as milftiamen had refused to be sworn for border duty. Under the Dick law all can be courtmartiallec' and fined, but cana t bo forced into service thereby. SPANISH KING MAY START PEACE MOVE WITH ENC'URAGEM?T Plans to Test Sentiment of Belligerents (Would Send Able Diplomats to All the Capitals to Start Negotiations Off (By the United Press) London, May 22. King Alphonso may initiate peace negotiations, ac- coding to a Madrid exchange tele graph dispatch quoting newspaper articles. ELECTRICITY .1- Chicago, May 22. Hundreds of first aids to sleepy housewives who are anxious to snatch a couple of ex tra winks in the morning, were dis played here today before the Nation al Electric Light Association, which opened its annual convention this morning. Devices by which it is possible for the cook to hold hands with the cor ner cop, stir tne biscuit and shoo the flies off the cat's milk, all at the same time, were shown. Electrical devices, the convention delegates explained, make kitchen work an idle pleasure. THERE'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING WRONG IN THIS HOUSE; TENANT FAMILY ON FARM NEAR KINSTON KEPT ON JUMP BY TEN H. P. 'Loftin, a well-known planter is seeking a genius. Mr. Loftin wants some one to explain to him the occurrence of no less than ten tions, five miles south of here, occu pied by a tenant named Chase, white, and family. They happened on Sat urday. Mr. W. O. Wooten of this city visited the house with Mr. Lof tin Sunday. He told of the mystery today: "The first occurred about 10 a. m. The house is a five- or six-stoom af fair. A bed was discovered to be ablaze. The cause jaras not determin ed. It was extinguished. A short time later a pair of trousers hang ing behind a door in the same room were found to be smoking and sput tering. In rapid succession, but no two at the same time, in the same room Hhere followed fires 3, 4 and 5 a .calendar, a shirtwaist in a cjoset and a garment in a bureau drawer being articles burned. " The family was getting "enough of it' when there entered, running, a child with the intelligence that a bed in another room was blazing. Fire Superior Court Convened Today Judge Bond Pre sidingThree Homicide and One Burglary Case Appeals' rYohi Recorder Superior Court for a one-week criminal term was convened here this morning by Judge W. M. Bond of Edenton, who arrived at 10:0.i from Edenton, his home town. He was glad to be back in Kinsiton, he said "of course," he was. Ho did not feel very well when he reached the city, but there was nothing at all serious in his indisposition. There were 58 cases docketed when court was opened. Eighteen of these were, appeals from the Kinston Re corder's Court, since the last term of Superior Court and before then. Three homicide cases are docketed There is also one burglary case. TRIAL OF DR. ARTHUR WARREN WAITE BEGINS (By the United Press) New York. May 22. With the opening of the trial of young Dr. Ar thur Warren Wake here today on the charge of poisoning his million aire parents-in-law, Mr. amd Mrs. John E. Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich., there begins to pour into the dry rec ords of the New York Supreme Court one of the most sensational and as tounding stories of fortune-hunting illicit love, murder, intrigue and de ception that has ever been disclosed, as the alleged record of one man. Wuite's formal plea was "not guil ty." but he may change it today. The State will attempt to pre ;hat the slender, nattily attired, smil ing youth who sits quietly before a ong table in this drab and silent courtroom, deliberately wooed Iwid married Clara Peck with the precon ceived intention of murdering her, her father and mother and any other persons it might be necessary to murder in order that he might get possession of the Peck millions. HE MAY DISAPPOINT THEM BY SHAVING NOW St. ClairsvUle, O., May 22. Bar bers here are happy because Robert Mewlin had his whiskers shaved off. They had not been cut in 33 years. Friends figure that, including inter est, he is more than $1,000 better off than if he'd been shaved twice each week. BLAZES IN A FEW HOURS No. 7 occurred in a ithird room, a cot being the object burned. Soon af terwards, in the kitchen, a 'duster' made of peacock feathers, laying or, the tin top of a safe, was charred Then the series was broken. About sundown quilts that haa been hung out of the house, together with about everything else that could be moved, were brought in. Two of them started a pyrotechnic display seemingly of their own accord. A boy about 18 yeav of age, at his wits' end, looked about him in the room where the quilts were, and as he rested his gaze on a bed a portion of the ticking emulated a small-sized earthquake . and burst Into flames. That was the last of the fires, but Chase was -almost a. nervous wreck. He wants someone to tell him, it they can, the cause and the preven tion, so that he sleeps at night." tetkglaumhceeteid- shrdlu atatshrdlu - The damage was nominaL The family, constantly on the alert after the first outbreak, watched with u picion every nook in tne place and nipped most of the blazes in their inclpiencq. Letter of Messrs. Dow and Smith to Mr. E. V. Webb Should Allay Apprehen sion of Citizens About Asphalt streets The imprints of the horses hoofs and wheel tiros on the new asphalt streets have very naturally caused some apprehension on the part of citizens who were not informed as to the characteristics of the paving. Street Commissioner Webb has had more or less inquiry from citizens, and to allay such feeling he has re quested (Engineer White to secure the opinion of others who have had experience. The following leoier from Dow & Smith, tho well known New York paving experts, will bo of interest: "New York, May 18,-1916. "Mr. Webb, Chairman, Street Co-n- tnittee, Kinston, N. C. "Dear Sir: "Mr. White has requested us to write ou c shrdlu atcamfwyp pa'tar write you concerning the marking of asphalt pavements in very hot wea ther. "As you are aware, asphalt is a material which softens , up in hot weather, and becomes bard and somewhat brill tie in cold. It is, therefore, necessary in laying an as phalt pavement to choose an asphalt cement of such a consistency that it will neither be too soft in summer nor too hard in winter. "Tho suability of the asphalt paye- mont i. e., its resistance to dis placement and marking, depends not only upon the consistency of the as phalt cement but also the grading of the mineral aggregate. When lay Ing the asphalt pavement it is com pressed as thoroughly as possible by means of a steam roller. Even though the weight of this roller for an inch width tread, is as great as that ex erted by traffic, it is, nevertheless, impossible to secure as dense a pave men't by rolling as will be obtained by the passage of traffic over it. The comparatively narrow width of the wagon tire exerts a kneading action in addition to a direct compressive action, which is not exercised by the wide tire of the steam roller no mat ter what its weight. "All ' asphalt cements, upon expo sure to the weather, gradually har den to a certain extent. It is there fore advisable 'to lay the pavement with as soft an asphalt as possible in order to offset this gradual hard- ening during the active life of th pavement. The softer the cement used, provided it docs not make too mushy a pavement, the longer will be the life of the pavement and the less danger there will be of its dry ing out and cracking. "Owing to the facts mentioned above a sheet asphalt pavement al ways marks more during the first year of its life than it does in subsc quent years. This is duo partly to the fact that the pavement never at tains final compaction until after it has been subject to traffic, and partly to the fact that in the process of time the asphalt cement gradually hardens. "In many cities, where rsphalt pavements are a comparatively new thing, the normal marking up of a pavement during the first summer that it has been laid produces consid erable apprehension in the minds of the property holders, whereas, if they were thoroughly conversant with the facts they would realize that a sheet asphalt pavement which did not mark up to a very considerable extent, es pecially where vehicles stand upon it for a considerable length of time, is open to more or less suspicion as to Its lasting qualities. Where horses or vehicles are permitted to stand in one place for any considerable length of time it is quite normal to expect the pavement to show distinct mark ings. In some esses these markings may be from one-half to one inch in depth. Subsequent traffic passing .CCont2&u4 fag j) Annual Meeting Central Organization of Diocese East Carolina Here " MANY DELEGATES HERE From Many Parishes Dis tinguished Speakers Numerous Services ? A Business Session Tonight. Missions ' : Two hundred and twelve clergymen and delegates were in attend ance upon the sessions of the East Carolina Episcopal Diocesan council in St. Mary's church, King and Indt pedence streets, Sunday. Many of them motored in from the direction ' of Greenville and Farmville; some came in autos from as far as Aurora. The council organized Saturday night after 9 o'clock. The Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Darst, Bishop of the Diocese, from' Wilmington, presided. Rev. Win. E Cox of Wilmington is secretary of the council. Bishop Darst opened the session with tine creed and prayers Parishes in the , DR. It. L. BURLESON Editorial Secretary of the Board of Missions, to be a speaker before the East Carolina Episcopal!- ians In Session Here. following places were represented: Clinton, Edenton, Eayettev.;ie, Golds boro, Greenville, Grifton, Kinston, New Bern. Seven Spring3, South port, Washington, Wilmington, Wi'.l iamston, and Winton. Missions at Ayden, Lumberton, and Washington had delegates present. Numerous other parishes were represented at Sunday's services. , ,. Telegram from Bishop of Ohio. Committees on elections, unfinished business, and canons were appointed and the hours of business sessions were fixed, to be from 9;30 to 1 and 3 to 6 or 6:30. A telegram from the Bishop of Ohio invited the churches of the Diocese to attend the conven tion of the B. S. A. at Cleveland in October, and contained felicitations. A thanks telegram was forwarded. (Sunday morning at 10 morning prayer was held. Kev. J. K. Mat thews, Mr. A. R. Parsley and Dr. S. Harrington Lfttoll participated in the service. The latter made an ad dress. Concilar Sermon. Holy communion was celebrated at 11 by the Bishop, assisted , by Rev. R. B. Drane and Rev. John IL Grif fith, rector of the host church. The conciliar sermon, a masterly delivery, was preached by the Rev. Archer Boogher of Fayetteville, hav- ing for his text Isaiah 41:67. Address on Social Service. ,: At 4:30 in the afternoon, in the Grand theatre, after a short devo tional service conducted by Rev. John H. Griffith, chairman of the Diocesan Sociay Service Commission, , with a scripture lesson read by Rev. T. N. Lawrence, Dr. James Hard Dfciard of Charlottesville, Va-5Ctvre on ' "The Spirit of Social' $ip?fce.' A large eongregatiOTof-'ffJl-denominations heard k-hch was a" feature of . I C. B. Mci Speaker Fro.( .y -program, I Dr. aiadjv ihort, talk. ina.1 t -v ifWegFtj, wmgregation! that filfrl ihLZJk cf-t. MaryV.ioard an address by Dr. S. II. Litt.il of (Continued, on Faga Three 13 i . in r i .in HT- t--
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