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VOL. XVII. Noi 307
SECOND EDITION
KINSTON, N. C MONDAY, MAY 22, 1916
FOUR PAGES TODAY cSrains
Ias militiameni failure to elect
EVANGELIST NOW IN
AUSTRIANS MAKING MORE THAN HALF A
MARKING OF PAVING; ESPISCOPAL COUNCIL
REFUSED BE SWORN BRANDEIS WOULD BE
'FOR MEXICAN DUTY CALAMITY, HE SAYS
SECOND WEEK M. E.
HEADWAY IN DRIVE HUNDRED CASES ON
AGAINST ITALIANS DOCKET FOR A WEEK
IS NATURAL AND IN
PUTTING THRO' DIG
REVIVAL CAMPAIGA
NO WAY DAMAGES IT
DA
PRESS
116 Guardsmen Liable to
Courtmartial Under the
Dick Law
WOULDN'T 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 116 Tex
as militiamen had refused to be
sworn for border duty. Under the
Dick law all can be courtmartialle
and fined, but cannot be forced into
.service thereby.
Officials today scoffed at reports
of coming friction with Obregon be
cause of the American expedition in
to Ithe Big Bend section. , Secretary
Baker said he knew nothing of it
He said he believed the situation
there has been greatly relieved since
Col. Sibley has dispersed the border
raiders, and is returning to Ameri
can soil.
Artillery In Mexican Army
Moving North.
"I don't believe Obregon will make
any trouble," said a high army offi
cial. "If he said what he is report
ed to have said, 1 believe ihe was
merely talking fpr home consump
tion." ,
k Reports that Gen. Trevino is bring
ing artillery 'to move northward
brought out an intimation that the
guns won't come farther than Chi
huahua, and a frank official statement
of hope that he will sitay that far
south. The presence of artillery in
his command was not explained.
ALLIES WONT QUIT
UNTIL BIG VICTORY
HAD, SAYS BRiAND
(By the United Press)
Paris, May 22. Premier Bri
and today told a delegation from
the Russian Duma that the "Al
lies can regard the future with
confidence. Peace must result
not from diplomatic intrigue but
only through a decisive Allied
victory that will restore recogni
tion of international (aw."
BULLETINS
(By the United Press)
ROOSEVELT GLOVER
WITNESS.
Washington, May 22. Colonel
Roosevelt is to emulate Taft and
appear as a character witness
for Charles C Glover, president
of the Riggs National Bank,
charged with perjury with two
other officials, Roosevelt takes
the ataad tomorrow.
NAVAL BATTLE REPORTED.
Copenhagen, Slay 22. A viol
ent bombardment is being beard
in the Baltie off the Swedish
coast of Kalamar, according to
Stockholm dispatches. Newspa
permen are expressing the belief
that the German ' and Rassian
fleets are engaged. .
HE MAY DISAPPOINT .
THEM BY SHAVING NOW
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St Clairsvaie, O, May 22-Bar-bers
her are happy because Robert
Mewlin bad his whiskers shaved off.
They bad not been cut in 33 years.
Fi lends figure that, including inter
est, be ia more than $1,000 better off
than if he'd been shared twice each
week. '
Chas. W. Eliot Declares Re-
jcction Would Be "Mis
fortune for Profession,
Court, Business and the
Country"
(By the United Press)
Washington, May 22 Rejection of
Brandeis for the Supreme Court
would be a "grave misfortune for the
whole legal profession, tfie court, all
American business and the country.
Charles W. Eliot, president emeritu
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
Souithern 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
1,930.
Religious services occupied the
time of the convention today and to
night.
Members or 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.
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
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.
TRIAL OE DR. ARTHUR
WARREN WATTE BEGINS
(By the United Press)
New York. May 22. With the
opening of the trial of young Dr. Ar
thur Warren Waite here today on
the charge of poisoning his million
tyre 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.
Waite's formal plea was "not guil
ty," but he may change it today.
The State wiH atteirfpt to pro
that the slender, nattily attired, smil
ing youth who sits quietly before a
long table in this drab and silent
courtroom, deliberately wooed nnd
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.
NOTHING DOING ON
COTTON EXCHANGE
No cotton was told here today.
New York futures quotations were:
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March . .
May ..
July . . .
October .
December
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Rev. Mr. Bridgers Talks to
Big Congregations in the
Queen Street Church
General Subject, "Bap
tism Holy Spirit"
Addressing large congregations
both morning and evening, Rev. Lu
ther B. Bridgers on Sunday began
the second week of the revival ser
vices now in progress at the Queen
Street Methodist church, Alt both
services Mr. Bridgers delivered an
eloquent and powerful sermon
to
congregations that packed the audi
torium and overflowed into the gal
leries and Sunday-school room
ine music consists of inspiring
gospel songs, and is led by Mr. D.
Ward Milam of Atlanta. Ga., while
a striking feature of the services h
the soul-stirring solo with which Mr.
Bridgers usually prefaces his dis
courses.
Unusual Series.
The meeting has thus far been of
a ra'lher 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 bpst way for seekers at
a church service to enter the king
dom in a revival meeting, he has nol
yet, during the present meeting, ex
tended a formal altar call.
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SPANISH KING MAY
START PEACE MOVE
WITH ENC'URAGEM'T
Clans to Test Sentiment of
Belligerents i iWould
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
cording to a Madrid exchange tele
graph dispatch quotirfg newspaper
rticles.
The Snanish ruler plans first to
sound out the sentiment in the bel-
gerent countries, and if results are
satisfactory to send two Spanish
tatesmen to all the capitals Ho dis
cuss negotiations.
NEW BERN MAY GET
ANOTHER LINE OF
BOATS FROM NORTH
New Bern, May 21. In addition
to the line of boats which the M. II.
Tracv 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.
is also
LAWYER KILLS THE ;
SHERIFF GA. COUNTY
Elberton, GaVMay 21. Sheriff S.
N. Hailey of Elbert county, was shot
and killed in the courthouse her to
day by Arnold Worley, a well-known
attorney of this city. Citizens were
greaUy excited and Worley waa 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 was
the result.
Claimed by Vienna 16,000
Captured By Offensive
Army
BOTH LOSING HEAYILY
French In West Hold Own
Resumption of Hard
Fighting at Verdun The
Teutons Driven From Po
sitions by Countering
Vienna, May 22. Massing in hea
vy force on the southern Tyrol front,
the Italians are desperately but un
succssfully attempting to stop the
Austrian invasion. Vicious counter
attacks are boing repulsed. An offi
cial statement was issued today say
ing 1(5,000 Italians, including many
officers, have been captured since the
Austrian began the offensive.
Lose Many Thousand Men.
Rome, May 22. The Austrians
have lost 21,000 in killed, wounded
and missing, in their three-day offen
sive. It is believed the Italian lea
ses have been equally as large dur
ing the past four days.
French Give Germans Better
Than They Take.
Paris, May 22. French counter at
tacks have driven the Germans from
positions on both Meuse banks in a
renewal of 'the heavy fighting around
Verdun. Several German attacks
have been repulsed.
T li
HUGHES SAfS NEWS
STORY ABOUT COL'L
DIDN'T QUOTE HIM
Irresponsible Rumor," De
clares Justice of Article
Which Had Him Stating
That Roosevelt Was One
Man for Republicans
Washington, May 22. "Justice
Hughes does not recognize irrespon
sible rumors," .the Supreme Court
Justice 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."
THERE'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING WRONG IN THIS
HOUSE; TENANT FAMILY ON FARM NEAR KINSTON
KEPT ON JUMP BY TEN
H. P. Ixiftin, a well-known planter
is seeking a genius. Mr. Loftin
wants some one to explain to him
the occurrence of no less than ten
fires in a house on one of his planta
tions, five miles south of here, occu
pied by a (tenant named Chase, white,
and family. They happened on Sat
urday. Mr. W. 0. 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 aix-room af
fair. A bed was discovered to be
ablaze. The cause was 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 ithere followed fires. 3, 4 and 5
a calendar; a shirtwaist in closet
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 blazinj. Fire
Superior Court Convened
Today Judge Bond Pre
siding Three Homicide
and One Burglary Case
Appeals from. Recorder
Superior Court for a one-week
criminal term was convened here
this morning by Judge W. M. Bond
of Edonton, who arrived at 10:03
from Edenton, his home town. He
was glad to be back in Kinslton, he
said "of course." he was. He di
not feel very well when he reuche
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
corders Court, since ithe last term
of Superior Court and before then.
Three homicide cases are docketed
Charge to Grand Jury.
Judge Bond charged the grand
jury this morning in a happy and
felicitious vein. He expressed grati
fication at the pleasure he found in
holding court here and regret that
this was his last term. He spoke
quite interestingly of the founding
of the American Government and the
wisdom of the founders and depre
cated the tendency of modern times
to stray from the earlier principles
He declared the idea of judicial re
calls and recall of judicial decision!!
as dangerous. The grand jury wa
charged to look carefully into the
law violations of all degrees of of
fense.
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 the war -began English
and Russian troops are fighting side
by side. They are in the Garden of
Eden region of Mesopotamia.
News of a bold Russian cavalry
charge into the British camp east of
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BLAZES IN A FEW HOURS
No. 7 occurred in a Hhird Toom, a cot
being the object burned. Soon af
terwards, in the kitchen, a 'duster'
made of peacock feathers, laying on
the tin top of a safe, was charred.
Then the series was broken.
"About sundown quilts that hao
been hung out of the house, together
with about everything else that could
be moveJ, were brought in. Two of
them started a pyrotechnic display
seemingly of their own accord. A
boy about 18 years of age, at his
wits' end, looked about htm in She
room where the quilts were, and as
he Tested his gaze on a bed a portion
of the ticking emulated a, small-sized
earthquake . iand 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 can sleep at night,"
tetkglaumhceeteld- shrdlu atatshrdlu
The damage was nominal. The
family, constantly on the alert after
the first otftbreak, watched with sus
picion every nook in the plaee and
nipred rr'-.-t of the blazes , in their
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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
ritir.cns 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 letter
from Dow & Smith, the well known
New York paving experts, will be of
interest:
"New York, May 18, 191G.
"Mr. Webb, Chairman. Street Com
mittee, Kinston, N. C.
"Dear Sir:
"Mr. White has requested us to
write you concerning the marking of
asphalt pavements in very hot wea
ther. "As you arc awaro, asphalt is a
material which softens up in hot
weather, and becomes hard and
somewhat brittle dn cold. ltt 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
noT too hard in winter.
"The stability of the asphalt pave
ment i. e., its resistance to liS'
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
moot 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 passible
in order to offset this gradual hard
ening during the active life of th
pavement. The softer the eemen'
used, provided it does not make too
mushy a pavement, the longer will
be the life of the pavement and the
ess 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 i:s life than it does in subse
quent years. This is due 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 cases these markings
may be from one-half to one inch in
depth. Subsequent traffic passing
(Continued cu fae 3)
PROGRAM THIS CITY
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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 Inde
pedence streets, Sunday. Many of
them motored in rom the direction
of Greenville and Farmville; eome
came in autos from as far as Aurora.
.The council organised Saturday
night after 9 o'clock. The BU Rev.
Thomas C. Darst, Bishop of the
Diocese, from Wilmington, presided.
Rev. Wm. E. Cox of, Wilmington is
secretary of the council. Bishop
Darst opened the session with the
creed and prayers. Parishes in the
DR. R. L. BURLESON
Editorial Secretary of the Board of
Missions, to be a speaker before
the East Carolina Episeopall
ians In Session Here.
following places were represented:
Clinton, Edenton, Fayettev.il e, Golds
boro, Greenville, Grifton, Kinston,
New Bern. Seven Springs, South
port, Washington, Wilmington, WiU
iamston, and Winton. Missions at
Ayden, Lumberton, and Washington
had delegates present. Numerous
other parishes wore 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.
iSunday morning at 10 morning
prayer was held. Rev. J. R. Mat
thews, Mr. A. R. Parsley and Dr.
S. Harrington Lfttell 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 H. 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 ttejet 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 Hardy Dillard
of Charlottesville, Va-, lectured onj
"The Spirit of Social Service." A
large congregation of all denomina
tions heard the address, which was
feature of the day's program. Dr.
C. B. McNairy made a short talk.
Speaker From China. ' '
In the evening a congregation that
filled the edifice of St. ilary's heard
an address by Dr. S. II. Littell of
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