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VOL. XVIII. No. 1
FIRST EDITION
KINSTON, N. G, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1916
FOUR PAGES TODAY
PKICB TWO CENTS m'
FIVB CENTS ON. TRAINS
GERMANS GAIN SOME
IN NEW DRIVE UPON
FRENCH AT
Paris Admits Loss of 120
Yards of Front At One
" Locality
HOPE TO FORCE END NOW
Attackers Desire to Get De
fenders In Place Where
Decisive Action Can Be
Fought, Believed Terrl
fic Battling On
(By United Press)
London, May 30. The Crown
Prince hasresumed his drive against
the Northwestern defenses of Ver
dun, simultaneously attacking the
French center end right wing. The
heaviest blows are being struck
against Hill 304 and Cumierea.
The Germans are violently bom
' barding Ithe French crescent-shape
positions, attempting to force them
back on Charney Ridge, where the
French" would be forced to give battle
in a great struggle that would decide
Verdun's fate.
Paris Admits Loss of Ground.
Paris, May 30. The French have
been driven back Soilth of the Beth
incourfrCuihieres highway by a pow
erful -German attack between Dead
Man's Hill and Cumieres, the war
office ttoday reported. The German
gain was 120 yards.
Fresh; Troops for Crown Prince.
Paris," May 'SO-Pollowihg' an en
tire day df'heavy artillery "prepara
tion," the Crown Prince hurled two
divisions Just brought to Verdun to
the front into the action. All the
German assaults on the eastern
- slopes tf ;Dead Man's hill broke un
der a, .terrific French Are.
Italians to Evacuate Town.
Vienna, May 30. The Italian forces
are preparing r to evacuate the. larg
est Italian town threatened by the
Austrians since ' the great offensive
in the Southern Tyrol began. A war
office; statement says theItalians at
the point are in danger of being sur
rounded. PRESIDENT SPEAKER
" AT JkLINCTON TODAY
(By tie United Press)
Arlington, V., May 30. The Presi
dent spoke at the annual ceremonies
in the National Cemetery here today,
s tA great crowd 'attended, filling the
v. f 'grounds i'.-v . .-'
' i ( Pensacola, Fla, I May 30.-Uriable
v longer to withstand a. torturing con
. science a , man giving his name ?; as
; Edward : Lorienze ' today gave up to
' the police, declaring, 'he murdered a
' .MA.. AN J ' A ' i !.. a. a HI 1.
. nuu wDraxnjo, m biiiuii town.
1 ;ul not Iiv longer with the, mem
loryrthe 1k5lUng;i;HeiU ask a
"; court to pronounce the deatli sen-
!ltence.on'hjnKvi')';"?, : " '
EAGLES TO J5E SHOWNi -A
JSOVER BHSOUTHERN :
iPLAinMONlNGl
'"v"f imperial to TkeFree" Press)
Savannah, ;"rGa., May" 31. Thous
. anda of Visitors from all parts of the
United States,' Canada and even battle-rent
Mexico,; in Savannah for the
national convention of the Fraternal
Order of - Eagles, August 14-19, will
be given n insight into the agricul-I
tural importance of the South.
On the day before the convention
closes they will' be given a boat ride
on the Savannah river , to the Herm
itage, one of the most famous plan
tations in the South. There they will
ee negroes working in the cotton
fields and a ugar-cane milL The
- cotton Jus been planted especially
for the occasion, and the sugar cane
also wni be grown on the planta
tion. The climax will be reached
hen thousands of juicy Georgia
ater melons are cut and served.
CARRANZA .W ILL SA
AMERICANS CAUSED
Alleged That Message to
Washington Will Assert
That Politicians Hoped to
Make Capital for Coming
Campaign
(By the United Press)
Mexico City, May 30. Carranza's
message to Washington contains
point-blank charge that Hhe recent
border troubles were inspired by
American politicians for use in the
presidential campaign, it is reliably
reported.
When the message will be present
ed is unknown, one rumor said today
SURRY, WEST CAROLINA
COUNTY, TO HAVE FAIR
Mount Airy,' May 29. That Surry
county is to have a fair this fall is
now an assured fact A charter for
he Surry County Fair Association
has been applied for, with an author
ized capital of $50,000 and $10,000
paid in.
LAST OF FAMOUS TEAM
t)F PILOTS PLANS TO
RECOVER CLASS TODAY
(By the United Press.)
Indianapolis Speedway, May 30.
The interest; of the big crowd filling
grandstand, bleachers and infield at
the speedway here today centered in
the attempted comeback of Louis
Chevrolet, the lone surviving member
of the famous team that made auto
mobile racing history in 1908-09-10.
Chevrolet with 28 d;her world fa-
mqus speed devils, faced the started
the sixth annual international
sweepstakes 300 mile dash over the
speedway of vitrified brick.
BUFFALO AND ELK FOR
PISGAH RESERVATION
Asheville, May 29. Governor
Locke Craig and George S. Powell,
president and secretary, respectively,
of the Appalachian Park Association,
have received assurances 'that they
will receive a herd of twenty-five elk
and a herd of at least a dozen buf
falo for the Pisgah Forest Reserva
tion near here. The elk will be de
livered to St, Louis by the govern
ment, and the Southern .Railway has
arranged to transport them free of
charge to Asheville.
L0VE0RN NEGRO WAS
BENT ON TAKING LIFE
Asheville, May 29. N. H. Ellison,
a dusky swain about 22 years of age,
made two ineffectual attempts at
suicide by drowning, giving as his
reason in a note left to Ellen Garret,
his sweetheart, that he could not bear
to live without 'her love.
PHILLIES BREAK-LONG
'WINNING STREAK OF
N. Y. GIANTS TODAY
j V
(By the United Press)
Philadelphia. May 30. The. re
markable winning streak of the New
York Giants was (broken -when the
Phillies won, 5 to'l, in a game this
morning. ': The Giants had won sev
enteen straight games. iDemaree,
the ex-Giant, pitched for the Phillies.
SENATE PASSES R. AND
1 E APPROPRIATION BILL
'! M-'t U -v
Washington, May 29. The Senate
today passed the rivers and harbors
appropriation billVcarrying approx
imately $43,000,000, by a vote of 35
to 32 after "adding many amend'
ments. The bill now goes to a con
ference of''ihe two houses.
TROUBLE ON BORDER
PRESIDENT WISHES
FULLEST OBSERV'CE
NATIONAL FLAG DAY
Requests Special Signifi
cance to Be Given Cel
ebration June 14
INFORMAL PROCLAMATTJ
'Forces Without Have
Seemed Likely to Draw
Us Away From Happy
Traditions' Only Su
preme Allegiance
(By the United Press)
Washington, May 30. Asking that
special significance be given the ob
servance of Flag Day on June 14th
the President, in an informal pro
clamation today declared:
"My fellow-countrymen, many cir
cumstances have recently conspired
to turn up influences which have
seemingly threatened to divide us in
our interest and sympathy for of
fices within by forces without that
seemed likely to draw us away from
our happy traditions and united pur
pose of action. Therefore, it has
seemed fitting to call your attention
to the anniversary of the ay on which
our flag was adopted.
"Therefore, I suggest and request
that every community give special
significance and expression to out)
thoughtful love of America, our com
prehension of the great mission of
liberty and justice to which we have
devoted ourselves, our determination
to demonstrate to all the world Am
erica's vital sentiment, "and our pur
pose of accepting as true compatri
ots only those who give supreme al
legiance."
KITCHIN SPEAKS FOR
MAJORITY NAVY BILL
(Special to The Free Press)
Washington, May 30. Congress
man Kitchin spoke for Uhe navy bill
yesterday in the House, declaring
belief that the bill is the logical one
and that the five-year program
should be defeated because "when
this war is over, the price of mate-
als for the building of ships will be
much lower than ait present," prob
ly. " .
OLISEUM ENAMELED
LILY WHITE FOR THE
DEMOCR ATS' MEETING
1 i
St. Louis, Mo., May 30. The Co-
seum today took on an appearance
of preparedness for the Democratic
convention here June 14th. The en
tire interior has been enameled white
and ' other special decorations have
been completed.
All now needed is the bunting,
which will not be' hung until just be
fore the temporary chairman drops
his gavel for the first business of the
conclave. .
For the purpose of ventilation and
mproved light a gTeat portion of the
roof has been removed and a series
of glass sashes installed. -
KEENE'S 'PUSS IN
' feOOTS ENTERED IN
DERBY RUN TODAY
Newmarket, Engi, May 30. For
getting for the moment the war that
has taken so many of their numbers,
England's sportsmen and Women
gathered here 'today for the running
of that premier racing event, : the
British Derby. . '
Following the running of the blue
ribbon today , will come the second
great heat of the eeason, the Oaks,
day after tomorrow. "..'. ... .
Great interest centers in the per
formance of FoxhaH P. Keene's Puss
In Boots, -th only" American nomin
ation in ejJier event, which is enter
ed for the Oaks.
Supt. Barron 'Caldwell pled gull
ty to affray and, was fined $10 and
costs' in the case leading out of
the Saturday afternoon altercation
between him and Mr. J. F. Par
rott. Mr. Parrot t contests the
indictment and after hearing evi
dence of a score or more wttnes
sea Judge Wooten reserved his de
cision to review the stenographic
report In the' case leading out of
thcrenewal of the difficulty in the
office of Dr. Albert D. Parrott,
where Mr. . Caldwell was b? Inif
treated and where Mr. Parrott
went for the same purpose, ac
cording to his statement. Judge
Wooten found Mr. Parrott guilty
of' simple affray and imposed a
fine of $10 and costs. The indict
ment In this second case was
against J. F. Parrott, W. E. Par
rott and L. L. Parrott and charg
ed them with "beating, striking
and assaulting one Barron Cald
well with a deadly weapon, to-wit:
a knife." The indictment against
Messrs. Ed. Parrot and Lewis Par
rott was quashed by the Court af
ter the testimony of Heveral wit
nesses had been heard.
ASSERTS ABSENTEE
LANDLORDISM TO BE
CURSE 0' THE SOUTH
Region Has Too Long La
bored Under That and
Evils of Too Extended
Tenant System, Harding
Tells Alabama Society
(By the United Press)
Tuscaloosa, Ala., May 30. Doclar
ing that the South has ToT" a great
many years labored under the curse
of absentee landlordism, and suffer
ed from the evils of a too extended
tenant farming system," W. P. G.
Harding of the Federal Reserve
Board, in an address to the Alumni
Society of the University of Alaba
ma today praised the pending admin
istration national rural credits leg
islation as a measure that would op
erate to the alleviation of these con
ditions. Touching upon "commercial pre
paredness" during the period of re
construction following the European
war, he expressed hope that "steps
will 'be taken to protect American
firms against foreign dumping, and
'to provide heavy penalties for foreign
concerns engaged in unfair competi
tion in the United States."
Harding predicted the creation of
national tariff commission "soon."
TO DEVELOP A HALF
CUMBERLAND C'NTY
B. N. Duke Tells of Forma
tion of Company Plans
for $250,000 Hotel Cali
fornia and New York Ca
pital Interested
(By the United Press)
Durham, N. C, May 30. New York
and Durham capitalists have invested
half million dollars towards devel
opment of a Cumberland county win
ter resort, according to statement
by B. N. Duke, the milliofaNp tobac
co magnate.
The plans have already been sub
mitted for a f250,000 fireproof hotel
on 3,500 acres. .
Walter Marshall of New York and
Congressman Kent of California are
identified with the proposition .
Small Fire. ' ' : ;
Th - Fire Department was called
to the home of W. E. Dinkina on
Heritage street by a small blaze this
afternoon about 2:50 o'clock.
Realty Transfer.
W. C. Thompson (to J
J. Pmiih,
- ?
tract of land in the ov
COL. JOHN S. MOSBY
WASHINGTON TODAY
Famous Cavalry Leader
Died While Union Vet
erans Were Parading
WORLD FAM'D CHARACTER
Grant Repealed Order That
Made Him an Outlaw Af
ter Close of War Between
the States Removed
From Govt. Position
(By the United Press)
Washington, May 30. While a
thousand heroes he fought marched
today honoring the Union, Col. John
S. Mosby, daring Confederate caval
ry raider, died in Garfield Hospital.
He was 83 years old.
Mosby's Career.
Colonel Mosby, one of 'Ihe last of
the dashing figures of the Civil War,
was admired both by the North and
South. .
He was the originator of the Mos
by method of warfare; to use only
picked men and to make each man
seem a hundred.
Cavalrymen searched for Mosby in
the Virginia mountains until General
Grartt appealed to ' by Mosby's Wife,
ordered the famous outlawry order
cancelled. . ' .
Colonel Mosby' started life peace
ably enough at the Mosby plantation
at (Edgemont, Powhatan county, Va..
where he wag born in 1833., He was
graduated , from the - university:: -of
Virginia a full-fledged lawer at 19
in 1852.
In 1905 he entered the Department
of Justice as special attorney. He
was removed as "smile" by Attorney
General Wickershnm in 1910.
Since his removal fiiom office, Col.
Mosby had made his homo with his
daughter, Mrs. Stuart Coleman, in
Washington.
FUNERAL OF JAMES J. h
HILL ON WEDNESDAY
St, Paul, Minn., May 29. The fun-
eral of James J. Hill, pjoneer rail
road builder and, financier, who died
this morning, will bo held at his
home at 2 p. m., Wednesday, mem
bers of his family announced tonight.
Interment will be in a private mau
soleum to be erected at North Oaks
farms, five miles . northeast of St.
Pau3, long ihe summer home of the
empire builder.
HUGHES WALL STREET
FAVORITE,
New York, May 30. Hughes,
by eight to five, is the favorite
of Wall Street in betting for the
Republican nomination for Pres
ident. THREE KILLED BY TORNADO.
Memphis, Tenn., 'May 30. Three
are reported killed and 53 injur
ed, and thousands of dollars'
worth of property to have been
destroyed, when a tornado swept
a territory for 100 miles around
Memphis today.
M'ADOO MAKES ADDRESS
I AT UNIVERSITY TODAY
(Special tto The Free Press)
Raleigh, May 30. Secretary ' of
the Treasury McAdoo Will make an
addresji'Jhero tonight- He was ' to
make the commencement address at
the IJniversity of North Carolina fin
als "tat Chapel Hill today. ;
LACK KILLED BY A
:--tMl-iDI GRONSBORO
Greensboro, May 29--A negro,
supposed to be Wade Douglas,' an es
caped convict, was killed by a street
car on Spring Garden street late last
night. Whether or not he intended
suicide is not certain, but the motor
man believes that he was lying on
lliO traik.
MR.
NOE MAKES GOOD
RESIGNATION THAT
WAS TENDERED HERE
Episcopal Archdeacon Gave
Up Office Following Res
olution by Ashby In Dio
cesan Council Here Last
Week Capable -
Announcement is mado from Wil
mington that Rev. Thos. P. Noo of
that city has resigned as archdeacon
of the Episcopal Diocese of East Ca
rolina. Tho Morning Star of Wil
mington auys of the occurrence: '
"In making the announcement,
Bishop Darst referred to the impor-
'.ance of the work dono by the arch
deacon and expressed his great ap
preciation for the manner in which
Archdeacon Noe performed the du
ties of bis office. At the same time
Hishop Darst started that he had
some special work in Wilmington and
vicinity which he hoped Mr. Noe
would take up. This work he ex
plained, was the ministering to a
Wilmington mission, which it is pro
posed to establish for this city and
vicinity. Jt is also proposed (to en
list the services of laymen in this
work.
"Although yesterday's announce
ment of the 'resignation by Bishop
Darst is the first public statement of
Jt, Archdeacon Noe submitted hia re
signation at the recent convention of
the Diocesan Council of East Caroli
na held at Kinston, following a mo
tion made by Rev. C. A. Ashby of
Elizabeth City, to abolish the office
of archdeacon on the ground thait the
diocese could not afford the expenso
of the work. Mr. Noe at once tend'
ered his resignation. The motion
for the abolishment of the office wan
then withdrawn, and the Council
passed a resolution asking the Bish
op to determine whether the office of
archdeacon should be continued, and
if he was of the opinion that it should
be continued to appoint an archdea
con, i. . s
"Rev. Mr. Noe, who was formerly
rector of tho Church of the Good
Shepherd in WilmingHon, was V ap-'
pointed September 1, 1914. 'As arch
deacon Mr. Noe had supervision of
all the vacant pulpits in the diocese.
Mr. Noo could wot be reached by tel
ephone last night, as he is out of the
city, but it is understood he is not
yet ready to announce his future
plans."
JUDGE BOND'S REMARKS
ANENT CONVICT SYSTEM
Statement Spread Upon Records In
Superior Court In Case ot E. W.
Mincher Sentenced to Jail for 12
Months Case Appealed
There was much interest in the re
marks of Judge Bond Saturday after
noon in Superior Court, when he sen
tenced E. W. Mincher, the convict
boss convicted of inhuman treatment
in adminiltering punishment to pris
oners, to 12 months in the county
jail. The decision was rendered too
late for more than the bare facts to
be related in Saturday's Free Press.
Today we give the words of Judge
Bond:
"This conduct, jwith the -record
standing as it does, portrays
a career of ' beating , that the '
Court has not yet seen equalled.
"Some years ago, during the Spanish-American
war, Senator Thurston
and his wife went to Havana. They
there saw drunken Spanish officers
laughing at and mocking Cuban, wo
men, walking by their windows beg
ging for bread, with starving chil
dren in their arms. : It ao overcame
Mrs. Thurston thaft it prostrated her,
and she exacted of her husband the
promise that he would make a speech
in the Senate of United States to try
to help 'the Cubans; and. he began
his great speech, his wife having died
before then, with the statement that
he spoke by command of silent lips.
Unsigned Appeals to Court. : , 1
"I feel that what , I , . am 6aying
bears to some extent, an analogy to
that thi3 ev'eninlc The men nho have
(Continued on Tae Three)
WHIPPING IN MILD
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FOR
COUNTY'S CONVICTS
Five Lashes for First Of
fense, Prescribed Follow
ing a' 'Mutiny'
MINCHER QUITS FORCE
1.-, :
Blacks Refused to Work
1 Under Convicted Boss
Two White 'Trusties' Got
Away- New Regulations
Read to the Force
As a result county commissioners
believe of an unsavory effect upon
the convicts by the airing of ' .the
Shipping scandal" and 'the conviction
of Walking Boss E. W. -Mincher, lor
using the strap, in Superior KJourt
last week, the following things hap
pened Monday:
A scone or more of black convicts
"struck,? apparently as , a protest
against having to work under Min
cher, "... . ,
.Mincher resigned.
Mincher's resignation was accept
ed. " . ",
Two white convicts seized the op
portunity In the near-excitement to
escape.
'The 'Board of Commissioners met
during the afternoon and passed -a
set of rules and regulations "to en
force proper control in the. conduct
of convkta.? j ,
Mincher Out for Present .:
No .attempt will be made to rein
state Mincher- at least', not until af
ter the Supreme Court hears the ftp
peal from the judgment of Judge W.
Mi iBond by which the big supervisor
was sentenced to 12 months in jail.
The commissioners, Chairman R. F.
Churchill states, hope to get a ner
trial. The "Judge's attitude' will
probably be one ground. The com
missioners may be wrong in the mat
ter, Mr. Churchill states unhesitat
wgly. but are acting with all sin
cerity. They believe thein, rules un
der which, chastisement of convicts
was allowed were .necessary. , The
"personnel' of fthe convict, gang ne
cessitates corporeal punishment at
times., say commissioners., t , Many
persons differ with them, i " ,
There was little fuss when the ne
groes went on "strike. All were or
dered back into confinement Aften
tho new regulations had been passed
Chairman Churchill "visited the camp
and read them. By the nodding of
nearly all the heads the men acouiesc-
arl anI BnwtMi'n ..Ia.j,J. 1.
work. When-Supt Bryant Taylor de
clared to them earlier in the day that
he would put them on bread and wa
ten.one voice from a cage, spoke
that its owner would lie jthere and rot
before he would work on bread and
water. That seemed to express f.he
determination of all at that moment,
judging from their actions, but with
the appearance of the chairman of
commissioners the so-called "muti
neers" seemed to undergo a "change
of heart"
Two Men Escape.
The whites who . got away ; were
Alex. Curtis, a youth oing two
years for complicity uv a murder in
Craven ;' county,' and -.Loniiie ' Harris
of Xeneir county, serving six months
for some offense. Curtis jhad only
four months to serve and Harris but
two.4 ; They "wore "trusties.! i
The New Rules.
.The new regulations, of the board
provide that a convict claiming to be
ill shall not bevworked unt3 after a
physician has examined" hjm: "that
the county doctor's 'decision! shall be
final; .that, convicts hall ' observe
faithfully the sanitary regulations of
the camp; that no liquor shall bo had
except by the county physician's pre
scription; that ""should any other
matter .arise not mentioned in these
regulations or provided for by law,
it shall not be dealt with by the road
superintendent until he has reported
the situation to this board"; that up
on violation of any re --.illation -of tha
set just passed the ut-- -nfen.I.mt
snau give ine o"?niir one -m
, - (Coh'.LtjoJ ct T z I '
FORM ORDERED