7 ' TtiTT TT-n TTv A W Tf TT STC TV THv TUB WEATHT3 f mimn nr-r" " Lrnen VOL. XVIII. No. 26 SECOND EDITION " PRICE TWO CENTS ' FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS tONSTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1916 FOUR PAGES TODAY . - ' j President t Reply to m ffnson Get Garranza's Demand ers uerore .'.V 't- for iiease Tomorrow If SON DETERMINED TO WAIT THAN MIDNIGHT; IF CAVALRYMEN ARE NOT DELIVER'D UP THEN 1 HE TROUBLE STARTS i Mexican Peons Enlist In Carranza's Army on Promise of Loot and Food "When They Take El Paso" Won't Be Up to Them to Capture the City, American Army Offi cers Explain Ambassador at Washington Brings Charges of Mistreatment of Civilians Against Persh ing's Troops Alleges Three Hundred Citizens Were Severely Handled; Indian Scouts Supposed to Be "Cut ting Up" Villa Isn't In Mexican Army and Can't Get Anywhere But In Jail, Says Obrcgon (By the United Press) Washington, June 25. From high administration offi cials it became known today that they expect Carranza to reply this afternoon. The belief is based on a message from Rodgers at Mexico City, timed at midnight. Parker's Murder Avenged. Columbus, N. M., June 28. Six Mexicans believed to have been in the band that murdered William Parker and his bride are reported to have been exterminated this side of the border during the night. Mexico Makes Demands; Apache Scouts Brought Into Mixup. Washington, June 28. Mexican Ambassador Arred- ondo today sent a note to the State Department protest ing against alledged acts of American forces in Mexico and requesting that soldiers who committed the alleged acts be punished. He based the protests on a dispatch from Mexico City saying 300 residents of LaCruz had been arrested by the American punitive expedition and subjected to maltreatment before being released. He said a column of 3,000 American soldiers from San Ger onimo to El Valle were committing many outrages, which Arredondo attributed to the presence of Apache scouts with the force. Mexicans Going to Wipe Up El Paso. El Paso, June 28. Hope of looting Ela Paso is said to be bringing half -starved, poorly-clothed peons into Carranza's Northern army. Reports from the interior say Carranza officers "have told the soldiers "they will have food and plenty when they reach El Paso." Reports show heavy troop movements northward, about 55,000 being concentrated at Chihuahua City. But plans are being made on this side to frustrate any looting parties, army officials having prepared to assume the offensive in stead of awaiting an attack. Villa Won't Be a Soldier In This Row. Mexico City, June 28. War Minister Obregon today branded as a "fake" a report that Villa has been given a commission in the Carranza army. "All such reports are fabrications, and furthermore, Villa is outlawed. Ho wont' be given amnesty," said Obregon. Prisoners Must Be Released By Midnight or They'll Be Taken. By, ROBT. J. BENDER, United Press Staff Correspondent) ' KWashington, June 28 Carranza must releast the Chi huahua prisoners by midnight or Wilson will ask Con gress to send troops after them. There will be no delay in the light of Arredondo's demands for the release of Ms'cans imprisoned in California and for lifting the food embargo. That is another nuestion. iiie jrx esxuent is soieiy interested now in releasing me lerican soldiers in Chihuahua. If Carranza does re- Uae it would not mean a declaration of war. But it "Would mean that an armed force would go after the pris oners and that the United States would accept any sinis-' ter results that might follow. . Wore Troops Expected to Cross Line. By WEBB C MILLER, United Press Staff Correspondent) Columbus, N. M.,' June 28. Orders to cross the border on a hot trail are believed to have been given cavalry patrols and automobile posses trailing bandits who mur dered William Parker and his young bride in the latest border raid. The bodies were -taken to Halchita about midnight. Several columns are still searching the Chi huahua desert for Carrizal survivors. til;?. CRAIG DIDN'T VANT ID TET LAWLESS ELEMENT IN GREENE To Lynch Will Black Good People In County Gover nor Believes Small Body of Men Could Have Pro tected Negro -$n Governor Craig, speaking of the trial at Snow Hill Tuesday of Will Black, colored, who in March crimi nally assaulted a six-year-old white girl, beat up a white woman and shot i possemian, said he thought that a 'small number of determined men" could have protected the prisoner on trial, but that he was willing to take no chances. Governor Craig's opinion is enter tained by very few men in this sec tion. Lenoir county officials today declared that there are no more de termincd men in the world than the stocky Greene county planters, men of few words, but of deliberate action and grim nerve. Only the death sen tence that wa3 imposed could satisfy the people of the county. They were willing to go to any extent to secure for him the punishment they unani mously demanded. The Raleigh News and Observer to day quoted the Governor as saying: "I feel greatly relieved that the trial has been accomplished in a peaceful and orderly way. The situ ation was such as to give me the greatest concern. A negro had been lynched near Goldsboro, not far from Snow Hill; another had been lynched near Kinston, or between Kinston and Snow Hill. The latter negro, the fa. ther of the prisoner, was certainly not guilty of a capital offense, nor of any thing more than a misdemeanor. "I received information that seem ed to me reliable that a mob intend ed to lynch this negro, Will Black, and he was accordingly brought at once to the State's prison at Raleigh. "Judge Whedbee expected to try this prisoner, Will Black, at a spec ial term of court in Greene county. He went there to investigate the sit uation and reported to me that it Was serious, that the military would be required to protect him. It was then decided to have no special term, (Continued on Page Three) BULGARIA MASSING! SKINNER WOULD SEE TROOPS ON FRONT'R OF IHIAMA, SAID Another Nation About to Join the Allies, Reports Today Stated LONDON MUCH INTEREST!) Heavily Censored Dispatch es Declare Border Has Been Closed Between Two Balkan Nations and That Break's Near (Special to The Free Press) London, June 28. Interest expect ed in the grand offensive of the AY lies today shifted to the Balkan situ ation with the revival of reports that Roumunia is preparing to enter the war with the Allies. Heavily censor ed Bucharest dispatches via Athens today said Bulgaria has closed the frontiers and n concentrating troops along the Roumanian frontier. The Bulgarians, according to Vi enna dispatches aro uneasy over Roumania and because Greece grant ed the Allies' demands. WARNING FROM THE FOLKS AT HOME TO Invasion of Mexico Would Not Be Popular, Demo crats at Washington Hear Hard to Beat Wilson, However v (By the United Press) Washington, June 28.-nSeveral De mocratic Congressmen are admitted ly nervous over the prospects of a Mexican war because of the possible effect on the party fortunes, although some politicians believe a "war Pres ident would be "unbeatable." News is coming from "back home" contain ing tnutterings against open conflict with Mexico. A candidate for Gov ernor in one of the Southern States says a canvass of persons shows an invasion of Mexico would be decided ly unpopular.- -. BIG PURSES FOR THE WESTERN ASSOCIATE (By the United Press) Springfield, 111., June 28. Purses aggregating $230,000 will be hung up by the Great Western Trotting Asso ciation during the coming racing sea son. ! The 1010 I circuit of racing meets is the best ever booked, the officials say. It includes state and county fairs in nine Middle West States. UASH THE CASEMENT CASE WAS OVERRULED DYCO'RT (By the United Press) London, June 28. A motion to quash the Casement indictment on the ground that it was faulty, was overruled today after a len gthy hearing. Casement today took the stand in his own behalf. "Charges that the Irish rebellion was inspired in Ger many are untrue. I received no mon ey from Germany. Neither was the revolution directed nor made by Ger mans. They didn't ask Irish prison ers to join," said Casement. GOVERNM'NT TRYING HARD GET AM'RIC'NS OUT OF MEXICO NOW ALL THE RECORDER'S ABOLISHED COURTS President of State Bar As sociation Recommends More Superior Court Districts and More Fre quent Terms In Counties (Special to The Free Press) Wilmington, June 28. Rev. II. W. Spilman of Kinston made the open mg prayer vcaterduy at the convent ng of the State liar Association's annual meeting at Wrightsville Poach. Several hundred delegates l! in attendance. The visitors in elude Chief Justice Clark and Jus tices Drown and Walker of the Su preme Court. Col. Harry Skinner of Greenville, president, made his an nual address. He had for his sub ject "Courts Inferior to the Superior Courts, as Related to Uniform Iegia lation and Uniform Court Procedure.' Col. iSkinner recommended that all county, special and recorder's courts 'Mj abolished, that thrrc be 32 Supe t Court districts, that judges of superior uourt oe paid $i,uuu per annum more than their present sal aries, and other things. Hon. Thomas W. Shelton of Nor folk spoke on "A New Era of Judi cial Relations." RANKING ENLISTED MAN OUT OF SERVICE (Special to The Free Press) Washington, N. C, June 28. 'Inva lided after a score of years' service, Robert R. Handy, regimental ser geant-major of the Second Infantry, did not go with the troops when the headquarters of the regiment moved to Camp Glenn today. Handy, step son of Rev. N. Harding, until re cently chaplain of the regiment, grandson of an admiral and son of another naval officer, declares it's the hardost luck he ever had. He is the ranking enlisted man of the regiment. (By the United Preti) Washington, June 28. The government is redoubling its ef forts to get Americans out of Mexico. Under direction of the State, War and Navy Depart ments strongest persuasion is being used on those who insist upon remaining "until the last minute." CLEVELAND 'MAYOR WONT HELP CUPID Cleveland June 28. There won't be any marriages at the City Hall so long as Harry Davis is mayor. He just won't help Mr. Cupid, that's all. Davis explained lie has religious scruT plea against a mayor marrying cou ples. : ' . ' . "A minister -ought to perform all marriages; Its more satisfactory to everybody, especially the oride," said Davis. UNCLE SAM TELLS HOW UNCLEAN THE PESKY HOUSEFLY IS Washington, June 28. The ordin ary house fly carries about with him, recent government experiments show, an amount of uncleanliness equal to two or three per cent, of his weight. If the average man were so un clean as that, he would have on his body about four pounds of filth. A cow or horse as dirty as a fly would carry 20 to 25 pounds. The fly does no tweigh much, but it can harbor millions of disease-giving gerrria. As a matter of fact, the dirt on a fly is about one-half bacteria bacteria of many kinds, large and small, thick and thin, long and short. If out of its abundance of bacteria the fly deposits a typhoid germ in a can of milk, there is every likelihood that in a short time there will be enough- typhoid germs in that milk to make it a dangerous) frequently a fa tal, poison. In the experiments on this subject conducted by the Department of Ag riculture, a number of flies were caught and washed in sterile, distilled water. Uncleanliness to the amount of from two to three per cent of the flies' weight settled at the bottom of the tubes, and of this about half was bacteria. In addition there remained in so lution in the water enough dirt to discolor it. The fly can and does carry the germs of tuberculosis. Flies which had been allowed access to animals suffering from (his disease were caught and washed in sterile water. ' , " Inoculation tests from them sub sequently proved that they bore liv ing, virulent tubercle bacilli. - KINSTON SOLDIERS OFF AT DUTY'S CALL; LEFT THIS AFTERNOON TO JOIN CAROLINA TROOPS MOBILIZING AT MOREHEAD CITY About 115 From This City; About One From Every 100 of PopulationTears, Flags and Sweethearts When Khaki-Clad Guardsmen Entrained More Than a Bat talion of Regiment Passed Through City Expected to Be On Way to Border in Few Days Second Infantry Won't Co to Vera Cruz as Had Been Planned State Is Sending Nearly 6,000 Men to Aid Funston In Cleaning Up Situation Along the Rio Grande The local soldiers left about 3 p. m. today for Camp Glenn, where they will be mustered into the service of the United States "for service in Mexico or anywhere.' There were about llo of them. A special train carrying Companies C (Selma), H (Clinton), D (Goldsboro) and E (Goldsboro) of their regiment picked them up at the Nor folk Southern station here, v Thousands bade the soldiers good-bye. Hundreds saw r them off at the station. At 1:15 the boys marched, the" band playing at the head of the column, from the Court house to the depot. Several hundred persons accompan ied them up Queen street. It was a patriotic crowd, with : flags and flowers and many pretty girls in white and bright colored dresses. John Hall Manning, member of the Kinston bar, who left Saturday to take command of Company C, was on the special train. Captain Manning was transferred from ejrimental quartermaster to the command of uompany tt and from B to C in a few hours' time. 4 . - Tears were shed bv women at the station. There was manv a heartache. The boys in drab for the better part were a carefree, seemingly indifferent lot MahV were anxious to be away, cut women must weep, wniie haired. wrinkled old mothers: young wives with troubled faces, and little children cried, and there was many an other face sad and many another serious. Members of the Chamber of Commerce were there They, were proud of the fellows who were going to do their part, "ho matter if it didn't look like there'd be much of a war.' One pretty girl kissed a soldier who wasn't ner sweet heart nor her cousin. The soldier blushed, ana tire young woman blushed, but neither regretted. , , ; ' ment and a band. Sis Thousand Soldiers. The local boys will be with nearly 0,000 other North lUarclina jsoiuiers preparing to do duty on the border. Three regiments of infantry and the necessary hospital troops will com prise the Norm Carolina Dngaae. Brig.-Gen. Laurence Young is in com mand. Each regiment has twelve omipanies, a headquarters detach- The Kinston troops aire a part of the Second Infantry, under command of Col. W. C. Rodman of Washing ton, West Pointer and Spanish-American war veteran. Lt. Col. J. VanB. Metts of Wilmington is second -in. command. Kinston famished the (Continued on Page Eight) NO LAWS IN CIVIL LIFE SO EXACTING AS THOSE WHICH THE SOLDIERS ARE REQUIRED" TO LIVE DP TO; THE NON-COM., NOT ,THE OFFICER, IS THE WSCIPI1NARIAN Sabecrib ia Th Fre Pre. Soldiers of Company B this morn ing explained to irienus some or raie little details of the life in camp and barracks. When the local contingent rrive at Camp Glenn late today they will ahf i-by some of the following w,ry 'A unwritten regulations: V Abe bugle sounds the call for any ssvice which the soldier Is ex pected to participate in, he will go to his post prescribed for the occasion forthwith, or risk there's little "chance" in it, after all' punishment as "an example." Commissioned officers seldom "ball out" enlisted men, never in the pres ence of other enlisted men. The regu lations require respect of the officer for the man as well as vice versa. Giving a soldier "the dickens" before other soldiers is embarrassing ana spirit-breaking. No soldier is supposed to address his company commander except by permission of the first sergeant The captain is invariably too busy; be sides, the .regulations are so well de fined that in most instances someone else will do as well. . Non-commissioned officers are the disciplinarians. Sergeants report the men for all occasions nearly; whether for duty or punishment or sickness. Non-commissioned officers are near ly always on their dignity. It's never safe for a private to joke one of them. Commissioned officers, of course, cannot joke with enlisted men. But an occasional "fool question" is rewarded with a "ool answer," and generally the officer wouldn't think of taking exception to ft. : His brother officers might chaff him; then, too, what right did he have to try to make a monkey of the man ? , Instances are recorded which include these: Officer of the guard, to a sentry on a dark night What'd you do If you were to see a 'battleship coming? over the parade ground? The logical an swer would be, t4Call the corporal of the guard." Etat the giggling gentry retorts I'd jam sixteen cartridges into my magazine, sir. Officer of tha guard How the blank blank blank would you put sixteen cartridges into a rifle mac e for sixt Sentry Well, how the Hank blank blank would a battleship sail on tha parade? ' Officer of the guard at a remota western post, to green soldier on f.cst What would you do it you were to see a freight train crossing the parade? Green sentry -By gad, sir if she was headed east I'd board her. At sundown, when the flag is low ered. Retreat played, the evening gun fired and Star Spangled Banner rendered, every officer and soldier is required to stand at attention, off du ty as well as on, and face the colore, Men indoors are excepted. . At the "Call to Arms' soldiers, na matter what they are doing, unless they be sentries, run to their proper posts, having first procured . their arms hats and leggins are some times neglected and prepare for ac tion. An infantry regiment is frequently- prepared in one or two min utes' time. Sentries can be relieved1 only by the officers and non-commissioned officers of the guard, and stay put, no matter what the circumstan ce, until the guard as a whole i J called in, . ', , . ; i

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