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VOL. XVIII. No. 26
SECOND EDITION
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FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS
tONSTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1916
FOUR PAGES TODAY
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If SON DETERMINED TO WAIT
THAN MIDNIGHT; IF CAVALRYMEN ARE NOT
DELIVER'D UP THEN 1 HE TROUBLE STARTS
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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