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KINSTON, N. C, SATURDAY, JULY J, 1916
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GAIiRflMOT DEFIANT IN THE
iPLV'TOfllii NOTE; ONLY
SITES
FIRST CHIEF DOES NOT SEEK TO ENRAGE
UNITED STATES BY INSOLENCE IN CRISIS
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Message Not Had This Afternoon Friends of De Facto
z President5 Certain That Reports of Ilis Stubbornness
Are Overrated Will Try to Convince Washington
That Sovereignty of Southern Republic Is Infringed by
f ' Maintenance' of Foreign Army Within Its Bounds
Pershing, Almost Surrounded by Mexican Army, May
Get Six Thousand More Men Within a Week Ten
Thousand Militiamen Expected to Arrive Today
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(By Carl
Washington, July l-Contrary to messages in certain
diplomatic quarters, advices to Carranaa's American
friends today indicated that he will not adopt a defiant
attitude in this coming note answering the United States'
demands. '
He instead emphasizes what he considers infringe
ment of Mexican sovereignty by the presence of Ameri
can troops. - '
A United Press informant who has been correct here
tofore, today indicated that he will not bring about any
Foreign Minister Aguilars defiant statement issued!
in Mexico City yesterday is regaraea as soieiy iuii
pan consumption. The reply had not arrived early this
afternoon. .. .
Pershing Soon to Be Reinforced. m
El Paso, July 1. Before the end of the coming week
there will be twenty-five thousand guardsmen from here
to Columbus, releasing 6,000 regulars to reinforce Persh
ing The advance guard of the militia, ten thousand
strong, is expected today. With the regulars released,
Pershing will have seventeen thousand men in Mexcio.
about one-third the number of Carranzistas concentrated
in horseshoe formation about Pershing.
AMBASSADOR fRANCIS, PLAIN AMERICAN, MADE BIG
fill WITHM RUSSIAN R OYAL FAMILY; EMB ASSY AT
FETROCRAD ONE OF RUSSIA'S PLEASANT SPOTS
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMS.
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Petrograd, May . 6 -(By Mail)
Davids B." Francis, former Governor
of Missouri, now new American Am
bassador to Russia, has solved the
riddle of "Why la an American Em
bassy. '' Incidentally he is a 'hit. And
(hey say he is doing it by being a
plain American.
"I don't pretend to be a diplomat,"
Ex-Governor Myron T. Merrick ire
marked shortly after he had been
nameM ambassador to' France. "I am
just a plain American sent here by
the American government to look au
ter the interests of the American peo
ple, and that is what I am going to
dodo to the very best of my ability."
, This Herrlck did. When the war
burst ort Europe like a. thunderclap
he cut red. tape, right and left, and
figuratively went -at tilings in his
shirt sleeve He assisted Americans
in plain effective, straightforward
ways. And he-made the biggest bit
with the French, high and low, of any
ambassador since Franklin. .
From f what Americans here say
David 'Jt. Francis bids,fairUo. dupli-
ate Hqrrick'a success, and in much
the earns way. He has, turned the
American Embassy, at 34 ..Fursbtats
kaya into an. open hourse for Ameri-
cans. The Yankee abroad does not
have to bring jetters from prominent
politicians at home ; te gain admit"
.tance. ,He doeaot; feel like an In
truder when he calls.'. The place is a
beehive- fop work, yet no secretary is
' too busy to 'be ' pleasant - Nobody
smirks but neither does anybody glare
when at visitor appears at the door.
There is neither fawrf-r "T "frown
ing, neither servility-wss-ptiie
entire atmd; '
place it' one of plain,
canisnu .. . I
"XJoing. to be long It
irpish
of the
meri-
trad?
DM' SIDE OF CASE
tITY THAT THE
W. Groat.)
Drop around when you feel like it.
Come and read the American papers.
Don't need. to ask for anybody. Make
yourself at home."
That is the kind of thing Ameri
cans encounter at No. 34 Furshtats
kaya now. Nor is it exceptional. If
one wishes to see the "Governor" as
he is already called here which in
itself says considerable he can be
seen without interminable waits. If
he is busy in his private office a sec
retary will say quite frankly:
"The Governor is talking to the
owner of the building now, but he'll
see you in a minute," or words to
that effect One-is not smothered in
mystery thick as mush nor led to im
agine that at least the Emperor must
be waiting on the Ambassador beg
ging for advice on how to run the
country. The plain truth seems to
be negotiable nowadays at No. 34.
Francis belongs to the "Marse
Henry Watterson type of American,
frank,, vigorous, straightforward. He
is fall, well set-up, white of hair and
L mustache, possessed of plentiful nat
ural dignity 'and poise, but utterly
lacking 'in pose. He had no actual
diplomatic training before coming
here",' so Ho does not try to. make those
who call on - him believe he taught
LMacnisvelli and Gladstone all they
etatatatrtatatatahrd lal atath raao
know. Having done a few things
himself which require common sense
Lcoirfbine with" tact, he has a pardon
able amount of seifHJonnoence ana w
hopes and .believes he will be able to
"get along." ' His conversation is un
adulterated Americans, ,nor does he
make the slightest effort to wrap his
each and every word in diplomatical
ly and hermetically sealed packages
and passnthem along untouched , by
TSii here th4
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human hands. -
both the csar ana ine czarina
BELIEVED BROCK OF
JONES IS HAVING A
WALKAWAY FOR SEN.
Leaving Paul Webb Far Be
hind in Balloting In Pri
mary for Col. W. U. Pol
lock's Running Mate, Ad
herents ,Say v '
Voting here in the State Senator
ial run-off primary today between
Furnifold Brock and Paul Webb was
light. Brock had everything his own
way in the local precincts. La
Grange was giving the Jones county
man a big vote; Webb, was polling on
ly few scattered votes there, if any,
it was reported.
Jones and Lenoir counties will give
Brock overwhelming majorities, it is
thought. Greene county -will favor
i him nnl lnpal nnliHrinna flvlflro Mr.
Webb will carry no county in the dis
trict except his own Carteret.
COTTON ACREAGE IN
COUNTRY IS THIRTY
SIX MILLION, .SAID
Government Statistics for
Last Fiscal Month Give
North Carolina 46000
Acres, and Crop Condi
tion Quarter Off
(By the United Press)
Washington, July 1. An agricul
ture bulletin today said 39,!MM,000
acres of cotton were under cultiva
tion in the United States from May
25 to June 25.
Virginia had 130 per cent, of the
1915 area under cultivation, local es
timates putting the acreage at 4-1,000,
and condition at 90. North Carolina
had 113 per cent, of the 1015 acreage
under cultivation, with a total acre
age of 409,000, and condition at 7G
per cent as compared with last year.
South Carolina reported 115 per cent.
".of the 1915 acreage under cultivation
with a total acreage of 3(938,000, and
condition at 74 per cent., as compared
with 1915.
Children teething often suffer from
Cholera Infantum, Diarrhoea or soma
form of Bowel Complaint Dr. SETII
ARNOLD'S BALSAM is the best
remedy. Warranted by J. E. Hood, &
Co. and E. B. Marston Drug stores.
(adv.
strong liking to the new Ambassa
dor. The Imperial couple received
him before he had been here a week,
constituting a record. He wore no
uniform and was detained in conver
sation with the Czar 35 minutes.
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3511 Passes Mouse
g $50 a Morriti -to
iamen's Families!
. (By the United Press)
Washington, July L The Hay resolution appropriat
ing two million dollars for militiamen's dependents pass
ed the House 296 to 2 this afternoon. It authorizes the
War Secretary to pay militiamen's families without in
romps 2830 mnnthlv. . " ; . ... v-- i '-,
James of Michigan, and Small of North Carolina voted
, kni . 1 T
Ihst the bill v
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TRIAL BY FIRE AT
CAMP GLENN TODAY
Medical Men Weeding Out
the Physically Undesira
bleMen Fare Not So
Badly Hoping to Get to
the Border Soon
Camp Glenn, Morehead City, N. C,
July 1. Things are not dull here to
day. The Second infantry, in which
Kinston is quite considerably repre
sented, is being manhandkd, punched
and thumped by a lot of army and
National. Guard medical officers.
They are conscientious doctors. Of-.
ficers of the regiment today said we'd
lose a smaller number of men than
did the1 First, however. That is their
firm belief, professedly, but company
officers' opinions on such matters are
like John McGraw's or Hughey Jen
nings' pre-stason statements.
Things are different here from
what they are at "militia" encamp
ments. Still, on ithe whole, they do
not get worse. Holding their own.
you might say. Every doughboy here
is holding on to what he has, too." As
soon as the medical examinations are
over and the company cooks forgive
them, though the men won'it get a
little more proncie;, we'll be as cozy
as bugs in rugs.
They have a praying man in one
Second company here. He's in the
sergeants' tent. And when he'd fin
ished his silent prayer last night a
tentmaite started coaching him, about
like this: "Now, say God bless papa
and ' God bless mamma, and " The
praying one was sleepy. He drawled
along his opinion on persons who do
not like public prayer in military
camps an about this wise: "If you
don't like it you can step clear to
And I'd pray oft brigade review if I
wanted to and lick anybody in the
outfit who tried to stop me. And, be
lieve me. this is a' half-cocked sort of
a business anyway, to the way things
are run where I was sending my Ht-
the radio talk." Then he dozen off.
No one said a word after that ' They
are the best men in the brigade, ithese
fellows who dare to do that. Most
of them who do pray don't let their
bunkies get next, it seems.
We hear we're to entrain in a few
days. Let it come, inere s no es
pecial news for Kinston.. I've inter
viewed Jim Mehegan, a band private,
Company B cook, Sergt. Charles
E'jgby and several others and they
assert emphatically that they know
nothing.
GOING ON IN OTHER
TOWNS AND COUNTIES
OF EASTERN CAROLINA
Max Smith of New Bern and
"E'umps" Turner of Kinston will
wrestle at Morehead City Tuesday
night The match will be a feature
of the July 4 celebration there.
A slight wreck occurred on -the A.
C. L. between Wilmington and New
Bern when a caboose and Coal car
jumped the track at Verona. A ho
bo was badly shaken up but no one
was hurt. ,
A small son of J. Nat Taylor of
Robersonville was killed by the acci
dental discharge of a rifle a brother
was carrying into tKe house. The
bullet penetrated the victim's eye and
brain.
(Subscribe to THE FREE , PRESS)
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WILL OPEN KINSTON
TOBACCO MARKET ON
THE 1 5TH OF AUGUST
Greenville and Wilson Are
Expected to Follow Suit.
Five Warehouses to Do
Business Here Crop Is
Reported Short
The local tobacco market will open
on Tuesday, August 15, it was an
nounced today. The Tobaccb Board
of Trade declined to accept a propo
sition from Rocky Mount tobacco
nists to delay the opening until Sep
tember 1. It was believed the Rocky
Mount men wanted time in which to
buy on the South Carolina markets.
Greenville and Wilson will start the
season on the loth, it is thought here.
There will be five warehouses, in
cluding a new one erected this sum
mer on East Lenoir avenue, to do
business on the local market.
The crop in the Kinston section is a
little off, according to warehouse
men's reports. They say there has
been too much rain.
TO LEVY A TEN PER
CENT. TAX INCOMES
OVER HALF MILLION
Revenue Bill Will Make Big
Interests Pay for Pre
paredness SMALL INHTNCES EXEMPT
Believed More ThmJIwP
Hundred Million Dollars
Can Be Raised Under
Provisions of Measure In
troduced Today
(By the United Press)
Washington, July 1,Incomo, in
heritance and munitions itaxes will
pay the preparedness costs. If there
is a war -bond issues will pay the
casta, shifting the burdens almost en
tirely upon accumulated wealth and
RELIEF COMMITTEE TO KEEP ALL DEALINGS
WITH SOLDIERS' FAMILIES CONFIDENTIAL
Ai ASSURE THEM THEY'LL NOT SUFFER
With that same fine spirit that
dominates 'every movement for the
public good undertaken in Kinston,
the "Cmrtmittee for the Relief of
Soldiers' Families," organized Fri
day under the direction of a steering
committee appointed the night before
by the Chamber of Commerce direct
prate, today got down to work.
The committee named an investi
gating committee, the members of
which, prepared for a start with a
list of names of about 25 or 30 de
pendents of National Guardsmen here
who "might possibly" be "willing to
accept" assistance from the Relief
Committee "in any possible way,"
are now quietly and unassumingly in
quiring into the conditions that exist
in the homes of. the 25 ot 30 depend
ents of men who are absent on the
country's and Kinston's business.
The persons approached will be jriv
en to understand that they are not
considered dbAi of charity. Not by
a long shot!. Rather, Kinston is in
clined to glorify them. They are a
part of this community. They have
given most that they have to a cause
that requires sacrifice. It - is Kin
ston's duty a pleasant duty- pro
vide for these citizens., ,
Should anyone be willi' to accpt
aid the fwWie-will never know abt
it : It.i i .ed to keepV0 buA
ness of i t iininittee stricttytjiS-
BRITISH BEGAN OFFENSIVE IN WESTERN
THEATER THIS MORNING; GERMANS BEING
PUT TO THE SEVEREST TEST OF THE WAR
Long-Looked For Drive Followed Four Days of . Inces
sant Big Gun Fighting Smash Directed Particularly
Against 20 Miles of Trenches In the Somme Sector
First-Line Works of the Teutons TakenIntense' EnV
thusiasm In London Confirmation of the Capture of
Kolomea Along Sixteen Miles of . Front Allies HaTV '
Broken German Defenses Almost Hundred .Miles of
Trenches Subjected to Heavy Bombardment
(By Edward L. Keen.)
London, July 1. The long-expected British offensive ,
began at 7:30 o'clock this morning with ' a tremendous
smash against the Germans' twenty-mile front in the
Somme sector. Information contained in brief dispatches
say. Firse-line German trenches were taken, as well as
many prisoners.
The British attacks are violently continuing. , .
This news, coincident with the announcement of the
capture of vastly important Kolomea by the Russians,
has aroused intense enthusiasm. ; . f
The forward thrust followed four days of the most la-.
vish expenditude of shell fire the world has ever known;
in which the German front for ninety miles was literally
early this afternoon that the British have broken the1"
German forward defenses on 16 miles of the front.
British Report Gains.
London, July 1. The British have captured' '; Serra '
Montauban, it is semi-officially announced, Tber, French "
troops have advanced over a mile at Curlu and Suvier
Wood. : 'r ' '"V" 4
German Statement Refutes Enemy Successes. - -
Berlin,, July 1. Repeated British, and French attacks,
everywhere have been repulsed, the war office today an
nounced. : i .' i- '. ' . ? '
incomes. The new administration re
venue Ml is 4o be introduced in the
House this afternoon.
Experts believe the new bill will
raiso a "hundred million dollars from
incomes, sixty millton from inherit
ances, and fifty million from mumi
tions. The income tax begin at $20,
000 and increases at the rate of one
per cent for each classification until
ten per cent, is levied on all incomes
exceeding half a million. Inheritance
tax provisions exempt all estates un
der $50,000.
By Robert J. Bender,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, July 1 -President Wil
son has taken his Mexican policy for
a campaign issue and put it up to his
political opponents.
dontial. In fact, it is hardly prob
able that all cases will bo known to
the full committee.
Information is solicited by the com
mittee. Anyone who needs or might
need help should be reported at once.
iNo call has been made to the pub
lic for contributions. None will be
made unless necessary. It is intend
ed to let the public subscribe volun
tarily to a fund when an estimate of
what sum will be necessary is secur
ed. tStefJ
The following comprise the Cham
ber of Commerce's ocmimttee: E. G.
Barrett, D. F. Wooten, C. F. Har
vey, E. V. Webb and J. II. Canady.
On the general committee with the
above are: J. O. Miller, W. D. Ward,
Dr. I. M. Hardy, J. B. Meacham, J.
H. Dawson, H. E. Moseley, Y. T.
Ormond, F. P. Outlaw. J.I. Brown,
A. L. Harrington, Mrs. James F.
Parrott, Mrs. W. D. LaRoque, Mrs.
R. F. Hill, Mrs. L. P. Howard and
Mrs. J. F. Taylor.
The following are the investigating
committee: E. V. Webb, J. B. Mea
cham, J. I. Brown. Mrs. W. D.
LaRoque, Mrs. J. F. Parrott, Mrs.
J. F. Taylor and Mrs. R. F. HilL :
The executive committee of the
Relief Committee is comprised by E.
G. Barrett, Chairman; C. F. Harvey,
Secretary; D. F. Wooten, Treasurer,
and H. E. Moseley and J. O. Miller
COMPANYBHASMrl
FROM OTHER PLACES
IN ITS LONG HOSIER
Greene, Lenoir, Craven and
Pitt Counties and Dur
ham Represented Full
list of Non-Commissioiv
ed Officers Now
(By ROSCOE BARRUS)
Camp Glenn, Morehead City, July
1. Following is the roster of Com
pany D, Second infantry, as it stands
to date:
Captain, A. L. C. Hill, company
commander. I
1st Lt, J. O. H. Taylor.
2nd Lt, W. A. Faukner.
1st Sergt, Jesse A Jackson.
Sergts., L. H. Aldridge, Clyde R.
night, G. G. Parker, , t Sidney L.
Fordham, Arthur G." Booth and Geo.
S. Taylor. (Sergeants rank alike, ex
cept that first sergeant Is a higher
grade.)
Corps., Jesse C. Conway, E. B.
Jackson. Raymond Jackson, D. R.
Barrus, E. S. Pittman, W. H. Av
ery, Leo W. Kornegay and Samuel F.
Lifrage.
Artificer, W. II . Kennedy. (Arti
ficers rank with privates but draw
more pay.)
Musicians, A. T. Parker and J.
L. Waters. (Musicians rank with and
draw the pay of privates.)
Cooks, E. R. Bailey, and H. C.
Sumrell. (Cooks rank with, privates!
but draw twice as anuch. pay.)
Privates Askew, Thos.; f, Adams, .
Bingham; Abernathy. Ivey; Avery,
Seth; Avery, Richard; ; Booth, Lee;
Drinson, Leo T.; Brown, Claude H.J
Boone, H. D,; Barnes, Ellis; Bal
lard, W. H.; Bond, Paul; Canady,
Jas.; Crane, Noah; Crane, Luke M.;
Cummings, Jas. B-l Carter, John F.;
Daugherty, Chas.; Flowers W. E.;
Frizeelle Jas. J.; Grubbs, Leo; Gra
dy, J. K.; Gwaltney. Akmo; Hay,
R. C; Hammond, E. A.; Holland, R.;
Holmes, Wm.; Jones,. Sam. II.; Ken
nedy, Walter Herbert; Kennedy, ; F. ;
Kennedy, W. H.; Kennedy, F.; Ken
ndy, W.; Koonce. J. T.; Langston, J.
M.; Leggette, John W.; Lee, Brad
ley F.; Lanier, " Joseph R; Martin
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