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C MONDAY, JULY 3, 1916 L FOUR PAGES TODAY America Giving Carranza Time IS THIRTY - THREE CO ALLIES DRIVING FORWARD IN GREATEST OFFENSIVE IN HISTORY OF WORLD; OFF COAST MONITORS ADDING TO THE HGHT 11 M Clear Up t he Situation iff WITH THE EATS AT STATE ENCAMPMENT B MEN TURNED DOWN CAMP GLENN SUNDAY Me is Inclined to Avoid ' h 1 WRONG War ADMINISTRATION NOT INCLINED TO PRESS FIRST CHIEF FOR AN ANSWER, ACCORDING TO STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT TODAY Believed Government Has Knowledge That De Facto President Desires Peace and Is Willing to Do All He Can to Adjust Matters No Action for Few Days Un less "Sinister Developments" Readjustment Military Affairs Wood May Be Appointed to Command Armies Mobilizing on Border National Guard Regiments, Pouring Into Texas and Other Frontier States Today Public Not Informed of Stations of Soldiers BROCK HAD IT EASY IN SECOND PRIMARY IN DIST. SATURDAY P fHIfiV EcWratic Candi date for v Senator Along With Col. Pollock of Kin ston Webb Made a Poor Show ! (By Carl Groat) Washington, July 3. For the moment the Adminis tration won't press Carranza to answer the American de mands for.a statement on his attitude toward Mexican American relations, the State Department today announc ed, saying the situation is in statu quo for the present, es pecially in view of the relief of the tension by Carranza releasing the American prisoners. 1 Secretary Lansing insisted there has been no change regarding the American forces in Mexico. This an nouncement is interpreted as meaning that this govern ment has secret assurances that Carranza will adjust the situation if given time. Indications are that America will wait upon Carranza unless sinister developments occur below the borddr. ' - Wood May Command on Border. ' Washington, July 3. The War Department today an nounced the division of the Southern Department into three sections, under the respective commands of Major General Funston,'Major-General Bell and Brigadier-General Pershimr. It is believed the readjustment is prelimin ary to appointing Major-General Leonard Wood, now . T f J1 T71 J 7 nilVMIAYMA m commanding ine eastern iuparuiieiu, tu suiucmc wr mand on the border. May Be Days Yet Before Carranza Replies. Mexico City, July 3. The foreign office is unable to make , definite announcement when Carranza's reply to the last American demands will be made. It may be sev eral days yet. :.y Militiamen's Whereabouts Secret. El Paso, July 3. Eastern militiamen poured into the border country today, and were immediately sent to cen sored stations. The men generally are in good shape des pite the terrific heat. War Department Optimistic. Washington, July 3. Mexican matters appeared to the State Department today to be shaping satisfactorily, but there still remained to be had the important reply to the American tlemands for Carranza's statement of his attitude. WBile optimism was the keynote at the War , Department, 'the army .continued hastily preparing for any eventualities. v. v V SAYS CARRANZA IS 'SCARED TO DEATH' OF HIS LIEUTENANTS First Chief Would Escape If He Could, Declares Ref u? gee Will Make War, Pretend to Take the Field and Flee u ? ' : " (By the United Fnu) - (j Philadelphia,. July; 3. "Carranza force war m order to escape from Mexico City, where he is virtually a Jfrigoner," said W. F.'Flynn, aTux ;pam refugee, today. "Carranza is scared to death.. Thrice he' tried to escape from Vera Cruz, but bis gen erals held him prisoner. In the event of war he will escape under the pre tense of taking the field." COLORED BOY ANOTHER YICTT1 OF THE KEUSE Qenwey Roberson'a - mother does not know he was drowned in Neuse fiver near the pest house Sunday morning, it is - reported. . The boy AMERILMN RAISE ALSrMOtlGH MEN TO WHIP THE WORLD Twenty-one Million Abie Bodied Fighters Availa ble, Says ' Census Bureau Report Most Are Nat-ive-Born "' V- Returns from Saturday's senator ial run-off primary in the Seventh district are not yet complete. They may be tonight or Tuesday. Isolated precincts in several counties have not been heard from. Furnifold Brock, however, had a landslide majority out of the small vote polled; that much is certain. He carried all counties with the exception of Carteret, in which his opponent, Paul Webb, lives. Jones, Brock's county, is believed to have given him a majority of about 400; Lenoir about 575 or GOO; Greene, 300; Craven, 400; Onslow, 400. Carteret probably gave Wchb a small majority. Kinston gave Brock 337 votes and Webb 35. Moseley Hall township voted 152 for Brock to 1 for Webb. Brock will be on the ticket with Col. W. D. Pollock of Kinston. (Subscribe to THE FREE PRESS) Cooks Not All Proficient, But No Shortage of Good, Wholesome Rations COOL AND COMFORTABLE Camp Glenn Is a Very Good Place to Be Quartered Turning Off of Many Men Doesn't Reflect on Com panies, Said (Special to The Free Press) Caimp Clenn, July 3. God bless our home, but I like Kinston better. spent the "week-end" there. Here they'd call it a day's leave, but week' end sounds more civilian-like. They are corking good folks up there. Sev enteen persons I never saw before in my life shook hands with me and seemed to take a real interest in me. Yes, they take a big interest in your health down here, too. But a differ ent motive prompts"it, of course. One good old lady stopped me grasped my arm and wanted to know if I knew Benny. "Yes'm," I said; "I know Benny. And do you know, Benny is getting to be one of the most popular lads in the regiment." Now if any preacher is going to send me to the spit for anything like that why let him cut loose. The old lady beamed. 'Twas the first cood deed I'd had a chance to perform in a fortnight; and our sky-pilot a new (Continued on Page Four) TO GIVE ALLEGED LYNCHERS OF JOSEPH SUCK Wl I1F0RE SUPERIOR CO'RT JUDGE fN THIS CITY ON TUESDAY MORNING nm "Dozens" Said to Be Charged With Murder of Negro Who Was Lynched in Greene County In April Not Trial But Commitment Proceedings Craig Says He Don't Think It Will Be Necessary to Send Troops to Kinston Special Officer In Greene With Many War rants to Be Served This Afternoon Complete Surprise to Kinston and Snow Hill Officials Not Likely Jury Trial of Accused Would Be Staged Here (E'y. United Press) ' i Washington. July 3. There are 21 million able-bodied men between 18 and 45 in the United States, ac cording to a special census report as to the Nation's resources in men and military fitness. The report is based on the 1910 figures with an estimated JO per cent increase. : - , ; Of nineteen odd million : in 1910, ever fourteen' million, were - native born whites, and two million native born colored. ' .' Subscribe to The Free Press. could not swim. -He was 13 and col ored. T His, mother is critically ill at a house in Southwest Kinston, and the news might cause her death. (By the United Press) .- Raleigh, July 3. There, was a sensation here today following the issuance of bench - warrants for alleged members of an alleg ed Greene and Lenoir county mob that lynched Joe Black near Kinston. . Judge W. M. Bond of Eden ton will take evidence in a preliminary trial of "dozeni" f alleged lynchers of Joe Black here Tuesday morning. It wag admitted by officials today that Richard Stroud, a former Kinston policeman, had gone to Greene coun ty to serve bench warrants on the ac cused. It is intended for Judge Bond to hear evidence and commit the men to jail or bail to await trial by jury. The news came as a complete sur prise to local officials today. Sheriff Taylor had heard nothing of it Sher iff Williams at. Snow Hill was sur prised. totb officials think the hear ing will prove a"bobble. Sheriff. Wil liams at Snow' Hill was surprised. Both officials think the hearing will ing will prove a bubble Williams de clared he believes it almost impos sible to secure a word of evidence against any member of the mob who took Blck from the jail here early in April, carried him into Greene county ,and. shot him to death. The Greensboro Daily News this morning carried a story about the coming hearing, stating that Black was lynch ed in Kinston. Sheriff Taylor reiter ated oft-expressed belief that such was not the case, but that the oIJ ne gro who paid the penalty for up holding his son, an assault fiend, with his life was put out of the way in Greene county. Shaw Won't Talk. " Solicitor Shaw today declined to be interviewed about the hearing. He said, however, that it was not reason ably to suppose that the warrants would be issued unless evidence was at hand. He did not say how many had been charged. ."More amazed than they are not on earth," said the ?2reensboro pa per's story, referring to the accused men. But since. the warrants are not to be served until this afternoon it is safe to assume that there won't be any surprises until several hours from this writing. ' : Craig Doesn't Think Troops Necessary.. - Governor Craig at, Raleigh told the Daily News representative -there that he did not suppose any troops would be needed here for "the hearing. , The News' story wound up by say ing that it is improbable that the tri al by jury of the men "would be con ducted either, in Greene "- or Lenoir counties, .where the feeling against the Blacks has naturally been so bit ter and where naturally enough sym pathy for the tnen who have been or dered arrested would be stronger than in counties where lynchings have jiot taken place. The hearing Tuesday is rot a trial of men under indictment Six Non-Commissioned Offi cers In Lot All Officers Passed Band May Not Be Looked Over Until Wednesday RECRUITS WANTED. Capt. A. L. C. Hill, command ing Company B, will be in the city until Tuesday evening to nlist recruits for his company. Any number of men can be taken. Com pany B needs men! KinBton can turn loose some more. .It -is the duty of every foot-free man who is physically able to enlist. Enlistment in the National Guard of the United States and North Carolina means that one draws full pay while on active ser vice and one-quarter pay .when the troops return to home stations. a comm. Thirty-three men of Company B, Second North Carolina infantry, re turned here Sunday night from Camp Glenn, where they were rejected du ring the day by army and National Guard medical examining officers. With them came Capt. A. L. C. Hill of D Company, who will spend a day or two here recruiting. Major J. I. Brown, retired, who was at Camp Glenn Sunday, is taking charge of the equipment of the rejected men. Most of those turned down were short on weight or stature, cr of poor eyesight. A vory email per cent. ost out on account of disability that might, have been prevented. All three officers passed. Leo Kor- negay, biggest man in the company a small-sized giant passed with fly ing colors. Those who came back were: First Sergeant Jesse A. Jackson. Sergeants Lemuel H. Aldridge and Clyde R. Hight. Corporals George S. Taylor, Jesse C. Conway and- Ebron S. Pittman. Musician John L. Waters. Cook. Eugene R. Bailey. Privates: Bingham Adams, Seth R. Avery, Lee R. Booth, Herman D. Boone, EiMs Barnes, Paul Bond, John Carter. W. E. Flowers, Alonzo Gwaltney, William Holmes, John D. Metts, Dalton C. May, Lynn McDan iel, Arthur Phillips, John D. Phil yaw, Emmet R. Richards, Samuel Smithwick, James Sutton, Gurney B. Stroud, Sam Sanderson, Roland Shep pard, Walter W. Sparrow, Blaney E. Turnage, Walter D. Williams and Ralph Worthington. The band will be one of the last or ganizations to 'be examined. They will probably be put through on Wednesday. SMALL BOY PLAYING, MEXICAfT GOT SHOT Prescott May, a make-believe "Mexican," was shot and slightly wounded by Milton Abbott at La Grange late Sunday. Both are boys about 12 years of age, it is reported. The youthful marksman had a flobert rifle. The victim, with , a wound in his side, was brought to Parrott Me morial Hospital here, but returned home in a few hours. HETTY GREEN, THE RICHEST WOMAN IN WORLD, JIIED TODAY t (B the United Ptm) , New York, July 3. Mrs. Het ty Green, 83, richest woman in the world, died here today. She was a millionaire several times over, a notably capable financier and a woman of plain tastes and quiet. living. ' , ; British and French Striving Together io Take Important Railway CentersGermans Bringing ; Up navy.'---Re-. servesReported Teutons Have Lost 20,000 Men In a Day and a Half French Capture Bequincourt Lon don Docs Not Go Wild With Enthusiasm Great Fight May Last Months and There May Be Occasional ReV verses Combat May Spread All Along Front More Than a Hundred Miles Jn Length, It Is Reported (By Edward L. Keen) London, July 3. Under a blazine Julv sun the Allied rrmies are pushing across the rolling farmlands of the Somme region in what is rapidly developing into the greatest offensive the world has ever, known. . The fighting is growing more intense with the arrival of heavy German reserves. The battle threatens to .ex tend over the whole 110-mile front from the Somme to the sea. - - The British artillery has been .pounding the German Flanders line for 48 hours. The sounds of ships' gun3 leads to the belief that the British monitors on the Flan ders coast are assisting. This startling information to day recalled the Berlin statement on Saturday that , the British might deliver their jost powerful stroke farther north in Flanders while the French and British in Jhe south continue their gigantic offensive toward PeronmV Cambrai and Lille, railway centersy The German losses in the first 36 hours are set at 20,000. , ' The offensive has now developed into a huge rolhng- up movement south of Somme. The French are within five miles of Peronne by capturing , Bequincourt. v ' V The British public is not intoxicated with the victories. They realize the offensive may take months, with .great josses and some allied reverses. . , Great Fight at Night. . Paris. Julv 3.--In a brilliant night attack, the Ger mans were thrown back on a wide front, the French cap turing Harcecourt, within five miles of .the strategical town of Peronne.. Thirty-nine German battalions parti cipated in the defense. Thirty-one of these sustained frightful loss.es and were completely disorganized. . . Most of the prisoners captured are exceedingly young. CRISIS HAS SHOWN UP NATIONAL GUARD AS POOR PROTECTION Sen. Chamberlain TO VOTE ON COUNTY HOSPITAL AT NOY'R ELECTION, DECIDED The American People Who Are ' Responsible, How ever, He Declares Sul??rihe to The Free JPress. SHOULD CARRY LESSON ,ack of Preparedness Even of First Line Militiamen Should Drive Reason In to the Nation, Says Sen ate Leader (By the United Press) Washington, July 3. Had trouble threatened with a. powerful, aggres sive nation instead of with Mexico, the last few days would have shown the "inherent weaknesses" of the na tional guard system even more strik ingly than has leen the case, Chair man Chamberlain of the' Senate Mili tary Committee said today m an In terview with the United Press. He had before him in his commit tee room reports of guardsmen leav ing for, the front short of horses, mules, supplies, even rifles; of State forces where GO per cent, of the men sent to the front never had fired an army , rifle; of large proportions of National Guard companies being dis qualified for active service under U. S army physical examinations. : "Let me make dear first," he said, "that this is not an attack- on the guard. The guardsmen, faulty as the system has shown itself, are better prepared than any of the rest of us. Indeed, they are the only men who have imposed any sacrifice on them-(CoTi'imiH- cn Taje Three) Commissioners Compelled to Take . Action More; Than Enough Petitioners. Local Physician Worked for Infirmary The Board of County Commission ers today authorized an election on a county hospital, to be . held in con-, junction with the regular election in November. . . The action was mandatory, a re quisKe number of signatures for a petition having : been secured end some to spare. Dr. II. O. Hyatt has been most active in the interest o the proposed hospital. CO-OPERATION IN N. C SOIL SURVEYS i ' . i ' (Special to The Free Prees) Washington, ' July 3. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and the North .Carolina -Experiment Station will co-operate this season with the U. S. Department of Agri culture in soil surveys :of Stanley, Cleveland and Orange counties. The1 work will be begun in the neatr fu ture, it is expected.' . - DULLETINS CONGRESS TO QUIT AUG. 20TH. V (By the United ITeas) Washington, July 3. Follow-. Ing conference With the Presi dent today, Senator Kern "! lie eicpffi Cf"""- 1 r 11 ml 1 ' 5 1 j! m .-Jr' 4 '5 i f -1 -i : 'Sf fit ft?; n ? i i i X. i r. l A 4 V