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n hills .1 THE -VOL F.FEB, Friday Cloudy VOL. XVIH No. 39 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1916 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS CARRANZA SITGEST LACK OCEAN TRAVEL G AI ET Y IN FRENCI FOREIGN TBADE FOR HABEAS C'RPlfSCASEl SHEPHERD'S TALESjBIGGEST GAIN YET OF PRIVATE AVERY OF THE HORRORS OF BY ALLIES IN THE WILSON THIS P. M. WAR WAS FEATURE WESTERN OFFENSIVE COMMISSION OF SIX IS BLAMED BY SOME CAPITAL TODAY; YEAR EXCEEDS SIX TO SETTLE TROUBLE rnn nil i nirni irimtain AND HALF BILLIONS ruii OlIAKIlO Viol nrriin ir REPUBLIC lilltlllllAI Would Have Three . From Each Country; No Offi cials Eligible INQUISITORIAL POWERS ? r plan to Be; Formally Pro posed to 'State Depart ment Soon Would " Have SessionB Held on Border and in the 'North , , By R.' J. BENDER. (United Press Staff Correspondent) . Washington, July 14. Acting Secretary of State Polk today ubmiUd to President i Wilson ud the Cabinet Carranza's aog IjeBtion for the appointment of a commission to settle the Mexican problem for all time. It became -)uumn 4hat he President heart' jly approve the plan and will O.i K. it before leaving on a yacht- wg trip this afternoon, : aftery which Polk will tell Senor redondo it is acceptable. Ar- Washington, July 14. The plan which Carranza believes -will settle the differences between the United States and Mexico was today C made known, and is expected to be submit- ' ted to the State Department in a few days. Carranza proposes a commission of three men from each country , who would be directed to work out a com plete series of remedial steps, prob ably involving the border '.patrol They would have inquisitorial powers. Neither Arredondo nor Fletcher would be members, nor would any mapher of the S,tate Department or the Mexican Foreign Office. Nego tiatiorvs are expected to start on the border and later foe transferred to some northern summer resort. Villa demands the CAPITAL , REPORT (By the United Press) , EI Paso, July 14. Villa has demanded the surrender of Chi huahua City, according to a well foundd ; bnt unofficial ! report. ; General Bell today said he had Received reliable information of disaffection of General Trevino, f jcammandant1 at Chihuahua City, from the Carranza Government Ik WHITAKER SUFFERS STROKE OF PARALYSIS Dr. R. A. Whitaker suffered .". a light stroke of paralysis Thursday t his farm to Jones ; county. Dr. Whitaker was visiting the plantation with (several others, who autoed out with him. . i The physician was brought to his Washington avenue homo Thursday fight, and this morning was resting quietly. ,:;.. " SAYS NO NEED lit (By the United Press) ' i Washington, July 14 Follow-5 tag report of . the neutrality - board. Acting Secretary of State Polk aaid today that there was M need for a formal ftaaeanee ent regarding the submarine, DeuUehland. This is taken to eaa that the Deutschland Is a "erehantman and will lie 41 d to dear. ' rOR ANNOUNCE WHIG Food Supply From i Waste From Liners' . - Dining Rooms Cut Off-Body o Boy Victim, Badly Man gled, Recovered , Washington, L July 14-Setre-tary McAdoo today Issued in structions to U coast guard and life-saving stations to co-operate in every way with local authori ties to feinimiae the man-eating shark menace. Matawan, N. J., July 14. The ter ribly mangled body of Lester Still- well,; victim of a shark on Wednes day! today was .-.recovered from the waters of Matawan creek. Great jag ged wounds on the abdomen and breast showed whcr- the shark' teeth closed over the 12-year-old body, which rose to the surface with in 300 feet of the attack. Fisheries Bureau to Investigate, Washington, July 14. Officials, of the Bureau of Fisheries consider the series of shark attacks on bathers akmar the Jersey and New York coasts serious enough to warrant an investigation.. Borne believe the great falling eff in ocean traffic, with the consequent reduction in the amount of waste from the palatial steamship dining. roms. caused a food shortage that drove the sharks close to shore. AUTOS BOUGHT WITH , WHISKY MONEY NOW Says R. C. Strongs Man of tacts And Figures Big Business In Ben- cine Baggies Don't Tell Anything About Prosperity, Declares Argu ment "Against Whisky Mr. R, C. Strong of the National Bank of. Kinston makes the interest ing statement that, in his belief, the big business in automobiles in East Carolina now is not indicative of un due prosperity. Grading the years of he past decade or two as bad. fair and good, he claims that this year Is proving to be "fair." Mr. Strong is conservatively optimistic. It isn.t any remarkable prosperity xnui i causing every" fellow in nearly every nook of the woods who is able to purchase an auto, he thinks, but the money that formerly went for whisky now is being spent for gaso line and the whisking, buzzing things that eat it up. Which is better, for th automobile serves many good purposes. ..- , , What an argument for the anti-sa loon: sts! From many separate an gles it presents spikes and 'thorns to graze the ' side3 of ,the anti-prohibi tior.'sta. . .., , .-. ;. ,'.' Mr. Strong presents the following bright little bit of advice "to mar. ried men who cannot get along with out booze": ' (It isn't original; at eon es from Richmond.) , "Start a saloon in your own house. e the only customer (youll have no license to pay). Go to your wife and give her $2 to buy a gallon of whisky and remember there ' drinks in a gallon.. Buy your drinks from no one but your wife, and by the time the first gallon is gone, she will hare eight dollars to pat-into the bank, and two' dollars to start business again. 'Should you live 10 years and continue to buy from her. and then die with snakes in your, boots, she "will have enough money to bury you -decently, educate your ch'ld, buy a house and lot, marry a decent man, and quit thinking about you entirely." - BIG REALTY COMPANY FOR WEST CAROLINA .Greensboro, July 13-Tho organi tatioa of the Piedmont . Investment Company, begun in Charlotte yester-! day, was completed - in Greensboro last night. This company, which is a real estats enterprise , has been chartered under, the law of North Carolina' with an authorized capital of a quarter of ft million dollars. J Commemorates Fall of the Bastile Better Spirit Prevailed Than In Two 'Years Troops Many N a tions March By HENRY WOOD, (United Pre Staff Correspondent) Pans, July 14. Paris celebrated Bastile Day, the birthday of the French Republic, with a spirit of gai ety unprecedented since the war be gan.. Hundreds of thousands swarm ed the sidewalks as Russian, Belgian English, Australian, Senegalese, In dian and French troops marched from the Invalides across Alexander bridge, built to commemorate ' the Russian-French alliance. f GOING ON IN OTHER E. CAROLINA TOWNS Chief Engineer F. L. Nicholson of the Norfolk Southern Railroad, who has just completed -an inspection tour over this part of the Bteaufort divi sion, states that the road is in good condition. The North Carolina naval reserves will leave Saturday morning for Nor. folk, to board the battleship Louisi ana for the annual training cruise. A number of States will have divisions on board. Geo. F. M, Dail of Snow Hill has been adjudged bankrupt. The first meeting of creditors will be held at New Bern on July 28. ' , UNCLE SAM HAVING A TIME KEEPING FISHES OUT OF WHEAT FIELDS (By the United Press) Washington, July 14. 'Uncle Sam is1 having an' awful time keeping his fish in the rivers and lakes where they belong. They just will go hik ing off into the farm fields and nos ing around among the shrubbery. We placed 11,000,000 trout and oth er fish in Colorado and Wyoming streams last year," said a govern ment official today, "and a large part of them were carried into irrigation itches, thence out upon the fields, where they either were caught and eaten or died and made fertilizer. We wish somebody would show us how to prevent this." WILSON SENDS NAME OF JUfifiE CLARKE 1 THE SENATE TODAY . (By the United Press) Washington, July 14. Presi dent Wilson has decided to nom inate Federal Judge John II " Clarke of Cleveland to be asso ciate justice of the Supreme Court. He sent the nomination to the Senate today. : BULLETINS ;- (By tho United Piess) FINE TRAIN SHOT INTO. . Maples, Ind, July 1 four per sons, including a woman and ba by were painfully injured when a charge of buckshot shattered glass oa the observation plat form of the Pennsylvania's crack New. York and Chicago Limited , near here today. It is believed ft ' young boy did it. RIOTERS IN CORK. Cork, Ireland, Jury 14. Several hundred rioters today - paraded the streets hooting the British poldiers sad smashing recruiting office ' windows. Soldiers dis parsed tht m. More, ..Than Four Billions Exports and More Than Two Billions Imports- Much Better .Than Any Previous Year (Special to The Free Press) Washington, July 14. Exports for the fiscal year just ended with June amounted to $4,345,000,000, and the imports were valued at $2,180,000, 000; making a total foreign trade for the year of over six and a half billion dollars, which Is much larger tban any previous total in the histo ry of American commerce. These ftires were announced today by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, with the explanation that the figures included, for June are an estimate based on the final May sta tistics. , It was in 1872 that our foreign trai.i first exceeded 1 billion dollars. B t 1900 it had cross the 2 billion dol lar mark, by 1907 had exceeded 3 bi l!ot:,tand by 1913 had risen above 4 billion, remaining around that level until the year just ended", when the billion mark was exceeded. Im- lorts first exceeded 1 billion dollars' value in 1903 and are now a little more than twice as much as, at that time. Exports first rose above 1 bil Hoi dollars value m is)z and ae njw fouf times as much as in that yenr. ' -' Thirteen great classes of exported articles yield a total estimated at 3,024 million dollars for 1910, as pp-ainst J.,321 million for all other ar ticles. The following table shows tho remarkable' increases which have oc curred in exports of this group dur ing the last two years: Leading Articles of Export. Classes 1916 Mil'n ;l.i8 . ..473 ...370 ' 1915 Mil'n 22(5 41 376 428 200 109 134 21 68 4(1 72 2G 65 1914 Mil'n 251 6 10 142 143 14G 162 ' :7 33 2 51 (2 37 Iron and steel Explosives . . Raw cotton. . . Wheat and flour ...3J4 Meats 270 Copper mfrs. . . Mineral oils . . .170 .15 .12C .123 .123 .112 . 80 . 80 Drass and mfrs. Autos and parts Chemicals, etc. . Cotton mfrs. . . . Refined sugar . Leather Estimated upon basis of 11 months, WE MAY OFFE liEW; MCEP Allied Successes If Great May , Con vince Benedict That Second Anni versary of , Beginning : . of World Straggle Will Be Propitious Time to Broach Subject (By the United Press) Rome, July 14. Pope Benedict to day reported that Church circles arj preparing a second appeal for peace to be made on the second anniversa ry of the war, only two week off. Issuance is said to depend On 'Allien successes, which if great, may con vince the -Pope that the time is pro pitious. JUNIOR NAVAL RESERVE CAMP OPENS FOR UNCLE SAM'S EMBRYONIC SALTS -1 ' (By the United Press). New London, Conn, July 14. The parade ground of Camp Dewey.' sur rounded by big grove of trees on the banks of the Thames, is swarm ing with cadets today at the opening of the summer session of the. United States Junior Naval Reserve En campment. '.. - ,. : Over' , ' two - hundred American youths of 14 years and over are al ready enrolled and recruits will be received during the two months' ses- ion. United States army and navy JT.eers are on hand to give the boys i-irucUons in naval and military ;s throughout the summer.; ' ' ' 'ral Ceorje Dewey, for whom National Guard Fighting Hard Soldier's Attcnip to Secure Discharge from Kinston Company Ar my Represented (Special to The Free Press) ' Wilson, July 14.-jCoI. W. C. Rod man, commanding the Second N. C. infantry, and Major S. T. Ansell of the Judge Advocate-General's depart ment, Washington, representing the National Guard, and Hon. D. L Ward of New Born, representing Pri vate Avery, Co. B, Second infantry, ore here this afternoon to appear in a habeas corpus hearing for Avery's discharge lefore Federal Judge H. G. Connor. Avery, a Dover youth, enlisted in the Kinston company some months agp, without his parents' consent, he declares. They claim that he is un der age. Avery has not subscribed to the Federal National Guard oath, hut took tha oath in the North Caro. lina National Guard. The military authorities are bitterly contesting the action to compel his discharge. They threaten to prosecute him for perju ry in falsely swearing to his age. TIN CANS SWAPPED FOR TICKETS LOCAL THEATER TWO WE'KS Manager of Grand Inaugu rates Laudable Cleanup Plan 10 Cans Good for a Matinee Admission City Approves Eight hundred tin cans dumped in front of the Grand Theater this af ternoon meant 80 matinee admissions to children. For two weeks Manager Harry Stallings. by permission of the city titftboritics, who will have the . cans hauled off, will exchange a matinee cardboard for every 10 cans brought t. the theater by a kiddie. Little advertising had been done before today, but Mr. Stallings says his plan is working very satisfactor ily already. FOUR DROWNED in day IN VICINITY GA. TOWN Valdosta. July 13. Three children of Henry B. Phillips of Stockton, Gt., Henry, aged 14: Elizabeth, aged 10, and a boy of two, were drowned in the Alahpa river there late today, ac cording to a message received here. E'anjamin Pafford,- 18, of Mill- town, Ga., was drowned in the Ala- paha river near Milltown today when he dSved from the railroad bridge. Subscribe to Tho Freo Press. BIG NAVAL COLLIER IN DISTRESS OFF S. C COAST; GALE ON (By fhs United Press) Washington, July 14. The naval collier Hector is in distress off Char leston, ft radiogram to the Coast Guard service today said. A gale is raging at that point. The cuHer Seminole is rushing, from Wilming ton, N. C, to her assistance. the training camp was named, is the honorary, commander in chief of the reserve; while Joseph us Daniels, sec retary of the navy; Franklin Roose velt, assistant secretary; Governor Whitman of New York and Mayor Mitchell of New York are honorary vice-presidents. . - Press Association Conven tion Closed Interesting Sessions in Durham On Thursday Night Go to Morehead City In 1917 (By If. Gait Braxton) llurham, July 14. Tho 43rd annu al convention of the North Carolina Press Association camo to an end Thursday night when Editor E. E. Britton of the Raleigh News and Oh server, President-elect, was inducted into office, ami the reins, so to speak, were transferred from the genial James JL Cowan, editor of the Wil mington Dispatch, to his successor. The closing session was featured by the most interesting address of Mr. W. G. Shepherd, noted war re porter for the United Press. Mr, Shepherd, like others in the service of the United Press, is a young man of energy and daring, and the sto ries of his experiences at the various battlefronts of Europo indicated that ho had been in somo rather hazard ous situations. His graphic descrip tion of the ,rst zeppelin air fair. which occurred in tho City of Ant werp in the fall of 1914, was gra phic indeed. lie said that there were thirty thousand Belgian soldiers dis tributed throughout Antwerp. All lights were extinguished in anticipa tion of the raid, which had been pre dicted for some days, and the sol diers, were Instructed at a .given sig nal of a gun of one of tho outstand standing forts to begin firing aim- lessly an. the air until they had ex hausted their ammunition and for several hours this bombardment of the atmosphere continued. A pecul iar thing Mr. Shepherd called atten tion to was that nobody was reported killed from tho shower ' of .bullets which literally rained for some time. There were ten ot twelvo killed by the zeppelin bombs. Another interesting feature of Mr. Shepherd's narrative was his ac count of the cholera situation on the Austrian and Russian fronts, where vast numbers of soldiers were brought in as soon as any cholert symptoms developed and given beds n straw in a concentration camp to await the ravages of tho disease, the course of which was usually about 24 hours. ... , Mr. ShepheVd was very accommo dating and invited questions from his auditors. One of- the questions was, "What was tn. chief factor in bringing about the splendid organi- sution and efficiency in the Russian Array?" Without hesitation Mr. Shepherd replied that the abolition of the use of alcohol in his estima tion, had more to do with the ad vancement amoitg the Russian people than had any other contributing fac tor. Thursday Morning's Session. Thursday morning the Association gathered in the East Duke building of Trinity College and listened to an interesting program. As stated in yesterday's Free Press, -the election of officers was held at that session. The selection of a meeting place for next year precipitated quite an in teresting discussion. It was evident from the outset that the Association desired to go either to the seashore or the mountains and Morehead City had s;it a representative to convey its invitation, and after various mo tions, one of which wa to leave the matter. to. the executive committee, and another to have a referendum of tho entire membership, this latter be ing declared unconstitutional, More- head City was selected with the pro viso that reasonable rates and other satisfactory arrangements with an assurance of first-class service can be had, and Secretary John B. Sher rill was delegated to pass upon the provisions. Other officials elected not included in the list given in The Free Press Thursday were Mr. Ro land F. Beasley of the Monroe Jour nal, second vice-president; Mr. G," W. Whitehead of Wilmington, tfxird vice- president; Mr. M. L. Shipman, State Commissioner of Labor tnd Printing, In Smashing Attack Today British Made Material Advance in Somme ; LONG FRONT IS BROKEN Germans Gave Way for Dis tance of Four Miles Heavy Fighting Contin uesBattle One Sector On for 18 Hours v By EDWARD L KEEN.,. , (United Press Sta Correspond) Xiondon, July 14.- The British broke through German lines on four miles of the front at dawn in 'o a smashing blow that swept tbo , Ten- tons out of two villages' ftnd out of the Trones woods, for ft distance of a rrtile. This was the greatest sin gle gain since the super-offensive .be gan thirteen days ago. Heavy fight ing continues. ""' ' " Battle On for 18 Hours. Berlin, Jtdy 14. A great 'battJe. has been going on for more than 18 hours in the region east of Oonital maison, where the British have re sumed their heavy '-'v.ttacka, .The fighting is extremely violent on both sides of the Somme. DISAGREEMENT IN THE FIGHT PICTURES CASE Syracuse, N. Y July 13. iA dis agreement was reported today by the jury in the case of the government against Jamfts E. Johnston, manager of the Madison Square Garden, ftnd five others indicted for bringing pic tures of . the Johnson-Willard fight over the Canadian border for exhibi tion purposes. ... CALL OF THE WILD ; MARRED PLEASURE; COLORED FEASTERS Black With a Knife "Kicked Up" Two Men and a Suit of Clothes Cut Exciting Few .Minutes In To bacco Warehouse Where Hundreds1 Were Having Banquet Two persons Were cut when. Esky Watts, a waiter, ran amuck wit a knife in the midst of more than 500 negroes in a banquet in the Central . tobacco warehouse, t Heritage and North streets late Thursday night. John Smith, another waiter who was officiating as master of ' ceremonies, received several slight cuts on hist head and face, and had his nose split. ' He is not in any danger. Ezekiel Wooten, who intervened, was cut on an arm. Junius Mcuanip, anotner pa cificist, had perfectly good ..coat spoiled when Watts' knife came in contact with it, narrowly missing McCalup's shoulder. , ' . Local colored people were enter taining several hundred visiting del egates to a convention of the Daugh ters of Ruth, a colored Odd Fellows auxiliary. Watts was among those present. The master of the feast, Smith, advised order for such an oc casion. Watts "perked up." He sailed upon John Smith and there was .no colored Pocahontas to inteN' fere. . Men prevented him from mak ing sausage meat of Smith, however. ' It was the only untoward incident. ' Watts was fined $15 and costs by the Recorder today. J historian. Mr, William Laurie -Hill of Maxton, the venerable poet-laureate of the. association for many years was, of course, retained, and the old executive committee consist ing of Major Henry A. London of Pittsboro, Henry B.' Varner of Lex ington, James H. Caine of Asheville, and T. F. Lassiter . of Smithfield The, President and Secretary are ex officio members of the executive committee."
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