DAILY- ism THE WEATHI3 . Fair and Warmer. v THE 'IllE WEB vol. xyin.- -No. 43 FIRST EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS mfi CENTS ON TRAINS KINSTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1916 mm to THE FREIGHT RATES HEARING ADJOURN'D SENATES MYRICK TELLS THE CAPITAL CIITY TRY iittiERS'BMn irNEiii HEADS THE i WON'T; HEAR OF II E CAROLINA! AGAIN; BIG FIREF.IEN PARADE TUESD'Y CHILD LABOR GILL -i.l 1 1 j i J i " 1 ' " " - r STOffif LOSS OF LIFE GOLDSBORO Thirty-five Known to Have . v Sitae Many riaces iteporc rrom une w xugni wrown ed or Killed Landslides Disasters Manufacturing Plants Beginning to Re and Wire and Rail Some Places Whole Town May nave. ; Been : Wiped nut Savs Rpnort Conditions RaDidly. Bettering In V -J - .Eastern Tennessee s ' (By tha United Praw) . V : Charlotte July 19. Restoration of communi cation with ?VIouni Island today revealed the f act . . that fivefactories and cotton mille were wiped, ; A the face f the earth- by the"floddsv There . was no loss of life., Ten. are reported missing in the Chimney Rock section. - " V , "f total of Deaths Upstate Now Thirty-five, y f 1 a citvil1f. Julv 19-Wit conditions gradually return ing to normal in the :ood districts, repaired telegraph lines today brought more tales of death and disaster. Lat est dispatches said -John Heath and mother an 1 Mrs. Caldwell Sentejl and child were killed by a landslide at Brevard, and Mrs.-Edg.r Hunter and two children were killed at HiekoryniitXiap, eight wefedrowned inihe Bat Cave Section' ana misses ousie ana ryme wmu, wwc This brings the death list hVeAU manufacturing plants nrpnarine to resume, me $15,000,000. DewMa Asheville Section Now Kii1ra28.v- r '" AnUle, N. C, July 1 The list of deaths from the flood in this aec tionireaehed a total rf 28 tonight when Sports from the Gat Cave oc ilol 'of' iNorth Carolina etated , that fight persons fcave been drowned there Sunday, land that two women, Miss Susie Collins and ' Miss Pollie Collins, sisters, met' death at Volgfa, . Tennessee River Falls. v '-. Knoxville, Tenn., ' July ' 18-Th Xeanessee 'river, which drains all of Eait Tenneseee west of ttw Appala chian . mountain range, reached its crest in Knoxville at noon " today, when the guage showed thirty feet. Tonight at six o'clock there had been a drop of three f eet and the weather bureau predicts ithat by Thursday morning normal conditions will have been reached. Feared Others Drowned. A'sheville, July 18. The receding waters of the diststrous floods that swept the French Broad Valley, from Transylvania ; to Madison counties Sunday gave up fifteen additional bodies today, and it was feared here tonight that the death list, which now reaches a total f28 for the entire section, will be much larger, when he rivers return to normal levels. J Marked improvements is shown in tondition. The French Broad "river ln,4he Asheville. region is falling ira piiHy and manufacturing plants have begun the work of clearing up debris, M a ; preliminary to the resumption , of operations. Train service, how ever, is still badly demoralized. The Catawba river is receding almost as fast as it rose two days ago, when the great wall of water rushed down from the watersheds, carrying brid ges, factories and homes before it. Railroad andother utilities compan ies are using large construction gangs repairing damage in Ahe Catawba VaHey. Several weeks will be re quired, H is said, to restore normal train servicV on some of ; the rail roads and hundreds of thousands of cotton spindles may-be idle"for 'a month. -No Teports have" reached the outside world from Hickory and Len. oir, near the headwaters of the Ca tawba,' since Sunday. Chimney Rock Thought Destroyed. Spartanburg, SLO, July 18 The village, f Chimney Rock; N. C, has been destroyed by high-water, aecord ra to reports reaching here tonight The hotel and several of the dwell "fs of the town are in the bottoms fourteen miles below on Broad river, "ear the Cox plantation. There has keen loss of life, but the" extent is unknown. The buildings have not reached, but with the exception dog on- the roof of one there is ign of life. There was a'popula- Died, in Western. Prt.. of the a .... r " J i- . I- A.' Added to Horrors of. Sunday's Service Being ..Resumed at . - ., - , , ' IV, J 'V 1 in, that section up to thicks not fotally destroyed are aamage is, now csuuxatcu SECOND WOWS PARTY TO BE ORGANIZED TODAY V. (By the United Press) ma St. Paul, July 19AThe women prbt bibitlonists f the United States ,wijl organisse their own national political convention here today In connection with the National Prohibition conven tion in session. The women are well renresented in the dry ranks, but they want tq, express their own sen timents on the subject of liquor in a platform all their own. The Woman's Prohibition Conven tion, ast it is called, is being held under the direction of the National Prohibition Federation. The women will include a strong jplank in their platform endorsing the Susan B. An thony suffrage amendment to the Federal Constitution., Official repre sentatives f the National Woman's National Party are here to take part in the proceedings Among the' well known women leaders of the conven tion are Mrs. John Bidwell of Cali fornia, Mts. 'Eugene Chafin of Ariao na, Mrs. Francis E. Beauchamp 4 of Kentucky, the Misses Marie Brehm attd Helen Hood of Chicago and Mrs. Emerson Wold of Minnesota, i This convention does not expect to name a candidate. , A TIP FOR AMERICAN i COCAINE MEN; PLACE IT IN BANK'S CARE Paris, July 19.-?-They have as much trouble with the cocaine traffic in Pa ris as they do in New York, Chica go, Cleveland, San . Francisco 4 - and other American cities. The tricks re sorted to by law-breaking vendors of. the "snow? are quite as ingenious As a shrewd American could "pun."; Today the police discovered a new one. : Jean Nardin, -a pharmacist, hit cpoa the happy idea of keeping ; his stock of "coke in safety deposit boxes at the Credit Lyonnaise. The police yanked him. up quick, and he's just been put A prison and fined $500. - - ." ; ' Although the police had been cer tain for months that Nardin had been' selling "snow" to; victims of the ha bit, repeated searching of his store revealed only jnlnor quantities of the drug. Nardin's repeated visits to the vaolt in the bank led to his arrest; tion of 150 at Chimney Hock. The Chimney Rock highway has been de stroyed. ' - " Will Be Resumed at.Washi, T ingtonPetitioners Were Heard, But the Railroads Have Not Had Their Say. Time Not Designated (Special to The Free Press) Washington, July J9. The hear ing held here today and yesterday be fore Herbert Watkina, attorney-examiner for the Interstate Commerce Commission, to determine the justice of existing freight rates between Baltimore and interior Carolina points, via Wilmington, as compar ed with those via Norfolk, adjourned tonight after the petitioners had submitted all of their .evidence. The hearing will be resumed at Washing ton at a time to be designated by the commission. Then the railways' side of the question 'will be presented. The evidence heard tended to ehow that the Norfolk Southern, the Sea board, -the Southern and the Atlantic Coast Line were discriminatine against Wilmington in favoroi' Nor folk as a water line 'terminal. PHILADELPHIA CLOSES , COTRACTS MAKING IT GREATEST SHIP CENTER (By the Umtad Press) y Philadelphia, July 19.-sAn investi gation by the United Press today dis closed that with present facilities and those being added under millions of pollers' worth -of new "contracts just ojosed, this city1 In less than twelve months will be the greatest and big gest shipbuilding center in the world. There are now under construction or contracted for, 76 ship' with a ;to tal gross tonnage' of 420,253. Mil lions of dollars are being poured into the shipbuilding industry along the Delaware river. Thousands of men are working long hours getting new shipyards together. . : This tremendous boost is due pri marily of course, to the fact that the seas have been practically stripped of I foreign shipping ; by tJie European war and there is an enormous demand for bottoms which will carry foreign j HOW JL CORPS OFCHICp DCtORS IS KEBUILDIiIg THE SIUTTERED FACES 0Ff EUROPEAN SOLDIERS; AD SECURING ASTONISHING RESULTS; ONLY SCARS LEFT By William G. Shepherd, ' : (United Press Staff Correspondent) London,. June 20 (E'y Mail-i-That horror of the soldier, a shattered face, is being abated in the British army by a et of Chicago surgeons in their field hospital near the British front ioday. Their success is largely due to expert dental surgery. CoL Dr. J. M. Neff of Chicago, head of this unit of 32 surgeons'; Col. Dr. George Davis of Chicago; Major Dr. Sidney McCallin, formerly 'of Chicago,, but now of, London, and Major Dr Charles Magby, eye and ear surgeon of Chicago, are dally performing operations on woundted men hithertounheard of in medical science. :. ' ' " . These American surgeons have proved that ; Napoleon's adage thfcrt an army travels on its stomach ; Us old-fashioned. An army travels its teeth." Without ' good molars the best stomachs go to pieces. Twenty months of war demonstrated ths- American - medical men established the fact that caring for the .soldies teeth is the supremely important thing in caring fof his health. j , To this American surgery in? the British lines soldiers come suffering from disordered digestion, eore throats, influensa, rheumatism, shat tered nerves. ; Most of them are maji who have gotten no relief from ne4 kine. Usually it is doscovered that an injured tooth is the poison center that is disrupting the man's physic al organization,' and he is quickly put on his feet again. 1 - It is in jaw surgery that the most Threaten f Kee Senate in Session "All the Summer By Filibuster WILSON WILL PERSEVERE Kern, Owen, James and Others' Declare They'll Stay Until Election Day toBring Measure to Vote a Washington, July 19,-Led by Smith of South Carolina, Southern senators . today served notice that they will keep the Senate in session for thff remainder of the summer, lis tening to a filibuster on the child la bor measure, fostered by "Northern politics." ' ; (Leaders close to the Whita House, like Kern. Owen and James, retonted that they will hold Congress uptil election day if necessary to press the bill to a final vote. , , Indications point to another bitter caucus to get the measure before the Senate. NEGRO FIREMEN WILL i MEET IN WASHINGTON (Special to The Free Press) i Washington,,!!. C, July 19. The colored Volunteer Firemen's Associa tion 'of North Carolina will hold its here on August IS, 16 and 17. Four or five hundred negroes will be in at tendance. White people are donating for their entertainment . Winston Salem and Washington have been) as popularivith the negro firemen in ;re cent" years as have Wilmington and Asheville with the white volunteers. and domestic eea ' trade. . i - All the big yards here are jammed with all the work they can do for the next thtee years. . They are (refusing irdors every day on this account. astonishing results have been attain ed. When-we 'read Sor hear of sol diers so horribly disfigured that other humans do not eare to look upon them,we do not caro to diagnose the details. But these Chicago surgeons have discovered that all these wounds oncur to the lower part of the face.' A wound on the upper part of the head usually causes death, but wound3 !of the jaw do nothing but turn men's faces into.terrible caricatures. . . Bullets play strange ,- tricks with jawbones. They enter a cheek, mak ing a small, wound, chatter the jaw bone and pass out . through a tiny wound on the other side, The shat tered bone changes the structural out ward appearance of the, face, often with horrible effect. , In othor wars the wounds were sewn up and the bones permitted to knit, . if ,. they would. j " In this War, when part of a jaw bone has been lost, several surgeons earry the patient into the amphi theater. A piece of Jiis shin-bone is removed by the bone surgeons. Toe dental surgeon takes this piece, whidh has been cut to shape and size desif esir-uuf- ed, and puts H in place in the diet's jaw.- . t : i notograpns m tne unicago su geona' hospital show that men who came to the surgeons witK faces too horrible to contemplate in every day life have departed with their feat ures normal except for a scar, or two that looks as though It might have been caused by a razor slip. These marvelous operations are every d ;y events now. Logical Place for. One of Dozen Loan Institutions to Be Set Up by- Federal Government, Advises Ra . leigh Men (Special to The Free Press) . Raleigh, July 19. Herbert Myrick, head of the Orange Judd farm pub lications, and nationally known as A farm betterment advocate, addressed a hundred businessmen here last night on the subject of tho farm loan banks to be established by .the Fed eral Government. He strongly boosted Raleigh as a place for one of the banks and urged the city's business interests to get busy to se cure it . A committee appointed at the meeting to ' name a campaign com mittee met this afternoon and is se lecting a large number of prominent men to work for the locating of a bank here. ' ATTEMPT TO (CREMATE SALISBURY FAMILY Salisbury, July 18. An attempt to- burn an apartment in which Mrs, George Poole and two young daugh ters were sleeping, this, morning' at 3 o'clock, proved unsuccessful. ' The blaze was discovered early by a man passing near the house on his way to the depot A quantity of oil saturat ed waste in box had been placed at the front door and lighted, MONTANA EDITORS TO TRAVEL WHILE MEETING IN ANNUAL-CONVENTION (By the United Press) Livingston, Montana, July 19 The newspaper editors of Montana met in extraordinary convention aboard a bunch of Pullman cars here today. Their business sessions and ; their special train started at the same time and will keep up a fast clip around the Stato from now on for the next seven days. The trip . and the convention stretches from here to Hunter's Hot Springs arid thence into Wyoming, Where the Wyoming and Montana ed itors will meet in joint convention on July 25th. There will be a daily pro gram of social eventslboard the spe cial after each editor has edited hi paper for the day .by wire and the solemn business of the convention has been done and shut up for the day. A big crowd of Livingstonians gathered at the train to see the edi tors get away. TWENTY THOUSAND OF ITALY'S PRIESTS IN SOLDIER'S UNIFORMS Rome, July 19. Statistics avail able here today show that ,20,000 of Italy's priests are under arms. Of this number only about 800 are chap lains. ' A few thousand more are Red Cross and relief workers, but the vast majority of them are common soldiers bearing arms : hi . battle. WOULD ABOLISH THE , " TEACHING OF FRENCH . 4N0 ENGLISH BERLIN (By tha United Press) Amsterdam, July 19. The sugges tion that German educational insti tutions, abolish forever the teaching of French and English in their school work has been endorsed by the lead ing Berlin newspapers, according to information here today. The sug gestion came from '4 pamphlet writ ten by Adolph Reinecke, a German au hor, . INVASION HUNGARY BEGUN BY RUSSIANS FROM OVER M'TAINS Slavs Cross Carpathians at Last; Teutons' Rear Is Threatened ADVANCE SWIFT, STATED French Make Further Pro gress Northeast of Ver dunAdvance In Direc tion Junction of Import ant Highways London, July 19. Tho Russians have crossed the Carpathians for the first time since their defeat a year ago by the Germans, and have enter ed Hungary after a long march, the Petrograd correspondent of the Even ing Star today reported. Tho swift Russian advance threatens the rear of the Austrians northeast of the mountains..; ' ; French Gain at Verdun. ; : ' 1 Paris, July J9;--The French fur ther progressed against the Germans northeast of Verdun in grenado fight ing last night'. They are advancing in the direction; of the intersection of the ,Fuer and Vaux roads. said deutschland hay wait ;f0r the Bremen; to arrive Before Leaving Baltimore. Preparatory Steps Taken for Sailing- Wireless Is to Be Sealed Up By CARL GROAT, (United Press Staff Correspondent) iBaltimore, July 19,-nDuo to delay adjusting her machinery, the Deut3ch land was still et her pier here up till noon. She will sget away probably on - - x J ' , If.1; .7 ''vl;w. Vi;v; -iii j its . I '.).'"- s ' A 5? ) n t I x ' ' '' I j 1 1 yf , ; . ' t 1 , A V '-'.V'. ( : 1 r Vrv . ; ii i l -k ',y ' Vi V V . J ' - j i i 'Catoa Malmei, t's World' Grantcat TnrvUr Who WiH Conduct VeL? "i-j Chiir" Journi' for Ptr amount, ,, WK J Fine Pageant ; Ushered In Annual Tournament of Volunteer Association To day Begin,. Races' This Afternoon, . ; (Special to The Free Press) Raleigh, July 19. The North Oar oHnaState 7 Firemerils ? Association ; last night re-elected James D; Mc Neill -of Fayettevllle president Cap tain McNeill has held the office for many years. The other officers were re-elected also. They . are: A. H. E'oyden of Salisbury, first vice-president; A. M. -Clark. Southern Pines, second vice-president; John L. Mil ler, Concord, secretary; Charles' Sehnibben, Wilmington, treasurer; T. D. Davis, New Be 41, statistician.. Today saw the beginning of tha big annual tournament of the firemen. The parade shortly before noon was witnessed ! by thousands ; of people. Gaily decorated apparatus and hand somely uniformed men comprised a , fine pageant many blocks long. Kin ston had two wagons and a good handful of men in line. New 'Bern also was well represented. The Ra leigh paid department,-motorized to the last piece of equipment, helped to lengthen the parade. , " Tha State hose wagon races, so called because they ' are closed . to teams from other states which are allowed to participate in special Min-( terstate" events, were started at 3 p. m. 7 (i.' Kinston firemen are exhibiting a model of a new-fangled hydrant, in vented by a member of the depart ment there. The hydrant permits that use of four streams instead of two, and additional streams can be turn ed on without deadening any line in use from the hydrant- . Sunday or Monday. Her wlseless is slated to be sealed under neutrality provisions, after a ten-day atay. One report today said the Deutsch land awaits the. arrival of the Bre men to ascertain the position of war ships off the coast. ' The report said the B,remen would dock Sunday. , The Deutschland is slated for a trial submerging today. "