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THE WEATHI3
. Fair and Warmer.
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-No. 43
FIRST EDITION
PRICE TWO CENTS
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KINSTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1916
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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
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.Eastern Tennessee
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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
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Added to Horrors of. Sunday's
Service Being ..Resumed at
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in, that section up to thicks
not fotally destroyed are
aamage is, now csuuxatcu
SECOND WOWS PARTY
TO BE ORGANIZED TODAY
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(By the United Press)
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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
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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. "