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OL. XVII-No. 47
SECOND EDITION
KINSTON, N. C, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1916
SIX PAGES TODAY
FIVK CENTS UN TRAINS
TKCMOLINA
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FORCOPIB
aiEF COMMITTEE TO I RECEIVE MONEY
I dllSBURSB ITr-KINSTONIANS'RESFD
Vtm people' of Kinston and the State at large are called
m to come to the assistance of the stricken residents
fe flood district ,of Western North Carolina, where
ousids have lost homes and all earthly possessions, and
Wkck the very bread with which to sustain life. Gov
WCraig has issued a proclamation ; a relief committee
JfiUeeh appointed and subscriptions are being asked all
erthe State. The comtmttee is called to meet m Raleigh
eHhesday and contributions must fee in hand before that
jHe. Mr. N. J. Rouse is the local member of the com-
Itt'ee. - v
following will be found the appeal of Mr. Roiisand
aybi Pro Tern. Douglass to the people of Kinston; the
feior's proclamation and urgent messages from
JaTrMn Edward E Britton of the relief committee to
lessrk feouse and Douglass. The list of those who have
Hady subscribed in Kinston will also be found.
Iffr. Douglass solicited subscriptions this mornings and
rther subscriptions are appealed for. They may be
ned over to Mr. Rouse, Mr. Douglass or the local pa
's., The Free Press will be glad to receive and transmit
,itie committee any donations for the fund.- -J
THe following telegrams were received by Mayor Pro
i Douglass ana Mr. Kouse this morning from Chair
feritton , , .' ; ". : '.,
essrs. Rouse and Doufflass issued the following an-
jal and Mr, Douglass immediately began to solicit sub
friptions, It was determined at. conference held this
prink that a mass meeting would not be called at this
pe out that contributions be asked for:
The appeal: r f
"to THE PEOPLE OF KINSTON AND LENOIR COUNTY; ;
"The undersigned Mayor of kinston and member of the
State Belief Committee for the Western North Carolina flood
sufferers desire to direct attention to the urgent need for aid to
'our destitute neighbors in the West, and do Sdlifcit generous
r.!fripti0n8 fr that purP8e' t Promptness is necessary, as) the
demand is immediate. It is the purpose to report the amount
suWribed to the meeting of the "State Relief Committee at
Raleigh on Wednesday afternoon. The subscriptions will be
' bublifihoil in h.
"Mindful of our own rood fortune, let all heed this aoneal with
liberality, v
IN THE DARK AS TO
F
BREMEN IS, STATI
Officials Not Anxious
About Deutschl'd's
Sister Ship, Tho'gh.
Known Latter Will
: Await Her Coming
1' ; By CARL GROAT,
V (United Press Statf Correspondent)
REPORTS OF DAMAGE
IN FLOOD'D COUNTRY
CONTINUE . COME IW
FURTHER RISE IN
CATAVYBA RIV'R
IS FEARED NOW
REUEF r )k PROGRESSES
BemirOrAnized Ev-
PartNorth Car
Molina Today-Funds
and Supplies to Be
Rushed Upstate
(Speoial to The Free Press)
Raleigh, July 24. A further rise
of the Catawba river is feared. Peo
pie living in the sections along that
stream, ravaged by last week's floods,
are uneasy. Small streams were high
er last night than hefore.
Reports of damage in the floods
which took a toll of nearly eighty live j
and did damage to the extent of
Baltimore, July 24. -Ocean Rhode- 000,000, have not ceased to come in.'
I m-j..i i i-i t. l ;
rei officials today confessed they are "ues v -
washed out in Anson county; that con
in the dark regarding the -where- ditions'at Chimney Rock were even
abouts of the Bremen, sister ship- of worse than at first reported, and that
mountaineers are sheltering some
persons in the high country.
But in the same breath they dcclar- Alspaugh Cotton Mills, near Tay-
ed they haven't reason to believe ehe were vnsM away.
Kenei work is being organized in
the Deutschland.
has met an untimely end. It is reli-
every part of the State today. By
abljf stated that the Deutschland wiH I Tuesday vaatl supplies of ool9tuffa
' i . .-ni i
not sail until' tfie Bremen arrives,
and big sum of money will be pour
ing into the headquarters here.
PRESIDENT SAYS IIF
WILL SIGN RIVERS
AND HARBORS BILL
In Spite of Opposi
tion-May Leave the
Child Labor Bill Up
to Democratic Cau
cus, Intimates
(By Unfted Press)
Washington, July 24-The Presi
dent will sign the rivereand harbors
bill despite strong objection . to cer
tain new items.
ATter a talk with Senator Simmons
today tho President indicated that he
would let the Democratic caucus de
termine whether the child labor , bill
should be put off until Decomber.
A
FLEET Of RAIDING
GERMAN DESTROYS
t
AMERICA LEADS ALL
THE OTHER NATIONS
IN BUILDING SHIPS
NOTHING SHORT ABOUT
THE RAINFALL JN THE
PAST WEEK AND THIS
Output From Yards
This Year Greater
Than That of Re$t
of World Combing
ed, It's Said
. . "W. B. DOUGLASS,
' "Mayor Pro Tem. of Kinston.
I v": "N. J.' ROUSE, '
"Member State Relief Committee."
"We, the undersigned, subscribe the amounts set opposite
nr respective names, for the relief of the Western North Car
folina sufferers:
Souse ..
JCofrelds' . . "I
XanadV& Son
Tt . - r
Slevenson .I,.:
r. Jones
Qiine'rly
; i . 120.00 .Roto. H. Rouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00
.... 5.00 F.X!. Dunn 5.00
, . . . 10.00 J. If Taylor " . . T. V 10S0
..MillW Robt..C. Stronlr ..' 5.00
. . .1.00. . Jamet D. Grady . . . . t . ,". . 1.00
............. 1.00 Harvey & Sfi Co. . k.... 10;00
.... v; . 2.60 j. jp rtixrrey, Sr., ; '. .in-. ; .V , ' too
i;-. - 1;00 -C. M. Jordan 1.00
SiHer
Boselcy ;
krda Harper
ftert Parrott
Pt adrtfheid,,....,.;
COO H. tStadiem
1.00 t'.Jra M.fiatdy.
1.W j. H. !hirham
. . . . .1.0b. fc. Curli
. .if
10.00
1.00
1.00
5.0Q it. H. Grainger'.; 1.00
1.0O. HardyIill 1.D0
5.00 feinea Bros.' Lumber Co. 10.00
i00 rf. Calt Braxton ;.' 1.00
Lw. 4 VMM . . .... if.VU
ate OP NORTH PARni tvA fintmni nmrr mt iricW
f f "AROttAWATiTjjJ iTy'lTjEiDV-tilNdRi ' V".; ..
: to tite People of north Carolina, a wt
terhi efllei ifrge regioi of oor-SUte; hundreds ( l
koweleM ihdcjptesi. At this Ume cannot descrlb '
extent fth tiiitj'pneedn-intAsyU
fB'y 15tfc and Uth, no- m I undertake to pOWray'the present " -j"
Pfspertiye Buffering.' tf reason of the fact that Asherille : V
" off communication witli th .otAide world. "
Nild tint W a'-prompUy and adequately informed -of eoodi
as other But lam no'prepred to Say that aloftf our
(Continued oa Tage Three) - -
. (By the United Press)
Washington, July 24. The Ameri
can output of merchant ships for the
calendar year will exceed that of all
the rest of-the world, "Chief Cham
berkin of the U. 6. Bureau
tion today predicted. .
It will he the first time in 50 years
that ithe United States has led In
shipbufldiftfi.., Figures show S51 steel
'ships with a total tonnage of 672,000
gross tons." Half that number have
already been 'launched.
Old-fashioned rains, just like the
ones one dn boyhood days deprecated
or watched with pleasure as they pat
tered on panes and pavements, ac
cordingly as dt was Saturday or a
schoolday, have fallen in the past 48
hours. If they do not continue much
longer there will he general satisfac
tion. Crops needed the moisture, but
the crops now have about enough of
it. -- ' .
The precipitation from Sunday eve
ning at 6 until this morning t 0 was
1.76 inches; Saturday it was 1.15
inches; Friday .95 inch fell.
(By the United Press)
London, July 24. A British sea pa-
tool drove off a fleet of German raid
ing' destroyers Saturday night, the
Admiralty today announced. After
several had been driven off British
liirht Cruisers engaged six German
destroyers.-frequently hitting them.
They succeeded, however, in reaching
their Belgian base. Ona British ves
sel was hit. .
ritisli
Mail
Reply IVjll Not De
Accepted by United States, is
Information to Amb'sador Page
Docs Not Deal With Principles propounded iBut Only '
With Specific Cases Which Have No Direct Bearing On
Former Relation With Blacklist Pointed Outr-Eng-land
Opened Mail of American Firms to Secure Infor
mation on Which to Compile List -Ambassador to
Make Peremptory Demand for Answer If It Is Not .
Forthcoming Within Reasonable Time America Not
Disposed to Dally With London
CASEMENT
WILL NOT
BE ALLdWED APPEAL
TO HOUSE OF LORDS
(E'y .the United Press)
London, July 24. The Attor
ney General today refused a cer
tificate which would have allowed
Roger Casement a direct appeal
to the House of Lords.
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POSTPONE
: Owing to mechanical trouble
today The Free fyes was forc
eld to forego giving its readers
the first of a scries ti stories by
. : tit .
Shepherd, war . cojrrespondeot,
from the border, as promised
Saturday, i .'.r.;; . ; '
The leature wifl 4 pnnled
Tjresday. 4 ,
Sim patter Way Through .the Germans' Line
South Of Riga and Meet Success in Drive
Toward Galicia and Hungary; British, Gaining
Kuropatkin's Piercing of Von Itindenburg's Front One of
the Great Achievements of the War Monster Off en
siye. preaking qvn the. Teuton Defense With Smash
ing Blows Russian Hordes Threaten Soon to Overrun
Poland and Dual Monarchy Resistance of Austrians Is
: Badly Weakened Heavy Artillery Figjiting British
Uurmers Pave Way for Further Advances of British In
vvestem riirntinsr
Washington, July 29. The State, Department will im
mediately acknowledge to Ambassador Page, at London,
receipt of the British mail reply, and inform him that it is
not considered a real response to the American note.
The request for an early response on the principles in
volved will 09 repeated. . ,
This was officially a declaration at the State Depart
ment today. Officials characterized wild rumors that the
tt i i m . A ('. - A M .'.l-i-
united auu.es migni convoy rnerican man-carry uig amps
with war vessels as absurd and "rot." '
The "direct relation between the British mail seizures
and the blacklisting of American firms was pointed out
by State Department officials after the arrival of Britain's
preliminary mail seizure protest reply. The extreme im
patience the United States feels over England s, delay in
replying to the mail protest is partially because it was
hrough the alleged illegal practice of opening the mail of
American firms that she obtained much information; on
which the blacklist is based. - ' '
Officials today said the mail reply, received yesterday,
was wholly unsatisfactory, because it ignores the prince .;
pies expounded in the American note," dealing only with
British "practices. ; r : - a
Unless a satisfactory rejjly is shortly forthcoming Am- -bassador
Page will be instructed to make a peremptory
demand on the foreign office. ,''
AVIATORS ON BOTH
SIDES OF THE L
(N WEST ARE
ACTIVE
(By the United Press)
Pris, July 24. Extraordinary aer
ial activity on both sides of the
French-German battle line was re
ported toSay in an official tommui
jue. Luneville was the object of ithe
ftrst German air iraid. A French avi
tor Sunday dropped eight bombs on
Gonflans station and other buildinjrs.
Iwo German planes were destroyed.
FRENCH AIRMAN WAS
TAKEN BY GERMANS
AFTER LONG FLIGHT
LENOIR CO. NEARLY
LOST ITS SOLON IN
NEXT ASS'MBLY
TIE
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Paris, July 24. The French
' aviator, Antoinine Marchal, who
. started from Nancy to Russia,
' failed by sixty miles, being cap-
tnred by the Germans at Cholm,
y Poland, after ' having dropped a '
proclamation on Berlin.
10 PINCH AUTOISTS
(By the United iPress) . : '
Petroirrad. Julv 24.--The RnsAian armips have blasted
and battered their way through' the German line below
Riga an4 have shattered Austrian resistance to the fur
ther Russian advance toward Northeastern Galicia an4
ungary. 'A violent artillcrv duel is in nroe-ress between
uropatkin'sand Von :Hindenbiire's forces abhtr the
; noTtheasternmbst point bf the battle front Kuropatkin's,
pcin;ij;ui vn ximueiiuuig s nne is consiuereu onem me
most striking achievements of the war. . 1
British Blake Gains. , - ' " ' v
", Lcr, ! n; July 21Amid the blast of artillery Are from
great g'jr.s the British forces have advanced further. in"
the thrv t n round Pozicrs. General Haicr todav reDorted
htir.g continues.
Fair warning is being given auto-
. .
mobile owners by the police . today
Shat there will be no mercy shown
those who fail to have new license
numbers on their can after 6 p. m.
today. The authorities issued a' "sol
emn warning several days ago,' and
vV. V ... L .3: J I.
wiiab una uxu ujsicaiuvu uj uiwyi t I
At the stroke 'of 6 tha police win
turn their attention to every passing . Th.-re was nothing in the demeanor
machine, with th determination to of th posse to Indicate that summary
Heyiry Brothers Was
Attacked by Negro
BentonMurder-He
Escaped Unscathed.
Rearejd Assailant
A crowd of Institute township men
searched through Sunday night for
Bert Suggs, colored, who made A mur
lerous assault upon .'Ienry Brjthcri,
Don ocratic nominee for the General
Aufnr.bly, jn that section Sunly,
Mr. ' Brothers practically reared
Suggs, who is about 22 or 23 years
old, on his plantation. lie nad noc
rhe elightest reluctance to comply
vith tha negro's request for th nee ,
r.f a mule and buggy Sunday, but re
monstrated with Suggs , when: he
learned that the latter had driven tha
animal . to exhaustion ; to a country -church
and other points. , Suggs, in
Ltfxleated, immediately drew a revol
ver, and, standing at about six paces
irom the planter, Snapped it at him,
ibout six times according to Infor- .
tUttion from the SherifTs office here,
the weapon was either empty or tha
immnnition was worthless.? Sugga
,-tached into a pocket, drew out a
cartridge, inserted it and fired points
blank at Brothers. ' The shot went
tfild. Suggs turned and ran.
; Offioer Hedla Allen rushed to Insti
tute and joined a la-age party of farm
rrs seeking the assailant through tha
;ountfyside, but up till 10 o'clock this
norning Suggs had not been located.
take into tow every offender.
vengeance would be taken.
(SuWribe to.TIIE FKEE' PEESS)