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TOUMDIES WILIiCANVASS; FOR THE
UNFORTUNATE PEOP
WRT OltHESf ATE -
I MrN.J.Rouseof the State; Relief Committee for the
flood sufferers of Western North ;Carohna has forwarded
S150 to ;the committee headquarters at Kaleign to be put
to immediate service in giving assistance; to the stricken
peopled '.Daily reports wiU .be made .and, the money sub-
scribed Dy ine people oi jvinstun vym ue sent luiwaiu w
that tne sunenng ana distress
ly as possible.
AMERICAN BUSINESS
NOT SUFFER FROM B
NEW YORK BANKERS
Trade Will Be Transferred to Bonafide American Con
cerns Not Under the Ban, It Is SaidBoycotted Firms
Maintained German Business Relations With South
America, Pointed Out List Is the Hardest Blow Yet to
Teuton Commerce, if Authoritative Statement! Made
Today Is Borne OutBanking Men Insisted That Only
Men Having Direct, Trading Relations With Germany
Should Be Tabooed, Stated
; Washington, July ,25. That the British blacklists
American firms was not published until the acquiescence,
if not the approval, of several large New .York banking
institutions was first assured, was a statement made , to
he United Press today on good authority. The fact is
considered responsible for.there not .being more firms on
the list. , Bankers approached argued that only those
houses having direct trading relations with Germany and
those whose business was primarily oi military value to
Germany; should be boycotted. The banks were convinc
ed that the lited States' South American trade would be
helped rather than suffer.
It was pointed out that many of the blaclisted' firms
1 ad been maintaining Germany's trade relations with
South America, being in a position to do so only because
they were domiciled in a neutral country. .
British officials argued that , business done by the
blacklisted firms would merely be transferred to bonafide
American firms not blacklisted. -
lUm Murray, Latr
A DOCTOR'S REMEDY FOB
COUGHS. , :
A core for toughs and cokls Dr.
Bell'i Pine-Tar-Honey combines
these remedies in just the right pro
portion to do the most good for ram
mer coughs or colds. A trial will
't FIRST EDITION
y Relief Committee Today
LE OF THE WESTERPT
MONEV SENT TODAY
may ue aucvwicu o 4u.jv
t ' : " "
WILL BENEFIT AND
RITISH BLACK LIST,
- Paimot Star.
prove the value
cough medicine.
of this eplendid
Dr. Bell'a Pine-
far-Hon7 soothes the irritation,' But I couldn't imagine I was any
rtops poor cough, kills ' the cold where fcut in ths American j anny.
ermt and does yon a world of good. Such a thing couldnt happen in any
A 25c twttle will more than convince othe-army in the workL or in any
you it will stop your cough. At other place than America. Wiscon-
irutrzists. - - adr.
WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
BEEN IN JAII WAS
i OUT WITH GAMBLERS
(By the Eastern, Press) i;
Washington, N. C, July 25 The
local police ran up agains a email
sized shock when .il.ny arrted i
party of negro gcjnbicra and d'scoV'
ered among thejh,' 'Lin "Johnson.
Tuna was serving 30, days ' in Jail,
and her sentence had soma time to go.
How 'Lina got out is aoniething of
mystery. She had not even been
missed at the prison-house.' In again
went 'Lina, 'with a new charge fac
ing her. '
IRON EXPLODED; MAN BURNED.
New Bern, July 25.-M. W. Fodrie
was slightly burned- at a pressing
club yesterday when an electric iron
exploded. , i
BODY FOUND IN THE NEUSE.
New Bern, July 25. The body of,
DeCato Jones, colored, drowned while
ashing in the Neuse river some days
ago, has been recovered.
BAD TO HAVE A COLD HANG ON
Don't let your cold hang on, rack
your system and become chronic
when Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey will
help you. It heals the inflammation,
soothes the cough and loosens the
phlegm. You breathe easier, at once.
Dr. Dell's Pine-Tar-Honey is a laxa
tive Tar Syrup, the pine, tar balsam
heals the raw spots, , loosens thevlhu-
cous and prevents irritation of the
bronchial tubes. Just j,et a bottle of
Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honcy today, it's
guaranteed to help you. At drug-
ONLY REAL AMERICAN' REGIMENT
" FROM MIDDLE WEST DONT LIKE
THE JIM CROW LAWS OF TEXAS
By WILLIAM G., SHEPHERD,
C United Press Staff Correspondent)
San Antonio, Texas, July 23. That
variegated army which I saw in Sa-
onika a few months ago, consisting
of French English, Serbian atshrdla
Australians, Cochin-Chinans , and
Montenegrins, looked like a mass of
blood brothers compared With the
middle western militia.
Having the enemy before them
gave the SaloniKa troops one com
mon thought.
There's a Polish company K, of
Milwaukee, First Wisconsin, for in
stance. 1 It was organized fifty years
ago by .Theodore ResinskL- It is
known as Kosciusko's Company. For
ty per cent of its 120 members were
born in Poland. I sat in the tent of
Chaplain Henry Paisecki and . tried
to imagine I was back at the British,
French or Austrian front and talking
with an officer of .one of those arm
ies, and h said jt was an ancient
custom of his company not to permit
any but Poles to join, and that they
kept up the custom out of deference
hundreds of previous members,
now dead. '
"So many -Poles try to join, now
we are full and we turn them ever to
other companies of the regiment, "
said the chaplain. "They, are scat
tered throughout the Wisconsin
troops. ,
"We found a Polish church f in
San Antonio and the church folks
are getting together automobile
buggies. wagons and all Vinda of rigs
to take us up to church next Sunday."
sians claim the American govern
KINSTON, N. C, TUESDAY,
PEGASUS WAS BRAGGING
ABOUT THE FARE WHILE
TROOPERS ATE THE GOAT
. Capt. Fred. Rutledge, commanding
a cavalry troop from Lincolnton, t
Camp Glenn, spent Sunday here
with his cousin, Mr. O. M. Rutledge,
tho well-known lumber man. Capt
Rutledge is an amiable gentleman of
offlcerly tearing. He ' told of ' an
emergency", at the camp in which
the mascot of another troop went by
the board.
The trtp commander of tho other
troop went to Ashevillc, Capt. Rut
ledge said, and was quoted effusively
by the-newspapers oa. the subject of
tho men 'p. fare at the reservation
And while the captain was in Ashe
vine bragging about the menus at
Glenn, the men of his troop ate the
mascot, a goat, Capt. Rutledge de
clared. "'
BIG PAPER TELLS OF
KINSTON AND HOW IT
IS MOVING FORWARD
The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, about
the largest and most representative
of tho Southern papers with any con
siderable circulation here, Sunday
carried a two-column account of Kin
ston's progressiveness, with a liber'
al display of pictures.
The story did justice to tho city,
and the prominence with which the
article was played up should be gra
tifying to Kinstonians. It will bring
the attention of scores of thousands
of people on the outside to the hust
ling Queen City of the East that we
are all fond of.
NAVAL RESERVES COME
HOME FROM THE OCEAN
Norfolk, July 25. The cruise of
the North Carolina naval nplitia on
tho battleship Louisiana came to an
end last night. The Tarheel reserves,
together with those of several other
states, are leaving for homo today.
mcnt had declared the , Wisconsin mi
litia to be the model for the country.
Thia Polish company for three years
in succession has taken t the first
Wisconsin prize for field work. Splen
did soldiers, thoroughly American,
but adding variegation to Uncle Sam's
storm coat ; - ,
; "Chicago's colored regiment, the
Eighth, adds variety and evgn snap
piness. It is hard for Chicago's col
ored troops to ride, in-the Jim Crow
section of the street cars, San Anto
nio, southern style. Today I encoun
tered Col. F. A. Dennison, colored,
chicfv of the negro regiment, who
said: , . ... .
: "I thinks we have the only dead
sure American regiment in the entire
lot. The other regiments have got
all kinds of folks in them, but we're
all the same. Wehre so American
that we obey the San Antonio laws
and ride in separate compartments of
the street car, the other, day
when the army Y. M. C. A. put up
that big frame building right on the
edge of the camp and arranged for a
white Y. M. Ci A. I couldn't vouch
for the safety of the building if my
men got at it . ' , -
"t couldn't keep them from tear
ing it down and I wouldn't
' "The Y. M, C. A people under
stood, and one of them told me pri
vate, I respect you for your action.' "
Some of the "Typical Americana"
Get In Trouble. L"-. ""
San Antonio," Tex, July 24-Four
negro soldiers, members of the Eighth
Illinois National Guard, were shot to
night by a squad of the Guard that
had come to the rescue of a white
man the soldiers were attacking near
the militia camp. None were seri
ously injured, all the bullets striking
in the legs.
JULY 25, 1916
ISANTEE FLOOD NOV
AT ITS WORST BUT
BRIDGES ARE FAST
High Water Covers A. C. U
Tracks Mother and Ba
by Drowned Upstate
Four Score Other Vic
tiros of Awful Disaster
'Lenoir, July 24-i-Two of the sad
dest deaths reported 6 far for this
county was the tragic drowning of
Mrs. Amey iShumake and little babe
in Johns river Saturday night. The
Shumake family lived a few miles up
above Collettesvill about McLean's
creek. The house was built in close
to the stream; a mountain arose very
abruptly just back of the house. A
landslide from this mountain some
time during the night completely de
molished the house and knocked the
entire building in the river;
Catawba Still Risinf.
Charlotte, July - 24. Continuous
heavy rains in this section since Sat
urday have caused small creeks to
overflow and greatly damaged grow-
crops in the lowlands. Two small
creeks coursing sections of this city
this morning are at flood tide, forcing
numbers of colored families to leave
their homes. The Catawba Tiver 12
miles away at Mount Holly is report
ed rising again and giving trouble to
railroad construction forces building
temporary bridges washed away in
the flood last week.
Crest of Santee's Rise.
Charleston, S. C, July 24. The
crest of the flood in the Santee river
is reported tonight to have reached
St. Stephen's, but bridges along the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad are said
to bo holding. High water covering
tho track in many sections have caus
ed all trains to be detoured.
TEMPORARY RECRUITING
STATION FOR THE NAVY
A representative of the navy re
cruiting service will be in Kinston on
Thursday. He will answer all ques-
ions regarding life in 'the navy, and
if there are any young Americans be
tween the ages of 17 and 30 wishing
o take the physical examination they
can do so on that day by seeing the
agent at the postoflice between the
hours of 12 and 5. Any wishing to
join the navy will be sent by him to
Norfolk, Chief Machinist's Mate
Charles CL Jones notifies The Free
Press from the Richmond recruiting
station.
NORFOLK SOUTHERN TO
TAKE PART STANDARD
OIL PLANT SITE, SAID
The Norfolk Southern Railroad has
laid claim to a part of the ground
n Southeast Kinston on Which is lo
cated the local plant of the Standard
il Company, and the latter is pre
paring to move, it is reported from a
liable source. What use the prop
erty will be put to by the railroad,
which has during tho year recovered
much land in the city. said to have
been deeded to it many years ago,
and since occupied by squatters, is
not definitely knpwn. The Standard
Oil Company is said not to have se-
ured a new site, yet ,
GREENVILLE WOMAN
' WOULD-BE SUICIDE
Greenville, July 25. A- white wo
man of the river section here, famil
iarly known as "Margaret'-and whose
last name is an uncertainty, attempt-.!
ed suicide ty swallowing three bi
chloride of mercury tablets. Physi
cians were hastily summoned;, , they
say she may get welL
Despondency following the death of
near relative and heavy drinking
were given as the causes
REPAIRING CARS.
New Bern, July 25. The Norfolk
Kju:.horn Railroad has laid off 300
f.i '. U cars to bo overhauled.
FOUR PAGES TODAY
vi n nnnc in iimcthm
I LUUUO 111 mildlUlt
APPROXIMATE THAT
WARNING SOUNDED
Neuse Out of Bounds and
Enormous Increase in Flat Country, With Water Al
ready Spreading 'Through LowlandsOther Streams
Threaten Damage Crops Suffering Heavy; Rains All
Through Region North Carolina Having Floods In All
Sections at One Tiirie; Unusual Situation in State
Railroads Guarding Against, Washouts Similar to That
Which Developed Hero at Havelock 1 1
v . j t - , -. .
Neuse river was out of
this morning, according to
rate of an inch an hour heer at 10 a. m. Little or no dam
age has been done to stock and crops sofar,butevery in
dication points to serious floods in the low country. There
was a prospect that the stream might go over the bank on
he opposite side from Kinston. . , v-.t .v iyjt t)t n
The flood waters from the recent rains up the country,
lave not come down. They are on their way in great vol-,
ume, however, and it is from the upstream freshets that
damage is feared. JFive and 96 one-hundredths inches of
rain have failed here during the month, added to the re
cord precipitation of 9.14 inches in June. Monday night
1.55 inches fell,- most of it from daybreak to a. m. lne
narrow river above here cannot possibly hold all the mass
of water that is now rushing eastward.. The stream Sun
day night rose five feet and went beyond the banks in the
lnw trapes. Tt is from the fact that it is snreadinff out and.
submerging the Rowlands that the rise is not so. rapid; 't
Reports from the rural sections of I
Lenor county vary a to the damago
done crops. All indicate somo slight
damage from the general heavy rains
especially to cotpn. Some pessimis
tic accounts put the harm done at a
reduction of 15 per cent, or more in
the production. With ths prospect
for bright weather today or tomor
row, however, it is believed that the
crops will quckly recuperate and that
tobacco and cotton will hold their
own. s , .' :: v
Damage in Other' Counties. ,
The unusually heavy precipitation
has done harm in other counties it is
known. Cartaret and Pitt admit
quite heavy crop losses.
Planters all along tho Neuso Moc
casin, Tar and itoanoKe rivers arc
guarding stock with care. Few ani
mals have been left In the lowlands
to be caught by the threatening
floods. v. ' -
With the eastern rivers overflowing
North Carolina is experiencing a sit
uation without! precedent in its his
tory, practically tho entire stats,
more than COO miles from end to end,
suffering flood damage at one time.
Negro Saved Passenger Train.
Fho Norfolk Southern wrilroad is
still having to transfer passengers
around a washout at Hnveloek, where-
bridge went by the board Sunday.
Reconstruction of the bridge is under
way and is expected to be completed
Wednesday. Passenger train No. 9
n the Norfolk Southern, duo hero at
14 p. m., did not arrive Monday
night until about 11:30. Aftr the
bridge went down Sundy a negro
iamed W. L. Lawhoni sent his witc
in one drcdion from :) c b tak and he
went another, tho two !itr.ti,'inj fiinrd
warn approaching traiit.. Law-
ho flerged down a tvuin froia Beau
fort, undoubtedly saving the lives of
many passengers, lhe train was
crowded with excursionists returning
from the seashore to Kinston and
other points. Th?y made up a puree
of $31 and rewarded Lawhorn, con
grctulatng .Lim and making a hero of
him. The story of Lawhorn's deed
was flashed to Northern newspapers
Monday.
Railroad track walkers on all lines
!n this part of the state are exercis
ing unusual vigilance, watching for
washouts and possibly wrecked places
In the roadbeds, none of which cast
of the main line of the A. C. L. ore
of especially substantial construction.
Peebles Iasues Warningfl .
Local Weather Observer: H. C, V.
Peebles today gave out the following
statement: - - . t i ;.
'July, 2. .04 inch; 10th, JD8 Mich;
14th, .22 inch; 19th. .07 Lich; 21st,
.10 inch; 22nd, 5 inch; 23rd, 1.15
inches; 24th, 10 inches; 25th, to 8
" m , 1.55 nclws, total, 5.96 iiithes. .
"As 'JLo ttcna tl socn, tr bo sj
e ral over the slate, and especially
o!ci: the r'ftt'jrehcdj that draU into
PRICK TWO CENTS
FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS
q crTinw i hti v - to
0LUIIU1V LIllLLI IU
OF EIGHT YEARS AGO.
BY WEATHER OBS'RV'It
Rising Inch an ''Hour, Which Is
. . . 4 , . .
bounds at ooints above here
reports, and was rising'at the
COSTS GOVERNMENT
LOT OF MONEY KEEP
UP POSTAT GLENN
$110,000 to Be Expended In
Pay Alone Understood
Railr'ds Charge Straight.
Transportation,; But Will
Cut ;
' The bill for transportation of -the
soldiers at Camp Glenn has been en
ormous, according to a report from
an authoritative source. So far, it is
said, the soldiers have been charged
for at the regular passenger rate by
tho .Norfolk Southern. In other
words, vouchers have been accepted
for tickets and the latter charged up
to the Government at . the regular
rate. There will be a big reduction,
in all probability, when the Govern
ment comes to settle with the railroad
general 'offices say to a cen a & mile
straight or something of the sort,
It takes a pile of money to maintain
eve temporary anny post at Camp
Glenn. For instance, (the men, who
have been in service just i a., little
more than a month, ere anticipating
a payday soon, at which not less than ;
one hundred and ten thousand dollars
will be disbursed. Their eats and (their
new clothes, including ' expensive
sweaters, three suits of underclothes
apiece, good, serviceable shoes and!
new- fatigue -uniforms and the like,
will call for the expenditure of an
other great big sum. ,
A SOLDIER FROM CAMP ,
GLENN TYPHOID VICTIM.
New Bern, July 251. Roland Ed
wards of Goldsboro. 4 member of the
Second N. C. Infantry, sent here
from Camp Glenn for typhoid treat
ment, died 3n a hogpitaL , He was
critically ill when brought here. The
remains were sent to Goldsboro.
Neuse river, are heavy and cr rtanu
us, . we may expect very high wuter
probably approximating the flood of
1908, :. On the night of the 23rd toe
river rose about 5 feet, and it fa now
rising at the rate of one inch .n
hour, which means two" feet, every
!4 hours.---With the water spreading
3ut into the lowlands as. iri now
doing, an nch an hour i a tremen
dous rise in a level country a$ this,
s 1 warn those .who ' have etick in
the low grounds and crops hi! lands
1'
subject to overflow
the worst" i
to prepara for