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VOL. XVIII. No. 55
SECOND EDITION " KTNSTOV . v f?. TiHTRsnAV ATTniTST ioia
TfdCE"WO CENTS -FJVE
CENTS ON TRAINS
FOUR PAGES TODAY
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l DIE FOIj FJY COUNTRY," LAST WORDS Of IfUND FOR TIIE RELIEF SflllW. CAUSED
UNSAFELY ON WAY TO BREMEN
IIENM GALLOWS: IRISHMAN GAVE OF FLOOD SUFFERERS NEW BOND RF filVFN
AFTER SNEAKING BY; THE FRANCO-BRITISH
UP LIFE FOR TREASON TO THEGOVERIM PASSES 30 THdUS'ND FOR SAfJllEL STOCKS
COAST LAST NIGHT
T. ... .7 . ... . v. - 1
GERM'N HOUSEWIVES
ACCOMPLISH A.10T
DEUTSCHLA1
CASE
PATROL FLEET OFF W
Crowd Heard Tolling of Bellas Former Knight Paid Pen- No Abatement In Contribu- State's Attorney Wanted to
mittee at Raleigh
Subscriptions Still
ing In
-Local
Com-
alty Condemned, Said Rosary in Clear Voice Before
Mount ing. Plat formWalked Calmly to Death Behind
Priest 'Beautiful Morning,', Was Greeting to Guard
After Daybreak Daring Character Who Helped Engi-
neer Kecent Revolution and came up . rom me
- ... . I According to the report of the
Depths In German SuhmerSlJMe, tO. Help Lead Or lorn Treasurer of the State Relief Com
mittee the total contributions for the
reief of the flood sufferers of West
ern North Carolina received to Wed
nesday night amounted to $30,397.86.
The stories of distress and devas
tation continue to come in, and every
report, from those who have actually
visited the scene of disaster, adds to
the magnitude of the catastrophe.
tions Going to Relief Com- Be On Safe Side Few
SigncrS of Big 'Bail to Be
gin With, But Others Be
ing Added
Hope Seemed Satisfied to Meet Fate
Samuel Stocks' $10,000 bond was re
newed lata Wednesday. The alleged
lyncher came here in company with
Sheriff Williams of Greene county, J,
Paul Frizzelle, his lawyer, and J. O
Sugg, 'his landlord. Solicitor Shavr
declined toi continue the bond given
after the Investigation here several
weeks ego in which Judge Bond or
dered that 'Stocks be held. An xm
(By tfee United Press)
London, Aug. 3. Roger Casement paid the penalty for
Li- A. ...1 1 1 1 T-A JIT- I A
ins treason wnen ne was nangea in renumvine prison at
9:07 o'clock this morning. Ten minutes later the body was
cut down and life was pronounced extinct5
Casement's last WOrdS While Waiting for the drop tO be While the contributions are steadily certainty irf the language, the prose
Sprung WaS "I die I for my COUntry." Prison Officials Wit-, coming in to the headquarters it will ctttor says, Convinced him that a new
neSSed the execution. A large Crowd 1UtSlde Only heard be necessary for much more money to
the bell tolled. , A few cheered, others groaned- Several be contributed befdra the state can
Irih women led hv an Irish Parliamentarian started a feel that ik "-one its duty by its
demonstration.' but it was stopped. - . ' v
Casement went calmly to his death, led by a Catholic
Priest. He retired at 10:30 last night, slightly nervous
This morning he smiled at his guard and said, "It s a beau
tiful morning." A rosary ended the litany, which Case
ment said m a clear voice. Casement was arrested on
Am-il 22 after landing on tne insn coast irom a uerman wm be revived and the people here
submarine. He was degraded from his knightship after Lbouts win appreciate the need for
4tA trkTivfottnn . further eid. The subscriptions to
Solicitor Garvin Duffy, Casement's i counsel, was indig- date are as follows:
nant at the reiusai oi tne autnorities 10 release vase
hn(v. annlied for after the inquest. The refusal
wa "a monstrous act of indecency," he said
Rf
afflicted citizens.
The subscriptions from Kinston anc
Lenoir county noyr aggregate
$737.41. There has been a slump 'in
the number of contributions for the
past two days, but the local, commit
tee is still hopeful that the interest
Previously reported $732.41.
J. W. Moseley 1.00
Y. T. Ormond (additional 4.00
bond was preferable.
ine nona : was oroerea lorceitea in
Superior C6urt at Kenansville last
week when;Stocks failed to appear
when called for trial. Howevw, . it
was explained to the presiding judge
that there had been misunderstanding
and that Stocks' absence was not out
of bad faith, and he gave the defense
ten days in which to arrange the bond
matter.
There were only three signers of
the new bond Wednesday, but thejs
are being added today. No attempt
was made, on account of the lateness
of the hqur, to canvass for signers
Wednesday.
If
NO GREAT HO PR
HARMONY, if If I
ilAPOLiS NOW
Some Moosers Favor tWtt
son, Others Want to Keep
Out ; Election t and .Still
Others Want Fight Both
Parties
(By the United Prfts)
Indianapolis, Aug. 3. A split di
viding the rest of the Progressive
party was emphasized with the arriv
al today of the leaders for the nation
al conference which opened this morn-
Some want to ignore tho present
lection, some want to support Wil
s ob and others want to call a conven
tion to light both the Republicans and
'Democrats.
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OVERZEAL. MIGIIIDE
RESPONSIBLE RISE
IN COTTON; THINKS
The recent Government crop report
and bai3 weather conditions' ore not
d together responsible, ; for the big
jump in cotton, Mr.-J. F. Taylor be
lieves. The local cotton mill man
thinks epeculators have something to
da with the high prices now. The
forecast for a total prodiictioa of 12,
016,000 bales," against Jast year's
Crop of 13,500,000, would not justify
Very great increase, he thinks. . In
flation is not surprising to Mr. Taylor':..'-:
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SENATE CONFIRMS FOUR
- ;.FMM LOAN MEMBERS
Washington, Aug. ZrThe' Senate
today confirmed unanimously the nom
ination of Chas. E. Lobdell, Great
Beud, Iowa; Geo. W. Norris of Phil
adelphia; WF. A. Smithy of Sioux
City, Iowa, and Herbert Quick of
Berkley Springs, W. Va, as members
of the new Farm Loan Board. There
was no opposition. j
Kll FIGHTING
5T;
0
Grand total to date. . .$737.41
(it i rrr'i iHTfi I
dlAltSi jO iirooifit Tri
NIKAUIblUKI
tt&t ih
British
PfE SUBSTITUTES
THE U.
P. FOR ENCYCLICAL
Make , Positions
Stronger French Claim
Gains; Berlin Denies
(By the United Preet)
Rome. Aue. 8. The Pone's exnres-
sion of hope that the prayers of chil
dren would bring divine intercession
GaS Prevents Surprise Of I for stopping the war, expressed in
Cardinal Gasparri's message to the
United Press Saturday, was substi
tuted for a papal encyclical planned
to. be published today.
the Russians
GERMAN AIRMEN IN
RiOVEREiiil
KILL ONLY HORSES
(By the United Press) .
London, Aug. X A German air
raid over Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk
and Esses counties this morning
killed nine horses and injured
three, it j3 officially stated. ,
-yrr
They Discover a Lot of Sub
stitutes and Prepare Ex
cellent Meals From Wha
American Women Would
Throw Away
' (By ihe United Press) ,
London, Aug. S.The British today
continued consolidation of tho ground
gained General Haig reported. A
constant artillery duel is in progress.
French Claim Progressi. ' '
Paris. Aue. 3. Material progress
iiottth of Flpury'js officially reported.
Ir. Freneh advances beyona tnat sia
tion yesterday they took 700 prison-
ers, maKing a xoiai oi x.iuu buk.-p
Tuesday on the right bank of the
Mo'use. .
Cnatradictory Statement '
Berlin,,.Aug. 8British and French
attacks in the west failed yesterday,
tVoJnciafljt reported.
Germans'Gave Warning of Attack
With Gas. , t
Potrograd, Aug. 3-Gormany gas
warned the Kussians of a Teuton at
tack today and enabled them to beat
back the Teutons in the Tegion of
Smorgen. The Teutons lost heavily.
A number ol machine guns and rifles
were captured, it is said officially.
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ANXIETY I'HENNEhS
IS WjllAT LlNR
BRITANNIC IS SUNK
FIREMAN KILLED IS BAD
FREIGHT WRECK UPSTATE
MANN WITHDREW HIS
OPPOSITION TO THE
RELIEF
RESOLUTION
Salisbury, Aug. 2.- Fireman Moses
N. Misenheimer was killed and En
gineer E It. Foy and Brakeman J.
L. McKinnsy ladly injured in the
wreck of a southbound freight train
near Hall's Ferry this Afternoon, 20
miles from Salisbury on the Yadkin
road. The engine and several .freight
cara are said to have rolled down
high embankment and Misenheimer
was caught under his' locomotive, his
Death was
Three Ships of: Name No
DetaUThe Giant White
Star Ship Believed, to- Be
Safe In a British Harbor,
However-' -
, (By the United Prees)
London, Aug.' 3-The liner
Britannic waa that owaed by the -
Cookerlhi Cb, of 3,500 tons.
London, Aug. 3. The liner Brit-
And Government Will i Aid
Flood Sufferers Of North body. being badly mashed
t instantaneous.
Carolina and of the Other
States Tarheels Will Get
$300,000 ::?;TM
(Special to The Free Press)
Washinsrton, Aug. 4. After Minor
ity Loader Mann had withdrawn his
opposition to the appropriation of
$540,000' for the flood sufferers In
North Carolina and other States yes
terday afternoon, the House ' passed
the measure, which already had pass
ed the Senate. North Carolina will
get $300,000. Th relief measure be
came immediately operative. -
Representative Mann explained that
his opposition was ' based on the
growing tendency of sections hurt by
floods 16 exoect Federal aid, jyhich
he deplored. 1
PALMETTO TOBACCO
(N FIELDS IS SAD
SPECTACLE, ; STATED
Local Weed Men Travel
Through Flood . Country
In South Carolina About
Half of tho Crop Ruined
or About So
tanie has been sunk. It is announced
that she was unarmed. No details
have been bad. There are throe ves
sels, of that name, one a White Star I p?r cent is virtually worthless,
liner, one of the biggest afloat, of 47 j the remainder of the crop y bringing
600 tons, the others of 3,500 tons and prices unprecedentedly high--the ad
2,300 tons.'' One is British owned byfvance being from 25 per cent for
In the Carolina tobacco belt from
20 to 25 per cent, of the crop out
standing when the floods began is a
total less. Of the1 rest from 20 to 30
and
W, P. Cookerlia & Cov the others
are Norwegian. V
Bif liner Believed Tied, Up. . .;
New York, Aug. 3 No information
has been had at the local White Star
offices of the Brittanica's sinking. The
big liner, it is said, is believed to be
aid up in a British port
.h best grades 'to 150 per cent for
the poorest weed. These figures are
authentic; theyare from a source as
high as could be reached. ; . '
Messrs. R. L. Crip and C. J),
Dadson, local tobacconists, are just
back from' the 'belt1 At least three
q iarters of a million pounds was sold
By CARL W. ACKERMAN,
(United Tress Staff Correspondent)
Berlin, July 2 (By Mail) -Today
that the available food is rooked so
it cart- be eaten. Germany's land
storm women fight at home against
the blockade while the landsturm man
attacks the enemy at the front.
A GermnhRtMfrai can't ge to the
Khops or market now and get what
she wants. She cannot evea (ret
sufficient of some things she needs.
She con huy only one-half pound of
mat a week for each person. If he
gets pork she grinds it up fine and
mixes it with broad crumbs. This
loaf she rousts. One-third of this she
serves for one meal. Next day she
does without meat. The tlir day
she sorves another third. The .fourth
ay she has fish and tho fifth day
she boils what is left of the. meat' with
milk and has creamed meat on toast
Potatoes are scarce, but with more
bread and -incoming spring vegeta
bles ths cook makes some kind of a
new dish.
The world probably never has seen
such resourcefulness displayed by or
ganised society as ia evidenced in Ber
lin today. Women who could no long
er obtain enough flour for baking
cakes discovered that a vory pood
cake could be made by grating up
carrots with the whites of two eggs
and sugar." The government "is now
selling soup c.ubes made of wheat and
ftt for one cent each, which makes
3 cups of good soup. Asparagus has
t3ken the place of potatoes at many
meals.
Everyone in Berlin today eats by
cards. Those wha l;ve in apart
ments receive at the beeinninir of
ttwh month their allotment of cards
from the portor. These cards include
bread, butter, meat, milk, nice and
potato cards." Every time the haus
frau goes to market she must take
her cards along. Meat and butter are
ww regulated so shie can buy them
without standing for several hours in
1: e. . . ; '
One cako of soap per month per
person is the regulated quantity. Let
the landsturm frau and her family
make the best of it afld keep not only
alive but in jjood health.
Submerged Mile Off Shore - After Crew v Had Cheered
AmericaNearest Cruiser Was a Speck on Horizpn
When Pioneer Submersible Began Homeward Voyage
of History-making Trip Kocnig Last to Descend Be
fore Craft Sank Below Surface Not Even Periscope
Has Deutschland Shown Since, Believcd-Wessel Show
cd Her Lights Until She Got Ready for Plunge Com
panion Tug Seemed Delighted With Work
(By CARL GROAT)
Norfolk, 'Aug. 3. Somewhere in the direction of Ger
many and safely past the Allied warships, the Deutseh-
land is boring her way through the Atlantic .toward her
home port, Bremen. - - A
Reports indicate that the Deutschland has not shown
her periscope since she submerged a mile outside the
capes late last night. Then the nearest warship was five
miles away. ' The master of the tug Timmons said ' the
crew's last act was a cheer for America. Capt. Koenig
was the last to descend. V .'.
The liner displayed red and green Hght3 as she went
down the bay, but they were extinguished as she prepar
ed to submerge. v. : : :-,
Cant. ilinsch. commander of the interned liner Neck-"
ar, said the Deutschland planned to submerge in daytime-
odav and afterwards only when necessary to avoid war
ships. She Will proceed on the surface most of the time,
ne stated, -
.1
M WARNING AT Dip
AND MISHAP OCCURRED
Dr. Ira M.' Hardy suffered a sprain
ed neck and back and had ono knee
skinned up about 11 o'clock Tuesday
night when his' automobile struck a
ditch on East Washington avenue at
Lenoir street. The excavation had
yeen left unmarked, Or. Hardy aays.
The car's front wheels went into the
ditch but bounded out, and the rear
wheels entered and Tested in it. Dr.
Hardy, complaining at what he thinks
was neglijrence, beleives that had he
been driving very fast he would have
suffered severe injury. The machine
was damaged to the extent of about
$150. , ....
before the formal opening of the
sales season of August! 1, and there
t ik. e. . ft. i. . -i
iuic, lub ur&b ura.&9 were not us oig
as they might have been. However,
the prices were the highest Mr. Crisp
had ever seen. Conditions in the belt,
said, were as bad as could be im
agined. Mr. Dodson says that' west
of the . Peedee river, in the section
embracing ' Florence, Lake City and
other markets,' the floods were worst;
the east section, including Mullins and
Mariort. did not suffer quite so much.
Not much water is left standing in
the fields now, of course, but the crop
ij a pitiable sight Not half crop
either of .cotton or tobacco, is being
made in the country that he saw, Mr,
Crisp believes. ' : V , T. , 1
Panned Out Caoes at 8:30 P. M
Washington, Aug. 2. Ths '. tug
Thomas F. Tirominf which accompaft-
tho German merchant sufkmarino
Deutschland down tho bay from Bal
timore, reported to tho United States
neutrality squadron outside Hampton
Roads tonieht that the, Deutschland
had passed cut 6f tho capes at 8:30
m. ..... , ' .
Th JKrominV message was picked
bv the destrover Sterrstt, which
relayed it to the Noa folk navy yard
The destrover then was outside the
L t
hrse-mile limit to see that the sub-
mersible's passage out was not inter,
fered with by the Allied cruisers off
the capes until she has passed out of
the territorial waters of the United
States. '
The commandant of the Norfolk
navy yard .sent the following to tho
Navy Department: r,
'U. S. S. Sterrctt reports: 'subma
rine reported by tug Timmins to have
passed out the capes at 8:30, across
the three anile limit."
Safely on Way Home.
iNorfolk, Aug. 2. The Deutschland,
the giant Carman submarine, cleared
the United States shores at 8;30 to
night, apparently unobserved by hos
tile craft, and now, so far as is known
here, Is safely on her homeward
bound Journey.
Nh untoward incident marred the
departure of the Deutschland shortly
before nightfall. She was accompa
nied by her tug and a newspaper dis
patch boat when she began an eighteen-mile
dash from lower Chesa
peake Bay to the Virginia capes,
which ended about two hours later
when her last light blinked out in the
gloom.
None of the Allied cruisers which
had been waiting to intercept the sub
marine liner nor the United States
neutrality, ships which have been pa
trolling the neutral line so closely re
cently were in sight at the time of
the submarine's departure from the
capes.
Whether she submerged before
reaching' the three-mile limit is un
known. The night was dark and a
heavy sea was running. Hence it
was impossible to discern her move
ments at the distance ehe was from
the two accompanying boats. They
only know that she disappeared un
harmed and that to all appearances
she had a clear field ahead to a point
where she could completely submerge!
in safety.
Timmma' Good Job.
Within half an hour after the last
light of the Deutschland bad disap
peared ler tug, the Thomas F. Tim
mins, hove into sight seemingly sat-.
Isfled with her work and beaded up
Chesapeake Bay in- the direction of
Baltimore.. ' -, -
It. was from . that city yesterday
that the Deutschland cleared with a :
CARMEN WILL
STRIKE AS RESIIU
:T0
FAILURI
ADJUST
Conference" Between Em
ployes and Company Ar
ranged for --. by . Mitchell
Disappointing Traffic
Tie-up Increasing ; '
(JRy the United I Prowl
.. New York, Aug. 2.--The tie-up of
1,300 additional cars operating on 450
miles of surface tracks within a day
seemed certain at noon, when con
ference called by the Mayor between
the Union and company failed. ;
.Eight thousand men are Affected.
Such an addition to the strike would
affect directly a total of 100 miles and
jojuuu men. , , ,
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BULLETINS
(By the United Press) ' "l
AIRMAN HAS BAGGED EIGHT.
Paris, Aug. 1 Sergt Chela,
int. a flyer, bagged two German
aeroplanes today, ' wakinn a 16
tal of eight to his credit, It ia '
, said officially. - v
PRESIDENT IS ASKED
INVESTIGATE Gr
RAILROAD PROBLEM
Subscribe to The Free Pres. 51 "
Washington, . Aug. 3. -Th'e.
President today requested a coi.
fcrence with Commissioner ChaW
bera of the U. S. Board of Medi
ation and Conciliation, presuma
bly to discuss the pending rail
road strike. '
The President faces a tremeri-?
dous problem In the threateheil
strike of 500 'OOO railroaders. The
matter was today put before hint 1
in the form of a letter from Chjik
nan Harry Wkeekr of the Rail
way Committee of the Uniuj
. States Chamber of Commerce, '
urging an official inquiry. " "
cargo of rubber, nickel, and possl jly
gold, 23 days after her sensational
arrival ' In"- American waters from
Brenwn. .