DdtUT LY 11 iif TOE WEATim Fair and WarmofJ .a VOI- XVIII.No. 56 SECOND EDITION TRICEtWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS , KINSTON, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1916 FOUR PAGES TODAY VIOLENTLY COUNTV IS EXPFCTCU 1 1 ' . k "I ' CITY SCHOOLS WILL COUNTRY WILL FACE P FOOD SITUATION IF RAILROAD MEN 00 OH STRIKE; SENATE IT BE, INITIAL THROUGH THE NIGHT TO GIVE THOUSAND OPEN FOR TERM ON tOHMlSS'N ON WESTERN FRONT 1 TOM FLOOD FUND THIRTEENTH SEITR LAYS ASIDE RESOLUTION FOR mi p w THE ME PAPER ... ts A j. ' '1-' '"''l '' FOUGHT flUESTION; THAT HEDWi Reply to Last American Note Handed State Department First Germans and Then Tdv-StresseK Fact Ttiaf U. S. Commissioners Shall French Attacked In the rf Engage With Carranza 'Delegates In Settlement of Pnints thp Do Facto President Would Like to Have Cleared Up-Belicved at Washington That the Mcxi can Commissioners Will Agree to Thresh Out Question oi Border Guard Along With Those of Patrol, Bandit F"h Retook Thiaumont Verdun Sector SEEMS LITTLE CHANGE Raids and Recall of Pershing and HisJ'orces Redoubt Only to Be Chas ed Out of It Again Teu tons Massed to Assault, Is Rejx)rt (By the United Press)- Paris, Aug. 4. In a violent battle northeast of Verdun last nigh', the (By the United Prats) Washington. Auet. 4. jCarranza still insists that the first thing to be decided upon by the United States and Mexico is withdrawal of the American troops. Ambassador Arredonda today handed Acting Secre tary of State Polk the reply to the last American note, suggesting tnat me commissioners sei,uc nai l Gt,lmans lost cnorm0uBiy. Tbey re- the outset. The communication lormauy namea me pea ted their counter-attacks in mass Mexican Commissioners. It laiu StreSS On me iaci Uldl ed formation, it is said officially, and iheAmerican commissioners shall "devote their time to fought aii night. This morning one the "points mentioned in our (the Mexican) previous note." and 'hn the other side was advanc- TIipsp nninta are the withdrawal, settlement of the oues- ini?- The French, it is said, rcoccu- iint, nftha WrW rmtrnl Jinrl ifiYino- t.h'P rpsnrmsihilitv fnr M'kd Thiaumont redoubt but were dri V eruifi- wnnrvti ia marin nf rr.o Wrier rmostinn 1rititih Nt Very Active, i.-ii i-x xL- Kf...: ...:n ' London, Aug. 4.-Ihe left wing of out 11 is wiougia tue meAicaii.wiiuiiiaaiuiiWB win agice the mtiA in thc Somme offonsivc thresh out the whole question. Kained last night jn minor operations May Meet in Atlantic llty. ' west of Pozieres, Gsneral Haig re iTie note says Carranza "congratulates himsell upon ports, the laudable enort of the American government to arrive Germans Retake Ficury. at afiftlution OI the existinff difficulties." and that. ArrpH- Berlin, Aug. 4. The Germans ire- ondo is authorized to discuss the place and date of the pturod the village of Fieuy 'and meeting. The Mexican commissioners are expected to trenches to the west and northwest of rf the commissioners, is already en route. The others are Luis Cabrere and Albert Openy. It is rumored that Atlantic City or Asbury Park will be the meeting place Mark Set by Local Commit tees Can'Iie' Attained by Givhiff About $250 PJf CQNTRIBUTORS ADD WC 4 ; i. Only One Donation In Near Jy 24 Hours, Bringing To tal Up to $742.41 Kins ton and Lenoir Will Do Their Share MEXICO RpAlUf WES COMMISSIONERS . V v h T Mexico, tMty, Aug. 3. It was offi cially announced at the Mexican for eign office trfday that Lute Cabrera, Ynacio Bonillas and Alberto Pani have leen selected as the commis sioners to negotiate with the United States commissioners regarding ihe questions at issue between Mexico and the United States. Cabrera is Carranza's minister of finance; tBonilla is under secretary of cenvmunications; Alberto J. Pani is presitlent of the national railways erf Mexico. i dPSBOKO WILL HAVE -L'OyiNG HCTURE STUDIO Greensboro, Aujr. 3. Greensboro ia to have a moving (picture company, to he known as the Gate City Moving Picture, Incorporated." The au thorized capital is $100,000, and its oflkws are some of the city's best known business men. The purpose of the company is to make films, feat uring Roland Hill, a wellxknown young man of this city, who is al ready a moving picture actor. Work will be commenced on the studio in Greensboro in ' a few weeks. GREENE COUNTY MAN 11 WORKED IN A BARN WITH BIG RATTLER Albert Harper, a planter, had ob jectionable company in a tobacco barn near Snow Hill Thursday after noon.. A big rattlesnake was enjoy ing something more than 100 degrees of heat after having found its way into the barn from the wet ground outside. When Harper discovered the reptile's presence he secured a gun and shot it. , The snake was probably the larg est ever killed in, the section. It's body was carried to Snow Hill and measured, proving to be four feet eight and a half inches long. TJis reptile had twelve rattles and a but-j ton. It was placed on exhibition. , 1 j" NEGRO BELIEVED TO MM VICTIM in violent fighting this morninff. t he t rench took them du ring the nfght. Further Slav Gains. Petrograd, Aug. 4. In driving to ward Koval Russian detachments have crossed to the left bank Of the Stock hod in the region of Lubecho, captifr- ing a series of heights. BIG ITALIAN UNER TORPEDOED; NEARLY A Women and Children Are Among Those Who May Have Perished First Submarining Passenger Ship in Months craves Magistrate deports women from pembroke after row nw Rem," Aug. 4. After C. M. FrariV ,,4 boatman, and William Ke-t-eham- a farmer, had been severely beaten for hoodlums at Pembroke,, a local suburb, they took refuge in the house of Grace Marshall. The Mar shall , woman and- another who was with her went ut with unnamed men from Kinston, and the gang, who had followed Franks' "and Ketcham to the ouse, rtcrmed ; it ..'for dmittarjce,' which w gained. A rough , and JTnble fight followed. A revolver! was used but no one injured. , ' ; The sheriff intervened. One arrest was made and four gir,ls were de tained for iritoOMca. They knew lit-. of the fracas and spent most of Aeir lime in custody explaining their presence at. Pembroke, ihe repaU- of Vhich place ia not rd. is VIOLENCE Lazarus Rouse, colored, about M years old, shot at his home in the Liddell section several nights ago by an unidentified assailant, believed to have been a metrdwr of a party of white men disguised as negroes, died today. The sher iff's office received the informa tion this afternoon, and Sheriff Taylor nd Cewmer Weed prepar ed to go to LiddctV , .' Rouse in believed to liave .heen shot because of Jisrcspcctfid ut terancee about white girU. , GREENVILLE MIISTEK ; MAV JOIN THE ;EEGL'LARS - XJreenville, Aug. 4. 4ft - is learned hare foom n authoritative , aource ihai Adjutant-General ' McCain of the army will recommend the ap pointment of Rev. H. K. Blanchard, pastor of Memorial Baptist : church here, to a chaplaincy 'in the army with the rank of first lieutenant. (By the United Press) London. Aug. 4. Eighty to hun dred persons are missing and may have perished in the submarining f the Italian mailer Lctimbro in the Mediterranean. The missing include women and children. Three boatloads of survivors have been landed, two at Syracuse and one at Moltz. The Lctimbro was the first big passenger ship submarined in months. The females were ordered by Mag istrate Hancock to leave Pembroke and Eddie McCoy was bound ove to eourt for resktio arrest 4 YOUNG PHYSICIAN OF "THIS STATE HEROIN PHILADELPHIA llRE (By the Eastern Press) Washington, N. C., Aug. 4. Phila delphia . newspapers devote much space to a daring feat pulled off by Dr Allan Moore of this citv. a young Episcopal hospital interne, in a fire which did three-quarters of a million dollars ' damage in a manufacturing setion of the Pennsylvania city. ' Moore and another physician climb ed ladder to a roof far above the , ground and rasucitated two firemen overcome by smoke. They in turn were overcome. Firemen finally got' afl ; few down after considerable; trouble. A big crowd attracted by the blase cheered the doctors. J Only $5 was added to Kinston's and Lmoir county's contribution for the West Carolina flood sufferers from the time of Thursday's report to p. m. today. The fund in the State reached about $31,000 Thursday night. . Kinston and the county have done handsomely by the cause, but Messrs, N.J. Rouse and W. B. Pouprlass of the local committee are hoping to raise a thousand dollars here Now that the extent of the damage in the floodsd country is more capable of being realized, looming up larger than formerly reported, it is suggest ed that persons who hastened to con tribute when the call was first made add to their donations, if they feel inclined and ablo to do so. Some', it is supposed, might like to do this, not having been fully cognizant of the gravity of the situation a few. days ago. A few have already done so. A i 1 i ..... anyway, me -local contribution is likely to go to th: thousand-dollar mark, n an opinion ventured on the ground hat Ainstwi never fails to accomplish what it cuts out. A lit tle morn than $2G0 is needed to bring it to that sum. The subscriptions to date are as follows: Previously reported 737.41 W. II. Howell 5.00 Grand total to date .$742.-11 AHMED SUBMAFi CONVOYED KOENIfi'S SHIP AWAY, STATES Germany Had Fighting Submersible" Off Capes and AHicd Patrol Knew It, Liner Master Says at Washington (By the United Press) Washington, Aug 4. Ocean-going fighting submarines were off the Vir ginia capes protecting the Deutsch- land, according, to Capt.. Georga. . Knowell of the Norfolk-Washington steamer Southland. Ho says that is the reason the t)eutschland escaped.. The warships knew they were there, he states. FATAL ROW. AT MCTOLtJS. Pactolus, tN..C, Aug- r-Elistua Ward, colored, was shot and k&od in stantly by Robert Wilson, Jr, another negro, her' yesterday. The slaying occurred in tobacco barn and follow ed a -dispute. IfE SHELB1NE IS SUICIDE? 0 REASON KNOWN FOR HIS Act (By the Eastern Press ' Greenville, Aag. 4. Lee IShel burne. 25, son of Mr. and. Mrs. E. H. Shrtburne nd a member of ne f the mt prominent famil ies here, suicided some time dur ing last night by hooting him elf 'through he head with a re yplvcr. The act was committed 4a the heme of A friend. ' y reason 4a Iuiowb for the wicide, bat Shelbarne im Mid to bare been drinking.. Sheibarae was ell-kawa ia Kinsto and titer places ia this aectiea. Three Advisory Committees Named at Suggestion of New Superintendent MAY HAVE LUNCH PLACE To Feed Youngsters at the Noon Hour $300 Availa ble From sSlatcr Fund for Industrial Training Col ored Pupils Th- Kinston city schools will begin tin l!l(i-17 scholastic yoar on lieu kmbor 13. The day is Wednesday. Th's was the announcement following meeting of the Board of Trustees Thursday night. At the suggestion of Suot. Kater Curtis, committees on "teachers and policies," "buildings nnd equipment," and finance, were named by thc trus tees. The members have not been an nounced officially. These committees, it is stated, will be advisory only, and will have no administrative authori ty. They will lc consulted by or make suggestions to the superintend ent and. trustees on the things within their spheres, when advisable, it is understood, but will not be empower cd for any action without the D-iard's or the Superintendent's formal ap proval. Consideration is being made' of a proposition to donate $3Q0 to supple ment an equal shm frofc the well- known Slater fund for domestic sci ence instruction in the Tower Hill school, colored. Th Slater money Is not available unless the local authorv ties appropriate. Favorable action is anticipated. A proposition to establish a lunch place for tho schools .in orth Kins ton was heard by the Trustees Thurs day nij;ht. No final action on this matter has been taken. The lunch- stand idea is not new, although it Mcldom inaugurated in a place of Kins ton's size. TREATY BETWEEN 0. MARK IS SIGNED AT NEW Y(M Employes Regard Action as a Victory for Them Con troversy Matter for Themselves and Companies io Thresh Out, Assert-rPrcsident Calls for Another Cem ferenee With Judge Chambers and Cabinet Discusses Threatening Trouble Evident That Government Will Try to Prevent Walkout That Would Tie Up Traffic Throughout Nation Interior Cities Would Fare Bad ly From Lack of Supplies and Business Would Be Paralyzed ("; ho United Press) New York, Aug. 4. The United States would face one of the most serious food situations in decades if the threatened strike of 400,000 trainmen materialized and lccame a protracted light, according to o?)inions collected bv the United Press. Coast cities and cities on navigable rivers would suffer least, but even they would be hard hit. Rabies and children would suffer heaviest, tiocaage of the shortage of milk. Perishable foods would present the most serious ptoblem. ' , ... Government Plans to Take a Hand. Washington, Aug. 4,Indication that the government ?s formulating a course of action by which to handle the railroad strike situation was seen by a series of confer ences today between the President and Judge Chambers of the Board of Mediation and Conciliation. After the nrst conference the President asked for a second, and the cabinet discussed the matter. ! ' The trainmen were victorious when the Senate com mittee tabled a resolution calling mediation of the contro versy by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The train men say the matter lies between themselves and the com panies. v - AND MASSACHUSETTS -COlONtL1 ADVANCED TO BE RECOGNIZED 'or Transfer of West Indi an Possessions of Latter to This Country Must Be Katified by Legislators and People (Dy the United Press) Washington, Aue;. 4. The trcnty between Do.nmark and the U. S. ro- idi:i for the purchase of the Dan ish West Indies for $25,000,000, was iirncd in New Vork todayby Score- niy Lansing and Danish Minister run, the State Department today an nounced. Th? treaty will have to -tie ratified by the House and Senate, the Danish Parliament ami the people of the islands. The United States gets the three islands of St. Croix, St. Thorna-s and St. John, east of Porto Rico, and relinqniishes discovery rights in Greenland. (By the United Press) Columbus, N. M., Aug. 4.- Militia rnon from western Massachusetts have been assigned the honor of juardinjr. the base camp. A cordon of troops is thrown around the entire camp avury night. It is a duly of ;rcat importance. The customers already have dem onstrated their efficiency. 'Colonel W. C. Hayes, commanding the Second Massachusetts regiment will testify o that todiiy. While inspecting the guard linen last night the Colonel and his adju tant were riding ;through a lonely stretch of desert in pitch darkness south of the carnp. "Halt," came the sharp command from an alert guardsman. "That's all right, my man," said C'd. Hayes soothingly. "This is 'Col. Hayes inspecting the guarj." "I don't care who you say you are," came the menacing reply. "Discount and advance to be recognized, and don't loiter, either." In the darkness the Colonel could see the dim outlines of the sentry with his rifle leveled. , "And I didn't loiter,' the officer de clared. "I fairly tumbled off that horse and advanced. I doubt if any suspicious characters get into camp through the lines." TOTAL PHI! COUNTY MORE THAN nine 111 The total wealth of Lenoir county asid from property assessed by tb.6 Corporation "Commission is ' $7,748, 106, acooidmg to Register of Debris Pridgoriwho has jast finished bti Inting the taxlisters abstracts. With Hi '(poration values added the. to-, tal will be in excess flf nine millions. Of the $7,748,100, $4,08C,71 is real tuwl 2,701,415 personal property. The total wealth of Kinston whites is " $3,433,4if;o and of Kinston color ed people $252,490, aside from Corpo ration values. ... : ' IMPEACHMENT CHARGES t VS. MARSHALL DROPPED , , ' - - A- (By the United Press) . Washington.' Au-j. 4.-Th.e- House Judiciary committee today decided to drop the impeachment charges against District Attorney . Marshall of New Xork, brought .by Representative Bu chanan, who was indicted by a New York grand jury in connection with the labor peace council's - activities and German propaganda. ' . STRIKE 0' TRAINMEN IT SO LIKELY, IS OPINION CHAMBERS (By the Unrted Press) Washington, Aug. 4. Judge Chambers of the U. S. tymrd of Mediation and Conciliation today conferred with thc President over the threatened strike of 400,000 trainmen. lie said the situation in aet as serioua as - claimed. ' The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee also discuHHed the im pending fllrikc, v Hot air is tho motive power that operates the human talking machine. CONGRESS SETS ANEW ; RECORD APPROPRIATIONS Washington, Aug. 3. Appropria tions of the present Congress passetf -the $1,500,000,000 mark today and' set. a new record. The bill for sup pott of tha District of 'Columbia csr- ied tho appropriations over th pre- x vious mark. Leaders expoct , appro priations of another hundred millions before adjournment. BULLETINS (By the United Press) TWENTY-EIGHT DEAD rs' KENTUCKY FLOOD. ' ' Middlcboro, Ky Aug. 4.- Re- -ports from the Blair's Creek dis trict fix the death list from yes twjay'g flood at 28. The proper ty damage was two flour mills, two storehouses and fire dwell in gsend crops and livestock were 4ost ' '' TORNADO IN MINNESOTA. , ; St Paul, Minn Aag. 4-Uuild-ings were wrecked aad blown ' across railroad tracks, and . cryp - damage estimated - at I a million, resulted from - a .tornado this' morning .in Southern Canada and. Northern Minnesota. The Crook -nton,' Minn,, district .was the , . heaviest hit. It .ia believed ko lirea were lost, .... , , A: 'I'M