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VOL. XVIL No. 59 ' .
SECOND EDITION
KINSTON, N. C TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, to
FOUR PAGES TODAY
TRICE TWO CENTS
FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS
EMMS OF IMILPDS DON'T WELCOME ATTACK ON HUGHES BERLIN NEWSPAPER FEW fJIIE DOLLARS, GERMANS RECAPT'RE
CITY JO HAVE ONLY
IDEA OF INVESTIGATION OF TROUBLE BY BY REP. HARRISON: SAtS BREMEN IflST MM mm
STRONG REDOUBT AT
police -chief;
INTEflSTATE tO&JMERCE COM'ISSION; SAY DODGE IS llffiDED 0NfAY TO AMERICA WEST CAROLINIANS
THIAURI'NT ADMIT'D JCOUNCO DECISION
01
Government Intervention and Arbitration Not Favored
Not Opposed to Principle But Dissatisfied with Recent
AwardsPresidents of Brotherhoods and Representa
tives of Nearly All Roads in United States Meet to Dis-
i ' . 3
cuss Workers' Demands for Wage Increaseyfotallihg
Hundred Million Dollars a Year, Etc. Labor Thinks I.
G. C. Probe Not Proper Because Commissioners Are
Not'Empowered to Fix Pay
Nw York, Aug- 8. It is reported ninety-four
per cent of the men favor a strike of the Broth-
erhood of Trainmen, following official tabulation
of the ballot
New York, Aug. 8. Presidents of the1 four brother
liuuua wiu fjJicDCHwwvra
attempt a settlement oi the
national walk-out oi trainmen. The brotherhoods are not
favorable; to. government intervention. They are dissafc-
isfied with- recent awards of the arbitration boards and
not withthe principle. .They'oppose an Interstate Com-
pierce .Commission investigation on the grounds jhat the
COmiinsaiUJjtJis. are uvi uippcu wu ciiipuwcicu w
CX Wages.
New,York, Aug. & Nearly nmety-nme per cent, of
the emplpyes of the Southeastern district railroads voted
to strike. ,' ,
WUIAN FLESH
mm ARMENIA
v:t
(By the United Press)
Boeten, Aug. Rather. than
starve ta deathj Armenians are
eatiag human flesh, according to
liable Jfrom a '"high diplomatic
luthority . In Turkey ;" He flays
thArmeaiaM, driven practical
ly to animal life, have devoured
. the bodies of executed comrades '
texas favors dry
Amendment, develops
Houston, Tex., k.ag 7. Art official
canvssa here today of the vote cast in
ina recent Uemocratic primary in
Texas showed that the proposal V. to
submit a constitutional amendment
for State-wide prohibition received a
fsvorafcle majority of 2,103 votes.
WANTS TO BE
;i COLORADO GOVERNOR
(By tha United Pran) .
(Denver, Aug. 8r Th Democratic
State Assembly met .here today to
aominate presidential electors and 'a
tate ticket. Julius C. Gunter. form
er justice of the Colorado Supreme
Court, was practically anopposed for
the nomination Tor Governor. Six ad
herents of " Woodrow Wilson 'will be
; named as presidential electors.
HOBOKILLEn.ONO.
YARDS-KSEENSBORO
Greensboro. Ang. 7.-!-An unidenti
fied hobo. WnhnMw Wm R
was instantly killed by train No. 12 1
mm
on the yards of tha Southern RaiI-!aWe
way here at 12 o'clock last night His
nead was badly crushed between the
tender and the baggage car.
J
SLIGHT WRECK ON THE
SOUTHERN; TWO IlURT
Marion, Aug. 7. Train No. 8(5 was
Wrecked three miles east of Marion
this mornihe at 8:10, the engine and
one ear leaving the track. No one
- as seriously injured, though the en
gineer and fireman received slight in
juries. The train was in charge of
Conductor, Parker and Engineer
' mc The passengers were trans
erred by; work trains and a wreck
tag crew was rushed to the place. -
mu iamuoiw uici tuujf wit intervention," and Henry Lane
trouble which may cause a
.
, '
AUSTRIAN SQDROM
DEFEATED -ITALIAN;
IS BERLIN REPORT
By the United Press)
Berlin, Aug. 8. Austrian and
' Italiair fleets engaged on August
2 in the Adriatic, says an oflicial
Austrian report. The Austrians
registered many hits. It is said
the Italians ."disappeared."
The fight followed an Austrian
raid on Wolfetto. The Austrian
unite were undamaged.
MAY NATIONALIZE THE
-CANADIAN RAILROADS
1 ' ' 1'. 'il -t V. ,f ji. I
(By the United Press)
Winnipeg, MatK, Aug. 8.-Investi-
gation of Western Canada's railways,
with a view of possibly nationalizing
transcontinental, lines, at least so far
as the handling of mail is concerned,
was started here today. Alfred H.
Smith, president of the New York
"Central lines; Sir Henry Drayton,
chairman of tha Canadian board .of
railway commissioners and Sir Geo.
Paten, well known British statlsti-
cian, formed the commission of in J
vestig&tion.
t i
STAKS AND STRIPES
ADD Hi NURSES il
HEART OF BIBLE LAND
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS,
United Pre Staff Correspondent)
tPetrograd, July 9 (By Mail) The
Stars and Stripes today flap an
breezes wafted across fields famous i
in the United States .as the land of
the Holy Bible. The flag flies free
over the door of an American hospit-
al 'whre Ptty American girls and
American doctors care lor kus-
sian sick and wounded.
The hospital is at Khoy. 45 miles
south of Julfa, on the frontier be
tween Russia and rersia. 10 tne
northwest of Khoy tha icy dome of
Mount Arrat stands lined against
the skyne, 17,000 feet high, or near
ly 2,000 feet higher than Mount Blanc.
fere Noah's arc is supposed to have
rested, after he flood ,
To the southwest of Khoy lie the
slopes where Abraham and Isaac tend
ed their flocks. There, too, is the
scene of the most famous of all fa-
thm tnurHpr f Ahl bv
his brother Cain. ' ' .
There is no railroad from Julfa to
Khov an! the dirt road is very bad.
If takes four horses to pull a carri-
age. - J
War Department Authority
far Denial That Latter
Had Been Given Special
iivui'Kes in A1CX1CO, UC
clarcs
(By the United Presi., .
Washington, n. 8. Congressman
Harrfson of Mississippi denied "on au-
ITlLfZT
day that Cleveland H. Dodjre, politic
al supporter of President Wilson, had
been given special privileges to ship
arms into Mexico, as intimated by
Representative Rodenberg of Illinois.
Harrison assailed Candidate Hufjhes
for consulting on the Mexican situa
tion with Senator Pall," whose hotlby
wiison, "discredited ambassador.
ppDCnMii ICTTFR TO
IXIIUI iu
KAISER FROM WILSON
(By the United Preas)
Berlin, Aug. 8. A personal letter
from President wnson regarding Poi-
"lief has been delivered to the
Kaiser.
MEXICO WILLING TO
GO TO THE BOTTOM
OF ENTIRE HATTER
But Wishes Military Diffi-
culties Gotten Out of Way
First, Says Ambassador-
Rehabilitation to Be Dis
cussed
(By tha United Press)
Washington, Aug. o. Mexico is
willing to broaden the scope of the
conferences to include a discussion oi
economic rehabilitation, according to
Ambassador Arredondo, but wishes
military matters to be settled first.
The American commissioners" will
be named today, probably.
TURPENTINE MAKER
MET AWFUL DEATH
., ....
(By Hie United Press) '
Gould, Ala., Aug. 8. Thomas P.
Cravette, superintendent of a turpen
tine plant, was today blown by an ex-
plosion afcainst a brick wall and ire-
jjgj
bounded into a vai ox oomng on.
is dead.
MONKEYED WITH BOMB
CONTRIVANCE, KILLED
Colorado Springs, Col., Aug. 7.-
John Dorr, injured whBe working on
an infernal machine at his residence
here last evening died today without
having regained consciousness. N .
TEXAS REPUBLICANS '
HAVE THEIR MEETING
(By the Sastern Press) v
San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 8--The
Republicans are holding a State con
vention here today. Owing' to the
iact tnac out oi every auv lexans
a . .1. i nn . m .Art pn .
usually boasts , "he never scratched q
Democratic ticket," it was expected
to be rather a lonesome affair.
CLARK IN CONGRESS
THIRTY-THREE YEARS
Wsshington,'Aug. 7. When Repub
lican Leader Man reminded the
House today that Speaker Clark has
just passed his S3rd anniversary as
a member of Congress, Republicans
and Democrats rose and cheered
Speaker for several minutes.
the
(By the United Press)
BerneAug. 8.-The
p.::",,;
- l ,a ;
Bremen was sunk by
an accident to her
. . - . v.,;; -
machin ry on the way
t0 America, accord
- j . '
ing to the Jageblattj
of Berlin."
BULLETINS
(By the United Press)
TURKS DON'T MENTION
DEFEAT.
Constantinople, Aug. 8. An
oflicial statement of the advance
of Turkish troops makes no men
tion of a defeat claimed by the
Rritish to have been inflicted (east
of the Suez Canal, in which it is
stated the Turks were driven
back 18 miles and lost 3,000 pris
oners. The statement says the
Turks are as far as Itomani. '
BAR HARBOR SUMMER
COLONISTS TO HOLD A
PREPAREDNESS SHOW
Bar Harbor, Me., Aug. 8. The pre-
. paceanesa cabaret, another summer
diversion for society folks at their I
cottages here and something of aij
innovation altogether, will be staged
here tonight. The preparedness cab-
dret will be followed by the neutral
ity ballet under the direction of John:
Murray, Anderson. This is the first I
of, a series of specially named cabar
et performances. Among the patrons i
and patronesses are: Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Damrosch, Mr. and Mrs. John
Ogden, Mr. and Mirs. Alfred Anson,
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard M. Thomas i
and others. - ,
CASTRO GOES TO PORTO
RICO T0 JOIN FAMILY
New York, Aug. 7. General Cipri
ano Castro, ex-dictator of Venezuela,
and Senora Castro have eafled to join
their family in Porto Rico
Castro, who was detained at Ellis
Island on his arrival from Barbados,
has been ill for the past five days. He
locked himself in his stateroom and
declined to sne any. one.
IRISH WOMAN IS NON,
COM. IN SERB ARMY
Paris, Aue;. 7. Miss Flora Sandes,
an Irish woman, who is a sergeant in
the Serbian army, has arrived at
Toulon on her way. to rejoin her reg
imcnt fter a holiday in Ireland,, ac
cording to the Matin
Miss Sondes was in -"Serbia when
the war broke out and Joined a hos
pital as a nurse. Later on she en
listed as a regular soldier and went
through the last campaign, taking
part in the disastrous retreat to Du
razzo. -,v .
A MEXICAN STATE
CHANGES CAPITAL
"'Mazatlan, Mexico, Aug. 7.-J-The
State of Sinjiloa government, which is
said to be loyal to Carranza, has mov
ed its seat from Mazatlan to nliacan,
where there are few bandits and con
sequently more security." The Culia
can region also affords a better sup
ply of meat Milk and other foods
are scarce, however
Mr. J-. B. Dawson has gone for a
irt business visit.
:,e to The Free Pre
Kinston'sContribution for
Flood ifferers Is Now
i
$766.61-Nocd for More
Money-itate Has Given
UAVIIVJ 1
Ovcr'$3l
00
The additioio the local contribu
tions to the Ibd Sufferers Fund
were only thre!n number in the 24
hours ending i o'clock this after
noon. Cash aH was $8.50. The
State Fund mciked several hundred
dollars Mondayilt is, between $35,-
000 and flO.OOOi
ine local comittee again calls at
tention to the lid for more money
in the devastatetections an Western
NoHh Carolina.
.1 though the floods
subside! works i, the need for as-
eistance for the
iforers is more ap
parent iiow, withle work of rcstora
lnn in rtmnwaaa inn
Contributions sfce last reported:
Previously report .$758.14
L. E, Isle' . . . .1 3.00
Cash .1 .CO
John Whitty A S4, Pollocks-
villa ...... .,-L...i . . 5.00
Grand total to
lUe .$76(5.64
STREET CA
TRAFFIC
IN NEW Y
K
TO NORMAL
Employes' Rigi
to Organ-
izc.. jVdmitte-r- Biggest
Victory Yet f National
Union TrolleyIcn. Jt Is
Thought
(By ths "Unite! Press)
New Yoik, Aug. S.Normal car
t raffic was resumed toiy after more
than a week of the slije. The com
panies refused specifitjly to recog
nize the Amalgamate! Lsociation of
Street Electric Emnloyiof America,
but recognized the tnenVights to or
ganize.
It is agreed to reeei a commit
tee of the men to trel for solli;
ment. . .
The victory so far is
he greatest
I ever won by the union, at followed
triumphs in Chicago amf!ostn.
None previously was 1 peaceful.
GOING ON IN OTHE
PLACES IN EASERN
PARTS OF TI STATE
Al. Nash of Salisbury and Miss
Myrtle Haywood of Richr nd were
married on the stage of i Washing
ton theater. -Rov. Mr. Gfeapie - of
Wake Forest performed tl ceremo
ny. The couple are vaudellians.
Lee Wright, a soldier fin Camp
Glenn, giving Winston-Sali as bis
home, was found on a -eet at
James City Monday badly ;ut , He
was given medical aid at a tw Bern
hospital and returned to thi military
reservation. Wright is eaito have
been drinking. Negroes an suppos
ed to hsrve assaulted the m, .
Eight women of the urprworld
ordered by the New Bern Mice to
leave Pembroke, a suburb, in rat the
officers that they will not lejlp, An
ultimatum was to have becomjeffect.
ive Monday. The arrest of a) hands
was contemplated Monday.
TWO-CENT POSTAGE 1)
ALL OTHER AMEECAS
(By the United Press)
Washington, . Aug.' H. Posjkstcr
General Burleson today anntneed
n's intention to make the twl-cont
p carry anywhere in the Ytern
ro." A cut is prolxabJ by
Terrific Fiffhtirtff Continues
Around the Works,
However
TRIED OUT A NEW SHELL
Teutons Introduced Project
ile That Blew Into Ten
Thousand Pieces on Con
tact, But Missile Seems a
Failure
(By the United Press)
Paris, Aug. 8.-Thc Germans re
captured the strong Thiaumont works
northeast of Verdun in a powerful
assault early this morning, it is offi
cially admitted Fighting is still
raging around the redoubt.
Last nijrht a terrific bombardment
and five violent attacks in larger
force were directed against the French
positions from Flcury to Thiaumont
redoubt. They were repulsed near
Floury, but in an attack at Cuille-
mont, north of the Sommc, the Teu
tons 'reached the outskirts of the vil-
age. . '
A new shell with a "fragmentation
of ten to fifteen thousand pieces was
introduced. The shells have burst
formerly into five or six pieces. The
Germans ara believed to have tried
glass shells to secure the high "frag
mentatijon," Powdered glass vwas
found where the shells had fallen.'
These were later abandoned ticcause
the fragments were too minutes, it is
believed. Testa of German shells to
day show the fragmentation to be less
than one hundred. The advantage of
the French is immense;
Germans Attack Australians.'
London, Aug. 8. Threatened with
an ' enforce retreat from the strong
Leipsig u-edoubt and fortified viilugea
around Thiepval, the Germans are
attempting to dislodge the Austral
ians from Hill. 161 1 on the rofcieres-
Thfapval highway. A heavy bombard
ment is following four repulses.
New .Slay Offensive,
I'etrograd, Aug, 8. Russians have
captured the Galician town of Thim-
acz, ten miles southeast or JStanisiaa,
in a powerful new offensive on a 17-
mile front southeast of Lewibcrg, it
s said officially. '
Italians Begin New Offensive.
London, Aug. 8. Heavy Italian at
tacks on the Isonzo mark thfl begin
ning otf a new powerful offensive, in
the opinion of Rome correspondents.
THIRTY CARS ENTERED
FOR PIKE'S PEAK RACE
(By the United Press)
'Colorado Springsi Aug. 8. About i
thirty famous auto 'speed kings here
have entered cars for the race to the
top of Pike's Peak day after totroo!
row. Drivers from the east will com-;
oete against drivers from the west.
The start will be made 5 miles from
the bottom of the highway and the
finish will be made at an elevation of
14,11)9 feet above sea level.
ROMINENT LUMBEMAN
LEAPS FAR TO SUICIDE
' (By the United Press)
St. Louis, Aug. 8. George K.
Smith, secretary of the Yellow Pine
Manufacturers' Association and , thf
National Lumlier Manufacturers' As
sociation, leaped to his death today
from the fifteenth story of the Boat
men's bank building.
RATT SAYS WESTERN
CAROLINA OUGHT TO
GET ALL ROAD MOKEY
Asheville, Aug. 7 Declaring that
even the great flood calamity which
ruined the roads of Western Carolina
can be turned into a blessing, Dr.
Joseph Hyde Pratt this afternoon
i I
.,1,1
Office of Night Chief Abol
ished ; Heath Becomes .
' .Assistant, Same Pay
WALL SL NEAR DOGTOWN
Was An Alley,' But an Im-
portan Thoroughfare -r
To B.e Paved, Together
With 41 Blocks on. Oth
er Streets ,
City Council Monday night decided
to dispense with one of Kinston's
two chiefs of police, For several
months the city has had the distinc- '
tlon of being the only place in the
world with two heads with equal
rank and pay of one department.
The situation might have been conv -pared
with the Nicaraguan army, for ,
the personnel of the force was S3 1-3
officers. Alderman Webb moved that
the office of night chief bo abolished.
The action of Council was unanimous- ,
ly in favor of ths motion. Night
Chief Heath, whose administafcion of
the department nocturoaily had been
satisfactory and whose ability is un
questioned, was named assistant chief, .
to retain the same salary as hereto
fore, while Day Chief Skinner was
elected chief just straight chief, ,
Both officers are generally popular,
and conditions have gradually . im- '
proved under thoir vigilant. watchfiiU
ness and energetic efforts to squelch
erime. , Criticism of the' "freak" ae- .
tion of Council in' naming two chiefs -is
said by administration soewbers to
have had Most to do with the tied- ,
sion to go baek to the old order of
things. .,.'.,.' ; -r,
Walnut Alley,' between Nortk Mai
Blount streets, on the square between
Queen and Heritage, Monday night
became Wall street. The Gty Coun- t
cil clianged the designation;, at the in
sfance of Messrs. N. J. Rouse, A. S. '
Cvpcland and P. S. Bl Harper, and
aftr that ' action granted a petition j
fof. paving tihe street, which is ohljr
a Mock long. The three gentlertiea '
ahove are among those owohig prp- '
erty ' along the thoroughfare; ;earfjf
ail Iho' propertjf-owliera Signed Uie .
petition, lite street is air important ,
one for, wheeled traffic, especially jut
the tobacco season, when it' is - ,
"shortcut" for hundreds oi vehicle ,
and frequently relieves congestion oa ,
North street. It is not a financial .
center, however. Mr. Harper states .,
that it does not come under the jur
isdiction of the Mayor of Dogtown,
Mr. .Dogue Rouse, who will in a) '
Nkclihood be delighted with the aris
tocratic appellation beetowod upon It,
though, for it adjoins' his domain on
the west. Along1 with authorisation
of the paving of Wall street, Council
granted petitions for' asphalting '"'a .
liiock on North street between', Mc:
Lewean and Independent streets, thre y
blocks on Independent between Blount
street and Lenoir avenue, and about
one-half of a block on McLewean
south of the present end of the pav
ing at Bright. '
Messrs. J. II. Canady, secretary, f
and P. S. B. Harper of the Kinstoa
Fair Association, asked Council to
furnish the grounds west pf the city
with water and lights during the
coming exhibit.1 This was granted.;
Very little additional wiring will hare
to be installed, and a temporary wa
ter pipe of small size will be run for
a distance of 2,000 or 2,800 feet to
the grounds. Members of Council evi- '
dently would have preferred puttinj
down a permanent water line, but it i
was estimated that because of the ex
pensiveness of pipe a temporary line
would be preferable this year. A per
manent line just now would cost pos
sibly $700. ' ,
started a , movement to aecur . for
Western North Carolina the whole, or
at least a major portion of $114,000,
recently allowed by the government
for road work in this State. He de
clared that the people ef Easteni Ca
rolina were willing to let the 'wetH
have this money.'
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