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TV J1" 1 The Home Paper ; Tiy't N Today - MIS The Weather Fail To" sad Tuet. VOU XVIIL-No. 54 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1916 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS F1YE CENTS (ON TRAINS SITUATIl LGOKS GOOD, SAY RAIL pW'FAlEBAC(P:RAIlJlOi fc tmra " a nnnn r ma-in a-taxraa I n : : i r" 1. AND FLOOD Or SEASON TUESDAY PHtollltNl Uif AUJllSllitNT; Or AFFAIRS FT. GASWELL SUNDAY TO DEEEI IBIBERO TOUCH BOTH PORTS WATERS RACE SOUTH DA LY ROAD; ARTILLEPfN MEET rTiinir rnn nnrimir Mr. Wilson to Hold Four Meetings With Representatives of Men and Owners Today Will Submit ProDosals to : Both Sides at Third and Wprkers Smile Broadlx.as sion Fltywing, Ffst. Conf erence jfration Belief I T- l iL At- XT'l! cu iv, jc m liic Aur-TiiouuiiB xicau occiua auuul iu Successfuliy Squelch Most Threatening Labor Crisis In V. ' : T r V HistOry--LeaVing a Lot Up tO Him ' ttfy Kobert asMngtOll, Aug. 14. xne rresiaent 10 prevent pne(inreaienea ue-up 01 me na- woik9 JSUrj?ads by a strike representatives left the White House smiling broadly af- ter an nour and a nali s conierence. The -negotiations arev entirely in the President's lbajjd8i''l6aid A. Bi Garrettson. Warren S." Stone, head of the Engineers' Brotherhood, '.VLe'Of the-Brakemen. stated that the situation "looks very good." i .-' " Employes re to see the after , the railroad managers The President spent the intervening time in going avej al steriograDhie reDort of the tftttiWake'.no proposals to the railroada' managers, howr ?-m.',V mnnnv.M Vo,Trt eaM u;m Ul.erauuK wiui uie managers uk rieaiueuu., vntr tf.nrnnrnsla tn trip pmnlnves lateT.hia afternoon, and at 1 a later conference with the 'IV . appareling w cii-aukiicii txca tec: icpn uo.o m wii thiRresident's conferences will result in the employes agreeing to arbitration, provided the railroads withdraw untU ilater counter proposals ," fr' i i.j..: . rules, ana regulations governing uie pre&em, yny vasia uc H OBB'S SISTER IS PGIIJSYILLE QUEEN To Be One Of Bevy of Royal indies at Coming Celebration Secret Cow mijtee Selected BeauUea for Oeea sion Feast of Lanterns a Brilliant Affair . (Py -.tha United PtmV ' . Wrightsvilfe Beach, Aug. 14.4 Ty Cobb's sister. Miss Florence Cobb of Athens, Ga., has accepted an feivita' tioh 'ib be one of the -ten queens of the Feast of Lanterns, Wrightsville Beach,Aug. 17 and 18, when it i; is confidently expected 10,000 personf will take part in this big celebration. The other queens of the event are: Misses 'Helen. Dodson of Fayetteville, j?K)rencerayior, Mary Moore, iBJiza bfjih 'Sweeney, iriaitt Holliday, Sue j Northrop," Miss Rembert and Miss Campbell. ".. ;- The queens were chosen by a aecret committee and all have accepted,, They will form a part of the big piuminat . ed dragon parade on the evening of the 17th, and will be carried in pa lanquins, gorgeously decorated, .borne . bjr fpur ipen'; chosen by the individual wmtt9. Faltowiae' th jlgurativB de. tmctio4,ot.CJ9oniy. tha 100-foot dragon and the magnificent display, of fireworks in eiWbmtion of tha ever lasting reign of 'Happiness, on the beach at Wrightsville, the queens will . give a dance ft.minij h Many acceptjjncet have been receiv - ed irmut die 175 mayors inyited to at:. tend a banquet during the fete and letters of i tation to Jnioce. than 200 " editors in North Carolina have been mailed, It is expected and hoped ,by the 'executive committee that many of them will be present. Thee editors will be guesta of tha. executive com mittee during, Uie. two r days of the eaat.' i MAYBE. THEYJO IT1 TO KEffi IN PRACTICE - ;t5..; , i ' . . - , ; j ' -v . Bemidji, Minn., Aug. 14. Wet and dry worktre were hustling out votes here today for Beltrami county op tion prohibition election that can have 1'ut one result . Under an Indian 'reatjr this county is as dry as good powder and the Federal Government is bound to keep it that way. If the uty go dry at today 'ir election; will sUy dry. . IX it goes wet at Li. ..... "U Fourth Sessions Leaders of They Leave Executive Man TT J CI ;. 11 i. i J. Bender) The first Step in the effort Of ended at noon, wJien employes' said: 'Til be optimistic.' W, ; President again this afternoon confer wim hiro;at 1 o'elopk session with the employes. He managers will submit propos- that the teadjustment of It. - j. l : THOUSM DOLLARS WORTH LOOT TAKEN BY RESORT THIEVES Wilmington, Aug. 18. Thieves en tered the bath house of the Oceanic Hotel at Wrightsville Saturday night about 6 o'clock and took from the drawer in which the guests' money and jewelry are left while they are I in hath, manrv and iewels to the I amount of $1,000. The manta charge of the bath house had stepped to the rear for a moment to carry towels to a gueat when the thief broke the lock on the drawer and purloined the ar- j tides.' ; No clue as to the identity of ii il..' jjL l-.-l. .a T. . jR.IT the thief was left but a number 'of detectives .are at work on the case. WIFE WANTS SERVICES CONVICTED POLICEMAN ' ' ' ' . n r -V-.- Greensboro, Aug. 13 Former Chief of Police J. W. Slaughter of Draper, N C was late night convicted of manslaughter by" a jury in Superior Court at Wentworth and sentenced to twq VeT8 M pjisw' and to pa a fin of $400 for tha killing at Draper, j several months ago, of a white man named Thomas Weaver. At the time of the killing Slaughter was chief ot police. The fine of $400,s the jury re quires to be paid to ithe widow of Weaver: The jury permits the hiring out of Slaughter during the two years' sentence and the wife of the sentenced man has put in a bid foe his services. LATEST STYLES IN . " ' TOMBSTpNES EXHIBITED Cleveland, Aug-. 14 The latest Styles in . torahstone are on. display hers odaJ- Hundeds of xetaU mon ument dealers are arriving from all over the country. today's election it will stay dry any how. - . - . Fort Worth, Aug. 14. Miss Texas went camping today. Over 100 so- cjetr isirle from all parts' of the State I hitUn by the w.k. "preparedness bug-itched their tents on the shores of Lake Worth, drew emergency ra- ta'ons of bon bons, got themselves up I in stunning semi-uniforms and form-1 ally openod the first annual encamp- j merit of the Texas division, Girls' Na- flonal Honor Guard. ' I G8?J S8fr rd ""Tir-"1 rv tuns-Two Gave Up Lives In Attempt to Save the Third, Said w!k: v r iqt,. f the North carina coMt ry R-ln uai i. campment t Fort Cwwell, near here, loai weir uve toaay wane Dauunei in th .urf t the lort. The d.d ,. L.nc9 Corporal Leonard Swai of the charlotte ComMnyj Fred white, ot the Salisbury company. it stated positively that swaim and White were drowned.' Ardrey is believed to have died of heart fail ure. The bodies ' of Ardrey and Swaim were recovered' withip a few minutes and vigorous put futJa ef forts were made by .the camr -physl ciane-and the Oak Island Life Saving crew to resuscitate them .White's body was washed away by strong outgoing m and has not been "covered, it is said that Ard ry and Swaim lost thcir livea iri ? effort to rescue White, who cried for help when he found himself being I carried out by the tide. -i. . . ljrphn I iw . , VT npnrD QflflFTV illU UllULll uUllILU THAT KILLED ROUSE "They , Was No Niggers," Admission Tllc Ti. portant Witness In Liddell Shooting Affair, Who Had Been Hiding Joe Cooper, the missing witnesa In the murder case of Lazarus Rous; CQjor8d( t Liddell", was located by the sheriff Saturday night. Cooper, a negro, was questioned to thelimit There were five men in the party who went to the home of -. Rouse's mother to murder the man, Cooper said. They met him on a road and I made him promise, on his knees, that la t i ' he would tell nothing - about what transpired. , One of the men shot Rouse a he lay in bed. Cooper was told to call the victim out of doors. Under threat he was about to comply when Rouse's mother opened the door and the slayer fired into : the room with fatal result Cooper had been in hiding from tho authorities since j the killing. Cooper declared he knew none of the men who wero in the party. He aaidi "Captain, they was no nigges., Their fates, ho said, ; had 1 been blacked The party intimated to him that Rouse was killed for improper remarks about whito girls. SECOND'S BAND VERY POPULAR AT BEAUFORT "Last Friday morning the Second Infantry hand from Camp, Glenn came over to Beaufort and rendered one of the classiest concerts ever, heard on tihese; streets, j say the iBeaufort News., i "The numbers rendered by this organization consisted of the lat est selections, and the rendition .of the several selections showed clearly en rookies of the West numbering that the Second infantry has one of about 300 will answer the call of re the best bands In this country. The veille at 6:30 tomorrow -morning at Chief Musician, James G.-Mehegan, I stated to the News that It was a j great pleasure for him to take his band to Beaufort; that the people! here were very courteous and sTtowed by their actions that they Xiaw the highest regard sor all the soldiers j over at the camp." A dinner was to be given de musicians, but this they did no have the time to wait I for. A standing invitation was; is-1 sued to the band by the News for P0P' of Beaufort. 1 Austroerpaii ,Qal jcian Ar- "1"? Effectiveness Slavs overrun country beventy-nve inousand Men ; st by Teutons tn Com- , . ' , uaiouvciji uiimn uxtiuiii I of Eastern Thpater-Ttal ians' Checked ' (By the United Press) Petrograd, Aug. 14. The last for midable barrier to Lemberg aas been broken, r The leutons generally are retreating along a 90-mile front to ward the Gelician capital on the en tire line, ' The Russians are reaping a bloody harvest. On the east front and south of Lemberg alone the Teu tons have 'fast eeventy-five thousand men and half of their effectiveness. Xne proportion ot' uermans among the prisoners is steadily increasing. Austrian Hold Italians. Rome, Aug. 14. The arrival of Austrian reinforcements has checked the Italian advance east of Goritz and slightly impeded the Trieste drive, but fresh gains are reported in the Tolmino sector by General Oadorna's forces. They have pierced ' another strong line of Austrian entrenchments east of Nodlogan, it is officially said. French Gains. Paris, Aug. 14. The French fol lowed up their successes north of the Somme yesterday with an advance south of tha river in sharp fighting, last nieht. On the Verdun . mnt' three Germaiv attacks were repulsed east of' Hill 304. British Raid Without Loss. London, Aug. 14. The Germans gained a temporary footing last night in the trenches wt 1 1 of Pozieres, cap- tured by the British in yesterday's fighting. General Haig reported that south of Ypres the British carried out a successful raid without loss. Russian Advance Continues. Petrograd, Aug. 14. The war of fice today announced that the Russi- ans continue to advance westward u i the Stanislau region. Other forces are advancing westward from the riv er Koropetz and have reached a point on the Dneister before Mariampol. AUTOPSY IN DELEMAR t CASE AT NEW BERN The death of J. G. Delemar, a prom inent New Bernian who died in shal low water while bathing a few days ago, was not caused by heart failure, according to Dr. R. S. Primrose, who refused to sighthe death certificate. An autopsy is being held this after noon. So far, it has been determined that neither heart disease, drowning nor suspected abrasions on his head caused Dclcmar's - death. Possible causes to be investigated re a frac ture of the spinaf column near the base of the brain, - organic trouble which might have caused his heart to stop and injury to his head from diving against the bottom in the shallow water. . 1 - : ' WOMEN ROOKIES TO OPEN tHEVY CHASE OF WEST'i (By United Press) Lake Geneva, Wis., Aug. 14. Wo- the women's military training camp established here the Chevy Chase of I the west "The women will do ;, everything about except cook. : Cooks have been hired to get the meals,, but the wom- en rookies will bs given instruction in dietietics. Besides this they will.be taught how to make surgical dress- bigs, perform military drills, do am bulance driving and telegraphy. Subscribe to The Free Press. KimtonAViliiiinigrton, Line to v ifwi. ih, n:r Wilmington duplin to ; vote soon un was louna. oaa s From This City to -Cyp- , .. ress Creek mw . vivw x u it uom Judge Allen Thinks. . JJne Would Be Big Thing Judge Oliver Allen, discussing the proposed railroad from Klneton into Cypress Creek township, Duplin coun ty, for which there is to bp a bond is sue election on August 22, eays that he feels great interest in Abe road, both for Kinston and for Duplin, coun ty. -Both are about equally interest' ed, he thinks, and the building de pends largely Upon the vote in Dup lin and upon the people of-, Kinaton subscribing liberally to the - stock. "The railroads' build new roads of this kind upon the principle that it helps the country aa well as the-road, and all ought to ahare in the ex penses," he states.' "My fears are that if it is not done now while the iron is hot it might be finally abandoned," declares Judge Al len. "Col. W. B. Rodman is giving the matter much attention now, and is very1 much interested, but says he will not be able to continue at It; as this kind of work does not belong, to hjs, the law department, pf the Nor folk Southern, anMf the proposition does not succeed now the opportuni ty of getting the road may be post poned and the matter not taken up cgain. There is the danger, , ' I know that when the Atlantic Coast Line came to Kinston it was the purpose to carry-it on to some point tast or south, and ths right of way was secured through Kinston to tho river, but the extension was post pone! and never taken up again. Mr. Harry' Warters told me the purpose wns t- go on to deep water ; some. whei-9. Another ease in point is that of the road from Durham to . Dunn, Mr. Stagg had it ip charge, and had bought rights-of-way through Mount Olive orle wsy an through Clinton another way. Stagg died and Reams was appointed in his place, who, after examining into tha plans disapproved Staggs' plans and abandoned them, and sold all their holdings in Mount Olive at about- one-third of their cost So, my fears are that if Kinston and Duplin county dp not seize upon this opportunity it, may be lost, If; never pays to take chances on a thing with in your grasp if you want it, that is. if it pays. I suppose that after the vote is taken in Duplin, if it is favor able to the road Kinston will be called upon to do its part, though Len oil r onnty has already done a great thing long ago by taking $50,000 stock in th A. A N. C. R. R., which affords an outlet to this proposed Duplin road as well as many other benefits. This stock turned out to be valuable, and I understand the proposition now is to exchange stock for : an equal amount of bonds on the Duplin road. I have no reason to think that 3. this stock will not be as good as the A. & N. C. R. R. stock.?) i mil lr According to Mayor F. I. Sutton. who is also interested in getting the road through Duplin, there is a possi bility that existing lines to the coun ty, depending mainly upon the timber business, may be taken up some time. Only about 10 per cent of Duplin countyj "amazingly fertile, is under cultivation he declares "the county Is a garden of possibilities." ' Exhib iting a map of North Carolina, he shows that if the road should be con tinued to Wilmington, as its charter permits find it is hoped will 'ensue, Kinston would be on the most direct route from Norfolk to 'Wilmington, the two ports for North Carolina, and would with Wilson alone enjoy the best all-round freight service in East j Carolina I 'Sapphire Cquntry' Pleasure Lake . Draining Off South Carolina Towns In Path Power Plant Is En dangered V , C (By the United Press), MOUNTAINEERS RIDE . 1 IN FACE OF DEATH " SAVE MANY HUNDREDS. . - ; ' ' 'MSjaMMaw ' "Asheville, Aug. 14. How possi ble heavy loss of life, in the villages below Lake Toxaway ' dam was prevented through a daring ' ride by mountaineers just ahead of the water loosed when the retaining wall broke; was today told by ur virors. The mountaineers,, risk ing death, galloped through the" tillages tf King of the floods that followed them, : warping the real- dents to flee to the hills. Not a life was lost Aa estimate today placed the loss at half a million dollars. ' V - HinU of a . rigid investigation and possible action developed when It, became known that the retain ing wall had been' reported to bo leaking several times during the year. " . Shortly before noon Sunday an alarming volume of water was noticed to be sweeping through the masonry. A watch was set and about 6 o'clock the breaks ripped wider and wider until it was evi dent that a collapse of the wall was inevitable.' : Hardy mountaineers -Volunteer ed to run down, the valleys atid warn men, women and children. Traveling. over., ' short mountain trails' and "often risking their lives by their, breakneck speed over narrow, mountainside trails, the riders kept just ahesd of the rag ing waters. Residents of Pickens;1 Walhalia, Anderson and Seneca, were warned by phone from' Ashe ville. Many refugees reached the heights barely In time to see their homes washed away under them. ' i ,AsbevIle, Aug. . 14. Many small tpwns sre threatened with serious damage as the result of the flood of waters, loosed by the ' breaking of the great Lake Tox away dam, fifty miles south of here. Warned of ' tha dam's breaking, residents of tha towns had time to flee. Asheville, ' Aug". 13.V-The reat dam at Lake Toxaway, fifty feet high, 400 feet in width and holding- back waters that covered 650 acres of land In the Toxaway region, 38 miles, from this city, crumpled and went.out with a roar at 7:iu tonignw ana at ti or elopk tonight the waters thus releas ed were racing toward South Caroli na cities in their, path, including Wal halia, Anderson, Pickens and Seneca. According to long distance mes sages, from Toxaway, the entire dam, built of earth and stone, seem sd to melt before the rush of waters with in a few minutes. -The dam, which was built in 1902, at, a cost of $38,000, was hunt at a point where the hills are not more than 400 feet high. Prepare for Flood Waters In South Carolina. Greenville, S. C, Aug. 13. At mid night the Seneca river, through which the waters of Lake Toxaway will ow into the Savannah river, ware normal near the town of Seneca, 38 miles west of Greenville and about 40 miles southwest of Toxaway. Port man shoals, where the light and pow er for the city of Anderson' is gener ated, is on the Seneca river, and to night large forces are at work pre paring for the flood waters. Sand bags are being placed on the dam and power house and other preparations are under wsy to combat the force of the flood. Walhalia, Seneca and Anderson are each several miles from the river. There is no town of importance the course of the stream. . . Good Prices.x'ected for First Breaks-rop Be lieved to Be,Atout jSame As That of Last Year n Bulk, But Finer ? Tuesday marks the opening of tha . 1916-17 tobacco season here.: Prepa rations at all five of tha local ware houses are complete this afternoon for the beginning of sales in the morning. Planters will flock into the city tonight and early tomor- . row, many of them with offerings for J the initial sales and many to watch -thp sales, to see how prices are going. High, prices are, lopked for, . Tha shortage in most of the' world's to- J buoco regions this year has resulted In high prices everywhere. 'In South ' Carolina they have been almost rec-6rd-breaking. ' '; -.';. The.crdp locally is about as large as last year's, most tobacconists sem to think.. A very few predict an even larger produtfion.. It ! genereiUy agreed that the crop on tht whojp is -; comp."80'! '''of" splendid weed. . ,Th ' June an? July fitorms ifc is said, kept down a production; that' would hae been considerably larger than that of last year.' With good prices at the start and maintained throughout tha next three or four months, practical ly all of the crop should be marketed by the first of the year or 0)ldde of January. -. THREE DOLLARS MORE- .wwi..'lt.. -. (im, fORTUEFLOODFUKD " Three "" dollars waa 'addpd. to the Flood Sufferer?' Fund 1 hfre' i ? tha past 43 hours. Tha list stands; -. ,r Previously reported ....... ,f 772.14 horning Star' S- (colpredlr. . , ' reported by Dr. Codringtpn. ,' 9.p0 f. Grand total to date . s ... if 775.14 iaw in wrnw! COTTOH IN SEED Practice of JlarkeUng Upginped Cot ton an Unprofitable One . ipr,,, the Agriculture Prevail a-. Sectjqns : (Special .to The Erejo Pre?), v . WasWngtojv D. Cs Aug-. ."-fV the practics of sailing cotton; in , h seed i responsible for seriou tosses to producers in many Ston- h been demonstrated by. invesUgAHoM by marketing specialists of tjheiU. S. Department of Agriculture. It k m possible, it is said, to dotcrmln ac curately before " ginning the quality of cotton and the percentages of lint, . seed and trash which it contains.' ' In consequence, buyers of seed eotton base their prices on the average char acter of the cotton of the communi ty and the farmer who produces bet ter cotton than the average often ob tains no reward. As a matter of fact even the producers of average cotton suffer, for the buyer allows himself a wide margin of safety in making1 his quotathnS'and purchases. ' These facts are . brought out' in : number of tables , just published in Department bulletin No. 375, "Dis advantages of Selling Cotton in tho Seed." This practice, while not 4 common ns it once was. is still prev alent in certain sections, particularly In those regions in which cotton is s comparatively new crop or in which, the production is comparatively scan ty.. For example;' it is estimated that 90 per cent of Missouri's small 'crop was sold in the seed in 1915' and only 2 per cent of South Carolina's. Tha actual tiumber of bales sold in thia way, bowever, was greatest in Okla homa, and for this reason the laves- trgation, the results of which alt t be found in the bulletin already men-. tioned, was conducted in that State, SubscrH to The Frc? Trcr . . . .. m.i . a,