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' SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. ,C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1916
VOL. XVIII. No. 57
FOUR PAGES TODAY
PRICE TWO CENTS
FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS
: Fair -
Wilson Ca!is
Railroads to the
CONFEREES QN STRIKE
DEADLOCieSEEWpSlfW
THEri REFUSE ACCEPT EIGHT-HOUR DAY
Insist m Arbitration; Employes Won't near of That
LNscussion lias xveacneu
Desirable" That Ileads of
Wahinston-i-Wanted ao
. ChieCfiiectitive Hopes Yet to Avoid Tie-up that Would
Bring About Unprecedented Conditions Throughout
r fRv Robert
Washington. Aug. 17. Events in the most dramatic
industrial conflict this, country has seen in ' many, years
today moved swiftly." The afternoon found President
w uson in ms uorary compieuug mo yi uvw1". v.
Id enfe th nis appeal to the railroad presidents, did not con
trt them "ultimate authority." , This intimation may
appaKto stock traders.
Washington, Aug. 17 President Wilson today .. sum
moned the presidents of the great railroad systems to
a i i - j 1 fill m, mm
Washington to confer on tne tnreatenea sinse. me at
tibh followed an apparent deadlock in,' the controversy
and intimation from the road managers that the 8-hour
principle even tentatively was. unacceptable. 1
the ihanagers and men show no disposition to recede
front their positions. The roads still insist upon arbitra
tion, and the men still refuse. The President's telegram
to the1 railroad presidents said: '
"Discussion of the matters involved in the threatened
railroad strike has reached a point which makes it highly
desirable that I should personally confer with you at the
earliest possible moment, and with the president of any
other railways affected who are accessible. "I hope you
can make it convenient to come to Washington at once. ;
CARE OF SALVATION .
ARMY IN BAD STRAITS
TItf Salvation Army
rcpresenta-
tivet den ara in need funds to
ctrt fo ix emorgMy ea? ia the
city. Capt M. Vendeville in charge,
,oday iked for '$10 to relieve 'the
immediate needs of these persona.
In im tottte both 4he husband and
Vit A' don -with sklcnew. Capt
VcndevilU wHl be glad to explain the
circumstafwsw 'to any on desiring to
con'.HImte. . . .:, - '
-: ?. The Salvationists ; have 'relievd
Suite a lot of suffering considering
' Iheif uamber and means during , the
Summer, and according to 'ministers
t several chinches are doing lot
of gocd both, in spiritual and mater
ial tfays. Tby;are wwking fdown
where' the others don't 'reach." They
have made 'toanjf visits t sicW and
conducted services in places where a
Bible . probably was never eeen be
fore. -' -' : i -." " -j
NOTES FROriTHE BRIGHT
LEAF TC::XC0 MARKETS
? . . .. ..-i.
Fair Sales and Big Prices on New
Bern and Washington Markets ' at
Openings i Wednesday Greenville
Anticipating a Lull Movements of
. Tobacconists .:- -
About 60,000 pounds of tobacco was
sold' on the New Bern tobacco mar
ket Wednesday whei the two ware
houses there opened for the season.
Prices were very higK i- f
John Ivy Smith of Greenville, who
was on the fKinston " tobacco mar
ket last season, is buying for a New
Bern independent' concern on , the
New Bern market this season. .
Greenville 'thinks it;wHl be three
or four weeks before the real rush
begins on that market
Washington sales at.the opening
Wednesday amounted to more than
thaaeaM weToM watched the sales.
Weed brougM as high as 40 cents.
One pinhoker paid 20 cents for a
rasa! s
ARE HOPELESSLY
jruuu , jiutt maivra. , jugtuj
Great Systems Hasten to
"Come at Once'VNation's
J. Bender) ?
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GREENE COONTfSNEVP'
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE
Greene county has organized : a
Board of Agriculture, similar to
cotmtya Quarterly meetings
will be held. The f ollowing comprise
the board: ' " 1 '
D, J. Mkldleton,. Agricultural Pem
onstration Agent: J. C. Exum, chair.
mao of the County Commissioners ;
County Superintendent, of Schools J.
tE. Debnam; J. W; Parker, W: A.
Shackleford, He?ring, S. W.
McKeel. jl.' M. Mbrltttan, C. . F.
Drnn T E. Barrow, W. U. Tun
stall, W. D. Cobb, Levi Hilf, S. W.
Murphrey, A. H. Joyner, J. E .
Mewbora, L. F. " Herring, VE: ,T.
Uurphryf J. S, Speight, C Har
per, J. 0. Sugg, W. W. Ormond
ahd Felix Moore. v
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BRIEFS IN THE NEWS ;
OF fillip TOPS AP
STIES OF SECTION
.Wintervllle township in Pitt coun
ty, like Ayden' township, has voted
50,000 in bonds for better roads. .
. A mass" meeting of men will be
held in Greenville' Sunday night to
determine sentiment, for law enforce
ment to the end of securing a "clean
town." . ,
Esther Harper, colored, about ,12
years of age, is iff a New Bern hos
pital with a broken spine and com
pletejy paralyzed as the result of be
ing struck : by an T automobile. 1 No
hope is entertained for her recovery.
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CapL George Howard, a noted mar
iner of Ocracoke, is ill at his home
there with little chance of recover
ing. Captain Howard has been a
master. of deep water ships for many
years. He' is quite advanced - in
years now. He is the father of Geo.
N. Howard, a Norfolk Southern spe
cial agent known all over the system.
600-pound lot and cold it for 32.
T. E. Apple of South Carolina is
a new member of the Kinston tobac
co colony for thi3 season.
AAV
of Big
llite Cause
POLISH- CROPS ARE
FOR THE MARKETING
By CARL W. AKERMAN,
(UniU-d Presa Staff Correspondent)
Warsaw, Aug. 17Crops are
especially excellent in Poland,
and there is apparently plenty of
food, although the poor complain
that they have not tasted of meat
for a year.' - :
After a year of. German occu
pation the city is gay and busy,
though the factories are closed. '
The Germans are building an
eight-million-dollar highway sys
tem around the metropolis to fa
cilitate the marketing of crops.
PARKER ANDERSON SUES
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
:f .jr;, yr
Washington, Auk. 16. Because the
Charlotte (N. C.) Observer published
May 19 last a caricature of Parker
Anderson, Washington correspon
dent of the Greensboro News and an
article commenting upon him unfav
orably in connection' with an alleged.
statement that President Wilson
would not attend the Mocklenborg
celebration at Charlotte, May 20, An
derson has filed a $50,000 libel suit
against the Observer in the Supreme
Court of the District ' ot-'CoJumbta.
GRIEVING OVER BABY,
SHE TRIED KILL SELF
;'J, j;.. M . 5 ! -fV..-5l,.;:i7i
Richmond, "Va.! Aug. 1J. Melan
choly from grief over the death, a
few vmonths ago of her little girl,
MrsT. W. Edmunds, wife of a Dan
ville physician,' sprang from the roof
of a porch at . a sanitarium here,
whore she was being treated for ner-
vous depr
epression. . Her head efruck a
brick pavejment.
She is alive
but
probably will die.
PIILLIQN NEW YORK KIDS
1IAY NOT GO TO SCHOOL
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New York, .Aug. 16-JWhile Sep
tember 25 was set today as the ten
tative date for opening the public
schools of this city; postponed from
September 11, because of the epiderm
ic of infantile paralysis, Health Com
missioner Emerson said it Was by ru
means certain New York's. 1,000,000
School chiddren Under 16 years of age
Could resume their studies' as early
as that ' , -
A
BEFRIENDED A GIRL
AND LOST HIS LIFE
Brownsville, Texas, Aug. 16. Cor
poral James Clement, was shot and
Instantly killed here tonight and Sofia
Valdez, a Mexican girl, was probab
ly fatally wounded by another cor
poral assigned to the quartermaster's
corps of the regular army.' A cor
poral, who gave his name as Pun
ches, was pursued by a posse 2 miles
and his tret lost. . Later he appear
ed at the count jail and surrendered.
Corporal Clement who. !wa 28 years
of age, came from Warren ton, Va.,
and is 'survived-by his widow.
Relatives of the Valdez girl declare
she was threatened with violence af
ter she had repulsed advances elleg.
ed to have been made by Dunches and
called fT assistance. ' Just as dem
ent appeared to aid the giri, Dunches,
it is charged, opened fire, wounding
the young woman and killing Clem
ent , . .. y
GRAND ROADS
HEALTH EXPERTS OF
MANY STATES TAKE
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SIEP3 STOP DISEASE
Call for BIoqc) of Persons
Who Have Suffered From
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Plague for Scrum to Com
bat Epidemic jyiany Re-
spondinsft Keported
(By h United Press)
Philadelphia, Aug. U.VTwelve ;
little sufferers from infantile pa
ralysis inoculated with the new.
tyood svrum in a final effort to
sae them from death are worse.
Washington, Aug. 17-Health , of
ficers f thirty-eight States met to
day to consider a national fight on
infantile paralysis. They included
men who helped to conquer the bu
bonic plague, cholera, yellow fever,
typhoid and., spotted fever epidemics.
An appeal was made to those who
have suffered from the plague to give
blood for serum to combat the dis-
case.
Many have already responded.
YOUNG WOMAN VICTIM
INFANTILE PARALYSIS
Greensboro, Aug. 10. 'Mrs. C. F,
Chapin, a bride of a few months.
aged 23 years, died here today from
infantile paralysis. She had been ill
since ' Sunday, but not until a few
hours before her de 4th was it con.
sidered serious. Mrs. Chapin had
ust returned from East Orancre. N.
J., a suburb ofNew York,and it is
supposed she contracted the disease
there. '
ANOTHER OBSTACLE '
WAY EARLY ADJOURNMT
Washington, ' Aug. 16. Republican
Senate leaders and Senator Owen,
Democrat, tied the legislative situa
tion in the Senate into a hard knot
today, threatening the plarra of: ad
ministration leaders to expedite the
shipping, workmen's compensation
and revenue bills and assure an ear
ly adjournment of Congress.'" , ;
The obstacle interposed was the
Owen corrupt practices biM to limit
and regulate political campaign Con
tributions. , 1
When Senator Fletcher sought an
agreement to vote on the shipping
bill late today Republican leaders de
manded in ireturi a promise from the
administration forces ' that the cor
rupt practices bill would not be press
ed to a vote before adjournment. Most
of the Democrats were willing to give
such a promise, but Senator Owen
wasdetermined to call his bill up.
TOBACCO fJARKET TODAY STIFFER THAN
rUK OFtNINIi SALES
OR BETTER, 45,000
"You can say that prices
as compared with today's "
ookinsr at one of the sales of
That is a little too strong, but to be sure, the market is
stiffer by one to two cents today than it was Tuesday. Be-
iw.r iorxy 3na nity tnousana pounas was tne oreaK ior
this, the third day; of the 1916-17 season. The average
was better than twenty cents. That is thought to , be a
safe estimate. . The most marked increases were perhaps
n the better grades: the lower grades showed very little,
if any, increase over the opening prices. : It was hardly
to be, expected that the lower
higher. '
To the onlooker the best
as well as the sellers was apparent. ' In fact, there at times
appeared to be almost a cood-natured scramble for the
choier offerings; and the auctioneers, of course, took every
advantage of the keen rivalry to get a buyer, to make it
a cent better" before the pile was knocked down. And by
the way. in this connection, be it Said that Kinston has the
niftiest quintet of auctioneers that have ever sold on the
local market They move down the lines with a rush,
which pushes the clerks, who follow to record the sales,
o keep the pace. - -
One small pile sow ior a aonar a pound ana some re
ales from Tuesday's opening added six to ten cents.
TARHEEL
OF TOMORROW HAVE
.t 4
NERVE AND ENERGY
They Are Now Leading the
South, Says Ixrcal Agri
cultural ExpcrtLcnoir
Boys to Take a Short
Course at Raleigh
Ten or fifteen Lenoir' county, pig
and corn club boys -have notified O
F. McCrary, county demonstration
agent, that they will take the "boys
short - course" in agriculture at the
A. & M. College. West Raleigh, from
August 22 to 25, inclusive. : This' is
gratifying intelligence to Mr. Me
Orary. ' ' "
Speaking of the enthusiasm of the
embryo Tarheel planters today. Dem
onstrator McCrary said: ."They are
leading the South east of the Missis
sippi. Last year, when the short
course was given for the first time
in this State, 225,. of them turned
out. Some- other States didn't have
half as many studying; .Alabama
had less than, a hundred. They are
better mixers and had the time of
their liyes at Raleigh. They .had
shed the proverbial timidity bf the
farmer; they acted like businessmen,
and that is just what they are mak
ing of themselves. . They have rub
bed the sleep out of their eyes; they
have ginger; the are after doing
something more than feeding them-'
sejves. ' I believe in North Carolina,
and it is very gratifying that Lenoir
county is well toward the top of, the
list in extension work.' " '
1 ;'Mr. McCrary is about, to .try out
a plan of organizing a corps of far
mers 'in the county to' vaccinate hogs
against cholera.' Three-fourths of
hisT time, he says, Is -taken up. with
that work. Edgecombe county has
several planters licensed for the busi
ness. Demonstrator McCrary pro
poses to persuade one farmer 'from
each of the 12 townships in' Lenoir
countjj.to go"'to!the A.. & M. and
receive a three-days' course of in
struction, whjph should equip , him
for the State's license; ; The students
could board themselves for about $1
a day at the college, he estimates.
The total expense would be only $10Q
Or S125. "Save' four or five tins in
the county and there is your money
hack" says Mr; McCrary. "the del
eft could break up cholera in the coun
ty. One man, however, has a Job at
tending' to the, animals that get ick,
withou bothering t about p ireventive
measures.'" '
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20 'CENT AVERAGE
SOLD IS ESTIMATE
were law on the opening day
said a ctoud of tobacconists.
the brierht leaf this mornincr.
grades would get much
of spirit among the buyers
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PLANTERS AMAZING PREPAREDNESS
s . 'J " . , I ' . 4! . , ... ':.ft
BATTLE FOR THEM; ALL GIVE, NO TASIE
f 57 e.
Maze of Railroads Connects Eight Gigantic Depots in the
Rear With Fighting FrontFour Square Miles of Mu-
. nitions Can Be Deposited at Trenches Every Day If Ne
cessaryThe Most Complete Supply System Any Army
Ever Had Not One Thing Left Undone by Thorough '
Allies Defense Cannot Last Much Longer, It Is Be
lievedGermans Stave pit a French Attack in Night,
But Haven't the Heart to
(By HENRY WOOD) ' '
With the French Armv in the Somme. Ahp-. 17. -Lfko
a gigantic multiple sledge hammer, the French? army- Is
smashing the German Somme lines. - The new French of
fensive in no way resembles the Russian steam roller.. In
stead, it. hammers continually blow upon blow at a given
point at a given time, until eventually the French believe
it must break down the German resistance. It Is incredi
ble preparation by a bast organization behind the lines
that puts the punch in the
foreseen and nothing overlooked. ' ' - . , ,
. Eight munitfons deports to the rear receive daily vast
stores of materials from every part of the world The def
pots are connected with the front by a veritable raystio
maze of railroads. Approaching the battle lines the. rails
converge even thicker, even more intricately, so perfected
is this system that each of the eight depots can pour on
the Somme front its entire square half mile of munitions
Germans Hold Back Attackers; vr
are oaiinea vvun xnui.
' Paris, Aug. 17. It is omciall) stated that though they
repulsed heavv French assault "on both banks of the
SnTriTYifi. f.hfi Germans made
the nawlv-won positions last
fighting is in progress near Maurepas and Belloy-eh-San? ,
terre. where the French 'advanced yesterday. - j1;"
British Make Gain. . , V : . . . '
London, Aug. 17, Driving along in coniunctlon-.with
th Frpnch. the British west of Guillemont "last " night
fanturpA thrfie hundred vards of i trenches' west of Foilri
caux Wood, according to
Ndrthwestof Fozieres;a German attack, was cneccea Dy
machine truns..- V;'. - !!n. '
Slavs Take 7,000 Prisoners.
- Petrograd, Aug. 17.- The capture of seven thousand
more prisoners is announced by General Sakhafoff.' He
has taken1 more than HW0 during th'6 offensive, ! s
Berlin Denies Great French Gains. 4 1
Berlin, Aug. 17. Official statement says the Germans
have driven baclcthe? Anglo-French who penetrated Four
eaux wood, inflicting heavy losses. - ' .': 1 '
The English attacked in force from pozieres and Ovir
lers and also west of Foureaux w6od today, but were re
pulsed." Between Guillemont and the Somme' the French
assaults failed. Five night attacks in the same region
were beaten off. It is admitted that the rencn oppaineu
a foothold in first line trenches for a width of 500 yards
Belloy-en-Santerre. .(The French claimed an advance on
a three-mile front ' . ' ' ; n ' ' '
-The Germans have repulsed Russian attacks at many
point's and captured Stareobczyne hill in the Carpathians,
it is said officially.. , 1 . 4 ' ' "
TRIES TO LOCATE LONG-
LOST FATHER NEW BERN
Mrs, A. E. Wallace of Bsltimwe
is at New Bern seeking information
of her 'father," James T. Dove, who
when last heard from, 'in 1879, was
at New Bern. Dove was a Confeder
ate veteran. Mrs. Wallace has learn
ed nothing to throw any light upon
har father's -whereabouts.
RICHLANDS TOBACCO ,
MARKET OPENS HIGH
; Richlands, N. C, Aug. 10. The lo
cal tobacco market oponed today with
a big sale. An : unusually ' large
amount of tobacco was on hand for
an opening sale, and those who were
present and who have observed open
ings here in previous years state that
the prices were the most satisfactory
ever received for the opening break.
The prkes ranged from 6e for . the
lowest grade on the floor to 32 cents
for the best, and nothing was offered
for sale but lugs. s The average price
per pound has not beea figured vp,
but it will range around 17 cents per
pound. '
v All the tobacco growers who wit
nessed the opening and those who
OF FRENCH IN
1 A PIAT
Strike Back v
l
drive. Everything has been
. .
no attempt to counter atrainst
: niffht ' Violent r artillery .
the report ofGeneral Haig.;
LIVELY BOY MAKES LOT
MONEY OFF BEANS RC'J
gard iosi gaU0;:s
. ' ." '' ' ' '
- Sidney Arthur, in knee troust- .
: ers, has since June 29 "hustled '
i3$ quarts of butter beans at
'15 "cents ' a quart two for -a .
quarter and isn't ready to quit t
yet. The beans were produced
' by young Arthur, who is ft son ,
, of Mr. Pinkney Arthur of . this -1
city, on a garden lot.
UNIFORMED wooD:iEir ;
CAilP IN SEPTElBEIt
The annual , encampment . of thai
North and South Carolina "brigade of
uniformed Woodmen' of the : World
will be held at Salisbury in the week
of September 11, according to Mr
E. B.- Lewis of this city,' a national
officer of the order. "About 350 Wood
men will attend. A Brigadier-gener-al
will be in command. - The tw4
States comprise District No. 12.'
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had weed on the floor seemed h'j:y
satisfied with the result There vera
many wagons here from the aJJ ic
townships in Duplin county.