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DAILY The Home Paper TUr' Newi .T0.U3r 4. ill 10 7fo Weather Showers. VOL XVIII. No. 57 FIRST EDiTlON KINSTON, N. O, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1916 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS Wilson Calls Railroads to the CflfElffiESisi(E ULii lIJljUUlaljL Pi UljLilllUt v - . . ... i THEY'L REFUSE ACCEPT EIGHT-HOUR DAY Insist on Arbitration; Employes Won't Hear, of That Discussion Has Reached Point That Makes It "Highly Desirable" That Heads of (Jreat Systems Hasten to Make It Convenient . to "Come . At r Once" Nation's Chief Executive Hopes Yet to Avoid Tie-up that Would - Bring About Unprecedented . Conditions Throughout the Country ' v ' J, . I 1 , ' . (By Robert J. Bender) ' Washington, Aug. 17. Events in the most dramatic industrial conflict this country has seen in many yeas today moved swiftly. The afternoon found President Wilson in his library completing his proposals. The Pres Ident in hi appeal to the railroad presidents, did not con sider, them "ultimate authority." This intimation may gppcal to stock traders. ." 1 Washington; Aug. .17 President Wilson today sum moned the presidents of the great railroad systems to Washington to confer on the threatened strike. The ac tion followed an apparent deadlock in the controversy and intimation from the road managers that the 8-hour principle even tentativelywas unacceptable. The managers arid men show no disposition to recede from their positions. -The roads still insist upon arbitra tion, and the men still refuse. The President's telegram to the railroad presidents said: , .. "Discussion of the matters involved in the threatened, railroad strikeha reached a point which makes it highly .desirahkihat r 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 jnakeit convenient to come to Washington at once. CARE OF SALVATION ARtYl BAD STRAITS fht Salvation Army representa- iVte.:i. mwa"' m maaA nt 4rt ... ears idf six emergency eases in the city. t. Vendeville, lit charge, j today asked for $10 to relieve the . lmmetltata iieeds of : these persons . Inm home both the husband and . . , , 6 . ( .A , ;,4 i , .. County Superintendent of Schools J.- wife e down with sickness. Cap. , , ' , , , . , t i ,r . , . , , , . ...,E. Debnam, 3. Wr Parker, W. A. Vendeville will be glad to explain the cirewntifances to any,one desiring to contribute. The Salvationists have relieved quite a lot of .suffering considering theft1 ifidihber and tfteah during the summer, and' according to ministers pt several churchesare doing lot of goe both 'tn spkitiiai nd mater- )al ways. They ar working "down ,v . . ; .. . m ... m. .y wnere me ouiers don't reacn." iney have made many Visits to sick and conducted Services in places where a Bible probably was' never een be fore. NOTES FROM THE BRIGHT LEAF TOBACCO MARKETS Fair Sales and Big Prices on New Bern and Washington Markets at -.Openings Wednesday Greenville Anticipating a Lull Movements of Tobacconists - , :f awasMMa About 60,000 pounds of tobacco was sold on the New Bern tobacco mar ket Wednesday when the two ware houses there opejied for the season. Prices were very high. . ; ' John Ivy Smith of Greenville, who as on the Kinston '- tobacco" mar ket last season, is buying fdr a New Bern independent ;: concern on 1 the New Bern market this season. Greenville thinks it will be three or four weeks before, the Teal rush begins on that market . Washington's sales at the opening ' Wednesday amounted to more than 60,000 and possibly 60,000 pounds. A Aouiand persons watched the , sales. ed brought as high as 40 cents. One pinhooker paid 20 cents for a President ARE; HOPELESSLY GREENE BOfARD OF AGRICULTURE ? Greene county has organized Board. '. of Agirieulture, similar to Lenoir county's. .' Quarterly meetings M1 be Mld, The'following comprise m ' . , the board D. J. Middleton, Agricultural Pem onstration Agent: J.' C. Exum, chair man 01 the caranty - ommrssioneru; Shackleford, J. E. .Herring, S. W. McKeel, J." Drann, T. E stall, W. D. A'lbritbon, C. F. B"ar.row, W. U. fun Cobb, Levi Hill, S. W. Ifurphrey, A. H. Joyner, J E. Mewborn, L. F Herring, E,; T. Murphrey, J. S. Speight, C. R. Har per, i (O. - Sugg, W. W. Ormond and Felix Moore. -i ! .1 1 ; BRIEFS IN THE NEWS OF Wk TOWNS AND COUNTIES OF SECTION Winterville township in Pitt coun ty, likel Ayden township, has voted (50,000 in bonds lor 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 seuring a "clean town." ' . " v JJsther Harper, colored, about 12 years of age, is in a New, Bern hos pital with a broken epine and com pletely paralyzed as the result of be ing struck by an V automobile. , No hope is entertained for her recovery. Capt. George Howard, a noted mar iner of Ocracoke, is ill at his horns there with little chance of recover, ir.g Captain Howard has been a master of deep water ships for" many years. He is quite advanced in years Jiow. !, He is the father of Geo. N. Howard, a Norfolk. Southern spe cial agent known all over the system. 600-pound lot and sold it for 32. T. R. Apple of South Carolina is a new member of the Kinston tobac co colony for this season.' MANAGERS 1NTMTE of Big Unite House POLISH CROPS ARE FOR THE MARKETING By CARL W. ACKERMAN, (United Press Staff Correspondent) Warsaw, Aug. 17. Crops are especially excellent In Poland, t 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, Uiough the factories are closed. The Germans are .building an eight-million-dollar highway sys- . tern around the metropolis to fa cilitate the marketing of crops. PREACHER CLEANS OUT WHISKY FROM SECTION Rev. J. M. McKensie, ,a Baptist minister at Cliocowinity, contipuea to fight the illicit 'Whisky business in that section although his life has Keen threatened several times. Mc Kenzie, according to Beaufort county officials, has almost "cleaned out" ihe district. ' GRIEVING OYER BABY, . , SHE TRIED KILL SpJF Richmond, Va., Aug. . 16. Melan choly fr6m grief over the death, a few, . months , ago, . of , her little girl, Mrs. T. 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 depression. Her head struck a brick pav(ment. She U alive but probably will die. 4 AlIUidN NEW YORK KID? BlAY NT (GO TO SCHOOL v New York, Aug. , 16. 'While 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 epidem ic of infantile paralysis, Health Com missioner Emerson said it was by no means certain New York's' 1,000,000 school children under 16 years of age could resume their studies as early as that, , Death of Aged Colored Woman, i Julia Borden, - colored, died this morning about ' 3 o'clock She Was nearly 100 years old, it is said. She Was the mother of the Borden broth ers who have been active in colored business circles here for about 25 or Si years, and was known to many w-hite persons. ' She was a member of the A. M. E. Zion church, from wtichthe funeral will be conducted Friday at 3 p. m. '--f'f :'V-y:: Funeral of Hi J BelL t U ; . The funeral of Mr. H. J. Bell, who died Wednesday, was postponed from thi morning until 5:30 this after noon, in yOT4ej to permit the arrival of .relatives from a distance. A brief service will be conducted at Maple wood cemetery by Mr. B. P." Smitr.. The local lodges of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Harmony will assist in the service. A service was eon ducted at 4 p. m. at the home on Col lege street - - ' L Harper Funeral Delayed. The remains of Dr. H. D. Harper, who killed himself and Jiis wife at WeaverviUe, Tuesday, did not arrive here Wednesday night or this morn log as expected. The body is looked for at 4:41, and will be carried im where'ft short service will be con ducted by Pastor. B. P. Smith of Gor don. Street ChristiA church, and in terment made. The body of Mrs. Harper was due at Conetoe today for burial. -.- 1 " GOOD GRAND ROADS HEALTH EXPERTS OF Hihr STATES TAKE STEPS STOP DISEASE Call for" Bldod of Persons Who ttaVe fullered From f PlagUe for Serum to Com hit Epidemic Miny Re ' spending:, Reported (By the United Press) - Philadelphia, Aug. 17. Twelve little sufferers from infantile pa ralysis inoculated with the new v blood serum in a final effort to save them from' death are worse. Washington, Aug. 17. Health . of ficers of thirty-eight States met to day to consider' a national fight on infantile paralysis. They included men who helped -to conquer the bu bonic plagua, Cholera, yellow fever. typhoid and spotted fever epidemics. An appeidj wras'Tnado to those who have suffered Jrom the plague to give blood for serum to comhat-the dis- ease. Many have already responded. YOUNG WOMAN YICTIH r PARALYSIS Greensboro, Aug.M6. 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 death was Tit con sidered eeriius. Mrs. Chapin had Just returned from East Orange, N. J., a suhurb of New York, and it is supposed she contracted the disease there. Another obstacle - WAY EARLY ADJOURNMT Washington, Aug. 16. Republican Senate loaders and Senator. Owen, Democrat, tied the legislative situa tion in the Senate into a hard knot today, threatening the plans of ad ministration leaders to expedite the shipping, workmen's compensation and revenue bills and assure an ear ly adjournment of Congress. ,i The obstacle interposed was the Owen corrupt practices hill to limit and regulate political campaign con tributions. ' 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 ipractices bill would not be press ed to a vote before adjournment. Most of the Democrata were willing to give such a promise, but Senator Owen was determined to call hii bill up. TOBACCO MARKET TdDAY STIFFER THAN FOR OPENING SALES-20 CENT AVERAGE OR BETTER, 45,000 i "You can say that prices were low on the opening day as compared with today's," said a group of tobacconists, looking at one of the sales of the bright leaf this morning. That is a little too strong, but to be sure, the market is stiffev by one to two cents today than it was Tuesday. Be twer. forty and fifty thousand pounds was the break for this, the third dayy of the 1916-17 season. The average wa better than twenty cents. That is thought to bo a safe estimate. The most marked increases were perhaps in 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 grades would get , much higher. ?",-v. ; - v ' ' To the onlookerthe best of . spirit among the buyers as well as the sellers was apparent. In fact, there at times appeared to be almost a good-natured scramble for.tlfe chotc 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 fjuintet 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, to keep the pace. " ' - . One small pile sold for a dollar a pound and some re c ales from Tuesday's opening added six to ten cents. TARHEEL PLANTERS'AIIAZIIPREPAREDNESS OF FRENCH IN Of TOiiflifilAVE NERVE AND ENERGY They Are Now Leading the , South, Says Local Agri , cultural ' fixpertLcnoir Boys to ; Tate a Short ' Course at . Raleigh Ten or fifteen Lenoir county pig and .corn ' club boyi 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. Mc- ... '. :-.- i ..... ... Orary. . . ' Speaking of the enthusiasm of the embryo Tarheel planters today, Dem onstrator McCrary aaidi "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 lives at Raleigh They had shed th proverbial timidity of 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; they are after doing something more than feeding them selves. I believe in North Carolina, anH it is very gratifying that Lenoir county is well toward the (top of the list in extension work. Mr. McCrary is about to try out & $lan of organizing a corps' of far mers In the county to vaccinate hogs against cholera. Three-fourths f his time, he says, is taken up with that work. Edgecombe county has several planters licensed for the busi ness. Demonstrator McCrary pro poses to persuade one farmer from each of the 12 townships in Lenoir county to go t$ the A. & ;M. and receive a three-days course of , in struction, which 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 $100 or $125. "Save four or five hogs in the county and there is your money back," says Mr. McCrary, "The doz en could break up cholera in the coun ty. One man, however, has a job at tending , to the .animaja that get .sick, without bothering about p reventive measures. ' Subscribe to The Free Press. SOLO IS ESTIMATE IME OFFENSIVE BATTLE FOR THEM; ALL GIVE, NO TAKE Maze of Railroads Connects Eight Gigantic Depots in trie . ftear With Fighting Front Four Square Mileso7 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 AlliesDefense Cannot Last Much Longer, It Is Be lievedGermans Stave OiT a French Attaclc in Night, ' But Haven't the Heart to Strike, Back . (By HENRY WOOD) ;. With the French Army in tne Somme Aur 17. Like ' a gigantic multiple sledere smashing the German Somrii lines. ' The new( French of fensive in no wajr resembles the Russian steam roller: In stead, ; it hammers continuallv blow upon blow at k triven ' point at a given tme, until jc must oreaK aown tne uerman resistance, it is incredi ble preparation by a bast that puts the punch in the drive. Everything has been ' fpreseen and nothing overlooked. , . , Eight munitions deports to the rear receive daily Vast storey of materials from every part of the world The de pots are connected with the maze of railroads. Approaching the battle lines the rails converge even thicker, 'even more intricately, so perfected . is this sj'stem that each of the eight depots can pour; on the Somme front its entire square half mile of munitions every thirty-six hours, . , . , Germans Hold Back Attackers; - i . - Are Satisfied With That Paris, Autr.17.--It is officially stated that though they reDulsed heavv French assault on both banks ., of the Somme, the Germans made no the newlvvvon oositions last fighting is in progress near Maurepas and.Belloy-en-San-terre, where, the French advanced yesterday. ' .' BH,tish Make Gain. , i.. .,, h v.y.. - - London, Aug. 17. Driving along in conjuncwon. witn Lhe French, the British west of Guillemont .last "night r3.rit.iiTpd three hundred vards of trenches west of Four-. eaux Wood, according to Northwestof Pozieres, a German attacK was cnecnea Dy . machine guns. Slavs Take 7,000 Prisoners. Petrograd, Aug.. 17. -1 he capture of seven tnousanq more prisoners is announced, hy General Sakharofr. He has taken more than 94,000 during the offensive. . ' 1 Berlin Denies Great French 17. .nffinial have driven back the eaux wood, inflicting heavy losses. , , . The English attacked in force from Pozieres artd toi lers and also west of Foureanx wood today, but were .re pulsed. Between Guillemont and the .Somme the French assaults iaiiea. . rive Ulgub autatJvo iu i-iic oaiuu tw.. were beaten off. It is admitted that the French obtained a foothold in first line trenches for a width of 500 yards , Belloy-en-Santerre. (The French claimed ah advance cm a three-mile .front. - ' " t . : The Germans have repulsed Russian attacks at many points and captured Stareobczyne hill iit the Cjrpathians, ; tRte tO LOCATE LONG LOST FATHER NEW BERN . Mrs. A E. Wallace. Baltimore is at New Bern seeking information pf 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 lightf upon her father's whereabouts. RICHLANDS TOBACCO , 5 1 MARKET OPENS HIGH jPJTf!:' a m . "' Eichlands, N. C, Aug. 16-The lo cal tobacco market opened today with a big aale. An , unusually large amount of tobacco was on hand for an opening sale, and those who wero present and who have observed open ings 'here in previous years state that the prices were the most eatisfactory ever received for the. opening hrealc The prices ranged from 6c for the lowest grade on the floor to 32 cents for the best, and nothing was offered for aale but lugs. The average price per pound has not been figured up, but it will range around 17 centa per pound. ' AH the tobacco growers who wit nessed the opening and thosa who IS WINNING A GREAT hammer, the French arm v is eventually the French believe orizanization behind the liriea front by a veritable mystic ... : . attempt to counter against nitrht iViotent, artillery the .report of . General Haig.. , , ' WV 3 ; - ,.. , Gains. ,, t i. .."-: Rtatement savs the Germans Anglo-French who penetrated Four- LIVELY BOY MAKES 10T HONEY OFF BEAMS FRC'l Sidnry Arthur, in knee trous-' ,.t en, has since June 29 "huitlcU" . 436 quarts of butter beans at ' 15 centa a quart tw for s a quarter and isn't ready to quit yet. The beans were produced by young Arthur, who is a turn of Mr. Pinkney Arthur of this city, on a garden lot. J . '.. UNIFORMED W00DJ1EN V CAMP IN SEPtBIBER" - ' . x -. . f . - - ' , - ' ' t . ' ' '' The annual ' encampment' of. thd North and South Carolina: brigade of uniformed Woodmen of ithe 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 S50 Wood men will attend. . A Brigadier-genar al will be in command. The twd Stats comprise District No. 12. ' 1 1 had weed on the floor seemed hig-'y satisfied with the result There were many wagons here from the. adjacent townships in Duplin county. . f