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KINSTON, N. O,
TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1916
FOUR PAGES TODAY
TWO MOaE NATIOfiS HAY BE-PLUNGED IN ATLANTIC COAST !8,ff IM INSIST TO
TRICE TWO CENTS
. FIVE CENTS ON TRA IN
. 1 ! i A.
mm
lltSUnlFHUN OF FIGHTING ON BEING BESET BY A
, GREEKS IN SCRAP MAKE-BELIEVE FOE
today km top mm -
- fkIces uamaked IMMIGRATION
Eighty-seven thousand . on hun
dred and ninety-four pounds of tobac
co was sold here today. The average
lill!
VOTE THIS SESSION
Many oIdjers of Neutral Cquntry pled In. Clash With Annual War Game Starts I. prlc8 bn 20 nd 21 5nt3 iHardwick anjl Smith Are
... . ' - ; II . I . The weed sold today was from fair I . .
Lashed- JJy Kern , and
Invading Bulgars Actjpn On the JSntire Front Brit-
isu, x'rcipi, ocrus aim luyiienfgruis AliacKing .
sians anil Italians Beach Salonika to Participate :
Rou-
Rou-
mania, Said to Favor Germany, About to. Take Event-
f ul Step Bulgarians Take Five Towns ; and Menace
n i .t.""j. ait.'l ntfA tt? m 1 ! " ' 1 .'
crretK ron linens vaoinei nas lateen jno Action
Will Last Until September
1; All i Ships Participat
ing and Rigid Censorship
In Use
v.
Series of Battles developing Along Frontier
(By the United, Press)
( Washington, Aug. 22. At 6 o'
clock this morning a, fleet of U. S
(By the United Press) N .; ' : .'.5 battleships sailed out to vsea from
' Atfiensj Aug. 22. The troops Of S.X" - Allied nations so'lhe rint on the Atlantic coast to
enemy fleet
tYin At.1nnt.ip
drench, English,; Russian and Italian forces join on the
ureeK irontier. -Slavs
Gain In Caucasus.
Petroffrad,;Auff22. The Russians have made con
siderable progress wi the Caucasus west of Lake Van and
yj, tne eastern Euphrates VajJey. it is said oflicially.
Russians and Italians Reach Salonika.
Is under way. : . -
Admiral Helm commands the de
fending, or blue fleet, Admiral Slayo,
the attacking, or red fleet. ' All com-
missioned vessels, , of the Atlantic
fleet are participating. - j
a he attacking fleet dashed land
ward from an unknown point six hun-
I i.tT w A Z 7V t ' 1 l i n i ' i I wa Tm n
Tf?;'u511 -ruuowoiw ivc xcawiu ouuiiu dd miles t sm. An ironclad cen
' to join in the Allied offensive, say dispatches. Salonika
reports that Allied transports with Russians are arriv
ing as newly-arrived Italians are disembarking.
Wcks ana liuigars in l ight. , . j. ; ,
London. Aue. 22.-r-Greeks and Bukarians have clash
ed in the retrion;of Serres, forty miles northeast of al
pnika, says a dispatcTi from Athens. Numbers of ;the
Greeks were killed. Neighboring reserves were called
out, V The Allies are attacking on the whole 1 Bulgarian
f XQ& a series of battfes developing. Montenegrins are
lighting beside the Serbs on th,e right wing. , On the ex
treme right the Bulgarians are now within a few hours
of $fte Ureek port of Jiavaia, and may have occupied it
already,,,,- , . . . , k
npre?ised activity, oy. tna pro-war party in itqufnanja
aorship has been instituted by the
Navy Department until the game is
over, September 1.
The weed sold today was from fair
to excellent in quality, and there was
practically no change in price from
Monday's, which averaged 20.68. The
sales total on Monday was just a
little more than half of today's.
Planters who sold here today for
the first time since the season opened
declared great satisfaction over the
prices and ..thehr treatment by the
warehousemen. Both farmers ' and
warehousemen are expecting
Stone but Stand Pat Ac
" cused of Turning Senate
Over to Republicans
(By the United Press)
Washington, Aug. 22. Despite
' ... :. .. II ..... ....
terrific- lashing from Senators Stone
big I and Kern, who, called, them "traitors"
breaks during the early part of Sep
tember,
rflNTRlBilTIONS PASS
EIGHT HUNDRED MkK
Contributions- to the Flood Suffer
ers' Fund since Monday afternoon
were only two in number .totalling
$5.55.' The list now stands: -
Previously reported ....... 4798.14
Holly Grove church (col'd) ... 2.55
Spencer & Co. (additional) .... 8.00
Grand Total to date. .
.$803.69
OH to Give Russian Jews
Ail Privileges of Empire
to Be Introduced in Fall
and charged them with "turning over
the legislative power of the Senate to
the Republicans," Senators Haxdwick
of Georgia and Smith of South arV
Jina today declared they wouidi .con
tinue to fight for p. vote on the im
migratio nbill fit Ufa session. J The
Japanese excluaJoo. ,' X ' y' ;'
An unexpected Democratic revolt
in' the Senate yesterday resulted in
the immigration bil lbeing taken up
in defiance of the Democratic caucus
and opened the way for efforts to.dis
place it ha revenue bill as unfinished
business, an action which might in
definitely prolong the session of Con
gress. ' X
The Democratic Senators voted with
the solid Republican minority to take
up the immigration bill upon a mo
tion by Senator Smith of South Car
olina, chairman of the Immigration
Committee. They were Ashurst, Cul
berson, Beckham, Chamberlain, Hard-
wick. Lane, Myers, Overman, Smith
of South Carolina and Vardamann.
(By the United Press)
Petrograd, Aug. 22. A bill abolishing the Pale and
! GREENBACKS HAD BEEN
WAFTED AROUND BY AN
situation there. The Greek Cabinet .has not acted yet will be introduced in the Imperial Duma which convenes AIR CURRENT: ENTICED
js reporpecL, T,he Germans are.said to be satisfied ; with the granting Jews the same rights as pther Russian subjects,
on the Bulgarian invasion.
French (Jawed In Nijrfit. : , ; , '
Paris, Auff. 22. The French advanced on both sides of
the "Somme. lst night, progressing towards Clerick and
captunng several entrenenments, it is said omcially.
Bulgars Take Town.
., , .Berlin, Augr22. The Bulgarians have captured five
Greek villages since the beginning of the offensive, says
in November. The bill has the support of the progressive
party, in the majority. It contains three provisions:
Abolishing the pale (within which the Jews had to
Jive) and enabling theK mto live where they choose: Sec
ond, he, removing of educational restrictions. Third,
Permitting them to enter any trade or profession they
want po.
The bill will meet with severe opposition. The oppon
ents claim the Jsws are so clever at business that they
would soon have the peasants at their mercy.
ERICSSON, INVENTOR
OF MONITOR, IS TO
jftYE MEMORIAL SOON
(By the United Press)
Washington, Aug. 22.-Fifty- four
years after hia. epochal J'cheese-box
on a raft" rescued 'the Union navy
from utter destruction. John Ericson,
inventor of the historic Monitor of
civil war nnv la if, natni mpmnrml
fretted him here, .it, seems, certain
tojjay. 4 hii foe a ?10QJ)Ofl memorial
hjs passcilaHouse nd with strong
(jacking is awaitin gaction in the Sea
ate." --. . . J ' . , . . .
DESERTERS WERE LOST
IN WOODS: BETRAYED.
SHOES
REGULATION FOR THE
PROTECTION OF BIRDS
Washington, Aug. 21. Regulations
designating open seasons, for hunting
migratory birds under the neyf fed
eral, migratory bird law, 'were pro
mulgated today by Secretary Hous
ton 'ft the Agricultural Apartment.
They apply only in pases where equal
protection to the Jjirda is not provid
ed under State laws. ;
All. insectivorous birds are protect
ed indefinitely , under the secretary
order andprotection until September
If 1918, is provided", for band-tailed
Pigeons, cranes, wood ducks, swans,
erirlew, willet, .upland plover and
w.'J shore birds. Open seasons for
other water fowl, coots,, gallinules,
Jack snipes, blackbreasted and golden
Plover, greater and lesser yellow legs,
and woodcocks are defined State
by State. - : , -
GUARD WILL STAY PUT
AS LONG AS NECESSARY
Wahintfton, Aug. 21-The National
Guard will be retained on the Mexi
can- border until it can be withdrawn
without again endangering American
lives and property, Secretary Baker
noir county jail here held for the; mili- j so declared the adminstration's policy
terv authorities, charged with deser-1 today in answenng a score of , let
' . . I .nM vnonw n..i4a n.f fmmtrr
tlnn Pnnlr On1 TVavi SlmltfiWl thpir I ic.j
- , .. . 'Jr' I complaining that the state troops
indention to aesert, soia w w , he,d jn
sheriff's office. They were in , civil- the 6n,ergency for which' they were
ian clcthes when arrested, except fori called out apparently had passed
their shoes, which w.ere of the army
C. R. Ronk and James A. Davis,
said to be privates in the First In-;
fan try at Camp Glenn, are in the Le-
field issue. . , . .,. -
The men accosted E. W. Mincher on
a road a few miles from the . city.
They asked to be directed to a bridge
over Neuse river. One of them- told
Mincher "a story of how they had
gone to New Ber nto work for a
painting contractor, had become dis
gusted with him because of his fond
ness for drink, and had - preferred
walking back to their alleged homes
upstate to riding on a' train. , They
had lost their wayjn Jowgrounds. Mr.
and when the pair had gone on to-
Mincher noticed, the telltale shoes,
and when the pair had gone on to
ward "iKinston, telephoned the police
here. Chief Skinner waited for them I Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 21. The fish
and apprehended them s they came J ing schooner Emily Cooney sank off
into town, hearing "ail tne lies" tney
! EIGHT KILLED, 16 HURT
WHEN BOILERS EXPLODE
Jackson, Tenn, Aug. 21. Eight per-.
sons were killed and 16 injured hrere
today when three boilers at the plant
of the Harian Morris Stave Manufac
turing Company exploded, wrecking
the .building and scattering debris ov
er' a radius of several hundred yards.
It is believed that all of the injured
will recover. .;,
The cause of the jexplosion had
not been determined-tonight.
SCHOONER WRECKED BY STORM
coula' think ,of he says. . .When the
company commander of the men was
communicated with he asked -that they
beheld. . ' . " ',
NEW BERN COUNTRY CLUB
New Bern, Aug. 22. A large block
stock in New Bern's country club,
be locatad at Glennburnie park,
been sold. It is hoped to dls
fe of ll slock within -the fort-
C0H0N SELING HIGH, t
ACCORDING TO RETORTS
"Firrt bales" have been reported
from one or two counties in the State
already, and buyers are -expecting re
ceipts of new cotton here within a few
days. The high price on the New
York spot market Man:lay was U F5.
about half. a cent r-f'.ier :n on F..t-
the Mexican coast in the hurricane
which swept the we it gulf (ast Fri
day, according to word received here
today hy the owners of the vessel.
Captain Hans Gudmunden was carried
overboard and drowned, but the nine
members of the crew were picked-op
in life boats by the 'French
steamer Hudson and taken to Puerto
Mexico, -, - '
VThe wages of sin- is death", A
bottle of whiskey, an all night car.
ousal, the gleam of ,"easy money",
temptingly displayed in a show win
dow, proved the undoing of young
John Holland, a white youth barely
past his majority, convicted in the
Record'Sr's Court this morndng . of
having smashed 'the large plate glass
window in front of Wis Grand Ice
Cream Parlor and taking therefrom
some one dollar hills placed there
for an advertisement. Holland h
rather an intelligent looking fellow
and testified that he had been em
ployed at a local buggy factory as
painter rajd made (9 a. (week. Ho
was not repj'eschted iy counsel and
none of his family were present to
render him any sympathy. ; He de
nied his guilt and told rather weak
story of his movements last night.
which culminated i nhis arrest this
mprning a little after five, a few
minutes after officer George Jennings
of the local police force had heard
window crash, and upon investiga
tion ascertained it - to be at the
CARRANZA FORCE LOSES . Grand. Two rolls of mey were
20 IN V1LLISTA. CLASH found on the young fellow; one cor-
taining about sixteen dollars and
Bulletins
(By the United Press)
BIG BRITISH GAIN.
.. London, Aug. 22. The British
advanced half a mile on a front
west of Pozieres, it is reported by
General Haig. The Germans are
still resisting obstinately at Guil
lemont. The British are within
1,000 yards of Thiepval.
; ilil Paso, Texas, Aug; 21. A fore
of 4ixty Villa bandits engaged and
defeated a larger command of gov
ernment troops in the vicinity of San
ta Ysabel, Chihuahua, last Friday, ac
cording to private dispatches here to
day. The de facto command approx
imated 100 men and lost-20, whilo the
outlaws, under J. Dominguez st
but twelve.
CHICAGO POLICE SEEK
MAN FOR WIFE MURDER
, Chicago, Augl 21 The, police to
night sent out a nation-wide request
to authorities to cearch 'for JoJm La
bello, husband of Mrs. John Labello.
who was found slain by an axe-in her
flat, with-her two small children near
death from starvation" clambering
over her body.
HEAT RECORD IN CLEVELAND
Cleveland, O.,
persture as rec
mcnt kio-k in
reach?! l"i t
Aug. 21. The tem
i' !?1 by the govt-rTi-'
j" public 5--;-ja-c
y, brc-.kir? t"
i. T.u'-e I- '
REMIT? BRUSSEL SFINE.
Amrterdam, Via London, Aug. 21
The F ho Beige says it learns that
Or. i' Von Bissing, governor gen
' " - ; ' '' e occupied portions of Bel-
' ' remitted the fine of -150,-J
on Brussels for celebrat
',sn national fete day on
the WMiicipality had
shown to officer Rouse when the ar
rest was made, this Holland claimed
and it was turned over to him by the
Court; the other the officer testified
had been dropped en route to the jail
and Holland denied having had it;
there were sx dllars new ones
which were identified as some of the
money displayed in the Grand win
dow. Little or no doubt of the guilt
of Holland was held by any who heard
the case. He was sentenced to twelve
months in the county jail or to be
worked on the roads.
There was about $10 in paper mon
ey in a pyramidical twine 'cage in
an improvi-ed display window in the
front of . the Grand Theater's lobby
until this morning about K s'clock.
The money was kept rising and fall
ing in the daytrW by a current of
air from underneath, and was a part
of a cigsrette advertising display.;,
'Another unfortunate case before
the city tribunal today was that of
an old negro couple charged with
running a "rooming house." A young
white girl comely of appearance was
on hand and testified that she had
visited the house on several ' occa
sions with young man said to be
trr ployed on one of the shifting engine
forces of the local railroads. Decis
ion ii the cae was reserved until
UP TO DIRECTORS OF RAILROADS TO KEEP
OFF BIG STRIKE; EXECUTIVES SHOVE Tllf
RESPONSIBILITY OFF ON THE Ili'V'D MEN
Heads of Systems Wrestled AU Night With Great fropp
a ' m T-i- i ; .. r n:ii-.l f I
Vthinff But Arbitration Employes Now Trusting:, Ey
erythinff to President Wilson Select Committee, :hf
"Big- Barons" Continues Sessions .Today Hard Work
, .. , i .... . ... i'-.-.
for .Them In Digging Through Various Phases of ffjtp
. atiori Heavy Expenses of Capital and Labor Arniies
Locked in Gigantic Struggle Keep Piling Up
in 1 4
. I (By the United PreBs); 'f .'
Washington. Aue. 22. The greatest industrial .struji-
trlp in fViA riistnrv rf f Vio rmintrv VinYio-a in t.hp hnlanPft to
es-'- ..wAA. wa w.v iww j ......Ajif rr"rr-t,
day.- TheJ question of acceptance or rejection qf the proi
posals made bv President Wilson in.aa effort to avert a
strike thai would tie-tip the, railroads, of the .country' nas
how been passed up to the men whose money is invested
in the great arteries of the nation's ;rade. ' . "r. -As
the situation stands this afternoon-ihe, employes
have put thteir demands in the hands of the President, and
he has put the matter up to the heads of , the great sys-
tems ana r.ney, m vurn, nave passea it un w uie turwuvt e
After an all-night sessiori the select committee of -the
"bit? barons" aDbointed bv the two sc6re executives, .fail
ed to reach a decision. They then wired their directors,
and UDon the renlv from the money powers behind the
country's transportation systems largely rests the final
result. Meantime, the high salaried executives continue
tn nersnire and wrestle with various ahirles: of the nego :
fiations, with the salaries and expenses of executives' arid
employes engaged in the. negotiations, estimated to. I be
There is no doubt that a division exists among , the
railroad heads. Against the faction which favors, "trad
ing" with the President in accepting the eight-hour, day '
xrmcipie, is anouier viuienuy uypvoeu w anjr okcjj
;hat would weaken their demand for arbitration .on all
miit.i-.pra. The select committee, neadea oy naie tioiaen,
continue their sessions throughout the, day,
IANY CASES CLEARED
OrT BV COURT DOCKET
Small Matters Being Rapidly Got
ten Out of Way Grand Jury E
pected to Finish up Business In a
Few Hours and Abridged Term . Is
jLooked For
Superior Court Monday made
plend id progress and cleared the
docket of many of the less important
cases, . It was predicted by court of
ficials today that the grand jury
would wind up by night and that the
term would be cohcluded before the
end of the week.
Continued, dismissed with suspend
ed judgments and payment of costs,
nol prossed, etc., were numerous of
the les simportant cases up Monday.
Thers were quite a few convictions,
howev, including the following sen
tenced to the roads and jail: Bert
Suggs, colored who .shot at his white
benefactor," Planter Henry Brothers,
16 months on three counts, including
cruelty to a mule; Bandall - Jones,
larceny of a :pig, "4 months; Dave
Young, assault and battery, 8 months;
Ivey Turner, assault and battery, 6
months.
Tobs Mayo, charged with retailing;
Joe Smithwick, accused of larceny,
and Jerome Moore, up on appeal from
the Recorder's Court for larceny, were
called and failed and capiases isbued
for them. V -;i : v '.
One case against Convict Guard E.
W, Mincher, charged with' maltreat
ing s convict, was nol prossed.
Marvin Aldridge, a youth fined in
Recorder's ' Court for selling cider,
whose case was afterward referred by
the Eecorder to Superior Court for
test, was found not guilty. Aldridge,
was stated, had not violated the
law by selling the cider, made by his
father.' ';
DID YOU KNOW THAI
- WAS A PRIZEFpTER?
(By toe United Press)
Monbrose, Col.,- Aug. 82. -Miwl
Enima F ull, county superintendent
of schools, today culled the following'
from tha answers In an shrdluaaa
from the, answers in an examination;
Jor teachen. here: '
A Republican form of government
is one that is governed by ft Repub
lican.. . , 1 f
Maryland was settled by a pugilist, .
The tendon, is what divides ","th
abfjominal and tbo thoradic favity.- -
A dynamo is. an animal that car
ries its young in a pouch. ' . j J '
Mammal is a plant that get itsi
food from another plant, like irnossJ
Pleura is the rapping of the lung.
Rain is evaporated air that rises
and then falls. ' -
MAN BITTEN BY BIG
poMi&SAi(&
HAY NOT GET trail'.
I'.y.
APS TRYING TO BUY
LAND AT CANAL, SAID
Washington, . Aug. 21. Investiga
tion of reports from Panama that a;
60,000-cre land concession at the At
lantic end of the Canal is jbelhgt
sought by a Spaniard named Fer
nandez, presumably for Japanese in
terests,' was ordered today by. Sec
retary Lansing. "' Mr. Lansing re
fused to discuss. the report in de
tail. J
: Charles Dudley, a prominent t
farmer of Pitt county, was
severely bitten by a "poplar leaf,
snake and brought for special ,
treatment to the office qf Dr. W. 1
T. Parrott here Monds by" Dr,4;.'.
AV. C Whitfield. . The outcome C
the ease is problematical, but the '
attending physicians are . very -hopeful.
. ' - .- I
The "poplar leaf," better known 1
1 nthis vicinity as the "white
oak," is considered especially ve-
acinous.' The one that bit Dud- :
ley was subtly coiled in a fodder '
loft into which. Mr. Dudley had :
gone, and fought desperately. The '
snake was three or four feet long. ! -
NAVY SURGEON STRICKEN ; :
-' - ,V IX SUNDAY SCHOOL!
Jlagerstown,- Md., Aug. 21 VP.: i
instructing a Sunday school clas a J
Second Reformed church today IV.
Kerschner, U. S. N.,' rciireJ. v ;
stricken with paralysis of the !
and died in ten minut ;.