TTViTrs PRESS The Ham Papir The Weather TebV Nwi ToUy Shew VOL XVM-No. 66 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. G THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 191G FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS FIVB CENTS ON TRAINS GireeCs King FEees, Said: ;Afes siirai Melfebic Army WILL THE RAILROAD OHIO MOB FAILS JO GET FIEND ALTHOUGH SHERIFF MUTILATED STEAMSHIP COMPANIES AS WELL AS THE RAILROADS ISSUE EMBARGOES; FRAMING UP FOR PARTIAL OPERATION OF LINES COMPANIES SUPPLY CREWS FOR TRAINS? i 1 t ZAIMIS RESIGNS PUTUNTO POWER MQ DECtAlMTlON AGAINST BERLIN EXPECTED ION' AGAINST BERLI Canstantine Thought to Be lies Land Troons Within Greek troops Attempt to suesGreek Princes Reported to Have Fallen King Refused Audience to Entente Ministers Elevation of Fwrrfter Premier Backed by Populace Will Throw Na tion Into Strife oh Side Allies Roumanians Chasing Austrians In Advance Into (By the United tondon, Aug 3t Tfhe Greek Government is thrown intoenaos by the resignation of Premier Zaimis, who has resigned because of Koumania s entrance into tne war. Reports; say that King Constantine hashed and tak en refuge with an escort of German Uhlans at Larissa, 150 miles, north of Athens. The reports are unconiirmeci. A strom? Allied force has landed , at Piraeus, eight miles from Athens, and engaged a,Greek army near the King's country home at Tattoi, says a telegram to tne British press from Salonika. Several Greek princes have fallen, says the dispatch. Reports say the King refused an audience to the Allied ministers, pleading illness. The fall of the Zaimis cabinet is possible. The immediate ele vation oi-Veriizelos, former premier, to head the Greek government, and a declaration of war on the Central Powersis believed here, to be imminent Austrian Flee Bf ore Roumanians. , , A nlMdon, Augj3ar-A; Romft dispatch and - Bucharest , advices report that the Austrians are fleeing before .the Roumanians, abandoning villages and passes. v Quiet In West , i ' Paris, Aug. 3. The German attempted a bold stroke in P&rroy Forest last night, but were ejected from a French trench which.they had, penetrated, it is said offi-i ... -r-tt , 1 . ft i cially. uisewnere an is cauu. Roumanian Offensive Gigantic 5 Affair. . . -v Rome, Aug. 31. Nine Hungarian towns, four of them with a population of more than eight thousand, with Kronstadt, an important commercial city of Transylva nia have been captured by the Roumanians m the first three days of the sweeping invasion of the Transylvaman Alps. Vienna semi-officially admits that the Roumanians are attacking with "extraordinary vigor," on a 375-mile front. Roumanian inhabitants of, the captured villages marched out to meet the invaders with flowers and fruits. ON SOUTHERN Bf SATURDAY SAID : ': -.' - :...:- - V " Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 30. Movement of perishable , fright will stop at midnight Saturday on virtually al railroads throughout the South in an ticipation fthe general strike called for Monday. Moat of the Southern roada issued emSargoe tpdajt' directing ,9iat o chiametit which, would deleriarate if delfyed en route should be accepted for destination tiuttffuld not be ; reached fcefora Sunday. In some cases 'thV ban was extendjsd to include ex plosives, and some oads made the embargo immediately effective. The several Mnes which hfed not issued em-; bargo Orders tonight were preparing to do so tomorrow. " .' . R S. GAY OF JACKSON : DIES WHIS t)FFP Jdckson; Aug. 8ft lion. Benjamtn Stance! Cray", one oft the best known men in the iwrUieastern' secon; of the! State,, died in nfs law office of heart treobte at 10:S o'clock this morning'. Jlis funeral wdH be held, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock' from tii a Missionary Baptist church, of which fra was an honored member. ,- Mr. Gay was born December 13, 1836, and he Married Miss Annie OI on in 1887. ' His wife and ten 'chil drsn lurrrve him. , He was represen- VENIZELOS MAY BE PREMIER AT ONCE; With German Cavalry Al Short March of Athens; the Stop Them and Clash En Transylvania, Said Press) WILL BE SCATTERED THR'UGHOUT NATION Washington, Aug. 30. Orders for the return to their State mobilization camps of 15,000 National Guardsmen now in the Mexican border were as sued tonight by the War Department. General Funston was directed to re turn.three regiments from New York, two from New Jersey, two front Illi nois, two from Missouri, and one each from .Calirornia Oregon, Wash- ington and Louisiana. ' Secretary Baker announced the or der after a conference with ftcsident Wilson at the White dlouse. Earlier m the day the department had order ed" to their home stations 6,000 regu lar eoask artillerymen-who have been serving as infantry on the border. The secretary's stalement " tonight said: "Id view, of the fart th'at iubstan- tiaPy -tht9 number of trooaa who have not done patrol 'duty on the bcjrder are how on their way. there, it is felt tibaf thls tjumber can 1 spared. In a few days if transportation facilities remain . undisturbed, the department Intends to order home some more re giments and possibly to replace them with troops now in their mobilization camps in the several States." tative of -Northampton county in the House of of Representatives for the sessions of 1903 and 191L He al represented the Third Senatorial Dis trict in the Legislature of 1909. i ' ' 1U1LDEPARTMT PAID KINSTON MORE THAN TEN THOUSAND Good Profit in Operation of Plant In Last Fiscal Year Receipts of Near ly $50,000 Gave Good Sum Over Heavy Expenses The municipal light and water plant is a paying proposition,' and has been for years past. Supt. John E. Wcyher, under -whose management the plant and lita business have been for several years, today made public the report for the last fiscal yeai which ended May 9, showing a prof it of nearly $11,000 in the 12 months and total receipts of nearly $50,000. The report in detail follows: Operating expenses: Operation .. $18,994.91 Maintenance 1,617.58 Interest 6,500.00 Total Receipts: ....$26,112.49 ....$28,708.38 .... i6,141.86 11,709.78 .... ' 458.50 2,472.00 Light rentals . . . Street lighting . . Water receipts . . Water for paving . 103 Fire hydrants Total .. $49,490.52 Subtracting the operating expenses from the receipts leaves a net profit of $23,378.03. Plant account additions in the 12 months' were: Electric ..$2,706.50 ' Waterworks ..-,,. 9,831.49 Total $12,538.05 Deducting the total for these addi tions, or extensions of pipe and wire lines, etc., gives a profit over all of $10,839.98. ; . ' CROP REPORT TODAY Forecast for 11,800,000 Bales Condition 61.2 Per - Cent. On Aug. 25 North Carolina 65 Against !76 Last Year (By the United Press) New York, Aug. 31. Cotton aold up from 3 to 34 points following the government forecast today. ; Decem ber cotton was up . 31 points . and March up 34 points. f Washington, Aug. 31. The U. S. Bureau of Crop Esthnatos ' forecasts the cotton production . at 11,800,000 bales, against 11,900,000 test year. Condition of the crop on August 25 was 61.2 per cent of ; norma, against 72,3 on July 25, and 69 on August ,25 lasf year. . ' The condition In Virginia was 90 per cent. normal against 85 ;. last yeax; in North Carolina 65 against IS last year; Sonth Carolina 87 per cent against 71 last year. ! r '; (By the United Press). TARHEEL LOST. - -. Washington, Ang. B . Smhh ef Charlotte, N. C, la Missing freai the wrecked eniiaer Memphis, the Nary Department reports. HIGH FOLLOW Believed Trains In This Section May BeOperat :' ed by Extra Men RUCHINISTS MENTIONED Said They . May Take Re-' venge Upon Trainmen Some Men In This Part of 1 x . Country Wouldn't Be Benefitted, Some Would What will happen locally when the big strike breaks Monday morning if it does? There may not be a wheel turning after 1 a. m., and there may. Will the railroads smuggle crews into all tho points from which trains depart, and at which trains are likely lay ing on sidings and fires banked to be abandoned, to take hold the minute tho union crews lay off their jobs? That is not unlikely. . What will be the tricchanics' atti tude? Not long since the machinists had a grievance against the train men, it is said. There was a mechan ics strike on, and engincmon this ia rumor only volunteered to keep up their locomotives while conduct ors hauled strikebreakers. ; Will the machinists run the engines on the Southeastern roads when the strike breaks,,' and clerk3 and pensioners collect fares and supervise freights? There is a rumor that such will hap pen. There aro several thousand me chanics employed in this region. Thon, on mady of the branch roads freight crews are comprised by white conductors and engiincers and tolor ed trainmen. Tho. negro trainmen, it is said, have been made, some time since, to sign a pledge that they will not forsake their employers, while4 the companies, have been taking on tho extra lists "everything obtainable," to be the better prepared against the greatest walkout the world has ever known. White men coming as stran gers to freight trains on which the regular colored train hands are re tained will find their jobs easier for them. , Of course, for a time there would be, late trains, and the possibility of accident would be magnified many times. But the railroads, with en ough men to keep tho trains running, might eventually break the strike, and that would 'be worth something to the railroads. And a railroad is not ttsoalry modern - Samaritan; its sense of forgiveness is limited; it need to be the case fat local strikes that, should the strike be crushed, all hands were kicked -off the premises. This town is not a railroad center in the big sense of the word. There are not very many brotherhood men here, It is headquarters for no local even. But the gravity of the situa tion strikes home directly to the union men living here just as at does to hundreds and thousands in some places. Some of the passenger men on the little branch roads in this sec tion have cinch jobs. Some of the freight men have not. Some of the latter' complain of working sixteen hours a day. "It's, they who are working eight hours a day," eaid a brotherhood man Wednesday night, referring to the companies; "we wort sixteen.' A few of the men would .not be benefited in' the least by the strike; there 4s a crew v of veteran passenger men not far from here who have held the. same jobs for years upon years, breakfasting, din ing and supping and sleeping at home, actually running -only four hours a day,' and drawing salaries opon which they raise families, acquire . proper ty and maintain bank accounts. On the other hand, there are men who drajj heavy freight trains over long stretches of road for such a part of the day that they have time left for nothing but sleep, and little or. no recreation j There are estimated to be 400,000 men ready to walk out Monday. Lo- Infuriated Farmers Foiled Black Who Viciously As saulted Woman Spirited Away Second Time Pos ses Still Search (By the Unifed Press) Iiima, Ohio, Aug. 31. A dozen pomes of enraged farmers continued today to search the countryside, lo- lermtned upon lynching ChaTles Dan lels, a negro "spirited to somewhere in Northwestern Ohio." The mob is unable to locate him. Sheriff Her- man Ely is in the Allen 3ounty hos. pital with two broken ribs and a bro ken arm and a dozen cuts as the re suit of his refusal at first to i-pvphI me hiding place of the negro. Only after he was threatened with lynch ing did hi tell. The negro, however, wasNagaui "spirited" away when the mob discovered his location. lie was taken to another jail in a nearby county. Mrs. Baber, attacked by Daniels, ex pected a vteit from the stork soon, She was assaulted by the negro while alone n a kitchen yesterday. He cut her with a razor and 'beat her over the head. One of her eyes wai goug. edi out. It is believed she will die. Ah Earlier Report. Lima, Ohio, Aug. 30. A mob of 3,000 persons captured Sheriff Eley lae tonight, took" him to the public square, placed a noose around his neck and threatenedto hang him un less he -disclosed the whereabouts of Charles Daniels, a negro held for assaultinjr a white woman. The ne gro had been spirited away earlier. With bis clothes torn off and blood streaming from a doen cuta, Sheriff Eley had yielded to the mob which had placed a rope about his neck to hang him, and has Utft town, presum ably to take the blood-maddened men to the hiding place of the negro Dan iels. TAYLOR CENSURES THE PRESIDENT IN LETTER Wilmington Man Talks Plainly to Chief Executive, His Frie'nd, On Subject ef the Strike Sent Copy to Mr R. H. Rountree, Who Gives Publicity The New York Times says: "President Wilson should hold up to public censure the ferotherhoode of railroad employes for their refusal to arbitrate, in the opinion of J. A. Taylor, a wholesale merchant of Wil mington, N. C, who for years has been a friend of the President, and whose brother, Walker Taylor, is col lector of the port of Wilmington. Mr. Taylor has expressed this opinion In a letter addressed to the President. q copy of' which The Times received yesterday. "In his letter, Mr. Taylor said he recognized that the President was actuated by the highest public mot ives,, in his efforts to prevent the strike. He then outlined the situa- cal leaders and most of the men have orders which tell them that they shall not turn a hand after 7 a. m. Mon day, f A conductor passing through Kin strn this morning stated that he had just received the strike Order from the loca? chairman, and expressed the bilief that it would be a "sure en ough" walkout and 'that suspension would be general. Some ' employes scoff at the idea of substitute crews carrying on the service. They , would be strikebreakers, it is pointed out, and that would make the eubs. lot the harder. Besides, many of the brotherhood men do not believe the companies can scrape together en ough men to run the trains. . The Norfolk Southern Railroad is known to be rushing freight destin ed to other lines, to get it off : Us hands as quickly as possible. No em bargo had been ordered this morning. Many roads the country over , called embargoes and some anticsipated the action, Wednesday. ; Foth Companies and Brotherhoods Begin Tremendous Advertising Campaigns for Influencing Public Hoiels Take In Great Stocks Santa Fe Installs Emergency Crews at Division Points and Is Prepared to Operate 46 Trains, Headquarters Announces Southern Has Been Getting Ready for Break for Weeks Systems In Southern States Order No More Freight Taken Bro therhoods Say Even Partial Legislation Will Be Satis factory (By the United Press) '"'. Washington, Aug. 31. Legislative settlement, ; even .not. including all iie demands, will be ac- ! . ceptable to the brotherhoods, it was announced . this afternoon. , ' J New York, Aug. 30. "Strike-broken schedules" are being framed for lines that will be partially in operation during the strike. Both sides today inaugurated an im-i mense advertising campaign in the newspapers. New York hotels are stocking up with great stores of supplies. Santa Fe Prepared. Topeka, Aug. 31. Forty-six train crews are stationed at Santa Fe division points, ready to man passenger trains in the event of a walkout, it is announced at the general oftices of the company. ;.v Steamship Companies Issue Embargoes. ' Washington, Aug. 31. Freight embargoes on the bid Dominion Ymd Merchants' and Miners Steamship compa nies were declared today. Southern railway transporta tion superintendents were called into conference at Wash ington. The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis,, the Queen and Crescent and Louisville and Nashville 1 rail ways declared embargoes. The Southern, it is learned, has been preparing for weeks to attempt to operate trains during the strike. .tion as he saw it, emphasizing that the demand for an eight-hour day is not a measure of service, but a basis of pay. Ho continued. ' ' I was much impressed with your appeal to the railroad executives to make concessions becaose of the in ternational situation, but it seems to me that this appeal should be mado to the men who are responsible for the situation, and whose persistent disregard of public duty can alone imperil the public safety. I cannot help but believe that you have failed to give due consideration to the rel ative weight of personal grievance on one side and public right and con venience on the other. If unionized labor is capable ef such enormities as now are threatened, I think the sooner the issue is brought to a head the greater will be the securi ty for the country. "The responsibility for failure to RECORD SALES MARKET; TRErtlEfiOOUS PHE5 OF LEAF WITH NO BREAK !F1 PRICES So far as the money involved is concerned, the bicr- gest sales of tobacco in the history of Kinston are being nulled off today, with no prospect of a let up until a date hour. The breaks are amontr the largest ever known in the belt. Well above a hundred thousand dollars will ba . turned loofce, it is said. At 2:30, making their estimates in confusion unDre- eedented this season, warehousemen predicted that the sales total for the day would be aroun d655,000 pounds., All gave. conservative estimates, it is believed, and no onei ' would be surprised if it were Jound, after tabulations are completed, that three-quarters of a million pounds had been auctioned off. The breaks are about twice as heaw as. any prior to today in this No warehouseman admitted having less than a hun dred thousand pounds on his ed that he had between 175,000 and 200,000, more prob ably the latter quantity, in his house. The former fig ures went into the total estimate above, v It was known almost from daybreak that the sales would be enormous. Wagons in steady streams during would be foolish at this hour to say if the offerings wcro excellent, good or fair, for no man has been able to sum ap the general quality of the ed on every hand, however, that there was no decline ia price, and that the 20 cent average or better of the ser.: prevailed, Yi v. .. K both passenger and freight M1M.W 'JgL.LJMJ l.'J!tJll'!lWU.lii. tfiJl LOUi t, effect a settlement ia not yours, but the obligation to place" the responsi bility is undoubtedly yurs.'' "A copy of this letter was 'sent to R.' H. iRountfe, a Ne Ydrk cotton merchant, and also1 a long friend7 01 President Wilsoll, whd wured to Mr. Taylor for permission, to send it to th- New York .Times for publication. Mr. Rountree is a native and form-' er resident of this section. He visits Kinslon quite often. ; , JOHNSON NOMINATED . EASILY. Y . , ' " . . (By the lf;i:ti-4 PiessJ San Francisco, Aug. 31. Got ertior Hiram Johntwh'a mijorl- -ty over Willis Boeth, Republican, for the nomination for Senator la close to 29,000, according to at mmtt complete returns. ;Th "old y guard" Republicans concede the victory. , . THE TOBACCO . - v season. floor. One of the five stat came in from all directions the night and morning. It weed marketed. It is boc:t- r - ' ;