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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.
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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. !
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'; (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-
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