TU Home Paper . : H 7Ae Weather. Fair Srr .VOL. XVUI.Mo: 71 SECOND EDITION KJNSTON, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1916 rOUK PAGES TODAY " wicbwo cents ... ! H FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS IN UP IIUE1EI ERHANS - BULGARIANS WITHIN 2 DAYS' INSTflN IMIuiET; TIipAr; A11S cAb strike OF BUCHAREST; FAI IN NEaT FEW HOURS AVERAGE PRICE MAY BE BEST OF VEEK TRANSPORTATION 4) 01111! IIBIDtffl'L SECTIIIN MARCH "7" tit: Russians Battering Teuton ' tl t ! ,DCrg, uiiiei vny oi-uaucia uhe fng Occupied by .Invaders Te? Anlo:F.rencJi JVIaJkq (,ainpf,fynsjfeahle Itnpvrnfic In W(? ,Soon Cut Rail, Line Which mansWood Taken By .Teutons Outwitted p feint French Capture lj50.0 j Yards of First-Line Trenches Northeast of Verdun, Re ported ,;.'i' t . , . (Pr flu" tu Parish Rent 7. The French have taken fifteen him iifprl.vard nf.first linetreriches extending from, Vaux, mto Cheners wood,' northeast of Verdun, it is officially- said.1:.--.,""' .- Halite Burning! Tutrakan PpLrntrradSenL The Halite 60 "miles southeast of Teuton aeienses vi uie uauwan xapiuu, wic ouuwi. 'An'officialstatement-today announced that HaliU is in flames. , 1 , m ' Ai - Th RmimnTiiflTis have evacuated Tutrakan. on the Danube, 33 miles southeast of Bucharest, it is officially ad mitted. The town is being occupied by the Germans and Bulgars after a three-$Jaysr battle, j , . Allies Take More Ground in West. Paris. Sept; 7. Combles main supports of th present German lines, are threaten ed with early capture by the steady advance of the Al im0 ThA EYprirli thtnist through Beruv en-Santerre, in the outskirts of Chaulnes, yesterday, and made a consid flrahlft pain in the face of a desperate resistance. "Numer ous counters were repulsed, Another sharp advance will cut the' Chaulnes-Peronne railway. 'The British captur ed Leuse wood in a surprise attack, while the Germans were heavily engaged with the French in the outskirts bf Combles, the wood was first attacked from the south, and when' the-main body of the Germans were - drawn there the British' suddenly pierced the wood on the west, cutting' off the main body of the Germans and driving across- their posltions'in less than thirty minutes. ; Germans Attempt to Retake Leuse Wood: . y ; London, Sept. 7. In savage hand-to-hand fighting last night the Germans were repulsed in a violent attack on the Leuse wood. ' German prisoners weretaken. Fighting continues, in the outskirts of Ginchy. RODISAL RETURNS mm IS CLEARED IE MURDER CHARGE ,-(T- Young Willis' Howell Had linn Awav frnrn i Tom Carter, Foster Father UUpr Had kRccn Held In I v Greene County Jail ; Tom Carter, a Oeeno' county far mer charped with the murder of hi 15-year-old fosrter- flon, Willis How ell, wab aljowed to go fpe from the Snow HUl jail when a brother of Car ter appeared with. the; bo, said A-e-port this afternoon. The. lad was lo cated at Rocky Mount, where h had gone to work in a cotton mill. i Carter in August inflicted a severe whipping upon the hoy. neighbors as sert. Howell disappeared .on Aug ust 21; and feeling ran high against Carter. The murder charge . was preferred when it was rumored that he had made 'away with the boy. ' i Sherift Williams at Snow Hill says Carter seemed to be glad to have the boy-back, and that" the couple drove ftff this afternoon apparently happy. Howell, he believes, had simply r? way from home. TO SCRAP OLD CRUISER' BOSTON IN FEW DAYS Portland, Ore, Sept C The TjTs. tn'Sr Boston, of the famous white 'qiadron at the battle of Manilla is to be taken from Portland t navy yard wiiliin a week and solJ . H 4e highest bidder for Jupk. Defenses 60 Miles from, hero T - m " xvouraanian lown up Is a Principal Asset of filer British In Surprise Attach ; U&itad Prw) - ft - - ' ; , Falls. ... - ' ,. :il -Russians are ' bombarding Lemberg1' and the key to the and Chaulnes, two of tl)e yJiJAJILLOT AMERICAN' ARMY 1 MEXICO, IT'S THO'T ,.; ..-... r- - Pershing Hurries Back ; io Jlis Command From Col umbusBandit Has lyjQO Men and Is Nearing the U. S. Outposts (By the United Press) V El Paso, Sept. 7. General Persh ing, acting upon the suggestion . of General Funston, is reported to be hurrying back to' field headquarters from Columbus, following informa tion given the military authorities here that Pancho Villa, with J500 men. f ully equipped, was less than 100 miles from the American u out posts... ' - -" . x ' Fears are openly expressed that Villa is engaged in a desperate- effort to discredit' Carranza and attack the Amencan expedition '' -':-'- ;"jt- " - '-' " UlIGIlt 0Mp ACOMIC OPERA WAR OUT OF IT Tanama, Sept.' 6. Reports today from the Costa Rica frontier say that the Panama police sent there to pre vent the seizure of cocoanut planta tions on Panama terrtorY, by Costa . . .-... Xicans are in possesion ot the dis puted territory, The government here expresses confidence that ' a peaceful .solution of the land dispute wilt'be iWhed Tha Nat-ot.a! Assembly today re quf sted .1 report on " the . sitiwti hi rem the Minister f the Interior DisQrders Reported V Few Cars , Jlunning--Motor-men Protected PLAN TO MAKE MEN BEND Magnates Employ Waddell, Boss Strike-Breaker, Who Is Rushing to Metropolis In Special Train From Chicago (By the United Tress) ' New YorkV SepC 7.Detpite the strike order' intended to' af fect 1800 employes of the New York city' railways,, normal ser vice is being maintained thi "af . teraoon. The men are not res ponding to the order. Chicago. Sept. 7. James T. Wad dell, boss strike breaker of the world. will arrive in New York today to di roct the substitute men wJicn me strike on the elevated subway lines, begins. He left at midnight, the lone passenger on' a special tram of six empty pullman cars. The. trip ,wiH cost three thousand dollars. ah speed .records are being broken to have Waddell in New York for a con ference with the street car magnates today. Waildell is said to have five thousand strike breakers ready. ,v CoVripanj Won't' Arbitrate. 1 r j 'NeV'York, Sept. T. The' biggest Transportation strike In the" history of New'Y.ork is oh. Surface car employ., ees'are cooperating -wfth the 'elevat-' ed arid subway 'meri)' and 'few car are running this morning. Jitneys have appeared ' in droves." Disorders ore reported from several points. Brick throwing has been indulged in, but no ono has been Injured yet. A thousand stnkeirs poured unto the Grand Central subway station de manding that the ticket choppers and other employees strike. Five thou sand policemen are' guarding the com pany's property. Motonnen on trams are screened m by wire netting to protect them from' missiles., The fnterborouglr company refuses to ar bitrate. The nien struck because the bmpany refused to abrogate individ ual contracts made following the re cent strike threat, the contracts bind b'ind the men to work two years under the present terms, y tPL.LII IS WWt.mt ' Tha Dunlin County Railroad, which is the Kinston-Carolina recently ex tended by the acquisition of the Deal L road, to be further extended south ward, probably, is already proving to be a big thing for Lnoir and Duplin counties. Superintendent v Wnham Hayes says both freight and passen ger' business" over the line is very sat isfactory. ' Many passeengar come on overy train from the rich interior sec tion of Duplin coun(y that has" been tapped. The bu)k of the business of a -good farming communfty of 10,000 or 1,000 people is being diverted to this eity. Much tobacco is being brought here over the line, and the Duplin people, with a first-siste mar. ket now accessible, will in all probab ility be encouraged to grow more of the weed. ; ." ;". rr'. GASOLINE DROPS CElff . A GALLON, GOOD NEWS New York, Sept' 6. Another re dvtkn of one cent a gaHon in the price of gasoline, making tha whole sale price now 22 cents a gallon, was announced today by the Standard Oil Company. The reason given was the heavy increase to the production ' of crude oil. , Record-Breaking 9 Months. Nearly, Twp Uiljion oI- larp s:jn f Appropriations, J Incjluding Contracts, AI- lowed T , (By th United Press) Washington Sept. 7 Congress is expected o qint work late this even V ing or tomorrow, after a nine-months session that "in 'many ways broke leg islative records. The greatest roc ord was in jthe'session's smashing ap propriations. :;' ' " , ThaCongress during tho thrce- quartenn of a year authorised annriu priations " totalling $1,947,259,048.64, including; contracts. k JUNIORS WILL MEET IN ASHEVPE, NEXT YEAR;, ELECTION OF OFFICERS (Special to The Free Press) ' Gyldaboro, ' Sept. 7. The Sate Council 'of the Junior Order of Unit ed American Mechanics elected offi cers last night ,' as follow: State Councillor, C, iF. ' Alexander, Char lotte; Secretary; Sam" F. Vance, Win ston-Salem; Treasurer, G. F. Fulp, Kernersvjlle; Chaplain, Rev. J. A. Koonz, .Rockwell; National Council representatives, W.- E. Yopp, Wil mingtonY C; L. Sands, Roidsville; J. W'SefhrSst:" High Point; P:; W. Cobb',"lGold&l)Aro; hi . T. 1 Hartscll, Conctorfl', and W.' Ai Cooper, Raleigh. Asheville will be the 1017 meeting place, -r .' i Sessions will continue through Pri- lday morning. ' About 750 delegates are attending the sessbns"'today. s t '-ev SAN FRANCO BOY WINS N. THE U.S. 0i POSTER COMPETITION New ' York, Sept.' 7. Harold Voh Schmidt of San Francisco won the Sl.OdO prize in the national poster competition of the Society for Elec trical Development against a field of 731 .dwigns, .some of them from t!i rusher "of world famous poster painters, -i va ' announced here this week. ' Von Schmidt was' unknown to the wor-ld of art until recently. lib works for a-San Francisco architect. Voii Schmidt calls his poster "The. Modern. Aladdin' It represents 'Al addin touching a (button instead of rubbing his lamp, and the herculean genu; iihJecUTcity, ' , pop.? lortn : and salaams to him, ".1110 design, in six colors', will be reproduced hiore than 200 million times to edvortise "Am. erica's Electrical Week" Decembe; 2 to 9. - , COTTON OPENS HIGHER . , BUT DECLINES LITTLE a44am n.insil Vn'rrVlrt ..! nAtr declined from 14 to 19 points by 2:40 o'clock," twenty minutes . before ,clos- ing. . At that hour the market was stilt nearly a cent better than at Wednesday's closing. New York fuures Quotations were: . Open 2:40 15.51 15.63 15.73 15.29 15.41 January . March . . May . . , ..15.65 .....15.82 .15.95 Octo1er . , December NATIONAL GUARDSM SOON AS PRACTICAL HOME STATES WILL BE MUSTERED r . . (By tha United Prsw) 'Washington, Sept 7The National Guard organiza ions recently ordered to their respective State mobiliza ion carnns. will be mustered out of the Federal service as soon as uracticable and of National Guard troops, Secretary of Var Baker .to day, announced. . . p Work of , Moving Edwards Ilom? oij Vernon lights. ' Commenced Soon BUILDING RESTRICTIONS Suburban Property of. 100 Acres to .Be Made Attrac - .tive 'PJace Queen Street Will Be 'Extended by the Action - North Queen street is soon to be . ...... opened and over a hundred acres of choice residential property will thus be rendered available for that -pur pose, 'ihis was lecuiod, when. Wed-, nesday afternoon Mr. D. T. Ed wards signed a conlact with the John Eitliloay, Jr., Co., of Pittsburg, for the removal of Sarahurst, s the handsome -residence of Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, which is now located at the northern extremity of Queen street. The work of removal will begin in about a week, as soon ns the Eich- leay people can get their superintend ent, material and labor here. At pne ent the superintendent is in Danville, Va., where the company is just com. pleting some work, including;tha re moval of the Southern Railway pas senger station, which" is said to be the largest brick building that Jias ever been moved,. The EichJeay 10- plo are experts in their line of work, moving practically anything " that folks want moved. They employ over 600 men and carry on a big-bus iness T1' over the country. .. One of their, remarkable v pieces , of 'recent work was the rcmovaX' Charles M. Schwab's summer home at; Loretto, Pa. The building was elevated and taken to -an exceptional height' for the distance of 1500 feet over tree tops to avoid damaging the trees. " Financially interested in the re-' moval of Sarahurst, with Mr. -and Mrs. Edwards, js Mr; H. U. Grain ger, who own the larger part of tha tract that will thus bo opened up for building'' purposes. v l ' ' " : . It is the purpose of the owners to make this a restricted residential sec. tion . The land is high, well drained and easy of access to the business portion of th city, and the owners declare the indications to be1 that a suburb of considerable importance to Kinston will soon be developed out there. - SOLDIER HOLLDMAN'S '' FATHER LENOIR MAN Robert Ilolloman, a private of tho Second Infantry killed by a shuttle train at .Cbmp Glenn Tuesday even ing, was the son of J. B. Ilolloman, a farm tenant living near Falling Creek. A telegram to' Mr. Hollo man was forwarded by special senger from this city late Wednes day night. ' The body of Holloman, who was enlisted under the name of Rowe, had been shipped to New E'drn. Mr. Holloman, it is believed. went to New Bern, intending to bring the body here if its condition would permit. Soldier Holloman ' enlisted from Washington. He gave a frau dulent name in order to get into an other command than the one he first Joined,' it is said. . - B ORDERED BACK TO OUT AS BAKER ANNOUNCES returned to the normal status 1 A- Six hundred .and thirtv thousand nounds of tobacco will have been sold here today when the piles on the ware house floors are cleared off.' according to estimates ' by good judges. The day's total will run very close td the season's record. The breaks are by far the largest of the week. The farmers were encouraged by clearing wea ther, and early m the day and carts was coming"over Planters on the market represent every townsmp m Len oir county and half a dozen Prices during the day have pecially in view of the enormity of the breaks. It js be lieved that the average price will be nearly 20 cents : Off erings were all the way from fair to excellent in quality. Qfte well-posted man predicts that the average price will be found to be the best of the week. ; ; !U.A.1,Hr." SENATOR CLAPP TO BL SPEAKER AT NEW BERN . New Born, Sept. 6. Realising that it is up io them to at Jcast make a noise, the Craven coanty Republicans have planned to have Moses E. Clapp Of Minnesota and Ceorge Butler of this State, make addresses in ' this ity on September 12th. The court house will bo the the placo and 8 o' clock the hour. PRESIDENT SIGNS ' SHIPPING BILL. 'V 'Washington, ' Sept 1 7. PresW dent Wilson today " signed 'the chipping bill, providing for"' the purchase of vcmm'Im and 'develop mont of American trade. ' The bill create a board of five mem bers. , CAB OOES OVER: THE iEJRKrfl BUCKS LOSE LIVES (By tho Eastern Press) -Washington, N. C Sept' r7 Oil on the surface of - PanU-go creek and a broken place in the railing of a bridge over the crock i today hinted at an accident and caused art InreHtigation to be started. Ktarchi-rs found an au tomobile and the bodies of four negroes, two menand two' wo- . wbmen.''' All four - or them ' have been identified as Belhaven negroes. It is believed Uie steer ing gear of the car went wrong. HANYOlDPLAyfTQ. BE PROPPED FROM THE GAME AFTER THIS YEAR iNew York, Sent. 7. New faces mes-KaWy wjn ,be soon in places held down for years by recogpized stars in baseball next sor son. Young blood J is going into the major leagues, and there is nothing so true as the old saying that youth will be served. There are a number of brilliant young" ball, players sitting on the benches in big league parka, and a great many of these, together with new ones dug up in the bushes, doubt less will be regulars when the bell rings to start another season. Among the most prominent of the old heads who seem destined to fall by the wayside is Larry Lajoie. Tho veteran infielder, probably the great est second baseman who ever lived, while he has been playing a great fielding game, and has been hitting well,,, already has announced his in tention of retiring at the end of the 1916 season. ; : ' Sam Crawford, still dangerous as a batter, is slowing up, and it is prob able ha will be put on the akida by FJugh Jennings". Oscar Stanage is another of the Tigers who will be allowed, to go. Clyde Milan hasn't been going well for the Senators, and while there is a steady stream of wagons every road into the city. surrounding counties. been very satislaftory, es 4jH.--.-xr Atlantic City, N. 4,,-Sept. 6-Th National Woman SufTrage Associa tion by- an overwhelming ote.. today ' decided to continue its present policy of working for atjual rights through both National and State legislation, v Virtually all tha speakers declared for strict neutrality in the presiden tial campaign and to continue J th non-partisan efforts of the associa- ion to bring nbout equal suffrago hroughout tjia Vnited States. " Women from every' Stato 'in tha Union are attending the 48th annual convention of the association . WHYSHEGOTABADCE ; Of HONOR FROM CITY' ' Minneapolis, Sept. B.-Siia "Nash, 17, is a regular girl . She an sprint 75 yards in 10 secondi 'and clear 2G feet in a hop, skip and jump, That', why she was' the only one 'of '0QO children ' to get" a "municipal' honor badga for .playground work'. . Sho ii an all around athlote,'too. IN CANADA PARS AGO Topeka, Kansas," Sept5' 7. 'The re fusal of Mrs. Ida' Spencer to surren der to the Canadian huns.f rom whom she1' adopted her, -the 6-yeafKd girl orphan in' her home here," 'may -become an international incident, inter ested attorneys said here today. ; " The child Is a British' Subject,' bat Is living here. Then Mrs" ' Spenoar adopted her from the Canadian or- phannge' when he was a' baby - In -arms. Sho has had the child for mew than 6 years, bur the Canadian nuns, who under. Ctsdian law hava'tke right to recall any orphan to them before they become of age, wank her : back. ' ' "v- ; Mrg, Spencer says she will not giva the child up and that K they wantier they will have to light to gel her. " of the American league, it is accept ed as a fact in the EUn Johnson cir cuit that he is due to experience a change, of scenery. - Rumor has it that Bob Groom and Jimmy Austin will bo dispensed with next year by, the Browns. 'J - Harry Hooper ami Duffy , Lewis have not been doing well, 'but it is unreasonable to suppose these ' two players vwill be dropped by the Red Sox. .' However, Larry Caffdner, tha veteran third baseman of ths Boston, club, may have soma trouble in hold-, mg to his job, for in Fred. Thomas, recently purchased from New Or leans, tha champions are getting an infielder with prospects of a brilliant career . Forest Cady is aaid to be sitting on tha chutes. John McGraw is expected to clean house wholesale. lie is said to bo ready to drop the axe on the necks of Larry Doyle, Honus Lobcrt anT one or two others. NATIONAL CASit'AlGN