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KJNSTON, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1916
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AVERAGE PRICE MAY BE BEST OF VEEK
TRANSPORTATION
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Russians Battering Teuton
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,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
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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
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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 ''
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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
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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