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B DAilLY The Home Paper TxU"l Newt Tpd7 VOL. X Vtll. No. 71 FIRST EDITION KINSTON, N. C THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7; 1916 PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS - "3 IALITZ IN FLAI1ES FR07.1 SLAVS' SHELLS; OPEN UP SARAHURST MORE THAN SIX' HUNDRED TUOUS'fJD LBS. OF TOBACCO ON KINSTON MARKET TODAY; AVERAGE PRICE HAY BE BEST OF EE(l ERIIANS - BULGARIANS WITHIN 2 BAYS' NEW YORK TIED UP BY THE CM STRIKE TO WIND UP SESSION PROPERTY FOR NEW MARCH 1)F BUCHAREST; TUTRAKAN FAILS INNEXf FEWliOURS RESIDENT'L SECTION TrTTVNTrTr r v r"H The Wehller . - Fair TRANSPORTATION CONGRESS EXPECTED Russians Battcring Teuton Defenses 60 Miles from Lem 1 berg, Chief City of Galicia Roumanian Town L Da nube Being Occupied by Make Gains of Considerable Importance In West May goorYCut Rail Line Whictils a'Prlhcipal Asset Of Ger mans Wood Taken By British In Surprise Attack; Teutons Outwitted by Feint French Capture 1,500 c Yard's of First-Line Trenches Northeast of Verdun'. Re- ported - v ,i v - (B tha Paris, Sept. 7. The -French have, taken fifteen hun area i varus .oi urst une u into wieners wooa, nortneasi oi veraun, u, is uuiuaujr said. : - ' Unlitz BurnW: Tutrakan : 't'etrbgrad, Sept ! 7. The' Halitz, 6a miles southeast of Teuton deienses or tne uaucian capuai, irum me suuui. An official statement today announced that Halitz is in - names. v -,. - TVa PAimmniona VinvA j' if , J. 11 " JillVtlAilMiillWllM v Danube, 33 miles southeast o! mitted, -The town is Demg . mi - . J-l Bulgars auer a icree-uays Allies Take More Ground in Paris, Sept. 7. Corhbles main supIorts of the present uerman lines, are mreaiwi ed with early capture by the steady advance of the Al lies. The French thrust through Beruy en-Santerre, in the outskirts of Chaulnes, .yesterday,-and made a consid erable eain 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 Germahs were heavily engaged .with the French in the outskirts of Combles, the wood was first attacked from the south, . and when the main body of the Germans were dran there tne criusn suauemy ptciccu uie,yvwuM w,;' 1 cutting off the main body of the Germans and driving across their positions in less, than thirty minutes. . i Germans .'Attempt to Retake Leuse Wood. j London, Sept. 7. In savage hand-to-hand fighting last night the Germans were repulsed in a violent attack dn the Leuse wood. German prisoners were taken. Fighting continues m the outskirts oi FARMER IS CLEARED OFM Young Willis' Rowell Had . Run Away from Tom Carter, Foster ' Father Latter Had Been Held In - Greene County Jail ? -' . . Tom Carter, a Greene c&unty far mer charged with the murder of his K-year-oldfojfterflon, Willis How. ell,' Was allowed to go free from the Snow Hill Jail when a 'brother of Car ter appeared with the boy, said a re port thia afternoon. 'The ted was lo cated at' Rocky Mount," where he had gone to work in a cotton mill, . ' Carter in August inflicted a severe whipping upon the boy, neighbor as sert. Howell disappeared on' Aug- st 21, and feeling ran high against Carter.-: Th .n.y1r rhnrm v I preferred "when it was rumored that he had made away with the boy. Sheriff .Williams at Snow Hill says Carter seemed to be glad to have the boy Wk, and that the couple drove off this afternoon apparently happy. Howell, he believes, had simply r- away from home. TO SCRAP OLD CRUISER ' BOSTON IN FEW DAYS Portland, Ore, Sept 6. The U. S. PRODIGAL RETURNS URDER CHARGE croiser Boston, of the famous white peaceful solution of the land dispute "'q-iadron at the battle of Manilla will be cached. is to be taken from Portland t The Natiot.al Assembly today1- re '' navy yard within a week and sold quested a reports, .on the situiti m ta the highest bidder for junk. - irem the Minister of the Interior. Invaders The Anglo-French - '. . ' United Prast) eiiuies eAwuiuiug a w ' ' ' 1 " " " " ' 4 Falls ' " ' Russians are, bombarding Lemberg and the key to the . pvflpiiflt.pn Tutrakan. on the ww- . w , j - Bucharest, it is officially ad- occupiea Dy me uermaus auu 1 iil I uatue. -., West' i and Chaulnes, two of the omcny. . .. VILLA WILL ATTACK AMERICAN ARMY MEXICO,' IT'S THOTT Pershing Hurries Back to ' IIisx Command From Col umbus Bandit Has 1,500 'Men and Is Nearing the U. S. Outposts ' ; ix (By the United Press) 1 Paso, . Sept 7. General Persh ing, acting upon the suggestion of General Funston,1 is (reported to. be' hurrying back to" field headquarters from Columbus,' following; informa tion given ,the military authorities here that Pancho Villa, with 1500 men. "fully equipped, was less than 100 nviies from the American out posts. .' V , V ' V, -V. ' ,Fears are openly expressed that VtCa Is engaged in a desperate effort V" ""r ",0 American- expeaiuon. MIGHT COME A COMIC v OPERA WAR OUT OF IT Panama. Sek. 6. RcdoHs today fj the CosU Sica frontier say that the-Panama police sent there to pre vent ths seizure of cocoanut planta tions on Panama territory by Costa Rk-ans arc in possession of the dis puted territory. The government here expresses confidence that a Disorders Reported Few f Cars RUhhihg-Motor-men Protected PLAN TO MAKE MEN BEND A Magnates Employ Waddell Boss Strike-Breaker, Who Is Rushing to Metropolis ..In Special 'Train From Chicago . N (By the United Press) New York, Sept 7. Despite the strike order intended to af fect 1800 employes of the New York city railways, normal ser vice is being maintained, this ar-j temoon. The men are not res ponding to theorder. J Chicago. Sept. .7. James T. Wad dell, boss Strike 'breaker of the world. wiJl arrive in New York today to di rect the, substitute men when the strike on the elevated subway lines begins. He left at midnight, the lone passenger on., a special train of aix empty pullman cars.;, The trip wiQ cost three , thousand dollars. , All speed records are being broken to have Waddell in New York for a con ference with the street car magnates today. Waddell is said to have five thousand strike breakers ready. Company Won't Arbitrate. New ,York'Sept.. 7-The biggest transportation strike In the historyof New York is, on. Surface car employ, ees are cooperating with the levat ed and subway men, and few-cars are running this momimg.. Jitneys have appeared in, drovea.. Disorders are reported from several points.- Brick rowing has ; been' indulged in, but no one has been injured yet. A thousand strikers .poured into the Grand Central su'bway station de manding that . the ticket choppers and other employees strike, j Five thou sand policemen are" guarding the com pany's property . . Motortnen on trains screened m by wire netting to protect them from ' missiles. The Interborough .company refuses- to ar bitrate. The men struck because the -company refused to abrogate dndivid- ual contracts made following the re- eent strike threat, the contracts bind bind the men to work two years under the present terms, 'j , . NEW RAIL LINE IS TURNING BUSINESS TO THIS CITY The Duplin County Railroad, which is the Kinston -Carolina Recently ex tended by the acquisition of the Deal road, to be further extended south ward, probablys already proving to be a big thing, for lienoir and Duplin counties. Superintendent William Hayes says both freight and passen ger business over the line is very sat isfactory. Many passeengeir came on overy train from the )rich interior sec tion of Duplin county that has been tapped. The bulk of the business of a good farming community of 10,000 or 15,000 people is being diverted to this city. Much tobacco is fceifig breujrht here over the line, and the Duplin people, with a first-size mar ket now accessible, will in all probab ility be encouraged to grow more, of the weed. v - " GASOLINE DROPS CENT A GALLON, GOOD NEWS New York, Sept 6. Another re duction of one cent a gallon in the price of gasoline, making the whole-, sale price now 22 cents a gallon, was announced today by the Standard Oil Company. The reason given was the he heavy . Increase In the production crude oil. - Record-Breaking 9 Months. Nearly Two Billion Dol lars in Appropriations,! Including Contracts, Al lowed x ' 1 s (By the United Press) Washington, Sept 7. Congress is expected to quit work late this even 'i:g or tomorrow, after a nine-ionth session that in many ways broke leg islative records. The greatest rec ord was in the session's smashing ap propriations.'' . t The Congress during the three- quarters of a, year authorized appro. priations totalling 1,947,259,048.64, including contracts. CARGOES OVER, THE FOUR ' s LOSE LIVES (By the Eastern Press) , Washington, N. C,',Sept 7v Oil oil the surface ,: of Pantego creek and, a broken place in the railing of a bridge over the wa ter this morning hinted at an ac cident and an automobile and the bodies of four negroes two men two women, recovered. All four have beeif identified as Relhaven negroes.; It is believed the steering-gear of the car wfcnt wrong. JUNIORS WILL MEET IN ASHEVlLtE NEXT WEAR ELECTION OF OFFICERS ' (Special to The Free Press) Goldsboro, . Sept, 7. The,'v Stato Council of the Junior Order of , Unit ed American' Mechanics ejected offi cers last night , as, t follow: State Countillor, C. F. Alexander, Char lotte; Secretary, Sam F.iVance, Win-ston-Salcra; Treasurer, S. F. Fulp, Kernersyille; Chaplain, :Rev. J. A. Koona, Rockwell; Nation! Council representatives,- W.E. YoppJ 4 Wil mington; C. L. Sands; Reidsville; J. W. Sechrest, High Point; D..?."W. Cobb "Goldsboro; L.. Hartsell, Concord, and W. A.; Cooper, Ealeigh. Asheville will be the 1917 meeting place. " . . , Sessions will continue through Frl- dayv morning. About 750 delegates are attending the sessions .today. Death of Mrs. Sarah Griffin. iMrs. Sarah-E.i Griffin, 65 a wid ow; of 308 McDanfcl -street, died on Tuesday and was Jburied , Wednesday. Marriage "License. J. E. Foust of UkWands and Es ther , Coward - of Kinstan, a colored coiiplo.' - - - v In Police Court -.- Ada McNeill and Elizabeth Arm- afrong, negresses, , tried for assault, were 'Sentenced to 12 months each in the county jail by the Recorder to day. The Armstrong woman - was severely cut on the head, allegedly by aahoe heel. Bland' Hargett, charged with drawing without ta li cense, was permitted to pay the costs and procure a license fin being with held. , :v-vr; SIDE BRIDGE BLACKS NATIONAL GUARDSMEN ORDERED BACK TO HOME STATES WILL BE SOON AS PRACTICAL V , . (By tha United Press) ' Washington, Sept 7. The National Guard organiza tions recently ordered to their respective State mobiliza tion camps, will be mustered out of the Federal service as soon as practicable and returned to the normal status of National Guard troops, Secretary of War Baker to day announced. ; .,Jil2!i Work of Moving Edwards Home on Vernon lights. Commenced Soon f BUILDING RESTRICTIONS Suburban Property of 100 Acres to Be Made Attrac tive Place Queen Street , Will Be Extended by the Action .,: , North Queen street is soon to be i opened and over a hundred acres of choice residential property will thus be rendered availablo for that pur pose. This was decided, when Wed nesday afternoon Mr. D. T. Ed wards signed a contact' with the John EicMcay, Jr., Co.; of 'Pittsburg, for' the' removal "of Sarahurst, 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 as the Ekh leay people can get their superintend ent, materia and labor here. At pres ent the superintendent 4s in Danville, Va.i where the company is just com. pteting some work, including the re moval of the Southern Railway pas. senger i station, which is , said to be the largest brick-building that has ever ibeen imoved.., The EichJeay peo ple are experts in their line of work, moving practically anything that folks want moved. They employ over GOO men and carry on a big bus iness all over the country. One of their remarkablo pieces of (recent work was the removal of Charles M. Schwab's summer home at Loretto, Pa. The building was elevated and taken to an exceptional . height for tho distance of 1500 feet over tree tops to avoid damaging the trees. Financially interested 1 in ths re moval of Sarahursfc, with Mr. and Mir Edwards, is Mr.-H, H. -Grainger, who own the larger part of the tract that will thus be opened up for building purposes. ".. ,i It is the purpose of the owners to make this a restricted residential sec tion. The land is hhrh. Well drained and eaisy op' access to the business portion of 'the city, and the owners declare the indications to bo that a suburb of considerable importance to Kington will soon te developed out there. . ; SOLDIER IIOLLOM AN'S , FATnER LENOIR MAN Robert Holloman, a private of tho Second Infantry killed by a 'shuttle train at Camp Glenn Tuesday even ing, was the son of J. B. Holloman, a farm tenant living near Falling Creek. A telegram to Mr. IIollo maw8Hforwrdd fcy special mes senger from this city late Wednes day night.V The body of Holloman, who was enlisted under the iiame of Rowe, had been shipped to New E'rn. 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. MUSTERED OUT AS BAKER ANNOUNCES Six hundred and thirty thousand pounds 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 to the season's record. The breaks are by far the largest of the week. The fanners were encouraged by clearing wea ther, and early in the day and carts was coming over Planters on the market represent every township In Len oir county and half aldozen surrounding counties. ' Prices during the day have been very satisfactory, es pecially in view of the enormity, of the breaks. . It is be lieved that the average price will be nearly 20 cents. , Off erings were all the way from fair to excellent in quality. Ofie well-posted man predicts that the average price will be found to be the best of the week. i SENATOR CLAPP TO BE SPEAKER AT NEW BERN New Bern,t Sept. 6. Realising Utat it Is up to them to at least make a noise, the Cravencounty Republicans have planned to have Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota and George Butler of this "State, make addresses tn ; this eity on. September 12th. The court house will be the the .place and 8 o' clock the hour.- ' BULLETINS PRESIDENT SIGNS SHIPPING BILL. Warthington, Sept. 7. -Presi- dent Wilson today . signed the hipping bill, providing for the purchase of vessels and develop meat of American , trade. The bill creates a board of five members SAN FRANCISCO BOY, WINS IN THE. U.S. POSTER COMPETITION New York, Sept. '. 7. Harold Von Schmidt of San Francisco won the $1,000 -prize in ths national poster 'nmpctition of the Society , for Elec- v. jjiK Development against field of 731 dwlgnv'some oT them front tlis 1 (Hi slier of i world famous 1 poster painters, i wa sannounced.here thia week. Von Schmidt was unknown to the world jof art untjl recently. H works for a San Francisco architect. Von Schmidt calls his poster "The Modern Aladdin'" N It represents Al addin touching a button instead of rubbing his lamp, and the hercnlean genii, ElecWrdty," pops forth and salaams to him. The design, in six colors, 'will be reproduced more than 200 'million times to advertise "Am erica's Electrical Weiek," December 2 to 9. ' LOU-TELLECEM Tfrm Laky.ParuDOat Stab. ' t Do not forget that Dr. SETII AR NOLD'S BALSAM is the best known remedy for all bowel '"complaints. Warranted by J. E. Hood Col, and E. B. Maraton Drug X - adv. mf (: !:::,"-'. ; .-:.:::: ' y - Jf A-f v tax A-r1 - a steady stream of wagons every road into v the city. WOMEN SPEAKERS IN NATIONAL CAMPAIGN ; il, - -T a . k , 1 TT . ; Atlantic Cityr N. J., Sept 6. Tha ; National Woman Suffrage vAssocia tion by . an overwhelming tote today decided t6 continue its present .policy of working for equal rights" through both National and State 'legislation.' Virtually al? th speakers -declared for strict neutrality in the presiden tial campaign and to continue ' th non-par than efforts of the associa tion to bring about equal suffrage y.iroughout the United States.' , ' Women from every State, in the Union are attending the 48th annua! convention of, the association, ;, ,' BWIIY SHE GOT A BADGE w OF TffONOR FROM CITY Minneapolis, Sept. . Edna kaah, 17, is a regular girl. She-can sprint 76 yards in 10 seconds and clear 26 feet in a hop, skip' arid jwihp; That' why she was the tmljr" one bf '4,(500 children : to get a municipal honor badge for playground Work.) Sha . is an all around Athlete, too.' CtTrtON OEN,S'IIGRER;i . -N - BUT DECLINES LITTLF Cotton opened higher r today, tut declined from 14 to 1 potntrfty 2:4tr o'clock,, twenty minutes before-clos-ing. At that hour, the market was still nearly a cent better thaiv at Wednesday's closing., , - New York fuures quotations were: ,'' ., Open . 2:40 January ',..')..,.., 15. 6S '.15. 51 March 15.82 ,15.63 May .. .". 15.95 ' 15.78 OctoWr ." 15.29 December . .' i . ;'. . . . '. " 15.41 ' ' - ' w Subscribe to The.Firee Press. MACLYN AFEUCKLH JCTThe Reform CmdMJl"i' I r' PuumhibI Picture bcd t nil. NEUTRALITY . x' 1 - 1 I:.