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VOL XVIIL No. 72
FIRST EDITION
KINSTON, N. O, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8; 1916
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'OUR PAGES TODAY 1
PRICE TWO CENTS
FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS
CONGRESS AD JOURNEIJ TEN O'CLOCK THIS
HORNING; SESSION THAT LASTEu THREE
QUARTEIiS OF YEAR HIST'liYMAKlNB ONE
WAR COSTS ALLIES
EJGIii; HUNDRED AND
FIFTY TII'S'D BALES
TRIO ' OF
THAN HALF A
NUMBER ROUMANIAN
TOWNS FALL TO THE
MORE THAN MILLION
SPEAKERS AT ANN'L
MILLION POUNDS ON
HEN fill MONTHS
MP IS GINNED
LOCAL LEAF MARKET
NOTALES MORE
Little of the Spectacular at Close, But Fiery Spccchmak
ing In Senate In Last Hours Canadian Officials Ac
cused of Lobbying: In Favor
Ordered Lewis Charges
ing to Drive American Trade From Orient and Takes
State Department to Task
ident Signs Bills and Leaves for Atlanta City and the
Summer White House at
, (By the
Washington; Sept , 8.
'o'clock this morning after a
enjoyed more draroatic moments than . any , of , recent
years, and appropnated more
preceded it. . - . - . .
The session was closed amid scenes -that contained lit
tle of the bizarre or spectacular, .v. President ,Wilson went
to his room in the Capitol and signed the bills passed dur
ing the closing Jiours. ' These include the revenue, work
ingmen's compensation, deficiency 2nd widows' pension
bills. N " " .
Serious charges were made today, of a lobby by Cana-
dian officials, including Sir, Joseph Polk, to prevent the
passage of an amendment to the, revenue bill which would
have prevented admission into the United States of froz
en halibut and salmon from the 'North Pacific, except
Iwhen sent m bond from an American port. ..A resolution
by Senator Curtis ordered an investigation by the lobby
.committee. Senator Chamberlain declared "the time has
countries are going through diplomatic and commercial
agencies, to influence congressional legislation." ;
- President Wilson left after the adjournment for At
lantic City, to address the suffrage convention, and Long
Branch, where he will spend
bile this morning. -
Lewis Scores State Department; t
Washington,'. Sept. 8. Declaring that Japan and Rus
sia are combining to force America out of the Far East,
senator L,ewis scored ine otaieuepanmenx toaay ior us
"peculiar silence" and "apparently little eftortr to irsist
pn American rights in the Orient.
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of Fisheries Investigation
Russia and Japan Conspir
for 'Peculiar Silence Prcs
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Congress adiourned at 10
session that lasted longer and
money than any that had
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some time, in an automo
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and SIDNEY UKAN1
Morotco-Paramorot Stara.
..J Uf.iWJ R RRAY i '
Cartcon aad kia craatiaea ar to fc
Prof n te.thejutiire. "
Is German Estimate; Russi
ans liOst More Than
600,000, Its "Figured
LITTLE TO SHOW FOR IT
Berlin Boasts That Empty
Victories' Have Been Won
by Enemies Toll In
Flesh and Blood "Has
Been Appalling . . . . .
1 (By the United Press)
Berlin, Sept. 8. The Allies have
lost more than a million men an kill
ed, wounded , and , missing: einoe the
grand offensive of the Entente pow
ers opened with the' Russian attack
Rtttack three months ago. The esti
mate is by German military experts,
who Relieve it is conservative.
Against these lo3se the Allies have
only the jonquest, of E'akowtna and
some Galicialrf territory fcy the Rus
sians, the capture of Goritz-by the
IjaliaJis, the shallow 4hru3t into the
German lines oj the Somme, and the
occupation of mountainous Transyl
vanjan territory by the Roumanians
a positive military achievements.
The armies of the Central powers
are keeping their lines . intact every
where under tremendous pressure,
whHe at the ami8 time they have
truck back, with success in the Bal
kans. " v-v: ' -
The Allies losses are estimated as
follows; Russia, 600,000; British,
230,000; French, 150,000j Italian, Ser
bian and Roumanian, 50,000. The
Russian losses may execede 800,000;
the British and French combined may
have lost more than 400000, it is
said. -Official London lists place the
losses of the British at 125,000 in
August alone..
h BULLETINS
(By the United Press)
THOUGHT GREECE
WAS ENEMY.
i Athens, Sept, . 8. A German
submarine is reported to have
fired on he Greek steamer Eleni,
the commander, apologizing later,
saying he thought Greece was at war
with Germany . ; ;
ENGLISH SHIPS SUNK.
London, Sept 8 TheEllermaa :
liner; Tagus, the British steamer
Stratfiy and the British steamer
Hazlewood have been sunk, the
latter off Yarmouth. The crew '
of ,the Stratey was saved. The
Tagus was of 6.000 tons and the
HazelWood of 3,000.
lOfiST ARTILLERYMEN
BACK FROM THE LINE
Wilmington, SeBt. 7-After liav
ing spent nearly half a year on the
Mexican border, the 31st Coast Ar
tillery arrived in the city this1 morn
iMg and late irfthe day embarked for
Fort , Caswelr where they were sta
tioned previous to being ordered to
the . border. The company left the
border several days ago and has been
traveling continuously ever since An
two pullmans and one express car.
It is in command of Capt. Francis NH
Cooke and Lieutenants Prentice and
Welschnflf. '
TWO MEN KILLED IN
AUTO-TRAIN SMASHUP
Albemarle, Sept 7. Tw men are
dead and another seriously injured asj
the result of a collision of a Ford mo
tor truck and passenger train No. 63
of the Winston-Salem Southbound
Railway Company, which occurred
Ir.te this afternoon, just north of the
c:ty. The dead are J. K. Kames
and John Merritt. both of Albemarle.
The injured is Caud E Merritt, a
brother of John Merrit.
of New Crop
Had Bern
.Handled bv
September I, Report In
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dicated-f46i,000 Bales by
Same Ditc Last Year
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(By th United Prew)
Washington, ept. 8; A report by
'. 'it
the United. States Department of
Commerce shoF 850,000 bales of
cotton ginned ,m the 1916 crop pri
or to September1 1, against 40-f ,000 by
the same date last year, and 440 bales
of Sea Island agrainst 1,91.1 lat year,
Domejtie consumption in the fiscal
year ending July was 1,400,000
IN NO HURRY BRING
tlffi FROM
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(By the United Pre3)
(Washington, : Sept. 8. Neither the
xni'I itifv on the border nor Pershing's
column will b
Mexican-Amur i
withdrawn until the
V peace commission
reports, it is stated on high authority.
In the meantime the plans to send
other ' guardsmen to the bord'er will
not be altered.!
BUT S00S RESUME WORK
Grdnsboro, ,Sept. 7. One hundred
and sixty employes of a local cigar
factory here- struck today -to enforce
a demand for higher wages and a
change 'in working hours. iA com
mittee appointed by: the workmen
called on th.3 management of the fac
tory and after a conference1 called
off the strike. .It was understood the
change in working hours was grant
ed but that the increase in wages was
refused. ,"' ' '
BAD AMAZONS BREAK ,
'MONOTONY IN POLICE
COURT; LONG TERMS
Ada McNeil and Elizabeth Arm
strong, who drew 12 months each
when convicted of assault, disorderly
conduct, etc., in the Recorder's Court
Thi" 4ay, were responsible for the
mot, interesting session ot, the local
tribunal in months and months. "In
dependent," "sassy," "bull-hoaded"
and at timen downright venomous,
they !.t His Honor the Court know
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that they didn't care 'a " what he
did with them. They expressed pre
cisely that sentiment when they walk
ed down stairs to go to tfie jail.
The couple "jawed" at each other
in court. "Wilmington's my twme;
I guess I kin ride on trains as much
83 I pi 3ase," and "She never played
wid mej she played wid my sister;
she's a show gal," and "Dat gal, she
tried, to kill me; she wuz a-goin' to
stick a knife right down in my head,"
were some of th? etatementa of the
principals. Frequently they voluntar
ily assisted in the examination ' of
witnesses. One had a bad wound on
her head, inflicted by theother. One
was very drunk; the other nearly so.
The local police court is no pIace;foT
amusement, but thepecta tors' ouhi
hot resist their inclination to laugh.
One Woman referred to "an offiaw as
a . "graveyard policeman," and :"whert
thaT same officer assisted! in ipking
the prisoncf sout of court cursed him
in a. profane masterpiece of about a
dozen words. They were inadvert
ently put Into the same cell, where
upon the sobersst inquired of a "pol
iceman, "Whai did they do with this
'cman?" Iiifofmed tha tliey both
drew . alike, ( she expressed satisfac
tion; had it been 'otherwise she in
tended to beat her sister in misery
to dt-ath, she declared, . ,
That Much
Conservation Discussed By
Baker, Small and Poteat.
Tell How to Preserve and
Build Up National Re
sources '
(Special to The Free Pre)
CreenslKro',. Sept. 8, Sacretary of
War Newton D. Baker, Congressman
John H,' Small and President W. L
Poteat of. Wake Forest College were
tha honor guests and speakers at the
second annual dinner cf .the Chamber
of Commerce and the State Normal
College, held at the ' college last
night. The conservation of the na
tional resources was the theme .for
the dinner. At the first dinner, in
the Fall of 1915, Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo was tha principal
speaker, and Pan-Americanism ' his
subject. 1 - .'.
Secretary 'Baker declared that the
people of the Nation must make sac
t'ifices for the national good, that
physical betterment ehould be ' the
aim of the populace, and that the
Democratic party had accomplished
a great deal looking toward 'the con
servation of the country's resources.
Dr. Poteat confined himself to the
Conservation of the Resources of
Noith Carolina.". Mr. Small, fath
er of the inland waterway," discussed
transportation problems and stated
that North Carolina has magnificent
possibilities in its rivers and other in
land waters. . '
Secretary Baker made an address
to a'thousand persons In Winton-Sa-
lem during the afternoon
ALLIES CAN BACK DOWN
WITHOUT HUMILIATION
Washington, Sept. 7. The cxpecta
tion of ofllcials here is that any
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change the Allies may decide to make
as a result of the trade repriaa.! pro
visions in the revenue bill will be
niade gradually": rather than in the
form of a blanket modification of the
blockade. By exercising greater len
iency in case of detained cargoes, by
loss rigorously enforcing the black
list, by permitting maila to pass
through more quickly and by similar
means, it is pointed out, a groat part
of the annoyance to Americans could
be eliminated without formal ac
knowledgement of defeat in the dip
lomatic controversy. " "
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TOWNS AND COu iS
OF EOTN CAROLINA
New Bern's water commerce now
picking up. "Not day passes but
that half a dozen, schooners and bar
ges cither come into this port from
the North or leave for that section
with' cargoes," says the New Bern
Sun-Journal.
Heavy rains this week have caus
ed half a dozen or moro washouts
along the Wilmington-New Bern line
of the A; C. L. , ' '
An, unusual number of last year's
high school students returned t to
sehoof at Greenyfyejthw fall, in fact,
aH but three except graduates.
An automobile found together with
four bodies of negf&Cs in Pantegr
creek at Belhaven'ThUrsday, was the
property of Virgil Howard, 'on of
tho victims. The bodies of Howard,
Allen' Mann, porajlarding -and Bes
sio Wahab were recovered- There is
believed to have been a fifth passen
ger. It is thought the car went over
the side of a bridge when the driver
fost control of it. Pantego" creek is
a river in width, and it is thought the
fifth corpse may be Jfound some dis
tance from where the car was locat
ed. 1 -
Breaks May Be as Heavy as
Thursday's, and Average
Price as Gossl or Better
Very Successful Week all
Round
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- Today's sales of tobacco promise
tn.be as heavy if not heavier' than
Thursday's. About 576,000 pounds
was estimated to be the total on
hand. ; Sales had not been commenc-
od on some floors early in the after
noon, and there was a prospect foe a
block, . - ' . ' .
The average price, it is said, will
be?ully up to Thursday's, which waa
the best in several days. The bright,
warm weather, and the tendency of
price to increase, were among the
things responsible for the big breaks
of today,' Planters were here from
the country north of t Kinston in
greater number than on any preced
ing day of the season, it is said. . A
num'oer ware from he neighborhoods
of markets of considerable import
ance. The local market, tobacconists
declare, is leading the belt just now,
and it would be no big surprise to
some to see Tvinston wind up in first
place for the season.,
Well above a million pounds will
have been sold by the time the week's
business is ovsr. . The total for the
five days, with bad weather for more
than half of the week, may even go
to 1,500,000 pounds. '
FORD SUES CHICAGO .
TRIBUNE FOR MILLION
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Chicago, 111., Sept. 7. Suit for $1.-
000,000 waa filed by Henry Ford, thfe
Detroit manufacturer, against the
Chicago Tribune in the United States
DistriJt count here today. Mr Ford
nsks for personal damages as com
pensation for an editorial printed in
the Tribune, June 23. which, it is al
leged called Ford an anarchist. ,
COTTON MARKET TODAY;
' NO SALES THIS CITY
There ware no receipts on the lo
cal cotton exchange today. f
Today's New York futures quota.
Hons were:
Open
2:40
15.29
15.53
15.03
15.20
January ...... . .. . .715.33
March .. ........ .. 415.50
May .. ...... ...... ..15. 67
October .. .......... .15.14
December . . . . 15.22
. By ' an inadvertency in reporting
quotations on Wednesday and Thurs
day it was made to appear that the
staple had jumped considerably on
the latter day," while the opposite was
the case. ' r i
VALUABLE CARTLOAD OF
TOBACCO SOLD HERE
A. S. Johnson, manager of Mieis
May . Harvey's , farm, eold a dump-
bodied cartload of tobacco tips at the
Central Warehouse Thursday for
$226.87.
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While Entente Powers' New
Allies Capture Orscrva,
- Gateway to Hungary,
FRENCH TAK1 TRENCHES
Is German AdmissionTur
kish Foreign Minister ' At
Berlin Elkus Made Fine
Impression In Kaprr
Capital, Said , ;
. (By the United Press) . - '
Sofia, Kept. S.-The Bulgarians and
Germans have cccupiod the Roumani
an towns' of Debsia, TJalchika Cavar
na and Kaliekpa,' H ia reported offl-
daily. It is admitted that the Rou
manians have taken Orsova, the VIron
Gate" to Hungary.
Berlin Statement. m
Berlin, Sept. 8,-r.The .Roumanians
have driven hack north of the Rou-,
manian town of Pobrk: after a atrontr
attack, it is said officially. The Ger
mans have lost sections of trenches to
the French south of the Somme and ,
west of Berny, also northeast of Sou
villa, on lie Verdun front, it b offi
cially admitted. i 1
Halil Bey, the Turkish foreign min
ister, has arrived jr. Berlin and ex
pects to confer with Chancellor Von,
Dethmann Hollweig and Foreign Se
cretary - Von, Jagow. Conferences
havenbccn arranged with leading.
bankers. The object of his visit ia
undisclosed.
Abram I.' Elkiistho new United
States ambassador to Constantinople,
has arrived at Vienna' after few
days in Bei-lin, where he' made a find
impression.. Hei will teach his. post
Monday, . , ;
Not Much Doing In West , ,
L?st Night. , -
London, Sept. 7 8.--Artillery ing
3outh' of Ginchy constituted the only
activity in the Somme , ''aector ,1 last
night. '. '
IN-TIIE POLICE COURT
Margaret artcllo, charged with
vagrancy, was found not 'guilty by
Jury in the Recorder's Court today.
Sue Huggins and Bessie Morris, Col
ored, charged ''with assaulting Pearl
alleged assault being stated to have
occurred at a South Kinston "fime
shun' were fined $10 and osts.eac1,
with the pvilege of going" t jail
for thirty day if they preferred
that. .'.'.' .'., ' ... ' .- " '
ANITA ICING
The Para&iount Girl 1
DONT NEGLECT TOUE COLD
Neglected colds" gef worse, instead
of tetter. A stuffed head, tight
chest must be relieved at once. Dr.
fie'.l'a Pine-Tar-Honey H ' Nature's
r.rraedy. Honey and glycerine heal
the irritated membrane, antiseptic
tar loosens tha phlcgh, you breathe
easier and your cold is broken up.
Pleasant to take, Dr. Bell's Tine-Tar-rfoney
itf an ideal remedy for chil
dren as well as grownups. At your
druggist, 23c.' , Jv4
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