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VOL. XVIIIz-No. 80
SECOND EDITION
kinston, n.c Monday, September is, 1916
FOUR PAGES TODAY
PRICE TWO CENTS
fiERMN PEOPLE LEARN TIITVITIIDRm
FUNERAL m HOWE
CAMP GLENN TO DE
CARRANZA TROOPS PATROL STREETS OF
JUAREZ PREVENT OUTBREAK BY FRIENDS
OF VILLA FOLLOVINO CIIIIIUAUUA FEiT
FROII fmm AND lliBLtS mi YET BE
HELD AT C0LU1IA
ON LOCAL TOBACCO
DESERTED PLACE IN
A FEW Wf.Ti
NECESSARY; ITALIANS NEARIKG TRIESTE
UANY GREET PARTY
MKRKET; WEED HIGI
v ... ...
: ' " .
Evacuation of Important
gic Reasons" Predicted by Berlin PapersT-Great Gains
By Anglo-French In Somme OffensiveNew Armored
Car Making Good Cadorna's f Army ' Only 13 Miles
From Important Port City
Campaign-Serbs Take
Trenches From Bulgars
ing Night Marked Attempts Germans . to Recapture
' Lpst Ground
. ; , (By the United
Rome, Sept. 18. The Italians have broken the Austri-
an third line in the region
fierce fighting. Along the a whole iront in Gontzia, r the
, new Italian drive dri Trieste is progressing. The advanc
ed lines are now only thirteen miles from Trieste. A se
ries of Austrian positions near Oppachoiasell and south
arard through Pietra Rossa, have, been carried, and the
Austrians driven back to positions in the valleys. Des-
pite heavy rainstorms, Cadorna'a troops have capturecN
chills 144 and zua and several
which had been in advance along vallone.
Serbs Continue SuceessfuL J
Salonika, Sept. 18. The Serbians have captured Bul
garian first and second line positions at Kamakchalan,
northwest of Lake Ostrovo, near the Serbo-Greek fron
tier, says an official statement. Ten machine guns have
been captured. ,y, . ..'
Great Activity in West; Germans Losing Steadily,
London, Sept. 18. The British began closing in upon
Thiepval last night, after capturing Mouquet farm. The
resistance was desperate, all counters failing, however.
At Thiepval the Germans' position, which has obstructed
' 4.1 T A."' 1 1 it l . t . m . i n m
uj xjusp, ziavance -smce toe Beginning oi tne somme oi
fensive is made precarious bv the loss of the fortified
, Mouquet farm, north of Martinpuich. General Haigs
men improved their positions east, of, .Courcellette. last
night: A minor xrench attack there was successful The
j Germans bombarded sections of the British line with viol-
ence during the night, in apparent preparation for a
counter. Forty thousand Germans have been lost in the
.Somme offensive. Furious, fighting continued last night
:both north and south of tjie river. The Germans are
clinging desperately to Denicourt, now under a heavy
French attack, and are making counters against Berny
and Vermandovillers, lost yesterday.
North of the river the
one attack, after another with storms of shrapnel. The
. Germans , are bombarding Grandcourt and Lesara.' on
highways leading to Bapaume. .
The Allies' successes are having a profound effect on
Berlin. The press is preparing the public for the early
evacuation of Peronne and Comblesrf declaring the retire
ment may be made necessary for strategic reasons. :
The1 French, shifted their attack out of the Somme
yesterday- The Germans could f hbt 'vthdraw troops
ifroiri that sector ito reinforce the battered lines north of
the river on that account, and the, assault was complete
ly successful It deepened the wedge in the Peronne
Combles line. The dispatches are full of thie exploits of
the new armored British cars, which resemble huge land
battleships and shed .machine
water. : .
PRIZE CATTLE CF THE
IITODLE WEST DISPLAYED
Kansas; Cityfc Ma. Sept 18. With
'all the champion ilolstein and Jer
sey cattle ia the .middle west and
some frov the aat on exhibition, the
annual Southwest Dairy Show open
ed at Convention Halt today.'-' "- .
, (More than 500 of the beat milk
producing cows in the country are
housed in the hall. During the shew
various dairy appliances will be dem
onstrated. Government experts also
will explain the latest dauy experi
ment resultsv ; f
CLAIM BRAZIL'S CENSUS
ROLL PADDED BY MILLIONS
Rio de Janeiro, Crasil, Sept. 18.-
The Brazilian Government has just
issued an omcial estimate placing the
eoontry'a population v at 26 million,
thousand souls. Experts here
re that this is all Tight op to
kout 12 million. Eeyond that point
07 say the estimate includes the
inhabitant nf vt inf.
ior
Tee''n which no white man bar
eeen Conseitjenly they declare
that 14,542,000 of the estimate is a
teer w:dcat gua.
.... ..
Positions In West for "Strate
Which Is Chief Objective 6
First and Second Line
Hard Fighting In West Dur
Press) y
of Malfalcone after 3 days of
other dominant r heights,
British artillery has checked
gun fire like, a duck sheds
. '..
rocky r:ou;jr to have '
A FINE HUE STATION
Eocky Mount, pt 17 Fir hiefs
from the principal cities of the State
some score or more will be the
guests of the Rocky Mount central
department early in October, accord
ing to plans that are .being made at
J this .Jios. The. occasion which , will
prompt this gathering will be that of
the opening the handsome 12,000 fire
station, '.club rooms and dormitory,
and at the same time the delivery
of a $9,000 Triple unit auto fire truck.
1 K
GERMANY'S JABBERWOK
, MARKET HITS KIDS
t
.London, Sept. 1. (By Hail) Ger
many's jabberwok market has hit
the skids. ,
"The birds and the beasts were
there" when General Smuts grabbed
most of German East. Africa and $he
Kaiser's colonials fled.
A blood-swearing behemoth, doesn't
give a dam what flag fiies on his
hunting ground. Neither does a dik
dak or a whiffenpoof or a man-eating
piffik. So Germany is out of
her zoological supply.
Thousand Persons
Await Arrival of Presi
dent With Remains, But
No Public Ceremony In
Deference to Wishes
n.. rtrvavntt r ncvnrD
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Columbia, S. C," Spt- 18v Presi
dent Wilson today trough); to Colum
bia the body .pf his sister, -Mrs', An
nie Howe, to be buried in the church
yard, where the bodies of his father
and mother have Tested many years.
The funeral party "jreached Columbia
shortly before noon.. The city
frained from public marks of symps'
thy, the absence of ceremony being in
obedience to the wishes of the fam
The service is to be simple. The
Rey. Thornton Whaling, president, of
Columbia Seminary,' will officiate, .
. KJovernor Manning sent the follow
ing message to his private secretary,
Oscar LaRoque: ' -
Please convey in person to the
President upon Arrival in Columbia
tomorrow, my sympathy and thai of
the people of the State of South Car
olina, in the death of, his sister, and
express my (regret that I cannot be
there to pay in person our tribute of
respect and loyalty to him."
(rive thousand (persons formed an
aisle for the party at the station.
long Branch, N. J., Sept 17.
President and Mrs . Wilson left here
at, 2 o'clock this afternoon for Col
umbia, S. C, to attend the funeral
of the President's sister, Mrs. Annie
Howe, who died yesterday at New
London. The train bearing the Pres
ident will , make the trip via Wash
ington,' Richmond and Haleigh. over
the Pennsylvania', Washington South
era and Seaboard Air Line (railways,
and is due at Columbia at 11:35 a.
tomorrow. The services will. be
held at the First Presbyterian church
at Columbia. , Mr. Wilson will leave
the South Carolina capital for Long
Branch at 6;15 p.' m. Monday, arriv
ing here Tuesday.
NEGRO fATAUY CUT
L vINOTAYfflrUT
(Elijah Smith, a Pitt county negro,
brought here for medical attention
Sunday morning, died shortly after
ward from a knife wound in the ab
domen; Smith engaged in an alterca
tion with another negro near Win-
terVille Saturday night. It is re
ported that Smith knocked the other
down -once or twice, whereupon his
antagonist drew a knife and severe
ly cut him The slayer gave himself
up. Both are r said to have been
drinking. N The name ( of the negro
who did the cutting could not be ohr
tained this afternoon. Smith had a
family. , - ' ,
No .cotton was old here today.
New York futures quotations weft:
- .' - Open 20
January .. ........... 15.5 15.95
March,... 15.84 16.11
May .. ......15.99 , 16.29
October 1544 15.72
December .. .......... 15.57 , 15
H0D7IIE DEVIL' FOR
ALLEGED CIXCK THEFT
Sandy Jackson, colored, alias "The
Devil," already held on one or two in
dictments, was bound over to Supe
rior Court by the Recorder Monday
morning on the charge of larceny of
a check for about f 208 from the Cen
tra! warehouse'. Jackson was held
for probable cause, iltW-i there
was no great amount of evidence.
Isabelle Armstrong, serving thir
teen months for recent micondact,
who managed to get away from the
county jail long enough to get c!nr :';
and "kick op" a -j.'.n, had thr?e r-r
months added to her sentence.
Five
Best Average Yet, Possibly
435,CG0 Pounds Sold
Good Weather Encoufag
' es Planters to Bring Pro-
duct to Town
TobaccQ opened up strong' for tht
week. Monday's sales are estimat
ed at 435(000 pounds, with prices for
low grades as good, maybe even bet
ter, than before during the season
The day's average is believed to
have been higher than Friday's. Fine
weather induced tho marketing of the
big breaks, and with the prospect for
continued clear skies tremendous
sal oa are expected during the middle
of the week. : , . .
(Practically' all of the territory tri
butary to the Klnston market was re
presented in the sales. ' Quito a lot
of the weed sold was of finest quali
ty.'' , '. , :.
INTERNED SHIPS TO
KOYE NEXT MONTH
Norfolk, Va Sept. 17 Navy yard
officials tonight declared that no def
inite time could be Axed for the de
parture of the interned German cruis
ers Prins Eitel Frederich and Kron
prkis Wilhehn, from the local yard
for Philadelphia, where they will be
interned for the remainder of the
European war. It will probably be
October' 1, before the two vessels,
convoyed by American warships, will
make the sea trip.
Thousands 1 today flocked to i the
German village at the navy yard (re
servation built, by the interned Ger
man sailors. It will foe dismantled at
once. . ' - , - ' v
BUUETINS :
(By the United Press)
PREMIER'S SON KILLED.
London, Sept leV-Raymond
Asquith, son of the prime minis
ter, Jibs been killed. , '
STATEWIDE DEBATE TO
BE HELD WAKE FOREST
Wake Forest, iSept. 17. Tho Euze-
lian and Philomathesian literary soci
eties in co-operation with the college
are preparing for .a State-wide high
school declaimer's contest to be held
at Wake Forest College .hex April
to which each accredited-high scnooj
in the State is to send a representa
tive.. ALLEGED TROUBLE-MAKER
IS DEPORTED FROM JAPAN
. (By the United Press)
Tokio, , Sept 16,-riHerman ; Wohl-
era, a German resident of Yokohama
for the last three years, has ? just
been deported from this country for
trying to make trouble between ' the
United States, Japan and Great Brit
ain, lie was given eight days to get
out and he went ,uick. ' - . ...A
Among other charges against Woh
lers are these: That he wrote, char
ges, against Japan to the American
Government ' That he induced en in
toxicated American marine to pull
the British Union Jack from the wall
of a ballroom where Americans were
celebrating the Fourthvof July with
Britishers as guests, for which the
marine was court-martialed. That
he entered Yokohama Park and loud
ly denounced the Russ.-Jap. pact
SEND DOCTOR TO SUM
TO OUST THE HOOKWORM
Tc'io, Japan, Sept 18. Dr. R. W.
' ' -n of New York City ?'s on
's v y from here to S'am t .-!.. 7 as
r ' 'ive of the Unitol S'.iies
" r ' -'nt, to talte tlie 1.i-to--j
" " '-e r-y 1 '"" . ' .
Troops Expected to Come
Through . Kinston Dur
' in?. the Week' V
LONG TRIP 16 THE LINE
El Paso Has a ; Delightful
Time Coming to It, Con
ceited Tarheel ' Soldiers
Say No Excitement'' at
the Reservation
(Special to The Free Press)
Camp Glenn, N. C, Sept 18. By
this t:me next week this place of be
tween 8,000 and 3,250 population will
be without a Quorum. .The chances
are that there will only be about
enough tnen of the garrison left to
have an excuse for keeping the Jag
up, and they will be in hospital.
The brigade-is making no fever
ish preparations for getting away to
El . Paso. . What - preparations are
, Lnecessary have already been made ex
cept getting wagons aboard, etc., and
that can be done in such quick order
that a circus crew would be given
something to talk about to witness It
The troops will move by three
iroutes. It is expected. About one-
third willjgo by New Bern and Wil
mington, another third by New Bern
and Chocowinity and the other third
up through Kinston ana ,joiaooro.
Today or tomorrow more equipment
will be dealt out The guardsmen
herfl are etill lacking in some few es
tentials in the way of .wearing appar
el. Not all the men have belts, for
instance: cloves are lacking, and it
may even be the intention to issue
overcoats. Travel rations will be giv
en out. Travel rations ordinarily are
good. For such a Jong trip, where
lightbread is not usually available,
hardtack 4jiscuit company hardtack
better than mother could -make, all
boxed in fancy-labeled packages--!
issued, together with canned willie
(corned beef), hot, coffee, with tinned
cream (they .carry no cows along, of
course) and granulated ; sugar, and
some .other varieties of canned food
to break the monotony frcm the can
ned cow. , . .
Kinston may get a 'glimpse of the
troops going South, and it may not
They may get out of here long before
day, and pass through the town be
fore the civilians are up. If it is
light neough, the Second's band, be
longing there, may play tune going
through, although euch a tiling is
hardly conceivable. It is almost Im
possible to get bandsmen up ahead
of time; nearly impossible to get them
up on time. ; - . .
It is already getting cool here. No
one, since the change in the weather,
has dreaded to see moving time corner
There1 would very ' probably be as
many cold feet here as at El Paso,
nd from a different cause. El Paso
as 'been missing something all these
months. The town will get a delight
ful shock, these soldiers say, when
they get there.
SETH LOW DIES ON ; ,
tmm NEW YORK
New York, Sept 17-Selh Low,
former mayor of Jtfew York, and one
time president' of Columbia" Univer
sity, died late today at his! country
home, Broadbrook, Farm, Bedford
Hills, -N. Y., at the age of 6 years.
He had been ill sereral months of a
complication of diseases.
PRETTY MODELS AT CHICAGO.
Chicago, Sep t8 -Kew styles in
milady's corsets, gowns and dresses
Were on exhiWtion here today at the
annual autumn convention of . the
Fashion Art League of America.
"Perfect 3G" models paraded in
t'nr cots.-?. a and prettiness iefore
tMppites cf the convention to show
i.-'r "C-j-ness" and how the new
s';' 3 t'.ou'J be worn.
Bandit Chief's Followers Badly Defeated, Reports Indi
cate, But Enthusiasm for Cause Aroused in Northern
Mexico Neverihelcss--Stronjj Force of De Facto Gov
ernment Troops Headed for Scene of Pattle-YJlla De
ing Pursued Back to Mountain Fastnesses Border
Cpuntry Excited- Anti-Carranza Element Has Much
r Strength In Country Around Juarez Daring Attack
on Stronghold Occurred Saturday '
, ,s (By the United Press)
El Paso. Sept. 18. Northern Mexico is excited over
reports of a .Villa attack on
f our inousana Aarranzisias
while two columns are pursuing the flying pandita to
ward Santa Clara Canyon,
Gonzales to the commander
Despite reports that rilla
fect of the attack was .to
Anti-Carranza element, strong in Northern Mexjco.
Troops are patrolling tfie streets of Juarez tov prevent an
outbreak.:
HEAT FOUR DOLLARS
BREAK OUT VIENNA
(By the United Press)
London, Sept. ; 18. Food disor
ders have broken out In Vienna,
says a Geneva dispatch. Beef is
four dollars a pound amT rice ia
two dollars a pound, j There )s
much distress amongst the lower
classes .
OUT LOOKING FOR
(By the United Press)
New London, Conn., Sept. 18 New
London is agog with expectancy of
the arrival of the .German commerce
submarine Bremen at any time. A
tug carrying ,' Eastern Forwarding
Company agents put out last night
on reports that the Bremen was off
Block Island.' It(' is now believed,
however, that the ship was an Am
erican submarine, maneuvering. Em-
pioyeo ux vwnymij ojr wivgr
... M I. maw nv .
pect the V-boat lo appear ! at any
time, v 1N0 Allaed , warships are re
ported off the coast
Earlier Report. , 1
New London Conn., Sept 17. The
ocean-going tug l , A. &coti, jr..
with persons on oard supposed to be
representatives of the Eastern For
warding Company, put to sea, presu
mably in search of the German sub
marine merchantman (Bremen, which
was reported off the coast heading for
this port. The T. A. Scott, Jr., was
followed by tugs bear jig newspaper
correspondents. One of the newspa
per tugs returned just before mid
night and reported that no sunnar
ine had been sighted. The tug T. A.
Scott, -Jr., was reported to be on its
way back also; There is a heavy fog
on the sound. ' .
BANK ROBBER'S KILL M
TW MEOBERS POSSE
iMiami, Fla.,' Sept 17. Two po3
aemen were killed and two Injured in
an' encounter today in the Everglades
with four bandits sought for robbery
of $6,000 from the" State Bank of
Homestead (Florida) last Friday. Re
ports (reaching here said the bandits
fired from ambush and then fled. i
'Members of the posse trailing the
bauk robbers near that section of the
Everglades, 45" miles south of here,
much of which is nndrained, appar
ently were caught in a trap. Five
shots were heard. Two members of
the posse fell dead. While a third re
ceived five buckshot wounds in his
left side and arm and another was
shot through the thigh.
Reorganizing his force, Sheriff
Hardie immediately started after the
bandits.
DISORDERS
Chihuahua ; City Saturday.
are oeing rusneu u ims vuy
say reports from General
at Juarez. , - f ,
was badly defeated, the ef
arouse enthusiasm among the
!
LEAD INFANTpY 111
CHARGE OF! 11
Officers Directed Attacking
Troops and at y
Swooped Down and Mow
ed Down Cerciass lyith
Machine Gun Fire
(By the United Press)
7 Paris, Sept' 18. For $he first Ama
in history, aeroplanes today led an
infantry attack. ' Twenty fast rmor
td planes, each, carrying tljree -machine
guna, charged the German be
fore a French charge at Bouchvesnes.
Flying high jbove the charging bat
talions, officers in, the planes directed
the attack hundreds of feet below.
The flyers at tho crucial moment
swocped low over the German dines,
raking the trenches with snurderoua
fire. , So successful was the innova
tion that it is .expected to play aa
important part in such fighting ia
the future.
German co::fcser c?
jap. anthei is dead
, Tokio, Sept 18. Franz Jjkdjoett,
composer 0 the jansic of tb Japan
ese National anthim, js dead. , Tb
authorship of the "Kiinigayo." Ja
pan's Star ,Spangled fanner, i dis
puted, but Japanese authorities ad
mit this Teuton has a claim upon tho
long's composition. , ,
Ecklcert, it is known here today,
died recently ia Seoul, Korea. Ha
was 6. . When foreign" music first
was introduced into Japan in "PL877,
he was one of the leaders in estab
lishing its popularity in Tokyo and
other leading cities of the Empire.
PROHIBITIONIST BECOMES ;
SHERIFF MONTANA COUNTY
' (By the Uailed Press) - j ,
Missoula, Mont, Sept 18- W.
Jones, a prohibitionist, and ths one
best rifle shot in the State, became
county sheriff today. He was elect
ed without opposition last month. In"
view of a lack of opponents, county
officials tried Ito get him to put his
name on somt other ticket for, ft be
ing Montana, there were no other pro
hibition aspirants. That would hsva
saved the county ?S0. (But Jonei
wouldn't do it. . -
THE SWEETEST STOHY
EVES TCLD, 13
r:::i
Greenville, Ta, Sept
IS.
tons of honey wsjto
here by E.'-ar X."."' v
ed a check for 2,D '. 1
castle, Ta buyers cf '.' j
mriTni irnn
! IF TO