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VOL. XVIII. No. 81
SECOND EDITION.; KlNSTON; ? ; lyESDAYTJEPTEMBER 19, 1916,
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AilSIAL
LLIIliU
French and Russians kneraeetL YYith liulcranans at One
-Point, Italians Hammering Them at Another, 'Allies
Crossing at Two Places-rSerbians, "Coming " Back,'
Use Knife. and Bayonet in? Assaulting Invaders Ger
mans Get Into Action Around Dead Mang Hill In Sec
tor Occupied by Russ.
Gain Ferdinand's Arniiejs, Falling Back From Greece,
Offer SUght Resitance to
, ' (By the
' London. Sept.' 19. A steady downpour of rain has
halted ,the British operations in the, Spmme There has
been no important fighting,
but, the British have entered
and Laboue at three pla&s
The Allies have cVokMHhe: Serbian frontier m two
places, advancing on 'tnBulgar paseifet Monastir. There
are Serbs fighting on their native soil for the first time
since me retreat
taken a ser:
an have cm
ie of heights TherBulgars from Kamachal-
ssed the frontier north of Lake Ostrove, Rus-
A-i-JtrQh&yekthe Bulgars at Ke
nail, in perDja racicaw aMiiie j-erniury captuieu m
the recent' Bulg&lhVastton of Grecf,Kas1)een recaptur
ed. The mo'stviagCflghtiri has been where the Serbs
ana cuisrars nave come imo
vence) the Serbs are flinging
trarian-lines with knives.and
to-hand fighting is occurring
gars are steadily retreating northward and have put up
slight" resistance eceptat, Fiorina, where they, defeated
t a number, of Greek" volunte'erswho fought with except
tional bra very".; .
Italians In Action m Balkans.
j'" Paris, 'Sept 19. A most violent' battle is occurring be
tween ItaliahsaMlulgaft easfof -the Beles Mountains;
Ill V Hl'K l IM..T 1 1, IS .IILlU.lrt.ll V
w The GermaW'brpke;out in five violent attack's on the
Champaignr.bhtvlast,',nighU: attempting bold; strokes
against Dead MaAstliilU .northwest of Verdun, where
, there -has beetf little -fighting for several . weeks. - The
Russians in the Champaign checked the attacks and nqw
all is again serene, says the war office.. The. onslaughts
were delivered west of, the Souaain-Sbmme road, the Ger
mans losing iheavily. " -r- - , ' ' , , - '
German Admissionof Losses. ,
Berlin,' ept. fe-The Germans, ; have ' surrendered
'trenches to the British east of Ginchy and north, oi Com
bles,,but repulsed, (theFrencn-south of the Somme, near
Belloy and Vermandevillersit is officially reported. ,
TROOPS LEAVE FOR
EL PASO LAST ffllf
: (Special to The Free Pjess) , ;
vCanap Glenn, Sept. 19.---The move
. Tripnt ol troops from here to the bord
.er -wilt probably be commenced Thurs
day Afternoon,. The First infantry,
cavalry, ambulance company -and
-field hos pital are ; expected to get
away then, going by way pf New
Bern -and Wilmington. The . Second
infantry will go up through Kinston
Friday, probably durinu the daytime.
.The Thir4 infantry will leave, Satur
?d. Brigade ; headquarters will ac
company the first train out' It is not
? known Just how. the engineers will
moved.' Company J5 .of. engineers,
tL new outfit from Charlotte, is ex-
' pected to come downtoday or tomor
row,
Thev mav onm thrnmrh TCin,
r , . o-.
ston.- Winter clothing,' including, ov
ercoats, are to be issued at EI Paso,
, where the brigade is to be assembled
.ajon command., .
WOULD TAKE LICEIiSE )
. FRO'I MEIBER OF BAR
.Fayetteville, Sept 18. The first
isWment proceedings in the histo-
.of Cumberland bounty were start
f in the Superior Court here this
fternoon against James H. Johnson
f Hop Mills. member of the Cum
berland bar. The case, which is a
action to deprive Johnson of his
lcen ' based on two convictions
or selUng illegal quantities of wine,
ar presented to the court on
HE WEEK, -nEPoirrai
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Exp'editron Checked Withou
Allies ' .'
United Press)
according to. uenerai Haig,
trenches around Itichebourg
and taken prisoners. .
cuntacu ajcer . iur ie-
themselves against the Bui
bayonets. ".Desperate hand-
north of Ostrove.' .The Bui
.nkHLClL. , .1 . N . . . ,. ', . ..X ,:
BIG ARMORED CARS
LIKE BRITISH HAVE
IV
(By fkt United. Press).
; Washington, ,'. Sept. 19. Twenty
seven, .tractors similar to those con
vertsd into "land., dreadnaughts by
the British, will soon be a part of the
United States army's war parapher
nalia v The same Peoria ; (Illinois)
firm which supplied th,e Dritish with
"foundations fo the, armored fighting
machines, - has contracted ' to build
fiuge tractors for this government.
They will "be delivered ta 30 days.
:? ': . '- ' ' ' "' " "S t :''
TWO
-A BZEQfJATiJOEEffir
, SPEAKING AT CIMOh
' Clinton, N. C-Sept 19. In , be
tween Senators Moses Clapp of Min
nesota ;and I$.t Parkef, candidate
for Attorney General, who addressed
a Republican- political meeting here
yesterday on National and.State is
sues, '.respectively,' Democrats in the
audience shoved Hallet S. (Hot Stuff)
Ward of Washington N, C, whose
famous nerve and eloquence asserted
themselves and resulted in the
squelching of Republican ardor, in
the opinion of Democrats.' Ward de
liberately demanded where was the
Republican party to begin with, rip
ped up Clapp's rather dignified, gen
tle argument with a rough-edged al
legorical blade and calmly sat down,
convinced that Parkencould not alter
the score, vsor wa another tally
added, it is claimed ly t'r.e rr.n' rity
party leaders.
tnrougn AiDania jast winter xiujv iiavc
rrtn mrniriiT mi
ruiiAi
- (By the United Press)'
- New York, Sept 19. Housewives
in every' corner of the' United States
are asked to attend a session of the
Bread Committee of the National
Housewives' League in an effort to
determine what steps should be tak
en to meet the increasing price of
bread. "The condition is very criti
cal," Mrs. Julian Heath, president of
the League, today said, "both for the
producer and the consumer."
CHICAGO BANKER TAKES
OWN LffE IN TROUBLE
Chicago, III.", Sept,' 18. The sui
cide of Joseph Tuma, of the Tuma
Savings Bank, a private institution
and the indictment f four' private
bankers, were the .latest developments
today in Chicago's private bank fail
ures and a general inquiry into these
institutions.., Tuma's bank, the State
attorney said, was to . have bee in
vestigateJ. " The banker's counsel.
however, said the bank" is solvent
Tuma stood on a pier, fired a shot
into his head and' toppled into Lake
Michigan. . . ,
KEYINIA'TORPEDOtD, ;
SAYS ONE SURVIVOR
' New York, Sept' "18. A torpedo
sank the' British ship Kelvinia, car-
rying 28 Americans, according to G.
W. Dillard of Kichmond, Va., one of
the Americans who arrived at Nepr
York today on the Cunatd Liner Tus
cania. . , t
Dispatches "from 'Epglartd left " in
doubt the "ouestion whether the' Kel
vinia, bound' from"- Newport News.ta
Glasgow, was .tdrpsdoed or sunkbya
mine on September Z. According to
Dillard, the Kelvinia was torpedoed
at 2 "o'clock in the morning :thoat
any warning having been given
HANDSOME SCHOOL TO
BE BUILT WINTERVILLE
"(Special to The Free Pjres'j)
Winterville, Sept, 19. The Bap
tist church is expected to erft here
model school house to replace the
'main building of Winterville 1 High
School,' destroyed ' by fire: started by
ghtning some weeks ago. The
building wll cost about $25,000, it is
reported, and will bo modernly equip
ped. , , - .
OLD NEGRESS VICTIM
OF ROBBERY ON STREET
Washington, N. C.( Sept. 19. An
elderly colored woman lost $52 .when
she was about to comply with a
pursesnatcher's request for. the
change of bill in front of a bank
on Main street here Two negroes
have been arrested on suspicion, and
one of them will be identified as the
thief, it is expected.
BATTLES 0F.DRY; LAN
RESULT INTRODUCTION OF NEW BRITISH
MiORED GARS IN SOiE, IS PREDICTION
. (By the United" Press)
tODON'Sept 19 Great battles between 'fleets of, land
dreadnaurTits may result from the introduction of the new ar
mored caf "tanks" io--lhe Somme by the British. A Somme
correspondent says that in ''one short hour the tanks did more
military service and killed more, men than all the ceppelina
' that ever were." He wires that there is a possibility that be
. forethe war is over there will be land battles between whole
fleets of ' these "dreadnaughts," or Utrt fetrial monsters, each
: huger and more horrible than the last.
Only one of the "tanks" has
it is learned. Ir the center f
has been fierce fi?htinR, one t f
nose buried ' in the earth bftf.
a hfr;':' ' ! i f . i ' 1 .
(!.- trm I h r t rr '
Lowest Mortality Rate .the
Country'. lias Ever
Had
'Recorded in 1915M)nly
13.5 Out of 1 Thousand
Died the Country Over
A
(By . the United Press) ,
; Washington; Sept. 19. Only
13.5
persona out of every thousand in , thy
United States irt 1915 died, accord
ing to a report by the census bureau
today. This was, the lowest mortall
ty ,aate. ever recorded inthe coun
try.- ,J- k,
"Widespread awakening of the
people of the country, together with
he progress in tnedicine and sanita
lion', resulted in the saving of 170,-
000 Jives during the year over 1905,
a decade ago," tho bureau said. The
decrease was 16.? per cent during the
ten years. 1 '
AGAIN AROUND HALF
MILLION POUNDS OF
I
3 Not quite half a million pounds of
tpbajco was sold here Tuesday, ac
"ftorrog twarehouse estimates at 2
ji'clock." "Pvlpes were about as good
as McndayV the average being prac
tically as high as any of the season,
according torsome estimates. N,'
Should the-' sales daring' the next
three' "days' average as much jn quan
tity as those of Monday and Tuesday
the fryo-millioft. mark will be passed
Easily.
PlNKKILL'g STATE
xr-HIGH'SCHOOL OPENED
1 FOR ITS FIRST TERM
'f..- (Special .to The Free Press)
Pink ' ' Kill, Sept 19.- The new
Statd High School here opened yes
terday with interesting ', and appro
priate exercises. vThe Board of Trustees-and
a large number of -patrons
were present and took part in .the ex
ercises. County Supt. Joseph Kinsey
addressed the pupils. : It was grati
fying to the authorities to note that
the required number of high" school
pupils (20) to make this a Statc-aid-
ed school wore present on the open
ing day. A large number is looked
for. diiiSng theeok.":,. Among the
visitors at the opening were Miss Ad
na V Edwards; home demonstration
worker, and Miss Hattie Parrott, su
perisor of rural schools. ' . ;
MEETING COUNTRY CLUR
The directors of the Country Club
will meet at 8 p. to. Wednesday in
the office of the Kinston Cotton Milks,
I to pass on important business. '
D DREADNAUGHTS AS :
been
T'
V.-c
- n
itrered in the Somme,
. Vi mri, w here there
is lies '. 'i its
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TOBACCO ON MARKET
- J V i ' :
Each Section of Big , Open
irtff Day Pageant t6 Have
Its Director, Selected for
Qualification and Enter
prise
Mr.' Harvey C. Hines, Oiief Mar
shal for the coming fair, today an.
nounced the following as his' assist,
ants: , " ' l . . ... , .
L. M. LaRoque, in charge of deco
rated automobiles,
J: J." Stevenson,' automobiles ' for
officials and' guests of honor, v
H; K MoCoy, commercial floats,
T. V.t Moseley,' industrial floats.
O'. . P. " ' McCrary.' : agricultural
floats.
E, B. Lewis, fraternal and educa
tional floats. iM&$-M?i:i'fhti':h-i
Dr. i Lunsford ' Abbott, mounted
marshals.:' t.,;,,'VV-':'-svV
Dr. W. C. Knox,' knights." J
J. F..- iltooker, ' jr., jpairol, to be
aided by the Boycouts. '. .
4' ,Hines is preparing to write' a
thousand representative men in ten
suirouriding' counties to request them
w act us 'marshals, ? of ai" knlghts--
ir.ounteil, " plumed and Sashedr ' and
carryirg Hnces--par.ticlpate in the
parade and the tournament ; that. ' is
o be a feature of opening day, ,; That
tournan ent is to be an old-fashioned
.ffair, f nil tf thrills and color and
pranciiig , hovws. , ,Mr. Hines expects
f-illj 600 men to accept. ... ,
The parade will be a tremendous
affair. Last year's was on a, grand
scale, but this one cannot be describ
ed with an adjective of smaller cali
bre than prodigious or something
squally impressive. ICia to be made
up in sections on different streets,
each section . to be .assembled . under
the iupervisiqn of 1 its assistant chief
marshal.,-,, . ,- ' .. ..-...
The floats will be especially ,, at-
tractivje, ; It is planned to have scores
of commercial, industrial and agri
cultural floats In the pageant. There
will ue, pusEiuiy uric uuuacj aim
wooden houses on wheels; represent?
ing the brick and lumber linos; pedi
greed pigs will grunt from ' minia
ture wheeled pastures if the pig club
boys 'do what is expected of them;
the cotton industry will be played up
from the growing stalk to finished
garments. Mr. Hines is. giving, .ov
er a big part of his time to prepara
tions for the. occasion,.
v
G. 0. P. EXPECTING BIG
TIME WEDNESDAY P. M.
The Republicans of the county Jook
for a bijr attendance at the, opening
speaking of their campaign in : the
Courthouse here Wednesday after
noon. .John J. Parker, bright West
Carolina man who is out for the At
torney-generalship, will be the prin
cipal speaker. Mr. Parker so far has
proved the best worker that the G.
I. P. has in the field in the State.
Democrats are invited by sthe Re
publican executive committee to hear
the visitor.? The meeting will be com
menced promptly iat 2 o'clock. : Mem
bers of Mr. Parker's party from ev
ery part of the county are expected
to be present , 1
BROGDEN, FUNERAL TODAY
The remains of the late Mr. ' John
. Brogden. who died Monday morn
ing, wre Tuesday morning UKen to
Trenton for interment at 11 a. m.
The family and relatives and friends
from the city and upstate accompan
ied the body. Rev.' John II. Griffith,
rector of St Mary's Episcopal church,
went to conduct the service. There
was an unusual quantity of flowers.
Acting as pallbearers froni the home
it McLewean and Gordon streets to
i Xoifolk Southern station, Tvhere
i '.. v 13 pit ahoaJ- a train for
. ." i thr:e to be taken
t y T. i ,n, were
; " . J.1-. P:w-
UeWbhcan" Candidate Be
gins; Secdnd - Campaign
Tour at Peoria Pleased
Over Getting Back Into
' the Field, Said A"
By PERRY ARNOLD, '
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
r Peoria, I1U Sept. 1.9. Nominee
Hughes chose Peoria from which to
hurl forth bis first speech in his sec
ond presidential campaign tour,- .The
G." QS. P.... candidate was plainly
pleased to resume the campaigning.
He intends to make the leading is
sue the eight-hour law and has new
data .on Mexico. ' ,
PRESIDENT WILL MAKE
FIRST SPEECH SATURDAY
NeKYorkj, SeptljS-jThe Democra
tic National Committee announced
hete !,tonight J that Presi'uent , Wilson
win maite rus iirst ppeecn oi uie cam
paign, at "Shadow Lawn" next Satur
day" at 3 p. m. to the businessmen of
New Jersey. Merttbers of all cham
bers' of commerce and business orga
nizations in j the State have been in-
yitcd. iiThe Pcesiden intends it wa
saidi to discuss fully the provisions of
the eight-hour railroad law, .
i
Cotton sold high on the local' ex
change Tuesday. : i The : only seven
bales .marketed brought from ' 14 to
151-8 cento.' ' 1 h. .'
'New York, futures 9uotations were:
if .f -'. '-" Opon,; 2 p. m.
January 16.04 16.19
March . 16.19 . 16.31
May .. ....16.35 16,02
October 15.71 15.93
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December ; .
....15.94
m Mpraf
COTTON
mm PEOPLE OF NORTH CAFtOLIRA
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WILSSllARSHALL FliNDiPEOPLE'S FIOllT
The folIoying appeal is "made by; theirianceConffiiit
tee for NortK Caroliha' to raise the State's part of theT
Wilson-Marshall Campaign Fund: . . . , ' V,
An , Appeal to the People.
"Others may t follow the Lords of
War, who ride among tho corpses of
mankind. . We follow the President ot
the United States and seek inspira
tion of humanity that aspires to high
er things." ' ' I
. We must have money to defray the
expenses of the Democratic presidon
tial campaign. This is tho people's
campaign and it is nil important that
it be conducted with ' the people's
money. ' . ""';.- '
There are innumerable items of le
gitimate expense never thought of
by the average person. To mention
only a few, there is the cost of main
taining national and' divisional head
quarters, printing and mailing tons
of literature and 'millions of letters,
of effecting organizations ' in 'every
town in' every one of the forty-eight
States, in preparing and distributing
publicity matter, in maintaining a
speakers' bureau in printing and cir
culating pictures of candidates, etc
A Record of Achievement. , .c
. .The Democratic Party has been in
control of the government for nearly
four years, and in that time lias
written more of constructive legisla
tion than any other administration in
the Nation's history, and guided the
ship of State safely through crises
more numerous and more grave than
had arisen in the preceding fifty years
of our diplomacy.
The Democratic a imini'ra' '.on .,s
kept the country out c v ,r, w'.,iie
r-sciHrvir. its honor v o.iiicl anj
tr.iiii';?.!.
Remainder of Campaign Be
Fought' iionesl-td-ijood- -
ness
Fasn
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LEADERS GETTING EUSY
Things to Hum as Soon as
; 1 President' Gets ' Back
Remarkable Tribute Paid
. Executive at Columbia-
' "Big Silent Crowd ,
. By ROBERT J. BENDER, . .
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Sept.'19'.Thcre Is to
be more pot ttScal' noise ' ot Shadow ,
Lawn from ' now on. The President,
Chairman Vance MoCoVmick .and .
other 'po1i'ticaf leaderahave decided '
that the political horses are to , be
spurred jip all the way down the re
mainder of the stretch. Ther are-, to
be several big "Jersey .Days",, and
Open "Hciue " Days" at'. Shadow
Lawn, together with occasional sal-
liei into - the surrounding ' States.
Some heavy artillery Is "being. unlim '
bered.' ,
The Democratie leaders admit the
campaign has Deen necessarily jag
ging, for the Jast week, oij so. .But
from loo .nine, we, jr(.omt;iiv icw
back, to the summer White House
things are to be set humming. : '
- On Jewing Columbia,; S CV' tha ,
President was accorded a romarkable
Iribute by several thousand, persons
,?ho stood silently,' the men with
their - bata .off.-: As the train pulled
out ..there was .no sign of cheering, i
Upon entering his car the Pf asident
said "That was splendid."
k if.' V
"'-' I ! i'"' '
foe. . '. t. ; ."; ,: t, .
It has. preserved, .that strict ,ncu
trality, which ' Washington,, declared
should always be the policy , of ; th
United SUtes. ' , '
Jt has followed in Mexico the pol
Icy of Lincoln, who asserted the right
of that unhappy people' to" order iliejr
own government.
Dinner Pail la Full.
It has established prosperity more"
general and genuine .than all
people ever enjoyed before, that
every dinner pail is full, every fac
tory working, every man employed,
and the average of wages higher,;
li has given the i.ation a system' of
finance and banking that shielded it
fim panic and depression when' tho
whole structure of European credit
waa destroyed by war, and which,
overwhelmed" other neutral natiofia
whose statesmen lacked the foresight
and capacity of America's Democrat-'
ic statesmen". . '
It has emended the anti-trust luws
making guilt personal, defining it fur
the first time . without ambigu i y,
and preventing trade monopoly v ii
prohibition of interlocking direc1 r
atcs; and has set up in' the Pc;! ;.l
Trade Commission a court of busi
ness. '""..- , V - '
Labor Not a Commodity. 1
It has taken labor out f the c -sificatin
of co"mn-''y s 1 I", is
re ta the