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;JKINSTON,N. (VWEDNESIUY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1916
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JKOHgTOf POINT; REPORTED HE GOES TmiPP ACAIfSAY REPORT? AND CRAFTS Atf FAIR ilMiO :
!f3 WfMNeorCorc.
aiko Aines laKe ;4ittpprtant Jlejght ; m Advance
: Great Battle Between Russians and Roumanians - and
Germans and Bulbars "About to Develop Slav Xine
Pierced By -.Kaiser VTrwps at -Several Places Teu
-'tons InrWest;Make Desperate Attempts '- to Recover
. :Lost- Groimdyf With ;Little Successor-Continue to Ham-Jmerat-
French. Positions Protected byScreen ;of -Fire
FomTIeayy: Qans
- ' " (By the U.idted Press) .
? w LONDON, Sept. 20.-GreeceIias ent an urgent
" - note to 3ermany demanding the release of
Greek troops removed to Germany from Kavala;
,tGreece,'accordingto a-Heuter-dispatchitom
. . ' Athens. . 1 - . '
ijraris, fcept,.su. ine trermans loaay conunueu nun -
ing violent attacks against
- Somme from Clery to . the river, the war office announced.
' The Teutons everywhere-have been checked by a screen
of fire exceDt at trenches on the northern slopes. .
" " -The Serbians'' have Captured a Strongly' fortified hill
' near the highest peak of the
. oeroian Tirontier, aner vioiem, iiarm-iu-nanu iigiaiug.
The" Bulgarians resisted desperately; being almost totally
' jwiDed out Only fifty prisoners were taken. French Sev-
enty-fives dispersed Bulgarians near. Gorenaiko. . ;
iBig Battle Developing in Near East. .
f London. Sept 20. The
ivithin seven miles of Monastir, and are engaged in sharp
x fighting with the Bulgars, said todajrs Athens dispatches.
For the first time since the
,.' i t i 1 ' 1
ah importani pan in tne ngnt resulting in ine capiure w
Milages abOUt Fiorina. '
'-Rpr n -ri snatphes indicate
pectea to aeveiop aionf? me
front 'south ef the Constanza
eanv staeres. 1 ne uerman
the KuinTiiie1aben'Pierced at, several points. -
fJAraHSULTING
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M if it
II!
idvillanAConsulting board, . composed
iof 24 ',of the nation's -most -eminent
vacientiets Tand engineers, took 1 its
'place today as aMegalized . bureau of
,the Navy Department and the names
'of tis members, -fceaded byj Thomas
(A. Edison as diaicman,,were placed,
jn the ,r,olls under'a recent act 4)1
if Congress as !'flfficera of Ae' United
j States government" . - . i
' 7 The board's inauguration 'was ' aV
jended by impressive ceremonies held
in the office of Secretary Daniels. ,, ;.
M Immediately upon taking the oath
wof office, the board memlbers effected
permanent -offlcial organization. Mr
Edison was elected chairman; Wil
liam L. Saunders ' of the' American
' Institute of Mining Engineers, and
'Dr. Peter C. Hewitt of the-Invent-orss'
guild, both of New York City,
, , were sel-ed as .vice-chairmen; and
Thomas Jvobbins, ' of the Inventor's
Guild, .wa3 - appointed secretary.
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I THEODORE ROSZHTS
la Latky-P&nabuzt Fxlurea.
ORGANIZED
the French lines north of the
mountains along the ureece-
Serbians have advanced--to"
Balkan fighting began .large
a ti J l i . . t
that a great battle, is ex-1
new .rvuBsian-joninaman
Railioad and is 'now in the
war omce announces uiai
PERSONS tSIAY J IIAVEi
injiE'aiianFHai
Government, Willing i Go
nii
That Extreme in Black
mailing Cases, " ?
A rlUlil ' ' Jl 4 irmliJii
To Send' Members Of "Syn-p
-j.. 'A-i-l.Ti-i" :
uicait: tu irriaun-JT1U.C1-
ed Many a Wealthy One's
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Pockets ' Under Threat Of
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Washington, . Sept - 20 Drastic I
plans tending to force the victims of I
the now noted nationwide blackmail-
ing syndicate to ten all they know, 1
regardless of how such, testimony and
publkity mieht soil the .reputations
of wealthy men and women, are one
of the chief objects of . conference-
here of officials of the Chicago, New
York and Philadelohia offices of the
Bureau of investigation. 7 Officials
today admitted that the very nature
of the system .by which wealthy per
sons were forced to submit to -blackmail,
made it obvious that obtaining
the consent of witnesses to testify
regarding ; the incidents which 'they
paid heavily to keep secret, will be a
most difficult feature of fte 6ght to
send the blackmailers to jail.' Re
sults will be obtained with the least
publicity possible. However, the
cases win Je pusned without consid
eration ef reputations.
; Attorney General Gregory with A.
Bruce Bielaski,: chief of the Bureau
of Investigation, is in personal
charge of the ase, indicating that
the Department
thing through.
intends to "see the !
,Inwfon of vWcst. Only
Ah; f0rj Half -Dozen xor So
I SpeechesPlans Perfect
,ed But Dates and Places
- VNot As Yet Announced
By ROBERT Jv BENDER,
(Uhited Rresa Staff Correspondent)
Asbury Park, K J, 6ept 20 Pres
ident Wilson is. prepariirg fof .tn In
vasion of the West The times and
places where he will deliver, the stra-
tegio Alowa ?iasizned to overthrow
Candidate Hughes are atfll undecid
ed, but the line of attack was thor-
owhlv manned out at a ranterenca
with Chairman Yance McCormick
last night" ' - v-
Thff President will probably accept
; I no western .engagement jbefore Oct
, ber i..vTha inYasion will consist
merely f f ew set speeches at hif
a doaen points. ' "
Rumors; that." tho" President I will
tour", the' West to offset Hughes'lwother Attaik, paying the -ssago
ewpeigningre emphatically denied,
NOT QUITE A THIRD
OFRIILLION POUNDS
Three hundred and live thousand
pounds of tobacco was eoid here to-
ws.,u-nt average pnee may nave
b8en ad better than Tuesday's,
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ny e ' w cnange iorwie.
worse. One or two warehouses
ported averages of , around 20 cents.)
The quality of the weed offered was
generally. good. heavier breaks are
looked fo- Thursday. - , '
rflEUCCETOCE SPEEJC.I .
AN EDITORIAL APPRAISAL
President Wilson's speech of
acceptance s was comprehensive,
frank and direct
It was tha utterance of a man
and a political party conscious of
tnenone3iy , oiH pasc enaeavors aou
ii j ... i. -'i' . .j
whatever problems the future might
have in store.
!-'lfo: President' has ever been 1
called npon to face more serious
lYinditinna than hfla Mr. -AVilann. lie
hfl et tllem witl patience and de
votion that have won the respect aud
admiration .of the world.
With domestie; legislation to di-
tect," giving tne-reuel irom eco-
nnm5,. .huRPs that the coiintrv's wel-
- - . i
fare demanded, with long list of
promises to fulfill, the gfreat war tliat
burst upon the world threatened to
check him in his efforts and tojn-
vnlvhpr,tinrtinthdlfiftfitor9that
are afflicting almost every nation of
TT... il 1 ' - t VJ. 41. 4
XlOW lie 11 OS L'lUUgUl U1C LVUIlllJ
through it all, with honor And with
astounding prosperity, the . accept-
ance speech succinctly and modestly
tells.
In three and a half years the coun-
try has been set aright, every class
protected in its UDerties ana lis op-
portanities,;' the whole commercial
set in order, with prosperity
abounding.
And reason has. never
abandoned its. throne in all of the
country's perplexities. 7
The" gpeecn was a message io me
people of all -the world; it was a
notice to the .world that this' country
is big enough to maintain its honor
and to keep out of waf, and at the
same time big enough to regulate iU
domestic conditions.
The Bpeech was no apology, no
kfense. no complaint It wss a
itvoooIi 'lint a'l men anil vornen
LLU in.Wm wbat thn
country has really been doing.
Washington, Sept 19. Only 13.5
persons out of every thousand In th
United States in 1915 died, accord-
ing to a report by the census tureau
today.
Expected t. Attack Chihu..
hua Again, Accordingr to
;Ref ugeesVJay Already
Be Assaultingr4he j City-
Communication Severed
tf WEBB MILLER.
' (Ultd ' Preea Staff CorresponJent)
El Paso. Sept' 20. Telesaphic
ana railroad communication with
Chihuahua City haTe been remim-,
id. The city is quiet-
El Paso, Texas, Sept 20. -While a1
message fva coming over wire to
1 Juarn ,a8t n'&ht Jro Chihuahua
1 City that shots were twin fired out-
side the city an dthat it was feared
.nnthnr vm. i ,
mv .nua . K 111 llVikf ill c I
H . r , '
'Carranzi ,sofl5cials refusa to credit
' i i . ' ... ... ...
referred i, firing: Tuesday. Ly evcit-
o4 AiefvwiaFM
.
Refugeer streaming - into Juarez
from Chmuahu aQty are unanimous
In the belief that Villa will again at
tack the city." The first raid was
completely successful,' they eonftnm.
1VILS0N
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FOR ,-VV
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PATY SUFFRAGE RECORDS
Ortly Democratic Congressman Appeal-
; - ed for- Action. "
fC!ongressmait C. C.'plll, of Wash-
'ington,- cltea the "records of the' com
mittee -bearings pn -sufTrase Jn . Con
gress to prove. tliatMhe oulyCongress-
meu -who have gone before the JuuIt
Iary Committee of Congress this yenr
to afik.lhat a suffrage, amendment be
voted upon have been Democratic
members." jHe. 'adds that, "no others
have ..appeared to ask for. confident
tlon of the measure. That Is, I. think.
sufficient answer to uny clnlm that
the Democratic Party opposed - Woman
Suffrage," ;
This .record, need only be supple
mented with, the personal voting his
tory of the rival Presidential candi
dates to show who is the' teal friend
of -suffrage. President Wilson mnde
two trl i8 from .Washington .toNew
Jersey to register and vote for Woman
Suffrage when It was submitted In his
State.. Candidate Hughes. did not take
the trouble to register or to vote the
same. year-li)i5 when ,the suffrage
amendment was submitted In his
state.. i , ' ,
"There Is no means of Judging the
lutura,xcept by -assessing. the Jjast
Constructive action must be weighed
against destructive comment and reac
tion." From - President -Wilson's
Speech of Acceptance. , ., t. .
lIFflSM-WHffSIOT:
ANOTHER A!,D;WENT
TO ORMY STAY JHERE
. .Jesse Wood, who shot and inflicted
a f esh wound Upon James Baldree at
a religious meeting near LaGrange
some days ago and, escaping, enlist
ed in the National Guard, will ' e aK
lowed to remain in the service. The
authorities, . having located Wood.
were told by General Young, com-
maritKng at Camp Glenn, where Wood
i aerving, that the man would b
turned over to them upon the proper
procedure, th e array nowadays
frowning upon tie former habit of
men u;;ty of misdemeanors of en-
Erielsive Premium LisU
Mrs. J, C, Hood Chairman
of Directorate -Comprised i
of . Prominent and ;. Well-
Qualified Women
Below Is printed the pryee list for
the Arts and Crafts Depjrtment of I
the Kinston Fair. The directors, e-1
lected f o ' their"' intimate knowledge
of such tmngs, are Mesdames J. C.
Hood (iCSiairmanl. J. F. Taylor. E.
B.'Marston, W..A. Mitchell and W.
D, LaRoque. The lit ie quite om-
prehensive. , It -follows;
AH articles must be .plainly mark.
?d on ,back with. owners name. Pre
I miums awarded only to the artist or
1. , Portrait study from . Jife $2,
2. Portrait study from photo
or
copy, i.oo.
. fitudy from out of doors, $1.50.
4.' Study from landscape .or . mar'
1 1 nA
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5. Study from tlt life, $1.50.
6. Study from any copy .$1.00.
.7--Tapestry, painting,. 2.00.
Water Coloring .Painting. . .
9n Study from copy, fl.00.
10,. Miniature, portrait study, $1.00.
8. Study from still life, $1.50.
Pastel Painting.
11. Portrait study from- life, $1.50.
12. Portrait study from photo or
ccpy, $1.00.
13 Study from atiil life; $1.00,
Black and White, Also Crayola.
16. ,Portrait atudy $1.00.
16. Portrait f rom photo or copy, 75 ,
cents.
17.'Drawing from plaster cast, 75c,
18.- Study from till life, 7oc.
19. Short etory written" and illus-1
trated with two illustrations by any !
public school pupil, $2.00.1 ' '-
20. Specimen pen and Ink drawing, j
$1.00. ' ' 1 ' " - ,
21. A speciat honor ribbon is -offer-
ed for a design for a seal suitable f or I
the decoration o f the Kinston Fair
Association's stationery, the premium
-
ribbons, and cover for the tfremium
list"
22. A special honor ribbon Is offer-
ed for a good advertising poster lorl
the Kinston fair. ' . . . f , ' y 1
I Photography. ' v , !
23. rBte collection iof professional
work; special honor - ribbon. i A
24. iBest .singles portrait, Special j
honor ribbon. , . 1
25. 'Beat portrait of .child,' special
honor iribboa. ;
26. Best collection of not less than j
6 photos of North Carolina scenery
by amateur $1.00.
27. sst photo portrait by amateur,,
$1,00.'- ', j
28. aesthoto)orJtrait of ohild, $1.1
29. iBest collection of Kodak jpicr
tures by person under 16 years, $1.
Crafta China.
29. Best single piece, $1.00.
30. Deet collection of 6 or more
pieces, $2.00. : - .
SI. Best collection of 2 or more
piecesP ffl.50.
32. Best piece decorated with ori
ginal .designs, .$1.00. . ,;
83. "iBest half dozen' original de
igns on -paper, in rolor for -plates 9
inehes in -diameter $1.00.
k, S4. Best display of burnt wood, $1,
35Best' display of leather work,
$1.00.'
36. " seBtids ' v t ttcmfwypp
36. Best,display of any article or
articles onade from . iNorth - Carolina
grass, $1.00. .
'87. Beat display of pine needle
basket, $1.00. '
.38., 2st display of any arts or
crafts not mentioned here, $1.00.
listing to evade punishment by (the
civU courts. - However, interested
persona advised Sheriff Taylor that
it was the preference of those con
cerned that Wood be allowed to re
main in the guard,, where he could be
of some good, and that official ac
cordingly informed 4 General Young,
who, Sheriff Taylor says, agreed to
let the man remain in service.
Excitement After Arm
i Resulted in Stroke On
, Tuesday Night
FOUR' PERSONS WOUNDED
By Negro W ho Claims He
Was Shooting at Rabbit,
Official Had Been In Poor
Health Popular Officer
and Candidate
William H. Williams. 46, Sheriff of
Greene county, died at his home .in
Snow Hill (about 5 a. m, Wednesday,
following a stroke of apoplexy suf
fered Tuesday night .about 9 o'clock
after the arrest of Will . Sasser. an
18-year-old negro, for an alleged as.
sault .with a shotgun upon four per
sons, . .
Saaser, Tuesday afternoon fired in:
to an automobile containing Troy
Pail, vZebulon . Jones, Mrs; " Cleon
Jones , and . Miss Blanche Jones
slightly wounding all four) He is re
ported to have had a grudge against
Dail, but in jail makes the statement
that he was shooting at a rabbit
The shooting occurred near Snow
Mill, v Dail was worse hurt than any
pt the .victims, but is in no danger, 4t
is. thought." There is little real evi
dence os f aT to prove that the shoot
ing-, was .malicious, - and no intensn
sentiment against the negro.
Nasser was arrested, but; the depu
ly having him in charge was so long
I in arriving with turn ' that th iSheriff
feared the prisoner had been taken
away from - him, according to a
Greene county; official, Williams be-
- eame very uneasy and . was quite
-wrought up by the time the deputy
sheriff (Came ' with the boy. After
Sasser "had been locked up Sheriff
Williams suffered the stroke, on the
; . .
open street as a result of the .excite.'
ment, it is believed.? He hd been up
practically all the night tefore and
had been in declining .health - for
some, time. Twelve months ago or
so he euffered a first stroke of, apo-
fMy.
dnerirr. ttui Williams was -very
popular official. He was reared in
Greene , county. ; He belonged to the
Masonic order, ale was a jman v of
splendid character, .inclined to itend-
nearteaness, , and aomewhat sensi
we. He- had . worried considerably
over an act of t mob violenc in hi?
tcoanty soma montht ago and censure.
which, .he had frequently protested ,
waa. not deserved, dunn gthe inves-
ligation that was held here eom
months later. ? Some questions put "to "I
him by counsel during the taking of
testimony were construed by Sheriff
Williams as an imputation that he
had not fulfilled his duty in every re
spect Once friends restrained him
from demanding an apology out of
court
-He was held in highest esteem by
hii associates in official circles in
this..part of ..the JState, and was wide
ly, known. He was a .man of t ppar-
ently good physique, .pleasant ' qule
manner, and very courteous.' He had
been. In 'office four' years and was a
candidate, for re-election. v
JIis widow and one stepchild sur
Tive (Sheriff Williams. , ..'
' . The "funeral will be held aome time
Thursday, it Ha expected. The ar
rangements have not been completed.
FPJEIGI1TS COLLIDE IN
7ESTmOUNll;2HURT
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Hickory, Sspt 19. This morning
two Carolina and North Western
freights collided while rounding $ a
curve three miles north of Hickory
on the Catawba river. Fireman Hen
ry Winkler, who lives near Hickory,
was badly scalded. Engineer Bass
was injured about the head and shoul
ders. " ' ,- : .!
,Chief Marshal Harvey C. Hines
today hit upon the idea of having a
troop of lady marshals for tha big
parade of the fair. Last year there
was a platoon or a section or a squad
or maybe it was only two or three,
ladies among the marshals, all charm
ingly gowned in glorioua riding hab
its." This time it is intended to have
not less than half a hundred; if pos
sible, two or three hundred will be
gotten together for the .purpose .. Wo
men naturally take more interest in
such things than men, and they will.
no doubt the more vaadily comply
With the request -to serve.
It is proposed to write the mayor
if every town in the ten counties'
comprising the"'fair . belt requesting
him to name a marshal ormaTshalese
or,- possibly 'more properly, a spon
sor, Jots Jtia municipality. AWith the
ist of names before !him,t&lr. Hinea
vill appoint an assistant chief -marshal
''marshaleae" -to have charge
if the suffragette -lady - marshal
cctionj get in touch with "the lady
marshals, and prescribe the general
rtyle, but not the colors nor the frills,
Vimmings or curlicews, or whatever
hey may be called, o f the costumes
hat they are to be rigged up in. That
will leave room for some individual-
ty so that Genevieve Jenson won't
Save to lendure the humiliation" of
icing, dolled Up justiike Lucille -Lucl-
iua, the .jinqibby, snub-nosed .thing.
There .will bv very probably, keen
lompetition between the towns. JEvery
olace will send forth . its j choicest
beauty, with its best specimen of
amily-broke horseflesh, a red, mar-;
")pn, scarlet, yellow, canary, (blue, old
old, heliotrope or lavender costume
'or hte young woman, sand a -lot of
ribbons on the , nag., r 'Twill be .a igau-
y spectacle, , and with, two ,or. three
score of. East Carolina's best-looking
iris thus spectacularly, arrayed and
mounted . in one grand assemblage
'he ordinary circus grand entry' gang
vill fade into nothingness; "'There
wild not bo a better feature. With
he b3lle ,of every burg bundling her
self over to town for the occasion and
all their beaux .and admirers and re
lations, tumbling after, the opening 1
day crowd would be swelled greatly.
There are several hundred cities.
villages and hamlets m the ten coun
ties, and -none will be overlooked. '
K0;100?5OT1
GLENN YET; LIKELY
10 VE LATE ' IN - DAY
There had been no movement of
troops from Camp Glenn toward the
border at noon Wednesday, It waa
xpected at that hour that the First
Infantry and smaller units, including
brigade headquarters, " two cavalry
troops and the field hospital and Am
bulance Company A, would get out
late in the day, however. There is
still somesdoubt though, as to wheth
er or not the first train will leave be
fore, Thursday.
Kinston will get no glimpse of tha
first trains to leave. They will go
through New Bern and Wilmington.
The Second Infantry, unaccompanied
by other organizations, - will pass
through this city, however, proabbly
Friday. The Second has about 109
men from this city.' The Third In
fantry, Jeaving-Saturday or Sunday,
will go through New Bern and Wash-
ngton, m probably. The engineers.
two companies strong, may accompa
ny the Third.
It will take more than a do7;i
trains, at the least estimate, to la -1
the nearly 3,500 solJi-s, t'.iir w?.
ons, hors?s and other rar' '