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XVIli. No. 85
KINSTON, N, C,
SATURDAY, SEI?TEMBER 23, 1916
SIX PAGES TODAY
PRICE TWO CfSTTS
MEETING AT SHARON
NEXT THREE WEEKS
TO BE LIVELY TIME
IN POLITICAL WAY
WANT TO MAKE FAIR
GERMANS AND BULGARIANS REPORTED TO
BE ABANDONING ROUMANIAN OFFENSIVE?
OUT
A
EXHIBITS BIGGEST
SSAIIV TO WIN THE BATTIE
IN EAST
EVACUATE IMPORTANT PLACES
DAILY
PRESS
1 m -.ssls m
C0BBS SAYS flUNDREOS OF THOUSANDS
ENURE MAKES
POSSIBLE
COMMUNITY
Neiir York Shudders as Tinife Atoroafches for Sxfcfrension
of Industry Bifest Place in the World) Will Be
Shackled Practically All Factories Will Be Closed
iMfaUnlohtets Throughout Lano' With Strikers to
the Limit Declares Great Leatler-CoiAplete Tie-up
Will' Come Wednesday More Than ttaft. a Million to
Waltf Out Turning Point In History of Unionism
Crippling of Enterprises Will Be Complete
(By the United Press)
r Washington, Sept. 23. The New York traction strik
ers and six hundred thousand "sympathetic" strikers on
Manhattan, will stay out all winter if necessary to win
the fight, according to Samuel Gomiters, president of the
American Federation of Labor.
Gompers is here after spending several days at New
York. The noted labor leader declares that the New York
situation is recognized as a vital turning point in the his
tory' of unionism. He declares organized labor has ac
cepted capital's, challenge, and will back the New York
workers to the last limits of its moral, physical, and fin
ancial power.
. ? ; The New York fight is a fight for recognition of the
right to organize. I am with these men body and soul.
Every union man in the United States is with them. We
will all stand behind them."
to Make of New York a City of Dead Industries.
New York, Sept. 23. New York today awaited with
Apprehension the next turn in the labor war threatening
1,0 break next Wednesday, when the general order for the
"suspension of work" becomes effective to make the larg
est city- in the world a city of dead industries. The de
velopments of the last twenty-four hours have injected
much bitterness into the situation. The general strike
ofder as interpreted by union leaders, is merely a notice
to'iftJott nKeti not to ride or work on cars' run by non
imion men, bunts effect will be a complete tie-up of industry.
SOLDIERS MAY PASS
Tl
IIS CITY
NIGHTFALL
Tro6p Movement From
Cmp Glenn Commences.
First- Infantry Getting
AW By Way of Wil
tonSecond Not Yet
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It is reported that troop3 from
Camp Glenn will pass, through Kin
ston Saturday afternoon. This in
f ornYatfon' is not verified, and there
is a possibility of a mistake, it is
admitted Yat the source, which gener
ally 1s1 'Very reliable. Tha Second in
fantry is" routed ; through Kinston,
but fkefl! troops lifhich may come
throgn wthin a few hours are not
of the'Sefcond. They are probably
Troopi A ' and B Jot cavalry, Ambul
ance Cniany A, the field hospital
company, engiiwero, all or a part of
thosfc troGjw. AH these had been
mitieS!", by 'other lines, and it is sup
posed tliere has been a change in the
rontje".
Tbs First infantry was to leave
early Saturday . afternoon for Fort
Blisl, gdirig via New Bern and Wil
mington.1 The outfit has teen equip
ped "wfth' winter clothing. The other!
regmiehta are being outfitted Satur-
day"'- ,
The" units which rtay pass through
in the next few Bouts are, looked for
bctwVln 8(fjmdv;6:3d. The Second infantry-Is
.Hot Ntxpccted to move be
foreSuftdaji aftentSon. The Third
maf pull early Sunday.
NEW HIGH RECORD
jORSl&teJON
5 : (By the United Press)
York, Sept' 23. During . the
heaviest' tVo-hocr session since 1908,
, Unfted State Steel Common today
jumped U 11? 1-2. advancing 41-2
over yesterday, and setting " a new
high rorecd. . ' '
high record.
UN1VERSALISTS HOLD
ANNUAL CONVENTION
Open-Aair Sessions In Grove at
Smith's Chapel, Duplin County To
Continue Through Sunday Dur
ham Expected to Get Next Year's
Meeting
The Universalist State Convention
was opsned at Smith's Chapel, Dup
lin county, a few cmiles south of Pink
Hill, Friday. The sessions will last
through Sunday. The attendance is
large.
The convention is being held in a
big grove adjacent to the chapel.
Most or all of the ministers of the
denomination in North Carolina are
present, together with several score
officers of the convention arid dele
pates. The church in the State has
its largest congregation in Sampson
county, and its handsomest edifice
here. J. J. Matthews, president of
the convention, is superintendent ot
schools in Sampson. .
The 1917 convention is expected to
go to Durham.
Saturday was tho 'biggest day of
the new season on the cotton ex
change. It wa estimated at 2 o'
clock that nearly 135; bales had been
handled.
Good prices prevailing the past
several days were responsible for tho
hipr quantity of th? staple marketed.
Today's prices are ranged from 14
to 155-& '
NTew York futures quotations were:
Open Close
January 16.01 16.12
Marcli .. J............ 16.11 1627
May--. ........ 16.49
October . . ..: s . i li.78 1 5.82
December .. ........ ri5.93 16.01
GERMANS HOLD DDfCH
SHIP ANDP.ASSENGERS
(By the United Preai)
The flaguV . Set 23. Thi Ger
mena have captured the .Dutch steam
cr Prinz Hendrik. from London to
Flnshiiwr. and taken her into Zee
Brngge with her 80 passenger.
ConsoTid'ation of Half a Do
zen Small Institutions As
silted Brogcteh, Dr. Par
rott and Other Enthiisi
asts Speak
The schoolhouse at Sharon, was
crowded with interested friends and
patrons of the schools in Group No.
1 at an educational meeting Friday
night. All the schools in the group
were . represented, and there were a
number of visitors from schools out
side tha community represented by
Group Nq. 1. The teachiT uud pu
pils rendered a short program of re
citations and music whiuh was much
enjoyed.
Following the program by the chil
dren, Mr. L. C. Brogden addressed
the meeting on the subject of "Bet
ter Schools for the Rural Communi
ty." Mr. Brogden ' foremrly was
connected with the Kinston schools, is
well-known in the county, and in re
turn loves old Lsnoir. i He is now
onnected with the Stats Depart
ment of Education. Dr. James M.
PaiTott next spoke of the immediate
possibility of a larger and better
equipped school for the Sharon com
munity. iSeveral of thj leaders in
school work made encouraging talks.
That Contentnea Neck township will
at an early date have in its midst a
schoU of a larger type a commun
ity school is an assured thing.
Attending the meeting Friday
night wjre Dr. Parrott, who is chair
man of the County Board of Educa
tion; Superintendent Joseph Kinsey, ,
the Assistant Superintendent, Miss
Hattie Parrott, and Miss Adna Ed
wards, Home Demonstration Agent.
VIRGINIAN HONORED
BY BANKING INSTITUTE
New York, Sept. 22. A statement
issued here today on behalf of the
railway executives' advisory commit
tee, representing the railroads af
fected by the Adamaon 8-hour law,
explained the purposes of its investi
tion put under way with a view to
meeting the problems presented. The
objects are "to ascertain if possible,
first, the effect of the law as a prac
tical operating problem; and second,
its legal status."
BIG VERDICT IN THE
SAMPSON COUNTY COURT
Clinton, Sept. 22. A Sampson
county jury gave a verdict for $5,000
damages last ni.ht, the largest ver
dict ever awarded in this countyi
Henry Vanr. was suoing the Coast
Line for internal injuries sustained
some mon!is ago, while he wa3 driv
ing an automobile aoss the tracks
of the defendant road near Wade, N.
C. At the time a Mr. Pusey, anothe?
occupant of the car, was thrown from
the machine and killed. A suit for
recovery of damages for his death is
now pending in the court
CAROLINA RAILROAD
' TIME TABLE No. 1
FIRST-CLASS FREIGHT AND
PASSENGER SERVICE. -Every
Day Ffcept Sunday
Southbound Northbound
332 333
Ar M. P.M.
t 6ti0 Suggs Siding f 5:50
7:29... Hines Junction ....a 5:05
Pools ...f 5:20
s 7:00 Dawson 6 .-27
g 6:47 Glenfield 6:41
6 :30 LV. . . . Snow Hill . . . Ar. 6:00
AJ1 trains governed by the Norfolk
Southern rules while using the track
from kinston to Hines Junction and
subject to tie orders of its superin
tendent.
Wit HATES, '
' " ' "" Geni Supt, Kbaton. N. C
G.'A JONES . . - '
Freight Passenger Agent,
, Snow Eill, N. c
Cam. Morrison, Brock and
Polk to Make Addresses
In the County
CIAUDE KITCHIN COMING
Floor Leader May, Make
Two Speeches In Lenoir.
Cowper Called Out of the
County for Several Spell
binding; Efforts
The Democratic campaign manag
ers in Lenoir county will break loos
during 'the next three weeks with
thwr heaviest artillery. Tho timid,
lukewarm offensive that the G. O. P.
has baen waging will look like an
undersized Sunday school picnic com
pared with the battle at Verdun when
this counter is gotten under way.
Cameron Morrison, one of the long
range orators in the State campaign,
will come to Kinston next Friday
and s-.pjftk at It a. m. Saturday. Mr.
Morrison will reply to J. J. Parker,
Republican candidate for Attorney
General. Parker, it is intimated, has
been trying to offset Morrison in the
campaign. The "dope" he ha3 'jsed,
local Democrats say, has been calcu
lated to undermine the Cha"lotte
man's argument, but has failed to
make a dent. Morrison has promised
to come back with the best in his
shop in his speech here.
Walter E. Brock, Solicitor -of the
Thirteenth district, will be in Lenoir
onOctoter 10. The place of the
speakin-r ha3 not been decided upon.
Hon. Matt. Allen of Goldsboio will
make a series of 'speeches . in the
county sometime after the 8th.
Hon. Claude Kitchin, Floor Lsad-
er of the majority in the House of
Representatives, will be the biggest
figure in the local campaign. The
date 'of bis coming is undcteimit; .1:
he has so many calls to fill in the
State that it will be some time be
fore he can give Lenoir county a
date. Come he will, howewr, ;m .1
may speak both at a proposal coun
ty rally in LaGrange as well as in
Kinston.
Democratic County Chairman G.
V. Cowper will make an address at
Jacksonville cn October 2. He has
also been requested to speak ai points
in Wayne and Duplin counties, out
side the district.
EPIDEMIC OF INFANTILE
PARALYSIS HAS PASSED
New York, Sept. 22. The epidemic
of infantile paralysis in this city
was declared tonight by health de
partment officials to be at an end, and
as danger of a recurrence of the
plague is believed to have passed.
members of the department who have
been detained here all summer will
start on their vacations beginning to
morrow.
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Full Displays of Agricultur
al Products and Live
stock Essential A Lot
Up to Farmers In His Co
Operative Effort
Just one month remains before the
opening of the Ten-Count Fair here.
A great amount of work remains to
be done, and the officers of the asso
elation ara putting in hours daily
planning and soliciting exhibits. The
fair is intended to be the best, maybe
tho biggest, in the eastern part of
the State this fall.
Another appeal is made to farm.'ir
who comprise the bulk of the popula
t ion to which the b'g event caters, to
funih exhibits. Choicest specimens
cf cotton, tobacco, grain, fruits and
garden truck; finest hogs, cattle,
sheep, horses and mules nro wanted
lo make the agricultural and livestock
displays what they ;:houlil be. They
were surprisingly fine last y:ar, but
it is intended to make this year's
fair about three times as big es that
one, which was successful b'jyond any
expectation from viewpoints of at
tendance, profit and general rt.-.ults.
The chances are that a number of
p?cple from outside the territory will
attend the local fair this year, its
fame having spread abroad last fall.
These folks will want to see what the
section offers, an -I nothing should be
concealed from them. A little trou
ble, timidity or anything else with a
tendency to 1iamr;er progress should
not be allowed to keep the planters
from coming up with their exhibits.
AUSTRALIAN SENATE
PASSES CONSCRIPTION
(By the United Pr?ss)
Melbourne, Sept. 23. Tho Austra
l;an Senate today passed the con
sriipliori measure recently pas.icd by
the House. It i.i now to ba submit
;cd to a referendum.
INVESTIGATE POTASH
DISCOVERY IN CUBA
Washington, 'Sept. 2. The report
that grat quantities cf potash have
been found in Cuba is interesting
Washington ofiV-ils and will interest
cotton farmers of the South.
The Department of Commerce to
day cabled the American Consul Gen
eral at Havana to investigate a pub
lished report tnal millions of tons of
potash have been discovere d near
Motembo. on the Matanzas and San
ta Clara border, rrfth deposits aver
eging 25 per cent. pure.
The war has cut off the supply of
potash and farmers have had to do
without, it.
The Norfolk Southern Railroad is
building a platform 100 by 'M feet
on its Ci: eenville yard for the benefit
of tobacco shippers.
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Itetreating Before Allies French Aviators Engage Th
More Thand Half Hundred Aerial Tilts British Make
Another Considerable Cain In Direction of Bap'aunte
Airmen Make Successful Raid On Teuton Aerodrome
In Belgium Turks Send Picked Troops to Aaia Ger-man-Bulgars
Hard-Pressed In Dobrudja Ottomaiis
Replace Weary Fellow s-in-Arms in Trenches Rflsfc
Torpedo Boat Sinks Number of Vessels Flying" Cres
cent Flajf
(By the United Press) '
London, Sept. 23. The Roumanians are again on the
offensive against Field Marshal Von Mackensen' army of
Germans, Turks and Bulgars, after repulsing attacks in
Dobrudja. Berlin statements report that th'e Roumarn-
ans have attacked near the Danube, and southwest of a',
point where the Germans claimed a victory Thursday. '
Sofia reports say twenty thousand Roumanians have
attacked a Bulgarian wing, but were driven off both in
Transylvania and Macedonia. However, the Teutons an
nounce victories. The Germans have capture Vulcan
Pass, threatening Roumania with a fresh, invasion from '
;hc northwest. Berlin denied claims of Ailied"gains on,
the Somme front last night. Fighting on the Russian
front is slackening. " .
Roumanians Take Offensive.
London, Sept. 23. An unconfirmed wireless report ;
from Rome says the German-Bulgarians are, retreating
from Roumania. Fortree and Silistra, occupied .two
weeks ago by Von Mackensen, have been abandoned, :
Airmen Very Active.
Paris, Sept. 23. French aviators engaged in no iess,r
than fifty-six air battles yesterday, downing ten enemy
flyers, it is said officially. It was probably the most active
day of the war aerially.
British Tell Usual Story of Night's Work.
.London, Sept. 23. The British drove forwaronho
highway leading to Bapaume last night, General, Haig
reports. East of Courceliette a strongly fortified system
'of trenches was captured on a half-mile front,; consolidat
ing with those taken between Flers and Martinpuich.pn,
! he previous night. In the two nights, the British advanc
ed on a front of a mile and a half in the direction pi Ba
naume. The Germans emegred from trenches around
hiepval in a violent attack west of Mouquet Farm,: but
were driven back with heavy losses. ;'" . , t.
Airmen raided a German aerodrome at St. Denis, in'
Western Belgium. The attack was "highly successful,'
ays the Admiralty. ,
Turkish Shipping Sunk. T
Petrograd. Sept. 23 A Russian torpedo boat has'sunkr
three Turkish ships and several sailing vessels loading
with coal at Port Eregli, 120 miles east of Constantinople,.
it is officially said. .; 4 u -
Turks Helping in Dobrudja. ' t; '
London, Sept. 23. Large bodies of Turks are moving
northward through Bulgaria to join the Germans ). and
Bulgars now engaged in heavy fighting witlvthe Russi
ans in Dobrudja. The Turks are veterans of the Darda
nelles campaign. Several Turkish detachments have keen .
in action against Roumanians, replacing Bulgars shifted
o the Macedonian front. After several daysV. fierce"
lighting the troops in Dobrudja have settled down . to!.
trench warfare. i ' xi i'
WAR DEPARTMENT I
NOT SO SURE VILLA
WAS AT CHIHUAHUA
(By the United Press)
Washington. Sept. 23. The War
Department has instituted a quiet in
vestigation of the sources of infor.
mation on which General Bell, at El
Paso, bassd his recent report that
Villa appeared in person at the re
cent attack on Chihuahua City, dis
patches indicate that the informa
tion was wholly from persons who
are said to have gone to El Paso di
rect from Chihuahua after the at-
attack.
Secretary Baker today indicated
that lie thinks the accounts wero gar
bled, either unconsciously 6r pur
posely. He and members of tne gen
eral staff Aa not believe the Villis
Us were the only ones responsible.
There is no reason to credit Villa's
recrudescence, the War Department
says. It .has serious doubt that the
RAILROAD EXECUTIVES
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STUDYING ADAMSON IjlW,
IV
Cincinnati, Sept. 22.-j-H.:Jfroc-.."t
tc- of Richmond was elected v jrk- -president
of the Ameriqarf Inctvrto
of Kankin)? here today, j?: G-'Wa-l:am
of Lcs Angeles, being' chosen,
r esident. An address 1yj! Paul M.r
Warburg of the Fede?4l '..Reserve
I.'jard wv3 tho principal thing of in
er:5t on today's program.. '
EXPERT'S EYMNCfc w
IN THE TT SUIT
(By the United Press) '
Durham, Sept' 23. 6." B.' jrarra
bee. an alienist, testified that Mrs.
John W. Wyat young irt're of a'iar-.
nicr, who is suing Y. E. Smith, a
wealthy cotton man, -for oruninal as- .
saul in her home, is suffering: from
symptoms' of insanity, '
"Fox of the Sierras' is alive. T a r
jority of the officers, fcowerer, 1
lieve tie 4s a;; but ell
real factor in Mexico.
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