North Carolina Newspapers

"e.O . IVcc 5 ' VjJ' ...T i ". .. .. ii in 4 M FIr Tonight VOL. XVHI.r-N(V82 x FJRST EDITION I kinstonn. c; Monday, octobeii 2, 1916 FOUR PAGES TODAY TRICE TWO. CENTS ;h OTTON TO SIXTREN ! OETiiRN WMm IIATOR CLARKE OF IjONITQRSSISTII 111 ER TO BO; OHI 01ES AS ALLIES ' IN r BATTLE STROKE RAGlNe At PEllOriNE H N.-Tfe88' EXCHANGE A. C. L RAHJE&OAD mi fjTx ilomc Paper I TUJTtUy ilB L.-., I w m w "t m m ... VY KAIUiU V tit ENuLAKD NOTHING MOl REPitiCANS COSTS TOE GERMANS SOLD IVEST ARKANSAS to WD BREAK PEACE ANOTHER GREAT ZEP NO JOT VERY MO WuFr? at Hughcr Ques tioo, "What, Would You Do?" dAocrats LIKE PLAN Of "Going After" G. 0. P. Candidate President In- , , XT ,. tends -Prove to Nation That It Is " Well EnOUgh UII INOW By KOBT. J. BENDER, v fUnid Press Staff Correspondent) Asbury Park, N. J., Oct 2. Pros 7 .ident Wilson is determined to "smoke ' out" Charles Evam? Hughes on what ' the Democrats have now defined as the real issue of the campaign. When the President starts west tomorrow to speak at Omaha Thursday even ing, ho ..will complete his plana to force Hughes, if possible, into a thor- gh discussion of what changes he ,uld make in the foreign and busi- ou would , ncss policies of the United States. Mr. Wilson will continue to use th taunting sarcasm, that he used in his T address Saturday in challenging his opponent to divulge how far the ' "policy of peace" would be altered in the event of a "Republican victory. There may be no direct questions. no indulgences in personalities, but the questions and challenges will be found in the President's speeches as I in the last one, when he indicated that wat would be a Republican meth-1 cd in the foreign policy. , v Now confidence ds apparent with the knowledge that the President is "going "after" hughes. He will attempt to show that a thange of administration would en- peace. BIG COMPANY WILL CHINESE RELATIONS Washington, October 1. Organize. tion or the Chinese-American (Ex change Company, a shipping corpora tion which proposes to inaugurate a general mercantile mH T,0to0n China and American ports on the pa- eifiV. finlf ar.. a I , wuuku xxt.ailtiu n aa announcedhere tonight It is headed by r., Clarence J. Owens,, manai- ing director.'1 of .' Uu sn..J.r: rl mercial Congress, 'and. is understood to have the active backing of that or ganization, i ' Establishment of regular sailing is contemplated (between Norfolk, Char leston, Wilmington, Savannah, Jack- aonville, Mobile and Galveston, on the east coast, and San Pedro, Los An- gelea.': Sun "; TVanfli., trui tti-j I ' . "v. a uauu, connection will be made, with another fleet plying to and from the Chinese treaty porta. , A bond issufl of ?1,000,- uuu will be issued soon. . "' '-'t- -' S TURKS ASIA MINOR nie, Oct. 2. Keports that .Greece I oout to declare war have led 0 th wholesale massacre of Greeks n Atit Minor by Turka, the Greek Nation there has been advised. "" r Snooting David and Flovd fiov?!n. y wn, and Clyde Dunn, negroes, -fer" red,-in tafl : of 150. hv . ilea pj j ' 1 tcc" 1 ?t- -.1 : ""ertjoon, for complied i , " , " V w VV11 'ty a shooting . . ffy nr 3XK3 the . "". ieS. - WHOLESALE OE; GREEKS-BY THE Monster Cut Off from Fleet of Jen Sunday Night One of the Largest in World No Casualties Reported (By the United Press) London, Oct. 2.- Zoppolin down ed north of London last night was one of the now type of superdirigi Mes, tha largest air mongers in the I world, Lord rench, commander thpW rpes. t. Jinnnnnr of today announced v , Ten eppolins crossed tho east coast in last night a raid, , Uestdes the one I destroyed, another tried to raid Lon don but was driven off. "There wore no casualties and no damage, THE LONE STAR COLfNTRY ANB TAKES ON HOPE ... Soldiers Get III Better Hu- mor as They Progress Mississippi Enthusiastic. Columbus Wasn't Any Happier (Special to The Free Tress) On Board First Train Carrying Second North Carolina Infantry to Border, Sept. 29. (Delayed in Tran- ;.. ''' , ,,,, t .. , name stir up in the hearts of Ameri cans! Grand old Commonwealth. Mother of Bailey and Colquitt, land cf the single star (there's one gink aheard here who has been told that because of , its geographical location only a single star ever shines on Texas, all the rest being shoved over too far on the map, and believes it) and breeding place of trouble. What We heard of it at Jackson m;:kcs us take still mora stock in Sherman, who is reported to have said that if he owned Texas and a certain other celebrated locality ho would lease out Texas and live in . It's no nearly as go!od a place as Goldsboro, they said, so th3 reader can irmiprinc how blooming had it is! The State is larger than Rhode Island!!! Passing through 'Mississippi today was another very interesting cxperi- ence' W didn,t sce a whito porson until we cot to Jr.ckson, wher2 we passed throuen the statc mc'l!,iza 150,1 camP- Ta so,diors thcre lonk up when we shouted greetings. Somo even smiled! It is assumed that whsn the second train came through they arose and brushed them selves, and that by the timo the third whistled hello they caught on to what wao happening. ' El iPaso will he discovered some time Saturday night or Sunday. Old Kit Columbus didn't relish his little ; find any more than w!U this panp: a a sint of dry land' (Litera,1y' dry land.) They have been walking on dno another's ears now since Tues day morning. The surprising part of it all is this fact that is dawn ing upon us the longer we ride and the more abuse we subject om an other to, the better disposed wo are. Wednesday, to bite a man in the leg would havebeen dangerous business; now you can even ask him for the loan of a sock without any serious disturbance resulting. Arriving '; af EI Paso, we will -be corralled and driven to Fort Bliss, which is some- where near San Francisco from the gensral ideai There. we are to- be herded with a- lot of regulars, guards men from all States and South Caro lina militia. , -, . Mailed. The wire steep, even considering ance of the story. rate's- too the import- umutDauaiu w t una. Mrs. Ffetcher EiizeH, treasurer for the Queen Street Alethodist Philathea Flood Sufforers' fund for the class. 'Oh, We'll Re-enlist-Likc Hl We WiirGuard Troops Go About It Very Cheerfully, However That's Best With the North Carolina troops now about all on tho border, Kins- ton mothers and fathers, wives ami other -olr Lives nf soldiers will ha in terested in learnin't how their rrla- live; in uniform are living. Tho sto- ry Ut w b from Webb Miller, a staff correspondent of the United Pre?.i, who ir located at El Pai-o, wncre tne Ac.-tn (.'arohra gnanism-m are stationed: It is not a vacation this job of )ein!t a National Gnavdsman down r.n the isordir.' No matter what t'r. occiipat'on m civ:I lite, tne civilian soldiers are now wi!:im harder than hey ever worked liff re. And tliey are doing it chferfn'ly. "II:re is a puard-m-ui's day, if ha belongs to the cavalry or artillery. The infantry varies lit ft except thur? is no bor.-.s te care for." At .r:"0 the "gusr.lie" rolls Pi'' f his cot if he has one to the shrilling cf the hurtle. After dr:s;: ; 1 utc inr ;,rd .vi.hing, he has thi-ty m'n cs to feed, water and curry his horse and "police streets. Policing i name for the wo !; the 'whitewings.' "At ( o'clock th meat popular r.r'w the mesa, call i r " tho s only done company a sweeter home hy burrler blows the on "the boivler breakfar.t. Then more policinjr nid .tidying up of tents. About 7 o'clock attention is turned to the R'aVcs-omd further po licing ensues fr-r an hour. "By this tim" tl:3 nun is Waxing and the t?m.perature is tlim! I:nrr. Th(5 real work of -the day betins. From 3 until noon th? practical work of makinjr citizens into soldier-5 ?ops on out on the naked sun-bake. 1 plains back of the hugo encampment. Thss drilling covers every possible activ ity of a soldier. It is man's work Every minute of it. "Sometimes the ntforning drills are replaced hy a six-mile hike out into the d.'.srrt. A train the horros have to bo brir.-hed, watered and fed be fore dir.nc.-. The. noon mess-call sounds at 1-' o ol'.kcc "From 1 to 3 o'clock is fatigue or the rest period. It la utilize! for officers and i:on-commis:do!rd offi cers school and to instruct the men in -r.ome the fir thr carfe of guns and equipment. o'clock there i--"It is tho h'.i Fresh frum f:---' m.03t galling v.-. "The aftcrp'. poTij!e f ' 1'" mother drill rcviod. '.est part cf the .'Jay. ry and otlie' this i3 rk on the m--n. m drill psrio.l is rrs sonjt entitled "Oh, we'll re-fn!ist like hell, w; will,' a favorite of the civilian-soldiers in thsir tents at night. "About 4:30 'sta'ol-s' sounds and the horses must he cared for .oiraiii. Tho evonir.it meal comes at i:ot). Af ter that the:e is another short drill at 'retreat' an. I an inspection, rnd 'cuardie" has nothing to do untd 7 , morrow eyt P tic in ii:s tent tiy ii o'clock." RAILROAD SERVICE SUSPENDED PARAGUAY (By the United Press) Asuncion, Paraguay, Oct. 2. The Paraguayan railways have complete ly suspended operations hecause of serious disorders resulting f rom a strike. Strikers attacked the brains and burned bridges. NOT A GREAT DEE of veed on nmn Less than 100,000 pounds of tobac- eo was sold here Monday. Estimates from all the warehouses at 1:45 p.m. totalled 9(5,000 pounds, (and these es timates may have been from 5,000 to 10,000 pounds too high. Prices, how ever, were excellent.- ueiter man a 9-cent average was reported. ; i Crop 6 Per Cent. Normal, Sq'j's Govt. Report; 11,600,037 Bales DESTRUCTION BY WEEVIL Crop In Middle States of tho Belt. rar Short Turmoil When Announcement Wrirt Made 136.3 Lbs. Per Ac'ra-In Belt , Ty U:e V: ilt-'d i'ress) Ru:-l rcpor t : e I'm ,r.;-. - (.' lay cf ths cj:;on COM.'i$'ll te::ut per cent, ncrmvl ; 'list 25, and (-'iJ I'.dZ. Theio bus I destruction by against in Sep- 'iLC'l Hll- the boll n.:: on A tcmbe.r of i-c-..'cnt; Vi."v;l. Jh)B ondnton forecasts a yield J)?!' aero of 1V.3 pound':?, end a total production of 11,600,037 lv.iles agrtirut ll,101,sH:: In 1015 tv.-o ye.:-; Tho enndiiic. in Virginia is R- per cn:t. .-."jvr-'.t t:0 !r..-it yr:r; in North Carolina fit po." cont. njtai'-'st 70; in onth Carolina' "'5 agai'ist CI. The yir-l-l j-.cr acre '" pottnda in Virtcinia U tJ.'M arain t in North 'Caroli na 2M aiunjf ?n'i, in -S-rjih C.ro!'n-i 175 . ntt-iinst 215. Cotton ginned pnor to Sapton'bc was j.i.i'i i.iiiNi Mara against i,vm 001) in 1915. Turmoil In New York. Nsw York, Oct. 2. Cotton jumped from CO.toTiO p,i:nts on the local ex-j chnn.fte today following publication Af tho rtovornmcnt rr-pn-t uhowing the grerit damaire to the Jhddie Ktatn erc.p. iJccem-ocr sold for if. .i-;c. The eKchsnte was in a fJvxnoil sit ics scared to new hi;rh levels. t HFii! TOSBIY FIT BF OFSI -ci t.; 5 to R? At? ion 77 V "ed P! II.. .: , ni en -.hot h'r h-vt ''I h irer. r.'-oyt ;df in the ii bone" iiT T r-ear: 1 - ma l.v 11') W. ir no sirc't, - en- day mo ar.d laid for feme time before Dr. A i phy--'ciap was secured. When L. Hyatt arrived at the placo abou tic h' found Ha n;t wouad, :1! with a apparent- U'tngcrouft-ioo ta a rc-Yoiv buHet of in the vic'nity of the bullet lodged in the ca the rip;ht eye. Hassel! to the Parrott hospital, temple. Tne vity b Vr, 1 was hurried and there is that be will live. lie may l.;o his right eye in th? evcnfrthat he recovers. Ho was conscious Monday morning. ' The house in which the attempt to suicide occurred is in the segregated pect'on. No woman is thought to have been involved, however. Has sell and two other men are said to have gone into.- the house. ; Ilassoll had been drinking for several, days, according to a; physician, and was possibly impelled iy despondency in duced ehy Intoxication to grab tip the revolver,, said to have been the prop erty f one of the other, men,- and Kboot himself. ;' ' - i-, Tha police believe tho raicide the ory arid no arrest has heen male. . Mrs. T. ".Lee is making Bhort visit in Ayden. ,- " I Mr. Albert Darmnn . spent, ; Fri day at Washington. Ugly Wreck Near City Sat urday Afternoon Resulted Only In Slight Injury 4o One Persert Box Cars Used - Trafltc h again normal on the At lanlic Coast Lsiiti llailroad into this city nf. r K,ityrday aftenioon'a wreck at a tr; stla.three miles out, when the tcr.'; n,l mail ccad) of .No. 73. a train, went down a 10-font i-.; ' r '. :U. C. A. McCoy, tho 7-:-:! e' , was the only person hurt, ; with minor injuries. Thf n r -.-ed ups'da down in tho cut, r.-i : nail car landed- on it s;.h. r. (.'. A. liivts Was fl'.Tv. co:diH)HS nud it;o Iff and a veteran conduc- j. -s. Hnrr, wers in charge of 'the (.:ie" of the wreck is still un :rm;m d. m far aa the local office tb: A. C. h., ; ;uf.;..nul. An in vttbm is to ho mack by tho rail- 'a.sser.tfrs wers h:ulcd from and lh po;nt where tho wreck occur- in 'wx car's. A wreckihjr" trtiin : sent frori Uoeliy Mount to clear i ara tne oamago;! cars :r J i the ?!.nps there for repairs i ;" - e y i. ? " 7 t tr ' 1! a ? 5 ' : 511 fr'H Ii H i.' t J B m i'?t!?-3. lieueves I? izh- War 'Scwctary's' Re statement Was a 'ng io Washinfftc-n r.,-w7- rfp (l!y the United I'ress) Koine. :o Ge.m ii'i-.v..; . by Cioi Kept. 30. "A proper rrply : oy in view of Voii l.tlunau s speech," says a comment nale D'ltalia, . was Lloyd- pronouncement that E;i." Una is prepared to carry too war to. a knockout." The Italian press eo i'iusia.' -ticaliy approve! tha dec'.na-ti--a an! interpreted it as a special warning to tho United States not to make peace overtures at the present ri '. I'; is thought p'.saibla that the Yarning was in.rpinsj by reports that Ambas. a i':r Cera; d is carrying to W:u-hin:t'On :i request from Germany that President Witeon sound out the l.fdlittoifnts on peace. It is believe..! rdeo that Lloyd-Gcorg3 had the Vat ican in mind. t. l! -'Jt cr u ir.r INTERESTS MEXICO Commission Hears Com plaint at Resumption of Sessions Now a t Atlan tic City $ieo,Gco,ooo In v terested, Said Atlantic " City. Oct A protest arjaJnat tha treatment of American mirrrnf interests In Mexico was made before' the Mexican-American peace conwnisaion at the resumption of to day's sessions here,' after a week's adjournment, from N;w London. -! P.epresentatives of a hundred mil lion dollars in irrvestracnts in Mexico protested. - 1 v . Mr. J. S. May is spending short time at Gri'ion. Suffered Attack of Apo plexy Friday Ircsiden Pro TeiTjpore of Senate Since Democrats Caincd Control There Lirtl Kock, Aik., Oct. l.-Sunatoi Jamrs P. Clark of Arkansas, pros) ic-i.it. pro tom-poro of tho United Ktntx Sonate,. died at his home heiv at 1 o'clock ibis afternoon. Senator Clarke suffered a st'oko of apoplexy Friday ind. never regained conscious !'. New of hia death came aa shock, as it was not frtmorally known i:rt;l t'-dr.y I hat bis rendition was so rions. ;-."M?or Mi'-.-kt was orn in ihzoo 'e. M;;h., Alio-. IS, 1854. Ho was cdacsled in tho-whools of his nativo F'eite and in JS7S graduated from th law .department of the University of Virginia. He besran tho practice of law' in Tlelena, Ark., in IS7P: he served several terms in the Arkansas Lee-iidaturo, arid kter was elected at torney general 'of the State anj Gov ernor. In 1.003 he was elected Unit od .States s.o.nator and re-elected lust yttir fcr his third term. His present totnv a United States S?tiator would have cyr.ired March 4, 1021. WnohLifftcn, D. C Oct. 1. Sear. tor v..!a:se na.i jieon presulunt pro tempore of the Senate sinee the Dem ocratic party pained control in 1315 He was chosen by the party caucus to mceeed tho lato Senator Frye cf Maine, ard wr.s te-elcHed to -e tha "lie-" ;n tha Sixy-fourth Congress, niTfj deieTi7)!iid cpposi')ti baser! oi reri'f.tional revolt nsramst tlia iiViifctrdiinti ship purchase bill in he r,ro!eu Congress. iffli mm ON A LOVE CRUpDI: TO HUHF h' I'J kSWULi III U j a. s iifiri 'f i nu m . Cored to Upstate Town to Vjsit"-. Orphans Dined With Little Oaes A Hap py Day . ,J Forty mensbers . of Kinslon Lodjrs No, (Vfi, Knijrhts of Pythias, Sunday motored to Clayton, where the Statu orphanai're- of the order k located. The Knights mttde the trip, over good reads frr nea-ily the entire distance, 'n -iht or ten cars, leaving hero 'be. 'iweca 7 and S a. m and arriving at Clayton about 11. The return was mad late in the afternoon, .arriving in Kinsloi! about 7. Tho -Kinstonians took with them big (juantities of barbecued pigs, ice cream find cake, etc. They dined in the horr.3 with the about 40 young stcfa who are tha order's charges there. The l;nt!er was a surprising ly happy affair, with about one fos ter parent to every kiddio at the board. Dr. C, P.. McNairy'' asked the bl.vsinit. Major W' T. Hollo w:il of Ci.ldsboro, Grand "Keeper of Kccords and Seals, was picked up on the way and was a greatly .pleaacd Stuebt. , ..... After the dinner the autos were all filled with children and a tour of the town was ma.lo for an hour. There was plehty of room and no child had to be left out. This was one of the mo-t enjoyable features of the pil-g-inuga of love. " , , Tho Pythian homo was provided for. at a grand lodge meeting at Han dcrsonville in 1903. It opened with only five or six children. J The town of Clayton gave the orphanage - the ground and a substantial cash dona tion." About $30,000 or f 35,000 is in vested in the institution. It has ' a farm, containing 180 acres, on which good crops have besn producea this year, , Mr. C. W. Pender Is . the superintendent. : Ills wlfa lives at the homo wi'-b him, ar.d they arc well Ironclads Corner Up Canala Seventy 3IUcsLFroia.Sea . to SheU St.-'Qiiit ENCIRCLING CONTCiUES Anfflo-FrencTi ' Gradually'. , . i , ','., .. ,- ' - Tightening Lines About 13 iff Objective Point' of : . . This . Year's- Offensive, ,It Is Stated , ; ' 1 By HENRW WOOD, (United Press Staff Correspondent) . . 'i - r .With the Frensh Armies " Btffori Peronne, Oct." 2. Naval forces. Jiavo joined the Allies here irf the ,. great land battle along the Somme. - Iron clad monitors utiliing France's mag-. nifi.cei)t network .of , capals along; the Somme are participating, daily..h)l tho bombardment of St. Quentii),, seventy miles from the sea. . ' - St Quentin domiinates Pcronns - from the East Tha- key position is being otesdily ' encircled bytha French, in the' am maanor as was Com.ble- , MONDAY'S DOCKET IN j POLICE XOljRT;QUltE HEAVY; GMIBLERSyETC Kecordeii.T,, C, Wpotcn Jjad, a Jivs- iy i littls ,sc3sioi of the! Police Court Mohday morning. , ', TVilllam Walker,''' Bob Dawson and . fiihn GUI, negroes arrested hy Chtyf Skinner and Policeman G-eorg9 Rouse n a gambling raid Sunday,' wprtf fin- d . $5 and cost ach.t f '"s a "M-arion" Parkftf, -diaorderliness . and -'breakJagf -ai nitary ordinance, W!s ftned. $rj,.ad.lipiosVi..Jt .Lonnie Whit(e, drunk, flned 5 and costs,,, ' , '- , . Johnnie 'Shcpard ws I found not ' guilly of jumping a board bill. Blount Arthur plead guilty to spelling. charge, "and1 was fined $5 . and costs. . : Maude Allah, chargd.-"wRli...'irtatt mg, wiio was to havo,eDtriexii;wiH Instead bn given, a bearing by, Jury' -m Wednesday.,, ' , , COTrOKlWBKferSAYS LaGrange haa thp.jbesjt cotton, mav t In East Carolina, according -1 to ; County, Corn,nii.ssjqnTp.,Wti,W'ood . her Monday. Mr.. Wood "boasts 'that sales have be?n very Tieavy and, that orices have been higher'-than in most any other towp in the sectioWiT "Hav ing no statistics to offer, fiartes that ' Saturday the ona weigher? on the market there was. o busy that lis id not have time to get bis dinner, and was on bis job all, day long. There are nearly a thousand bales tacked up on the yard became the ail road cannot' furnish the cars to- haul the cotton away, he states. loved by the children." The institu tion has a big future, it is believed. Kinston -Lodge 'No. 6 has beeav very liberal In appropriations for the home. It furnished a roara . tn the dormitory; on one .occasion ' it presented a milk cow,' and annually it has made large cash donations. Tho "pilgrimage of love" will probably become an' annual affair. Kinston has no orphan at the home. . , ' Representative men comprise ths membership of the local lodge. Among those who went on the trip were Mayor. Sutton. Sheriff Taylor, Mr.'jL. ..J. Mewborne, Mr. T. V. Moselsy, l)r., McNairy, a very versa tile person who added much to the success of the occasion end made the only speech of the occasion, limiting that to about ten minutes' duration, and others. ' A sacred concert given by ths chil dren in the chapel tfurirj tho ' na:n was much enjoyed.