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VOL. XVIII. No. 92.
SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. O, MONDAY, OCTOBER Iff, 1916
FOUR PAGES TODAY
'PRICE tHO Cli-S
FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS
GERMANS MANAGE TO GREEKS WILL RAISE
GET ACROSS BORDER BIG ARMY TO HELP
TO ROUMANIAN SOIL ALLIES IN BALKAN'S
Violent Fighting Along the Venizelos Party Becomes a
Transylvania Frontier;
Counter Attacks
FRENCH ADVANCE IN WEST
Reality New Governm'i
On Crete Reported to
Have Been Recognized
By the French
(By the United Press) .
London .Oct. 16. The new Nation
Highway Ver- alist government on the Island of
Crete, established 'by (ExPremier Ve
nizelos, has been recognized by the
French consul, says an Athens dis
patch.
The "Venizelos party," favoring in
tervention in the war, was organized
and planned by Creek leaders fol
lowing a giant demonstration last
night. It is planned to enlist three
hundred thousand Greeks.
Take Up Positions On Im
portant
man Assaults On English
Gain Teutons Nothing
Severe Fighting
(By the United Press)
London, Oct 16. .The Teutons
have broken through Gymes Pass and
invaded Northwestern Roumania, ac
cording to Berlin dispatches. Severe
fighting has occurred on Roumanian
soil near th town of Palanak. The
Germans are attempting to drive
south along the TerguCona Railway,
to cut the main railway supplying
the Northern Roumanian armies. The
Roumanians are vigorouslycounter-
attacking along the whole Southern
Transylvania frontier. Southeast of
KronstadV the Roumanians have Hastings, Neb., Oct. 16. Hughes
wrested the initiative from the Ger- J blazed a trail of analysis of alleged
mans attempting the invasion. Fight-1 democratic shortcomings across Ne
ir.g in the region of Vulcan Pass ia I braska today. He chose as his prin
becoming more violent. The battle I cipai ammunition on his advance the
around the bend of the Czerna river I Adamson eight-hour law and the
in Macedonia, between the Bulgars "false prosperity" of the Underwood
and Serbs is still doubtful as to the tariff.
outcome.
HUGHES DWELLS ON
'FALSE PROSPERITY'
IN NEBRASKA TALKS
French Penetrating Eastward.
I'ar:", Oct. 16. The trench pene
trated Germans defenses in Sailly and
Saillisei, northeast of Combles, oc
cupying houses on the edge of the
J&paume-Peronne road, it ia official
ly stated. The Germans violently
countered and the battle continues,
British Repulse Attacks.
London, Oct. 16. Aided by liquid
fire and heavy cannonading, the Ger
mans launched an unusually heavy
attack against the Schwaben redoubt
north of Thiepval last night, but were
repulsed with heavy losses, General
Haig reports. South of Ancre the
Germans shelled British positions
heavily throughout the night. North
of Courcelette a bomb attack was
repulsed.
Petrograd Statement
Petrograd. Oct 16. The Teutons
have launched repeated counters in a
great battle raging north of Koryt-
mca, but were repelled with heavy
losses, it is said officially. Heavy
fighting is in progress along a wide
portion of both the Volhynian and
Galician fronts. An obstinate battle
continues north of Seborwa and
north of Stanislau. The enemy have
attacked fiercely in the Carpathians
in the region of Koroemezo and Kir
libaba, but were repulsed.
GERMANY WILL TORN
OUT MORE GUNS AND
SHELLS FOR TROOPS
GERM OF WAR MUST
BE DESTROYED WHEN
ALLIES QUIT FIELD
Can Be No Let-Up Unti
Germany Has Abandoned
Militarism and Austria
Ceases to Exist, Says Ital
ian Leader
(By the United Press)
Home, Oct. 16. Austria must be
destroyed as a State, and Germany
deprived of every and all thought of
dominating the world, before the
war can end, Signor iBissolati, Social
ist leader and soldier, and one of the
most powerful figures in the Italian
cabinet, today told the United Press-
To consent to peace now would be an
act of treason on the part of any of
the Allies, he declared.
'I am convinced that Lloyd
George's statement to the United
Press and Premier Asquith's words
to the House of iCommons express the
fir mresolve of all the Allies. Peace
must be real and lasting. The dead
ly germ of war must be destroyed.
AMERICA COULD NOT
HAVE SAVED ROGER
CASEMENT, HE SAYS
to
By CARL W. ACKERMAN,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Essen, Germany, Oct 16. Twenty
thousand New Yorkers this week
will join the seventy thousand al
ready employed in the great Krupp
gun works in the gigantic 'isk of sup
plying shells and guns for the Ger
man aries. This is one step inGer
many's renewed efforts to win the
war under the direction of Von Hin-
denburg. Many skilled workmen have
been recalled from the front to as
sist in the production of war sup
plies. The Krupp plants are also
growing much in room.
FRESHMAN DIES FROM
INFANTILE PARALYSIS
Princeton, N. J., Oct. 15. Eric
Brunnow, a freshman in Princeton
University, died of infantile paralysis
in the innrmary or tne university
today. He was 17 years old and is
believed to have contracted the dis
ease in Philadelphia.
CHARGED WITH TAKING
MONEY FROM TREASURY
(Special to The Free Press)
Washington, N. C, Oct 16. M.
Latham, a Treasury Department clerk
jail at Washington, D. C, charg-
J 'with the first robbery m the de
partment in many years, is from this
tfsee.. Latham is alleged to have
Men about 500 in unsigned notes.
Be would not give the name" of his
Aome town. He has a wife and one
uia v Washington. His mother
vesere. .
PREDICTS GOVERNMENT
OWNERSHIP TEN YEARS
Washington, Oct. 16. Uncle Sam
is going into the railroad business
within the next decade, according to
Benjamin C. Marsh, New York, ex
ecutive secretary of the real prepar
edness committee of the Intercolle
giate Socialist Society, an organiza
tion backed morally and financially
by Amos Pinchot.
'Every railroad in the United
States 252,000 miles or them," said
Mr. Marsh today, "will pass from
private ownership within ten years to
be operated in itl interest of the
public instead of the Interests of
privilege.
"The railroad capitalists, being hu-
fflElwood. .Neb, i. Oct 15. Ten men man jwish to get wine prices for
Were kilred and 1n AtW. rain water. It is -our mission to
T injured when a train on the Bur-1 squeeze all the water out of the
ungton,' iRailroei crashed into the roads before the government takes
Miht. caboose fa which ther ware them over." O,
'Wing twelve miles temst of here to- ' Declaring ultimate government
day. Five other rfnm. I Attention of all roads, inevitable, Mr.
Platform of the caboose jumped Marsh said "the real problem is te
" ""J.. One man in the caboose see that 4he properties are not un-
,npola was thrown clear of the wreck , loaded on the public at more than
eacaped kjury. V 'their actual value." - t" ; 1
Asbury Park, Oct. 1G. Replying
the claims of Mrs. Agnes New-
mann, sister or Koger Casement, tiiat
er broker's life might have been
saved if the Senate resolution had
been presented in time, Joseph Tu
multy, the President's secretary, to
lay declared that the British govern
ment had definitely assured the State
epartment it could not (rrant clem
ency, regardless of appeals from the
United States.
NORTH CAROLINA HAS GIVEN MORE THAN TWENTY-
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR: WILSON - MARSHALL
FUND; ALL DEMOCRATS ASKED tTO CONTRIBUTE
The Democratic National Campaign
Committee of North Carolina has
made Its first report, showing that
North Carolinians have contributed
$25,515.75 for the Wilson-Ouarshall
fund, besides some sums which have
not been reported by sub-committees,
Forsyth county has contributed near
ly twelve thousand dollars, heading
the list. Lenoir county has advanc
ed the rather conservative sum of $90.
The Democracy of the Nation is
striving its level hardest to re-elect
President Wilson and Vice-President
Marshall. The Republican hosts
boast of money unlimited. Much of
their financial backing comes from
sources concealed special interests'
donations. The rank and file of Dem
ocracy Is giving for the party's cause
the greatest cause that a party
ever had: the keeping of the Nation
at peace, the furtherance of the Na
tional happiness and prosperity that
have come tinder Wilson's adminis
tration. It is the "small fellow" who
is being appealed to by the Demo
cratic committee. He is asked to
take an interest and gjve what he
can. Every dollar helps: no one s do
nation is too small. The appeal is
to every Democrat in America.
The counties of the State have giv
en as follows:
(UN TO SPEAK CITY SELLS C0iT)S
TO DEMOCRATS HERE FOR -PAR; INTEIuI
TUESDAY AFTERN'QN MMLPREuIU:
Local Congressman Will Bel Toledo Concern Agreed to
Biggest Figure of Cam-
paign In Lenoir County I
East Kinston Hears Him
at Night
Take Over 'About $450,000
Worth Soon to1 6e Issued.
Will Be In Two Classes,
It Is Stated
Tffl MEN KILLED IN
, NEBRASKA COLLISION
BUSINESS MEN OF THE
NATION ARE NOT PACK
OF FOOLS, SAYS CREEL
By GEORGE CREEI,,
(Written for the Democratic
National Commitfc'e)
As never before, the United States
is prosperous.
It is "loaded dice" business that
Woodrow Wilson has hunt, not legi
timate business. In view of facts,
the cry that "business men are
against Wilson" is tantamount to an
accusation that (the business men 01
the United States are a pack of fools.
We weathered the crash of the Eu
ropean war without a panic such as
cursed the country in 1903 and 1907.
In the last three years, manufac
tured products have increased by ?9,
400,000,000 and less than one per
cent of this vast total is lurnisnea
by munitions exports.
There are no more breadlines; there
is no unemployment; agriculture has
boert given new life and industry is
driving forward with a new and tre
mendous energy. The wealth of the
nation has increased $41,000,000,000
under Wood row Wilson.
The answer is not to be found save
n the financial, economic and indus
trial reform effected by the Man in
the White House. He drove through
the Federal Reserve bill thart ended
the selfish rule of Wall Street, and
that in the face of Republican pro
phecies of "ruin and disaster."
This law has lifted the fear of pan
ics; it has ended usury; it has per
mitted government funds for the
movement of crops; it has made cred
it pccessible to legitimate enterprise.
The Rural' Credits law is the Mag
na iCharta for the f arnter; the Clay
ton law took much of the hate out ol
industry; the Seamen's law has put
American sailors back on the nigh
ieas; the Federal Trade Commission
is waging a winning fight against
extortion and monopoly; the tarif
commission has taken a question ot
vital importance eat of politics, ana
the child labor law, the eight hour
day and the Workmen's Compensa
licn has energized industry as well
as humanized K. . ' 1
Alamance .
Alexander .
Anson . .
Beaufort . .
E'iadcn . .
Buncombe .
Burke
Caldwell .
Catawba . .
Cherokee . .
Chowan . .
Cleveland . .
Columbus .
Craven . . .
Cumberland
Davidson . .
Duplin . .
Durham . .
Edgecombe
Forsyth . . .
Franklin . .
Gaston . . .
Graham . .
Granville
Guilford ..
Halifax . .
Harnett . .
Iredell .. ..
ohnson
Lee
LENOIR ..
Madison . .
Martin . . .
McDowell . .
.$
10.00
25.00
70.00
100.00
30.50
205.00
60.50
102.00
156.00
5.00
15.00
G5.00
25.00
125.00
400.00
136.00
66.25
800.00
161.50
11,650.00
58.00
20.00
25.00
65.00
1,536.50
113.50
12.50
520.00
148.50
25.00
90.00
18.00
10.00
20.00
Mecklenburg
Montgomery
Moore . .
Nash
210.00
15.00
15.00
241.00
New Hanover 3,205.75
Orange .. 12500
Pasquotank 50.00
Pender 15.00
Polk 33.00
Randolph 150.00
Richmond 177.00
Robeson . . 544 00
Rockingham 60.00
Rowan 245.00
Rutherford 15.00
Sampson 50.00
Scotland' 77.00
Stanley 20.00
Surry 25.00
Transylvania .. ,. 20.00
Union 80.00
Vance 85.00
Wake .. 1,142.50
Warren Ifl.CO
Wayne .. 38.0L
Wilkes 40.1?
Wilson 153.75
Yadkin 20.0ff
Remitted through the Charlotte
Observer 1,100.00
From North Carolinians out
aide of the State 617.60
Total ,$25,515.75
DECORATE FOR FAIR
THIS WEEK; LOT OF
COLOR WILL GO OP
Already decorations are being put
up for the fair. Professional decor
ators will bo available all the week
in sufficient number to put the frills
on all the business buildings and
dress up the principal streets.
The Fair Association, the Chamber
of Commerce and the city officials
are encouraging inuiviuuais to goi
gay for the occasion. Fair week has
become the big time of the year in
Kinston. The bigger the display of
bunting, the better the impression on
the visitor. Kinston never does any
thing by halves.
About 85 bales of cotton were sold
here Monday, at prices ranging from
16 3-4 to 17 cents.
New York futures quotations were:
Open 2:20
January 17.55 17.73
March 17.67 17.81
May 17.79 17.92
July 17.86
October 17.35 17.50
December 17.62 17.78
SPEEDERS FINED IN
RECORDER'S COURT
; A number of alleged speeders war
before the Recorder Monday morn
ing, together with defendants in oth
er small cases. Disposition of the
speeding cases was as follows: Ed,
Moye, 5; Albert Patterson, 10 .ot
30 days; J. M. Manning, $5; Char
lie Hatch, $5; Isaac Price, $10; Ja.
Mailer, $; Tobe Jones, $5 (appealed);
costs, of course, accompanying in
fines. : . V.. ; ,
AH of the above arrests av two
were made by PatrolmaiW. S. Ham
ilton. i ' --' - ;
RUSSIA AND JAPAN
RAISE A HOWL OVER
CHINA CONCESSIONS
(By the United Press)
Washington, Oct 16. The Chinese
embassy today officially confirmed re
ports of Japanese and Russian pro-'
tests against railway ancTcanal con
cessions made by the Chinese govern
ment to American corporations. It
is believed the matter will be laid be
fore the State Department.
Floor Leader Claude Kitchin will
speak at the Courthouse Tuesday af-J
ternoon at 2 o'clock. He will speak
at Sparrow's atore in East Kinston,!
Tuesday night at 7:30.
Mr. 'Kitchin's appearance here will
bring Democrats flocking from every
nart of Lenoir county. He will be
-the most prominent figure to come
here .this campaign. Recently he
buried a small-sized hatchet and the
President is having no more consci
entious champion now than the Sec
ond district's Representative. Con
gressman Kitchin is about as well-
informed as any man in Congress.
City .Council Saturday night com
pleted a deal with Sidney Spttsor 4
Co., Toledo, O., bond broker,: where
by the Ohio firm wHl take h bends
to be issued by the municipality about
die end of this year In 'exchang for
par, accrued interest and a $200 pre
mium. The transaction was r con
lummated through J. J. George of
Cherryville, N. C for the purchas
ars. The deal was ,in every way
satisfactory one for the city, say of
The bonds will approximate-1450
000, to cover street, sewerage and
He is about the most-feared man in I lighting improvements, . About S50,-
the South Atlantic States; the G. 0. 1 000 will be in , Special Assessment
P. has its most formidable opponent I :onds. to run through ten years.
in him, according to soma opinions, j This sum the individuals who! shared
Mr. Kitchin is a convincing speak- j the paving expense' with the city will
er, splendidly equipped, ana is popu-i repay in ten annual installments, me
lar in this county.
SOLDIERS HAVE FINE
OPINION CAMP GLENN
Wouldn't Swap It For Whole State
of Texas Major-General Clemen
Calls Tarheels Minute-Men; Odious
Comparison Human Interest Stuf
From the Border ,
other 200,OOflTwUl be m Public Im
movement brads 'to be redeemed' fi
10 yeirt. 'fipitker-'ft Co. agresJ to
pot up a guarantee check for 5,000.
SHADOW tAVN HEARS
ill)
ROUSE AND ALLEN .
ADMITTED TO BAR
Kinston has two new barristers.
They are Messrs. Robert Harper
Rouse, son of Hon. N. J. Rouse, and
Reynold Tatum Allen, son of Judge
and Mrs. Oliver H. Allen. The
young men were formally presented
to the Superior Court here Monday
morning and granted license by Judge
W. A. Devin, presiding. Mayor
Fred. Sutton presented Mr. Rouse,
and State Senator W. D. Pollock In
troduced Mr. Allen. High, tribute
was paid to the young men and their
fathers, who are distinguished mem
bers of the Kinston Bar.
iBoth Messrs. Rouse and Allen were
granted State license s few weeks
ago after passing most satisfactory
examinations, and their friends - in
Kinston are particularly pleased that
they will settle here rid practice
their profession at home and in their
home State.
SMALLER SALES ON '
?-: THE TOBACCO MARKET
Probably not more than 100.000
pounds of tobacco wat sold here on
Monday. Two warehouse sold lees
than 20,000 pounds and another re
ported Just 20,000. Prices) were very
good. . .;',V v - ,
Excerpts from a personal Iettei
from the same source as The Fret
Press' regular E3 Paso letters:
"We" (the Second C. Infantry)
"have started things going for a rep
The band played a concent for Maj.-
Gen. Clement, commanding the dm
sion" (North Carolina
vania troops, about
respectively). "He made us a speech
Compared the Tarheels with the Min
ute-men. Why he should class uf
with those Massachusetts Yankees, of
all people in the world, I can't ge
through me. However, ho meant
well.
"Kenneth R looked me up? Hei
cooking in Bat. B, 2nd Pa. ArHy-
'd forgotten that fancy Beaufort
county product. Speaking of cooks,
with their sergeant's pay and pri
vate's rating, they're some important
ginks just as much so as a marine
stable sergeant Took dinner witl
him today. They feed better than
the average hotel. The JPennsyite
are a swell-looking lot of men; but
then, we are not ugly, come to think
of it.
PRESIDMI
Ml
I a m ' ". ' . m a .v ' ' .
I wore sucn statements as
Came From , Underwood
and Lovett Expected
una and Pennsyi w Summer Vyhitfi )Souse a
3,000 and 15,000. ' - !, M .
made us a speech ' Castle of Optimism '
, By RQB&tT J. BENDER,
(Untied Press StaflT Correspondent)
Long. Branch, Oct A6--Sttcmeni
ly F. O. Underwood, president of tha
Erie Railroad, land Judge Lovett
iiairman of the. Board of the Union
Pacic, endorsing . Preeideot Wilson
md disputing claims that the Presi
dent acted with Apolitical ezpedien
:y" when he forced the passage ot
the Adamson eight-hour bm, were
the best hews that has struck Shad-
rw Lawn in eome days, the Presi
tent's political lieutenants today d
dared. t 'm -
They anticipate aimllar action from
ERIE PRESIDENT IS
WILSON UM, STATES
ither railroad , , magnates. Shadow
"Sand storms; living in pups for a I Lawn is very optimlstio these days. .
wniie; raaiers, prawie aogs, nomeo
toads and 40 other nuisances every
Pa. company has a repulsive thing
of some sort for a pet made life
miserable for us for a time. Now wt
like it better. Still, most of us would
not swap Camp Glenn for the whole I Chicago. 111.,. Oct. 15-ln an an
d d State of Texas. I thorized interview given out let to-
"Sergt; Rufe, has -been disrated I day, F. O. Underwood, president af
all the way to buck. Drunk. Hell the Erie JKailroad, declared unequtvo
come back, though, lust as he has alcally in favor of the re-election
hundred and odd timet previously. I President Wilaon.:. 'Mr. Underwood
Fred, is making good. Too remem-1 id he fully endorsed the recent ap-
ber, he was converted by one of your I proval of the President's policies by,
local preachers some ime ago." I Judge Samuel "Lovett, chafarman.'ej;
the Board of the Union Pacific RaU-,
IRRIGATION MEN SEE
road.'
TROOPS' WAR GAMES FOK , KILLED WHEN
CAR STRUCK AUTy
El Paso, Texas, Oct. 16. Delegates
to the Twenty-third International Ir
rigation Congress today witnessed! . Oberlin, Ohio,. Oct.
the special maneuvers of the 60,0001 Hughes, Jr wealthy stock breeder.
regular troops and national guards- his wife, one daughter and Ijt.
men who have been mobilized here I George Hollingjworth, a nelgVjcf,
since early summer. were killed and second dsug'.ter
' Today these force, the largest I severely injured this evening t -n
number of American sold vers gatner- an mterurban car Struck tne aub rno
ed together in one place since the bile in which the party was) eroe ' j
conclusion' of the Civil War, began the car tracks in the front lawn'cf
their week's program of war games I the Hughes country home. The 1 1
and tne working out or actual war gine ox tn auiomoDUe xauea v i
probrems on a large scale. Delegates the machine was on the track a? 1 a
and visitors thronged streets and via- sharp curve prevented a' view of "
ited the camps of (the soldiers, 'approaching car.