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VOL. XVIIL-No. 93 ,
FIRST EDITION,. QKS1ONJf CnTyE?D AY, OCTOBER 17, 1916
FOUR PAGES TODAY
TEDDY TAKES THAI
SAYS ALLIES NEVER
OSBORNE BELIEVES
GERMANS AT'EMPT'G ROFRANO: MAY GO TO
ARIZONA, GREATEST
WILL BREAK GERMAN iTHEREIS NO HUffiMRIVEii WEDGE CHAIR OMDENCE
OF FIGHTING SHIPS,
DEMOCRATIC RALLY:
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HUGHES MOLEHILLS
Colonel to Rip Things Wide
DEFENSE IN
TOO BAD' TO EXIST
OF CONDEMNED MAN LAUNCHED N'W YORK
Open Iii Five States Nu
merous Chances to Earn
Publicity Tackles Ken
tucky Hard
(Bv the United Press)
New York, Oct. 17. Republicanism
tcdr.y drew out for play its left bow.
er Theodore Roosevelt. The Colon
el left this morning for a big west
em trip. Hs speaks in five States
r.ntiu-w. Arizona. New Mexico
Colorado and Illinois.
Roosevelt's greatest effort will be
in Kentucky, where he is scheduled
to make thirteen stops before swoop
Anarn unon Loutevillo, the first
h j
real offensive point of the tour. Of
;vn is meant both ways. The
Colonel said he intends to make it
for the Democrats. He re.
turns October 28.
RAILROADS WILL HELP
DUPLIN AND PENDER
Counties South of Here to Be Great
ly Benefitted by Kinston-Wilming-
ton Line. Ia Oninion of Colonel
Shaw People Are Interested
The railroad from this city to Wil
mington, to be constructed onward
from its present terminus in Duplin,
will be the biggest thing that evei
haoDened for Duplin and Pender
counties, and a big thing for Kins.
ton and Wilmington, according to
Pol. iH. E. Shaw, just back. from a
few days' stay in the country south
of here.
TV people of the two counties are
enthused over the project, and say
it will afford many of them a means
of getting their farm produce to
market at a minimum of expense and
in bulk for the first time in history.
The sand roads they have had for
generations have compelled them to
market by "driblets." Lack of tran
sportation facilities has retarded the
progress of a people controlling a
sectiotu unsurpassed for fertility ana
possibilities. Col. Shaw recalls he
is acquainted with every "aero"' of
the land some of the magnificent
plantations of which the section
south of here boasted in nw-i gone
toy. For instance, there is the '.Stag
Park," a great place in colonial days:
Litaoln Mall, and a lot of others.
ilte counties have had no rmmigra-
With the building of the railroad
allot of splendid land will "probacy
be taken up by outsider and Duplin
and Pender will be -given a boost that
will soon put them in the forefront
rrt Fnni -1 : . .r
i uui, counties, tunston
will be particularly favored, because
it will be the important junction of
two Important lines, making the most
direct route between the State's two
stfeports Norfolk f W 'Wilmington.
TO' THE WORD;
NO DISREGARDING IT
St. Louis, Oct. 16. Elimination
t the word "obey" in the .marriage
service was recommended in a minor
rty report of the joint commission on
common prayer " submitted to the
House of Deputies of the Protestant
EPcopaI general convention here to
day. . t
The House of Deputies (referred
bk to.the commission 'all proposed
changes ' in the marriage Ceremony, in
catechism and in the institution
elergymen, and these'? questions
not ome before the1 general con-
ion, again, for three years.
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UNSKG Wil NOT BE
ION SIElffEf CAMPAIGN
Oct - WSecreUry of
- lng t0diy out ftcainrt
2Mti"t foreign, is into dome-
polities, -in anm,- v.
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" aai take
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Berlin, Oct. 17. The "tragedy of
the Somme seemsnear a climax,"
said eome official today in reporting
the frightful Frfench and British los
ses in the recent attempt to pierce
the German lines north of lie Somme.
It is becoming more and more prob
able that the French and English
will bleed to death on an unshaka
ble German front, just as the Russi
ans were in Galicia.
CHILDREN'S PROGRAM
FOR FAIR SCHOOL DAY
Supt. of Schools Katcr Curtis on
Tuesday announced a tentative pro
gram for the exercises to be hold at
the Fair Grounds on next Wednesday
School Day. The exercises will be
commenced at 10 a. m. A band se
lection will star the program off. 1
There will be song numbers by chil -
dren of the city Primary School, tho
Moss Hill and Kinston High School
glee clubs, and an interesting num
ber by the city Grammar School.
WANT HOUSEWIVES TO
EXHIBIT BREAD, ETC.
Pantry and Dairy Department o fthe
Fair Calls for Large Display of
Flour Products Comprehensive
Premium List Covers Wide Varie
ty of Articles
The Pantry and Dairy Department)
of the Krnaton Fair Association ask
that bread, biscuit, and. other things
that rine be given particular at
tention by prospective exhibitors at
next wesk's event. It is hoped to
ve an especially fine display of
such things. Directors of the de
partment are Mesdames R. W. Woot
en, II. F. Brown, J. H. Mewborn,
V. Webb, and Miss May Oettin-
ger. iMrs. frown is cnairman. in
ull premium list of the department
follows:
Best display of, fruit, preserves and
vegetables in glass jars by canning
clubs, first, $5; second $2.
Best display of fruits, preserves
nd vegetables in glass jars by mdi
iduals, first, $5; second $2.
Best single glass jar of fruit by
ndividual, $1.
Best singls glass jar of preserves
by individual, $1.
Best display of jellies by individ
uals, first, $3; second $1.
Best display of pickles by Canning
Club, first $2; second $1.
Best display of pickles by individ
uals, first, $2; second $1.
Best loaf of bread, $1. '
D-'st dozen rolls, $1.
Best dozen risen biscuit, $1 .
Best dczen' beaten biscuit, $1 .
Best bunch of cheese straws, ?1.
Best fruit cake, $1.
Best chocolate cake, $1.
Best pound cake, 1 paid $5 ladies'
shoes given by Mark Cummings.
Best dozen doughmits, $1.
Best dozen ginger cakes, $1.
Dt dozen sugar cakes, $1.
Best display of-dried fruit, $2.
Best display of strained honey, $1.
Best display of honey in the comb.
$1.
iBest quart of molasses, $1. j j
Best quart Cider vinegar, $1 .
Best ham, $1. ,. T7
Best link of sausage $1. V ,
Best piece of bacon, $1.
Est Tom Thumb, $1.
.Best five pounds lard, $L
Best applie pie, fl
Best peach pie, $1. ,
"Best lemon pie, $1. i :. ' ', "'.."'
Best pound of butter (quality), $L
Best bottle of eatstrpy 50e. -Beat
bottle of grape juice, 50c.
Best bottle strawbefry 60ci
Best bottle blackberry acid, 80c;;
Home-Made Candies. '
Fudgs 50c, Cocoanut 50c, Cream
50c, Mima 50c, Molasses Taffy 6flc,
Peatrut 50c. Butterscotch 60c, Pulled
Sugar taffy 50c,' Sea Foam 50c, Wal
nut 50c, Candied Grape. Fruit 50c,
Fondant 50c
Con-
suiting? 'Engineer for
i . lv" ..fir-
son OfficialsCertain His
Method Will Prevail Some
Day v
By GEORGE MARTIN,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
New York, Oct. 17. Out as "hon
or system ward in of s;ng Sing,
Thomas Men Osborne i3 established
in New York as "consulting engi
neer" on nrison reform to any penal
institution in the world. His ser
vices, are free.
1 am still convinced there are no
bad men in the world," he said to
day. "I am sure my method is right.
ii5omo day it will he tnc only one
used."
"You think Dr. Arthur Warren
Waitp, who confessed to murdering
!his wife'3 parents, is a good man?
j he was asked.
' 1 th!r!k Wane is insane, exces-
i i:veiy atinri-mal. i studied Waite in
the death house. He is unique. He
is not even of a typo, he is one in a
generation . "
"But should he die in the electric
chair?" he was asked.
"I would not kill anybody. Waite
should be locked up for life. But
Waite': case stands alone. In all but
th2se isolated instances the honor
system iv a complete success. Its.
"nemit'3 cannot hurt it. Whether I
am in Sing Sing or in my grave, it
.vill tfo right on."
)PENING DAY OF FAIR
A TOBACCO HOLIDAY
The Tt bacco Roard of Trade makas
next Tuesday cpening day of the
Fair a holiday. All warehouses
will be closed for the occasion and
as many planters as can be commu
nicated with are being notified of the
fact.
HIS OPPONENT SAYS
KITCHIN'S A BIGGER
MAN THAN PRESfD'T
Congressman Claude Kitchin
never, had a bigger compliment
than was paid nim here Wednes
day. W. O. Dixon, the G. O. P.
nominee for Mr. Kitehin's job.
was here to hear the famed
Halifax man speak. Mr. Dixon is
not entertaining any hope; he is
a (ruthful Republican and asserts
that he is not a politician. He
knows and likes the Floor Lead
er, he says. " I consider Mr. Kit
chin the biggest Democratic Con
gressman from North Carolina,
and a bigger man than President
Wilson," the Hookcrton "candi
daff" stated.
FIFTH OF MILLION
POUNDS OF TOBACCO
About 200,000 pounds of tobacco
Was sold here Tuesday, according to
warehouse estimates. The total may
havs surpassed those figures by a lit
tle margin. Individual warehouse
reports ranged from 25,000 to 70,000.
Prices were a little stronger than last
week. . i-
CAROLINA; YOlfRE A "
P SWEET, SWEET LAND
Calumet, Mich Oct. 16. Th hea
viest snowstorm of any autumn in the
last ten years prevailed in this sec
tion of the copper country today. At
boot two inches had fallens ' Lake
Superior shipping was forced to seek
shelter, ' ' '
Sets Himself lip As
INTO ENEMY FRONT
j '
Hope to Divide Rnssian and
Roumanian Armies and
Cms! New Ally
HARD FIGHTING IN EAST
Great Battles In Progress at
Number vof Points, Includ
ing One ( On Roumanian
Soil Dobrudja Situation
Unchanged
(By the United IVesst
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L'etrograd, Oct 17. The Au.
tro-German offensive near the
Roumanian frontier and soath of
Dorna Vatra has been checked,
'it is said officially.
London, Oft. 17. What is believed
to be the beginning of Von Hindcn
berg's vttidely heralded campaign to
crush Rounvinia, was launched with
the inauguration o fa groat new of
fensive near the northwestern fron
tier 'of Roumania. The Teutons are
aiming to drive a wedge between the
Russian and Roumanian armies.
Strong Teutonic forces are attacking
the Russian front in South Bukowi
na. near the junction of the two arm
ies. The German war office announced
that the Russians were driven back
at this point. The Roumanians are
falling back upon their own frontier.
Southwest of Kronstadt the Teutons
are attacking in great force, with
heavy fighting on Roumanian soil.
The situation in Dobrudja is unchang
ed, say official statements from all
capitals.
iMrs. Komcgay's Father Dead.
Dr. George Kornegay is in receipt
of a telogram announcing the death
:U Cleveland. Miss., of his father-in-
!aw, Mr. Matthews.
Mrs. Korne-I
America's Sense of Fair
Play m Case of Albania
While the people
of the United
States havg
be?n sending thirty mil-
lion dollars' worth of relief to Eu
rope and Turkey, two hundred thous
and women and children in Albania
have died of starvation. ,
While each woman and child in
Belgium has had plenty- to eat, writt
en and' children in Albania have
gnawed at the carcasses of dead
horses in tho streets. . f-
William Willard Howard of New
York, who has returned from his
third trip to this hunger zone of Eu
rope, predicts that the entire popula
tion of Albania will die of famine and
pestilence unless helped. He says
that in Albania com is fifty dollars
a (bushel, flour eighty dollars a sack,
and macaroni five dollars a pound.
"The-tragedy of Albania." say
Mr. Howard, "is that a nation is dy
ing pf hunger, whils the people of
the United States, laden with gifts
for the rest of Europe and for Tur
key, pass by on the other side. .
-? 1'Thirty millions of dollars have
teen, given by the people of the Unit
ed 'Stites for relief work of various
kinds in 'Belgium, Poland, Armenia,
Syfia and the warring countries of
Europe, -while two hundred thousandl
women and children in Southeastern
Europe have starred to death ua
ivetded. and . untaxed for. Not one
woman or chi'd has died of hunger
in Belgium; two hundred thousand
in Albania'. ' '
Is it fair is it human that the
innocent- women and hildre, of Al
bania, who ntver did anyone any
harm, should he trampled under foot
and left 9 perish; at time when all
othar arc fed? s . ";: ; V"
fls this -American" fair play?
i "I hare appealed for help In high
places. ; I have begged "n crust of
bread of those who have given mil
lions to Belgium, Poland Armenia
Being Tried In!New York
ForMurder ;,;of r Political
Enemy Montimagno Is
Brought front' the Death
House to Testify
(By the United Press)
New York, Oct 17. Out of Sing
Sing's death house to give evidence
that may bring another there, weasel-eyed
little Gaeteno Montimagno
today testified against Michael A. Ro
frano, charged with murder. Rofra-
no, a broken boss of little Italy
and former deputy street cleaning
commissioner of New York City, is
on trial for killing Mike batman, a
political enemy.
Montimagno says Rofrano gav.
him $300 and a dirk to stab Gaimar
to tieatn, Montimagnon will give
more testimony before he goes back
through the little green door of the
'oath s house.
OVERMAN DECLARES
THE COUNTRY'S SAFE
Durham, Oct. 16. .Based upon re
ports from the Western and Middlo
Atlantic States .that have been sent
him by distinguished Congressmen,
and political observers. Senator Lee
S. Overman, in an address before 850
?A Trinity College tonight, predicted
the rj-elcction of Woodrow Wilson.
The tide hns turned within ten days,
according to the North Carolina Sen-
ntor, and a notable ' communication
was divulged from Senator akh of
Montana, in which he told of itho drift
"Wilsonward" in the far Western
States.
The Trinity Wilson-Bickett Club
organized tonight with; 450 charter
members.
gay was present at the death, having
arrived a few hours previously. Mr.
Matthews was 55 years of age.
and Syria. I have begged in vain.
"The Albanians are as much enti
tled to sympathy and help as others.
They fivo not taken part in tihe war.
They fed and sheltered the refugocs
from Servia, even with the last measure-
of corn that the famine-smitten
villages posw.5sed. They have not
daiio any wrong; yet armies have
swept over their country, taking what
could be found'to take; leaving to the
starving women and children only
tihe carcasses of dead horses in the
streets.
"I ask only American fair play for
the fam'ishod children of Al. ania. I
ask of all fair-minded men and wom
en in the United. States: Why should
the Albanians three hundred thous
and of whom are Christians be left
to starve, while we press forward, in
generous rivalry, to feed the others?
The Albanians are more numerous
(than the Armenians; yet we feed the
Armenians and let the Albanians
starve. j. i
"Having appealed to deaf ears in
high places, I . now appeal to the
plain people to fair-minded men and
women who Would not let even a dog
starve to death, no matter what .his
breed. I want to go back to Albania
with a shipload of food. I have ar
ranged for a ship a new American
ship, just launched and fitted for sea.
The ship is ready and waiting. - "
u"A number of distinguished gentle
men in New York mostly clergymen
and editors of newspapers will co
operate in an appeal for a relief car
go for the ship. The treasurer se
lected to receive contributions is the
Bey. Frederick Lynch, D. 0-,'editor
pf The Christian Work and secretary
of the Carnegie Church Peace Union.
Contributions fa anyamount from
the price of a loaf of bread upward
may be aentr to . the Balkan Relief
Fund, TO "Fifth : avenue. New York
(By the United Press)
New York, Oct. 17.The supor-
dreadnaught Arizona, queen of all
fighting ships afloat, was launched
today. It is said to be impossible
for a submarine to torpedo the giant
ess. She outstrips the Queen Elisa
beth, pride of tho British navy.
The vessal was completed in rec
ord time, and fr a million dollars
less than the estimated cost. She
will be given a trial cruise in sev
eral weeks.
WILSON BUTTONS BRING
PREMIUM AT N. HAVEN
New Haven, Conn., Oct. 16. For
the first time in history, at least far
this city, a political campaign button
has become a marketable commodity.
There aren't enough ''Give me Wil
son and the eight-hour day" buttons
to mset the demands. of trainmen and
other workers, and as a consequence,
the buttons are being sold by boys for
from two to ten: cents each.
BULLETINS
(By the United Press)
STORM IN CARIBBEAN SEA
Mobile, Ala., Oct 17 Shipping
of all kinds, including a hundred
fishing smacks, scurried back to
Gulf port today following reports
of a dangerous storm heading
northward from , the Caribbean
Sea There is fear for a num
ber of tramp freighters bound
for Europe. . . (. ....
FIGHTING IN NEW SECTOR.
Ixtndon, Oct. 17. The British,
advanced north of Ancre last
night, entering trenches west of
Sorrc, General Haig reports.
Since the beginning of the Somme
offensive there had been no fight
ing on this front The fall of -'
Thicpval opened the way to the
advance.
Kitchen Speaks
to Lenoir Folks
The "big gun" of the Democratic
campaign in L,enoir was tired Tues
day afternoon when HJon. Claude
Kitchin, floor leader of the majority
party in the National House of Rep
nsst'itattives pnjd, incidentally, Con
gressman from this, tho Second dis
trict, spoke in the Courthouse in
Kinston. Mr. Kitehin's coming had
been well advertised : and admiring
friends from Lenoir and adjoining
counties were on hand to bid him j
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To Be Staged at LaGrangc
About First' of Novembei:.
v Victor Bryant ' Not " to
Speak Here Friday Night,.
Announced
Democratic' County Chairman G.
V Owner announced Tuesday tha
Hon. Victor Bryant's engagement t
spviia lie; i o i-iiun uiqmw i, .-
cancelled, as have other dates of the.
Durham man in East Carolina.
Mr. Cowper .stated that-. Senator
F. M Simmons would lead county r
rally to be held at LaGrangp about '
November 1, the exaet date' to be
announced as soon as determined: Tho''
entire county Democracy will be urjf- -ed
to give Senator Simmons a rous
ing welcome., v - j
One bale of long-staple" cotton '
sold here Tuesday for Ul-4.:' -
The market ranged front 17 to .
17.55... ' ,
About 12a bake had been, oold .t
here by 2:45 p. m..
New York futures quotation,,. ,
were aa followaj . ..r-,
, Oj5m .JSf
January . . . . '. ....... .17.80 18.J4
March . ,
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July .. .........
October"'. wyriVf
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.18.08 -18'
: 18.0ft" 18.8
.17.70 17.90
December'. , v'tnf rI7.W "' 1831
NO SEnUESfftFOa-?.1-
relief Of poiand ;
lly ROBT. J BENDER,, '
. ( United Pread Staff Correspondent
i Shadow Lawa. Oct. 17-Becansei
of Important idiffirenoes that;: still '
Ixist between the Allied and Central
Powers, under wbieh Supplies y
He sent to starving t Poland, , Presi
dent Wilson today announced that he
M "not yet been' successful in eo-
eluding "a 'settlement." "", "'
welcome, and hear his. "report" of
he, great stewardship, o Democracy.
Many Republicans were present, in
cluding Mr. W. O. Dixon, candidate
of his party in opposition to Mr. Kit
chin. Mr. Dixon roplied to a Jocu
lar remark tendering him a division
of time, prior to the speaking, that
he would prefer a division of voteac
The Atlantic Coast Realty Compar
ny's band furnished the music and
led the procession to ihe Courthouse.