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VOL.XVIII.No.9a
, FIRST EDITION
KINSTON, N, C MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, IM6
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NORTH CAROLINA INCREASES FUuD Full
GREENE FARRIER IS TO PULL OFF GREAT
GIVEN GOOD START
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PIECES UNDER SMASHING TEUTON BLOWS
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WINTER SOiW
NEARING THIRTY THOOS'D MM llftl
Having Lost One Seaport, Roumanians Will Probably,
Have to Evacuate Important Lonstanza in ew Hours.
Yon Mackensen Striking at Railway June Which Sup
blies Defending Armies Bulgar Right Wing Crashes
Through Allied Works for a Great; GainOffensive Is
Successful AIong fMite Front Bulgars, Advance 6
Mjles in Few Hours' Time Near Seacoast
(By the United Preu) .
Berlin, Oct 23.-Constanza, Roumania's greatest sea
port,' has fallen before Field Marshal, Von Mackenzen's
armies, it is officially announced this afternoon. The cap
ture was the greatest single achievement for the Central
Powers since Roumania's entrance into th.e war, eight
weeks ago., The victory is hailed by German mil tary men
as more imnortant , that 11 the Allies i gains . since the
Somme offensive began. Official dispatches from the Ger
man and Bulgarian war offices indicate that the Russo-
Roumanians naves unerea a disastrous rout.
. , A Tie Wspirit of opt mism has been inspired in Germa
ny, by tVon-Mackensen's nd Falkenhayne's victories over
the Roumanians. This is expressed in remarkable sacri
fice&to the old gold fund, A hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars worth of gold has been donated in the
last five days. Farmers, servants and crown princes were
among. the contributors. Nobility gave of their gold plate
and jewelry.
Germans Near Monastir.
, London, Oct. .23.7-rGermany is reinforc ng the Bul
bars southwest of Monastir, says a Serbian official state
ment' .... .,. , .,. t;V' ,,
Sofia, Oct. 23. The Bulgarian right wing has smash
ed through the Roumanian defenses and arrived at with
in sixties of the important Roumanian -seaport of Con
stanza; says an official statement: The capture of the sea-
portof 'Tuzlam,12 miles south of Constanza, was report
ed .only Saturday afternoon. The six miles' advance
indicates that the Roumanians suffered' a' severe defeat.
The Roumanians are being rolled back on a 45-mile
front in Bobrudja under tremendous pressure of superior
German, ftttlganan and lwkish forces.
V on Mackensen's vanguard is with h a few miles of
the Constanza-Czernavoda railway. This line, carrying
supplies to Russian troops in Roumania, with two import
ant terminalsis the objective of the Germans' great ef
fort. The Roumanian left, center ,is yield ng. Toprai
Sari and Tuzla, main supporting positions in Roumania,
and defending the strategically important Danube bridge
at Cernayo(la, are repulsing enemy attacks. For the sec
ond time since the start of the German campaign to crush
Roumah 'Bucharest has appealed for help.
French Take Hill 12.
Paris, Oct. 23. Following a short bombardment, the
French late last, night stormed and captured hill No. 28,
northwest, of Sailly-Saillisel, it is said officially.
No Infantry Action In West.
London, Oct. 23. Considerable shelling is being done
between Le3lrs and Guedecourt, Gen. Haig reports. No
nfattt;ry' is in action on the Somme.
Fetrograd Jtatemen
Petrograd, Oct 23.--The Russo-Roumanians continue
their retirement in Dobrudja under pressure, though of
f eruig tybljornresistance, it . is saidofficialjy. u
Negro Rushed to StaU Pri
son Mob Spirit Heid
Sway in County
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FATHER RESCUED CHILD
Little Aswell GirLIs Young
er Still Than Lisping Ob
ject of Similar Attack In
Spring People Raging
With Anger
land with the best legal, talent there
is.
"Four tfnore secret clinics will be
Tunning in New York-within a week.
In less than a year there will be clin
ics in Washington, Cleveland, Detroit,
St. Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee,
Denver, St. Louis, Los. Angeles, San
Francisco, San Diego, Portland, Seat
tle, Spokane, and Dutte. They are
everyone organized and ready to open
the -minute I say the word. The
Washington clinic will open within a
few days. . , v
BIRTH CONTROL HAS .
COME TO STAY, MRS.
SANGER IS CONFIDENT
(Byi the United Press
New York, OOU 21. "The poor,
century 4ehind-the-times public offi
cials of this country might Just as
w ell forget their inoes-grown stat
utes and accept birth control as an
es tabljahed fact. My new national
plinTroakes it as inevitable as night
' smtiju -v;-:" .V; .-'
r.i ilrgaret 'Sanger, ahort and
smiling, with a tihge of red in her
hair and. .more than that . in feer eye,
sat ln-.her little - two-by-four bed-
roonj and aaid that here taday. With- j Camp Stewart, near 1 Paso, Oct
W tfie last tforty-eight hours she has 18. The Free Press' correspondent
estab lished . semi-secretly ; in" tW today had a most interesting 'inter
cityK the first out and out inirth con- view; with a CarrisaJ survivor a
troli clinic in the United States," the black trooper cf the type that pulled
law,, a' Federal indictment, and num-; Booeevelt's outiit out of. the hole at
trous arrests all Over1 the country to San Juan. Quiet, unobtrusive, well
the contrary, notwithstanding. mannered, the colored soldiihr made a
"The police are, hunting y clinic good impression upon a small party
ly.,'.,ahriiwent on. ( "Tney can't of Southerners, among ; the number
nd. t. If they ahould, they can't myself. He said:
burt it. . It is an oral clinic and the "Over there" (across the torder)
hw says othing about spreading "you , an see farther and' see less
fcrti control information orally. It thaa anywhere else" Oie world,
"ley ! try to interfere I am legally There are more rivers and less water,
prepared to carry a hard and bitter and more cow? and less milk, than in
fightjo the highest tribunal! in the anyplace I ever browsed in."
MASSACRE SURVIVOR
TELLS ABOUT MEXICO
(Special to The Free Press)
Will Hinos, 17, a Creene county
negro, is in the penitentiary at Ra
leigh Monday to save him from a vio
lent death at the hands of infuriated
Greene county men. Hines is accus
ed of attempted assault upon a little
white girl, the daughter of John As
well, a planter of the Shine section.
The child is a mere baby, less than
five years of age. John Aswell res
cued his daughter. It is reported that
she screamed and that the father,
hearing her cries, arrived ii time to
prevent the actual crime. Hines es
caped and secreted himself in woods;
late Sunday white men crept through
the undergrowth on their hands and
knees and took him without difficulty.
Once in the officers' hands they lost
no time in getting him to Goldsboro,
n Wayne county. Last spring Will
Black, a young negro, committed an
atrocious assault upon a 6-year-old
white girl and was, spirited off, later
paying the penalty in the electric
chair at Raleigh. His father, Joseph
Black, attracted attention by threats
made to the father of the little vic
tim. The Sheriff had forewarning
if a lynching and hastened with the
old negro to this city. That night
Kinston had the sensation of its his
tory when the Lenoir county jail was
stormed and Joseph E'lack carried off
by a mob and shot to death.
Hines' crime occurred Sunday morn
ing. Sunday night Sheriff Edwards
of Wayne county, hearing that a mob
was being formed to take the negro,
-aced with him to Raleigh in an auto
mobile. Greene county seethed late
Sunday. Persons here from Snow
Hill assert that Hines would have
been quickly despatched had he fall
en into the hands of the Greene coun
ty farmers.
Hines, according to information
from the local police office, is a ne
gro of small stature. After his ar
rest he declared he was only thirteen
years of age. The 'officials believe
that he was shrewd enough to state
that because he had heard somewhere
that beinfr on the younger side of 14
makes a big difference to a defend
ant! in a criminal assault case. Ques
tioned, however, he admitted criminal
intent in his treatment of the little
girl.
Quiet prevailed in Greene county
Monday morning. There was no ex
citement here following arrival of
the news, although there was a lot of
interest, of course.
10-County Fair to Be Open
ed After We've Slept One
More Time
INTERESTING SPECTACLE
Will Be. Parade Starting Off
Fall's Event Thousands
Upon Thousands Coming.
Will Feed Them, All
Right, But
SIMMONS NOT TO BE
IR; TROOPS
GET LOCAL TICKETS
II All
The , State Chairman has can
celled the engagement of Sena
tor F M Simmons to speak
in Lenoir county about the last
of this month, County Democrat-,
ie Chairman G , V Cowper an
nounced Saturday afternoon. Mr.
Simmons will be nsed almost rx
clusively in th Tenth Congres
sional district, where his power
is needed,' from now until the
elections.- ''- - - u-
Ex-Congressman B. N. Hack
eft of Wadesbora will apeak
with the county Democratic can-
didates here at the Inal rally in
November.'"--: -' :
Since; the North Carolina
treopa in Texas will bo allowed
Tuesday will be the big day of all
days in the year in Kinston. The
v!-
annual Ten-County Fair -will got into
swing with the biggest'lndustrial and
civic parade ever pulled off in East
Carolina, at 10 a. m. Final details
preliminary to the opening are being
attended to. The officials of the -Fai
Association were at work at an early
hour Monday. Nothing of great im
portance remained to be done, but
there "can always be found something
to do," and the workers were finding
a lot of little things.
The town is wearing the fanciest
dress it ever owned. The decorations
along -the business streets are about
the most lavish Kinston ever saw.
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Strings of small lights over Queen
street add considerably to- the charm
of the thoroughfare at night. "Ra
leigh did nothing like this," Assist
ant Secretary Douglass states, admir
ng the bunting and electric display.
He saw the State Fair in the Capi
tal City.
Fifty thousand people will come
here this week from all parts of
East Carolina, it is estimated. Spe-f
dal trains will be operated from
Tarboro, Greenville, Snow Hill and
o'her places. Seveiral hundred tran
sients having to do with the big event
arrived Sunday and Monday. Accom
modations are skimpy, of course. They
have been for months and months.
The hotels and restaurants have put
forth their best efforts, however.
Enough food to supply a big army is
being held in the city's eating places.
Sunday night the authorities turnei
a blind eya upon restauranteurs viol
ating the 9 o'clock closing law. It
was sheer necessity.
The police have their plans made.
The force will increase threefold in
number in the next few hours. Chief
Skinner will keep one lid on with no
let-up. Any automobile driver who
breaks the speed limit is going to
get pinched.
The parade Tuesday morning will
be more than two miles long, from in
dications. There w,ill be several hun
dred mounted men, probably as many
decorated cars, about a hundred com
mercial, industrial and educational
floats, including some gems in that
line, and A lot of other units to make
up the greatest pageant Kinston ever
saw. ,! Assembling it fn sections, it is
hoped to get the long procession un
der Way promptly at 10 o'clock.
Thousands of Kinstonians will ob
serve the day as a holiday. Dinners
will be prepared by housewives in ad
vance; many clerks have arranged to
"get off" at least half the day; the
banks will be closed; the cotton and
tobacco markets, which the other day
did a little matter of an eighth of a
million dollars', business in seven
hours, iwill'be insignificant institutions
on this day; realizing it, the officials
have announced suspension of both
for Tuesday.
About $300 Subscribed at
the Union Meeting in the
Gordon Street Christian
Church Mr. Craigs Ad-
The union meeting of the Kinston
churches, held in the Gordon Street
Christian church Sunday night in the
interest of the United Charities, was
largely attended, and an interest man
ifested that was highly satisfactory n .
... - UVHUlVid VvUIIL J
nn.l nlAAn.H a. 4 1 J I a S A.
aim iMUAaiiig iv ine utrvciurs 01 umt
important work. There were
ine 'wiison-Marsnaii campaign
fund contributions from North Caro
lina have grown to nearly $30,000.
Forsyth county is by far the largest
contributor yet, having presented
$11,694.60. Lenoir county has given
127. This county has not greatly ex
erted itself so far; there is time to
do better. The fund by counties now
stands: .
Alamance county $
Alexander, county
Anson county
seven
Bladen county
Buncombe county
1S.00
25.00
290.00
100.00
80.50
230.00
as a result of the emphasis of the - , , . ,,a
. , A. , ' i Caldwell county 102.00
needs for the winter among the poor - . , . ,zBM
. . . .. Catawba county 156.00
oi me city aoout nve nundred do lars ,i . r,
'. .... - Chatham county 56.
wa Kivrn ui vnsii iiiii jjieujces lor we , . .
work. I , .
. . . :n . - on nn
J j-l :t: !. u:vi i j -l A. . i -r v
nai ibics is iHKiiiy pieuaeu b ino
Off
5jOO
15.00
outcome of the meeting, and asks
The Free Press to thank the pastors
of the various churches, to whom he
gives credit: for the idea, and those
who contributed.
Following the song service, a faw
welcoming remarks by Pastor Ber
nard ;P; Smith of the church, and
opening prayer by Rev. G. B. Han-
rahan of Atkinson Memorial Presby
terian church, Capt. Vendeville of
the Salvation Army, who was recent
ly named by the board of directors as
superintendent of the Charities, out
lined tha work and the needs. He
was followed by Rev. W., Marshall
Craig, the new pastor of the Baptist
church, who delivered a most impres
sive address, emphasizing the work of
the United Charities, and paying tri
bute to the Salvation Army. Mr.
(Oraig said that he endorsed the char
ity work because it was "New Testa
ment" in its plan, and he urged more
close adherence to the Christly teach
ings and plans . Mr. Craig's re
marks were very happy in their spir
it of fellowship and good will.
Capt. Vendeville asked that the
people of Kinston give him their
support and prayers and suggested
that when mendicants and beggars
l applied for assistance that they be
referred to him and after due inves-
titration theiir needs would be cared
for commensuraely. I
Mr. Wooten spoke of the lack of
sympathy heretofore manifested and
declared lthii he often fejt '"lone
some." Rev. E. N. Harrison of the
Caswell Street Methodist church pro
nouncod the benediction.
Columbus county
Oaven county ..
79.0U
425.00
36.00
75.00
62.00
23.00
300.00
19.00
10.00
235.00 .
Lea county
LENOIR COUNTY: . v.
Kinston ..",......
La Crange .,. j ;
McDowell county
Macon county, .'. . v v
Madison county1?.......
Martin county .'. . . .
Mecklrnburr county . .
Montgomery county .. ' 20.06
Moore county .. 52.60
Nssh county .. 291.00
New Hanover county 3,709.75
Orange county , , li9.50
Pasquotank county 1 50.0Q
Pender county 15.00
Polk county .". ........... 64.00
Randolph county ....... 1 368.00
Richmond county V 176.50
Robeson county .' 578.60
Rockingham county . . . ... . 60.00
Rowan ; county .' 361.00
Rutherford county : . 00,90
Sampson county ........... -u 116-04
Scotland county ..- v TIM
Cumberland county 719.00 Stanly .county ............. ,: ; 7.6q
Davidson county 166.00 1 Surry county .....175.00
Davie' county 60.00'
Duplin county 137.00
Durham county 825.00
Edgecombe county Jtplj60
Forsyth county 11,694.50
Franklin county 68X0
Gastbn county , 224.50
Graham , county 25.00
Granville county 65.00
Guilford county 1,295.50
Halifax county 141.60
Harnett unty 42.50
Haywood county 101.75
Hoke county 120.00
Iredell county 520.00
Johnson county .. ,. , 188.00
Swain county 10.00
Transylvania' county ..... . ' 2d.0O
Union county : . ; 274JMI
....: 4 l
Vance county .... . . .
Wake county .......
Warden bounty
Wayne, county
Wilkes county
Wilson county , .... , .
Yadkin county . ', .' . , . . 1
Miscellaneous,' Temitted through '
Charlotte Observei1 1,100.00
From North' Carolinians reiid-'v"',
ing outside SUte 5540
11 , Total ' . 4 .-i .,' 3 , ;29,24.0O
86.00
1,3624,0,
163.50
" 20.00
HERE IS GOOD NEWS
Fl THE PRIDt 0F
THE FAMILY; BULLY
There will be no school Tuesday. .
There will be no school Wednesday.
There will be no school Thursday
afternoon. ..,
There will be no school Friday af
ternoon. v
There, now, that's plain enough for
anybody. Also hear this: "With so
much consideration shown the chil-
. dren, no excuse from parents ; will he
considered valid." That means that
, on Thursday and Friday the schools
Ozuna, will be in operation until 1 p. m. By
jsjMNkagi
NEARLY SCiE OliiE
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ALAMA CHAC , PIT
,y (By . the tfnitod Press)
, 'Birmingham, Oct. 28. Jif teen op
twenty ;ljves , were ( probably v lost .,fa
an ekplosion in ths marvJ minee peaj;
here. Twelve bodies have been JT
covred. Five men are unaccounteu
for. Government mine rescu men
are 'directing the rescue work, which
was feverish all night. Crowds aur
round the shaft
El Paso, Oct. 23. General
commanding the de facto, expedition "letting out" at that hour, every kid,
sent to Crush Villa, Was killed in can get his dinner and ske-daddle in
Saturday's clash with bandits, his plenty of time to get to the - Fair
command cut to pieces and Colonel Grounds for the afternoon bill. Supt,
Martin Salinas, who succeeded to the K. R Curtis thinks I that is doing
command, seriously wounded, accord- fine by the youngsters, and accord- 1 1 ! i" m 'i 1 ' . - -
ing to a United Press agent's infer-' ing to. an, announcement , Monday tend, the short sessions that , aw held
mation. morning, he expects every one to at- during the week. ,' , -
MUSI WORK OR STARTS. :J
Lrrtin, ..Oct : 21 Able-bodied
men la districts occupied by the'
German whd prefer to loaf of ?
ask public assistance rather than
work must be. made to support !j
themselves, says ths Berlin press.
Cleveland, Oct. 23. -Probably the
toll of Lake Erie's Black Friday
storm reached 48. The Toledo steam
er Matthews arrived today with the
bodies of three persons wearing life
belts from the steamer Merida. Twen
ty were lost on the steamer Colgate.
(o rote on I the 7th, Chairman
Cowper ii preparing to forward .a
big bunch of county tickets to EI
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