f fMM 10)15) The ttoAe Paper f " -? 'i 1 ....... . .'i ; . ' -lodMfB Sow Today? 4H VOL. XVIII. No. 125 FIRST EDITION KINSTON, N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 213,1916 YOttftfcAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS . - - ? ?VjE CENTtfJVta.fAlNa - 1 1C0NHDEIE OF THE HUGHES ADMITS AT LIKELY Tfli VIENNA TO MAKE 1 Mjipm CASE id HJ3J w m AST VICTOR? FOR liREAt AFFAIR OVER ITS GRIEF NOR JOY HAVE AN APARTMENT BV RAIL COMPANIES WILSONj SENDS WIRE HOUSE FEW MONTHS GERMANIC DEPARTMENT DAILY PRIM l"V MVS ' ROUMANIANS HPTRFilTlKT. r ADVAlESTAlt Investigators Hear Pleas for Less Suspicion, Bet- ter Credit; Etc WOULD LIKE SPREAD OUT And Becorhe More Helpful to the Country Santa Fe Injunction Case Hera Up Perdincr Conference Lat- er On (By the United Press) Kansas City, Nov. 23. The Santa Fe injunction suit against the Adamson- eight-hour law. Bet for hearing today before Judge John C Pollock, was postponed indefinitely pending the result of a conference be tween railroad officials and govern ment representatives. Railroads Have Inning at Probe Hearing. Washington. Nov. 23. Pleas for more adequate railroad facilities less Suspicion of railroad manage ment 'ana Wetter credit conditions, were made by the railroads today be fore the Newlands jrailroad investi gating committee .A. P. Thom. counsel for the roads, is slated to bespeak a broader, more helpful at titude to rail lines so that they may Spread out, increase American busi ness and better serve the public. STOCKS WITNESSES 'llfriiiif Jury's Declaring that they would rather I be in the Lenoir county jail than at i iarg3 in Duplin county, several wit- nesses summoned to Kenansville to appear against Samuel Stocks, al-1 leged lyricher, before the grand jury, returned Wednesday rather than t& Spend the night in ths Duplin county Seat town. . They include Chief of Police Skinner and . Deputy Sheriff H. V. Allen. They left. again on Thursday. The grand jury was to ptart its investigation in the after noon. A former grand jury return ed a bill "for Instructions," neither a (rue nor an Untrue finding. Stocks Was indicted following the lynching of Joseph Black, colored - Who was taken from the Leiioir coun ty -ja"U last spring. He is from Greene county, which, local officials believe, furnished most of the lynch ers. The case has attracted much at tention. Kenansville, to which the place '.(he case was transferred under a change of "venue, is difficult to com municate with. Solicitor Jienry E. Shaw, active-, throughout the several investigations of the lynching, is in fjiarge of the State's case at Kenans ville. Sentiment in Duplin "la said to be in Stocks', favor. A weak point for the prosecution, it is reported, is that a detective named Barnes, who work ed up the alleged evidence against Stocks, has not been located. , BIDS ON AIRCRAFT FOR TSftVY OPENED .1 V. (By the United Press) Washington. Nov. 23-The War Department toxlay opened bid for 148 1 , im'lltarr hydro-aeroplanes. Prices ..ranged Jfrom $12,000 to 1 viia epeeaar ranging np to fu miies an hoar and climbing power to 600 feet in ten minutes. MRS. FORDHAM'S - - - - ' . WILL PROBATEQ, The wilt of the late Mrs. Carrie M. Fordbara'has been probated and D. F. Weoteftlhfes qualified as executor. The estate la nominal. Mrs. Mary P. I Woolen,, a aister of the "deceased, ia the onjyi beneficiary. ' President Repjies He's Ob- hged and " Sends Well Wishes Defeated Can didate Held Out Until Uncertainly Cleared (By the United Press) Washington, Nov. 23. President Wilson's reply to Hughes' conjrratu- latory telegram was: "I am sincerely Qblideed t0 yu SoT yur m"se of congratulations. Allow ms to assure you of my good wishes for the years to come." Hughes Telegraphs Congratulations. Lakewood, N. J., Nov. 22. Chas E. Hughes, Republican candidate for President in the recent election, to night sent to President Wilson a tel egram congratulating him upon his re-election. In hi3 telegram Mr. Hughes said: "Ifecause of the closeness of the vote I have awaited the official count in California, and now that it has been virtually completed, permit me to extend to you my congratulations upon your re-election. I desire also to express rdy best wishes for a suc cessful administration." HOPEFUL DEMOCRATS 1 WILL CONTROL HOUSE Washington, Nov. 22. Representa tive Oldfield of Arkansas, who- is a member of the Democratic Congres sional Committee, and of the House Cpmmittee on Waye and Means, pr: dieted today that the Democrats will control the next House. , "I have followed closely the politi cal battle waged for seats in the House In the close States," said Mr Qldfield, "and the Republicans have but one more seat than the Demn- erats stand solidly together and then is every reason to doubt if that will be true of the (Republicans. Any slight defection in the Republican ranks would yield tha control to us and if this v?ry likely contingency doe3 not arise W$ -Shall get control of a result of the voto of the inde- P-ndent members." POPULATION Si! RAILROAD STATION IN A BELGIAN CITY Open Revolt Against Ger man Deportation Orders. Men Shipped Over Line Must Work or Serve Sen fences (By the United Press) Amsterdam, Nov. 23. Two months' Imprisonment is the punishment meted out by the German authorities to Belgian deportees who refuse to do the work their captors demand, according to the newspaper Echo De Beige. The population of the Belgian city of Lessines has openly revolted at the deportation orders and attacked the railway station, smashing win dows. The German commandment threatened t punish the whole com- munity JJSKAN RATES WILL BE SUBJECT HEARING (By the United Presa) Washington, Nov. 23. The second of three hearings the Interstate com merce commission is holding in its in vestigation of intra and intar-Alask- an,1 mil, rail-and-water freight and oassenirer rates is being held today at Juneau. The third and last Trtll be 'at -Seattle December 4. .' Businessmen Favor, Plan for Big Building to Care for Maybe Score Small Families Would Be Mod ernly Equipped Kinston's first apartment house built for the purpose is about to be come a reality. W. B. Douglass stated Thursday that he would v dertaks the promotion of a company for the purpose, and that" the pros poets were decidedly bright, what with the. interest of substaptial bust ;smen in the proposition and the :r!are of dwelling houses. Hs xin- nounced that he would get busy in a day or two. It is proposed to erect a building containing not less than 60 or 75 rooms, and to cost not less than fifty thousand dollars, to have every mod ern convenience and be four or fiv? stories high, fireproofed and equipped wiih modern fire escapes, and of at tractive appearanca. One man, Mr. Douglass said, has evinced his inter est to the extent of proffering a convenient site and offering to take a neat block of stock. Kinston is facing a living-house shortage which ; rapidly becoming serious. Rentals a i higher than in Wilmington ana ilnr.t as high as in the big towns :tate. Mr. Douglass believes the iiiiirtn c-n' houso will bo erected with- ilic !:t-xt few months. CROSS OF GLORY FOR COOKS IS NEW PLAN (,By the United Press) Washington, Nov. 23. Delia has come into her own and Mi randy and Sarah. For loyalty "below-slairs" is l lie recognized and "cook" is to be rewarded. A movement is under way here to ava:d medals or testimonials of faithful service to all domestic ser vants of proven worth. The move-mch- is sponsored by Washington 'i womon, as a step in solving tha -e .'van' problem, and combating the m:''.y "ephemeral, and mercurial ha ;ictei istics of domestic help." 'I hi badge, or cross of honor, will : he vi'Iucd by "cook" for Its in :'x value, but will 'he treasured :.s a "maghty good rec'mundashun", a or! of curte-blanche, as it were. P'li'hful servants will thereby not u:! r under the stigma of their shiftless co-workers, and will never W!ut for a good "place." The long si'fferir.g mistress will, it is hoped, awake to a new emancipation under the new regime. WILL PROCEED WITH FURCHASE CLUB SITE The Governing E'oard of the Cas well Country Club at a meeting on Wednesday flight decided to go ahead with the purchaso of 10 acres of the prOfXMty at. Gray's Mill on which pro moters of the club have an option, and to begin artual construction of the building, the preliminaries for w'iiich have been in progress som dr.ys. The plans for the building have not been given out- EXPRESS OFFICE ROBBERY. A Norfolk Southern Railroad de t.ctive passed through the city Wed nesday en route to Dover to Investi gate a robbery in the express office there. About 100 packages of whis ky and other .goods arc said to have lu-en stolen. No clus is had. The de pot and express office at Dover have been rebfced a number of times in re cent years. '. -jL . .-., DAMAGES FROM LOCAL FIRM. In Superior Court at New Bern on Tuesday Elijah Hickman was award ed $310.30 in a suit against, the Rut- ledge Lumber Company of Kinston. Hickman was injured while loading 'logs on a car. Death of Franz Josef Will Not Be Cause of IJsual Big Demonstration and Assumption Will Be Very Quiet (By the United Press) London, Nov. 23. Vienna wll not pa. ado hr sorrow nor hor welcome in the formal observance at the fun 'ral of the deceased Emperor of the "sumption, of the throne by his suc cessor, Karl Francis Joseph. Vienna d' .-patches today Indicated a depar- ure from the rigidly formal, richly jercmonial customs which hitehrto have marked the passing of a mon arch. Tho pall of war will be-cloud even the pall of sorrow. Vienna lit erally is wrapped In a shoud, draped in bbek. Franz Josef's body will lie in state in the imperial palace. President Wilson Cables Sympathy. Washington, Nov. 22. President Wilson today sent thi following mes sage of condolence to Emperor Karl Franz Joseph c-f Austria-Hungary, jcn receipt of word of the death of the ate Emperor Francis Josef. I beg of Your Majesty and tho Imp -rial and Royal Family to accept ho sincerest sympathy of Mrs. Wil son ana myself in the great loss which you have sustained In the death of your illustrious uncle, for whom I entertained sentiments of hi.h esteem and regard. I also ex tend to your Majesty the condolence of the government and people of the. United States and convey to you my hisi wishes for your personal well being and prosperity." Tho President addressed tho new ruler as "His Majesty Karl Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia and Apostolic King of Hungary." GOING ON IN OTHER TOWNS AND COUNTIES OF EASTERN CAROLNIA A Greenville supposed "drunk" fir ed a revolver bullet into a restaurant there while oinr-rs were at the tables. No one was hit. The man with the pistol was in .in automobile and sped to Safety. The modern dance is morn danger ous to society than the open saloon. declared Rev. J. D. Waters, a Chris tian (Disciples) minister, in a sermon at Ayden. A hundred laborers are at work cchstruf ing a lox and veneering plant at Ayden. Charles Hamper was seriously in jured in a lumber mill at Reelsboro wherr' he fell or in some way was thrown against a saw. A thigh was laid open and other injuries in flicted. Gecrge Andrews was killed when a big dri'-e wheel in a James City lumber plant bursted from centrifugal force. He was knocked through the building by a flying piece. He was badly mangled. BELIEVED ROBBERS EXPRESS WAGON GOT BIG SWAG IN MONEY (By the United Press) Chattanooga, Nov. 23. Two men who held op Fred. Cornlel non, a Southern Express driver, are reported to have octal Bed as high as forty thousand dollar. Cornlelsoa reported the robbery when he staggered through the Express company off'.ci here to day. 'He is held for further In vestigation. The money was be ing shipped to Southern bank, Fall Back to New Positions. No Fighting in est Aviators Active War ships Worst Teuton 1 Hy droplanes (By the United Press) Burhares, Nov. 23. "We retir ed from Craiova," aays an offi cial Roumanian report. The rc tlroment continues from points In Jlul Valley to old positions, it is also announced. In the Atl Valley Roumanian troops are maintaining fbetr positions. Paris, Nov. 23. Lieut. Guy Nem er downed Ms 22nd German battle plant last night. All was calm along the entire front today, it is said offi cially. ,(1 Water and Aircraft Clash. London, Nov. 23. A successful air1 raid against Germp.n hydroplanes by naval forces is announced by the ad miralty. Roumania Silent ..London. Nov. 23. There la omin out silence at Bucharest respecting the fate of the armies which Berlin claims to have been encircled south of the Danube, causing considerable uneasiness here. There has been no FMVirts from Bucharest since Sunday. KINSTON BENEFITS LARGELY BY THIS Border Training Adding 150.000 Years to Nation's LIfo, Discovered by Army DocCors Some of the Boys Would Lose Their's, Though By WEBB MILLER I Unit. d Press" Staff Correspondent) El Paso, Tex., Nov. 23. About oO.QOO years is being added to the !?grcgato life of the population of the United States by the Mexican ".iituaticn." Instead of spreading death and disablement the campaign in Msxico and the mobilization of the national guard are adding from a .--.v months to years to the life of every civilian soldier, army physicians declare. Statisticians have figured that the average added to the life off each guardsman will be narly a year. After four to six months of train-; " like an athlete, working in the open air, sleeping In a tent and eat ing simple food a hundred thousand guardsmen will go back to civil life with a new lease on life. Major Jamoa F. Edwards of the medical' corps of the Pennsylvania militia has been making a close study of the general effects of the inten sive training upon these men from office, factory and farm. In civil life he is director of Public Health of the city of Pittsburg. "Nearly every man on the border will be benefited Immeasurably by the training he is undergoing," said Ma jor Edwards. In most cases the in struction in personal hygiene and right living will influence the militia men for years. "Even now the difference in the healHi of our men can be noticed. Several months of daily exercise In the open air and sleeping in a tent cannot but benefit. It Is worth a doz en vacations holled Into one.. , "But most important Is the effect cf the army diet. Most civilians eat' too m'ich. And Intemperance in eat ing Is mie dangerous 'Han any oth er, form of intemperance. For four months our men have (been eating the simple palatable army ration. They don't eat too much and the food value of what they get is com puted scientifically. This regime with plenty of exercise cannot fail to add something to the lives of our citizen soldiers." , - 5 ; X'Jt there is no pleasing everybody. To the man undergoing this training it sometimes loses the vacation physical training tinge and becomes just hard labor. ;..';'..." ;'HuV aid one guardsman drflJ in'g in the sun when told he was ad ding One year to his life, "Izzat so, well, III givo three off the other end of my life to go homo now." . -, ; Sinking of British Hospita o ........ ........ . , Ship May Have Serious Effect On Relations of U. S. and Berlin ' Govern ment (By the United Press) Washingtbn, Nov. 23. Deitruc-1 tion of, the great 'British hospital ves sel, (Britannic, today seriously threat ened ,to 'enter into the tangle -possi ble from the submarine complications between tho United States and Ger many. The reported presence . of J American surgeons aboard the veS' sel rendered tho case one for aerlotls reflection of -possible serious action to be taken in connection With oth ers which may show transgression of Qerman pledges . and InternationaT Pules. On the other hand, the case may be taken merely as an indication of the way the German war wind is blow ing, in the . event there were no Am ericans aboard. Under the rules, of, the Genoa convention, hospital ships are Immunised from attack. , Subsfl- quern changes have not affected this statu sof ships engaged ett errands of mercy, hence If Aanerlcan sur gooni were aboard (hey are entitled to the safety of the law. The case has been added 'to the list of sub marine cases now being probed. . SLAYER OF GIRL TO " DIE FOR HIS CRIME (By the United Press) Durham, Nov. 22. Chairfes Watk-1 er, a young white man, was today sojitenced to the electric chair. Wal-1 kor murdered .Florence Suepln of '-f nolr. Ho was taken to the State pon-tj itentiary because of high feelih.?, Jealousy Is said to have been the motive for the :mtir'erk... JACK LONDON DIES (Tift A SHORT AGED nut Santa Rosa, Cel., Nov. 22. Jack London, the author, died at his Glenn' Elen, Cal., ranch near here at 7:45' tonight, a victim of uremic poison ing. London was taken III last n!ght: and was found unconscious early to day by a servant, who went to his- room to awaken him. - London is survived by a daughter who is a student at the University of. Ca'ifornla, his mother, who Mves in Oakland, and his wife, Charmion London. Mrs. London was with her husband when death came. 1mdon would have been 41 years old on January 12. Mr. and Mrs. London recently re- turned from a sojourn of severs months in the Hawaiian Islands,, and have been living on their Clpn Elen ra'.ch, one of the most elaborately' e jipped in Northern 'California. ' MUST HAVf LARGER r tiPS ACCOUNT WAR ili .I "r- (By the United Press) St. Paul, Minn, Nov. 23. The ten cent tip in St. Paul was officially ta booed, by resolutions of the. Hotel Bellmen of St. Paul today. At the intermission between the icewater glide and the suitcase shuffle, at the annual" bellmen's ball, resolutions were passed urging that tips be rais ed to IS cents on account of the war. During the ball, the orchestra direct or Was under orders to ring no belli with the music, and no water pitch ers were allowed In sight. "What's, the use of taking the joy out of life E. J.r Byan, president of the dub, said, : V. ' - ' - Subscribe to THE FREE PRESS MIDDLE Sdfon's Institution Attend ed by Big Thr&r& ot ifei-Walrers- fVoim Nt?er of StatesKfttst ctt- res'ente i i. . 4 t 4 1 1 ''Wednesday 'wai 'certainly a great . old day. It was Uie fc'f ges'day New Bern ' ever 'had. "ThoWn was put on the mtup," declared Mayor Fred. Siittoh Thursday, V- VevAvih- Hhe events contingent 1jpmjthavlat!la tion. of udaa Tempk thforthipBjrty na's aecond Shrtnw, . utfiji Tiira were wearers of the es nresentMs matfy Virginia, Nbrfli-ahdeoufti'c-rolina ana 'Georgia,' ttJwtl; 4 Wl M national ffuitakidnsrlelr rtd '""ililio from, thr Bgibh. ''' aM8rlia' and. nias eandidatas r.nklMMi Wednesday , -nigbt, TMsti Mc8d . Pr.B.-W Spljman, tJ: hoti Bbp tiat Sunday achMu; workrr, an4 'yat. Riflhajdaon, mayor , of.irjwvfmesa bors of the rocaasonJaJrjj sfon was largely repreeepted,. Most , of the 'jk'I'deVecafiKimedjps' autoniobhi "Wednesday ( nlgTb.'," 'Other temples1 m this Wioi sJr Oasft f ChJirtctt,vdtady 6t Mm "In the teWtoty.tand oifeW Kfii- fo)k,Qmar ot drobla.'nd JTsaOttt fUant. , Xinator jETiiritfcsliieJr to OasU and .Khedive, taplqt. -J fc.lt, optional wjth them,.?a;.,-wtiMr eyB;traiMtJr.tlia naw.Wpty ort not.4 It la Incumbent ,upp,vall 1 SWihelrs of ctiet. ihIchJemphfJ 1 are located to beldhg tb 'thai ' temple, nbut the -miroundin ourJrj -la not affected V this '"relatlon ' en pietantiat the imatftdo;cro4- ing a, number at ;cJebi(Jbs cthnitii : band, wf r en, "haotl from ChWkna ajldgrfelkv togs?; . with Tfiudan! drurafiorp anL. otljer .mualcwilMHU J. :E., Cameron t.Jflntonhp.ef4i high In Shrmedom n ma-y banex Pptaniato of Oasia . Temple! was ambhg .the ,,,big;dogaw on. hand. " "Daddy' HValter1 fe. 'whdi, wHo did the Irwtttotlrigr, waa' TianntW!: Va founded the -eult In Nortt "iCarahi: Pcteutafe 'of !(he a''teWpl-Vii'"XV B., Andrews of ItWolglu t' -nSAtfp has no official in the temple. ' jiv'wi J. X- Deal At Norfolk and Kins- tea, Potentate , fc Kteiva.,: Temple, headed the Virginia elta, delfa tlao, a hundred strong. The ;Norfollfc Vir- ginlan-Pllot "printed jSr. pe'a plfr ture on the front jage Wednesd. M it u M i- i Asheville, Joy. '22 lulling three - cars with (he hid of i."S!Z calttor fifle and a 'posstith dog U 'tn 'Qhjiia- al feat, but that ia "mit XawrWiea, and Ira CogbUrn, tw'roftera'1'" of Oruso, Haywood county MconiHfidi. ed a few nifehta "agO-Thmtl located a black bear anL twj.i Jlf- grown cubs. The big bear got way with amall ;nlletfTn ilernd ih brothers 'ldllM4he two cubs They tracked the- old bear and drove her up a treen,the was killed. . ' ' ; UMITAHON 7 CETfS : t Portland, 'Ore tSoir- t&A fortn ight hours -ef 4aber week-law for women will be placed, bef -fie Ore gon State LegisTatUra ayhen t meets 1 the second Monday . to January by the Consumers League of Portland , . This act provides (hat woran may not 'work for 'Wages. more than ' 48 " hows a. week. , It. does, not, owever, limit, their labor to., eight "npure dy. .'The idea ,U ttht.wom4n mij work more (Hah Ugh J hours sjve days a week, so ilf jniay Toaye: lf-hol-Way on SaljOrdays. J. .iior,r:trp'2A'a' 'OtotoioTt'r-rJaairri'T. Uor- rtsey, Veil luwwn Vver I'ast Ca rolina, died ere ir -irht at line o' clock following a r ' f ' ? -j from which "he tev.r . ' '