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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.
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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. ' - ' -
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''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 .
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