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VOL. XVill-No. 128
FIRST EDITION
KINSTON, N. C, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 19i6
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PREPARES
UiS BEING DRAWN
FOR FIGHT BEFORE
INJURED, TWO
CRAZED MAN HELD k GREECE
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JAILED AS RESULT
BIG CROWD AT BAY FOURTH CABINET IN TO PLAY VITH. FIRE,
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Carranza Strips Border
Places of Garrisons; Sit
uation Critical
RELIEF IS PAYS AWY
Big De acto rorce nun.y-
ing to Raise Siege May
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Arrive Too Late Assault
Goes On Without CeSSa-
tion
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El Paso, Texas, Nov. 27.7 The at-
rv.iV,i.ni.ia bv four thousand
men. uu vjii...v.
Villistas under the personal command
of Villa is still in pibgress, United
States agents here today declared.
They based their statements upon the
action of the Carranza authorities in
sending every available soldier in
Nov them Mexico to the besieged city.
From Santa Buena Ventura the
garrison of 150 Carranzistas is be- convention of the score or more who
lng withdrawn, together with the visit Raleigh annually,
garrisons at Namiquipa, Casas Gran- Th? 191G assembly promise the
des and Guzman, numbering about most variedly interesting program.
100 each. These are being rushed to New organizations that bring into
Chihuahua over the Mexican North- the larger federation another section
west Railway to Juarez, where they if teachers or -scho'ol-Workers, will
will be transferred to the Mexican he here for the fir3t time. In the as
Central, srmbly proper are the associations of
General Gonzales today announc- grammar grade teachers and princi-
jul tViAt Hen eral Mavcotte. with 3.500
de facto troops is making a forced
march northward from Santa Rosa-
lia. It will take several days for
him ta arrive because eveirv bridire
south of Chihuahua has been burned,
MRS. INEZ MILHOLLAND
BOISSEVAIlf PASSES OUT
Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 26. Mrs.
Inez Milhelland Bolssevaln, widely
known suffragist and welfare worker,
died in a hospital here shortly be
fore midnight last night after an ill
ness of ten weeks. She was thirty
years old.
Mrs. Boissevain was stricken sud
denly while addressing an audience in
this city during the r?cent political
campaign anil fainted on the platform
at the meeting. She was removed to
a hospital and her husband and par
ents rushed from New York to pin
her here.
Mira. Bois-sevain's illness was diag
nosed as aplastic anemia and blood
transfusion was resorted to in at
tempts to Improve her condition.
PlERBZBX. STANDING,
i
Zebulan, Nov. 24. There came
near being an electrocution here when
James Smith, colowrfiraamade he
victim of gome "practical jokers. He
" 'en ln efther hand an end of a
P'ece of wine. w The middle point of
wire waa lnterted' ii'to' a'abeket
for which the lamp gloins had been
tod the eurrent switched on.
fn th resultant eommotion was
; Smith a? found lying under an
,n tanliuand jt took the aervkes of a
'it f"Ii
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Capita ity Vants to Be
the Permanent Meeting
Place Three Others
Want 1917 Convention of
Tarheel Pedagogues
(Special to The Free Press)
teIa are dai)y makjng re3Crvations
for teachers who will attend the 23rd
session of the North Carolina Teach-
ers, Assemby here November 22 to
Decsmber 1, and one week in advance
of the first business meeting the
guarantee of an unprecedented at
tendance was complete.
Af tVita snwrjlnn tha eit.v mount; in
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m.,Ke ,ts ,bl(1 tor tne assembly's per-
msncnf favor, but invitations from
tnroe of the Mate's larger cities to
make (he 1917 sitting of the leachers
in another town, revives the fight of
Raleigh against the State and hold-
ir.g the teachers yet another year will
bo the persuasive job to hi undertak-
en by the business organizations.
The compliment is to the bearers or
light who comprise the most popular
pals, of county superintendents, of
city superintendents, of music teach
ers, of high school teachers r.nd prin
cipals, city high school teachers and
principals, of school boards, and of
the department of higher education.
PAVING WILL ALL BE
FINISHED FEW DAYS
The paving on which the city has
expended between $400,000 and ?-l."0,-000
will be completed during the.
next week or ten days, probably.
There will have been finished about
! !i blocks, or between 10 :m:! 11
miles of asphalted roadway, and
-' ni"':hing more than a score of
r.iiles of paved sidewalks.
VIENNA HERE SAFELY
(By the United Press)
London. Nov. 27. It is
officially announced that the
British Government has re
fused a safe conduct for
Count Tarnowski, recently
annointed Austrian-Hunga
rian ambassador to the
United States.
The action is unexplain
ed. - IT
c&NNlF. WARD r -
t, -Tfc Cheat." P.r.nt-Pktre
BRITAIN DECLINES
PAPASSABPR OF
(By the United Press)
Washington, Nov. 27. The gov
ernment and railroad attorneys today
marshaled material for what Is des
tined to bo the greatest industrial
contest in recent years, tho test of
the Adamson eight-hour law. At
torney General Gregory is in person
al charge for the irovernment. The
brotherhood officials from tho side
;nos will keep close tab on the pro
ceedings.
' I'p lo Supreme Court Now.
Washington, Nov. 25, The ques
tion of the constitutionality of the
Adamsun eight-hour law is up to the
!'nited States Supreme Court with
'lie formal filing of papers expected
Monday cr Tuesday. Whether tha
highest tribunal is willing to speed
no its proverbially slow-moving ju
dicial machinery in order to dispose
'the case by January 1, remains a
'i.iestion, although it is believed
s'rongly that it will be several weeks
irier New Year's before a decision
had.
BLACK GJBjBLERS PUT
UP FIGHT TO ESCAPE
ARREST BY DEPUTIES
A pitched battle between officers
:vvl negro gamblers at "The Adkin"
5' .r.day resulted in the taking of
t' rer prisoners and the wasting of
a'- lit 15 shots, with the injuring of
ik) one. Col. H. E. Shaw, Solicitor
c" the local judicial district, looking
(Vwn from his homo on Liberty Hill,
.v a game in progress in a hollow
on the bank of "Tile Adkin," the
.-'ream which marks the extreme
easi.rn boundary of the city. He tel--;.
honed the Sheriff's office. Depu
!'s II. V. Allen and N. B. Evans
to the place and surprised 10
."e :: o men and a woman, the m?n all
occupied with a game. The blacks
r,!;ii!ed a retreat, one or two firing as
t'ley ran. Mr. Jim Powers, Col.
Shaw's law partner, joined the offi
i'"rs in ths chase. The white men
r'rnost hid the darkies corralled at
n: in', but all except three nian-
;:.-d to make thai'r get-away. Part
lh negroes went Into a briar
' yv--- impenetrable, and one, claim-
i. shot, is believed to have re-
i-f've.l '.'!:; injuries from briars. He
v. r; to a doctor. The officers re
",'vp .1 information which may lead
i i the arrest of five 'ethers from the
c inlu'. e:i men, who are J(in .Leo ilat-
, Wil1 'Tort?r and John Ward. A
oiver was taken from Ward. The
ripon had not, been fired, and Ward
ijei if -vim to nave nau no hand in
i he snooting.
MORE THAN A THOUSAND
TELEPHONES IN KINSTON
There are now a thousand and thir--seven
telephones operated from
-fi local exchange. The thousand
-.ark was passed recently. Nine hun
dred and twenty-six of the phones
n.e within the corporate limiU. Man
ager Birdsall of the exchange says
' irg-distance talking also is brpaking
a!! reco ds. The number of tickets
out-of-town calls since the sum
ve:' has bsen astonishing. The cham
;,:cn long-distance talker of the city
i r.til recently was a colored junk
u.aler, who called Harrisburg, Pa.,
nnJ alher Northern places almost as
frequently as some people do the
g' ccer down the street.
ATURDAY FOOTBALL
At New Haven, Yale 6, Harvard 3.
At New York, Army 15, Navy 7.
At Chapel Hill, Virginia Fresh
wen 19, Carolina Freshmen 7.
GINNERS REPORT.
There were 10,108 bales of cotton
ginned in Lenoir county from the
crop of 1916 prior to November 14,
as compared with 8,472 bales ginned
to November 14, 1915, Special Agent
Edgar L. Hardy, of the Department
of Commerce reports.
Eight Pitt and Lenoir Coun
ty Men in Near-Riot In
South Kinston
ONE MAM SERIOUSLY HURT
Lcm. Taylor In Hosj)ital
With Throat Gashed
Clear Across No Bail
for Assailants of Local
Party
One -man is in the hospital with
bi-i throat cut, three others are car-
lying irjurlc-s more or Jess paintul,
i.vo are in jail and the authorities
! li.vo -Iht-y are on the track of two
ethers wanted, as the result of a cut
ting affray which assumed the pro
portions of a small-sizcl riot in
Soinh Kinston late Sunday night.
l'i llnwing the fight Lorn. Taylor and
Paul Woden were carried to the
hospital, the focm.r in a serious con
dition from a knife wound clear
ac oss his neck, and Woolen with a
.-;!i;.;ht knife wound on his face, and
an apparently serious abrasion on his
bead, supposed to have been made
with a piece of scantling. Frank
Hay and Amos Dawson were the
others injured. Dawson has a knife
wound ll uicnes long on nis nacK.
Hay was stabbed in one side, the
wound being about half an inch deep
snd three inches long, has a gnsh six
or seven inches long on his br.'ast
ind his chin is split open. Wooten
was knocked senseless, but it was
found at the hospital that his injur
ies were not serious enough to hold
h'm there.
In jail ar: Tha I. Braxton and Har
ry Jones, both el 1 it t county, ine
Sheriff's office says Joe and Ileber
Braxton, brothers of Thad. Braxton,
aro likely I he arrested in rut dur
ing the ';'.y. the men will he n.id
hailess pending a change in Taylor's
condition.
W. A. Harris, a broiher-in-law of
one of the Hi aytuns, accompanied the
Pitt county men to this city in an J
automobile. When the trfcublc slart
d he ran up; own for the police. He
later told the Sheriff that the party
had had more than two gallons of
v. ine, and that his companions seem
ed to be about intoxicated. Harri.s
him.self had his coat ripped almost in
two. Sheriff Taylor, policemen and
physicians hu.tied to tho place on
South street, where the affray occur
red. Taylcr. Wooten and Hay are
Kinslbn men, while Dawson is a res
ident of Len-.,ir county. The story
they told tho Sheriff was that they
saw the Pi:t men on the street, and
:hpt as they pas-sod them "one word"
wps passed by someone on one side or
the ioth.:r. The cutting, they said,
star.-ted in the twinkling of an eye,
nd was ovc almost as quickly. The
Br-'xtons and Jones fled after tho
cutting. Two were arrested in South
Kinaton, while Jonts and Thad Brax
ton are believed to have walked to
Ayden. near which place they live.
None icf the men cut. is believed to
havo been armed. Harris told the
Sheriff that the Braxtons and Jones
had been quarreling among them
selves in a house in the neighbor
hood before tho attack on the local
men. Jcnei and Joe Braxton are
believed to have been responsible for
the injuries of Taylor and Wooten.
COTTON
Around 75 bales of cotton had been
sold here by 3 o'clock Monday, buy
ers estimated. The high price was
20 cents. .
New York futures quoattions were
J Open Close
January I . .20.99 20.81
March 1 21.14 20.95
May. ...21.30 2U4
July 21.45 21J8
("By the United Press
Philadelphia, Nov. 22 The po
lice ure trying to Identify a man
who, crazed hy a stub wound In
his buck, shoi four persons last
mgni. ana held a crowd or a
thousand people at bay and es
caped several hundred shot fired
at him before he was raptured.
VERMONT DEMOCRATS
DID THEIR LITTLE
PART FOR PRESIDENT
Now York, Nov. 25. Wilbur W
Marsh, treiv.uirer of the Democratic
National Committee, made public
lie-e tonight the official statement
of caimpaign contributions and dis
i ursements which will be filed in Al
bany tomorrow in
compliance With
th: law of New York State. Mr
Marsh announced that there is still
a deficit of more than $r00,000.
The statement, largely a duplicate
of the one filed in Washlngtan, gives
he total amount contributed to the
H rrJoeratic fund as $1,584,548, of
which S4fi.ri,r58 was received in
) mounts of less than $100. In the
amber of contributors, Texas led
with $14,022, with an average of $4
o - person. Every town In Vermont
..ith ever 500 population sent a con-
hution, me total irom mat atats
i:-:nir approximately M4.UUU. Ke-
le.-nnir to vermonis snowintr. ,nr.
JL'irsh said: "If the same rate had
been maintained throughout the
"ountry a campaign fund of more
than $14,000,000 could have' been
r-iisfd by subscrpition."'
H0NT POT, TICK E
W COAX 'EM, A NEW
DICTUM OF THE POLICE
"Superfluous arrests" don't look
good to J. Fe'ix Skinner, chisf of
i'liico. He is discouraging "pinch
ing.
To an uninformed person this
'ooms un policeman- like, but CMef
Kkinncr's idea is exactly in line with
t!:e policy adopted l'';ng ago hy many
of th:' departmen' heads in the big
f lies. "Tell 'em not to do these
things
i
give them a chance," is his
i plan, i hn numner or arrests maoe
a month in this little city looks
It would indicate that the po-
are on their jabs; but it does
not necessarily indicate that they are I
o-i their jobs in the right way all the
time. In recent years the local' po
lice force has improved rapidly. It
h now a splendid outfit for a place
like Kinston. The men are invari
ably intelligent, willing, neatly uni
formed and courteous. Skinner be
ll, ves the 'respectable outfit" should
become "educators." Desk Sergeant
Fescue, who used to be a newspaper
ma. n would go him one further and
have a course on municipal govern
ment taught in tha public schools,
have the cops make friends with the
kids on the streets and teach them
what little they can about the busi
nens of aviation in preparation for
the Great Ultimate. "Some rural
visitors regard the police as friends
especially employed -to collar and cuff
ami lock them up," is one officer's be
Ii?,f. "We are going to get that Idea
ton of their heads." Every publica
tion of consequence dealing with mo
dtrrn police methods comes to the lo
cal station, and many good things
from them are being stored up to be
put into practice.
SEVEN LOST LIVES
IN BURNING HOME
Cape May, Nov. 26. Lewis Wil
son, his wife, mother-in-law. and
four children were burned to (loath In
a fire that destroyed tho Wilaon home
In West Cape May early today. 1 The
family was asleep wnen the . Are
broke out. and neighbors foond it Im
possible to save any fc them. It Is
believed tha fire originated In a defec-
tlve flue.
(Continued from Page Two)
Rome. Nbv: 27. Athens dispatches
declare the resignation of the Greek
cabinet Is imminent.
Greek dispatches have several
times indicated impending dissolution
J of the Lambros cabinet, formed Oe.
toVr 10. A report was had on Sat-
uraav that th Minister f .Inutlo
had resigned. This is the fourth
ministry formed in Greece in four
months
CWFiMJZISAAS HIT
yjLLJ'5 AUTOMOBILEi
Chlhuahua City, Nov. 25. Via
-onriertb Marfa .Nov. 2G. Francisco
Villa's automobile, which was being
used by him to direct h!s campaign
against tne icarranza troons. wais
st'uck by shell fire today and was
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thwest ot
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tno city.
The shell holes
and bullet marks
w:re plainly seen on the sides .of the
blir automobile when it was fmmd n
the battlefield aftir Villa abandoned
it and rode away on horseback.
BIG LUMBER PLANT
ED BY FIRE
Wilmington, Nov. 26. Fire of un-
dotermlfied origin destroyed the plant!
cf the Waccamaw Lumber Comvtnv.
. tw -t
I ,i.,t t.m u
of $200,000, insured, early thfs morn
(By the United Pess)
TRAGIC DEATH
THEATRICAL MAN.
New York, Joseph Brooks the
noted theatrical man either
Jumped or fell from the eighth
story of an apartment here lo
clay and was Instantly killed.
U. C. V. INVITE PRESIDENT.
Washington, Nov. 22. Presi
dent Wilson was todav invited
o Attend tho annual encampment
Of the United Confederate Veter-
ans in Washington in May. It
will be the first time the encamp
ment has been held north of the
Mason and Dixon line.
GERMANS TAKE. A TOWN.
Berlin, Nov. 22. Alexander has
been captured from the Roumani
ans In Walltichla, Hays an official
German statement. The German
advance down both sides of the
Atl river valley threw the enemy
behind the Popologue sector.
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HAVE CHARGE SCH'L
INSPECTION SERVICE
Miss Fannie G. Stoker of Wilming-
ton will report here December 1 to
take charge of the medical inspect-
ion worlt in the City Schools, was
Information givan cut by Superln- j
tende.it K. R. Curtis Saturday. Miss
Stolter is now in Durham, taking a
school inspection work. She Is re-
puted to be a well-qualified person I
tho work. I
SOLDIERS' HEALTH GOOD.
It having been reporfed that
Kinston soldier on the border,
member of the headquarters compa-
ny of the Second North Cairolina in-
fantry, was seriously ill and had been
transferred from El Paso to Hot
Springs, Ark., The Free Press wrote
its soldier correspondent at Ft. Bliss
for a statement as to the man's con
dition. It iollowa: i" 1 ia
about to die from oveteating. v His
hot springs, will coma later, when he
will t itept constantly on the spring
from the heat, I Imagine. Whoever
aid n was sick, though, went to- the
DESTROY
BULLETINS
Von alkeiuiayn s Aviators
Tell mm of Suffering
That Wallachian Armies s
May Escape fVom:rTrap
German Commander; tas
Laid: for Them Kiot ra
Big Capture Reppre4 4
.
Subscribe to The Free Preea.
London. Nov. 27.--NeW from Ger
man 'sources caused ririmSnSf ftopli'
here today hal oumafiiftiiyeMP
eH herielf front thehiVeai'lc4a''f0it
t:on in whfch' her WallaaiktfT trte
nve w: Pi 67 wmtsru " oo
Falkenhayn's exceedingly briUUnt
strategical campaign. Tha prima U-
for such hope (to ia l.bt
'! i $9 ?!g'WK?K--'
wjr claims of large capturei o.pra
nnftr9"'nr maeriata. IftheiRoumahU
tin army Is that tctlPrhp$l!j( Sy
the envctrclfinir,,ffioveelar
sovarU'ts .redaen-ffliat
barman Tepbtrls'"'woifld 4htWlX
'clod" the biijrdnVaaby,iawvt:?f r.
vwj' Falkenhayif Mbdeat
By CARL W, ACKEJRMAX.
(United Preaa Staf , CarirpB!BdiV), .
Headquarter of penaraLyi?
kenhayn, mi! '-4)fi
manlan -as
beet we can,". So apeke General
Von Falkenhayn today.'5 HuiiSJowi
were -wlrinkTw lbutnls eyea arMrklln
erning hie victordoua fosnfw
ains$ Roffihanla. Wfg
"Our flyerT,,"Ke continued, "rertj?
H oumanian "roada" Blocfcedwltih' e&
pie "a'ri4 wagonH," fleefn:' f itim Itttti f
Wallachla toward the"! Alt' rtrta.'
This te the' terrible part ot th,wn 5
That soldiers should, suffer W war
but, that women and Httle childr.e
should be put to such, misery, th
choice. Roumania played with fit ,
too long. Now she Is getting burned.
Bucharest AmiU Retirement,' S
BuchaVest, vNov. ReUremant
rrtim the Alt, and also from" Topolo
slightly eastward, of the Roumanian
rmies is offloially reported: ' "
NaYnre jAids1 DefenaeC '
Petrograd, No 27. The retiring
Roumanian army in WeBteni Wal-
lachia is taking advantage of alfliat
ural bbstaclee to resfit'Voin Fllce,i
hayn, It is said officially.' HaViJit
crossed the Danube' ' neeJr Simndhta.
Tfutoris have placed" obierval
pwts on the river Vede, occupying po
sitions between Valent and Ru-
wade. '
Not Much, Fighting In West ..
Berlin, Nov. 27. A French
tempt to force an 4 entrance in ; tha
ou!h?rtl part of the St Plerre-Vaaat
wood, without artillery preparation,
was repulsed by Getrman rmacnuia
gun fire, it Is said officially. iUnor
fighting only is in progress lonjg;tJ)e
Somme. East ot - St. Mlhielr,?
French raid against a German ? Joat
failed? - .
Raina In West
London. Nov. 25. Heavy xakti
heve ' Impeded operations .-in ''me
Somme tegion, General Haog reporta.
Berlin tfjjtgjjf. t ' .
Berlin. Nov. 25, The iucceaafttt
! crossing of the Danub and5 ra2dVr
mg of a foothold on Roumaniarf
near Racoyite is offielalr feportatS. ' .
Petrograd Glvea Bad NaW if.
Petrograd, Nor. 25. AdnrlMloa
that 'the 'Tiutona hav croaaet4 ?tjia
Danube near Slmnitra ad'!'th
Roumanians havev (Men pushed" isds
in the Atl valley is made at the a
office; ' v s
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last dgree p,f prevarication. If.thl
lad crv&kaitt'a gomg'to b from indi
gestion 'or los: of "traat lec- a
there won't be any r-m i4 t' i'jf
breath at all. ' We' r : til v et:.
hope to be hnrxi ; 1... 1.