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, The Home Paper The feather,, Today' Ntwi Today" IxL ; JUL Fair Tonight ' ' VOL- XVIIL-No. 130 . SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1916 FOUR' PARKS TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS 4 ' S U U tt.r AUXO 1 UUA i fi ve cenxs on trains Villa may be MCfipcTOs to CAROLINA DEFEATS OLD DOMINION TEAM THANKSGIVING GAME IS NOT GUILTY, JURY'S VERDICT IN CASE VS. ATHENSi REFUSES GIVE UP ARSIS Tft ALLIES IN COMPLIANCE ttTO FRENCH ADMIR'L-IN-CHIEF'S ORDERS; PREPARES FOR FIGHTPG 50UTH.0F JUARK AND ALMOST IN SIGHT BIG AMERICANMHMY GATHEREO EL PASO WITH INJUSTICE BY FOOTBALL MANAGES WATSON AT AUliUSTA tt m o ii ii ii ii r ii :iii ii T 1 1 -' ii 1 1 1 1 77 1 1 1 1 jrHwi II II 11 II . V II II II II f II 4. ILZ Ii 1 II LJ: LMP Fighting Reported to Be in Progress Only Four Miles Otter Side of Border Secret Service Men Ordered to Find Wati Was Fate of Americans at Chihuahua City ! Said Not to Have Been Allowed to Leave With Oth er Foreigners Mexicans Fleeing to United States ' Side in Belief the Tiger is ApproachingCan anza Cavalry Hastening to Scene of Fighting Army Mobi lizing to Retake Northern Capital (By the United Press) ' El Paso, Dec 1. Firing began at daybrea!-: four miles South "of Juarez. Efforts to find the cause have peen unavailing. Carranza cavalry was rushed to the acene. Natives, believing Villa is attacking, have fled to the American side of the International bridge. Secret Service men have been ordered to, learn the fate of, Americans and other foreigners known to have been in tJhihuhua City before it was captured by Villa Refugees today said the Americans were not allowed to escape with the rest, uarranza is massing an army at Juarez to retakie Chihuahua. Pershing ; has twelve thousand regulars a hundred miles aoutn or tne porar ana a. nunarea mousana mm iia and thirty thousand regulars are patrolling the border. Villa Slaughtered Many Chinese. , (By Webb C. Miller) El Paso, Dec. 1. Tuesday, when Chihuahua City was cantured Villa began the slaughtering of Chinese resi dentil four refugees here today told the United States .i -t . . i j.1 tun. l J i ...l autnoriues. ;moreanan nity mnese nau oeen Kiueu vvnen they'escaped they said. r,One said he was the only member of a party of. 27 escaping. The others were the only sur vivors of a second party of 35. These reports of wanton slaughter left little hope for the six Americans known to have been in the city. No information has been had regarding them. High officials today said, "we have little hope unless they fled to the hills- First Time in Many Years Chapel Hill Eleven Has Won Match GENERALS DOWN AGGIES . & M. Played Better Game Than Expected Folger Hero of Game Made Big Gains for Tarheel Machine Sis START A CAMPAIGN IN TEXAS In Which They Would Be Recipients But Not Giv ersNovel But Nervy Idea Originates With the Troops EDWARD WOOD VICTIM OWN GUN THANKSGIVING Hattiesburg, Miss., Nov. :!0. Ed ward Wood, 35, secretary of the Un ion Naval Stores Company of New Ou.leana, was killed near hero today when his shotgun was accidentally dis charged as he was boardinir an au ,r,m(rbile, the load striking him i:i the head. Mr. Wood was on a hunting ::ip, acompanied 'by several local business men. He was born in North Carolina and was well known in na ai store circles of the South. (By A. T. NUT.) Ft. Bliss, El Paso, Tex., Nov. 25. I tako my pen in hand (Look here, fellow, you'll have to use a type writer, or else illustrate your dope Suggest pictures like would decorate a copy-book in an aboriginal Indian 1 child's strap, stuck here and there over the tedious wards. Ed.) to tell aibout the latest philanthropic movement originating in the border Army. We have started a Christmas giving campaign. That is, we are not going to give much, but we are heart ily responsive when it comes to re ceiving. All the old hens and chick ens, pastors and proprietors of cloth ing emporiums in the small towns up North are, according, to. the village papers, getting ready ty, ship .lots of things hete . for Christmas presents for the biijys.' ".f Now a lot, of we Tar- THREE COUPLES ARE MARRIED ONE TIME. heel guy are frotnjr W left out in the cold' if somebody'' don't do something," so we havedecided to do it How do you suppose well feel with the-others ones ruhningS around with thefr doll babies and candy and Santa Claui having Tieglected us? Some of Ifcesaiad here wont get anything at W Christmas. I'm sat isfied of that.4 So, 'you folks get to ther a EttJe junk particularly for the outcasts. Bont make it indis criminate.; Eliminate those who hava homes and stand .in' well in them. There won't Jbe any fjealoosy whift U comes to the parceling' out, be cause the lucky ones are wise to this and havo got the' right spirit. ' . It gets party toinile- . hncwme "tea U's blowini eold from up abore Texas, and Christmas is' the worst time inithe'year to pick to get the Wue.Jo- need to send eats here.' JJewton.D. r-Vor Cm. Tvon Zcfbulion, ,No 3 Uhere was a triple wedding here last night when Miss Aurclia Brantley and Mr. B V. Brantley, Miss Irene Pate and Mr. Percy Davis and Miss Bessie Injr.'lds and Mr. Mark. Wall were married by J. M. Whitley, a justice of the peace. 'The couples will spend their horn y moon in th6 Nort hand will be gone several weeks. Ik-hnicnd,,Ya., Nov. ISO. The Uni-;-ity of North Carolina eleven this .ifiernoon defeated the University of Virginia team 7 to 0 for the fir;U !!mo since l!0.r, Kolger dashing yards thj-ough the Virginia eleven for a louchdown and Captain Tandy kick- in goal. The game was won in the presence n; a crowd estimated at 14,000 and cmpossd of the alumni and students si: l the two universities, as well as 1 1 -'.ns prominent in efficial and social !i through .both North Carolina and Virginia. Carolina was led in a snake ilii ice by its student band at.er the g;me was through over the field and later in a march through the princi pal streets of the city. 'rem a standpoint of football, the grme left much to be desired. Foi- - work was the outstanding fea- tii !'. He was taken from tne gamo (luring the latter part or tne nnai period as a result of an injury 'and u"r ho began showing effects of erwork. Up to that time he had been the principal ground-gainer for !' victors and had aided them ma- tenallv with his punting, coicman, who succeeded him, also punted well 1 ran riot through the Virginia . Captain Tandy and Ramsay played excellently. Virginia displayed the poor form lie has manifested through the pre i nt season. Y. & L. Defeats A. & M. I:a!e!frh, N. C, Nov. .",0. Mixing ir.:ird pa.sses with fdd fashioned it backing, Washington and Lee to iy (ie-ftaled North Carolina A. & . 21 to 0, in the annual Thanksgiv- gri .Ii: on game here before a crowd . 'mated at 5,000. With a season's record far superior to that tf A. & M. the victory of Washing! on and Lee by no means measured up to expectations and the work of i he Virginians did not stand out a? prominently as A. & M.'s play. It was forward passe- and two blocked p.ints that enabled the Gen erals I i get within striking distance of two of their touchdowns, but dur ing a niaja-ity of the game they were held at bay 'by the Carolinians. 'Gross," Too, Not Just the Ordinary Kind Graham Docs Nothing, Say CHAMPIONSHIP TANGLE Simply Matter of Freezing Out Locals, Declare Would Leave Matter Up to Kids, Accusation vs Golds-boro (By the United Press) Autmsta, Ga. Dec. 1. Thomas E. Watson was this afternoon found not guilty of sending obscene matter through the mails. He was prosecuted on the charge that his magazines, Watson s and the Jefferson ian, which attacked Catho lics were unfit matter for the mails. t 4 Adwces from RaTelpi Friday indicate that Kinslon sy "Pos sibly" be nllowrd to pnrlMpaie in (he Stato football finals, through (he intercession of locul men in ihat clly temporarily. Should concessions be made which do not savor too much of a patronizing spirit the locals will probably accept, ii is understood. Claiming to lie champions of East ern Carolina in the high school class, S;ate regulations or no State regula tions, the local High School football :c.;m and the f'hool authorities Thurs day laid their case in the altercation wuh the Goldsboro highs '.of ore the iccal public. The Klnston and Golds-'.).-,ro Highs have played two games his season, one resulting in a victory for the locals and one for the eleven in the neighboring town. When In structed a few days ago to iplay a RVAN WILL LOCATE AT ASHEVILLE JUST (By the United Press) Washington, Nov. 1. William J. Bryan is moving to Asheville, N. C, "merely to be near Washington," he said today. He will maintain his legal residence in Nebraska. "Asheville is beautifully boated, the climate is salubrous, and wv. have ten acres on a mountain top, tailing. th home 'Mount Calm,' he said. Thanksgiving 0; Van- attend to that. And they certain'y are not going to allow any of those "remembered" to trot about in linn collars and cuffs and spotted neckties. Someibcdy get up something original. Send, say, mouth organs, , pocket knives, qutjrter fountain pens -and other such goods a la Captain Cook-and-Fiji islanders. There is little news here except that some of the lads are drawing more pay as the result of promotions, that we recently turned out the guard and the whole outfit for a Republican congressman and that the work con tinues unabatd. No one here expects Ho get home-before Spring. We have been vaccinated again, with something new. '..We have 'had ; everything ex cept hog cholera serum and sieeprng powders sdmfnlstered to' us, and still we manage ' to stay :We!L ?,, The doc tors are to the experta.sf.al stag, so fo speak. , Our morals are very good, because about ; one trip, to. El Paso takes all the life out of a man's purse and out of him, too,' if he dissipates. We get paii! off only once a month. Wine,, woman and song for a day, if desired, jwith 10 days, "extra fol low in, and no money for 30 days. Other Games. O'her results of Tamos were: At Nashville: Sewanee ierbilt, 0. At Knoxvillc: Tenn., 0; Kentucky, State, 0. At Charlotte: Davidson, .13; Clcm n, 0. At Birmingham, Ala.: Univ. of G 'orgia, 2; Univ. of Alabama, 0. At Atlanta: Georgia Tech., 33; Au burn, 7. At Roanoke, Va.: V. P. I., 23; V. M. I., 14. At Philadelphia; Tenna., 23; Cor n :!. 3. At Washington: Georgetown, 41; (i. arge Washington, 7. m At New York: Fordham, 14; Villa N'ova, 7. . At Baltimore: John's Hopkins, 0; Maryland State College, 54. At Lincoln, Neb.: Notre Dame, 20; Nebraska, 0. At Lawrence, Kas. Missouri, 13; Kansas, 0. At Lexington, Ky.: Transylvania, 13; University of Louisville, 0. At Littleburg: University of Pitts burg, 31; Penn State, 0. .' At New York: Rutgers, 9; Washing ton and Jefferson, 12. , ' At Providence, R. Lr Brown, 0; Colgate, 28. . . . . . U. cf N. C. star, but he, they as -erf, "refused, pointblank to enterain ihis protest." An appeal to President Graham, of the University, signed by 22 alumni e.f the institution, in which it was stated that the locals had had no forewarning that they were to play third game in Goldsboro, the Klnston ! ju Goldsboro until formally instruct authorities say, they protested, pre- eri to repair there for the protested game, brought "no satisfaction." The reply of Dr. Graham contained, it is declared, an admission "that he rea lized that injustice had been done.", Hr, it is" said, secured a conference, which "(resulted In complete failure," the GoUlfiboro superintendent, princi r :1 and football team all being pre- si nt and all refusing flatly to play anywhere, holding that the game .lands forfeited to them," Kinston's cloven having failed to show up for t!ie game ordered, set for several days ago. A suggestion offered the Klnston lutely disregarded, according to the ' managers that the matter be submit local managers, charging Secretary !e-l to the Uoldsnoro high school stu Rankin with "gross injustice in this dent body was declined by the local ot. 1 .l T7V- 1- 1.i.ji.'. X treatment. I no record 01 me run- prnpi.i. wno ciaim it is noi a mai which among other ac- ler for "children" to decide. Presi- complishments in its victorious season dent Graham has been atlvbed of this walked over the Raleigh Highs, State In another formal protest, It is stat champ; fo- three years, to the tune ed, but "up to the present there has nr .'!9.n Vi;m1 been formally iaid be- bec-n no answer received" from him fore Mr. Rankin in due time, they "concerning the protest." From ad state. A protest was made to Sec- vices that Goldboro and Chapel Hill retarv Rankin, according to Elisha High Schools will play Saturday for B. Lcfvis, private secretary to Con- tH Eastern charrionship the locals triessman Kitehin, and Reynold Al- deduct that they have been eliminated l:n, coach of the locals and a former by the process outlined. (ireek Government Ousts French Officers From Public Offices and Makes Plans to Resist Landing of Troops at Port of Capital Gravest Crisis Yet in Affairs of Hellenic Nation Russians Conducting Vigorous Of fensive in Carpathians to Weaken Teuton Lilies of Communication and Cause Consequent Slackening of Pressure on Roumanian Capital, But March to Bucha rest Continues ferring to stage the match on "neu tral ground." This game, they say, ... . .1. . It. C.... would have oeen rne local s html ih me preliminaries for the State chanv pionship match at Chapel Hill, in which the Kinston eleven hoped to be participants. They cite rule 7 of the state regu lations, calling for a consultation or the committee in charge of the State finals "with the different managers and coaches" to "arrange tho games of the championship series immed iately alter November 20. The re- . , . . . i i. (luiremen's ot mis TUie wore hush- THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN By GENE BYRNES OH PLEASE y rock the I PLEflt W. I op5eT AND V eEsioes iM r V seMSveiE. v-T Y j ANP fHYlH NO Heeo IDIOT gtftCHC 1 (By the United Press) Athens, Dec. 1. The Government today tailed to the colors all reserve officers of the Athens army Corps. Athens. Dec. 1. King Constantine and the Greek1 gov 'rnment has advised Vice Admiral Dnfmirnpr. that rhW have definitely decided not to surrender Greek arms as the Alllies demanded. Strong Russian Offensive. ' Petroerad, Dec. 1. The Russians have started a vig orous offensive on the entire Carpathian front.1 The movement is the strongest possible, dispatches say- Tim n4rc,:,n :n i j. u. ... at. ""cusivc is jicximy uesjgxmu m relieve tne pres sure by German troops on Bucharest bv attacking lines of communication. Berlin statements for two davs bast indicated an offensive in this section bv the Russians. Greek Crisis Grave. , . i London, Dec. 1. -Flat refusal of Greece to disarm, in response to the Allied demands has brought on ' a hew crisis in the Greek situation. The refusal came-on the bst day set by Dufournet in demanding the surrender of arms and munitions by December 15. Athens dispatches today said Dufournet, anticipating refusal has -been ''pre paring to land Allied troops at Piraeusrthe Athens port.' Greece apparently is preparing resistanci. :She hajs'oust od the French officers in charge of the telegraph and post offices. v -''''"'-"f-'; Bulgar Advance Continues. ' ' Sofia, Dec. 1- The Bulgarian advance on thV rb'ad'to Bucharest from Giurgiu continues, it is pfficiaH'sld. The Roumanians have been defeated with' heavy losses in bayonet fighting. " Von Mackensen Continues March. ' Berlin- Dec. 1. Von Mackensen's army is continuing its progress Northward from the Danube towards Buch arest, and is now approaching the course of the Argesul river. Rioting at Athens. London, Dec. 1. Slight outbreaks of rioting in the streets of Athens is reported. The firing of several shots, with apparently nq casualties, is reported in dispatches. Quiet was restored- Admiral Fournet is expected to land strong detachments of Allies from the Allied transports there. ' Russians Attack Constantly. Vienna, Dec. 1. Great masses of Russians are attack ing constantly to relieved the harrassed Roumanians, it is said officially. The Roumanians are struggling bit terly. The enemies' gains have been slight and "vain," says the war office. British Successes in Africa. London, Dec. 1. Entry of German lines at several points South of Armentieres is officially reported. A large German force in German East Africa has been captured, and reduced enemy detachments are re treating, Commander-in-chief Smutz of the South Afri can forces today reported. . Petrograd Claims Gams- Petrograd, Dec. 1. The inissian offensive iu the Car pathians Southward of Kirlibaba is proceeding with suc cess, it is stated officially. The Russians have occupied the whole range of heights surrounding the city. WANT TO MAKE PAYING FULLY WORTH MONEY A block of sidewalk paving in Northwest Kins-ton is being taken up because it did not look quite good enough to the engineers. "The con tractors are doing everything they can" to help tne new paving in we ty come up to the standard desired by the engineers. The clock In question was put down under canvas in a hard rain; the water leaked through and dripped off J hedges and was in alightly "faulty condition through no had workmanship." Other blocks re to be treated over. City officials are understood to have made no, protest. . , . goldsboro highs and donaldsox; plat tie H Faytttevifle, Nor. - SO. Donaldson Military School and Gojdaboro high school fought, to 12 to 12 tie here today after Goldsboro had scored six points in the first period. 'SKELETON IN CLOSET -OF OUR PROSPERITY . -v 1-'.- "There Is a skeleton In the closet of our prosperity; we cannot help seeing; it when the door is jar,, rd Rev. John II. Griffith, rector of St Mary's Episcopal church, from a church pub lication at the Thanksgiving service 5 in his church. "Our total profits mads out of the war are' conservatively reckoned to be 24,4000,000,000;' our total war chsrity amounts to; $34, 000,000. America has given l,0 0, 000 for the relief of feelgiuoa, England and France have sent 'to this country $238,000,000 to buy - f ood and clothes for Belgium; out of this charity- flnd, contributed by these wrtrlckn na tions, America has; made a prfl- of over . WjDOOfiOO.-' .Out" of Belgium's necessity, therefore,1 wa have Wade, ' lit profit, our times what'; wi have contributed id hefHesd. The less said about ; that kind of prosperity the better." ' ' f f J . r
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