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SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1916 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS 'V: FIVE CpNTS OH TRAINS WITH ITS CAPITAL IN HANDS OF ENEMIES ROMANIA IS IN DESPERATE PLIGHT; ALL THE COUNTRY DOTTED WITH DEAD BODIES FEDERAL FARM LOAN PIONEER SPIRIT IS I Iff T ETIQUETTE MAY RE GERMANY HOLDS THE CAUSE LIVELY TIME ARAUIA WAS TROOP at wiicmi mifiirn TnANQDMlT IM RTF mwuq td nrniDC fiJ DEAD IN THIS V ABOUT m UrtiMO IU DLuLillL A BIO BOND ISSUE , SAYS LAI J II IlILUUll UJ1U1L11 IlinillMUIll Ul lUHLi VOL. XYJIL-rNa. 135 COUNTRY Germanic Control Nearly Complete; Governor- General Appointed and Teuton System Will Try to Brins Order Out f Supreme Chaos "Misery of Inhabitants Ter rible" Garrison Saved When Bucharest Fell Rear Guard Fought Heroically to Allow Main Eody to Es cape Invaders Advanced Swiftly With Their Magni ficent Machine Government's Policy Responsible for Much Suffering- (By the United Press) Washington, Dec. 7. The Federal Loan banks will de clare a $100,000,000 issue, the United Press today learned- It will be made shortly after the new banks open their doors for busi ness, probably during Feb ruary. It will be in denomi nations of from $25 to $1,000 with four and five Paris, Dec. 7. The Roumanians evacuated Bucharest l)er cent interest yesterday in good order, saving their army, it is authori-1 .,rri tatively stated today. The Roumanian rear guard was!ITAj forced strenuously to cover the retreat. IlllIIIiiL Roumania a Sad Land. (By Carl W. Ackerman) With the German Army at General Von Falkcnhayn's INSTITl I1IU 1 1 Ji Entries of Public Land Are Increasing Irriga tion Must Be Resorted to to Supply Growing De mand for Farming Space FOR NEWSPAPERMEN Headquarters in Roumania, Dec. 4. Every hundred yards, i III- MM 8 H I MHli there is something dead or dvino- in Roumania. T hp on.nn. : v mjiaifia J, lUloii try is mad with terror. Anarchy and chaos reign everywhere. The miserv of its inhabitants is terrible. Most of 4t is due to the Rou manian Government itself, which ordered all civilians to leave their homes as Germ an armies' rydvanced, with almost incredible SWlftneSS. ; journalists ever hold in North Caro- It is to bring, order out of chaos that General Von I Iina- Tfce University is the scene of Tulff, military administrator of Poland before Warsaw , th mobilization or the scribbler ar ffill will he named (rPrman nnvprnnr-fipnernl nf Rn':ni"n j mV- ia- He is en route here with two generals and his entire ! staff. ' j It may be noted that Ackerman's story was filed Mon-' day before the fall of Bucharest. Ackerman is one of the best-informed and most independent of war correspond ents. Russians on Hand. Petrograd, Dec. 7. The Russians covered the left ll. -J i.1 T ' . i . J T 1 i nanK oi me Roumanians in ineir retreat irom nucnarest. those t address the institute fit rr i i iii , t n . l ne war omce today announced tne evacuation oi the , Tart win be heard tonight. Roumanian Capital as occunng at midday yesterday. Further German Gains. -Berlin, Dec. 7. The qecupation of Campina. Sinaca in addition to the Roumanian Capital, Bucharest, is an nounced as a further advance made by the German troops in today's official statement. (By the United Press) Washington, Dec. 7. .Secretary Lane", in his annual report issued to day, directs attention to the fact that the pioneer spirit has not died out in the people of this country. While the volume of public land Is decreas ing until now it is almost down to two hundred and fifty million acre3 in the United States, much of which ia in the arid region, the entries cf pub lic land are increasing. This year nearly twenty million acres of Uncle Sam's domain were taken up as ag-i'i'st seventeen million each for the .preceding two years, sixteen mifiion for 1013 and fifteen million for 1912. At th;s rate it will be but a very few (By the United Press) Washington, Dec. 7. Classing some railroads of imi r 4- r4-l 1 , vV urn it robbers. William J. Bryan today declared that Federal control of railroads would bring into national politics a "corruptive force greater tnan we have ever known. Mr. Bryan was testifying at his own request before t the Newlands Joint Commit tee investigating public utilities. American Govern- (Special to The Free Press) Chanel Hill. Dec. 7. Newsnaner- , ,, . .u , ! vears bofcr? all of the public land of men from all over the State gathered : ' here today for the first institute for KIT THUS REP. HAY SOME PRESIDENT The first s:ssion was held this afternoon. The final session will be on Saturday. Hon Seitz, business manager of the New York World; Walter Williams, !ean of the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri; Tal cott Williams, Director of Columbia University's School of Journalism. and ex-President Taft will be among Mr. NORTH CAROLINA METHODIST SAY APPROVE UNITY Conference ' in Session at Durham Likely to Follow Example Set by Virginia and Western North Car olina Bodies Changes in Iresld ing Elders (By the United Press) Durham, Dec. 7. R. L. Flow ers, Secretary of Trinity Col lege, , Wag today named by the , State ' Methodist Conference to succeed khe late James South- . i - gate, as fa member of Methodist - . a .. . Education Board of the State. . -t ; The Sunday Sebol Ecard of the North Carolina Methodist Confer ence met last night in Memorial church, with WjB. Cooper, of Wil mington, presiding. J. M. Way, a Sunday school orga nizer cf the South, and M. V. Brad ham, retiring field secretary of the North Carolina-Sunday school forces, made brief speeches. 'Mr. Way favored the adoption of the Bible in the public schools of North Carolina and thought the peo pie were derelict of a duty in failing to adopt such a. measure. Whether the conference will or will not vote for unification of the Meth odist church," i America, according to the tentatiye plan submitted to the church at the last general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Oklahoma City, is the ques tion of paramount interest . before the Conference.. Both ; the Western North Carolina and Virginia confer ences recently voted in favor of uni fication and it is expected that hi conference win take similar action. The report of -virtually every de partment will show progre's in "the crk of the conference dnriny tha yer, it wts said. ; The North Caro lina Conference embraces all counties in the lEUte. east of the Yadkin rive nd skirting the edge's of JtandoTn Guilford and Rockingham counties. ? E. Thompson, of the WUmingtoa A. complete afternoon newspaper will be printed in connection With the institute on Thursday and Friday af ternoons. A t:le.irrnpli service will be had; a linotype will be used and newspapermen and printers from neighboring cities will "get out the rag." (By the United Press) METHODIST WANT DRY DISTRICT. Washington, Dec 7. Scnalor Overman today presented to the Senate a petition for a dry Dis trict cf Columbia from the West ern North Carolina Cont'eu nr.- of the Methodist Episcopal Clnirili, South, now in session at Gastrinc, N. C. It 'tis referred ts 'h,- Ju d'eisry comrctee. ARMY AERIAL BASE. Washington, Dec. 7. The War lish an aerial base and proing grounds on the lower Chesapeake Department will shortly estab the House naval committee to day was informed. The site will be across Norfolk channel just North of the Jamestown Exposi tion grounds. ' HOUSE COMMONS DOESN'T MENTION PREMIER. Laadon, Dec, 7. The House ot , Ccmmon3 met and adjourned todav j without any announcement concern-1 Ing the new ministry, to be headed by David Lloyd-Oeorge. Adjourn ment was until Tuesday. WILLIAM I. HOLT DIES IN BURLINGTON I Burlington, Dec. fi. William I. Holt, s:n of the late James H. Holt ..' Burlington, and a prominent cot- . tan manufacturer',, passed away at 'r.l'i tonijrht after a lingeiin, illness :.f s-everal months. Mr. Holt was 48 ' yi . .1 old. He is survived by five j brothers. j The funeral will take place from i the Presbyterian church in Burling in t i iujy at p. m. tne unite:! states aviII nave gone into private lands. Probably in less than ten yoars there will be no public land cf consequence that will be available 1 for ilie homesteader. There will still remain, however, many million acres of land which .can be brought into l rich nrcduetion bv the application of water. The Ejrr:eulturn? possibilities nf A'a'ka r.re still a matter of conject n t. although it is known that in thf Xanana Valley and In other portions the hardier cereals and vegetables will j grow. With the completion of the rMliond which is now beinfr coniltuct ed from Soward to Fairbanks there promises t Ue a considerable move ment within Alaska to make that country an asset which the Govern ment should further by undertaking a . broad plan of promotion. One feature of the work among the Indians lurlng the past year has been the effort to discover the In dians who were competent through a system f.f competency commissions ompnsrd of men of long experience amarg the Indians. A commission consist rf ihr?p men, who go through n reu'rvntion from h.'-nse to bouse, making personal studies of the char Thursday's Raleigh News and Ob server stated that Chief Justice Claik is boosting Congressman Kitch- in,"j!ttajority Leader and Representa tive from this district, for the Presi dency, saying: "Chief Justice Clark said yesterday to a fiiend: "Claude Kitchin is tim ber of presidential size. With fa vorable circumstances he may 'get there.' When the munition makers fnd steel trusts threw us into a pre paredness panic for the profits that are in it, the Floor leader kept his head. Now there has already come i in a billion dollar bill which is one i thousand million and many billions i more are coming up hereafter in sue j cession. Tne reaction must come when the masses find that they must dig and cielve to create more milllon- aiiei and multimillionaires by this o::essivo expenditure. They will lliea remember him." President Invited Men to Up to Whom He Was Under Ob- ment to Prove She Was ligations and, Through Courtesy, Wives Suf Merchantman frage! (By the United PrM) . Washington, Dec. 7. The Presi dent's dinner tonight to Democratic Chairman McCormick may develop fireworks. The reason is that Mrs. J. A. Hopkins, president of the New Jersey branch of the Congressionol Unicn, who campaigned against Mr Wilson is among the invited guests. Her husband, a prominent New Jer sey Progressive, was on tne commit tee who assisted in Wilson's elect Ion; hence he is invited. All wives of male guests are also Invited. Friends say "Mrs. Hopkins says WILLING TQ M, ByT Contends That Should Be Justification- for Idem-nity-Most Important of Submarine Issues, Officials Say (Bz the Uit4 lMki " ' Waahigton, Pec .f.Vm minis trattesi cowVdeni Use Gett man Arabic nt weak. . he plans to do for suffrage." GIVE LITTLE WJUF HomwrrH KINSMAN CLOSE BY THE CITY iMINCIIER WRONG BUT WHIPPING RIGHT, IS OPINION OF COURT ficf.r:r r,T upii 4hci To the lians Btld repswting ' That E. W. Mincher went too far, the In:lians progress Bureau of Mines T-'-FT SPEAKS SBTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Fermrr President Discuss Edward Livinirstr.n and His Itelations With Xr.inbles cf Early Part of -9th Century R:ileigh, Dec. C The State Lit ernvy and Historical Society this af tcrnoo:i e'erted as officers for the next yc. r the following: President, Major II. A. London; vice-president, Mrs. Manhail Williams, T. M. Pittman and M.'s. W. .N. Reynolds; secretary-treasurer, R. D. W. Connor. The comittc-e on art commission re commended that the Legislature be importuned to establish such a com mission on a footing similar to thai .-- 1 ! cf the State Historival Commission. When Mitchell Isler, colo-ed, alout This evening at 8 o'clock, th eau 22 years of age, riding a b.vryc'e, col-' ditorium of the Meredith College was lided with an automobile nar the in- thronged with people for the final tersection of Queen and Ncii-i slrtvt? event of the association sessions in Thursday, he found himself a paen- the address by Former President Taft ger in the car. The impact hurled cn Edward Livingston and His Rela- him through the windshield. About 25 stitchej had to be taken in sevc-e eats on his-face. . , ' s is riven j credit for developing methods for trratii'T low ?rade complex gold, lra'1, rilver, and zinc ores that prom ises to rejuvenate minjg In certain parts of the country and render val uable millions of tons cf ore that cannot now he treated profitably. This tlureau has since its organization trained forty-one thousand miners in mine rc.cu? work. Two new national parks were ad Jed to tlin e already under this De pnrtment. one consisting of throe tracts in Ilawal notable for their vol canoes and tne e-tner tne JL-a?scu vol- canic National Park in Northern Cal ifornia. At least after several years of ag itation a National Park Service has been created under which all of the j parks will be controlled as well as many of the national monuments. M0 HURT WHEN CAR CGLiMS WITH BICYCLE ELECTION OFFICERS. The Knights of Pythias 'will hold their' semi-annual election of officers at 7?30 Thursday evening, A ull at tendance is dtsired. , ' district, and 22 preachers have serv ed their time limit of four years on tions With Thomas Jefferson.", The address was given in the former President's best vein and was heard with keenest interest BOYCOTT EGGS, BUTTER WILMINGTON WOMEN Wilmington, Dec. 6. The Wilming ton ' Housewives' League at an en thusfastic martins; declared In . fa vor of a boycott on eggs, butter and cheese. Similar action is expected to WANT FENCE AROUND IITY, NONE Warsaw, Dec. 6. Several "free rangers" at Kenansville bad manda mus proceedings instituted to compel the County Commissioners to build a fence around the county at once. The summons was served on all the com missioners and the return is before Judge Devin at Ktnston on December 2 0. "The comploint sets forth that it has been seven months since the Supreme Court sustained the law as valid, and that the commissioners had failed to borow the money with which to build when, employed as a guard of con victs, hs chastised a white prisoner for insubordination, but that whip ping to discipline-convicts is neces sary, is held an the recent decision of the Supreme Court on the appeal of Mincher from a sentence in Superior Court here. Mincher is to serve a year in jail unless the Governor prants a pardon or commutation at a hoar'ng in a few days. The man is no" under repr.vn Thf opinion 1:, full, written by Jur'i.:e G. H. Brown, has been Thriv ed by Clerk of Superior Court .1. T. ile.ilh. Mincher was authoH?eJ to vblp prisoners. The County Com missioners in resolutions upheld the punishment. Mincher was stated to have exceeded moderation, and it was held that not sufficient advertise ment of the Commissi oners' regula tions had been made in the convict camp in his trial before Judge 3ond here. The Supreme Court upheld the lower court. But the decision that whipping of prisoners in moderation is justified is a clear victory for the cause of cor poreal punishment, according to ad herents cf the system in use. A strong appeal will be made to the Governor to free Mincher, for whom in some circles there is con siderable sympathy, not to say, how ever, that the sentiment is entirely on his side. Washington. Dec 7.-Ger- that if the opportunity offers she many has get Up hp COIVten will certainly ask the President what tion that the Steamy ArW ia was a troon transpdrt. it is admitted that she sunk it under that impression in her answer to American inqiiirv: ies, ' made public today by the State Department', - At the same time Germaay agreed to promptly draw the aftpropjrlaU : To either take little Carrie May consequences n in uwm aiases Oglesby as a gift or -purchase a part tne vessel M W ojWUWTi interest in her ssems to be the desire passenger. Uner rather than a trans-; whom the police here have received P0"- rt ,v y of a Smithfield, Vs., woman from Secretary Lansio refused co-. a letter. A few days ago a policeman f men on tne note- Tne edntents wejra , took the pretty 10-year-old girl from irecsea ana me main iacis tnerii- her mendicant mother, after 1$ was cwonicjw several oays r , learned that 6e child had been sleep- became" knewn that the not bI ing on open platforms and in leaves rriwd. The - StaUi $qmmm on onen platformi and In leaves on W PrtTely all aJong that the the Neuse river bank and going hmv Arabia hi'-tha main casjs npn nich gry a port of the time. Chief of tw Oermsn-Amerlican -, reUUqns Police Skinner had a clothier "doll wm probably depend. - j It is pointed out that pemany m- nhnaizes that her commanders were still under orders to follow Interna ttonai uw as oemanoed ny tne united States in its Sussex note. up" Carrie May and took her into his own home. A number of persons in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Via, and North Carolina towns have written the police to be allowed to take Car rie iMay. The Smithfield lady prom ised her all that her means would permit, and suggested that could she not have the child she be permitted to "contribute something to her sup port." But Chief Skinner has turned Carrie May over to a half brother at Falling Creek. The man is a pros perous - young planter and well able to care for the little one, they say. The would-be foster parents will probably be informed of the disposi tion of the pretty child and thanked for their interest. BAPTISTS AGREE TO TELL; WILSON 4S ABOUT FUNSTON State Convention to Send a Commit tee to Washington Don't Like tne Alleged Curtailment Activities of Preachers on the' Border HENRY'S OF STUFF HEOES HAVE IN EM one ehsrge,- but other changes are be taken tomorrow by Sorosis, an-. the fence, the estimated cost of build also expected, . ' other women's organization. ing it being $SO,000. DEATH OF FRANK STRICKLIN. Warsaw, Dec. 6. 'Frank Stricklin, after an illness of more than a year, died at his home here on the sixty fourth anniversary of his birth, v - (He is survived by his widow; a brother,: a sister, .and .the following children: Mrs. Leslie Carlton of Ma rine; Mrs. Collie Sheffield, of Mount Olive; Mrs. Ed Smith of near Warsaw; and Mrs. John Hill, Miss Mattle Lee Strickland and Mr. Floyd Stricklin of Warsaw. An odd turnout arriving here at 3:30 p. m. Thursday from Jones county was a buggy containing three negroes, one of whom. Henry Wilson, sat In the bottom with a bullet In him which, he said, had entered one side of him in the abdominal region and was lodging in the other side of his bedy. It was ret bothering him much. Wilson said George Wright, white, shot him, for "no cause a tall." Wilson Is in knee trousers but a man in size. His two adult companion claimed not to know of any reason whatever for Hen ry beig shot, but one sm led signlficuuy. The vlcilvi non chalantly stated thai ho had been shot since 11 a. m. He looked a little sour over the thing. The trio didn't know where to seek a doctor, and seemed to be In no great hurry, oat confessed they didn't know Just how Henry man aged to maintain his apparent health in the fix ha was in. FINAL REPORT SHOWS UP DEIOCRATIC DEFICIT Washington, Dec 7. The final Te port of the Treasurer of the Demo cratic National Committee shows his receipts , to have been $1,808,3 iS.lG,' sch exptaditureS,, $1,S4,539.74. (By the United Press) Elizabeth City, Dec 7-Dnr- ham was selected by the North Carolina Baptist State Conyen- tton, In session here for the meet .-; Ing piece next year. Elizabeth City, Dec. 6. The Bap tist State Convention In session to day appointed a committee to bear in person to President Wilson the pro test against what is designated by the conventionas the effort of Gen eral (Fupston to curtail the relig ious freedom of Baptist ministers in -preaching the gospel, as they believe it, to the United States troops along the border. The resolutions providing for tha committee recite that the convention! speaks for the 287,000 Baptbts of .. North Carolina. They were enthns iastically adopted. John A. Oates, of Fayetteville, president of the conven tion, is named chairman of tha com mittee which will call on Jfce Presi dent. - A great forward movement ira ' launched for the increased circulation; -of the Biblical Recorder, the denomi national organ. President William Louis Potest spoke of the progress and needs of Wake Forest College as dkk also President Chas. E. Brewer, of the in-' terests of Meredith College and Dr. B. W. Spilman those of Chowan Col lege. All these Institutions have out grown their present quarters ' and stand in great need of increased equip ment and endowment. ' . ' x Dr. R. T. Vann, who has been re elected corresponding secretary of tha Board of Education, r n ; - S appeal f t f ' I ! ' i r i ; tits '
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