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KINSTON, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1916
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TRAGIC DREAM bllE.POlR ; IMllTEDr
ADMINISTRATION.WANTS TO KNOW WHAT
PEOPLE EXPECT IT TO DO IN , MATTER OF
PEACE PROPOSALS FROM THE KAISER
ALLIES GRANT SAFE
FAULRNEH NQl APT
GREECE TOW m
TRUE; YOUNG BRIDE
SHOT BY A BROTHER
USED Iff AIRLY; IS
CONDp TO, COUNT
CHARGE OF
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TOFACE
ALLIED DEMAND S
FACE OF STARVAf ION
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Grwaay Cotthf Offer Con
stanlihe No Hope With-
standing Blockade
CHARGE BY KINST0N
I AT LAST
MURDER FORT BUS
European Neutrals Say TKaPAnythlhg" But Flat Kejec
thm of Offer Will Be Seized Upon as Cause for Begin
ning Overtures Sweden,
zerland Will Go Easy; Cannot Afford to Make Great
" Neighbors Cross Up to United States and Her One
TimcEfleroy. Spain, to Start Soothing of Turbulent
W0rjd President and Lansing Silent, and the Ameri
can Populace Strangely So
(By the United Pre)
WashingtonDec. 15. For nearly two hours the Pres
ident and Secretary Lansing today considered the ques
tion of supplementing forwarding the German peace pro
posals to the Allied capitals with some suggestion from
this government. At the conclusion neither the President
nor Mr. Lansing would throw any light upon what, if
any. decision was reached.
It was indicated alter the conterence mat me aiaie
Department least has little on which to work in the
way of refssibns of public sentiment in this country
except $k voiced by the newspapers. Heretofore the de
partni'eiit hs.teen flooded with telegrams giving individ
ual view&fof frfct ought to be done, but in this instance
none came. $fffpials admit the administration wants to
knbw what th public wants it to do .
NeriSs Wont Quit at Soft Refusal.
., Washington, Dec. 15. "Mediation efforts or sugges-
Uonigpy the United States on behalf ot a peace conference
wmfy immediately followed by similar action by all
Eumpeaii; .neutrals."
.the 'United States and European neutrals should con
sider jy. answer of the Entente Allies to the German
peace proposal save a flat rejection as an invitation to of
fer their gjpod services in arranging a peace conference."
-These statements were made to the United Press to
da by two of the best-informed neutral diplomats in
Washington, who are known to have discussed the ques
tion of peace with Secretary Lansing, and presumably to
nave presented tnese views w mm.
Action will be delayed, however, by the European
neutrals until next Tuesday, when the speech of Lloyd
George will give them a cue as to how to act. This is the
gist of cablegrams from their foreign offices to neutral
diplbiriats today. The United States and Spain, they said,
are the two countries which will take the lead if media
tion is offered. Switzerland, Holland and the Scandinav
ian countries are too dependent upon the 'absolute good
will of s both sides to run any risk of offending them by
unwelcome Jiction.
1 jiiiiiinjiMiiii ii i, tmi i.l
iMl NEW HEAD
OF NORTH CAROLINA
SHRINERS; POPULAR
John t,. Cameron of Jvinston was
Thursday afternoon elected to the
highest office in North Carolina
Shrinedom when he was made Illus
tnous Potentate of Oasis Tenrple at
Charlotte. t-
A Charlotte report says:
"J hn E. Cameron is one of the
best known business men of- North
Cawrtina,. in, addition to having at
tained th highest decrees of Fi-ee-masonry.
He was made a Mason in
Roundtree Lodge No.243, in 1897,
received the Scottish rite degrees at
Charlotte when Carolina Consistory,
the oldest in the State, was institut
ed, and received the degsefiof Knights
Tethplar at Haleih in 1901."
THE NATION AL FOREST
BUSINESS EXPANDING
(Special to The Free Press)
Washington, December 15. Na
tional Forest administration last
year was characterized, Ccordinjf to
Hnry S. Grayea, chief of the Forest
wvice, in his armal"eport which
ha just beeri published, by an In
crease of more than $340,000 in re
ceipts, which totrfed OTer $200,001.,
bT rapid progress in land class if ica-
toon y material mdvancV In devel
opment work, in which toad building
of the krest actorariind by
relatively anian losses from fore
fires. - .-: ,
receipta irxm iimber wew
over IM00.0OO, . 20 fer cent in
.f5' He gnting receipts were
Holland, Norway and Swit
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DEVELOP -TRADE IN
CHINA, ADVICE OF
T Southern Commereial
Congress Most Success
ful Convention Comes to
an End at Norfolk For
eigners Present
(Special to The Free Press)
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 15. The eighth
annual convention of the Southern
Commercial Congress, which closed
here last night, was characterised by
the officials of that body as one of
the most successful in its history.
With very few exceptions every de
tail of the elaborate program va-
I carried oat in every detail.
Norfolk is justly proud of having
acquitted herself so nobly before so
many representatives of not only the
South, but the greater party and sev
eral foreign countries as well. Each
of the sessions of the congTess was
well attended.
' Prominent among; the epeakers was
Hon. Wellington Koo, Minister to the
United States from the 'Republic ot
China. His excellency created a pro
found sensation at the morning ses
sion yesterday, with hia clear under
standing of the commercial relations
of the two countries. r'
' It you ask me what' to do after
the termination of .-the " European
war," he said in conclusion, 1 would
say, develop yonr trade with China.'"
AC the conclusion of hia epeechv Del
egate Upshaw of Ceorgia proposed a
resolution of thanks, to which the
trhole convention responded' wftn
WELL'GTON K00
Mrs. Murvin Not Expected
to Live Pistol Thought
Unloaded Most Regret
table Accident In Happy
Family
When a ll-year-cld son of L. IT.
Carter, a prominent man of the Deep
Run section, pluyed with an old re
volver, snapping it in the belief that
it was empty, Thursday night, the
only cartridge in it was discharged
striking and probably fatally injur
? his sister, Mrs. T. A.'-'Murvin
aiio:u U) years of acre and only for
10 or 12 weeks the bride of a well-
known ycung man of Lenoir county.
Mr3. (Murvin was visiting n her
lather s home. The night previously
Murvin had dreamed that she was
ill. The dream impelled him to go
to her. They were preparing to re
turn to their home when the tragic
accident occurred. She fell into' her
husband's arms. The bullet had
struck her in the side, hitting the
seventh rib and going upward and
inward. Mrs. Murvin was destined
to maternity. A profound hemor
rhage followed.
Murvin hastened to Kinston for
medical assistance. He had to come
11 miles, but happened in luck when
an automobile passed him on the
road. A Ion?: time after the accident
Dr. George Kornegay of this city
reached the wounded woman. He re
turned after doing everything possi
ble with the admission that her case
was desperate.
SNOW BLANKETING
, THE OLD DOMINION
(By the United Press)
Richmond, Va., Dee." 15. Four
Ft is still falling thick anfast.
Inches of snow fell this morning.
The fall appears to be general
throughout th State.
A Baldwin Lecture.
Mr. W. A. 'Baldwin will lecture at
Fairfield school next Wednesday
night: His subject will be the Holy
Land. The public is invited.
Western Union to Move.
The Western Union Telegraph's
local office, it is reported, will during
January be moved to "new and more
commodious quarters convenient to
the business' district, and entirely re-
enuippel. " the exact location can
not be learned and the office makes
no statement.
rising vote.
Nearly the whole of last night's
session was taken up with addresses
on the possibility of extending for
eiifii trade. China, Panama, Brazil,
Peru :.nd Argentine were among tne
countries represented.
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Against lite Committee In
Charge of State Football
Finals-Statement From
Friends Local Eleven
By E. B. LEWIS)
The following statement signed by
invself for the local committee.-'vaB
forwarded to State papers Friday to
be printed in the next day or two:
"A committee of three of the Uni
versity who have been for the past
three weeljs endeavoring to secure a
reversal of certain decisions and
requirements of the committee at
the" University in charge of the State
High Scnool Championship contest
in football, believes that it is due the
Kinston High School football team
to make the following public state
ment in regard to trieir efforts to se-
cure fair treatment from the
mittee for the Kinston team:
; . ... . .
com-
"The Kinston team entered ths con.
test this fall under the rules sent out
by the committee for 1916. (Rule 1.)
According to these rules, Kinstoh
forwarded to the committee by No
vember 18th. (Rule 2) This record
showed that Kinston had played foul-
games' and won three. The one game
lost was With Goldsboro and this
game 'was immediately protested to
the committee on the ground that an
ineligible player had played for
Goldsboro in that game. (Rule 3.)
On this protest the committee ruled
that the protest was valid, and the
player was declared ineligible (let-
:er of October 25th). This ruling
forfeited this game to Kinston with
out further action (Rule (lY, leaving
Kintton with a record, according to
the lilies, of lour games played and
none lost.
On November 20th. kinston was
t
notified by the committee that Kin
ston was scheduled to play Goldsboro
.ii
at Goldsboro in the elimination con
test on Saturday.- November 2otr.
(Jitter of November 20th). On No
vember 21st Kinston protested to the
committee dontr distance telephone.
MJv Rankin talking) the playinp of
tills game at Goldsboro and demand
dvfleutral ground -for this contest.
Kinston had played Goldsboro at
Goldsboro and in Kinston. Thfe lat
ter in the game here -delayed their
Ypearane on the ground until 5:15
p. m., and then ran off the field bet
tween dbwns without word or notice
hi
to- referee, umpire, or anyone else,
with the ball wrthin a" few feet of
their goal.
"Rule 7 of the Regulations for 1910
Ti
under which these contests were helo
reads as follows:
7. Immediately after- November
20h', the committee in a- consultation
wWh- the -different managers and
couches will arrange ; the games ot
the championship series for the pur
pose of selecting through a process ot
elimination two teams which shall
come to Chapel ilill for the final
State championship game, the date
for this to be settled by the commit
tee.'
"Having in mind the fact that
Goldsboro had played the following
schedule: Won from Cary with Ful
ton, the ineligible player, in the
game; (won irom junston wroi rui-too-in
the game; tied with Washing-
toj; lost to Kinston; won from
Washington; lost to Kinston; won
from, Washington-thus having won
onjyione game of five when playing
only eligible men, and thus according-
to Rule 6, appearing in the elim
ination by the favor of tjie cqrnm it
tee, which kindljr f(pe4.,,OvJt .Rule 2,
Rule 3, Rule C, end BuleU by virtue
of the reservation of, right to do oJ;(.The proposition presented for the
by Rule 12, Kinston felt Justified in
demanding neutral ground for the
game. If played it would constitute
the third game between the two
teams, each having won their home
game. Winston also felt with keen
disappointment the diecourtesy of the
committee in their deliberate refusal
to observe Rule 7, quoted above,- since
it was known and published in the
press of the State that the Western
games had been arranged for by a
conference with eoaches and man
acere. -:----. -,, . v -; ' .' -;' -
After aeveral costly iftod fruitiest
(By tho United Press)
London, Dec. 15. In ac
cordance with the request
of the United States, the
Allies have consented to
grant Count Tarnowski, the
newly-appointed Austro
Hungarian Ambassador to
Washington, safe conduct
to America.
efforts by telephone to get a change
of this game to neutral ground, these
efforts being brought to a close by a
flat" refusal to further consider a
change (telegram, November 23rd),
the Kinston management asked some
of the alumni if they could assist in
getting the change. Accordingly, a
few of them met on the ight of the
23rd and formulated an appeal to
President Graham requesting his as
sistance1 'in order that the Kinston
Hh School may receive just and
.fair treabwent in this matter by di
recting the committee to name neu
tral grounds for this contest.' This
appeal was presented to President
Graham:bi committee of three of
the alumiiiiigners of same, there be
ing about jtwehty or more who sign
ed it, onrNoverriber 25th. He imme
diately1 interested himself on behalf
f k'instnn. imnres3ed by the fact
that Kinston was making reasona
ble demand. ' " -
"No conclusion was reached during
the commiOtee's stay at Chapel Hill
but President Graham, in further ef
fort to make a fair settlement ar
ranged a- conference at Goldsboro on
November 2(!th, with the High
School committee, Goldsboro and
Kinston. In this conference Goldsbo
ro held that- the game had already
been forfeited to Goldsboro, but that
if Kinston wished to petition the stu
dent body for thefavar of a game
the petition would be presented to
them for action. Kinston then with
drew from the conference, naturally
refusing to petition either the 'Golds
boro school authorities or school boys
for a rijrht demanded of the commit-
... . i i.
tee in charge, hinston Knew wnen
Goldsboro offered to present such pe
tition that Goldsboro had refused a
prcp sal to play in Chapel Hill with
all expense, paid, and had irefused to
entertain any proposition to p lay
anywhere, gating that they held to
the alrekdy. forfeited game.
"Kinston immediately wrote to
President-- Graham that the confer
ence had failed to reach a conclusion,
asking, whao further could be done.
He replied, imeffect, that he had re
ferred the whole question back to the
committee, who reviewed the whole
matter, that their opinion was un
changed, and that he could not order
a change after the committee had
ruled. The full and free discussion
of the Kinston committee with Pres
ident Graham shows that he used
every argument possible to secure
for Kinston the assent of the commit
tee to the reasonable and fair re
quest made for neutral ground. When
this failed he felt bound to stand by
them in their refusal.
In the whole controversy Kinston
had no contention with Golds joro
whatever and never protested the ad
mission of Goldsboro to the elimina
tion contest, feeling that a game on
neutral ground would settle every
point at issue. Kin-ston has the best
football team in the history of the
High School, the best in Eastern
North Carolina, and has not had
an opportunity to establish the fact.
oortwaerawoiv 01 uie puouc ana xor
tihe high schools who engage in ath-
letlc con$etSfe under the rules made
by the HjgaySghoo Athletic Commit
tee at the(Jniversity, and. its action
ns deUcjdjVe, is
'-"FirsWiTh committee can do any
thing 't wishes to do without regard
to its own rules- or any rule of roa
son, justice r equity..
"Second.-There is witituted
authority , with power to www its
action or reverse, its doclsi m. : '
"Thirdi y dot Ilk it ye ca
quit,"
Local Man Who Shot Wil-
smtian on Border Is Not
lit Ceff, 'Neither Is Victim
Dangerously Hurt No
Malice
There seems to be nothing so very
grave about the case of W. Alpheus
Faulkner, now or until recently an
officer in the Second North Carolina
Infantry, who several nights ago
shot Corp. Norwood Barbour, from
Wilson, and a member of the same
regiment, at Part Bliss, Texan. Morn
ing papers Friday carried the state
mciita that Faulkner had resigned
under pressure, would be tried for
his life if Barbour died, and that he
was reported to have shot the Wil
son man after a brusque order and
bad feeling. - Information, to The
Free Press from Fort Blis Friday
afternoon mentioned nothing to the
effect that Faulkner had resigned, but
did give the following facts:
"Faulkner i confined to quarters
pending investigation. Officer in
charge investigation will not make
statement until 'proper time.' Shoot-
in? was not malicious, according to
general sentiment. There has been
no excitement. Barbour improving.
Thr fart that the officer would
make no statement is not surprising.
That is the army way. That Faulk
ner is confined to hix quarters and
not the guardhouse, would indicate
that if he has resigned his resigna
tion has not
been accepted as yet.
OF DIRECTORS
'L SCHOOL !
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THURSD7 AT SCH'OL
The Board of Directors of the Cas
well Training School met Thursday
at the school. All the members of
the boiird were present except Hon.
W. C. Newland of Lenoir. The board
heard a most interesting and encour
aging report from Supt. C. B. Mc-
N'airy, and witnessed a presentation
of a school exercise which demon
titrated to them that much progress
is being made by the school. The chil
dren, although deficient mentally,
show marked s improvement from the
training that is being given them and
their faces give evidence of the in
creasing intelligence which the
schooling is bringing to them in their
unfortunate condition.
Dr. McXairy told of the work being
done and of the urgent needs of the
school. His budget for the ensuing
two years, recommended to the board,
contemplates doubling the capacity
of the institution.
A dinner recess wax taken and the
members of the board and some oth
er friends were the guests of Dr.
nnd Mrs. McXairy at their hospitable
home, where the inner man was
bounteously and most palatably taken
care of in te tru McXairy style.
The board resumed its meeting af
ter dinner.
Those in attendance at the meet
ing, were: Dr. J. Y. Joyner, presi
dent, Hon. J. R. Baggett, W. A.
Thompson, R. E. Austin, A. B. Jus
tice, J. D. Boushatt, Mark Majette.
Rev. Bv N. Caviness, Dr. L. B. Mc
Brayer, Dr. W. H. Dixon, C. Dewey,
D. F. Wooten and Dr. McXairy.
CROP SHORTAGE IS
VERIFIED; - BUREAU
MAKES FINAL REP'RT
(By tha United Prase)
Washington, Dec. "15. Hope of re
lief from the high coat of foodstuff
through plentiful ' production was
shattered today with the final report
of the Bureau : of droa Estimates,
bowing: unneual ahartaga ai aUa
jor'cropa, ,. '':
BOARD
RUSSIA RETREATING
Being Hounded birermians
as They'm:Ban
lachia! Bura0:.V
hind Them VoiMim
Disaster
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(By the trnbed Jre)' v
London, Dec. 13.--GreeCi hi'SJ ac
cepted the Allies' ultimatum, ,iCentraI
news dispatches from' Atnori,. today
announced. The tn ' wij.jofc
made known. The orlguwVdWnantt
called for the aurrenda ofrjni;
control of the telegrapa aWC pofctaf
system and a.'guarantet1 of rtoutrafc
ity. ';.t-"
Russians Still Ranning, 'Aj.i,rf
Berlin, Dec. 1. -The Rusaiaa, artn-
ies are retreating in Roumanian They
left burning villages a'they.Ie&-eaV-
ed through Great WaflacAia.'it ja of
flcially reported. ' 'U
Buzau has been eaptuved hy - tUa
Germans and the retreating .icn'emy
s not allowed to rest.. The eneJttYi.of-
fered resistance in Fwtffleld ; pI-
Vions on the ouHtema but- t&attr line
was pieroedv -
Nothing Else for Athena vt,o a,, ' '
, London. Dec 15.PresutnaMythB
reported surrender py uTeec,tO",tb
Allied nltirrtnm Was bftcaMse fraece
foresaw being atar ved a out by . tha
Allied blockade.-' iSevTSTat Indwatwns
in tha interim betwaan tiioi-aattbllhh
ment of the blockade and -tpday'; re
ported action were that ,Kjpe' Qto
sfcaiifine was communicating jitlt
Berlin in the hopea,, if jossielot
throwtHg his lot wUh the- fitimk;
powers and effecting a junction of hia
forces with the GemartB'ilJ tS.8 Bat
kans. IS IAIN
BF TRAli
SCHOOL NEAR
?e-clected Superintendentt
Directorate Ask Improve
ments and Maintenance
Totalling Quarter Million'
Dollars
The Board of Directors of the Cas
well Training School, in annual rneet-
ng at the school Thursday, re-eiect-
1 Dr. C B. McNairy, superintend
ent in an executive session during the
fternoon. The directors adjourned-'
at night after a full day's 'buidha'ss.
The re-election was without ', W dis
senting vote. Member.of.the.':bojrd
said Dr. MoNairy's . admiriistrjiitioR
. v- ' f
poke for itself; they- regjird himV
fficient, progressiva i'lridHrwlfplei
heartedly engfOaaed ia'V,! '
ine coara aaoptea -im .repoftoi
the superintendent, made arlietfiu
the day, and decided to petition .tha ,
General Assembly for material lm--provements.
It was agreed to ask tha
Legislature for new buiklings ' And'
equipment asked for by Dr. iMcNaJryj '
cutting his recommen4atona for ad
ditions and maintenance 0? tha Wd
years by only about $34,000 'out pt 'jk :
total of nearly 300,00ft8kad for bf :
him. . ;'-v. . z,;i'i ;;-H;v
ELEVEN AND A HALF SfS
o:r BALES KOW
tfZ ; ' :.'- "v
(By tka TJ.aVta) r ,u
Washington , ,Dee, UTha 'totaj.
production of cotton ift 1916 cf torn".
fceaa totiimatieav waa il,5H,000 '-balesj ; t
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