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KINSTON, N. C. TUESDAY, DECEMBER ft, 1916
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BOSTON
Peace Without Reparation Will Not Be Considered for
Moment Berlin Cannot Have an End to Strife So
Easily Representatives of People Cheer New Premier
Pn.indlv us He Announces "Impossibility" of Peace
Now Prance and Russia Spoke for England Ameri
can Ambassador to Get Note Formally Declining to
Take Up Negotiations Unless Kaiser Is Willing to Pay
the Price
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(iy the United Press)
LONDQN, Dec. 19. The Allies will not treat
with Germany for peace until Germany formal
ly states the terms upon which her peace offer is
based, Uoyd-George renounced. The Allies'
terms are complete restoration and full repara
tion with an effectual guarantee for future
peace, the premier declared.
ncc. 19. "We do not propose to nut
heads into the noose, with the rope's end in Germany's
hands," declared Lloyd-George in his speech in the
House ofomrnons today. England and her allies do not
propose to enter peace negotiations without the knowl
edge -of Germany's proposals. This decision was an
nounced in the Commons by the Premier.
"Britain has endorsed every word of Russia's and
France's answer," the premier declared. There was
"Without reparation peace is impossible.
All the outrages on land and sea cannot be liquidated by
-1 fpw nimia nhrases about humanity."
L1nvd-Geor$re announced a formal note responding in
Ihia way jto the German peace proposals, as soon as it is
completed will De given to ine American emuay iui
transmission to Berlin.
Big Vote Being Polled
Billy Sunday et al. vs. Li
quor Interests Balloting
Culmination of Strenuous
Campaign
(By the United Press)
Boston, Dec-. 10. Boston today is
deciding the question of prohibition,
while the country looks on to see if
the growing tide of sentiment which
wept the nation will engu'f the Hub
After a momentous campaign Bil
y Sunday ind prominent citizens in
'..ehalf of prohibition, and bitter an
tagonism from the liquor forces. Bos-
i:i:in-i rnneil to the polls in force
early in the day presaging the great
est vote in the city's history.
Organization Looked For Hundreds of Sales Go By
Tuesday Night Will Be Beard in, New York
Kmston s Fourth Enter
prise of Kind Stock All
Taken
Stock Market Because
Telegraph Facilities Can
not Keep Up Offers
MlllTIA OFFICER IS
JUDGE SEVENTH DIST.
RUSSIA WOULD
OUT
TO BERLIN'S OFFER
(By the United Prew)
Petrograd, Dec. 19. The Coun
cil of the Empire today declared
unanimously in favor of a cate
gorical refusal of the Allies to
enter into peace negotiations with
Germany.
T
EARLIER T!
FUNERALS Mill
MAR CHRISTMAS DA
FAULKNER TELLS OF
BORDER SHOOTING
Lieut. W. A. Faulkner. Second
North Carolina infantry, who recent
ly shot and seriously wounded Sergt.
Norwood Barbour of his. (regiment,
has written his wife in this city, giv
ing the details of the affair which
nearly resulted in a tragedy. Faulk
r.er. he states, was junior officer of,
the guard at the time. His was the
r.iirht tcur, it 13 presumed, since the
Ehooting occurred at night, and he
vas making: his first round when pis.
tol was accidentally discharged.
Faulkno;- was in the streat of .Com
pany A at the time. BarbouT was m
K street, which would put him. in the
event the regimental camp was ar
ranged alphabetically, nine streets
away from where the officer was at
the time. Faulkner says he himself
took Barbour to thf .Fort Bliss hospital.
(By the United Press)
Ossining, N. Y., Dec. 19. Stan
ley Millstein, 19, and Charles
Kumrow, 29, gave Up three days
of life in which something
Plight have intervened to save
'hem, that they might spare !iiir
families the sorrow of Christmas
funerals. The youths went calm
ly to their deaths in the electric
chair at dawn. The double exe
cution wns set for Friday. They
csked to be permitted to die today.
COMMITTEE mB TO
SELECT NAVY ARMOR
MOUNA OFFICER
UPTWCU8S0l
As Long As It Is la Poetry Ameri
can Army Das Its Kipling Nov
and Re Comes From Swamps of
East Carolina IlaBSmall Regan
for Human Xif
A double postcard being circulate
n the 'border; ndT among , friends
"back home" bears a poem by Pri
vate Harry R.- Paul, machine gw
company. Second. JJ. C infantry wh$
niuted fxom .Kipstnn last ssoaune.
A copy of te.poemjis. cent Tee Free
Press with comment by a fellow sol
dier who eays.Paul claim 5,000 cir
culation for hU effort already. H
intimates that the hut two cipher
"added by Pan! for effect.- Say
tt orpaaSir tester: "
(Uy the United
Washington, Dec.
Press)
19. Admiral
Fletcher, Commander Frank Clarw
r-nd Rubin Backenhaus, civil engi
neer of the Boston- navy yard, were
today appointed by Secretary Dani
q!s a board to select the site for the
proposed aovernment armor plate
plant.
Raleitrh, Dec. 19. Capt. Albert L.
Cox, Third North Carolina infantry,
whose regiment is at El Paso Texas,
will quit the army to accept the
judgeship cf the Seventh disMct ten
icreJ him by the Governor Monday.
Ju:!.e Cox will succeed Judge
('joke, who resi med rtcently. He is
inly 33 years of afre. His home is
he: e; he is a prominent member of
the local har. He is the son of
Gen. W. R. Cox of Edgecombe
county, is married and has an inter
esting family. He studied at Chap
el Hill and Harvard.
Capital stock for a new State bank,
to be Kinston's fourth monetary in
stitution, is reported on best author
ity to have been over-subscribed. It
is planned to incorporate the bank
with $25,000, and that sum, it is said,
has been exceeded. It is rumored
that Mr. W. D. LaRomie will lip
president.
TL. 1 ...
ne suoscrraers, wno include a
number of leading businessmen of
the city, among them. it is said, Mr.
i. limes, Dr. Ira M. Hardy and
others, arc expected to meet Tues
day night to organise, after which
papers of incorporation will be ap
plied for.
The bank, it is said, will protobly
be located in the Hunter building, at
Monument coiner.
By LOWELL MELLET,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
F AN IMPORTANT
CHMOE IN WESTERN
THEATER, IT'S Si
BJU NONE OF THEN
FROG
San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 18. In
compliance with instructions from the
War Department to relieve national
g".-.rd v ganizations of border duty
is (on.l: ions warrant. General Fun-
I on to'.n
designed li;,000 State
:-o-po to lit; rtturaed to their home
stauoiM and mustered out of the
FeJeral service. The troops will
r?ioe homewara in inree unics, vne
first unit, to entrain witnin a lew
ij-s. The lelease of the guardsmen
ir.ciudcit in tne oruer win leave aooui
75,000 Siate uroops still on border du
ty.
The only Southern troops included
In the order were the J'irst Inlantry
tcgimcni; cf Virginia, which is in the
iceand unit. The other troops affect
ed are from Maryland, Pennsylvania,
nliflna, Michigan, Missouri, Iowa,
:Vat to'!;, Wisconsin, ivnnnesoia,
Ksnas nnd Utah.
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Tierlin, Dec. 19 Repulse of French
advances north of Rheims, attempted
after heavy airtillery preparation.
wa Retailed in today's official state
ment
After a vigorous engagement and
hand-to-hand -fighting the French
around Ohambrettes, in the Verdun
'sector, maintained their place in
front of the Germans, it is officially
stated.
MRS, (im WIDOW
OF 'GENERAL, IS DEAD
ner."
?aul wTite3 of the Tttrheol i
eade, and regimental commandfr:;.
Here's the verse on Gardner:
"First comes Colonel Gardner,
Colonel of the First, "
Wb saw th heli of, one. war
And is awaiting another curse."
Note by Paul'3 border eritic: "Old
nir.'s te'Ti'ble fond of beinnr curse 1.
o-i think. But just lot anybody here
'o it outside of Doetry."
PriTEte Pawl's- patriotism .nows
a limit. "He would croak willipgly,
ie says, but tnaa a punx yarn ne
mts up." Listen:
For, what do we care for dying
As long as we can see
ur noble flag. Old Cll (
. And know that she floats fre,?"
Prni ; stated to have asked Jim
kehegan, band leader of the Second, I march made by Pershing's column of
nut his composition to music. Me- j regular, Major General Scott today
: ejtsV fa said to have refused flatly, j told the SenaU sub-committee on mil
fht poei is a BelHven citizen and f itary affairs. .
he first literary star to come from J
Aere. ' "
(By 'he United Press)
Washington, Dec. 19. The ex
istir.K national guard system as
reorganized has not had a suffi
cient trial, but the guard has
shown remarkable development
to date. Secretary of War Baker
itstified today to the House Mil
itary Committee. In the event of
its failure, he favors "some sys
tem not voluntary, either uni
versal service or selective con
scription." Washington, Dec. 19. Had the na
tional guard been sent into Mexico
shortly after mobilization. tley would
have destroyed themselves and their
mounts in attempting the forced
Subscribe to The Free Press.
M1-3. Mary A. Gatlin, 8, widow of
the late General Richard Caswell
Gatlin, died at Chapel Hill, where she
resided with her son, Prof. Collier
Cobb of the University, Monday.
General Gatlin was a native of this
city. He studied at the University
of North Carolina and graduated at
West Point in 1831, a classmate of
Robert E . Lee and the poet Poe. He
served in the Florida and Western
Indian and Mexican wars.
The remains of Mrs. Gatlin were
sent to Fcrt Smith, Ark., -where for
mohy years she lived with her husband.
General Gatlin or one of his rela
tives, just which is not quite certain
in the minds of local folks, invented
the famous gatlin gun, the first suc
cessful machine gun, a ifimple ar
rangement of 10 or 12 rifle barrels
evolving about an automatic plung-
iew York, Dee. 1, 1B0 anxioua
aire the West and the South to dump
their money into the New York stock
market, the Western Union and the
American Telegraph and Telephone
companies cannot provide enough
wires ta accommodate them. Hun
dreda of sales, it was leairned today,
go by the boards simply because the
'.vires cannot carry the offers.
The other day when Germany's
peace proposals caused the greatest
dumping of stodo into the exchange
since the "silent panic" of 1907, the
relling orders of those western and
southern traders did not reach the
9oor of the. exchange until late af
ternoon. The out-of-town speculat
ors, who generally buy .play the
market long lost in the shakedown;
a large bulk of the profession-
era of the Wall Street dis-
rict had sold short and took prof
its on tne decline.
o furious is the trading on the
tock exchange that the tickers, sup
posed to keep every broker's and
bunker's office in even touch with
quotations, sometimes are 18 min
utes behind the market Even in the
cotton and grain exchanges business
has become too fast for the telegraph
wires and the tickers frequently lag
five or ten minutes behind.
In the open windows of the corn,
brokerage houses, one- today could
see the girl making , the wild, mys
tic signals:, to the ; traders on the
pavement, that neVec before were
made by feminine, fingers. The sup
ply of brokerage employes has run
short of the demand.
And lambs are so plentiful that a
ornrnt young man wno started a ma
gazine for their special treatment
four mmths ago is a full .blc4m pub
lisher today with big circulation and
advertising.
"The SouU and the West," an
swered R. T Hakey, chairman of
'he Finance Committee of the Stock
Exchange, asked today for an expla
nation of the six two-mulion-share
lays, and the twenty one-million-
shaire days on the exchange during
'Jhe past month.
The people of the West are trad
ing in New York stocks in a way none
of us ever saw before. They have
money as a result of the big prices
for crops, and they are making more
of it here, many of them. The good
cctton prices, likewise have put the
people of the South into the market.
Thev are netveomers. Southern bus
iness on the exchange in tfhe pat
vears has amounted to pncticnllv
othing. Now it amounts to mil
lions."
William C. Van (Antwerp, governor
of the Stock Exchange, agreed, ex
plaining that the people in remote
sections are trading by wire in the
Signed a 'Round Robin,'
Forbidden by Rcgula
tins; Uncle Sam Seized,
ft In Mails; Was for Pa
per 'Back; Home'
(By the United Press)
El Paso. Dec. 19. By orders of
General Bell, a rigorous investigation
is under way today to determine whe
ther discipline shall be administered
to G80 guairdsmen of the Eigbth Ohio
infantry for signing a "round robin"
pretest, addressed to a Ohio newspa
per, against further stay on tho bor
der, agftinat camp conditions and tha
army food.
It is stated in official quarters that
he ring leaders or possibly all of the
igners may be subjected to mild dis
cipline.
The original copy was intercepted
in the mails at Piatt, Kansas.
INVESTIGATION OF
PAPER SHORTAGE BY
GOIRE'S PROBABLE
ffiy.'he United Pre.-s'
' Washington, Dec. 19. The House
vules committee will report out im
mediately after the Christmas holir
days a resolution for investigation
of the news print paper situation, Re
presentative Bailey today atated, giv
ing as his authority a promjse made
him by Mr. James of the rules committee.
GETS BIG AWARD IN
BREACH OF PROMISE.
SUIT VS. OLD COUSIN
(By the United Press)
Pittsburg, Dec. 19. Miss Nellie
Richards was today given a verdict
for $170,000 in her half-million dol
lar breach of promise suit against
Henry iDeniston, her wealthy octoge
narian third cousin.
SAILORS SUFFER IN
WINTER TIME STORMS
Torpedoed HorsesMp Car
rying: IT Americans Was ;i
In British Service ; -
NQ YIOIATON OF PLEDGES
By Berlin , Gaverraient
'Vessel Sailed From New
port News, anWas, tte:
turning Empty-Nunk iln
the Mediterranean
(By the United Press)
Norfolk, Dec. 19. Battered ships
and battered men in port today re
vealed tales of wi)d buffeting by the
winter seas in the past few days
Many sailors were injured on lurch
ing ships.
cr which could be fired at the rate of
several hundred shots per minute, it stocks of concerns they know. Utah
is said. The weapon is not used in Copper, Texas Oil and Montana
ftrst-class armies in this time.
BRIEFS IN THE NEWS
NEIGHBORING TOWNS
A small boy sitting on the porch
of the Craven county jail at New
Bern was attracted by the noise of
falling masonry and prevented a jail
delivery. Negroes had made a hole
in the wall.
Eight persons on the schooner
power yacht Minnesota, owned by a
member of tho Chiccgo Yacht Club,
were rescued by surfmen when the
vessel went shTt at Caje Lookout
D. E. Lmgdale, a Wire Grass far
mer, killed a marauder eagle weigh
ing 29 pounds. Langdale had been
missing denvestie fowls. He saw fie
preyer drop a hea into eanal and
sat on gcard for the eagle until he
succeeded in eboetinff it '' - ;; ,:"
Powers stocks, he said, bring orders
from their respective states in large
numbers.
"But the influence of the foreign
business is more significant, to my
mind," he said. "South Americans
are coming into this market as a re
sult of conditions in London and
Pris that have shut them out of
their usual market. The volume of
business from; down there is, becom
ing very big.
"From Europe the cables are car
rying enormous business to New
York. The increase in our foreign
listings has been largely responsible
for the, increase of about 500 stocks
handled by thel New York Stock Ex
change, From, 1.200 our listings have
been raised to 1700
"New York undoubtedly will re
tain most of this new stock business
after the wtr. In facV we expect to
see it increase and this city to re
main permanently the financial cen-
re is -!i
i-rrD do'do'ed
n. ho said
third of the stock ex
ii;rh'i. investment. Vat
As for the specu
ie stock exchange is
exerting every effort to keep the
market free of manipulation, and that
everv safeguard the irovernors can
conceive has been thrown about trad
ing.
"Tne very intensity of the busi
ness now being done," he said, "may
be exnected to brine on a call for
congressional investigation. Wheth
er it does or not, the stock exchange
intends to keep its irecord clean."
William Shearer, manager of the
New York Clearing House, can tes
tify to the prevalence of the specula
tion bacilli.
"Same gamblers up in New Eng
land," he protested indignantly to
day, "are running a pool based on
the clearing house figures. They of
fered me a 'split' on the profits $50
or so a week if I would slip them the
figures in advance of the public an
nouncement" Shearer's official statement on the
banks in the clearing house, at the
close of last week's business showed
the banks to be carrying $73,790,840
more reserve than required by law.
It showed also that the total reserve
then in the banks' vaults, $347,726,
000, tu in actual hard monej; ;
(By the" United Pteee
Berlin, Dec. 19. The American ,
steamex Colambia wa. torpedoed
becausa, beiug once, released, a4-..
ter stoppage by a German sV .
marine, she sent wireless., wejii-,,
ings of submarine sope opera-,
tions in violation of neutrality.
This reply to. America' request
for information was handed - to
American Charge Grew today.
Washington, Dec. mTbe iuftna
inir.g of the fintisk mule transport
Russian, wilfe the. los of Ameri
cans, i held to. W no, transgression
of. Germany', pledge, a tho-,. vessel
was on. British wa$ basiaess..
London, Dec. 19. Seventeen Am
erican muleteers have been killed and
11 of fthe. crew, of , the. British, npnfe
transport ship Russian, which . was
sunk by a submarine la the (Mediter
ranean on December J4. The Brit
ish admiralty makes thi annWnce
ment as follow! . -iM'
The empty westboundi is&ftisfc
horsewhip ftttBsit.wasi 0nk hp;;.a
submarine : in thm : MedieiRerfiek ' on
kilW,: iiKlu4mp4heJief
first officer an4,..ecor,Qf.er.
Afc 17 AroeistcaB, muJeUerji? were
Wlad,, TheiR- namea haje,.bWeoin.
tnunjcatfld, to, dit.-Awerjkaa jML"
1HIKD LVCEUI1 NUHBER
rmWTllSKWlARD
The tfeird attwotioi ..tiftjjtceum
ouae, the We8tnnstor ,Oonetiy.I!ii-
tertainers, given in th,e,, Sunday cjaool
dltorium, of v the. Firei Baptist
Monday night, proyed to fce.pp.tyth
High standard set by the first two en
tertainments and by some, who hive
attended all the attractions, ' vfae
thought to be the best yet The at
tendance was small, far too email
ilthough the weather was exceedmg
'y unfavorable and the Christmas
-ush lent its influence to prevent tnc-re
people from availing themselves of
the good opportunity to enjoy , an
evening of uplifting and enjoyable
istime. .'
fhe Westminster company i com
" -c 1 f Misses Cole, Wilson and
Mr R-,'1. The ofening number, a
by Mis'? Wilson and Mr. Ball,
'.uniranied on the piano by Mitt
iV. m?de a hit and the succeeding
"mbers scored rounds of applause.
Miss Colete readings and "take-offs"
:vere exceedingly well done. Mis!
Wilson's voice wee very pleasing,
and her singing of a selection front
Madame Butterfly," as well al her
other contributions, was good.; Mr
Ball's tenor voice added to tho pro
gram and an hour and a hah of plea
sure was afforded those who braved
the elements. T "
The next lyceum. number will be
in Kinston Thursday night Oeeenber
28th. Drf'Len G. Broughton. the
noted pulpiteer and lecturer, will he
the attraction. - - '
cohon
About 25 bales of cotton were maf -
keted here Tuesday at prices raaginj
from 151-2 to 17 cents, , . ; ,
New York futures quotations; erere:
Open -, 2:46 h
January ...17.70 ,v 17.CS
March .. 17 Jl 17i4
May 18.00 18.01.
July ........... ... .17.99 18X4
October ...... .....180 18JJ8
Dccqpaber , .'17.51 " 17X
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