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ILYF PRESS ..i . The Home Paper Today's Nw Today" The Weather, Generally fair. PRICK TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS VOL. XIX. No. 116 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C. MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1917 FOUR PAGES TODAY HOOVER STARTS LOWER AND STABILIZE MR. MAXWELL SAYS "NOTHING SPECIAL" FOUR MISSIONARIES FROM AMERICA -TO AFRICA WERE LOST WHEN STEAMER HIT MINE AND SUNK OFF COAST OF CAPETOWN PRICES ON BREAD & OTHER FOODSTUFFS AND GIVESMEAT BARONS FAIR WARNING HASN'T ADVISED ANY RESIST CONSCRIPFN TO REPORT IS WORD FROM MARSHAL-HAIG NEGRO TENANT SHOT AND KILLED SUNDAY ON MR. DINES' PLACE John Diggs Victim of Gun i (By the Washington, Aug. 13. Herbert C. Hoover began a (Vive on high prcies. The first effort was directed toward levering ana staDiiizing me meats and other foodstuffs. He began today by serving nrtice on wheat barons that he will vigorously enforce the food control' Jaw, and declared that the Government was prepared to buy the whole 1917 wheat harvest ap proximately 650,000,000 bushels if necessary to pro tect both the producer and tilG C16ValOrS7 JIUIiCiD. uiotuwuiuio onu uaivcio tu iconic their margins profit. ALL OF KINSTON'S MEN AT OGLETHORPE GIVEN W. C. Knox Appointed First Lieutenant While Other Seven Elect Made Second Lieutenants Powers for Second Camp Kinston has the distinction of having eight commissioned officers in the list of Fort Oglethorpe first class graduates, I he commissions were issued Saturday by wire from Washington. Every one of Kinston's fellows who remained until the final test of the intensive training got a commission. In the list were three mothers, the Lewis boys, eons of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Lewis, who have the distinction of being the only trio of brothers In the Southern instruct ion camp and . one of the only two such family groups in all the coun try to try for officers' places. Those of Kinston's men, who re ceived their commissions, were W. C. Knox, first lieutenant, Second Bat tery Field Artillery; Robert H. Rouse, second lieutenant, Infantry Section; McDaniel j Lewis, ,secorl lieutenant, Infantry Section, Richard H. Lewis, second lieutenant, Infantry Section, James A. McDaniel, Jr., Merriweath er Lewis, Reynold T. Allen, all se cond .lieutenants, Infantry Section, and John C. Duffy, second lieutenant, Infantry Section, to be assigned, to duty in the regular army. It is possible that the Kinston contingent will be furloughed for, a brief visit to their home after the camp breaks Wednesday of this week. Second Camp Organizing. Kinston will also be represented in the second camp for Fort Oglethorpe, which assembles August 27th. Mr. J. A. Powers of the local bar has re ceived notice that he had been ac cepted for membership and Instruct ed to report on August 27th. New York futures Monday were: Open. Close. January 24.50 24.43 Mah 24.60 25.58 My 24.80 24.62 A"?ust 25.61 October 24.90 24.76 December ....... 24.40 24.45 NORWAY WILL REGISTER SOME SHIPS WITH AMERICA Christiana, Norway, Aug. 12. The Revision of the United States Gov ernment to take over ships under con struction in America yards elicits fa vorable comment in the Norwegian press. The newspapers agree that it w to Norway's interest if the ton nage is used under the American lag because the taxation then is more favorable than under the Norwegian flag. For this reason several Nor wegian ships already have been transferred to American registry. TJoregin i concerna- mlso are" es tablishing branches in the United States and incorporating them there nth Americans as directors, and it ' Ptd some of these lb, j ttvra the management of newly United Press) price ox uie American loai. consumer and called upon all MEN WITH RELGIOUS SCIPL'SABOIITWAR BE ASSIGNEB DUTIES Non-Combatant Nature Special Cantonment Sites for "Black" Sammies Be ing Considered Division Would Create Innovation at Front (By tha United Press) Washington, Aug. 13. The Na tional army will move to cantonment in three main increments, thirty per cent each on September 5th, 15th, and 30th, Provost Marshal General Crowder announced today. The dates specified are for the entrain ment at the home stations. The re maining ten per cent will move as soon thereafter as possible. Religious Scruplers Must Work. Washington, Aug. 13. Drafted persons, whose religious convictions prohibit their making war, will be forwarded to mobilization camps and will make up a par,t of quotas for their districts. They will be assign ed duty as non combatants, Provost Marshal General Crowder today an nounced. Men summoned for examination in America's draft army can't enlist in the navy, Provost Marshal General Crowder ruled. "Black" Sammies Division Considered. Washington, Aug. 13. Plans for handling of America's army of black Sammies are being perfected by the draft officials and the War Depart ment Should enough of the 369,886 reg istered Tiegro boys be selected in the first draft, a special fighting divis ion of these "dusky" Warriors will probably be organized. One training camp for negro offic ers has already been established in Iowa. The War Department is con sidering the advisability of special cantonments for the drafted blacks. "They will be a distinct innovation at the front," said a high draft of ficial, and said he "I never saw black troops yet become quitters urider fire." ALLIED POWERS WILL NOT ISSUE PASSP'TS STOCKHOLM MEET'G (By the United Press) London, Aug. 13. The allied na tions are agreed that no passports shall be issued to Socialists to attend the International conference, sche duled for Stockholm next month, at which peace is to be discussed. An drew Bonar Law, Chancellor cf the Exchequer, speaking for the Govern ment in Commons today announced that the United States, France and Italy had agreed with England that Bassports permitting attendance - on the conference should be withheld. . Invitations were originally issued by Russia, but Premier Kerensky is declared to be opposed to the ses sion, and whether paseoportt will be denied is yet not clear. Communication to Free Press Asks Space toDe ny Rumors That He Ad vised People Resist By Force The Free Press is in re ceipt of a communication from Mr. R. G. Maxwell of Duplin in which he space in the paper to deny mat ne nas advised any body to resist the draft laws. He says: "I am writing to ask if you will kindly allow me space in your paper to say that the state ments to tne errect that 1 am or have been advising people to resist the conscription law is absolutely false intoto." "Again the report that I have been or am advising any one to. forcibly resist the law is unqualifiedly false, About my 360 men at Potter's Hill, have not been to Potter's Hill within five years or had a conversa tion with a resident of that section since the conscription law was pass ed." . .1 . i Little French Subjects Making Scrappy Fighters Regardless of Caste, Etc. By Henry Wood (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the French Armies, July 15 (By Mail) Annamite troops, "the little, brown men," of France's colon ies in Indc-China have just had their baptism of fire on the western front. The Annamites are the smallest men participating in the European conflict, yet they have acquitted themselves in the fighting in a man ner that gives them rank alongside with the troops of greater physical endowment. The Annamite battal ions are composed entirely of volun teers. Their first public appearance was on July 14, 1916, the French na tional holiday, when along with the Russians, Canadians, English, Bel gian and Australian troops, they par ticipated in the military parade at Paris. Almost without exception they are students from the French schools, colleges and universities in Indo China. The announcement there early in 1916, that volunteer battalions would be formed fon service in France, re sulted almost in the depletion of the French educational institutions. The students enlisted almost to a man. In the battalion now serving in France are Annamites with the rank of count, with the rank of mandarin of the first, second and third class es, and various other distinctions of cast and nobility. Amongst them selves all the courtesies to which these ranks give title are scrupulous ly observed. But when the batallions are ftormed for fighting on other service on the French front, the counts and the mandarins become merely private soldiers that they temporarily are, and the brothers of all the rest. When the Annamites were first brought to France there wano Idea of using them as fighting troops. Their small stature seemed to pre clude that They were drilled and employed in all of the various ser vices of the rear, such as convoy chauffeurs, road builders, forestra tion work and similar cocupations. Their constant proximity to the front however soon aroused in them an ar dent desire to participate in the fighting, and now after a little more than a year of faithful service in the auxilliary service of the French army they have been given their chance to establish their right to be in the fighting ranks. Their place Seems too, to have been permanently won. ; JACKSON MAY BE DRAFTED. Greenville, S. C Aug. 12. Jo Jackson, star outfielder of the Chi cago Americans, has been summoned to appear before the local exemption board here .or examination for the national army. i . (By the United Press) Third Week of Flanders Battle Begins Sharp, Brief Engagements Mark Fighting British Artil lery Giving Good Account London, Aug. 13. The .battle of Flanders entered its third week with Marshal Haig's statement announc ing "nothing of special interest to report" Sharp brief engagements, howev er, marked the past 48 hours as the Germans endeavored to regain some ground taken by the British at the end of last week. The enemy persist ently endeavored to retake Westhoek Ridge. The British artillery, how ever, has been extremely welt serv ed, and attacks have been broken up with heavy losses. Austrians Reinforcing Italian Front Rome, Aug. 13. The Austrians are hurrying reinforcements to the Carso front in anticipation of a strong Italian attack, according to reports here. The Italian aeroplanes are extremely active at Carso and other fronts. Technically Trained Men Will Be Greatly In Demand After War Special to The Free Press) West Raleigh, Aug .13. The great demand for men technically educated in agricul'tur," engineering, chemis try and the manufacturing industri es, and the fact that this well con tinue for many years during this war and during the period of re building which must follow it is causing the North Carolina College of Agricultural and Engineering to make special efforts at this time to create in the minds of young men not liaible for military service a desire for a. technical education. Dr. Wal lace Carl Riddick has issued a folder "Technical Education the Present Need," in which-emphasis is laid on the fact that the young men must prepare themselves to be in the po sition to attain personal success as well as render service to th(r coun try. In addition to this folden oth ers have been issued from each de partment of the College in order that all phases of its instruction may be brought to the attention of students who contemplate going to college this fall. This campaign is being made in view of the fact that many thousands of technically trained men have al ready been killed in Europe. Until the entrance of the United States in to the war it was seen that the prob lem of reconstruction along all lines of industry would devolve on this country. Now since our own coun try has entered the war on the side of the allies, it is more than likely that a great number of technically trained men will be called and will also volunteer, thus depleting the ranks of those who could be used. It is absolute necessary therefore that a great number of assistants lie turned out to assist those older men who are not liable for military ser vice. Dr. Riddick calls the atten tion of the would-be student to ex tracts of letters by some of our prominent men in state and national life who are advocating the colleg es' endeavor to maintain their courses as far as possible on the usual basis. The College of Agriculture and Engineering is making preparations to go forward with its ronrk as usual this fall. The employees of the Col lege, Extension Service, and Experi ment Station have all spent a busy summer in connection with the in crease of food products, the work in the Summer School and preparing for the Boys' and Girls; Short Course and Fanners' Convention. "With the close of these activities and the open ing of the fall term of the college year,, 1917-18, practically "mil of the instructors and assistants will be on hand and it is expected that work will be resumed at' at near normal conditions as is possible, i ' In Hands of Walker Marsh Self Defense Probable Plea Marsh Surrendered As a result of a fight between Walker Marsh and John Diggs, ne gro tenants of Mr. iovit Hines on his Stevenson place in Jones Coun ty Sunday afternoon, Diggs is dead and Marsh is in the hands of the of ficers of the law. Marsh gave himself up. Accord ing to Itelephone information from Deputy Sheriff T. B. McDaniel of Jones County to The Free Press Monday morning, he will plead self defense. Mr. McDaniel said that from the information he had, the kill-, ing occurred at JViarsh s house, ine wife of Diggs, who is thought to have been drinking, took refuge at Marsh's, when it is claimed that Diggs threatened her, Diggs appear ed and- demanded that she come out, He was armed and when hia wife re fused to to come out and Marsh took her part a fight ensued with the re sult that Marsh shot Diggs. Mr. Ilines was apprised of the af fair by his farm superintendent, George W. Wright Sunday afternoon. Wright phoned him Jbut he could get very few details. Mr. Carney Daughety reported the killing to The Free Press (Monday, saying that he. had seen the body Monday morning etill lying in the bushes awaiting the coming . of the coroner. . in addition to tne snot wounds, there were several knife wounds, said Mr. Daughety. The Star Spangled Banner's Music Its Composer, Who Was He? (Special to The Free Press) Washington, Aug. 13. "Does any one know who composed the music of "The Star Spangled Banner?" The hymn "Anacreon in Heaven," com posed by John Smith, an Englishman, about 1770, is the original music of our 'national anthem, according to a recruiting official of the United States Marine Corps. Anacreon was an ancient Greek poet, a sycophant and a great drunk ard. The young -Maryland lawyer, his masterpiece to the tune of Smith's lymnal inspiration, j Captain John S. Pigott, living 8 miles from Beaufort, lost his home and he and family narrowly escaped with their lives Saturday morning when a great water spout struck their home and completely demolish ed it. Hace Green of Winston-Salem and Marvin Shore wa3 perhaps fatally hurt when the motorcycle on which they were riding dived off a bridge near Lexington Saturday. Shore was operating the machine and Green was a passenger. The latter went down to the railroad tracks forty feet below with the machine and struck hi3 head against one of the rails, dying instantly. Shore struck a heavy bridge timber and fell to the grass below. . . R. B. Bryson, trusty at the State's Prison and Warden Busbee's chauf feur took french leave one night last week. i A. Dughi, held in Wake jail on the charge of attempting to kill his wife, waived preliminary examination and was released on bonds aggregating $1,100. . Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham,, form erly Mrs. Flagler and. Miss Keenan of Duplin County, bequeather $75, 000 to the University of North Caro lina to be used in establishing a Ken an professorship there. . i STATE NEWS "City of Athens" Unclaimed By Any Ameican Owner and Listed As a British Ship, Struck a Mine and Went Down Missionaries En Route to Stations in Africa and Within Sight of Destination Lost Lives Man, Wife and Six Children Among Victims of Disaster (By the United Press) . ' . Washington, Aug. 18 Five Americans lost their lives when the American vessel, City of Athens was sunk by a mine off the coast of Capetown, Africa. Four of the crew and ten additional passengers were lost. BULLETINS (Bv the United Press) NEW GERMAN AIRPLANE "WINGED." London, Aug. 13. Two of the German airplanes, which raided the coast resort town of South, bend and other towns Sunday, were downed by British flyers, the Admiralty announced. One of them, "Golha," was a new type of German plane. PROSPECT SETTLE MINERS' STRIKE. Washington, Aug. 13. The first step toward a settlement of the Kentucky coal mine strike, in which 18,000 miners walked out last Saturday, was announc ed by the Labor Department. The miners and owners have agreed to an informal conference for tomorrow. i : 18 DOLLAR HOGS PREDICTED IN CHICAGO. 1 Chicago, Aug. 13. Eighteen dollar hogs before September were predicted today by commis sion men. The top prices were $17.40 a hundred pounds. BASEBALL PART OF JAPANESE CONSOLIDATION PROGRAM" (By the United Press) Tokio July 7 (By Mail) Ameri ca's national past-time, baseball, is to be used by Japan as part of her "consolidation" program in Man churia. To strengthen the ties be tween the home country and the "sphere of influence" in China, two Japanese college nine will go to Manchuria this summer to play ex hibition game and instruct the nativ es in the sport. PACKAGE CARRIED HOME BY THE HOUSEWIFE WILL GO FAR TO RE DUCE A USELESS WASTE By George Martin (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Aug. 13. Wherein Miss Ida M. Tarbell lays the charge cf intellectual xhiftlessnes at the door of the American housewife and points out that it costs her mer chants $75,000,000 a year to lug home her packages for her: "The greatest immediate war bene fit of curing this laziness in milady." said Miss Tarbell today, will be to release 100,000 able bodied deliver) clerks as righting men at the front." Pausing long enough to take a bit of the sting out of her chargre by saying she believes all the American housewife needs to cure her is the Government's suggestion, Miss Tar bell went on: "The Commercial Economy Board of the Council of National Defense has discovered that the delivery of the housewife's goods is one of he most expensive luxuries we indulge. "A world at war cannot tolerate sloth, waste and indulgence. "On a food bill of twelve and three quarter million dollars in 1916, Washington housewives paid $900,000 for having the stuff sent home. Ice, bread, milk iand ice cream cost the most "What is true of ' Washington is true of every American city and town The board estimates that the gross delivery expense of retail grocers in the country is $75,000,000 a year. What for? For the hire of men to put up packages, run Wagons and trucks, put your things at your door, The vesel carried missionaries from Brooklyn, New "York headquarters to Capetown. The destination was al most in sight when the vessel struck Z a mine. The dead are: Mr. Summer and four missionaries, Mr.' and Mrs. . Naygard, Miss Robinson and Miss " Carolina Thompson. In addition to these, the State Department said a man, an Englishman named DucK- . worth, his American wife and aix;,- children were lost 0 la ' -' The only steamer listed by Lloyds is a British ateamer of 6,594 tons and registered at Glasgow. Officials of the American Navigation Company at New York, first reported to be owners, said they did not own a ves sel of that name. An Earlier Report Washington, Aug. 13. Several Americans perished when the Ameri can vessel, "City of Athens" struck a mine near the coast of Capetown, Africa and sunk, the State Depart ment was advised. All the passcngr ers are reported saved. VIRGINIA'S ALLEGED PLOTTERS PLACED ON TRIAL, HIGH TREAS'N (By the United Press) Big Stone Gap, Va., Aug. 13. under, guard of eight special agents of the Department of Justice "old man" W. V. McCoy and J. W. Phipps, alleged instigators of a plot vk01"" unutu&ni. iftuunuun- men for a revolution against their country, were brought here from Ro-' anoke for trial for high treasion to day. The Federal court opens here today. It is undecided just when the trial will be called. not once but often many times a day. Housewives visit the stores in cars, carriages or on foot, but they never think of carrying home anything. . "The merchant is partly responsi ble. His willingness to serve her careless and irregular habits of buy ing is one way he builds up good will. The women have come to fell that if they carry bundles they will be class d as undesirable customers. In our rreat cities the cost to the depart nent store tff delivering packages is 'rom 8 to 25 cents apiece. It is not incommon for the cost of delivering: in article to exceed the cost of the article. . t "There are a few towns in the .ountry where the delivery evil has been stamped out Ann Arbor, Mich gan has had sensible system such as we all need, for eight years. For merly they used 70 wagons. Now they use only 18. There is but one delivery a day. Every woman, knows what she wants and all that she, wants and she gets in on the one de livery. All women could do this.' "There are a' few other towns' where cooperative delivery has teen -installed and effected a tremendous saving.;:;'.' :.-'- .-: -. .'T.-'"."1'.- .. "I am sure each city, each woman will do her share to get this system throughout the country. They will free, 100,000 men for useful service when they do. A package in the hand will then be as truly a badge of hon or as a Red Cross button . on tha ! waist" - i v : "'1' " ' - V
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