North Carolina Newspapers

1 9m DAILY 'FR The Home Paper iAOXS CENT STAMP PLACED HERE - Wifl fUc1 life r.Mr to On Of Cm SaUiart la Fraaea. Today Nw .may X VOL. XIX No. 184 FIRST EDITION KINSTON, N. C. THURSDAY,- NOVEMBER 1, 1917 ftrcj Ttm d&irtn' - FIV E CENTS ON TRAINS l'"" 1 1 i i ) i I CAMPAIGNERS BIGGEST AIR FIGHT IMISSIONERS 10 IENT ANOTHER AMERICAN TRANSPORT HIT BY TORPEDO, GETS OFF UUUIlrtUI IlflUHUi! HF WILL WIN. GET SUPPLIES WITH VET OVER BRITAIN - . . , ALLIED CONFERENCE HAVE BEEN CHOSfeN COMES AFTER-LONG A VICTORY, SEEHS, IN HERRING "CASE LOCKS WITH ENEKiY WHICH START DRIVE MANY ENEMY FLYERS PROBE GRAND JURY ( - 1 - DECUftES LOCAL CADORNA COI MEANS' INDICTA DEMOCRACY HAS YION nOEK "Determined Avenue Cry o Pain Issuing From Sa cred Soil" ALLIES ARE ? CONFIDENT That Von Mackensen Has Whipping Coming to Him on Tagliamento's Banks . Invasion Slows Up ; "Backroll Comin)r' (By the United Press) Rome, Nov. J.- "Italy is determin ed to resist and conquer to avenge the cry of pain that is issuing from the country's sacred soil," General Cadoma said today in a telegram to Premier Orlando. Allies (CWifldeht. London, Nfv- 1. "The backroll is coming," Premier Lloyd-George tele graphed Premier Orlando today in expressing the Allies' satisfaction at Italy's courage under the invjiskn and confidence in her future. Halg Prepare to Attack. London, Nov. 1. British artillery blasted away today at enemy concen trations around Passchendaele ap parent' being prepared for attack reports Gen. Haig. Lines Being- Drawn Rapidly. London,' Nov. 1. The lines for the all-important battle on the Italian plains are being drawn rapilly. Ggn Cadorna has skillfully conducted his retreat and his forces are now being masesd along the Tagliamento River's flooded banks. The Austro-German drive has slowed tip appreciably and the situation for Italy slightly better. U. S. RED CROSS FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS IN FRANCE Washington, Nov. 1. Children's relief in France by the American Red Cross now includes a campaign against tuberculosis and children':! diseases. A children's hospital has also been opened by the Yankee nurs es. A cablegram describing th'3 work of the American children's bureau gives a fresh insight to German Rightfulness. ' The little town f Nesle was looted. The American doctor found more than 1,000 children there practically with no medical care, all miserably dirty and one-half of whom were in frcted with skin or eye lesions. The Children's Bureau begnn work bv installing a central depot at Nesde w;tb ten beds as a clearing house tot the district, and by eqa-'jip'" n automobile aS a traveling dispensiry, v.ith shower 'baths, The car visits the vi'lages on a daily round v.'tH one Good trained .nurse and two aides. ; HUMOROUS VEIN DISPLAYED BY POPE BENEDICT XIV. Rome, Oct. 10. By Mail.) Prob bly the world does not look for hu mor in Benedict XIV. But the story, now going the local rounds, reveal this vein in him. - Italy numbers, many self-styled artists, who paint their best pictures in Imagination. One of them, an American, recently did a pretentious portrait of tite Pope from a photo graph. Proudly he took his master piece to. the Vatican, beseeching a signature . and a biblical reference from'ltis Holiness. Without a moment's hesitation the Holy Father wrote, "It is I! Have no fear!" Then he signed his name With a flourish beneath "it '. TOBACCO ' Wednesday's . sales, estimated, weTe between 130,000 and 200,000 pounds, with prices practically the as Tuesday'.. Fair, breaks are f Pected Thursday and Friday.' Food Pledges Soon Will Fly Thick and . Fast Le noir Prepares Join Forces of Democracy's Conser vationists Food Administrator N. J. Rouse Wednesday morning sent out the supplies home cards, kitchen cards etc. for the Food Pledge Campaign in Lenoir County. He statea that he will consider it a personal favor if those in charge in any district not receiving the supplies will noti fy him immediately. There will be .an important meet ing of the County Central Commit tee at 7:30 this evening in Mr, Rouse's office to plan for the cam paign in the City. A small army of pledge workers stumped the County Tuesday after noon in the interest of the campaign, A speech or two speeches was made in about every school district m the County. Those who spoke and the schools at which "they spoke follow: Grainger, Rev. B. P. Smith. Bethel, Mr. J. F. Taylor. Barwlck, Mayor F. I. Sutton. Hugo. Mr. J. L. Hamme. Contentnea, Mr. C. F. Harvey. Airy Grove, Hon. N. J. Rouse. Fairfield, Mr. J. F. Liles. White's, Miss Jennie Shaw, Mr. T. V. Moseley. Oakdale, Mrs. C. F. Harvey. Farm Valley, Mr. H. Gait Braxton. Daly, Mr. Chester A. Walsh. LaGrange, Dr. James M. Parrott. Byrd, Mr. Melvin Robinson. Bland, Mr. Oscar Hardy. Piney Grove, Mr, B. P.. Smith (8 p. m.) Smith's, Mr. Y. T. Ormond. New Hope, Mr. Geo. B. Greene. Sandy Bottom, Mrs. E'ettie Lee, Mr. R. F. Hill. Moss Hill, Mr. C. W. Pridgen. Tyndall, Dr. Ira M. Hardy, J. B. Dawson. Trent, Rev. W. 0. Bodell. Pink Hill,. Mr. G. G. Moore. Woodington, Messrs. T. W. Mew- born, D. F. Wooten. .McGowan, Miss Edna Fellows, Mr. . T. Pate. Waller, Mr. G. V. Cowper,. Deep Run, Mr. J. A. McDaniel. Sand Hill, Miss Adna Edwards, Mr. J. T. Heath. Dunn, Miss Ida Ethridge. j Institute, Mr. Plato Collins, Sher iff A. W. Taylor. Oak View, Rev. C. W. Howard. Aldridge, Mr. J. P. Joyner, Mrs. D. L. M. Fields and Mrs. Crawford. Wheat Swamp, Mr. D. T. Edwards, Miss Mary Tapp. Lynwood, Prof. K. R. Curtis, Mrs. L. J. Mewborne. Lawson, Dr. W. T. Parrott, Miss Mary Watson. ULRICH SUSPECTED OF BEING LT. (By the United Press) Mobile, Oct 31. A German an swering the description of Lieut Hans Berg, German navy officer who escaped from Fort McPherson several days ago, was arrested here today by Justice Department agents. He gave the name of Alois Ulrich and claimed to be a "blacksmith" from Orange, Texas. Telegraphic in quiries were immediatefy dispatched CLERKS AT. A. C. L. IAIN OFFICES OUT Wilmington, Oct 31-Following a unanimous vote last night the clerks in the general offices, local offices, yards and other departments, of the Atlantic Coast Line struck, virtually completing the tieup of the entire clerical end of the Coast Line system BERG Germany Sent 7 Groups to Raid England Three 'Planes Penetrated to Heart of London Cas ualties Slight (By the United Press) London, Nov. . The most violent aerial battle London has ever seen marked a raid y German aircraft ever the British capital hit night "Three hyi'. '.i aircraft i-m tratc.l the heart of Li-don," Lor 1 '.r:-h announc1 t.-ay. "fc'omos were dropped in ;iie Southeast ana South west. About 30 machines engaged the invaders." Lord French reported that seven groups of raiders were sighted over the Thames estauary and along the Kent and Essex coasts. "Our casualties were comparative ly slight considering the number of machines and the nature of the at tack," said Gen. French. The roar of shells was continuous and ear splitting. London's official statements fail to give the number or machines in each group, but on other occasions the Germans were accustomed to fly in groups of from five to 10 ma chines. This means that a total of anywhere between 35 and 70 ma chines participated. BRITISH MAKING BIG RAIDS London, Oct. 31. in the past 4H hours British naval planes have car ried out the greatest series of raids since the start of the war, accord ing to authoritative information ob tained late today by the United Press.. It is said that more than 200 bombs were dropped by K. N. S. flyers. Young Colored Man Horribly Mangled in Gin Belting Wednesday Jim Mewborne, a young colored man employed at a gin on the farm of Mr. J. Hyman Mewborne 1n Vance Township, was horribly njangled Wednesday morning. His clothing became entangled in the belting and his body was hurled with terrific force repeatedly against the floor of the ginhouse before the engine could be stopped. Mr. Hyman Mewborne and his brother, Mr. Palmer Mewborne, rushed the unfortunate man to the hospital. Little hope is held out for is recovery. His feet, it is said, were both beaten on aooui me ankles and were dangling by mere threads of skin, the bones of the legs being entirely exposed. He bore a (rood reputation. lie was raised in the community and was named after Mr. J. H. - Mew borne, father of Messrs. Hyman and Palmer. Mr. Palmer Mewborne told The Free Press that the man was instructed to tell the engineer to put on a belt, which had been thrown off, and instead attempted to adjust the belt himself while the machinery was in -motion. His coat was caught with the terrible result BIG TOLL BRIDGE TO BE BUILT NEAR, HENDERSON. Henderson, Nov. 1. Construction of a proposed bridge over the Roa noke River at Cannon's Ferry will call for an outlay of approximately $60,000, according to estimates sub mitted to the chamber of commerce here. A dirt fill" for a distance of several hundred, feet at one end will mean the expenditure of several thousand dollars additional. - The Chamber of Commerce plans a stock company to finance the building of the bridge. It is estimated that 30 automobiles daily would pas over the struetare, and a ?1 toll for cars has been suggested. First Time This Country Has .Participated in a War Meeting TEAM WORK IS NECESSM Decided by Bier Powers Roumania, , Weary and Penniless, Must Be Giv en New Lease on Life to Stick Cooperation (By the United Press) Washington, Nov. 1. President Wilson has selected the American commissioners to the great Allied war conference at Pons November the 15 the first in which the United States has officially participated. Their names will be announced soon. Their work has been outlined. The German drive against Italy has demonstrated perhaps more than anything else the need for clos?r ooperation between the Attics. Foremost among the questions to be considered immediately at the con ference will be military and econo mic conditions in Russia and Italy. The Balkans situation, particularly as regards Roumania, presents some delicate points. Roumania penniless and in serious straights under strong Teuton influence, is about ready to abandon the struggle. Plans for re habilitating her army will be laid be fore the conference. 12 1.2 CENT SUGAR. Despite the advice of the National Food Administration to consumers to pay no more than usual, persons who purchased sugar, from one or two dealers here Wednesday paid 12 1-2 cents a pound. Many dealers were entirely out. Col. James R. Cole, native of Stokes County, N. C, 32nd degree Mason, graduate of Trinity College, N. C, and commanding officer cf the 46th North Carolina Infantry during the War Between the States, is dead at Dallas, Tex. He had been in the Southwest many years. Greensboro will see automobile races November 7. James P. Bennett of Ringgold, Va., came to Raleigh recently to at tend the funeral of his mother-in-law. While there his wife was stricken with paralysis, Bennett's car was damaged in a collision with an express wagon and he was in jured, and now his daughter is in a hospital at Danville, Va., critically ill. A Washington special to the Greensboro Daily News says the clerks' strike on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad will not hamper the shipment of lumber from this State. Every, Crumb Saved . Will STATE NEWSj Nations Infinitesimal Sacrifices Accumulated Will Go Long Way Toward Making World Safe Much of what the American people are wasting will in future help to iced the Allies oversea. Million and millions of Americans will pledge Ihemselves to this during the present week. Will you be one of them ? The pledge: " .1 fLEIGE CARD FOR UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION If you have olrrmly hIkiicU,' taag tkia on to m friend. . TO TUB FOOD ADMIMSTHATOIl: , : - ' , V. - I am glad to join you in the service of food conservation for rai nation and I hereby accept membership in the United States Food Ad ministration, pledging myself to carry out the directions and advice of the Food Administrator in my home, insofar as nij circumstances permit.. - ..'.V' ' Name .......... Street .......... Citjr rhr fcxa no fce or dues to b wish on to hav as. members all of those . -.v Anyone may hav th t?om Card cf instruction, but only those 1rnln pld'jr ant entitled to Memberh p Window Card, which -will be 4tUvrd upe receipt of tba irnd Supposed That Strong Case Has Been Mad Out Against Alleged Slayer Mrs. King Counsel Los es No Time (By the United Frees) Concord. N. C. Nov. 1. Gaston B Means was indicted by the grand jury here today for the murder of Mrs. Maude A. King. ine prosecution ana defense im mediately began sparring far ad vantage in the location of the jury personnel for, the trial. The indictment followed threo daps' Investigation by the grand Jury, which examinede a score of Witnesses, including a group of Chi eago bankers and witnesses present d by Assistant District Attorney Dooling of New York. A feature of the investigation was the jury's obvious insistance upon clear-cut motive for the crime. That the indictment was returned is tak en to indicate that a strong case has been made against the prisoner and that he will go into his final trial for life 'under unfavorable conditions. The State petitioned the court for v change of venu to rfn adjoining county. The defense counter-object ng, asked three hours in which to prepare a plea. The court recessed at 2:30. INCREASING DEMAND FOR ELECTRICAL GOODS. A more widespread use of electric ity in New Zealand and a greater demand for the various appliances that add to comfortable living arc predicted in a report on New Zeal and's markets for electrical goods made public today by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, of the Department of Commerce. The standard cf living is good in the island,-says the report, and there is an absence of a poor class, but there are some modern conven iences of which the people have not generally taken advantage. In the electrical field this is quite notice able. BULLETINS (By the United Press) ALLIED AID. " Paris, Oct. 31. French and British armies are being rushed to the aid cf the Italians. I'aris expects one of the greatest bnt - ties of the war to be fought out on the Italian plains. ITALY CALLS MORE MEN. Rome, Oct. 31. The Italian retreat to prepared positions con tinues in orderly fashion, says today's official War Office statement The War Office has called to the colors all classt'n from 1874 to 1899. Help Win the War; a tislrt State The Food , Administration actual!? handling food In the home. No Loss of Life Aboard Ship Gets Safely to European PortWas He turning to This Country When Attacked by Sub. (By the United Presi) Washington, Nov. 1. The Ameri pan transport Finland has been tar pedoed in foreign waters while home ward bound, Secertary of the Navy Danieli today announced. There was no loss of life. The transport returned to a foreign port unden her own steam. The damage to the ship was slight. The Finland is the second trans port to be attacked while returning home. The Antilles" was torpedoed October 17, with a loss of 67 lives. Wrong Man Was Dead and it Upset Things on the Mitchell Farm E'ecause a man carried flowers for the wrong man's funeral '- Ernest Mooring, Greene county man, tried to kill himself. Mooring has been in a hospital here for several days with one of his jaws shot away. He i supposed to have been unbalanced far some time. The following cir cumstances are reported to account for Mooring's attempt: A person at Goldsboro wired an other at Greenville that the former's father and the latter's uncle at Goldsboro had just died, the sender and the recipient being cousins. The man who received the message read t in the presence of a clerk in a store A woman came in and the cL'rk I Vie the sad news to her. The womai: -u'xed up the deceased with a live pu: i in Greene county, and wired the li. - le's son-in-law at Ayden that his wiJ. ' Mher was dead near Snow Hill. The Ayden man, Louis Wi . i jchased flowers and drove thro, "i the country to the home of his father- in-law, E. Mitchell. Arriving at the Mitchel residence on a farm a few miles from Snow Hill, Wilson found placed deserted. He went to !; df a tenant near by and sked for infi;r"t'on -regarding the 1 he supposed wa. :."..'.p' to omo ou. ' unfounded news ot 'Mitchull's deatii :i disconcerted young Mooring, who w:is r.t the ten ant house, that he grit a shots.'.n and shot himself in the face. War Briefs The American Defense Society is 'irging the Presilent to convene Con gress in special session to declare War on Austria. Wasl'ngton offic ials refer to the attack on Pacifist Herbert Bigelow, pastor of a Cin- einnati church, Who was kidnapped and whipped, as "brutal and cow ardly." The Government is stated to be seriously concerned. Governor Whitman of New York, Governor Manning cf South Carolina, their staffs and guests are visiting the Newe York tropps near Spartanburg, S. C. Triplets at the home of en Italian family at Washington have been named Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and Woodnow Wil son. The Elgin butter board, which has virtually controlled butter pric es in America the past 50 years,' is to be closed for the remainder' of the war by Agreement with Fand Administrator Hoover. FEWER SHIPS; SUNK WEEK ABOUT TO END (By the United Press) London, Oct 31. The number of British vessels sunk by submarines the past week will show a smaller number than last week, according to an authoritative forecast of the of ficial statement to the United Press this f:ernoon. Reichstag Inclined to Act as it and. Not the Kaiser Thinks FIRST TIME IN HISTORY That a Caesar of the Huns Has Had His Autocratic Will Disregarded An "Epochal" , Success for Teutonic Reformers (By the United Press) Amsterdam, Nov. 1. If Count. Von Hertling withhols his -acceptance of the German chancellorship because he cannot obtain a full ma jority In the Reichstag, German par liamentary reformer . Will ; fiavb achieved an epochal victory. ,-';' Berlin dispatches have reported this ; reason for HSertling'a non-jac- ceptance. Itl ie the first time in the history of Germany that a chancel lor has let anything like Rejchatag opposition Stand in his way. It is the first time in the history of the . German Reich&tng that thus indirect- ly it has imposed its will en the -Kaisen, ' BRITISH DUDES SEND OUT S. O. S, "SAVE OUR STYLE." London, Oct' ,12- (By Mall.T The r British government is w , plans to standardise t " j ( v the stay-at-hom('!(to!'Sijii, ,1.4. Up on Seville Eo?rthe huuitat of the dudes-the British for them it "nuts'Vthert HJt and tremblinir. If the dread 'decree roes into- effect how is one to be distinguished from, one's vBlet? ? Already the government has st scheme completed to produce a stand ard cloth for civilian wear at sv standard price, the same as potatoes. heat or sugar. And the nuts are sending out the O. S. call save our style. SOUTHERN INTRODUCES LIGHT LUNCHES ON TRAINS. Washington, Nov. 1. Goaoh lunch service" has been inaugurated on Southern Railway System 'trains carrying dining cars lot1 the benefit of passengers who do not' car 'for complete meal while on their journey. Dining cars have been provided With basket trays and the waiter pass through the coaches . announcing "Sandwiches and coffee!" Moderate prices for this -service will be charg ed. - In order to cooperate witfi the United States Food Administration, the Southern's dining car service is observing Tuesday of every week as "beefless" day, TASTE OF GERMAN KIND' OF WAR IN JOHNSON. SmitMeld, Nov L Bud ' ' Dock ' Johnson who lives between this" place and Sehna, knows what war 9s like now. While Johnson was .absent from his farm home the lace was raided by a person who prepared the way for. his subsequent strategic re treat by demolishing the weH curb, . breaking' out windows and in Various other ways damaging the "building. Even the clock's face shewed signs of assault Johnson declared - the sit uation was too much 'for any fceutral. Bloodhoonds brought to the place from Hoke county trailed John Pil kinton. Now Pilkinton tt in jail. He will be given an opportunity to dis avow the acts next week. COTTON ; Tnursday's receipts we?e aLjul ED bales, prices ranging frcm 27 to 27.62 1-2. Futures quotations were: Open. ' Close. January 2C.74 26.43 March 20.23 2G.I7 May x 25.02 2'.C3 July , 23.: 3 DecemUr 2T."3 2" " 1