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tT TT ? . TT IF? TH? ; ' 1FV ITTy TH? O The Hc:sa Pper ACNE CENT STAMP 15M3 Ua PUCEDREREwt- Of Oar SoMmm la Fcwk. h IL-f K ii 11 SECOND EDITION r PRICE TWO CENTS FIVE' CENTS ON TRAINS KINSTON, N. C. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1917 SIX PAGES TODAY KERENSKY'S SOLDIERS- DRIVING Cf;N0BBDY MEANT STEP RED TRIANGLE ASKS TARHEEL SOLDIERS BAPTISTS OF MANY ITALIANS PUEPARE mwmwmw r ft wV mm T m 9 PARTY'S TROOPS AND OUT ON CHINA'S RIGHTS KINSTON GIVE FOR SOLDIERS' WELFARE IN ONE OF ARMY'S. CHURCHES HERE TO IKmVfcHANUbUMt OF CAPIDlLf lET FEEBLE Iff t S.-JAP PACT HOLD A CONVENTION umuals Principal Street Seems to Be in Hands of Provisional Government Forces Premier Coming Back Stronger. Pacifists Seek Refuge 800 Killed and Wounded at Pe trograd.and 709 at Moscow as Result of Russia's Lat est. FollyTrotsky and Lenine Haven't Men Enough to Hold the Power They Took Over Baker Shows Up Method of Berlin Government Revealed in Russian and- Italian Developments ' (By the United Press) Stockholm, ' Nov. 13. Kerensky's troops he entered Petrtgrad and now "muster a portion of the city," according1 iVta dispatchea received here. The Nevsky Prospekt was taken. The Bolshevikis are reported to be fleeing1 to the Smolny Institute for refuge' 'arid offering feeble re sistance. 1 500 Killed and Wounded. By Ed. L. Keen (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, Nov. 13. Bight hundred killed and wounded at Petrograd and 700 at Mosddw is what the Bolsheviki experiment at government has cost Russia so far. Petrograd dispatchea today detailed the growing wave of anarchy, robbery, murder and ra pine. The TrotskysLenine combi nation lacks sufficient men to exer cise authority. . German Method in Rues Madness. Washington, Nov. 13. Secretary of War Bakers weekly war summary saya the carefully planned political offensives in Russia and Italy pre paratory to the military offensives in those countries clearly reveal the present methods of the Germans. "In Italy ? the situation is "developing normally, and the morale is rapidly being restored," he says. On the Russian front the Germans are again trying to fraterniee with the Slavs. OFF IT. S. fBjr the United Pre New- York, Nov. 13. A second re port of a submarine in the mid-Atlantic was made today to the United States Hydrographic Office. The craff waa eeen 800 miles Southeast of Halifax. GARDEN WORK FOR NOVEMBER West Raleigh, Nov. 13. .During November it is a good idea to mulch the asparagus bed with stable ma GERIi SUBMARINE ........ ...... w.., 170(000. This estimate does not in- tne early Jersey Wakefield variety, Llude the number leein(? the health may be transplanted from the seed! - , . - , uJ-- xr.L.v.i moving pictures at six of the larg- ucu, iwvcuiwi .uj Bird w ut?rric "T "Z P-nira, . 10 lntnea oy a i-i leet. vavonewes recom-1 " Thompson and Missionary. YOUNGEST, U. S. CAPTAIN IS '20' YEARS OF AGE. r- i'J.' , ,0 ' Washington,;- Nv. ,13-Hte'a -the- y6nnge9t - captain - in -the American army. ' Charles D. Harris of Geter-gia;- ae 20;i That's him. " ; CSjrtaiV j. HaVria ' gra'diiatef ; from West Point in September into the Engineers Corps, than which no West , ! . i lining inuntwaa caeer icuuor ai, tt 1 e . mm- m . v v Uncle Sam's off icer factory, thus be-J Young iHairia was cheer leader at inc branded the most popular man W .U C!W" " , , ' ilrnitt n nnirrrn iinrrn lVIIIIlItJ,lljr-hK Wl I H ' II UULil UU111 Lill II 1 1 II , WILSON ON f (By the United Press) ' ' Buffalo, N. T, Nov. 13. Follow ing a warning- from Secretary Baker that the strike at Quincy, Mass., is! STRIKE delaying work on1 the destroyer j ways.' With the mparticularly, we plant and must be aettled quickly, gall be glad to cc-fcperate even more officials of the Building Trades liberally 4n making their.' fair ' oeeai workers today wired the President gjons worth 'whHe to the people from asking: for a conference to dismiss an eSucationB! health, and every Government working conditions, progressive star. 'potnt BULLETINS (By the United Press) WARPLANE'S LONG TRIP. Mineola, Nov. 13. A big Ca- proni airplane was under way here at 11 o'clock on a return trip of 326 miles to Langey Field, Virginia. It was piloted by Re nati, with six army and navy officers and two mechanicians aboard. CRENSHAW TO BE TRIED AGAIN ; Charlottesville, Nov. 13. The Crenshaw jury today disagreed. The case of the youth charged . with arson at the University of Virginia goes over to the De cember term of court on motion of the defense. pTATE SENATOR INDICTED. Pensacola, Nov. 13. State 'Senator J. L. Sheppard, charg ed with opposing the draft, was indicted today by the Federal Grand Jury here. PRESIDENT BACK. ? Washington, Nov. 13- The Presidential party is back from Buffalo. Mr. Wilson was greet- ed enthusiastically en route, shaking hands with everybody in reach at the stops. He was aroused last night to greet a train crew never before carry ing " a president in 20 years' service. Health Exhibit Was Seen at Fifty-five Fairs in Carolina Twenty county fairs and 35 com munity fairs is the record that has been made this Fall by the exhibits of 'the' State Board' 5of Health, which traversed the State from Cherokee to Carteret. The number of people to ' whom the opportunity has been given through these health exhibits to study actual health conditions first j liaml IKaa Kaon AatimntAd .t.n hp About -This has been the health exhibit's . . . . a w 'greatest season, said Mr. Warren H Booker, who has charge of that fea ture of the State's health work, "and we are pleased to have already book ed a number of requests for the ex hibits for next year's fairs. We are especially interested in getting health . . iniurnuu vlku iuw uic . ui niunitiea- arid w believe" tne com munity ' fairs offer the opportunity. We shall endeavor to be ready for Wlefli' in the waf of sulfebTe Exhibits , , . x, . u - ... Speaking f the moral tone of the I fairs this year, Mr. E'ooker said, ' vVe -, . t , , are glad that the people are waking . , , .up , 7 .' been playteg at most of the cfcunty 'air8 weU ' stat Fair' Of course, wholesome entertainment and amusement is necessary and de sired, but whatever encourages fraud, dishonesty and immorality cannot be in keeping with the true purpose of a fair, which is educatfcn al and upbuilding iit all of its fea tures.; We believe another year will show a marked change in the num ber of fairs that will reject these ob- jectional features ' from tfceir mid" Agreement Unselfish Peking's Position Fixed in International Law To Parley Would Have Meant Delay (By the United Press) Washington, Wot. 13. me au thorities here tfcday explained why China was not consulted in the Unit ed States-Japan pact. It was to prevent delay. The pact is altruis- itic and in no way affects China ad versely, it was reiterated. China's protest was based on in ability to recognize Japan's special interests! According to the authori ties, the special interests are based upon propinquity to the weaker neighbor, and are a recognized doc trine of international law. (By the United Press) Buffalo, Nov. 13. Discussion of a shorter work day, working condi tions, disputes among trades and ar bitration with employers will be dis cussed at the Federation of Labor session today. President Samuel Gompers will deliver his annual ad dress outlining the work of the past year. No organized opposition to Gom pers' reelection has developed. PUT MORE GOODS IN CAR TO HELP, RELIEVE SHORTAGE (Special to The Free Press) Washington, Nov. 13. Fairfax Harrison, chairman of the Railroads' War Board, authorizes the follow ing: On 77 of the principal railroads of the United States a saving of 114, 109 cars was effected in one month this year solely by increasing the average loading of less than carload freight. The 3-eports ion which these figures are based, the latest that have been compiled, cover the months of July this year and July, 1916. They show that the average loading for that class freight during July this year waa 13,927 pounds as compared with an average of 11,619 plrunds during the same month. last year. Page WiH Meet With State's Wholesalers ;4Uri Fotod Conference (Special to The Free Pressf'""" Raleigh, Nov. 13. Under a new regulation of the U. S. Food Admini stration, retailers who violate the Food Control Act ' by charging ex cessive prices for necessary food may have their supply cut off. While the smaller retailers of food are exempt from the licensing provis ions of the Act, they are subject to the provisions of section 4 of the law which forbids excessive prices cn necessaries, hoarding, destroying food or conspiring to restrict pro duction. State Food Administrator Henry A. Page has just returned . from Washington, where he attended an important conference of state repre sentatives of the i Fooo' Administra tion with Mr. Hoover,- the ; confer ence being for the purpfcee of dis cussing at length the details of the operation of the licensing system as applied to dealers in foodstuff s.' AH of the rules and regulations under which licensees will operate have been worked out and Mr. Page announces tnat ne wiu meei me wholesalers brokers and", commis sion men of the State in a confer ence at Raleigh," Thursday, Novem ber 15, at noon in the Senate "ham- Wr at the Capital. No djmmurica tion is being a&lre??! to the in JI - vitlual dcaless, bat all are invited to attend this cr.fcrcn.-e. QUESTION Young Men's Christian As sociation War Fund ,to Re Swollen by 6,500 Le noir County Iron Men Thursday, Hoped Rev. J. W. Day, who ia doing Young Men's Chrlstli, Association tt-wk at Camp Greene, Charlotte, ad dressed m the local war fund cam paigners at Gordon Street Christian Church Monday evening, describing the benefits Hhat the army is receiv ing from the activities of the Red Triangle bearers Mr. Day, an Episcopal minister frum Oklahoma, spoke interestingly for about 30 min utes. He stated that the association 13 placing it3 buildings nt the per manent posts,' camps and canton ments in such plice that even the most indifferent or hardened soldier rannlct get out of sight of one of them. ? Chairman T. Vf. Mewborn of the steering committee presided over the meeting, which was attehded by a satisfactorily large number. Mr. G. V. Cowper introduced Mr.' Day. The local campaigners Thursday will make their drive to raise $0,500 between breakfa&t and upper. Le noir County's allotment of the $35, 000,000 is $6,500. This is expected to he raised easily. It is pointed out by the Young Men's Christian Association leaders that a dollar purchases only four gallons of gasoline, a pound of best candy, less than U) pounds of sugar, five or six movie? tickets, 10 or 20 soft drinks or 10; good cigars. "Save a-dollar and .give it to the war wfsrk fuvdfffmLit Tvill make some fellow in khaki happy," is the appeal of the steering committee to Mr". Average Citizen in Kinston. TUBERCULOSIS WEEK. The first week in December is Tu berculosis Week, set apart for giv ing serious consideration to a se rious problem, "How to Handle the Tuberculosis Problem in Connection ' with the War." THEY GO THROUGH A WORSE HELL BEFORE THEY GET TO THE FIRING LINE, TH'IS "There's no bullet-proof job In the Y. M. C. A. dug-outs in the trenches , in France," said Jlchn J. Virgo, field secretary of the British' War Work Council,' who has been speaking throughout the South during the ' past few days. "When I waa in ; France in the War Wlork of the 'Y j I had a chance to know this at first i hand. My own boy, who. was a sec retary in one of the canteens that are built close up to the frkmt by the Y. M. C. A. to supply the troops with hot drinks just before they go over the top, or just after they dome back from 'No Man's Land,' told me of his experience, which was an in dication of the perils to-which the secretaries are subject. He was tending the coffee pot during an ar tillery duel and had an intuition that fie ought to get away from thai particular spot He couldn't tell what it 'was that moved him, but he walked to another part of the trench, returning a moment later to find that a Efcche shell had demolished the cof fee pot, the heater and the whole sec tion of trench, while another brave fellow who had been on' duty at the point lay mangled and dead." - . "Oh, I've been on all the' fronts," continued Virgo, "and I tell you the task of a Y. Mi C. A. secretary is no bed of roses. The spirit of the soldiers is all that it could , be ' but the dangers that surround theni are awful.' They go through,' hell on the firing line, yea, but they gi through a worse "hell before they iget to the firing line and . soma of them have let the armjr down. Three hundred thousand in England, mote than have been ki'led by German shells in the whole war, have been put ab- y'-jtely out cf commission by social 1 "I !,TI you the very I Five Divisions Being Form ed in Accordance With European Ideas 30th Soon May Be Ready for Work at Front (By the United Press) Washington, Niw. 13. An outline for five now divisions of the National I Guard now being organized on the European scale was made public to day by the War Department. . They are the 26th Division, New England tn:ops; 28th, Pennsylvania; 30th, North Carolina, South Caro lina and' Tennessee; 86th, Texas and Oklahoma, and 37th, Oh3. AMERICAN ARMY IS JOINED BY FLYERS By J. W. Pegler (United Press Staff Correspondent) American Field Headquarters in France, Nov. 13. All American avi ators formerly in the French army have been formally commissioned of ficers in the United States army Avi ation Service. A huge shipment of turkeys, mince Vneat, etc., for the Sammies' Thanks giving spread has arrived. IN SUPERIOR COURT. Superior Court Tuesday spent the forenoon trying Ellington' & Guy vs. Norfolk. Southern. Railroad pany, involving an alleged Com-over- charge on a shipment of ; luns'."T. The trial had not been concluded when the noon adjournment was tak en. Monday afternoon was given over to the hearing in chambers of John G. Cox vs. City of Kinston, con cerning the paving of a party drive way between the residences of the plaintiff and F. C. Dunn ion King Street The decision has not been announced. ment you can make with your mon ey is to put it into this sort of ser vice for our .fighting men. You can get your little four per cent, in Lib erty bonds,' sure, but tho dividends that will come back in reformed characters and those who have been kept true, are greater a thboisand fold than anything; else could be. "The Red Triangle is the emblem I .- 4- It V V 1 ( t y., ft-?: " if r. 'Or i I'Sr"? Ml J! if 1 ,T T i t '6)1 v -f ' Ii J! of the Y. It. ' - re " f -11 Y C. A. War Work. Its tanJ for Spirit, Mind tut I like to think Neuse-Atlantic Association .Reelects Officers, Hears Annual Sermon and Plunges Into Business Addresses Coming The llbh annual convention of the Neuse-Atlantic Baptist Association was formally opened at the First Baptist Church here Tuesday at 11 a. m. Rev. George T. Watkins (bf Goldsboro delivered the annual ser mon. "Concentration" was his sub ject. While the Government of the United States is concentrating the National ptower to make the world safe for Democracy, the Kingdom of God is demanding that its forces con centrate likewise men and money to make the world safe Dor Christ ianity through furtherance of the Master's propaganda, he said. Mr. E. B. Lewis delivered the' address of welcome. Rev.' H. W. Baucom, Morehead City, made the response. Organization. The convention organized with the reelection of its officers M. Leslie Davia, Beaufort!, moderator; Rev. Geoie T. Watkins, vice-moderator; Prof. F, C. Nye, Winterville, clerk. Go the Methodists One Better. For luncheon the visiting ministers and delegates were served turkey and barbecue and other things. There was chicken, too, of course, but that wr.s rather a oh, well. Ministers Conferi The preachers held a conference Monday night. Rev. Walter N. John eon, Rnleigh, let! the discussion on evangelistic, ' church grouping, ' ex pansion and finkneial affairs. Sev eral of "the pastors made talks. Dr. F'. W. Spilman hdded weight to the 0 "liberations; he made an-excellent taL.. The ministers spent more time t-.:-' they had expected to lii their bus." and adjourned to r.iect afrntn Tu."'-y morning, when they concluded the. 'vork. Visit Institutions. -The delegates Tuesdtjr r '."oin were H visit the Caswell T.-Mning School and witness an entertainment by the. children there. Wednesday they will visit the Bap tists' Eastern orphanage at Falling Creek the Kennedy Memorial Home. V."''t the Convention Is. The asso::?.''ion embraces' more three-iscore churcl;:.i and a memiLCr '-' of many thousand in the Southeastern of the State, It haa just ended its st successful year and eplendld reports are to be received by he convention. The c ventifcn Is being attended by some of the State's most prominent church people. Business to Come. Tuesday the convention was to re ceive various Teports, discuss them, khlA devotional exercises and hear addresses. Dr. R. T. Vann, Ral eigh,: and Dr. James M. . Parrott, Kinston, will speak Tuesday night Wednesday the meeting will have a lot of business to attend to in or- fder to finish up that night. The Baptists Tuesday waded in characteristically taking eagerly to the wading to crowd enough busi ness for four days into half that time. that it. has other meanings, too, Friendship, Sacrifice, Service Land, Sea, Air, God, Government, Coun try.'"' "Ah, I tell you, the man who wears the badge of the Red Triangle J should be proud of it. He bears no glittering steel or engine of destruct ion, but he carries instead the touch of home, the thing which shall enable the soldiers to battle the awful curse which ' is sweeping Europe, which I shall hold them true to' their highest j elves, which shall strengthen them I to prevail against the forces of evil and fcf the enemy, to win the victory for freedom and democracy, to whip , Prussianism, to restore peace, perma '.nent peace, and to do it in the short est possible time. - Virgo !s speaking iri the interest Jof the great nation-wide campaign for ! $35,000,000 which tho Y. M. C. A. is : cc-(iucting from November 11 to 19. for its war work. If Teutons Threaten Beau tiful City Every Soldier Will Be Withdrawn NO EXCUSE FOR KULTUR Allies Hope There. Will B6 No Friffhtfulness if Worst Comes Austro Germans Piillinc Off an Enveloping . Stunt tin rrn;fd Trtgy Washington, Not. 13. Cables today indicated that the entire Italian line has stiffened, its de fense. Minister BerkinI left Rome for Paris to represent Italy at the interallied confer; ence. Gallia was taken by the Italians in a furious bayonet as sault. ' Rome, Nov. 13. Steps have been taken ' ib remove every uniformed man from Venice, leaving the Ger mans, ehould they by any chance reach the city, no excuse for destroy ing the historic building there. Rome is confident that the Italian lines will hold, despite the menace of the flanking movement from Asiago. The enemy is bringing up big gana, apparently toward Treviso. First Clash Allied Success. London, Nov. 13. The Italian line, reinforced by British and French troops, successfully withstood the first blbw aimed at the Piave River positions hy the AustroGermans. Thh first clash, around Asiago, re Suited in the -enemy being repulsed and tho capture of & number of pris Twenty-six Hy 28 cents. Receipts Tuesday were about 0 bales. Fu tures' quotatiorj'.: Open, ClosS. January 27.20 27.18 March . . . . . ..... 26X3 " 2.58 July 26.04 December 27.95 : 27.98 LIBERTY BOND FOR BEST ARTICLE ON CONSERVATION OF FOOD (Special to The Free Press) . Raleigh, Nov. 13. A $50 Liberty bond has been offered by Mr. J. B. Tvc of Charlotte as a' prize' to tho person who submits to him by De cember 1st tho best article on Food Conservation. The article is limited to one foolscap page of typewritten ' matter, the length and date being the icnly restrictions, ' The State Food Administration has brought Mr. Iveyls offer to the at tention of all County Food Admini strators and has urged upon them its possibilities as a means of stimulat ing interest in Food Conservation. Mr. Ivey is the State merchants' representative under the Food Ad ministr'ation, and ia director of tho activities cf merchants in co-operation v,ch the organization. . His work has already produced remarkable re sults. In every town in the State the merchants are using their win dows and their advertising apace in! the newspapers in the Interest ' ot food conservation. Mr. Ivey'a offer of the Liberty bond prize is simply another evidence of the practical pa triotism of this aggressive Charlotte business man. GOVERNMENT TAKES UP MORE SUPPLIES Ne'w Y'ork, Nov. 13. Continuing the hunt for hoarded foodstuffa to day, chief Flynn of the Secret Ser vice this Hiorr.in was r.iaru'nj; 000,009 w-rth cf ers in co!d '.- ages. This seizure r..r.!;p3 the iy'.:. value cf ci f' .--e t ' "' 1 '
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