llfO HIHIOili DOLLAR HUE AT NORFOLK
IURNEDj FROZEN WATER MAINS; 1 DEAD;
fireman. Killed Six Others InjuredGuests, Number
ing Hundreds, Saw Another Blaze and TIad Jus
Gone to Bed, When Their Temporary Home Became
Furnaces-Marines and Soldiers to Rescue Portsmouth
Firemen Give Assistance,
Water Scafttily-Clady I'eopli Carried to Hotels and
ResidencesGranby Theatre Block Falls Prey to Fire
Demon as VVell as Splendid Hostelry in Downtown
Norfolk
(By the
Norfolk, Jan. 1, Fire carfy this morning completely
demolished thc'Monticello Hotel, causing a' damage esti-:
mated at $2,000,000. The flames gutted the first two'
floors, skipped the third and continued their wild ram
page on the fourth floor. The fire department was prac
tically neipiess Dwmg to trie
pipes. Portsmouth's department came over to render as
sistance,-"but-unable to find a water' supply; could do'
nothing; The Monticello was surrounded on the "ground
floor-by large dry-goods and -other' establishments, all
oi wnicn susiamea a cremenaous loss.
Earlier Fire.
five; hundred guest had returned
from a fire which ' destroyed the
Griinby Theatre "block, when the ho
tel suddenly burst, into1 flames.
shortly after they had retired.
people rushed into tnr streets
: scantily clad. They were Hurried to
hotel's and private residences.
'One Dead.
Charles . McCoy, a fireman was
killed by a falling: wall and six eth
. rs injured.
So far :as known this was the on
ly life lost.
Sammies Aid. w, ... lt, .,..,,...,.
The firemen, worn out by an all
night battile- with tn '-wther ' fire-,
were reinforced by soldiers, and ma
rines, who helped guests out of the
hotel and saved much baggage. Zu
ro weather made the fire fighting
job hard. A wide expanse of City
Hall Avenue afforded some pro
tection to the city's-, main, business
but a strong North wind was a men
ace. DEATH OF JOHN T, HILL,
WELL-KNOWN RESIDENT.
. Mr. Jbhn'T. Hfcf; 60, died at his
residence)1 on"'North. 'Jueeri Street
Tuesday morning at 5 o'clock, after
a long -illness. - The funeral -will be
conducted at tHfe home Wednesday at
11 o'clock by Pastor B. P. Smith of
Gordon Street. -Oiristiai Church.
Burial will take place at a family
burial ground near) Wheat Swamp' at
1 o'clock. Mr. Hill married Miss
Martha Sutton 40 years ago. She
survives together with these children:
Mrs. O.-phie Hill, J. Linkfield Hill,
Simon Hill; all of LaGrange; "Mrs. R.
B.' Holland, Miss Bertha, Miss Ber
tha, Noah B.Mias Tessie, Miss Mat
tie, Miss Gladys and Herman Hill of
Kinston." Mr." Hill was a rural mail
carrier and was well-known in the
City and section.
DEATH MBS. FRED-JONES.
Mrs. ; Fred. Jones, a well-known
froman of Grainger, died Tuesday
morning. The funeral will be held
Wednesday afteYnoon, Rev. C W.
Blanehard of Nevr Bern officiating.
Mrs. Jones was known to a large
number of people here and was prom
inently related, ' ' " , '.
MUM
; rXS AND SLAVS
TENDS AGAIN. :
r- IVtrograd, Jan. 1. Russia and
. . . . .
snnanyar putting into effect
ediatelr the provisions ' of
F'rest'-Litorsk ' negotiations
? resumption of commercial
- The German' naval
' ave agreed to raise the
.a blockade and recog-
hussiaa - maritime com
merce. ' Commercial relations
will be resumed when a Gernin
n'P ith Ctiiiian goods arrives
t Revtl shortly.
Handicapped by Lack of
United Prs)
frozen condition of the water
Camp Lee Takes to
Athletics. Like k
J .1 Duck Takes to Water.
(By UM United Preas)
New York, Jan. 1. iMore than
1,000 games a week are played at
Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va. Accord
ing to IteR. -Murphy; who is the di
.vision athletic director, - more than
20,000 : men are in action in these
games- each seven days--athletics on
a more tremendous scale than the
most violently- athletic college ever
has presented.
We. are combining the customs of.
ouf rench and ' English instructors,
applying the most beneficial of their1
experiences' to a course 6f instruct
ion' for our athletic officers'," Mur
phy told the United Press. . i
. "We hope to teach all of our men
various forms of recreational activi
ties sufficient that they themselves
may find advantageous pastimes, ev
en under the most forbidding con
ditions at the front" .. .
Regular programs are presented to
the men at Camp" Lee when-. there
comes a day -on which any great
amount of sports may be undertaken,
For instance, a program which1-em
braced the entire -day was given out
for Thanksgiving day. In the morn
ing there was a boxing contest, with
Roccef football games "following. A
pushball fight with inter-regimental
football ' interspersed " came . next
Colored soldiers staged a field and
track meet in the afternoon. White
soldiers " took part in competitive
sports, wih boxing tourneys holding
a predominant part. Heavyweight,
Middleweight and lightweight box
ers' from' each unit took, part' :- ":
Bomb-throwing contests, races of
all ' descriptions, and regularly sane-'
tioned field events were held in the
afternoon. ' - -
The football championshiip of
Camp Lee is still undecided. After
all' college' football has been played
and 'the teams disbanded, these
pseudo Kaiser chasers are still con
ditioning themselves for the long
fight- by means of footbaH games. '
The iwhole command,' said Mur
phy, "front the commanding general
down, is quite enthusiastic over the
work." .......
FRENCH NEGRESS STARTS
' ANTI-POWDERING CAMPAIGN.
Paris, Dec 5 (By Mail) A public
spirited Frenchwoman has written
to one of -the colonial papers appeal
ing to Frenchwomen and especially
Parisiennes, to' abandon , the use of
face-powder. She estimates that
thereby many tons of rice from which
the "poudre d riz" is extracted,
would be economized. The writer as
gerta that never in her life has she
used powder on her face. The ve
racity of her assertion is guaranteed
by the fact (unfeelingly divulged by
a newspaper man, that the lady in
question is a French regress, whose
husband recently was beaten in the
local elections.
K riim'G
ft rat sEGtoii
Positions' Losi and Retaken
; Several Times; Boches' '
Assaulting: Desperateiy
MILLERYING RENEWED
New Year Comes in With
Troops on Western Front
Bitterly Engaged Com
bat Rages' " Back and
Forth 6ver Short Pari of
. Lines
(By the United Press) .
London, Jan. 1. Violent fighting
on tha Western front ushered in the
New - Year in the Cambnai sector;
Unofficial dispatches from the lines
today 'told of a 'continued unceasing
effort through a highly localized at
tack by the Germans to' secure a grip
en Welsh Ridge.
SeveimI poirttsr of this salient po
sition were: taken and retaken two
or. three times.: The combat is rag
ing fiercely back and forth. Gen.
Haig's latest report said the British
lines were- intact after counter at
tacks. He had restored a position
taken by tie Germans with liquid fire !
- - "i
attacks." He talso " reported mutual
artiSerying m tJie neighborhood of
Arleuxen-Gohelle.
COTTON
The market' Tuesday was again
practically froaten up, with little or
no bartering. There was no futures
market- holiday.-
Oysters Scarce. -
New Bern reports an oyster fam
ine, due to the severe com over tne
sounds ,- .i
KEEP
, , , ., , . . ; ; -. . .. ) .; . .I.....,'... ...gy tjvh , 'yy;11.
Up Aain$i Weather v .
UBteThis Manas' ; -
" tfie Time in "Europe.
The weathertiat now has the
South Atlantic coatt- as well as oth
er regions of the country shivering
and itamplnr' feef Is" riot altogether
as . much sin ally jot Germany as it
would seem, aecoVatng to Mr. feol
Oettinger prominent among the Old
er ' TesHentJTTieW'i FoV-iiite the
Sonthertt psVi of" IT. S.' A catches
if eo" only occasionally, the KaUeV'j
outfit get worse very often durmi
midwinter." Mr. Oettinger recalls the
days' of his' boyhood ' spent ' in Ger
nmny. :'f ..' ;
Day after day "on just such a day
is Sunday or Monday, he had.lo
stretch his little' ' legs 'over three
miles of fi'ocen road from his par
enis village home in the kingdom of
Wurtemburg to a city just across trie
line in Bavaria, where he attended
high school. The .average Germin
residence in the cold 'months' wis
comfartable fanjd nell-stocked wfth day morning. It was a sensation, for
fuel 'and provisions " A ffiant stove J Kinston.. Hundreds' f people flick
would occupr- an ' aperture between eS to the Caswell Street bridge' to
the living room and kitchen and heat j see 1 the' aigRt Most' declared ' it a
a' small1 house comfortably.- The fa- beautiful spectacle.' A' number
mm porcelain stoVes of Germany ( there were, old timers", who had seen
were fuel savers and ideal heaters. , the Eke once 'or twice before.' ' The
Once when a brother was' skating on sickly Kttle stream - lookWT like an
the road from the !city to the pet- J jce 1 cream supper or ' Baffin's -Bay
tinger home he fell and broke a kero- -hen the pack begins, to break up.
sene jug. The strict discipline of . Heref and there the river- eddied in
the Oettinger household required the chinks . but the little 1 water vwible
boy to return for the oil next morn- apparently was .ready, to 'quit when
ing. He had Httle difficulty in re-' ever the Weather Bureau said ths
covering. It from' the ice-covered word. It was, to tell the truth, pret.
highway. No: one in Kmston ever
- . . . ..."
doubted Mr. Oettinger wnen he said
a tning. "1 went into Switzerland :
once," he said, "and after cllmbir
away up struck a mountain plateau,
There, on the little bit of a tableland, ' v . -
was a toy farm with its attractive . Memorle8-
bouse and orchard and all, including! Seldom has it been s cold here as
a cow. How they got the' cow up 'during the 72 hours preceding Tues
there wasn't as interesting as the ay- 4 "J" ""' 1 "" ' ,f
use to which a pile of black brick J- Elderly, residents got out and
was put-The Swisj- frmerhad bruahed off their ' mental notebooki.
gavedthrparings and cores from the ! fn'the excitement Abe Willis, d'ean of
cider preas and moulded them inf o 'ored tonsorial community, .re.
bricks. These the sun had dried out; called and "tuck to it, that the Maine
They were burned in the stove for
fule in winter! The strtciest conser
vationists in the world are in mid
die Europe."
KINSTON DOLLARS AT
NEUSE RIVER- MU
oe ice; msmA
Rare Thing Happens Here
on Heels of Zero,Weath
ef of Severe fMonlfi
Left Long Criminal Record
Behind It 7 1-2 Inches of
; Snow Fell." to MsHte'tTity
and 'Section SicVo'f the
Season Cold ! "
Neuse River was froien over Tues-
ty and innocent-like. It wasn't fit
for ' skating. When Neuse River
.. .i - .. ...
freezes over it's worth" a. 4-deck
head,' and for that" reason this story
will bV hung onto 'one. 1 : 1 '
was' blown" up during Cleveland's last
adminiftration. That had nothing' to
do with the" weather,' bat shows how
(Continued on page four)
HOME.
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Russian RjppresentafivdITecTar es refrorarTrjir JNot
r Make Peace Separately 'itAt&vs Will 'Agre'e to Thtcr-
I natipnai 'Conference Stockholm, While Allies Pre
pare to State Just What They Think of Bresf Litovsk
roposals-Will Decline to Be Drawn Into Peace With
Strings to It--America, Britain, France and Italy
Conferring May Restate War Aims or Uncover Grin
mng "Skeleton Hidden Under Kaiser's Camouflage
(By ihi United Press) t , ;
Amsterdam, Jan. 1. 'We are all instruments in the
hands of God! Almighty to restore peace."
' Thus aecbred Kaiser Wilhelm. He told his troops
around Cambrai Christmas eve; "'You must have won
dered".' why God allowed a
war.
vve mamra'nea peace
others disturbed it
So by
flack."-
Wants Fanners
i ? .1 ...
"'fofinnsBackBS
anJ Cows ifrctt Sbow
The Horlh Carolina Live Stock As
sociation began a big" drive Tues
day at Wilson. Farmers from' all
over the State-are attending a state
wide exhibit there. '"
PuVe bred farm" stock will be sold at
auction each day during the- several
of tie meeting and show. ; - ""-h! posalB'!-a a ; -concrete backianded
Tuesday General Swine brought ' proffer t them as much its to Rus--
forth his army of pure bred Duroo-'s.t. . - v- -.
Jerseys; Berkshires, 'Poland, Chinas,! ' -.- , ' ' '.; ';
... . , . . , i Russia Want Conference,
etc. ( Wednesday the jBeef , Brigade J .
will appear. Thursday dairy stock! StocttoW.NJT.it -r.-IUaaia - wiB
will W n nA le. Fridav i mediately break off wparate pice
psultry" wiH hold 'first place. Fine j "Wona iT the Atbes grant paaa
of all data, will be wi Prt'M'... Stodtholin' international
- 7 t
on the b.: 'k
' Free lecttl will bt given by ex
perts. Exhibits cf live stock pro
ducts will' be an inL.,'-tirt'g 'feature
of "the convention. Valr-ab'e ,prise.'
will be awarded. At nigi t r...rrhgr
test methods to follow in 8todC-tai,,,,tJie Vr.UknPfxtT, It. prefers,
ing. Noted etock experts will apeak. & tnw
Farm-Demonstration Agent W. X. . . nMl:sfactorjr ; separate
Kyrer, who has -been active in hav-, Permitting a' meeting of
ing fhU anrlal -event brought to the Socialiste' international gather
Extern, part erf the cUte,- asks: ft'wnd:lj' poitibM-to make a
"Are we wiJi c r Uncle Sairi in this agreement.-. Shonld the Cen-
war? Then, attend U" &r and J1 wer-decline iff jwtierpiite in
a'.e and rny some of the good stock" WOuUm conference or abid
which will be ffs-c." This Is tie
year-i-this nelfcorn ISIS Vhen the
Southern farmer will ha.e
?reat
responsibility, on him. ''lie had -ieV
ler prepare to face it, Agent Kyser
says., He urges every, farmer attend-1
ing the Wilson show to bring back at
least one'pure bred animal. Ana he j,,
urges eve-y farmer who can to at-1
tend the convention. The gathering
will break up January 4.
BOSTON PLANS LABORATORY
FOR STUDY OF SPEECH.
(By the United Press)
Boston, Mass, Jan. 1. If you live
in Indiana and say: "Ko-ko-ko-ko-mo,"
come to Boston.
S Plans are underway here today for
the5 establishment of a $20,000 lab
oratory for the study of speech and
corrections for its defects. The insti
tution will be one of the most
unique of its kind. -
Everything from baby lisping to
confirmed stuttering will be included
in the curriculum.
From what can be learned in ad
vsrtce one .) of the few " defects in
speech that seldom can be cured is
the malady that causes the speakerto
say "bawth," when he means "bath."
The laboratory will be directed by
Dr. Walter B. Swift of the laryn
gology department of Harvard' Uni
versity. ALASKA SWEARS OFF.
Washington, Jan. . 1. Alaska
climbed aboard the water wagon
last -night, bag and baggage for
keeps. In other words Alaska on Jan
uary 1 became bone dry. tThe bill i accordir
assigning Alaska to-the prohibition j b'.'. '"c
ranks was the first prohibition bl'.l , in t . .
passed by the House. j at ; ..
fourth year with", us stiff "at
neany nan a ceniury wnue.
force weustvbffng:' peace-
Allies Confer. . - t
Lendony. Jan. 1. Britain, Frunze,
Italy and. the United States, are ex
duLnging Jviea. Regarding' tha ac-
tion. which . the ..Allies , will take to
counter, the Teutonic peace terras.
Acrordinr to well-defined information
the' reply may take tlie form of
cdunter statement of xn aims sub
scribed to by all th Allies or may
be issued afc an ' analyst J -of exactly
what lies' behind the "camouflage of
the1 German 'ipropotfaTs. "'The'Allie
, recognize
the-.- BrestLitovsk pro
conference and show disposition of
honesty -to-confeider that onferene'
doclared M. .Vorkevslcy, i-,representa-,
live. of. the Russian, .Soviet and Peo-
htf'a Comm i sari ei . todav. Russia.
no in the war. Should hhevAllies 3e-
ce a -separate peace would be ia-
evltDl- - - -'-
'
ClcmcnCeaU' Boys Have
, ..GoodLllcfc; iNothirg'
Happing to 'Battalion.
C 111 'I' 0 '
(Bt t United Tr
With the Amertca.nExpeditionarT
A:my,'- France,- Dec, 3 (By' Mail
Premier (Clemenceau, of France, is 'a
mighty good billiken. ' " '
The Clemenceau Battalion,' named
for!him, went tlirough their turn in
the frost line trenches, ihder d-'-fly
fire and carried out many nights pa
trols right up to the Boche wires
without a single casualty,'
Not a man scratched, though ona
Sammy was knocked , dawn by the
concussion of a .77 shell that knock
ed off hia rifiJbutt and exploded 20
feet away. , ,
The . Clemenceau Battalion sector
adjoined that of the battalion (which
was raided by the boche.
FOOTBALL BROUGHT MEN AT
WACO CLOSE TOGETHER.
(3Sy the United Prssa)
New York, Jan. 1. Wiih a decla
ration that football had rione more
to unite Camp MadArthur at Waco,
Texas, than' anything except a bap.
tifm of fire, Erig. Gen. W. C. Hisi,
commanding the dlvi-sion p.ie 5;. -v'.i
an impetus at the Sou;:!. : n c: .. i
that it ccuLI not hve a,...' ! ii
any other fashion.
Camp M.ioAr:'.ir's f 1