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VOL. XIX. No. 233
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SECOND EDITION
KINSTON. N. a FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1918 FOUR PAGES TODAY
FLETCHER RECALLED ZERO WEATHER HERE
AS RESULT, SINKING AT LAST; CLIMAX OF
J13ANY INJURED WHEN
KINSTON-CAROLINA
CAR LEAVES MR
OF III TROOPSHIP COLD SNAPAT HAND
f FMIE
RUSSIA WILL BE IN BAD WAY TOEN I2TH
JANUARY GOMES, TERMINATING PERIOD
MiLitARY IpCtlVITY UNDER ARMISTICE
Thousands of Troops Withdrawn From Fronts, Frontier
Will Be Shabbily Defended When Slavs Get Back In
to War Months Before Forces Can Be Very Useful
to Allies So Sure Was Government Teutons Wings
"Were Genuine That Whole Equipment Was Allowed to
Fall to Pieces and Rust During Past Few Weeks 111
concealed Cunning of Bodies is Fully Realized by
Lenine-Trotsky Outfit Now Kerensky Preparing to
Try to Come Back
, V (By tha tJnited Press) ;
Petrograd, Jan. 4. Russia repudiates the German
contrived peace. The conferences at - Brest-Litovsk ap
parently have ended. The ; Bolsheviki' government is
awake to the duplicity and self-interest of the Germans.
W nether itussda can tight again
within months cannot be foreseen.
No peace is posible in the German
view without Germany's virtual an
nexation of Lithuania, Poland, Court
land and Estihonia. Hie part of the
armistice relating to the movement
of troops expires January 12 (Decem
ber 30 Russian style). What will
v happen then nd Russian is willing to
to prophesy. Thousands of Russian
troops have been 'withdrawn from all
the fronts. '.The transport system
has been allowed to melt away. The
whole military system is disorganiz
ed, -l- r--:'-'; : - -.
Soldiers and delegates at Petro
grad Insist that the army cannot be
expected . to fight under the present
disorganization and demoralization.
Former Premier Kerensky is re
ported to lie preparing to record his
services in the revolution for pre-
' eentation to the constrtutent assembly,
presumably as the first move in his
campaign for rehabilitation.
Assembly Sits 18th.
Petrograd, Jan. 4. The opening
of the constituent assembly was fixed
today -for January 13 if a quorum of
400 members is then present at Pe
trograd, , according to formal an
nouncement. DEFENSE OPENS ITS
CASE MURDER TRIAL
(By the United Presl
Richmond, Va., Jan. 4. The case I
of the commonwealth was practically! Working beside the American slhop
concluded today in the trial of Asa ! men are French civilian shopmen. The
P. Chamberlain, alleged (murderer of
his brother, when John Simmi and
Sam . ates negroes, , the first wit
nesses called, testified. Their state
ments substantiated those of other
witnesses for the State regarding
mutilation of the body. ...
Coroner L. K. Leak recited the de
tails of the inquest over the body.
He testified that the work V of dis
membering it was thoroughly done.
Witnesses for the defense will go on
this afternoon. "
Bread and Oil Out,
City is in Bad Way;
Goulashes M Gon
Washington, N. , O, Jan. 4. This
city last night had less than 50 gal
lons of kerosene oil, as a canvass of
Stores and other supply places show
ed. Rubbers and goulashes were not
to be "had. Nat a loaf of baker'a
bread has been obtainable for ev-eral-
days. ' -. ' ' "i -.- -,
THIRD LIBERTY LOAN WILL OPEN 15TH
NEXT MONTH- AMOUNT NOT STATED YET
(Bv the United
ijlhini
pal I will c
wl is not
Lxtensn
eton. Jan. 4. The
open February 15.
x-tefisivp nrpnnmtinTT?
ing the bonds is nearing completion. A number of strik
ing new posters, notably one by Howard Chandler Chris
ty, ara beine prepared. Secretary McAdoo will give all
his time to the railroads until February, when he will
turn to direct charge of the next loan campaign.
Receipts here Friday were about
11 bales. Prices ranged from
29 1-2 to 29 3-4. Futures quotations
were: Open. Close.
Januaryi . ... . . . 31.50 31.44
March 30199 30.98
May 30.65 30.61
July ............ 30.35 30.32
October 29.45 29.41
Union Hours Unknown
to Army Engineers;
Not So Bad, They Say.
By W. S. Forrest
United- Press Staff Correspondent)
A French Railroad Center Dec. 10
(By Mail). What an American un
ion labor man can do. when it's for his
country, and not a corporation he's
serving is demonstrated here. ; '
Working in the big railway shops
here is a unit of the U. S. Army En
gineers', rearuited principally - 'from
one of the best known railroads run
ning into New York. The men came
from Eastern railroad shops where
the repair work is done. Every man
was a member of the union at home.
His .union prescribed how many
hours a day he should work, his
wages and holidays.
Here in France today these expert
shopmen are repairing locomotives
lrom o:w m- vnul P' m- w""VBn
hour off for dinner.,., v
French shopmen works leisurely and
talks a great deal, taking in addition
several breathing spells along with
eating spells. At eight o'clock he has
breakfast, usually , bread and wine.
This, follows the little breakfast he
ate at home early in the morning. At
noon "'. he takes an hour off to eat
bread and cheese with red wine. Four
o'clock brings another meal of bread
and wine. The American shopmen
work at the usual American pressure
without rest periocw and with a si
gle meal at noon. ,
The result of (American labor m
the local shops has been that broken
down locomotives are getting scarce
on this part of the French railway
system. On the other band railroad
officials are busy trying to keep the
shons supplied with frayed loco
motive needing mending.
Men who would vote for a strike
at the first rule of a corporation to
infringe the union' rules in America
fare working for army pay here to.
day without a grumble. In fact they
are satisfied. ' If""'
Press)
third Liberty Loan cam-
The amount desired in this
for advertising and distribut
Prominent Admiral of Na
vy Comes Home; Brit
ton's Charges Cause
INSUFFICIETLY CONVOYED
Is Accusation Laid at Na
vy's DoorDaniels Re-
fuses' Discuss Develop
ments At All Sims Care
less? Incident Closed
'"'" ' (By the United Press)
Washington, Jan. 4. Rear Admir
al Fletcher, formerly in charge of
the navy convoy system, has been
relieved and ordered home as the di
rect outgrowth of the torpedoing of
the American transport Antilles. The
fact leaked out a considerable time
after the occurrence, following charg
es by Representative Britton of Illi
nois that the Antilles was sunk
through the navy's negligence! .
E'ritton claimed the ship did not
have a sufficient convoy. The ques
tion in navy quarters is whether Ad
miral Sims, chief of European oper
ations, provided a sufficient guard.
No courtmartial will be held and the
incident does not stand off ic'ally
against Fletcher's record. Secretary
of the Navy Daniels today refused to
make public Fletcher's name or to
discuss in any way the outcome ' of
the Antilles case.
NCED
LITTLE NEAR LENS
(By tha United Press)
London, Jan. 4. British forces ad
vanced South of Lens last night,
Gen. Haig reported. North of Oam
brai, in the neighborhood of the Ca
nal Du Nord, local fighting occurred
yesterday afternoon, resulting In no
material change in the military sit
uation. Hostile artillerying Was re
ported in the Bullecourt and Ypres
sectors.
getting a varn by::.mi::::-? :i
Slightly ; Warmer Tempera
tures Predicted But Noth
ing Worth Dancing Over
.Yet Whole Section Par
alyzed by Cold
Zero I " ' :
Officially the mercury dropped to
that level Thursday night. The pale
pink streak pfter struggling upward
point or 'two , at a time finally
managed to fcet to Just where it had
been striving 4o get Suffered a re
lapse, so to fpeak. ' ' . . ;
' Tne Weat'j&r Bureau will not say
when it is froing to be seasonable
arain. It half-heartedly ventures .' a
prediction 'that slightly warmer tem
perature may be expe ted the -coming
24 hciirE,(iowevef. ',',-..
There has been one consolation
about the week's cold wave.' The
weather has not been of the native
kind at all. It has been dry and the
air has bean wholesome, and suffer
ing not more intcr.se than with it
eight or 10 decrees warmer under
usual barometric conditions.
The Eastern half c the Nation
continues to suffer far more than in
an ordinary Winter. The Kaiser'.
to- blame directly so. Had he not
drar.Tcd the United Stales into the
war labor to cut wood would have
been more plentiful the pist.Fall, the
railroads would 'not have l'n so
congested, and tho mines' output
would have been far greater with the
means at hand, to get rid of the coal.
The coastal part of North Carolina
could get fueJiby boat were it pos
ible for the commodity to be gotten
to water terminals. Rough weather
has been hindering water transpor
tation, too. -t "'
The snap has killed livestock, su
spended saw mill operations,' stopped
fishing, 'particularly oystering, and
in dozens of other ways made trou
ble in Eastern Carolina. It is report
ed that some of the smaller bays in
which oysters are caught are com
pletely frozen over.
DUPLIN COURT.
Kenansville, N!. CI, Jan. 4. Du
plin County Superior Court for n
two-weeks civil term will be con
vened here January 7, Judge iCalvert
presiding.
& js ' fe"- kf f?''i ; Y
40 Passengers Get Shaking
Up and Half of Number
Are Hurt
E1AZE STARTED, PUT OUT
One Man Burned, Another
Cut, Worst Damaged
Train Happens to the Ac
cident 2 1-2 Miles From
Here .
One person was badly Injured and
many slisrhtly when the rear coach of
a Kir ton-Carolina Railroad train.
Southbound, left the track and turn
ed over two nd a half miles from
here Friday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock. Defective rail, are believ
ed to have caused the wreck.
he car, turning over on its side,
cau.crht fire.' Pfant Smith, an elder
ly passenger, was burned. Smith was
brought here for medical attention.
His condition is supposed to, be not
Iserioua. Smith was (probably the
worst injured of the victims. A man
named Desmond was apparently bad
ly cut on the face. There were about
40 passengers on the car and prob
ably half of these were hurt by
glass, fire or being shaken up in the
capsized car. "
The fire was extinguished by train
men and passengers. '
Information had at the offices was
that six or eight persons were in
jured, one car destroyed and the
mail saved.
CONGRESS AT NOON
(By the United Press)
Washington, Jan. 4.- With an ap
peal for immediate action in the fave
of the demands for nationwide relief
and the elimination of financial un
certainty, President Wilson outlined
his railroad legislative program be
fore Congress at 12:30.
(Subscribe to The Fre p-.i
FUEL ADMINISTRATION STOPSSALE OF
li ARRANGEMENT TO SUPPLY tITY
Local D.alcrs Vhn Purchased Supply for WicK Govern
ment Accepted Too High a Price Won't Ie Penr.ittcd
to Make Further Dclirerics Until Washlrtffton is Heard
From' '.n Blatter McAlist cr Instruct f-cnoir County
Administrator to IIoM-Up-Tradinjr Until lie Can Get
High-up Opinion No Other Fuel Here Capahle of Bc
in; Burned, Administration Expected to Rush Supply
to City In Real fight Place Now
r The sale -of soft coal at' $15 a ton was stopped Friday
morning by local Fuel Administrator N. J. Rouse upon
instructions from State Fuel Administrator McAlister
pending further instructions from the United States
?uel Administration at Washington.
BULLETINS
(By tha United Press)
TO FREE UKRAINIANS.
Petrogd, Jnn. i'--The Com
mlasttriesV Council today reached
a decision to acknowledge the In
dependence of Ukrainia.
CRACKED. -
; Washington, Jan. 4.The De
partment of Justice regards two
'aliens, Johannes - Enimor. and
son. Otto Emmor, arrested ..In
connection with 'the .Norfolk
fire, as feeble-minded ' and soon
expects to release them. :
Three Badly - Hurt-;
By Explosion Old .: r, .
11 in Fireplace
Washington,; N. C, Jan. 4. A
:o fhell, a' relic of the War' Be-
lvc.::i the States, used as an andiron
by a cc"cd tenant on the farm of
Ot. KUmlcy ' car here, exploded and
severely -injn l s woman and two
cWV-cn.- Tha hou. f '--is badly dam-
rr-Tha tenant to;! '.he shell to
to t alia picci cf me.;.!:.
:i!'c scd Bedding
in Chrrch to Keep .
Many From Suffering
Was'hington, ui. C 4. An
c ency "heat station" uihs.c:"i
set up :.t a bir colorel church on
Fourth l!5tieet here. Sleeping M-
i:ommodation hai heen provided,
and E. R. Jfixon, chairmen of the
Associated Charities, has instruii-
ed that the byiVMng be thrown open
to all colored sufferers.
CUT DELIVERIES.
New Bern, Jan. 4. Local mer.
chants have cut the number of de
liveries' to two a day and some are
refusing to make deliveries at all,
as the i ssult of the bad condition of
the enow and ice covered streets. ,
FUEL ADJUNISTRATION FIXES
PRICE OF WOOD AT NEW BERN.
New Bern, Jan. 4. Tne local Fuel
Administration has fixed the price
of wood at $5 a cord for pine and
$5.25 for oak wood f. o. b. cans. A
warning has been issued against, ov
ercharging. - ' i.
DRAFT- AGE MAY BE RAISED TOl TAKE IN
HEN UP TO 45; NONE WITH DEPENDENTS
(By the United Press) '
1 Wasriirtonn. .Tnfi. 4. -TncreasinsT the draft aire frrm
31 to 40 or 45 is one of the
according to Frovost-Marsnai uenerai rowaer m nv?
comprehensive report to the Secretary of W?r. Th?
rflftincr nf olfipr mpn would be mainlv for the nurroo ot'
getting "skilled war labor and also to distribute the bur
den of the war. f , .
Gen. Crowder has shown
mnnff mpn for fif-htin?. but
jurinsr the coming generation by taking too rcrxy r--jrrr"!vcly
patriotic young men.
In his report he slates that thrre I : i:
call for r.:?n of the fourth cl:.:s hvir-r t!:: "-" '
: Messrs. Collins " & Taylor," Ideal
dealers,' a few weeks ago purchased
a" salvaged cargo of 500 tons at
Morehead City, paying . a price -un-isx
the hmmcr in excesa of that au
thorized by the Government and
they have been' selling this coal at,
?1S. They purchased the supply in
order to relieve as much as possible
the fuel: famine, but its sale at $15
was referred to State Fuel ' Admini
strator McAllister and instructions
were fTeceived Friday morning in
ubstance eayiing that in his opinion
the sale of the cargo hy tha United
Starts . Marshal; at Mox-aead City,
the purchase by . the local jnen and
the .resale. at prices in excess of Jhat
authorizedjby. the Government were
in violation of the law and lie advised
trat no further' deliveries be made
until instructions . could be gotten
H orn Washington, '
It is probable that the Crovem
ment will take flteps to correct the
matter and that the local dealers will
be protected when the final disposi
tion of the ) matter ; comes. ,: This,
however, is a mere. conjecture and is
notautharized, by either the State or
local jFuel Administration.
The Free Press was informed by
a (representative of Messrs. Collins
& Taylor that deliveries on the soft
coal had heen' stopped pending; in
striietions. This further complicates
the local fuel situation for the More
',;ead ; City supply ' is the only soft
coal to be had in the City nmv and
a number of deliveries had to be lu-ld
up. . Local Fuel Administrator Rousa
is looking for some coal sent by the
State Fuel Administrator and he is'
lio-;eniteavrny to -get further-in-structli.r.3-
from the State ,Fnel , Ad
miaisf ration i ' t taking case of -the
emergency cn:ed by the 'Sujpen
sion of deliveries.' ."..!
The Pric of Vood to Be Regulated.
The Free Press is authorized by
the Fuel Administrator to state that
the price of wood has been fixed snd
the scale if prices k-i'.I be anioc
ed in a 'fw; days, as soon s 15 il
approval k had from tJe Stflti1- T'iM
Adrninistrstion. ; ;It may . be sfci
authoritatively that the prices nan
ed win show a material reduct;on in
those now prevailing and will not
only govern the rcnlnr den'ors but
wagon deliveries made by country
people. . - . ' -. i
BURNED TO DEATH.
:Mount Olive, -U. . C, Jan.'-4.Sa-rah
Thomas, a colored woman rsiM
ing on R. Kornegay's faan near here,
was fatally burned when her clothirr
caught fire from a fireplace. She is
survived, by three small children.-
probabilities of the future,
that there are enough p;r
uomto out UtQ darker c: r