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KINSTON, N, C. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1918
FOUR PAGES TODAY
AUSTRIA OPPOSING
PROLONGATION WAR
AGAINST THE SLAVS
T V rr ' - ,., . ' - y 1 '
Serious Split Between Vien
na and Berlin Govern
mcnts is Reported
PRESS IS ANTAGONISTIC
Papers of Dual Monarchy
Hope Kaiser,, Will Leave
! Their Country Out of
Plans for Activities in
Eastern Theatre
(By the UnltftdTPmt)
London,' Feb. ; 18.-:-Jermainy's de
claration against the Bolshevik! has
caused a moot serious chasm between
Germany and Austria-Hungary, "the
Copenhagen correspondent of the
Exchange Telegraph wired today..
The Austrian press is protesting
against the reopening of hostilities
in which Austria has no desire to
participate. The newspaper Diezeit
hopes that the attempts of Czernin
and Wilson to come to an understand
ing will continue and that Germany
won't-interfere with it
Wilson Wins."
Washington, Feb. 18. The Russian
chaos and President Wilson's day
light diplomacy have thrown the bat
tling nations of the Central Powers
confusion and dismay. History fails
to record a parallel to the situation
existing today in the old world. The
sailors of the , Russian Baltic fleet
the first to embrace the original Pe
trograd revolution and then to jump
to the Bolsheviiki, have broken away
' to complete anarchy. They are car
rying fire and blood thuoogh Finland.
VOLUNTEER THREATENED
TO KILL OWN OFFICERS.
Charlotte, Feb. 18. Joseph Jacobs,
an Austrian by birth, but a volun
teer in the United States army, re
cently brought to Camp Greene
from Pennsylvania,': wtas placed in
the county jail here to be interned as,
an enemy alien. He is charged with
threatening officers in his command
and having stated that he would shoot
to kill his officers before he would
fire at his own nationality.
SON OF FORMER SULTAN
KILLED BY TURKISH BULLET.
London, Feb. 18. 'According to in
formation received in London from
Palestine, a son of Murad, Sultan of
Turkey for a brief reign in 1876, vis
ited Jerusalem last July and was re
ceived with royal honors, but after
gning subsequently to the Beersheriba
front was never heard of again. Ac
cording to' Austrian officers, he was
killed by a Turkish bullet. No official
announcement has been issued con
coming his death.
FRENCH GOVERNMENT
WILL TAKE OVER SHIPS.
Paris, Feb. 18. A decree publish-
for the requisitioning of -the entire
merchant marine of France on March
10. ......I'
Government commissioners will
confer with the ship oners as to the
conditions under which the govern
ment rwill take over the vessels., '
. .
. RICE TO BE CHEAPER.
Vt Washington Feb. ; 18. Reduction
in the price of rice is in prospect for
April 1, the food administration an
nounces. ,., Distribution iJigures show
that there is a surplus,; after de
ducting the million bags purchased
for export to Europe, of 150,000,000
pounds. . f , i
IMPRISONED FOR ADVISING ,
f OU.TI 1U UL.I I 1JKAM.
,' ' Milwaukee Wis., Feb.. 18. Will
iam Gessert, of Plymouth,' Wis.,
(charged with advising his son not to
r?ort to a draft board for examina
tion, has been sentenced to five years
t Leaviemwonth pemtentaary r by
Federal Judge Anderson;
SMILEAGE CAMPAIGN
HERE APPEARS SURE
to BEING SUCCESS
Canvassers Meet With
Great Luck on Initial
Round $500 Will Be
Raised Without Trouble,
Seems Certain
The Smiie&ge canvassers Stacked
out into the city Monday forenoon.
At 1 o'clock Chairman E, Y. Speed
declared he was delighted with the
results. Some canvassers had re
turned for more books. Mr. Speed
said the Smileage organization
would drive ahead to attain the $500
mark encouraged by the first round's
apparently remarkable success. He
could not estimate the total of the
collections so early in , the canvass,
but judged from all the signs that it
was heavy. Nearly all the canvassers
reported for work.
To Make Sam Smile,
v There are two sizes of the Smile
tage (books, selling for $1 and $5.
rhese books contain coupons which
pass the soldier owner to the at
tractions at the Liberty theatres at
the camps.
Everybody Should Buy.
Chairman Speed urges every per
son here with a soldier relative to
purchase Smileage for the Sammy.
UNITED SOUTHERN STOCK
COMPANY AT THE GRAND.
The United Southern Stock Com
pany was to open at the Grand The
atre Monday afternoon for the week.
"The Eternal Magdalene" was to be
the bill at the maMnee .performance,
and was to be repeated at night. The
company comes highly recommended,
wtSth Mabel Paige and a number of
other well-known Stage folk among
its members. v
TWO MILLION A DAY
SALE OF STAMPS IN U. S.
.Winston-Salem, Feb. 18. More
than two million a day is the rate at
which war-savings stamps are sell
ing in the United States today, ac
cording to a telegram from the na
tional chairman, F. A. Vanderlin, to
State headquarters here. The total
sale of stamps Saturday passed the
?50,000,000 mark, while the daily
average sale shows a steady increase.
AUTO COLLISION.
An ; automobile driven .by Leslie
Mason tried to turn out of the way
by Dr. F- A. Wh (taker and standing
in fronii of iDr; WMtaker's North
Street office, Saturday night when
Mason tried to urn out of the way
of an approaching car. Mason said
he did not see Dr. Whitakerte au
tomobile. Both his and the jphy
sdcian's car weredamaged.
' DEATH OF BABY.
The iwoek-old infant of Mr. and
Mrs. Habib Abdallah'died at 11 p. m.,
Friday. The burial took place Sat
urday afternoon. The Httle one bad
not been named. . '
To Hold Anti-Cholera
Meetings Three Points
in County Next Week
The following schedule of meet
ings in Lenoir iGounty has been ar
ranged by Dr. F. D.'Owen, inspector
in charge, and others engaged in
combating hog cholera in the coun
ty: . "
February ,26, at Falling Creek
School. - . .. ;..
February 27, ait Fairfield School.
February 28, at Glenwood School,
near LaGrange.
'Each of the meetings wiQ start at
7:30 p. m. -Illustrated
Lectures.
' Stereoptkon . lectures ;, describing
the' manufacture of the inoculating
serum and the process of inoculation
will feature all three meetings. The
experts will vaccinate any hogs they
may be, requested to administer the
serum to in the three localities. There
Will be no expense other than the
cost of the serum; .
$25,000 Damage by
Destruction School ,
at Whitsett Sunday
. nr tha UMtod Pressi
DanviHe, Va Fab. 18. Whitsett
Institute, a famous school near
Greensboro, was totally destroyed by
fire yesterday. There was no loss
of life. The big library was destroy
ed The damage was $25,000. The
origin is puzzling, The building was
alight from end to end in a short
time. - ,
Y. M. C. A. SPENDS LARGE
SUM IN ARMY CAMPS.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 18. During the
past six weeka, since January 1st,
necessary new Red, Triangle huts ag
gregating in coat over $250,000 have
beenoritradted for in the Southeast
ern : Department, according to a
statement issued from Atlanta head
quarters of the Y. M. C. A.
PAROLE SYSTEM TO BE
APPLIED CHAIN GANGS.
Raleigh, Feb. ; 18. Governor Bick
ett has ordered (the parole board sys
tem applied to chain gangs in the
counties of the State. Superintend
ents will be instructed to recommend
paroles or pardons in the cases of de
serving prisoners. ; ;.
IN FRONT TRENCHES
, , , (By the United Press)
With the American Annies in
France, Fob. 17 (Delayed) General
Pershing visited first line trenches
today as part of a general inspection
of the American' troops holding this
sector. He found the men in ex
cellent - condition and spirits, their
patrol wrk becoming rapidly more
effective, while the men in the rear
are anxious to take their turn in the
trenches.
; FRENCH PROMOTE HIM.
. -.Washington, N. C, Feb. 18.
James Baugham, a very young flyer
from" Khds city in the famous La
Fayette Escadrille of the French
army, has been promoted to a cor
poralcy. ' .' , v -
BULLETINS
fB thnnif Prass)
BURNED UNDER CAR.
' Birmingham, Feb.' 18. Fay
Roberts, a citizen of Russellville,
Alabama, crawled under his au
tomobile today to drain the gas
oline tank. v He couldn't see and
: struck a match. It is reported
that' tie probably will die. The
. auto burned up.
CAROLINIAN WOUNDED. "
Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 18. An
American mentioned in today's
casualty list Is A, C Hirst,
Parksville, - N. C wounded.
KEEP
MS LONG AsV
IVE Rrif V.. 5
FYPFPTS
UilSUVIU.
LOT WORK IN WEEK
Railroad Control, Finance
. Corporation and Day
light Saving Measures to
Come Up in Next Few
DaysBig Schedule
(By the United Pres)
Washington,. Feb. 18. This will be
a. whirlwind week for Congress m
the winding up of big war jobs.
The railroad control bill is expect
ed to clear the Senate and House
for action. A definite date for the
Senate vote will be asked today.
Close on the heels of this meas
ure will come McAdoo's war finance
corporation bill. i
House action on the daylight sav
ing bill is expected early in this
week The Senate already has pass
ed the bill, (which would have the
American people turn their watches
ahead one hour this Summer.
HUN FLYERS BAG 16
IN RAID ON LONDON
(By the United Press)
London, Feb. 18. Sixteen persons
were killed and 37 wounded in Sun
day night's air raid over London,
Lord French announced today.
Thirteen men and three women, wore
kmong those killed.
PRESIDENT WILL HAVE
. NO DEALIXCiS rfuHgHBSftM.
Washington, Feb. 18. The Presi
dent has decline dto confer with Will
:am L. Hutcheson, president of the
striking shipyard canperttem Hutch
eson musft accept the principle that
at this time no body of men has the
right' to strike until all other means
of settlement of a difficulty have
been tried, the President told Hutch
eson in a telegram yesHerday. Un
less he acta upon that principle he
is giving aid to the enemy, Hutcheson
was told.
EASY THING.
. Claude Balllard, Thurman Cox and
Joe Ballard motored to Goldsboro
Sunday evening just ito kill time.
Hailed from a ditch on the way they
investigated and found a car gone
wrong. They were requested to get
ifr out. They couldn't , pull it out,
they said; the shipwrecked ones
woukl have to get horiies. "Sure,-
hie sure y'kdn pull her out. "S on
ly a Ford." They did piill it out.
One of the passengers of the tin bus
was asleep when she struck, and
failed to wake up through it all.
KINSTON DOLLARS AT
GET THROUGH WITH.
lf.t'
Bolsheviki Successes
ill
inciuae KetaKingor
Kieff; Poles Whipped
. (By the United Press) ,T. , .
Petrograd, Feb. 18. The Bolshev
iki troops on February 9 recaptured
Kaeff . The Ukrainian forces were
routed and were in f tight The Red
Guards vrouted Gen. Alexieff forc
es at Makeyevka, Loma)( and Sevier-
Va.-l' ; :-: ' ''v:.:v y:V-,
PoQishf. legionaries bava been de
feated in the Kricheva district, in the
province of Hohileff. -
Bolsheviki officials on February 7
were rushing a big army from Mos
cow against Gen. Alexieff, whose
forced wens near, Vkxroneafch. The
latttef was seeking to cut the Voron-eech-Moscow
railroad on his march
toward Petrograd. ;
WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST.
Issued by the!U. S. Weather Bu
reau, Washington, for the-week be
ginning Sunday, February 17!
' .For South Atlantic and East Gulf
States: Fair and colder Monday,
probaWy rain Tuesday followed by
somewhat ( colder Wednesday; con
ditions latter (part of week uncertain,
but without deckled temperature
changes. " ' ' . ,
WHEATLESS WEEKS A
POSSIBILITY AHEAD
(By the TTnitod Pr
Washington, Feb. 18. Whelwfless
weeks instead of wheaitlcss days are
ahead of the Nation unless some
thing is done to increase production,
C. II. Hyde, Oklahoma farmer and
member of the Oklahoma Defense
Council, told ithe Senate Agricultur
al Committee 'today. ''
HORRIBLE THREAT.
Hastings, Neb., FflD. 18. Refusal
of a pupil to go to school here re
cently because the teacher had
threatened to throw him in the fur
nace caused prompt . parental in
vestigation. .Finally the teacher remembered
telling the boy that unless he worked
harder she would drop him from the
register. '; . ' ' ' : ' '' -
The- only register the lad knew
anything about was the hot ah- reg
ister connected with the furnace.
COTTON
Receipts Monday were about seven
bales, prices ranging ail the way
from 28 to 30: v
New York futures quotations were:
Open. Close.
March .........
May
July ...........
October ........
December
30.20
29.74
30,10
29.73
20.20 . ; 29.24
28.00 28.03
27.80
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SPftMAN DELIVERS
LAST SERMON LOCAL
COAL-SAVING SERIES
Final Union s Service Sev
eral Ministers Partici
pate in Interesting Pro
gram at Queen Street
Methodist Church
Dr. B. W. Spflman, Sunday school
secretary of the Southern Rxptist
Church, preached the seventh, and
concluding sermon of the union series
Sunday nigh. ' The service was held
In Queen Street Methodist Church
and. the seating capacity of the
handsome, edifice was taxed to over
flowing. The good spirit of fellow
ship, which has been so manifest in
the union series devised by the pas
tors the first of the year primarily
as a fuel conservation measure, was
hv evidence thronghout the exercises.
Musical Program.
; Rev. IM,. H. TuHJtle, pastor of the
host church, presided and read the
scripture lesson. Rev. G. B. Han
rahan, pastor of the Atkinson Me
morial Presbyterian Church, led In
the opening prayer. A very inter,
eating musical program was rendered
under tlte direction of the church or
ganist, Mrs. Nan Goodson Howard,
in which members of the various
choirs of the city had a part,. Cap
tain Vendeville and a brother Sal
vation Army worker, Mr. Boutarse,
sang a duet. Solos were rendered by
Mrs. Kleber Denmark, Mrs.1 Frank
Lewis, Miss Gaynelle Heath, Mrs, F.
Margaret Marston. The choir, led
by Mrs. Dan. Quinerly,." Mrs.-. J.- E.
Hudson and Miss Herndon, sang sev-
eral j;elecons. Mrs. Howard com
pleted the good program with several
organ selections., ,
Dr. Suilman Optimistic
Dr. Spilmisin'a text was Rev. 1:19,
"Write the thiners which thou hast
seen, and the things which are, and
the things which shall be hereaftex."
He delivered a masit Interesting dis
course elucidating the vision that
earns to the Apostle John on the Isle
of Pattmos and proclaiming bis un
swerving faith in the ultimate ; su
premakry of' Christianity and- its
principles throughout, the world, in
spite of the terrible things that were
now coming to pass. He recalled the
dark days following the death of
Jesus Christ, whert the leading world
powers avowedly determined to sup
press the progress of Christianity
and exterminate its . teachings. Just
as they failed then, he said, would
the efforts of the powers that now
strlved to supplant it fail. God was
still in His Heaven surrounded by
myriads of angels who were Teady
to give aid and succor to the lowliest
of His followers on earth, he de
clared.
Rouse Smileage Speaker.
Hon. N. J. Rouse was called upon
preceding the sermon to make an an
nouncement regarding the Smileage
campaign which was inaugurated
Monday morning. He made an im
passioned appeal for the response of
the people at home in every way
possible that the boys, who had gone
out, might know that they were sup
ported. . . l: - . (
Judge Calvert Opens
His First Term Court
in This County Monday
Superior Court far the February
civil term, to lust two weeks, was
opened Monday morning, Judge T,
TI. Calvert of Wake County presid
ing. The calendar is not crowded,
there are no very important causes
listed"," and the term promises to be
uneven tfui.
' it is Judge Oalvertfs first sitting
here. The reputation accorded him
by a member of the Duplin County
bar here Monday was: "One of the
cleverest men to deal with. I ever
saw."! . ' '--''.-;
The calendar had the ,. following
matters listed for the' first day: No
BO. Mitchell vs. Express Company:
81, Isaac Jannan vs. i. D. Baker;
103, RutJedge vs. Griffin; 145, D ail
VS. XiWW . v jj.
ALLIES' WILL BE
OF
DnQiTinw nirTAi
l uuiuuii uiuiaiin
PEACE TliiS YEAUl
Up to Them to Call Tlindca
burg's Hand and JVar, ; ;
Will Be Good as Over yf!
AIIMKIA UmmJl llUX
Vienna Government ,f Too ,
Wobbly Germany Will -.--,
Have 2,600,000 to 3,000,- -
000 Men in 1? leldADOUi;
200 Divisions ,
, '
By William Philip Simms
rOopyrighted by thaUnited Press)
Berne, SwHzertand, ; Feb. 17
(Delayed) Hlold steady on the West
front and the war is won.
Therein lies Ithe whole story of my
Swiss impressions. I dont mean
peace will folknr wnthin 24 hours ox
Von Hindenburg's fiasco, but I csr , ,-j .-,
tainly believe an Allied peace will b
possible this year.
Austria Won't Help Much.
This conclusion is not a hasty .
It has ibeen reached by a process .sf , v'
tantamourtt maithembitical computa
tion. Hindenburg .can expect littla
or no aid from Austria. Emperor ,
Carl's position is too wobbly to war-
trant sending the Auistrians, Hun-
rarians,; Csechs, etc., to thelf slaught
er on the West front. - Ludendorff has
practically - reorganized the German -
army; which probably will comprise
BOO divisions (2,600,000 to- 8,000,000 ? .
men) when the offensive,. Starta-rif itL..
Starts, jj. w-
Uncle SaScel Wants -
Wage War This Year ,
Washington, Feb. 18. The great- "
est financial drive in this country's
history- Is' underway today to obtain : '
over 118,000,000,000 tot Coverainent
expenses this year. - i." 1
According to the estimates of the
Treasury - Department, the '- United .;
States will spend over ' 53,000,000
every day during 1918, the greatest
portion to run the war. k ! -j
Third Loan. ' " 1 1 ' "
-: It is expected that the third Liberty
Loan will net the Government far
above four Milton dollars. -J , "'-
I Internal revenue returns for, 1918
will show $3,400,000,000 as compared
with the (80993,640 collected dur
ing 19-17, according to Treasury De
partment estimates. . . ..
Great Showing. . -
' The total internal revenue returns .
for 1918 will equal one-tbird of the n
otal revenue of . the entire wouM
two years ago. '' - x v" "'
H Excess profits will bring in
200,000,000. 1 i .The next largest
amount,. (650,000,000, will come from (
personal incoma tax- ' The pennies
that are paid with nickels and dimes
for admission to movies -and from
dues paid to club treasurers will net
150,000,000. ;ThS picturesque "Virgin
Islands, lately acquired, will furnish
their shars of the revenue (20,000. ,
New Act's Results.
Out of this vast sum to be raised
by internal revenue only (750,000,000
represents the revenue of the cdtn
modifies taxed under the old law.
The . remainder will be tangible re
sults of the revenue act of October
3, 1917. - ' '
AviSDOM IN HIS OBJECTION.
"Tanner," well-kncwn cotored char- '
actor, in jafi since he began to show
signs of being completely unbalanc
ed gome weeks ago, objects to being
sent to Goldsboro to serve on the
police force. Chief Skinner is, man
ifesting his klodheartedness by "eas
ing Tanner along." He can't pos-'
sibly take him on here, 'because all .
the places are filled, he tells Tan
ner; "But .ill don want to go to
Goldsboro, even to be a policeman,"
Tanner protests. ' Skinner is I f
ning to believe Tanner isn't
after all.'
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