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The dome Paper ACrtCENTiTAW 7Maii Vn Teay" VOt.XX.-No. 53 IQftSfON, N. C TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1918 FOUR PAGES TODAY 'fivi cffiS';SuiNS Big VtebwyU W Americans Over Th&re IN LENOIR COUNTY 1 I ' DAILY ' . ; Vi 7- ..... .7 SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT FlflCK TO TO SEEK OUT SUBMERSIB-LES; PORTS CLOSED: HARROWING STORIES RELATED Ship Boats Picked Up, One Empty One Big Liner Safe; Three Overdue German Officer Says Fleet of U-Boats Coming to Make War on United States Com- mer Norfolk, Newport News, Portsmouth Closed Rumors of Fight With U-craft One Reported to Have Been Captured No Verification Not Wasting Torpedoes, Says One Submarine Skipper Americans Held Prisoners on Vessels (By the New York, June 4-Germany has estab lisheda permanent submarine blockade of the American coast Within a short time a fleet of U-boats capable of operating against every im portant Atlantic port will be here, according to the mate of U-boat 151. The mate, whb served five years as a boatswain in the United States Navy, made this statement to Enoch Rocker, boatswain of the schooner Edna. After the Ed na was destroy ed JtocVer and others of ttprew werV inrorisoned m we'submarihe more' than a Ports Closed; Navy Alert. nitimlier of bnncibal norts are closed to commerce, Naval vessels of all classes and ' sizes are covering the waters adjacent to the coast, and the probability" is that the German sttbiriarines now on this side will be able to accomplish little more damage. ' far tiearlv all the ships attacked were unarmed The one known exception gave battle to the enemy but TV CkJ UVvuvvi lost with the sinking of passenger earners. TlpflTiTfenews is -comine in slowly. The fact that for days and weeks the undersea boats have been at work on this side is borne out oy many stories, particularly those of men who were held prison ers by the Germans tor a time Virginia Ports Closed. Newport News, June 4. No sur vivors ef vessels had arrived here up lo 10:30 this morning. Hie ports of ftorfoik and Newport News are elos Cid. A lookout is being kept for und ersea Craft. flas There Been Fight? f Portsmouth, Imte 4.-hN news has been received here of a battle between Hun submarines and American de stroyers, .i This port is still closed. No survivors have arrived hew." r paving Torpedoes. 1 iNew York, June 4. "I wont waste a torpedo, on anything less than a troopship. . Torpedoes are too ex pensive." Such a declaration was made by the commander of one sub marine to Capt. Gilmore of the schooner Edna, who was held a pris oner aboard a submarine for a week. Survivors From Carolina. N3W York, June 4.-Nhirteen sur vivors of the steamernCarolina nave been landed at Lewi by the British steamer Appleby, which picked them tip at sea. The survivors are 16 men passengers, two women and one member of the crew. , TU-Boat Captured? New York, June 4. It is reported here that one German submarine haa &een taken to Stapieton, Statsn Isl and, WOjie tj,, Crew have been taken prisoners to Brooklyn navy yard. No official confirmation can be had from either piece. - V v - .-iv- MINE FOUND OFF DEIAWARE COAST BY P. S. SHIP, SUBS LAY DEATH EGGS . (By (he United Press) . Washington, June 4. TTie Navy Depart ment announces that a mine has been picked up off the Delaware coast by a inine sweeper.- The annctmcemcnt indicated that the German sub marines playing c.T America's shore are pat tin?; into effect the threat made by one cf their Ulcers l.ut iCTT-.v United Press) aa men reieaseu. Three Big Ships Overdue. An Atlantic Port, June 4. -Three Important liners are overdue at this Dort. Thev include two biff Trans atlantic ships and one in the con trade. One carries more than 300 passengers. On account of ; the sub marines operating off the coast ' an xiety is felt for their safety. City of Columbus Safe. Boston, Jane 4. -The - Savannah steamer City of Columbus, reported to have been sunk by a submarine, has arrived safely at Vineyard Haven, Lifeboat Found. Empty. New York, June - 4. An empty lifeboat of the missing steamer Car olina has been picked up. Airplanes Scour Sea. i New Yoi, June 4. Forty naval 'planes swept over the sea between Cape May and Fire Island today, pa trolling for 60 miles out in search cf German U-boat victims. .Early in the day there "was no trace of the boatloads of survivors reported to be drifting off , Beach Haven, N. J.r yes terday. It is'believed these may have been men from the Texel who landed at. Atlantic . City during the night Victims So Far. New ' .York, Jane 4. Germany! submarine raid on shipping off, the American Coast has resulted in the destruction ef probably 12 vessels, in cluding two liners. More than 450 persons are missing,,, according to best information early today. ' wr:?M !fi! ?r irvrrv Cl- INSPECTORS TO BE tftlPLOYtil 01 PAGE H m MAIM w m a m ' uiiiiu Food Administration to Keep Close Watch Sugar, Grain, Etc. General Tightening Up, is Warn ing (Special to The Free Press) Raleighi "June 4. Plans fir strengthening and very greatly ex panding the Food Administration or ganization in -North Carolina are be ing undertaken tlhia week by State Food Administrator Henry A. Page, who has just returned from a con ference of state food administrators with Herbert Hoover and his staff at Washington. To Employ Inspectors. One important feature of Mr. Page's new plan calls for the ap pointment of a 'number of inspectors who will divide their entire time to investigations of alleged violations and to the. examination of bakers, ae counts and invoices and other re cords of Wholesale and retail dealers, bottling works, drug stores, ice cream manufacturing plants, soda fountains, flour mills, cotton seed oil mills, etc. When the new system of inspection is effective the elaborate reports which have been required of all licensed dealers or manufacturers will be very greatly simplified. Sugar Regulation Rigid. in nef instance witl there be a greater "tightening tip" or more rigid enforcement of regulations than with those that apply to sugar. '"' All commercial users of sugar who disregard the rationing plan of sugar instituted May 15 -will be disciplined. Certificates are being issued only for sugar supplies up to July 1 and rnany commercial users have failed to ap oly for blanks upon which to make their sworn statements and to apply for certificates because they have al ready reached or exceeded their allot ment of sugar. Not only will such users have their supplies equalized after July 1 but in the absence of their sworn statements by June 15 they will be penalized as well. The Food Administration demands of all commercial users of sugar explana tion of their " status not later than June 15 and no certificates will be, is sued after June 15 except under such circumstances as will satisfy the Food Administration that the delay in making a sworn statement and ap plying for certificates was justified and it is indicated that some tall ex plaining will be necessary to bring about this conviction. " Wholesalers or jobbers who sell sugar or sugar syrup to commercial users without receiving in exchange certificates issued by the Food Ad ministration will have their licenses revoked. Retailers " who make such sales will be blacklisted and be put -rat of business by that process. Going After Profiteers. TheulesJLandregula.tionTef-the Food Administration with regard to margins of profit on foodstuffs will henceforth be more rigidly enforced. One class of dealers and millers the Food Administration proposes to go after comprises millers and deal ers in corn meal and other cereal sub stitutes 'who have taken advantage of the flour shortage . and "50-50'! combination sale to extort unreason able profits on corn meal and sim ilar products. ' f r f;f .- 5 TO 4 VS. CHILD LABOR LAW Washington, "June ' 4. In holding the Federal Child Labor law uncon stitutional yesterday the Supreme Court voted five to four. The court sustained injunctions re straining the Government from' put ting the law into effect and restrain ing a Charlotte mill from discharging hildren erployad ly it. Justices Hohnca, McKenna, Erandeis and Clarke d'stentfd. T r -'i-t he-Id the law to i;.': 'rp v: i 1 i if states i Dock Jackson, .Wife and Son MM Death in Con- tentnea-N Witness to Recovered Dock Jackson, a well-known man, his wife and small son, a boy little more than an infant, were drowned in Cbntentnea Creek at a point near Edwards' Bridge, Lenoir Cinnty, late Monday. The family had pone in a hoat to visit a fish trap. No one saw the accident, but it is presumed that the child fell from the boat and that the parents went overboard In an ef fort to rescue him. Screams were heard, but before help could arrive all hud been drowned. The bodies of the. parents wore found a short time afteV the occurrence, that of the child luter in the night. The funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Jack son and the little fellow will be held Monday afternoon, it is understood. Burial will tuko place in a private cemetery in Pitt or Lenoir County. The Jacksons were prominently relat-, ed at Ayden. CASUALTY LIST. Washington, June 4. Forty names are included in today's casualty list Three were killed in action, two are dead from wounds, six dead from disease, 19 dead from -accidents and other causes, eight wounded severely and one slightly and one taken prisoner. -Powell Davis of 312 Mechanic Street, Franklin, Va., is among those' who died from ac cidents, The prisoner (previous ly reported missing) is William H. Jenkins, Leesburg. Va. THE AMERICAN NEGRO IN AFRICA HAS BIG CHANCE A "child" wandered into a "Y" hut; in East Airica. mo was Dig ana broadwhouldered ami black as the ace of spades. .Six feet In his stock ings he stood, straight as an arrow and muscled like a prize fighter. He wore the Uniform of the King and al so a long scar on his face Won in a hand-to-hand melee with German None the less he was a child. Just now he longed desperately to ue at home with Ms tribe in Somaliland, He wanted to strut around In his khaki before the dusky maidens, and his heart ached for the feast of the hunters home from the kill. A colored young man in the uni form of a "Y" worker came forwa(d and welcomed the trooper in Swaheli. His friendliness Went to the child heart straight as rain to the thirsty roots of flowers. V Then a miracle took placei-and curiosity banished homesickness. From out of a little box came -the voice of a man talking. The grown up ehild examined the box eagerly to e where the man was hidden. But there-waa no roorrt for even a dwarf in that box, so of course it was mag ic. . !' ; ; :V ( ... yv; More Magic. ; , . , .Presently the secretary,: a grad- uateof haw tFniiwityrRaTeigVN. C., led the shy native into dark reom, where there was more magic. A little man with funny feet and a cane was walking about on a white screen. The 6-foot child Began 7 to gTin. The last 01 ni noinesrsnesa .vanished, for Charlie Chaplin Was doing antics for him. l War service is the key which is opehmg the door of opportunity jo he. negro race ; ; ,f ; The. latest evidence of It comes from darkest Africa into the jungles of whWh the ideafs of democracy are slowly pushing their wayV'The eol ored troops ef Nigeria, SomalSlapd, ZaneSwr, Mysaland," and the iGdld Coast are looking eagerly foi1 light, I wn m mniNo BOMBARDMENT or tim ATTM, (By the United Press) j New yortf, Juns'4-New, York will be in ; darl rr ? tonight for fcr of airplane raids or a U i :nt. This c- ' r tss issued by Vo t !' (' ' " V"v '. .;. P01PS Ai HAVE TO RUN OVER; D0RTCI1 NOMINATED Kinston and KenansviUe Lawyers Ix?ad in Solici- . ...... Worship Kace No Com plctc KetumsKinston ian Ahead Tnfc1nv St uvMariul thut JaWim A. T""-' " ' Powers and John Gavin, Jr., would have to enter a second primary to decMe who shull be the Sixth Judicial District Domocrats' nominee for the solk-itorshio. No county in the dis trict had renorted fully. The trtatls 'tics available Tuesday showed that Powers, Kinston, had a total of WU votes in the. district, Gavin, Kenans- viljc, JH)9, and Frank Wooten, Jack IKOIlVlllf, ir.rv. . In the Third District Oongtession i a! fight returns were still Incomplete, but rt was more apparent lnan evcr thaU Col. W. T. Dontch, GoMafeoro, had been nominated over Charles L. Abernethy, "New Bern. PHILIPPINE HEALTH RECORD ENCOURAGING. Manila, P. I.,' June 4. According to the latost report of the Philippine health service the death rate in Ma nila during the last quarter cf 1917 was six r- thousand lower than in the corresponding period of 1916, the actual number of deaths being 399 it ; . and their eyes are turned to the negro of the United States. . A Stiff Campaign. . When the war beiran the Germans werl'very strongly situated in EasfT Africa, the only o;ie of their colonics that has not yet been captured by the Allies. For three years they have offered a most stubborn resist ance to the British, Belgian, Portu guese, and Colonial armies. ; V The country exceeds the area of G.ormany itself. The British recruited and drilled nativhs from their colonies. At first one-third of the tro6ps Used by . the Allies were blacks, now 90 per cent, of. thorn are of that race. jThe mobilization of those natives is affecting the whole life of Central and Eastern Africa, :V No Climate for Whites. During 1910 the British found out tbat white men could not stand the hardships of such a climate. Ex cepting the Smith African fighting units, some regiments of Indian Se- WtyWml the white personnel of de partmental services, the forces en gaged, are drawn from the negro tribes. Thirty battalions of the it lag's. AJ-scan Rifles have been rais ed in East Africa. v Regiments from Nigeria, Zanzibar, the Gold Const, Stunalitand, and ptiherparta arejbear- tng the brunt of the fighting. The Germans, driven from the railroads and out of the? important towns fyl Gep. Smuts, have led their pursuers into a jungle country where more deaths result from malaria, dysen tery,; black water fever,1 and other such diseases than from casualties in action. Since they are of the same race, the colored Y." M. C. A. secretaries, al 1 of them graduates of American colleges for negroes, are able to get into closer touch w th the simple African troopers thn ar white workers. ' Naturally their sympafliy Is closer and their understanding of them greater. T BE IN DARKNESS FIRST BIG BATTLE W WAR; GERIIAHS CROSS ilARNE ANDjlE SATEN SACK American Troops Victorious in Engagement on Southern Bank of River Stop Hun Advance at Another Point Kaiser Feels Talons of Eagle at Last -Pershing's Men Cooperating With French Score Heavily and Take 100 Prisoners Magnificent. Counter Staged by; troops From States Huns Take Pernant iWjth Jleavy Loss esViolent iFighting Continues in Southern Part of Theatre ' ... : (By the United Press) Paris, June 4. American troops have struck their first blow in the new battle of the Marne. , , . Ordinance Requires ' " Autos Not Caityiiig Firemen to Be Good Hereafter when the fire bell rings several automobiles may be expected to stop still in their tracks. An ord lnance adopted Monday night pro vides that all vehicles not carrying firemen shall come to a stand until the fire apparatus Jshall have pass ed," In Kinston when there is a fire alarm scores of automobiles, baby carriages, and dogs streak fight dwn Queen Street, to the testing die grace '-of , modern city and the tmusoment of strangers in town. The new , ordinance provides that autos not carrying firemen shall stop, bat rare is the atfomobile that dossnt carry a firemen on such an occasion. The idea was borrowed from Wash ington, N. C, and was Police Chief Skinner's discovery. But at the place where the novelty originated all vehicles in the fire district are re quired to drive up to the curb and stop for a number of minutes, wheth er they carry volunteer firemen or not. The Kinston ordinance provides a minimum fine of $25. . It says that "all speed laws must also be observ ed by citizens during fifes." .- ? At the meeting Monday night. which was the regular session for 7une, the city clerk was instructed to havo the annual audit of the city's books made. ' The Rowlings &, Hill Co. of Norfolk will do the work. Special Policeman S. A. Eiverlng- ton was made a. regular member of the force, Colombia Honors a French Hero Among Other Celebrities (By the United Press) ., New York, June 4. Robert Lans ing, secretary of state; Lieut. Paul Perigord, Frerwh army hero, former ly a professor in a St. Paul, Minn., school, and Lord Reading, Britinh highcommissionerT-areamong the notables scheduled to receive honor ary degrees at the hands of Columbia university trustees at the 1454th an nual commencement exercises Wed nesday. : '''--: '' ' ALL OE CAROLINA'S PASSENGERS AM) CREW ARE ACCOUNTED FORi BOO IN . (By the United Press) . :. " New York, June 4.Tlie schooner EJna T Douglas is off Barnegat with approximately 250 ; survivors from the liner Carolina, it is stated at the office, of the New Yirk-Porto lIco team ship Company jthis afternoon. This accounts for practically all of the Carolina's passengers and crew. ' . - i SURVIVORS LANDED. Atlantic City, June 4.Forty survivors cf the liner Carolina vrerje Janded today. ,TI?y were impediately taken in charge by r.Vvcl , authoritics,MlIore life boats were rcr-rt- r T HURL ENEMY BACK IN Ml Fighting side afy side with -tha French they . hurled baok a Oerman force which reached the Southern bank of the river. ' The Marne wot crossed by the enemy for the first time since the early months of tte war. The Germans crossed, the TtTt South of Jaulgonne, midway ketJweev ChateaH Thierr'y and Dormans.' The franco-American force took ' a ' hun dred, prisoners. " After the baches bad been tttli back the French and AmtrkMnw de stroyed the bridge.' The Americas force also ' stopped the German ad vance before Neuilly "Wood, ' hurling the Huns back ' by a'' magnificent eouhtet-atback. Further SoBth the i Germans have realised mt gaui tt . the Marne front. ' ' " Between the Alsne and the pure ' the battle -was going on wifli great violence yesterday evenlfni nd last 1 night ' Violent attacks were mad In the region of Pernant, fisdaniMt. Breuil, Missy Aux Bois and Troianea. Pernant was taken by the Germans at the cost of heavy losses to the as- . sailantt. ' ' " , ' American Statement. ' f With i ,the American Amies In France, June 4. An official com munique issued at American head quarters Jast nighit said active pa trolling operations were going on in the Plcarifyand Lorraine sectors. Ar-' tillery firing Was reported from the Lorraine and Woevre districts One enemy Iplane was shot down during air combats, one of ours is missing. Lieutenant Sewell brought down a machine. The German pilot and ob server were captured. Where CccIsks Courts Ctcadian a Real Hero (By the United PretsV London, June 4 Mai. Lawrence V. M. Cosgrave, of s Canadian artil lery regiment, wears the distinguish ed service order decoration for risk ing, bis fife when a lorry in the mid dle of an ammunition conyoy Was blown up and six casualties Occurred.' Ha'-jsapervised removal of wound- td under heavy shell fire. By hav- ing Jhe lorries nearest te the burn ing one removed he minimised the ef fects of the second explosion whan two more lorries blew up. fort to t!::!;cT2 this 'crzr.t and t ' 'i t' e '. n. ry
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