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FIRST EDITION KINSTON, N. C. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1917 FOUR PAGES TODAY KORNILOFF ATTEMPTS USURP CONTROL AT PETROGRAD; IS DISMISSED DY KERENSKY; STATE OF WAR PROCLAIMED AT CAPITAL COLORED MAN FOUND FIRST 10 MEN FROM M'CIIARY WILL HEAD A NEW DISTRICT; BE SENT TO TIDEWATER fftlE RAILROAD IN' DYING CONDITION COUNTY OFF FOR WAR SATURDAY i 5 HE If LENOIR ARGENTINE MORE ANGRY AT SWEDEN THAN GERMANY AS RESULT OF UNITED STATES' REVELATION OF PLOT; OFFICIALS SILENT Aaron Sutton Succumbs to Generally Accepted at Buenos Aires That Stockholm Government's Part Was More Offensive Than Those Played by Luxburg and Berlin Conspiracy to Pacify and Insult Latin-American Country With False Promises Arouses Great Indignation Government Will Denounce Conduct When America's Assertions Are Proven, Says Official Organ Washington's Version Not Doubted Pending Formal Confirmation Popular Farm Demons! a tion Agent Promoted- Summary Demand That Authorities Turn Over Administration of City to Commander-in-Chief is Refused by Five Per Cent. Forwarded to Camp Jackson to Join National Army Premier, Who Takes Vigorous Steps to Check Trouble, Klembovsky Appointed Successor to Genralissimo Titian Ureed to Remain Calm Government An- nounces Taking of Measures to Cut at Root All At tempts "Against Supreme Power and Rights" of Mass esPlot Revealed by Krensky (By W. G.

Shepherd, United Press Staff Correspondent) Petrograd, Sept. 10. Petrograd was formally in a state of war today. (By Charles P. Stewart.

I nited Press Staff Correspondent) Buenos Aires, Sept. 10. Argentine's anger today was directed against Sweden rather than Germany. Premier Kerensky issued plot by General Korniloff, commander-in-chief of the Pussian armies, to assume control of the government. Comment on the American revelation Germany's secret channel of communications from the German charge in Buenos Aires through the Swedish legation to Stockholm and thence to Berlin, was still withheld in official circles.

It was plain, however, that officials regarded Sweden as having played the mo3t offensive part in the ntat-ter. La Epochs, the recognised government organ, apparently voiced the official view. "It is impossible to believe there was such monstrous discourtesy despite teh source the information. But if proved certain the government will denounce such conduct," is said. The Swedisfh charge confirmed legation's denial anything had been handled for Lux burg.

Nevertheless, the accuracy of Washington's version of the affair was accepted practically without question. FRANCE WILL HAVE NEW MINISTRY, IS RELIEF IN CAPITAL Failure of Ribot to Form Another Cabinet Leads to Conclusion That He With Others Has Resigned Post (By the United Press) Paris, Sept. 10. Failure of Premier Ribot to form a new minsitry was formally announced today. His resignation, with those of the entire cabinet, is believed to have been submitted.

The Echo Paris announced in its eatfly edition that the present minister of war, M. Palnleve, would be entrusted with the task of forming the new minstry. Socialists who forced the ministerial crisis, refused to collaborate in the reconstruction of the cabinet by Ribot. BOOSTING AYDEN TOBACCO MARKET FOtt BIGGER THINGS. Ayden, N.

Sept. 8. The local tobacco market is working for a prize in development. At present lacking facilities to satisfactorily handle more than 2,500,000 pounds, the chamber of commerce announces that if a "reasonable" amount nf the product can be sold here this season the warehouse facilities will be more than doubled for the 1918 season. The two existing warehouses will be increased in size and a third house built, the chamber of commerce declares.

The organization is boosting Ayden, for a 5,000,000 pounds market. For Rent Two horse farm, two tobacco barns, good dwelling house, and two tenant houses. Apply Hal-cey Malpass Goddsboro, N.C. 9-3-5t Sw a proclamation revealing a TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ATTEMPT TO ASSAULT GIRLS Craven County Negroes to Die in Electric Chair-Man Freed of Charge of Attempt Upon Child is Rearrested New Bern, Sept. 10.

Jesse Bow-den, colored, convicted of burglary in the first degree here last week, was late Saturday night sentenced to be eloctrocuted on October 10. A short time previously Lee Perkins, colored, was sentenced to death for the same crime. Perkins and Bowden entered the home of W. A. Wilson at Dover about 3 a.

m. August 19, with alleged intention of committing criminal assault upon daughters of Iffr. Wilson. Their presence was discovered and an raised when Perkins' placed his hand upon one of the girls. The negroes were arrested a few hours after the attempt.

Henry Coonor, charged with attempted assault upon nine-year-old girl, was Saturday night found not guilty. Immediately a Federal of ficer arrested Ocnnor on liquor charges. AdventJst Service. Friday night a large congregation at the Seventh Day Adventist Church heard Pastor H. J.

Farman preach on "Prevailing Prayer." He affirm ed that prayer did many great things, Jacobs case was cited. Jacob in his manhood had power with God; yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed," declared Mr. Farman, quoting from the Bible. Jaob'3 prayer, it wais pointed out, Was not a selfish one. He prayed for his brother Esau, whom he had wronged.

He proved his sincerity by his work of restoration. Korniloff was immediately dis immediately missed. General Klembovsky was appointed his successor. Kerenskys proclamation in part follows "Former Premier Evoff arrived at Petrograd Saturday demanding in General Korniloff's name that I de-Jiver all civil and military power over to General Issimo, who would form a new government at his pleasure. "The Authenticity of this summons was afterwards confirmed by Korniloff personally, by a telegram from headquarters.

"Considering this summions an at tempt in certain quarters to profit by our country's difficult situation and establish conditions contrary to the conquests of the revolution, the provisional government recognized the necessity of charging me, for the fatherland's safety and the freedom of the Republican regime, to take urgent anl indispensible measures, and to cut at the root all attempts against the supreme power and rights of our citizens, won by the revolution. "I am therefore, for the mant'n-anee of liberty, taking all necessary measures, which will be announced when the proper time arrives. At the same time, I order General Korniloff to hand over all his functions to General Klembovsky, commander-in-chief of the armies 'on the Northern front, which armies now bar the enemy's way to Petrograd. I order General Klembovsky to assume pro-nsonally all the functions of General Issimo. "Secondly, I declare a state of war in the town and dsitrict of Petrcgrad.

I appeal to all citizens to remain calm and fulfill their duty toward the fatherland and against the foreign enemy." New York futures quotations Saturday were: January 20.20 19.93 March 20.33 20.12 May 20.44 20.25 October 20.30 20.02 December 20.35 19.98 Severe Injury on Head and Broken Arm Supposed to Have Been Hit by Night Train Aaron Sutton, about 33 years of age, a Falling Creek colored man, was found fatally injured at a point along the Norfolk-Southern Railroad between this City and h'u home Sunday morning. Sutton's skull wa9 broken In and his brain injured and one arm was badly broken up. He was brought to Wood's undertaking establishment, on North Queen Street, where he died during the day. Coroner Eugene Wood started an investigation. The inquest will be concluded Monday night.

The generally accepted theory is that Sutfcon was struck by a train late Saturday nighlj, and that he lay all night in the rain unseen. He lived in spite of injuries which should have brought death quickly. His clothes were oily, giving strength to the belief that he wa3 struck by a train. It is reported that he had been drinking. Sutton leaves a family.

War Sealed Fate of Sea-going Slums of British Shipowners (By the United Press) London, Aug. 10 (By Mail) Seagoing shims are doomed. The British Government has seen the inconsistency between the loyalty of her seamen in the face of the submarine war and their treatment by shipowners. The government has taken over the building of all merchant ships and is building them right. The man who puts to sea in the boats now be- ing built will have accomodations somewhat approaching those of the passengers.

or eacn two seamen there is a separate room containing two berths, a seat ami a locker. Each room is large to provide sufficient air and a real ventilation system has been introduced. Lights are so placed as to make each room bright. For the U3e of the seamen and firemen there is a la ue smoking room, in addition to the meys rooms, provided separate ly for firemen, seamen and gunners. There are better bathing and washing facilities than in many an English hotel.

i For reasons of safety the seamen's quarters are being placed aft. This means the passing of the fo'c'sl. It may be a loss writers of ro mantic sea fiction, but sailors are glad to see this dark, dirty, unventi-lated hole abolished. Officials of the National Sailors Firemen's Union expect to see sim ilar changes made in the construct' ion of ships all around the world in a short time. GENERAL STRIKE OF SEABOARD AIR LINE CLERKS IS CALLED (By the United Press) -Riohmiond, Sept.

10. A general strike of railroad clerks on the Seaboard 'Air Line from Richmond to Birmingham is to be effective within 48 hours. It was called by the national offices of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, advised by a national representative of the Ameri can Federation of Labor. The strike admittedly may com pletely tie op traffic over the Sea board. The strike was called In sympathy with the striking clerks at Tampa, Jacksonville and Raleigh, who have walked out during the last fortnight on the refusal of the com pany to grant wage -increase, Lenoir Not to Be in Ter ritoryLeaves Kinston in Few Days O.

F. McCrary, farm demonstration agent for Lenoir County for just about long enough for the rural population and many City people, for that matter to get strongly attached to (him, will leave Kinston about the middle of the present month to become district agent in a new Idistrict comprising the counties of the extreme Eastern part of the State. He was given the appointment by B. W. Kilgore, State director of demonstration work at Raleigh Wednesday.

Mr. McCrary is a South Carolina man. He graduated from Clemson College. He is a very little past the draft age. He is an enthusiast over East Carolina.

He is sorry that. Le noir County will not be in his lis trict, but looks forward eagerly to the exploration of the Tidewater country and taking up his share of the work of its development A-; district agent he will have charge of the farm demonstration work in Cur rituck, Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Chowan, Gates, Hertford Bertie, Dare, Tyrrell, Washington, Martin, Hyde, Beaufort, Pitt. Pam lico, Craven, Carteret, Jones and Ons low counties. Practically all of these now have or soon will have res ident demonstration agents. Mr.

McCrary will locate at Wash ington, which is about centrally lo cated in the new district. The dis trict agent in the extension service is called upon to travel a great deal It has been decided, he states, to di vide the State into five instead of three districts. SOLDIERS FROM KINSTON SHOUID KEEP IN TOUCH Morrill Mewborn Suggests The Free I'li'HH as the Medium Xorth Carolina Doing Its Part in Building L'p Armies, Declares Local Boy In the Hospital Service. Reading a letter from Earl Brewer, a musician of the Second Infantry Band, in The Free Press a few days ago, gave 1 nomas Morrill Mewborn, another Kinston boy in the army, the idea that "if the boys who are away will 'keep in touch with our home paper we can keep, through its aid, in touch with each other," he states in letter to this paper. T.

Morrill Mewborn, who is a well- known young man "back home," left here May 28. He spent nearly a month at Fort Thomas, after which he was sent to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. At the latter place he was assigned to Ambulance Company 23. After being in this company about a week he was appointed an acting noncommissioned officer, with the actual rank of private first-class. On August 25 the command left for a Northern station, where young Mr.

Mewborn now is. He states that it is a "healthy and very desirable" camp. He is the only man there from Kinston so far as he knows, but there are about 15 men in his company alone from North Carolina. "I found that North Carolina had about as many volunteers at all three of the places I have been in as any other state," he says. Mewborn hopes that other Kinston boys in the service will follow the example set by Earl Brewer by writing to The Free Press, so that their feHows afar may learn what they are doing.

Mrs. W. W. Gill of Danville is ex pected to tonight to visit her son-in-law and daughter, Mrs. C.

Fefix Harvey, Jr. i brief furloughs, and the gunners ap parently reciprocated, looking their new brothers in arms over with pro fessional Interest SOLEMti! NOT GAY, NOR YET f'Ros." Bailey "in Com mand" Comfort Bags, Cigarettes, Handshakes, Speeches Right Good Looking Party of Boys Lenoir County's first 5 per cent, of its draft quota is bound for the war, rne iu men comprising the per cent, departed about 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning for Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C. The 10: Amies M. Dawson, LaGrange.

Julian A. Brown, LaGrange. Jennings Broadhurst, 602 Inde pendent Street, Kin-ston. Roland H. Barwick, route 3, Seven Springs.

i Eugene R. Bailey, 106 1-2 South Queen Street, Kinston. John Alphin, LaGrange. i Benjamin F. Cox, Kinston.

Robert M. Cauley, route 3, Kinston James L. Daughety, route Kins- tan, i Bernard Fordham, 201 Trianon Street, Kinston. Eugene R. Bailey, known to most Kinstonians as "Ros." Bailey, was in charge of the men.

He was named by the local board. Theoretically, the drafters were in charge of the local board until they reached Camp Jackson, expectedly about 10:30 Saturday night. Bailey did not know what the squad would do when it ar- rived at Camp Jackson except "Get to the camp and hang around" un til someone took the bunch in charge The departing youths appeared to be in good spirits. There was no wastage of smiles, but. few signs of gloom.

All took heart from predict ions that in a few weeks' time they would like army life so well they could niot be dragged away from it. "I'm going to make the Germans pay for my share for it," said one fellow, who appeared to be the most willing of all to go. He seemed really eager. The men "locked up" as typical Tarheel boys. There was no big ppecimen among them, but all seemed "stringy and tough.

Most of them are farmers. Chairman Richard E. Bland and Dr. Albert D. Parrott of the local board, together with County and City officials and a fair crowd of otiher citizens, saw the boys off at the station.

Hon. N. J. Rouse made the party a little speech before they left the board's office in the Hunter Building. Col.

W. D. Pollock made a short tlk at the station. Mrs. N.

J. Rouse and Mrs. Sol. Oettinger, for the Red Cross, presented comfort bags to the squad. Each bag contained a sack of tobacco, a toothbrush, a New Testament, a sewing bag filled with needles, pins, buttons, a tube of dental cream, a bar jof toilet soap, a drinking cup, a pair of shoe laces, a comb, a bar of chocolate, a package of chewing gum, thread, scissors, a pipe and a mirror.

Chief of Police Skinner and Jailer Thomas Conway bought 500 cigarettes tor the lads. Then, with the assistance of persons who saw what they were up to, they raised the money in a few moments' time for the purchase of another half thousand cigarettes and a linen handkerchief for each man. The drafters were un-feignedly appreciative." The board Saturday morning announced the exemption by the district board of Noah Crane, a Kinston man, previously certified through error. The district board reversed the lo cal board's decision in Crane's case. Greene County's first 6 per cent, six Btrong, Joined the Lenoir men here.

The drafted' men manifested some interest in a half dozen field artillerymen who got off here for a "TWIN BEDS" HERE THURSDAY. "Twin Beds," the brilliant comedy success of three continents, which A. S. Stern and Company will bring to the Grand on Thursday of this week, has proved to be the most strikingly popular comedy ever written. It started its career in New York in August, 1914, and ran there steadily for the whole year.

In the spring of 1915, another company began an engagement in London, where the play still holds the boards, and negotiations are now on foot for early presentations in Paris, Petrograd, Rome, Madrid, South America, South Africa and Japan. Yet Salisbury Field and Margaret Mayo who wrote the comedy have somewhat gloatingly confessed that various prominent American managers read "Twin and declined to have anything to do with the grold mine. It is as certain as mundane can be that "Twin Beds" is the biggest comedy success of a decade. It is clear, clean, healthy fun from beginning to end, and it is not only brightly written but brilliantly acted. "Twin Beds" is said to keep the audi ence in convulsions lof mirth and to the most wtldly laughable comedy that ever set a house in uproar.

(Subscribe to The Free Press) Green pine boards and tar paper, with little tin buttons studding the whole, is "camp headquarters." Here, "the even MaJ. General John F. Morrison, and his 11 staff nf icers, evolve dark plans to tho prodigious uneasiness of their troopers. New "stunts" for the traning ccurse are constantly being tried out "Kid" Green, Company Third Tennessee, has the camp at arm's length. He's hailed "feather" champ of the outfit The boys today were nursing sore arms and a grouch agsinst the medical men.

TheyVe just been "nocu-lated" against paratyphoid, which is the latest in the vacilli line. Numerically speaking, at least. North Carolina's Concord Company is boss of the camp. They count 250 souls at rolkall and every one a fighting Tar Heel, -s (Continued on pag two) CAMP SEVIER GETTING TO BE A BUSY PMCE; PREPARE THERE TO RECORD BAD AND GOOD NEWS FROM AFAR; NORTH CAROLINA HAS BIGGEST COMPANY IN DIVISION Immediate Peace If Wilson WillGive German People a Chance, Says Teuton Leader Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. Sept.

10. War's grim side is on display in black and white in an unpretentious little shack at this camp. Hhere what is officially termed the "Statistical Bureau of the 13th Army Division" has been established. It will record deaths, casualties and prisoners when the tropers get So far its records are most ly in blank white. First Lieut F.

W. Bradley, First .) (BY JOlfrf GRANDENS) Copyrighted by the United Press) Berlin, Sept. 10. President Wilson can bring immediate peace if he will prove by his acts the faith in the German people that he has expressed in words, Philip Scheid-niann; leader of the German Socialist party, declared today in an exclusive interview for the United Press. "Further bloodshed is now ur.necessary, if America believes in and does not underestimate the Reichstag': power and the strength of the German Government, which pushes irresistibly toward democratization of the entire JIie life," said Scheidmao.

Th German advance in this direction will be quicker the sooner the obstacles of war are renwred." Schekimaa is now heading: a special Reichstag committee charged by the Kaiser with investigating Germany's constitutional system and recommend-to Lieut A. W. Horton, and Second Lieut J. J. Ingle, staff officers, are in charge.

However arduous his exercise in the line of the American soldier doesnt consider it exercise at all unless it's play. Twin baseball diamonds and pair ioI basketball fields, now being laid out here, Will 1 the need for the -3th division, composed of mi-itiamen from North and South Carolina, Tnnescee and the District of Columbia, i 1 (Subscribe to The Fm Press) i.