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fUM ait- BAM TBM MOMT mfftmn ABBOCUTMD PMJUM UM rKi a " caxvluam. Weather Forecast RAIN OR SNOW. VOLUME XIX. NO. 32 ASHEVILLE, N O., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 19, 1914 PRICE FIVE CENTS rebel attacks BOWLES DENIES KEEP STATE Hill BUNKER MAKES ISSUED AKJb PKEDICTED roMiPUT tii r PRIMARY MPflRll RF nnnn punnTimr FnR H 111 TFRITFR? uuumuni ill ,m uuuu dfiuniiibL Advices Indicate That Villa Is Moving on Torreon and General Obregon on Mazatlan. fWO CITIES ARE KEYS TO SOUTH AND WEST SENATOR JONES INSISTS ON TOLLS EXPLANATION Contends the President Should Disclose Names of Nations Protesting. HJ.S. Officials Indicate Willing ness to Listen to Any New Proposals Made by President Huerta. Juarez. Mex., March 19.- Simulta neous attack on Torreon and Matzat lan was predicted In advices received today. It was said that while Villa's rebel army was moving against Tor reon, forces under General Alvara Ob regon would assault Mazatlan with 12,000 troops. The fall of Mazatlan, it. wan nam, would mean virtual control 01 me west coast, while the capture of Tor ,n the railroad center of central Mexico, would threaten the capital. If the rebel armies captured mese iwo point both armies would, It was said, move against Guadalajara, the strategic key to the soutn. Willing to listen. Washington, March 19. While no official word came to the White House today of the reported purpose or uen eral Huerta to re-open parleys with the United States by sending his min uter of foreign affairs Jose RoJaB, to Vera Cruz to confer with John Lind, administration officials Indicated a wil lingness to listen to any new proposals for a peaceful settlement They seim- td to attach most importance at this time to the outcome of the impending battle at Torreon which is expected to marl; a critical turn in the strength and prestige of the contending fac tions. .When the exchange of notes among Senor (Inmboa and Charge O'Shaugh nessv and John Lind was concluded last fall the attitude of the Washing ton government was firmly established at opposed not only to recognition of Huerta, but any successor of his choos ing. The rutted States government has been mindful that a peaceful set tlement in Mexico depended not alone on the choosing of a man to whom diplomatic recognition might be ex tended but that it was equally de pendent on the attitude of the consti tutionalists. Should the constitution alists he reversed at Torreon it Is con- ildered possible here that a compro mise candidate might be agreed upon though speculation in official circles was not based on any definite Infor mation. Leavo For Border Little Rock, Ark., March 19; Four oompanii s of the ninth infantry sta tioned at Fort Logan H. Roots left here today for Laredo for border duty. The detachment numbers 800 Privates and officers. For Eagle Pais. Atlanta, Ga March 19. The main body of the seventeenth infantry which has ben stationed at Fort Mc Pherson left today for Eagle Pass, Texas, to Join the American border Patrol. Three special trains carried the troops, numbering about 800. A detachment of three officers and II men left for the border yester day taking with them the regiments Held equipment and supplies. A small guard was left at the fort. For Laredo Cincinnati, March 19. Two battal- Ions of the ninth Infantry regiment, comprising 690 men and 16 officers will leave Fort Thomas late today for border duty. Head of Ship Building Co. Says He Did Not Employ Lawyer to Work for Tolls Exemption. BUT HIRED DEKNIGHT FOR ANOTHER PURPOSE Plank To Be Submitted to the Democratic State Conven tion of Illinois. Washington, Mareh 19. Discussion of the Panama tolls controversy was renewed In the senate today when Senator Jones again urged passage of his resolution asking President Wilson to submit names of all foreign gov ernments which have protested against the tolls exemption In the canal act together with copies of com munications on the subject which have passed between them and the United States. Senator Jones contended it was im perative that the senate before it un dertook to act upon President Wil son's request for repeal of the tolls should be Informed as to the interests of the foreign nations in the matter. He pointed out that the resolution only requested information which the president deemed advisable to give. Senators who agree with the presi dent's views on the repeal Issue hold that he communicated to congress in his recent message all he desired to say regarding the matter and for this reason oppose the resolution as un necessary. To Take Up BUI Soon. Washington, March 19. Represen tatives Sherley and Covington who with Representatives Adamson and Palmer will lead the administration fight in the house to repeal the Pan ama toll exemption, told President Wilson today that the repeal bill would be taken up probably Monday or Tues day with a special rule limiting de bate. They declared that a large ma jority would vote for it. The congressman conferred with the president on certain phases of the Hay-Pauncefort treaty and reiterated that American battleships would De exempt from tolls and that the United States had complete rights to fortify the canal. Correspondence of Attorney Is Placed in Evidence Before The Senate Lobby Committee. MYSTERY OF LOST BOY Nothing Can Be Learned of the Whereabouts of Warren McCormick of Phila. 37 HOURS S, FINALLY RESCUED Calls of Thomas Burke For Water Lead to His Dis covery by Rescuers. Philadelphia, March 19. Mystery in th disappearance of seven years old Warren McCormick is today as complete as when the boy was first missed from his home a week ago. An almost ceaseless search by his father, boy scouts and the police has failed to reveal a definite clue as to the missing boy's whereabouts or to give an Inkling as to his probable fate. Varying theories have been ad vanced to account for the boy's dis appearance. Those who believe he has been kidnaped for a ransom point to the fact that while the child's father Is not wealthy, his grandmother, who was much attached to him, Is a prop erty owner. Other investlbators are firm In the belief that the boy met with an accident and was, killed in such a way that his body 'cannot be found. A reward of 11,000 has been offered for his return and city coun cils were asked today to offer 15,000. GEN. HERANDEZ MAY INVADE VENEZUELA Washington, March 19. Former Rear Admiral F. T. Bowles, president of the Fore River Shipbuilding com pany, testified to the senate lobby committee yesterday he engaged C. W. DeKnlght, a lawyer, in connection with a movement to defeat that sec tion of the Panama act which would exclude railroad-owned ships from the canal and not to work for the inclusion of a tolls exemption as De Knlght recently testified. Bowles put his correspondence with DeKnlght on the subject in evidence. Bowles testified he employed De Knight to furnish information and avoid delay. Senator Overman asked if Bowles ever had been accused of represent ing the so-called steamship trust while he held his commission in the navy. The former admiral said he had seen that intimated in publish ed reports and explained that at the permission of the department he once had made an examination of ship building planta DeKnight wrote Bowles offering to work for elimination of the railroad shin sprtlon: i nere win do a general iigiii i against the provision, but the rail ways will not be able to reach all the parties and this matter is of such Im portance that no one Interested should fail to assist in Its defeat." A letter from Bowles accepting the offer was put in the record. On March 29, 1912, DeKnight wrote Bowles: "I have put myself In touch with Congressman Knowland, who will be the chief opponent in the house to the bill. I know Mr. Knowland and will co-operate with him to the fullest ex tent. From present indlcatidns it may be Impossible to prevent the passage of the bill through the house but I think various tactics can be employed in the senate which will prevent the bill from reaching a vote." Writing to Bowles August 7, De Knlght referred to a conference among President Taft, Secretary Stlm son, Representative Knowland and several other congressmen. Secretary Stimson, he said, had wished to "have the entire matter go over until next session" but Knowland had declared he would resist this. Mr. Taft, tHe letter said, refused to take sides. "I think he was favorable to the delay but did not wish to express him self," wrote DeKnight. "Now he has seen the handwriting on the wall and Is for prompt action. I understand that Senator Root was the one who prompted Stimson to ask for .olay and is against free tolls. If the bill I goes through it will perhaps serve to embarrass Senator Root with the people." Indianapolis, March 19. A plank for a state-wide primary law was in- j eluded in the platform submitted for i consideration to the democratic state I convention here today. The vote on the plank in the resolutions committee ; was 7 to 6. The Drimary Dronosal was submit ted by Senator Shively. After its adoption Mayor Bell of Indianapolis, who was chairman of the committee, declared it had been accepted ony after Senators Kern and Shively and several of the Indiana congressional delegation had pleaded that if sucn a plank were not included in the plat form it would reflect on President Wil son's policies. Only one out of the 11 members of the committee, said Be'l, previously had been for the primary proposal. Bell asserted that without the convention system the party's or ganization would dlsintegraee. Candidates for state offices, except the governorship and a nominee for the United States senate, are to be chosen by the convention. After lauding the record of the dem ocratic party and the achievements of President Wilson the temporary chair man of the convention, Governor Ral ston, said: "A grateful people als.i should not fail to pay tribute to those who have stood by the president." "Much of the popularity of the present national administration, ho declared, "is due to the stand it has taken for the things that have been advocated for years under the leader ship of that masterful man, William Jennings Bryan." Pres. Norwood of Goldsboro Bank Deposits $50,000 to Cover Defalcation of H. C. Smith'. ACCUSED OF LOOTING TWO BANKS OF $70,000 Statement of Globe to Such Effect Officially Denied In London. MBUSRE9GIS FROM CABINET Goldsboro Savings and Trust Co. and National Banks Are the Institutions Affected. Special to The Gazette-News. Goldsboro, Mach 19. For several days past an expert bank examiner has been in the city Inspecting the books of the Goldsboro Savings and I Trust company and the National bank, being summoned here by George A. Norwood, president of the National bank, who had suspected something wrong was going on, but so quietly had the affair been kept from the pub lic that until Just recently was a short age of the two above banks given to the stockholders and the public in general. The stockholders of the twn banks have given ' out the following statement: "That the Goldsboro Sav ings and Trust company had discov- London, March 19 A sensation was caused here today by the Globe's pub lishing that warrants had been signed for the arrest of Sir Edward Carson and pther leaders of the Ulster union ists. This was officially denied at once. Sir Edward Carson, who was for merly conservative solicitor general, has always been one of the most fiery opponents of home rule for Ireland. On several occasions he has stated that the people of Ulster would refuse to recognize a parliament in Dublin. In September last year he said to the "Ulster volunteers": "We have the pledges of some of the greatest generals in the British army that they will come over and help us keep the old flag flying when the time arrives." In September, 1912, he was the first to put his signature to the covenant entered into by the Ulstermen which binds them "to use all the means that may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up home rule in Ireland." Assassination of Calmette by Mme. Caillaux Causes Ano ther Change in Cabinet Of France. MME. CAILLAUX REMAINS OBJECT OF SYMPATHY OPPOSE EARLY VOTE ON SUFFRAGE QUESTION M. Leburn, the Minister of Col onies Will Also Act as Minister of The Marine. Washington, March 19. Protests against Immediate action on the pro posed constitutional amendment ex tending suffrage to women, under de bate in the senate, continued to reach ered a shortage of $50,000 and some i the capitol today from suffrage lead- few hundred dollars, and the National ers throughout the country. Senators bank a shortage of $25,000, a defalca- j leading the fight for the amendment, tion by H. C. Smith, an employe of i however, were prepared for a final the National bank and jlor two years vote within a day or two, satisfied cashier of the Goldsboro Savings and that while they face almost certain Trust company." overwhelming defeat, nothing can be The first shortage was discovered in j gained by further efforts to delay ae the National bank but relatives of tion. young Smith promptly made good that Senator Ashurst, in charge of the sum and the affair was kept quiet. proposet amendment, said he had senate and the chamber of deputies Today an inspection of the books of i canvassed the senate and found senti- r nxl a -a I the Goldsboro Savings and Trust com- ment strongly in favor of disposing IiOUlSiana Politician SUeS JSne- pany disclosed a shortage of $50,000 ; of the question ascuiekly as possible. ASKS $60,000 FOR LOSS OF T Paris, March 19. Madame Cail laux's assassination of Gaston Calm ette, editor of the Figaro, brought about another change in the French cabinet today when Ernest Moms, minister of marine, added his resig- j nation to that of Joseph Caillaux, minister of finance. A meeting of the cabinet council accepted the resignation. For the present, Albert F. Lebrun, minister of colonies, will act also as minister of marine. Madame Caillaux is still the object of deep popular sympathy. Crowds took advantage of the mld-lenten holiday to gathe. at the gates of St. Lazare prison where she Is In custody. The people manifested great curiosity in the visitors to the Jail, who in cluded the lawyers engaged In her defense. In the central districts of Paris as well as In the more turbulent quarters on the south side of the Seine the police had taken every pre caution to prevent political demon strations. The residence of M. Cail laux was strongly guarded as were also the offices of the Figaro, the mies For Cutting Off His Beard. but the loss will only be $40,000, since Smith was bonded by an insurance company for $10,000. The stockholders held a meeting be hind closed doors with the result that George A. Norwood, president of the two banks, deposited $50,000 In cash with the stockholders as a personal loss to guarantee every depositor from loss of their money or interest on same, and when the meeting had ad journed the above statement was given to the public. The stockholders were willing to BEGIN ANTI-TRUST SUIT AGAINST QUAKER OATS Washington, March 19. What is the value of a beard ? That is a ques tion which Justices of the Supreme Court have been asked to determine The case is that of E. A. Sullivan, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, who nlnncil a vhIiio of 100.000 on a Erowth of his beard O'Sulllvan, who for- share the loss with Mr. Norwood but j opollze the oat meal business of the Chicago, March 19 Hearings in the government's anti-trust suit against the Quaker Oats company and the Great Western Cereal company began today. "The government charges," said Federal Attorney Wilkerson, "that the defendants are in conspiracy to mon- The resignation of M. Monis ai caused by statements made In the chamber of deputies that while he was premier he had exerted powerful Influence on the public prosecutor. Victor Fabre, to postpone the trial of Henri Roohette. who was alleged to have swindled the public out of sums aggregating $20,000,000 by fraudulent, stock promotions. Rochettc disap peared while on ball. Burned to Death. St. Louts. March 19. His calls for a "Ink of water today led to the rescue "f Thomas Burke from ruins of tbe t. Louis Heed company's building ST hours after the structure oollapeed under the weight of a fallen wall of We burned Missouri Athtetlo dub '"Hiding. Rescuers who had been digging In ruins all night were working to ''irlcate a body when they were star tled by Burke's call for help. After men had worked for half an hour te y found Burke pinned under a sec- o' flooring. He was rushed to a hoepltal where he was treated for In Jvirlee to his feet N"ar Burke was found the body of unldentlned man. bringing the to ' dead recovered to sli. Hurke died at a hospital several "ours after being taken from tbe ruins: New York, March 19. General Jose M. Hernandei (El Mocho)' arrived here today from Porto Rico, where he was In consultation. It was understood, with Generals Baptists. Alcantara, illvares and other Veneiuelan revolu tionary leaders. It was said he soon would leave for Pol t of F, ein, whence It Is believed he Intends to invade Ven ezuela In April. It is said the details of a revolution to unseat President Gomez were completed at the oonfer t ,co In San Juan. General Hernandez declined to dis cuss his plans for the future. There Is a revolutionary movement now In progress In Venezuela. JOSEPH PELS' ESTATE IS LEFT TO WIDOW Philadelphia, March 19. The en tire estate of the late Joseph Fels, millionaire and single tea advocate, la left to his widow with the excep tion nt 160.00. willed to Walters rniiM. his secretary. While the will made no mention of . halrieble bequests. It Is understood that Mrs. Fels will ontlnue tiring financial support to single tax prin ciples to which her husband gave large sums and carry on his philan thropic work. THE FEDERAL LEAGUE IS EHJOIHEDBY STALL1NES Says He Will Put in Jail Any- One Trying to Get His Players. merly was district attorney, state senator and city attorney of New Or leans, claims he was forcibly depriv ed of his hirsute adornment on elec tion day In November, 1908. On that day, he asserts, Paul Felix, a Justice of the peace in Jefferson parish, and William W. Stiles, a deputy sheriff, prevent several he (refused their aid and stated that he country. It seeks the dissolution of felt as though he was responsible for 1 the company and asks that it be e'n the condition of the two banks, and j Joined from Interstate commerce until his conscience would not allow him to do otherwise than make good the de falcations personally. Many banks throughout the south have telegraphed Mr. Norwood offering their aid and if made into a total would run up into the dissolution is complete." Naples, Italy, March 19. Professor Giuseppe Mercalll, director of the ob servatory on Mount Vesuvius, was found burned to death early today in his bed room. The cause of the fire Is not known. men the hundreds of thousands Smith was also city treasurer but conspired to from voting. O'Sulllvan claims he went to the polls to advise about the j no examination has been made of the conduct of the election. He asserts D00kii, that a number of men imported to j vVhlle in conversation with Mr. Nor- the election place by Felix seized mm j woo(i Mr. Smith is alleged to have and tied his arms Then he claims. Stiles cut off his beard. O'Sulllvan brought suit in 1911 for $60,000 un der the federal civil rights act. Felix and Stiles claim the suit was barfed by the one-year Louis iana statute of limitations. The Louis iana courts so held, but O'Sulllvan has brought the case to the Supreme court on the ground that the statute of limitations has no application to a suit arising under a f dernl statute. SANCTIONS TANGO TO KEEP UP WITH TIMES Informed him that he Intended to end his life, as he now had nothing to live for. The money, it is said, was loBt by speculation. Young Smith was prominently con nected in this.-elty and the affair has cast a gloom over the entire town. OF ASTOUND N. Y. POLICE Macon, Ga.. March 19. The Injunc tion taken out by Manager George on ar(.olint of these dances but New York, March 19. The Inter, borough association of Women Teach ers has voted that to keep abreast of the tlms It must sanction the tango, It was announced yesterday. Miss Grace Strachan, president of the association, championed the mod ern dances. "Now thst the one step, the hesita tion and the maxixe are here," she said, "It Is likely that the waits and the two step will not come back Just " ' wu!years old, astounded detectives when came wt:n. mnw mij people who have given up their social Takes Them to 16 Homes He Burglarized $8000 in Loot Recovered. New York. March 19. After his arrest yesterday on a charge of burg lary committed In an upper West side apartment house, Joseph Cardone, H Btalllngs In the Blbb county Superior tny an not really awful: they ere, court would prevent fedural league representatives from approaching; or negotiating with any Boston National league player, but would not effect the Federals' actions toward any other club In Georgia. The Injunction Is In tended to afford protection only to the Boston club. The Macon South Atlantic club and other Georgia cities In organized base ball do not figure; In the Injunction. "If any Federal league representa tive cornea to any point In Georgia and attempts to get my players from me," declared Btalllngs today, "I'll put him in Jail." Hs said that under the Georgia labor contract labor law "when an employer has signed sn employee to a contract calling for hie services, any other em ployer Is violating the law If he at temps to get the employe to undertake to violate that contract with a view to taking employment with another person." In fact, dances" very much like to folk BRYAN CELEBRATES HIS 54TH BIRTHDAY Washington. March 19. Secretary Bryan celebrated his 64th birthday an niversary today, receiving congratula tions of colleagues and frlenda He had expected to relebrate the event by signing peace treaties with Brasll, Ar gentina and Chile but the conventions were not prepared In time. New Revolt In Haiti. Washington, March II. New rebel operations in Haiti were reported to day by the gunboat Nashville to Sec retary Daniels. Theodore, who la try ing to seise the presidency of the Is land republic, Is at Grande Baffin. he began taking them to the twenty- one homes he told them ho had brok en Into within the last three weeks. By means of pawn tickets the boy surrendered all his loot, totalling more than $8,000 was recovered. Cardone told the detective that he fell In with two men soon after leav ing a home whVre, he was sent for burglary and that he did the work while hie accomplices took most ot the plunder, leaving him pawn tickets as the chief part of hi share. Cardone said his method was tn se lect a place, sneak into the building early In the evening and hide until the lights were extinguished. He nev er attempted to force u door but al ways "Jimmied" a window from the fire escape, he said. It ought to be on the reading table in every American home. sCOUPONs Save it for a Copy of THE PANAMA CANAT I TUT h Fredtric J. Haikin -AJ A- aa,-Tw Q y Gazette-New3 Thurs. 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