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LUMEXIX. NO. 216.
ASHEVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 20, 1914.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
. -v if. ,
3ELGIUMS FORCES
i IN THICK OF FIGHT
slTo7g
to be argued
?.?i? British Snuadmn In
Repulsing Violent Ger
') man A ttacks Repor t
iERMANS FIRMLY
FIXED ABOUT LILLE
Making of Ostend Not Confirmed"
Important Engagements In
The Various Fieids.
jondon, Oct. 20. The plung
German attacks on the al
l line near the Belgian coast
veen Nieuport and Dix
ie, similar tactics by the al
in France between Arras
Koye where progress is
ned, a continued allied as
t on Lille, still held by Ger
3 and stubborn fighting in
vicinity of St. . Mihiel,
re for days the allies have
. trying to drive the Ger
i from their southernmost
nent, were the acute
s today in the sprawling
3 area of France and Bel-
y. communications issued
half of the allies last night
ed Britons to visualize for
rst time, hr ten 'days the
ximate battle line after
ag the Belgian frontier
towed how the allies, dur
he days of censorship,
throwing their forces
ard to meet the inevi
German advance which
ed the taking of Ostend.
Center of Fighting,
fighting is now center
ly a few miles southwest
t city, and the Belgian
heretofore reported as
'. repulsed the Germans
bank of the river Yser,
n in the thick of the
eing credited with bend
k the German lino as far
lers, Belgium, 13 miles
est of Courtrai, which
'iey are holding, accord
the latest reports avail
hen this dispatch was
ispatch dated merely
i of France" says that
s have retaken Ostend,
? is not confirmed and
nance w.ith the German
on that they have
the neighborhood of
, whose inhabitants as
(hose of Boulogne are
e of panic. If the Bcl
o holding Roulers, it
credible that the Ger
ve advanced bo far, as
uld mean a complete
back of the allied left
fsts on the coast west
d. - ;
lege) of rnrtnysl.
ct (Via The Hague,
, Oct tO.) The American
, JimM W. Gerard, hu
i- the release and departure
hmen In Germany over
fty-flve, Including clergy,
yslclans. They will leave
i via Holland. A corres
the Zeltung Ammlttsg
Prtemyel learned the
siege of that place. The
ere fired on September
wsa surrounded on the
I an unbroken bombard
ny deeperate sorties en
'ober I. when tl Rue
white flag and demand
nurrender. This waa Te
rmed on pifi I.)
Paris, Oct. 20. Reports
from the front indicate that the
allies are continuing their of
fensive operations, which in
the opinion of French observ
ers, promise- the best results.
The action of the Belgian army
and of a squadron of British
warships in repulsing an at
tack by the enemy is a subject
of particularly favorable com
ment. '
The public was gratified by
the announcement of the situ
ation in Alsace. This was the
first time in some days that
the war office has indicated
definitely the French positions.
It is' how "seen that French
troops have almost reached the
outlet of the valleys leading to
the plains of the river Ilta,
which flows north through Al
sace - and empties into the
Rhine. The French now con
sider that they are firmly es
tablished in Alsace on terri
tory doubly dear to them.
Word has been received also
that the Germans are hastily
preparing new defensive works
around Strassburg.
The fighting in the vicinity
of Lille has been watched with
deep interest.
After long continued negotiations
through the Intermediary of the
American legation at Berne. Switzer
land, exchanges are about to be made
anions' the belligerent countries of
interned civilians. It ha been decided
that all women and children and all
male under 'seventeen years of age
will be exchanged between France
and Austria.
So far as Is known here the ar
rangements with Germany have not
been completed, but It la believed that
several train loads of German civil
ians In France will be allowed to go
to the German frontier. Certain Ger
man men over seventeen! years of
age and military prisoners will not be
returned.
French Statement.
Paris, Oct. 20. The French offi
cial communication given out this
afternoon says that the Belgian army
Is holding Us position on the river
Yser.
The official communication follows:
"In Belgium, In spite of violent at
tacks on the part of the enemy, the
Belgian army haa held It position on
the line of the river Yser.
"There have been other actions In
the region of Ypres between the al
lied forces operating In this territory
and the forces of the enemy.
"On our left wing the Germans
continue to hold strongly their ad
vance positions around Lille In the di
rection of Armcntlcrea, Fournea and
La Baaeee.
"On the Meuse the enemy has en
deavored In vain to drive nack the
advance posts of our troops, who have
moved out along the right' bank of
this stream In the peninsula of the
Camp dea Romaina,
"To sum up, during the dsy of
October 1 we have made progress at
various points on the front.
"'Russia: In east Prussia and on the
Vistula river there I no change In the
situation. The efforta of the Austrian
to croes the river 8s n have been re
pulsed. The battle south of Priemysl
Is continuing tinker conditions fav
orable to the Russians."
Jack Burllson. Jr., of Big Ivy will be
lvn a hearing before Magistrate W.
A. Jmes. Jr., .this afternoon. , T
charges of fnlse pretense. It being, I
leged that he disposed of mortage
property.
Final Arguments to Be Made
in Government's Anti-Trust
Suit Against Gigantic
Combination.
DISSOLUTION OF BIG
. CONCERN IS ASKED
Court Also Asked to Decree
That Carnegie Was Party,
to the Alleged Unlaw
ful Combination.
Philadelphia, Oct. 20. After testi
mony had been taken In different sec
tions of the country during the greater
part of the last three years, the gov
ernment's suit to dissolve the United
States Steel corporation on the ground
that its creation was a violation of the
Sherman anti-trust law, was on the
docket of the United States District
court here today for final argument.
The suit was filed in the United States
court for the district of New Jersey
on October 26, 1911, and was trans
ferred to Philadelphia for argument
before Judges of the third judicial
court.
The government asks that the cor
poration be broken up into the num
erous companies that had been merg
ed Illegally; the government allege
Into the gigantic concern. The court
Is asked to divide Under wholly Inde
pendent ownership the following com
panies controlled by the steel corpor
ation: The Carnegie Steel company of
New Jersey; National Steel company,
American Steel Hoop company, Amer
ican Sheet and Tin Plate company,
American Tin Plate company, Ameri
can Steel and Wire company, National
Tube company, Shelby Steel Tube
company and the American Bridge
company.
' The court Is also asked to make In
dependent the Duluth and Iron Range
Railroad company, the Duluth, Mis
sabe and Northern Railroad company,
the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
company. Union Steel company and
the Clayton Steel company, and ore
and coal properties of the United
States corporation other than those
of the Tennessee company be divided
among the Clayton, Union and new
concerns to be created In proportion
to their capacity for the production
of steel.
The court Is further asked to decree
that Andrew Carnegie was a party 10
the unlawful combination of proper
ties through the United States Steel
corporation. Finally, the court is
Asked to appoint a receiver to take
over all of the properties owned or
controlled by the United States Steel
corporation and Its subsidiaries for
the purpose of making effective the
decree of the court; that the receiver
recover from the syndicate subscribers
and promoters and others who were
parties to the alleged unlawful com
binations the difference between the
par value of the stock received by
them and the cash value of the prop
erties or the services given therefor,
so that restitution, so far as possible
may be made to the other stockhold
ers. 1
ARMY-NAVY FOOTBALL
GAME IS ABANDONED
Washington, Oct. 20. Secretaries
Garrison and Dan I s were formally
advised today by the athletic commit
tees of the West Point and Annapolis
teams that the armv-navv fnnihaii
game has been abandoned. At a meet
ing of the committees at Annapolis
late yesterday a compromise nhin.
approved by the war and navy depart
ments for a five year agreement for
gamea to be played alternately In
Philadelphia and New York with this
year's game In the former citv
rejected.
A MOCK TRIAL FOR
THE CLERK'S UNION
Members of the Clerks' union of the
city and friends were dollghtfully en
tertained by the officers of the union
with a mock trial last evenlnr at th.
C. I U. hall on Blltmora avenue. The
carrying out ot me trial in every re
spect waa a great success and thor
oughly enjoyed by all present A very
Interesting feature of this trial was the
prompt duclslon of the suffragette
Jury, which was highly commended by
the solicitor In charge. Delicious re
freshments were served and a social
hour enjoyed.
T
Ef! in
Navy Occupies One of the La
drone Group Which Was
Sold by Spain to the
Germans in 1899.
GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT
DESTROYED BY JAPS
Boat Which Sunk Japanese
Cruiser Found Agrourd
Only Three of Cruiser's
Crew Survive.
Toklo, Oct. 20. The navy depart
ment has announced the occupation,
for military purposes, of strategically
important islands in the Marianne (or
Ladrone). Marshall, east Caroline anj
west Caroline archipelagos.
Jalult In the Marshall group, was
occupied October 14 by a division of
the Japanese fleet, Jalult, it Is ex
plained, was the base of the enemy's
maritime operations in the Marianne,
Marshall and eastern and western
Caroline archipelagoes. The Japanese
found two German vessels there. One
sent herself to the bottom and the
other was captured with her crew. No
damage was suffered by the Japanese
fleet.
IS WAR WILL
ABSORB MONEY
Carriers' Financial Ex. In-
a '
sists Railroads W xave
Difficulty in M'0 iting
Their Sc aes.
INTEREST WILL BE
MUCH HIGHER ON THEM
Will Be Necessary to Make
Securities Issues Attract
ive if Roads Are to Ob
tain New Capital.
Previous announcement has been
made of the occupation by Japan of
islands In the Marshall and Caroline
groups. The occupation of an island
in the Marianne or Ladrone group has
not heretofore been reported.
The Marianne islands lie directly
east of Luzon and about 1700 miles
from Manila. . They Include Guam, ac
quired by -the. United; Watea in 1898,,
where" a small military force Is main
tained, and thero is a cable station on
the line between Manila, Honolula and
San Francisco on the island. The
Marianne group Is about .,. 750 miles
south of the Bonln islands, which be
long to Japan. The total area of the
Mariannes is about 420 square miles.
The Islands are densely wooded and
are described as very fertile. With
the exception of Guam all the Islands
in this group were sold by Spain to
Germany in 1899. and form part of a
government district of German New
Guinea.
It was announced from Toklo on
October 6 that the Japanese squadron
delegated to destroy the German fleet
in the south seas had landed blue
jackets on Jalult island, the seat of
government in the Marshall archipel
ago, which was annexed by Germany
In 1R86.
The Marshalls are In the south Pa
cific about midway between the Phil
ippines and Ma wall. Jalulet Island is
in. the midst. It has been the head
qunrters of a big German conuany
which traded with the Marshalls and
adjacent groups of Islands.
According to a German news agency
dispatch received In Peking October 7,
Japanese forces had occupied the Is
land of Yap, the most Important Is
land In the Caroline group, one of the
Philippines In the Pacific ocean. It
was declared later In Toklo that this
report was without confirmation. Yap
la due east of the Island of Mindanao
In the Philippines and distant about
1000 miles. It Is about 7 D 0 miles
southwest of Guam.
A dispatch from Washington, Oc
tober 7, quoted the Japanese embassy
as saying that the seizure of the Islanl
of Yap was only one development In
the general plan agreed upon by the
British and Japanese to seize all of
the German naval stations In the Pa
cific. This was regarded as necessary.
It was explained, to terminate the ac
tivities of the German cruisers which
have inflicted serious damage upon
British commerce. Yap has a large
military importance because it Is a re
lay station of the German cable lines
In the far east, one line running north
to Shanghai and the other southeast
to Borneo and Java.
Torpedo Boat Destroyed.
Toklo, Oct. 20, It was announced
officially In Toklo today that the
Oerman torpedo boat 8-90, which es
caped from Tslng-Tau under cover of:
darkness, hss been found aground '
and destroyed by the Japanese, at a;
point sixty miles south of Klao Chow
bay.
Only Three Saved,
Sabo, Japan, Oct. 2 C. -According
to Information reaching here today
only three of the 284 members of the
crew of the Japanese cruiser Takachl
ho, which waa sunk, by a mine in
Klao Chow bay on the night of Octob
er 17, survive the disaster. The body
of Captain Ito has been recovered.
ltltltelftnlHXKHK
t
t imrnsii srn.MAniNE svxk.
t Berlin, Oct 20 It was offl.
I dally stated here today that
H the British submarine E-t was
t sunk Sunday by German war
si ships In the North sea.
e
it;
Washington, Oct. 20. Hearings up
on the request of eastern railroads
for a five per cent Increase In freight
rates which they claim is needed be
cause of the financial depression re
sulting from the European war were
resumed by the interstate commerce
commission today. President Willard
of the Baltimore and Ohio, who as
chairman of the conference of presi
dents of the roads involved, made the
opening statement for the carriers,
was ready to take the stand in con
tinuation of his cross examination.
Charles A. Conant, of New York, fi
nancial expert who was to follow, had
prepared a statement in which he dis
cussed financial conditions as affect
ed by the European war, particularly
concerning American railroad securi
ties. He estimated the cost of the war,
if it continues, approximately a year,
at about J 15,000,000,000. "The de
mand for capital for purely war pur
poses, and for the settlements which
succeed the war," said Mr. Conant,
"will be so great as to absorb an
amount equai to the entire savings for
Investments made in all civilized
countries, for a period of several
years."
. The effect of this, he said, will be
to raise the rate of Interest on sccrul
tles higher than for many years. Con
tinuing, Mr. Conant said:
Higher Interest.
"The fact that such enormous, sums
to pay the costs of the war are sought
almost exclusively by means of gov
ernment loans will make It Impossible
to obtain capital for other purposes
except at a rate of interest consider
ably higher than that paid by govern
ments. "The financial disturbances which
will occur during the process of dis
tribution of these government loans
to investors, extending over several
years, will Involve the sale on the
American market of railway and In
dustrial securities now outstanding to
an amount which will In Itself absorb
so much of the new capital available
in the United States that It will be
extremely difficult to obtain any for
new enterprises.
"If, therefore, American railways
and industrial enterprises are to ob
tain any new capital whatever, during
the next few years, it will bo neces
sary to make lusues of securities here
attractive, not only In respect to the
rate of Interest, but In respect to tho
evidence that the Interest and divi
dend payments are absolutely secured
by adequate earnings."
Avallublo Capital.
Mr. Conant quoted authorities Indi
cating that the world's new capital
normafly available for Investment
amounts to about 4,000,0u0,000 a
year. He concluded that If the war's
cost for one year has to be paid out
of the amount of annual savings Indi
cated by these figures, then every
dollar of new capital for approximate
ly four years will be absorbed In gov
ernment loans and there will not be
a penny available In any financial
market for making railway or muni
cipal Improvements.
"Leaving aside the question of
avoiding panic, the most Important
question involved In the return of
American securities held abroad Is
the manner In which it will diminish
the fund of capital which Is normally
available for Investments," continued
Mr. Connnt "In this direction the ef
fect of the European war loans will
be acutely felt In this country, even If
not a dollar of American money ap
pears as a bidder for the new loans."
Referring to estimates by Sir George
Patsh, economic adviser of the Brit
ish government, that the total amount
of foreign capital invested In the
United States Is 16.000,000.000 and In
other American countries at J10.000,
000.000, Mr. Conant said:
"It Is these enormous sums In for
eign holdings which represent the
most serious menace to the American
market and tp the possibilities of our
future financial development. This
money has been advanced to us from
time to time over a long period, be
cause there was not a sufficient fund
In America to meet the requirements
of our development.
"It would hardly be within the
I range of the capacity of the banking
I system of the country to absorb the
t entire amount of It, 000, 000,000.
I "The amount In Such securities
t which returned to the Amrrlcan mar
fciket will Influence directly the amount
tjof Investment capital remaining In the
X i United States, available for other pur
It poses. It la at this point that the
'problem comes directly home to
tl (Continued on page I.)
BID
1
TAX BILL
House Ways and Means Com
mittee to Recommend Dis
agreement to All Senate
Amendments.
UNDERWOOD THINKS IT
WILL GO TO CONFERENCE
In Spite of Henry's Expressed
Intention of Persisting in
Efforts for Cotton Re
lief Legislation.
Washington, Oct. 20. The war rev
enue bill was sent to conference to
day by the house. Chairman Under
wood reported from the ways and
means committee a recommendation
that the house disagree to tho senate
amendments and that a conference
with the senate be had to straighten
out differences.
Washington, Oct. 20. The war rev
enue bill, with its 98 senate amend
ments, was up for consideration at a
meeting today of the house ways and
means committee. The measure had
been sent back to the committee from
the house because of the Insistence of
Representative Henry of Texas, for
legislative aid for cotton growers.
Chairman Underwood had announc
ed that the committee would report
the bill to the house today recom
mending that It disagree to all senate
amendments. Despite the expressed
intention of Mr. Henry to Insist upon
a quorum before final disposition of
the bill in his efforts to procure cot
ton relief legislation, Mr. Underwood
expressed the belief that the house
would send the measure to confer
ence. Action of the house rules commit
tee on Chairmen Henry's plan to have
the committee report out en omnibus
rulo for bringing up for oons'deratlon
proposed relief measures, awaited an
expression of vlew by Secretary Mc
Adoo today regarding help for the
cotton situation. The secretary had
been Invited to appear.
TWO SPECIAL RULES.
Wasnlngton, Oct. 20. Two special
rules, one to bring out the measure
to license cotton warehouses which
passed the senate and the other to
consider the Gluss bill to Increase the
amount of circulating notes based on
commercial puix-r from thirty to one
hundred per cent of a national bank
ing aNNoclutioii's capital and surplus
were brought into tlie house today by
the committee on rules. -
The committee added to the Glass
bill an amendment proposed by Rep
resentatives Pou of North Carolina
and Hardwlck of Georgia, to author
ize the issue of either 1240,000,000 of
two per cent treasury notes, redeem
able in three years, or of the same
amount of Panama canal bonds, with
th Interest increased to four per cent,
the proceeds to be deposited in banks
of the cotton states for loaning to the
cotton farmers. The Glass bill as
amended was proposed by Represen
tative Glass of Virginia, Its original
author.
Secretary McAdoo who had b"n
asked to appear to throw light on th.
cotton currency question sent word
that he was too busy with federal re
serve business.
Senator Simmons urged that tho
cotton warehouse bi'll be passed with
elimination of senate amendments
which would nclude the licensing of
grain, tobacco, naval stores and sal
mon warehouses. The senate he be
lieves, will accept the measure as or
iginally framed.
He also urged passage of the bank
bill, which as orlglnnlly framed, would
permit banks of national banking as
sociations to issue circulating notes
based on commercial paper up to 75
per cept of unimpaired capital and
surplus. The house bill would fix the
limit at 100 per cent but would elim
inate an amendment which would
have Included state banks with the
associations.
"If these bills can be passed." said
Senator Simmons, "and I believe they
can without trouble, they will do
much to relieve the south In the em
barrassing cotton situation."
LI
AL MEET
Hundreds of Members From
Every State in Union At
tend Session of Bar
Association. T
PRESIDENT DELIVERS
ADDRESS OF WELCOME
Ex-President Taft Introduces
Mr. Wilson, Declaring He 1
Has Popular Confidence
in Great Crisis. ,
V LLA
r.l A K E S PAN G
AMONG DELEGATES
San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 20. The
Mexican consul here has received a
report from Mexico City stating that
General Francisco Villa created a
panic among the delegates to the
convention of military chirr In Agues
Callentes today by moving an army of
11,000 men Into position where he
can envelop the city and Imprison the
entire conference. Villa's army Is re
ported to be within an hour's march
of Agues Callentes. To oppose hJm
there are Csrrnnsa'a troops at Monte
rey and Saltirio, but It would take
from four to twelve hours to got them
to Agues Callentes.
Washington, Oct. 20.- President
Wilson today welcomed delegates ta
the annual convention of the Amerl.
can Bar association. The opening ses
sion was presided over by former
President Taft and members of th
Supreme court were in attendance aa
guests of honor.
In his introduction of President
Wilson, Mr. Taft pledged the assocla
tion's earnest co-operation and Its
deepest personal confidence In the
president's ability and purpose to
guide the ship of state safely through
the European crisis. Mr. Taft de
clared the American people were back
of the president in his handling ol
the International situation, and that
he had the confidence of the nation.
President Wilson's response waa
that his strength rested In the confi
dence of the nennle Ho 'nlnaHoa tsi
the "humanizing of the law," In this
lime or international crisis, not only
with respect to International law, but
as to municipal law. He said the
world was now "stirred to Its depths,"
but that the best course for a nation
to pursue was the disinterested part."
He added that the unsettled world
condiions made a good time for free
ing the law from the dry considera
tion of cold precedents and injecting
into it more of the viewpoint of Jus
tice for the ordinary man.
International Law.
After thanking former
Taft for his greeting, the president
ueciareu mat nis only strength "lies
in your confidence."
"We stand now in a peculiar case,"
the president continued. "Our first
thought, I suppose, as lawyers, is of
International law. We know that we
see In international law, as It were,
the moral processes hv whih u, n
self came into existence. I know that
as lawyer I have myself at times
felt that there was no real comparison
between the law of a nation and the
law of nations, because the latter
lacked sanction that gave the former
strength and vitality. And yet if you
look Into the matter more closely, you
will find that the two have the same
foundations and that those founda
tions are more evident and conspicu
ous In our day than they ever have
been before. The opinion of the world
is the mistress of the world; and the
processes of International law and
the slow processes by which opinloa
vurKS, us Will.
"What Impresses me Is the constant
thought that it s the tribunal at the
bar of which we all sit. I would direct
your attention incidentally to the cir
cumstance that It do not observe the
ordinary rules of evidence, which has
sometimes suggested to me that the
ordinary rules of evidence had shown
some signs of growing antique.
"Everything, rumor Included, la
heard In this court, and the standard
of Judgment is not with regard to
the character of the testimony, but
the character of the witness. The mo
tlves are disclosed, the purposes are
..uiij.ciureu, ana tnat opinion ia final
ly accepted which seems to be not
1 h twi,l 1 1 .i ,1 .1 i .
... . ,,.uru ,,, mw pernaps, out
the best founded In the Integrity of
character and morals. That is the pro
cess which 1s slowly working Its will
upon the world, and what we should
be watchful of ta not so much Jealous
Interests as sound principles of ac
tion. "The disinterested
not only the biggest course to nor.,,' J
but It Is In the long run, the moel
profitable course tn nnr.. it
enn establish your character, you can
eflianiun your credit
Washington. Oct. 20. The annus
meeting of the American i.
tlon began here today, with hundreds
of lawyers In attendance from every
state In the union, end ..m. .J
. ""'" ' ui
annual,
An address of welcome by Preslden
Wilson was ta ODen th i
lowed by the annual rnAAr ' .k.
president of the organisation, former
t-reeiaeni William II. Taft The pro
gram called for the nomination am
election of officers, election of hi
general counrll. ani reports of the
secretary,, treasurer, and executive
committee.
Sections on Judiciary," patent law
snd education had planned meetings
later In the day.
Tonight Senator Root will deliver
an addr as on the "Leyman'a crlilrt-mi
of the Lawyer" and a reception to tn
members and their gueaia will 1
given In the Pan-Amerl-aa unl. n
buildlnt.