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THE GAZETTE-NEWS HAS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE. IT IS IN EVERT ;: RESPECT COMPLETE. :: IWEATHEB FOEECASTj PARTLY CLOUDT. VOLUME XIX. NO 251. ASHEVILLE, N. C , MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 30, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS RESULTS NOT DECISIVE IN BATTLE IN POLAND TIT ' 1 .""V 'a ' a TT TUf PflMTI ?J rrencn Ufpaal Keport IIIL UUIII LIUI STILL RACING Germans Have Been Checked But Are Still Stubbornly Trying to Pierce Russian Line. FIGHTING IN WEST ' MAINLY IN ARGONNE Reports Tell of More Men Sent From West to East Rus sians Report Success in Caucasus. Both the Russian and Ger man official reports state that there has been ho decisive re- Paris, Nov. 30. The French offie ial statement,- given out in Paris this ofte.rr.ooii, says: "In Belgium the enemy is still on the defensive. Their artillery Are is feeble, and we have mad progress at a number of points. "In the region of Soissons the fight ing has been intermittent. . There have ben no developments of import anna at thin polut. ' c'ln the Argonne several attacks made by the enemy have been re pulsed, for some time there has been a havy fog on the heights of the' Meuse, which has rendered opera tions difficult. '"'In the Woeve the enemy bom barded the Apremont forts but with out results. Nothing of Importance has developed in the Vosgas. FREIICH TROOP'S WORK ON WA E EXPLOIT Squad of Dragoons Attempts Subjugation of German Aer oplanes Convoyed by Nine Automobiles. u'lt in the fighting in Russian 1'oland, where press reports iuve been insisting that the Ifussians won a great victory a ow days ago. While the Ger man advance" has been stopped the invaders are still fighting fh'speratel; to cut their way Sirough the Russian lines. The ussian , official jstateraents, bile, deprecating1, the; reports pf enormbus; victory in north Vestei-n 'bland claim decisive Success in the battle before Cracow and also successes on lie Austrian side of the Car- atliians and against the Turks 1 the Caucasus. There appears to be little in uitry fighting in the western rona except in the Argonne, ut the French official reports iv that the artillery fire of the jiormans was more active yes jrday. The German reports I it 1 1 Till 1 iy mere nas Deon nine cnange i the lighting in France and olgium. The allies claim to ave capture dseveral support- 3 iff positions to the north and !o the south of Ypres. J Unofficial messages lead to ;ho conclusion that the allies, fiaving discovered that the perman line was weakening, iad begun taking the offensive louth of Ypres..' Other unoffi Mai advices are to the effect that the Germans are again lending troops to the eastern Bold, from the western battle tvon. This may account for ;he comparative quiet in Bel gium and France, j A sensational press dispatch says that thewife of General Von Moltke, German chief of ptaff, has written to Danish rel atives that the general is vir hially the prisoner of Emperor William in a palace at Horn !mrg as the result of havng in torferred with the strategic plans, in the west, of the crown prince. From Russia comes the news 'hat the Germans, in groups md companies and even in bat alions are wandering starving ind half frozen in. the snow overed fields around Lodz and ire surrendering willingly. ! Thirteen trains of German irisonera are reported as going astward from "YVasaw. result of his interference with the crown prince's strategic Dlans in the west. , . Take Offensive. The Daily Mail's Rotterdam . cor respondent says the allies ara taking the. offensive south of Ypres, having discovered that the Germun line Is weakening. Soldiers Starving. Reuter's Petrograd correspondent says: ' The Germans in groups end companies even in battalions are wandering starving and half frozen In the snow , covered fields around Lodz seeking an , opportunity to sur render," A Reuter dispatch from Petrogrid says that trophies captured by the Russians at Lodz, together with sev eral captured cannon have arrived in Warsaw, "On Monday last," the correspond ent continues, "German airmen drop ped 18 bombs in the main street of Lodz, destroying the Golrechter fac tory, killing or wounding many of the populace and causing heavy property damage." Telegraphing from Berlin, Reuter's corrtspondent sends this official m nouncement: "Emperor William has sent this birthday telegram to Dr. von Beth-mann-Holtv'eg, German imperial chancellor: "I come to your excellency with congratulations of a particular kind. Luck is necessary to pilot the ship of state through stormy times into the harbor, and for this purpose Providence employs men who know how to fight firmly and steadily, and to keep the welfare ot the; fatljerjajjd. In mind until the great aim Is ac complished. "Among those men your excellency occupies first place. The German people know it and I know It. God bless your work. (Signed) "WILHELM." The chancellor in reply said Im pressions ho had received In Berlin gave him confidence that the prop osition especially was to fight until an ultimate victory. W. ROCKEFELLER Ml Asks Permission of Federal Court to Change Plea to the New Haven Indictment. JOINED IN PLEA BY OTHER DIRECTORS ONE PLATOON ON FOOT ENTIRELY ANNIHILATED TO BE P'; M Col. Goethals Is Determined to Put Last of the Finishing Touches Before Time Limit Expires. FORCES WORK HARDER THAN EVER BEFORE T I OUT 0FJE1T Spirit of Dual Monarchy's Troops Excellent They Consider Situation Satisfactory. NO PLACE FOR COURT 1 LOSING GROUND NOT ALWAYS A CALAMITY Two Mounted Platoons Then Started Assault; the Ger man Guns Were Silent, ( Gunners Being Dead. Federal and County Court Rooms Undergoing Im provements Court M: Postponed. J;iji ELECTION IN STATE .'' HAD PECULIARITIES Colonel Himself Setting the Pace Especial Efforts Being Made in the Culebra Cut. They Had Filed Plea in Abate ment Seeking to Have the Indictment. Dismissed. Churches in Turkey. Paris, Nov. 30. The Havns cor respondent at Athens nays: 'Accord ing to news received hors Tutkey has deoided to sequestrate all teiiglouses tablshments In Palestine belonging to France, Great Britain ami Russia." To Eastern Frontier. Geneva, Nov. 30. The Journale de Genese says that on November 21 and 22, one hundred and ten trains, each of fifty cars conveying artillery and cavalry passed through Luxemburg from Flanders on the way to the German eastern frontier. New York, Nov. 30. William Rock efeller, the Standard OH tmagnate, to day sought permission of the Federal aauct in this city to change his plea to the indictment, charging him and twenty other directors of the New York, New Haven and Connecticut railroad with criminal violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Mr. Rocke feller had tiled a plea In abatement last Monday. He was joined In this application by Robt. W. Taft, Charles H. Booker, William Skinner, and James S. Eller. These defendants also filed a plea In abatement last Monday. In the application to the Judge of the Federal court the de fendants did not Intimate the nature of the plea they had In mind, but simply made known their desire to file a substitute plea. Under tho plea in abatement they sought to have the indictment dismissed on the ground that it was defective. Paris, Nov; 28. The French war office has supplemented a late state ment with an account of the ex ploits of a squadron of dragoons dur ing the early part of September. "During the night of September 9," the account reads, "a lieutenant of dragoons who had become isolat ed with his squadron in the midst of the German lines and had taken ref uge at a farm learned of the pres ence of a park of German aeroplanes on the road leading from Vivlers to a factory between Soissons and Compeigne. According to the gossip of peasants, the aeroplanes had landed about 7 o'clock In the even- ng and hod been joined about 10 o'clock by "an automobile convoy consisting of, from seven to nine ma chines which had . kept company with them during their flight. "The lieutenant decided upon an immediate attack. It was then half past two inthe morning. It was pro posed that- two platoons on foot should approach as near as possible to the convoy, fire three shots and no more. A mounted platoon profit ing by the. consequent disorder, would, hurl .itself upon the automo biles iW .charge with u their lances those, who. soughtf to escape.' A nother mounted platoon was to remain In reserve at the factory. The two platoons on foot suc- Panama, Nov. 30. A hurry-up order has been issued by Governor Goethals for the completion ot the War Has Lasted Long Enough : Democrats Do Not Feel Per- to Have Lost Novelty People Engaging in Usual Pursuits. ! of The Associated Correspondence . Press.: :. General Field Headquarters, Press canal. The time limit set by .congress Thp flpHt D'f the Au8tP0.kun,arlan Is July,. 1916, and Col. Goethals isforces Is excellent. Officers and men determined that the last of tho fin-jwho come to this point speak of the ishing touches in every dapartiaent situation as highly satisfactory, fiy from dredging to landscape garden- ow even the veriest private seems to ing shall be completed ahaxl rather have learned that losing ground is not than behind time. Col. -Goethals ! alwavs a calamity, and thnt. ns 1ms fectly Easy Over the Future Prospects Several Dis . quieting Indications. . himself is setting a pace, and nicy be seen often at work in the administra tion building at Balboa late at night. Men and machines now on tho isthmus are said to be worki'i ; harder than at any time since the great work was started ten years ago. Every morning Col. Goethals np- been already demonstrated, the strate gical retreat is of necessity an ntten-1-Ing phase of the "position" fighting of which there has been so much in both the eastern and western battle fields. Meanwhile better weather has set In in Galicia. For the last two weeks the pears at some part of the woric where I leaden sky has shown large rifts he nas not been fjr, several days i through which peeps with increasing previously, to hurry thing Plcng. There Is the case of the steam shovels delving Into the side of Sosa Hill for the rock that goes to form the east breakwater in front of Colon harbor. On each one Is a huge placard which shows the numbers of cars 1 liulr.d as the work progresses. For overy Job a mark has been set, to be surpassed If possible. On Sosa hill the man who "naSy 4: barge of loading the cars that take the rock 50 miles across the isthmus to the new breakwater is working against the man !n charge ceeded In approaching to within 40!t trnnsportatlng those fame cars meters of the automobiles and the 'those BO miles while the man who tin challenge of the German sentinel 1 loads them out near the end ot the was the signal for opening fire. 1 2-mile trestle is "rushing things so Scarcely had the fire ceased in con-j that he will always be Jutt n little formlty with orders received when i ahead of the other two. At present the platoons charged with galloping! there are 200 to 2r.O rars of rook sent horses shouting "Vive La France.'' jhim every working day. ITnfnrtiinntelv the Germans were Out in Culebra eut. whre a large only partially surprised and a rapid: slide recently choked the channel for Potato or other late crops, and the frequency a sun that seems oddly Im potent, but which at least is the prom ise that there will be no more rain that day. Now the rivers are low, the fields comparatively dry, and the roads are once more passable, made so largely by the army engineers, who have not been found lacking in effi ciency. During the first stages of the war the army wheel transportation cut deep into the surface of the roads and the many hoofs converted them into quagmires. A trip from Vienna to the Galician front is not as exciting or even inter esting as one might think. The war (By W. T. Bost). Raleigh, Nov. 30. Wake Superior court, which was to have convened today with Judge Harry W. Whedbee pesiding, -has been postponed until Wednesday when the city court room will be turned over to the county. A conflict of federal and state courts mude the delay necessary.. It so happens that while the govern ment is putting on the-finishing fine ness to its. court building on. Martin, and Fayetteville streets, the county iSi becoming thoroughly ashamed of It self and erecting .. a , dpcent court house on Fayetteville street. That makes the federal court hold Its ses sions lii the Montague building on' Hargttt street, and .leaves Judge Whedbee without any place to sit. The city court room is quite an at tractive place, but the colored Mas ons have such a colossal row on that there must be some place big enough for the witnesses. That makes impos sible any place fotthe county today. It is thought the Masonic case will be settled in another day and Judge Whedbee will sit in the municipal court room. The biggest case that Judge Whed-! bee will try Is the New irttd Observ er against the Wako Water company, but unless the Supreme court hurries its Washington decision, it may be necessary fur the plaintiff to con tinue its case. The Washington suit has insted long enough here to have , Danlcl8 who usMng the courU) to tax the old water company J76.000 lost the quality of novelry. Every where one sees signs of confidence. In the larger and smaller cities build ing operations are going on; husky peasants, men and women alike, plow the field or harvest the sugar beet. for letting his newspaper plant burn down under the pitifully weak stream of water held on the blaze. Judge Connor continues to try the federal docket, one overrun with pet ty revenue cases, today. He is to tiy fire gun stationed at the head of j a few days and ranal traffic came to i active railroad traffic Is only in part of PortaI1(1 Nod f tn'0 meuse pardon and the automobile convoy opened fire. I a standstill with a large .lumber i t The French officers were killed and Ishlps seeking passage througn, dredg the platoon literally annihilated. Not I ing ceases only during the eight cay one of the troopers reached the auto-j light hours when the canal is used mobiles. Seeing this the lieutenant In for navigation purposes. Tho other Gentian Prisoners. Petrograd, Nov. SO. Count Tlch- kavliz, a prominent Russian, on ar riving here yesterday from Kiev re ported that on the way he passed 13 trains containing German prisoners going eastward from Warsaw. Von dor Gocti Relieved. Berlin, Nov. 30. Field Marshal Baron von der Goltz has been reliev ed as military governor of Lrlglum and attached for the remainder of the war to the entourage of the Sul tan of Turkey. , Qener.tl t'relhorr von Biasing has been nominated at military governor of Belgium. A dispatch from Berlin Eaturday said that Zekkl I'asha, formei com mander of the Turkish troops had been attacned tj the suite of Emper or William as tut txpretsion of the present relations of Turkey and Ger many. , Von MoltUo PHsoimtT London, Nov, 0. A Copenhagen' '"patch to tho Dnlly New my the lf of General Von Woltka, German tili.f of taff has Trrltten to a Dahlnh lMv that Central ron Moltk Ylr ally Is the mperor's prisoner at of th palaooa In Ilomburf at a QUEEf IS REPORTED Belgium's Queen Confined to Her Bed After Months of Eed Cross Work. Rotterdam, Nov, 10. Tha Maaa- bnldt learns that Queen Elisabeth, of Belgium, la HI and oonflnad to her bed, . Queen Elisabeth has bean vary aa tlva In Red Croas work sine her country naa bn mbrnllnd In the war nd ha shown great interaat In the amelioration of tha condition of hr uffrra. PAUL E. WILKES TO LEAVE GROVE PARK Resigns as Associate Manager to Accept Position With Atlanta Papers. command of the two dismounted platoons also attempted an assault. The German machine gun was silent, the gunners having been killed at their positions. Paul E, Wilkes, associate manager of Grove Park Inn for the past year, has resigned to become assistant business manager of Wniiam Ran dolph Hearst's Atlanta papers. The Georgian and Hearst's Sunday American. Mr. Wilkes was connected with these papers before coming to Ashe- ville and, as advertising manager, ho made a record which brought him to the attention of newspaper publishers an over the south. A associate manager of Grove Park Inn, Mr. Wilkes has had charge of tha advertising an-', promotion end of tha business. Becdua of tha unique and live Id'iai advanced along this line by F. I.. Betly and Mr. Wllkea and car.-.e I to a successful termination, nearly one thousand guests were turned nwuy for lack of accommodations .w'y eight months after the hotel was t p ina. This rec ord has heen the subject for dln curalon In hotsl, t-dvei tii-lng and fi nancial circles all over the country. Tha work which haa hiwn so sue- eesarul will be continued under tha direction of Mr. Seely, but Mr. Wilkes will continue to act In an advisory capacity and will visit Ashevllla fra quently for thla purposx Mr. Wllkea will be associated n his new work with Hugh E. Mnr ray, nuMness manager, and one of tha beat known and mist efficient men In tha larga Hearst organisa tion. During- Ms year's reitdenca In Ashevllla, Mr. Wllkea hs mala msny friends for himself and Otov park Inn who will turret to a hlni lava. Ha and Mrs. Wilkes and their son will laav Ah:il tomorrow. BOY 5H0QTS FATHER 10 PROTECT MOTHER Roy Price of Goldsboro Justi fied by Coroner's Jury for Patricide Friday Night. Special to The Gazette-News. Goldsboro, Nov. 80. Coroner C. E. Stanley was summoned to tha neigh borhood of Heven Springs Haturduy morning to Investigate the shooting and killing Friday night of Robert A. Price, a woll to do white farmer of that section, by his young son, Roy. The coroner summoned a jury and thoroughly sifted the evidence and the verdict of the Jury was one of acquit tal on justifiable grounds, as the evi dence showed conclusively that the boy had to shoot to save his mother from great bodily harm and probably death, as the father was beating her In a drunken rage. The dead man was a heavy drinker and had been on a protracted spree, leading up to tha Incident lost night that resulted In his death. 16 hours are devoted to the fastest dredging the canal has ever seen. The men work In two shifts and ss they eat and sleep on the .Ireditea no time is wasted. Their work In hanl ling the recent slide and re-openlnar the ranal to traffic within flvo days won for them high commendation from Col, Goethals. S. i'l. DAVIDSON IS APPOINTfMPUTY Cherokee Man Given Tempora ry Appointment to Serve for Deputy Marshal. a military character. 'alleged cracksman, who is charged Almost me oniy reminaer or war is .ith ,llnv..ir, n iw rltv and. an occasional Red Cross train, going Plymouth po.stoffice safes. A number to, or returning from the front. There is, however a rather lively military passenger traffic on the regular trains, and one notices that all bridges, tun nels and stations are guarded by sol diers. This is the case throughout the parts of Austria and Hungary which are traversed on the way to the Gall clan front. In upper Hungary one sees large droves of cattle, intended to feed the men In the trenches. leisurely these round-ups go through the Waag and Arva valleys, towards the Galician border, following highways that wind In and out the hills and mountains. Now and then. 1tn niui triMil. Rmnll GTnlina nf anllri ! and massively built Hungarian peas- InntM In ebnrire of man In uniform, re- crults of an army which may be said to be still In the process of mobilization. TI UN Hi m OF HpeclJ to Tha Onietts-Newa. High Point, Nov. 10. A telephone message received In tha Enterprise of fice her Haturday night from Carter's atora In Randolph county told ot a terrible tragedy unacted there Satur day avenlng. Tha meaeiga stated that a man named Will Daniels shot and killed two women and a man. It was stated that Ms wife's sister was ons of tha woman killed and that tha other two parsons wars a man named VaLrner and Varner'a sister. No details of tha tritely nor ths causa wars obtainable. 1 United States Marshal Charles A Webb announced this morning that he hue appointed ex-Shcrlff 8. W. Davidson of Cherokee county for a term of (0 days, upon authorization of the department of Justice, to serve In the place of Deputy Marshal Bruce Hlaughter. The appointment Is only a temporary one, as Mr. Slaughter will resume his dutlts as soon as he re covers sufficiently from a wound re ceived on the night of November 10. It will be recalled that Mr. Slaugh ter was shot by 1 larva Sheppard In a barber shop at Franklin, when the former went -there with the chief ot police to arrest Sheppard. Tha bona near his right hip Joint was shattered and his conditions Inca then has boen rather serious. It Is believed, however that ha has every change of com pletely recovering. Sheppard made good his eacapa at the tmie, but was arrested a faw days ago In Spartan burg and la how held In tha Jail at Franklin. FILEO By GIG METAL United States Metal Products Co. in Financial Trouble, Assets $3,700,000. Tha body of O. W." Mlsenhelmer. aged M, who died net" Saturday fol lowing an sxtsnded lllnuaa, wss ship pad to Conoord Saturday night, where tha funeral and Interment took plana yesterday. The deceased had been liv ing In AahtvlUe for several years and was well known by a larga nam bar ot friends. 1L W. Plummer goes to Mlnneapo- of Syrians are in court on various charges of false representations. The docket is clearing rapidly. Peculiarities of State Vote. The board of canvassers will figure yet today and perhaps a portion ot the next duy on the state election re turns, but ulrcady such figures have been produced as to explain the fear nf wixH democrats that the uartv can Qulte I not be too cureful as to its conduct in offering amendments. Issuing bonds and parceling Jobs. The majority of Senator Overman of 34, HO looks formidable enough, but tho senator was the beneficiary of a national split, many progressives . evidently having declined to vote when Charles 11. Cowlea retired from the senatorial race. The majority in house and senate is likewise large, but a study of the returns from in dividual counties shows how precari ous is the democratic position lu many counties. The democratic house and senate majorities are overwhelming, but the Increasing number of counties that slumped entirely or In part, is alarm ing. The fact Is not talked out niucn, but men mighty close to the adminis tration shake their heads when they do talk. It is true that congressional majorities In favor ot democrats were satisfactory, even the Tenth district which elected Hrltt over Gudgeq, hav ing gone for Senator Overman by Solicitors Kliavo Through. When the redisricting of the judi cial districts came up in the regular 1913 general assembly. It was almost decided to turn Llnney's old district "over to tha radicals," and take 19 Producta! democratic offlelas to make the state concern, be good. U turns out that the demo crats have almost an unbroken Una New York, Nov. 30. A voluntary petition In bankruptcy was filed to day In tha United States court, by the United States Metal company, a Massachusetts with seven billion dollars In outstitnd fng stock. The liabilities are listed at! of prosecutors, but some remarkable one million, eight hundred thousand dollars, and the assets at three mil lion, seven hundred thousand. In real ty and In stock In trade. LIBS. JED C. HAWLEY OF ROCHESTER IS Special to Th Caiette-Niswa, Buffalo, Nov. 80. Mr. Jennie C. Huwley, aged "0 years, whose only brother, Andre Colllater, resides In Aahsvtlla, died last night of heart failure at hor home In Rochester. Shs la survived b two aona, two daught- 11s tonight to attend a convention (ars and ona sister. Interment will ba gas man.' hld tomorrow In Rochester, results are tabulated. line Iteptibllfan Was Clioaon. In tha first J. C. B. Erlnghatts. with hardly any opposition, has mora than 6.000 majority; In the second. R. O. Allsbrook haa 2,768 with nuns at all; In tha third John II. Kerr beats H. C. Coleman by S.4S6 to 338; In the fourth Walter D. Slier defeats J. D. Parker l,3r to 1.196; In the fifth Charles L.'Abernathy la chosen over Claude Weatherly by S.D44 to 121; Henry R. Shaw In tha sixth without opposition and polling 4,246; Herbert K. Norrla In the sev enth without opponent. 1,061; In tha eighth Homer U. Lyon without a fight by 4,19; 8. B. MoLvan In tha ninth with no opponent and a t.40 vote; In tha tenth S. M. Uattls witlt 6,1(4 to 1.6(1. Here tha valkovars cease. For tha remaining half C' Uia state, it Is a (.Continued on paga I)
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