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OLUMEXX. NO. 62.
ASHEVIUU, N. 0., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 24, 1915.
DAY IS SAVED
BY CANADIANS
Lmericans Make Brilliant and
Determined Advance and
Recapture Guns Taken
by the Germans.
ONDUCT MAGNIFICENT, ,.
SAYS BRITISIJ REPORT
'rench Airmen Drop Bombs
on Turkish Forts Turk
ish Troops Entrenched
; Near Smyrna. '
London, April 24. Over a
n-mile arc-like front in Bel-
:an Flanders, touching the
gion of Bixschoote on the
)rth and St. Eloy on the
uth the British, French and
2lgian troops are locked with
e Germans , in a serious en
.gement which recalls the
upendous struggle of last Oc-J
ber.
Driven from Hill No. 60
mth of Ypres and failing to
take it by counter attacks
e Germans have launched a
dden advance northeastward
id after stupifying and kill
g the men in the first trench
, with deadly , gases, accord
g to the British official re-
rt, have driven a wedge oi
captured the guns, taking a
considerable number of Ger
man prisoners, including a
colonel.
The Canadians had many
casualties but their gallant and
determined attack undoubted
ly saved the situation. Their
conduct was magnificent
throughout." '
Airmen Very Active.
Paris, April 24. The aero
planes of the allies are show
ing great activity over Smyr
na, says a dispatch from Salon
lki. French K aviators have
dropped bombs on Fort Kas
tro, killing several soldiers and
1 y-w
sinKing a tterman snip in
port there, besides damaging
the railroad station. Observa
tion by aviators, according to
the dispatch, indicates that the
Turkish forces assigned to de
fend. Smyrna number . 35,000',
They occupy trenches extend
ing from Vourlah to Smyrna
and are posted on heights com
manding the city. Fort Two
Brothers and Fort Rastrati
have been repaired. The new
fort built above the farm of
St. George has been armed
with 30 heavy guns supposed
to have been brought from
Constantinople.
Prisoners of Turks. , , ;
Constantinople, via The Hague and
London. April 24.' Six officers and 19
member of the crew of the British
submarine E-16 were brought to
Constantinople today.
COL. ROOSEVELT MfiSOtlSTOWlEET BIG flPftRT'flT
STILL WITNESS HERE HEXT WEEK HOUSE STARTED
Former President, 'on Cross-
Examination, Says He Re
gards Barnes as Sort
of Jekyll-Hyde.
COLONEL TO RESUME
STAND ON MONDAY
Admits He Complied With
Barnes' Suggestions Many
Times in Making
Appointments.
The Annual Reunion of the
Scottish Rite Bodies of
Free Masons, Orient
of North Carolina.
ELABORATE PROGRAM
HAS BEEN ARRANGED
Meetings Will Be Held in the
Handsome New Cathedral
Just Completed, Broad
' way and Woodfin.
fantry that at some points
is forced the French and Bel
an .troops back acroee the
;er and has compelled the
ritish line north of Ypres to
11 back to conform with the
rench line.
Although . the ' German ad-
ttending, Berlin declares,
7er a front of five miles, the
Hies, with the French occu-
ying the center, the Belgians
a the left and the British on
le right, immediately started
couner attack and compelled
e Germans to inve up some
round, .
Some of .the London papers
haracterize the German rush
s another desperate attempt
f the invaders to reach Cal
ais. Some estimates say that
Emperor William has 500,000
jaen available for the effort,
T3y this time the British are
presumably well strengthened
and have consolidated their
positions on Hill No. 60. The
hardest fighting consequently
's expected north ofi Ypres,
Just as the Germans have
been battling in the Ypres sal
ont, so the French are contin
ling their pressure at St. Mi-
iiel and with some success,
The campaign in the east
ontinues at a standstill and
here has been no authentic
lews of the movements of the
llied troops in European Tur
ey.
London, April 24. The Brit
ish war office today gave ou
the following note:
"The fighting for the ground
into which the Germans pene
trated between Stwnstraate
and Langemarck still contin
ues. The loss of a part of this
line laid bare the left of the
Canadian division, which was
forced back to keep in touch
rith the right of the neighbor
'ng troops. In the rear of the
' Uter had been four Canadian
'.7-inch guns, which thus fell
to the hands of the enemy,
it p-ane time later tho Cnna
'.iri rnndo a most brilliant
1 !i'.---,ful adfancG and re-
An, announcement last Saturday-
told of the sinking: of the' E-15 by
tho Turks in the Dardanelles. It was
said that 24 men were saved.
NOT GUILTY OF
Otis Jones, Otis Styles and
Levi Matthews Are Found
Not Guilty.
Magistrate B. It. Lyda yesterday
afternoon announced his decision In
the cases against Otis Jones, Otis
Styles and Levi Matthews, charged
with interfering with Chief of Police
E..W. Lents of Hickory In the dis
charge of his duties, In which he
found each of the defendants hot
guilty.
It will be remembered that several
days ago while Chief of Police Lents
of Hickory was in Ashevll) for the
purpose of taking back to Hickory
Henry Miller, wanted there on
charges of retailing, that he had war
rants sworn out against the . three
men charging them with Interfering
with him. He alleged that on Pack
square and later at Blltmore these
men made threatening remarks about
what they would do to him, but at
the trial of the cases, before Magis
trate Lyda, Lentt had no other wit
ness to prove his statements and the
three men denied his charges.
FEATURE OF DIR. MEET
Reports of Various Commit
tees Heard at the Session
of Annual Convention, ,
Syracuse, N. Y., April 24. When
court took a recess yesterday after
noon until Monday,- Col. Roosevelt
was still being cross examined by
William Ivins, counsel for William
Barnes In the latter's 160,000 libel
suit against the former president Col.
Roosevelt was to resume the Btand
Monday. : . , '
Syracuse, April 24. During sec
ond day's cross-examination in the
Supreme court Col. Roosevelt said that
he regarded William Barnes, who Is
suing him for libel as a "sort of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde who like some
other politicians had their good sides
and their bad sides." -,
He said that he did hot, as sug
gested by William Ivins. counsel for
Barnes, endeavor to sever the liga
ments of this Siamese twins politician:
he. had only tried to have the Dr.
jekyll part In him absorb the Mr.
Hyde.
This was the toloneFs fourth day
on-the stand and he seems as fresh
as he was on the first day. The col
onel admitted that he had many times
complied with ' suggestions of j Mr.
Barnes In filling offices while he was
governor While the colonel was gov
ernor. The witness was closely ques
tioned about his relations with certain
measures and with certain assembly
legislators. Mr. Ivins called the atten
tion of Col. Roosevelt to his annual
message In which the establishment
of a government printing plant was
mentioned. Mr. Ivins aked
"Did you ever do anything further
officially in regard to that?"
"Officially, no," Col. Roosevelt re
plied.
"Who was chairman of the senate
finance committee at that time?"
"Was it Mr. Hlgglns?"
"Tou asked me and I will tell you,
It was."
"Who was chairman of the assembly
committee on ways and means?"
"I don't know."
"Well, it was Mr. Allds. Did you
forget the name because it was Mr.
Allds?"
"I did not have anything but formal
relations with Mr. Allds. I had per
sonal relations with Mr. Hlgglns. That
Is how I remembered his name,
"In 1899 and 1900 was the position
of chairman of the republican state
committee recognized by law?"
"I think not."
"Who was the democratic rarty
leader then?"
"Upstate It was David B. III11. In
New York It was Richard Croker, who
later grew In power constantly."
The colonel's autobiography was
produced by Mr. Ivins and the colonel
was asked about his campaign for gov
ernor as told of in this book.
"Here you say that during the cam
paign the Issue was between you and
Croker. Is that right?"
"Yes.M '
"Did you mention Hill?"
"Yes, on page 301 I mentioned
David B. Hill.
"In chapter eight did you refer to
Mr. Barnes?"
"No, he was not then of the sun
Importance as Senator Piatt and Mr.
Odell. However, when I published my
autobiography In 191 S I thought .he
same of Mr. Barnes that I did when I
wrote the article complained of here."
"Whv did you do that?"
'1 did not want to make any mall
clous attacks on Barnes. I prefirred
not to attack any man In my biogra
phy If 1 cuuld hnjp it. In the state
ment I wanted tq appeal to the people
of New York. ,
Col. Roosevelt told about his deal
ings with the "bosses," Ms personal
One of the most Interesting events
in the history of Masonry In North
Carolina will be the cathedral reunion
here on Tuesday, Wednesday and
1 1 ii
: PRICE FIVE CENTS j
TiilT Olipill SENT WILSOU ACTIVE
, mint nn rm
H ft
Work Started by Asheville
Apartment Co. at Corner
of French Broad Ave.
and Haywood St. '
WILL BE ERECTED
AT COST OF $70,000
Demands Satisfactory Reply
to Concessions Asked With
in Three Days.
Handsome Building Will Be
Three Stories of Six Apart
ments Each and Will Be
Finished by Oct. 1.
S Honolulu, April 24. An ultl-
t matum demanding a satisfactory
H reply within three days to the
S Japanese demands on China has
if been sent to Peking by the Jap
It anese cabinet, according to a
l Tokio dispatch to the Hawaii
tt Shinpo, a Japanese paper here.
The Asheville Apartment company
began work yesterday on their lot
at the corner of North French Broad
avenue and Haywood street prepara-
Thursdav. ADrll 27-29. of th bodies tory to the construction of one of
of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish I lhe finest apartment houses, It is
Rite of Freemasonry, Orient of North i stated by the officers of the company
IN BUI GASEl
"1
President Advised . Williams j
Overstepped Authority in
Action Against Riggs ;
Bank. It Is Said. ,r, .
GARTER
Carolina in the handsome new cath
edral building which has recently
been completed, on Broadway.
Plans for this gathering of the
Masons of the state have been In
progress for several weeks and It Is
announced that every detail for th
approaching ceremonies Is now com
pleted. The Invitations were sent out
sometime ago by Secretary W. ' F.
Randolph, accompanied by a hand
some booklet giving the complete
program for each ,day of the meet
ing. Masons from all sections of the
state will be In attendance and a
large class of candidates will report
for degrees which will b conferred
fom the fourth to the thirty-second.
The Imposing , and "elaborate cere
monies incident to the Scottish Rite
will celebrate the formal opening of
the new temple which is one of the
finest fraternal structures In the
south. A feature which will add
much to the pleasure "of the occasion
Is the musical facilities made possi
ble by the new pipe organ which has
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has no more hope of reward in one
case than he has in the other. Per
sonally, he said, he would have been
very much surprised If many masters
of big business had not contributed
to the republican campaign of 1904
The colonel mentioned the Stand
ard Oil company. He said that if the
report of the congressional commit
tee which investigated his campaign
contributions showed that "H. R. R."
and "J. D. A." which the witness
thought stood for H. H. Rogers and
John D. Archbold had contributed
to the republican campaign fund In
1904 he was astonished. He said he
had given explicit instructions against
receiving Standard OH contributions.
Personally, he emphatically de
clared, he would regard just as high
ly a contribution of $26 from the
station agen at Oyster Bay as he
would a contribution of 125,000 from
George W. Perkins, who in 1904 was
a partner In the firm of J. P. Mor
gan and company. And ho expressed
the belief that there was a limit to
the amount a campaign fund should
total. Over a certain sum, he did not
know how much, he thought there
might bs some danger.'
CONGRESSMAN BRITT .
at mm SCHOOL
Will Deliver Address Tonight
Mr. Britt Spoke Yester
day at Marshall.
ever built In Asheville or In any
other city. The cost of building is es
timated at $70,000.
The company is composed of J. G.
Deshler, president, and D. L. Meri
wether, secretary. There are about
15 stockholders; part of the stook
issued common stock, and part pre
ferred. The company bought the lot
several months ago with the idea of
supplying the demand in Asheville
for modern apartment accommoda
tions and the company believes that
the building will be entirely occu
pied as soon as it can be completed.
A stockholder stating today that
most of the rooms are already en
crated. The contract provides for as
rapid construction as Is ' cmnistent
with good workmanship, aaJ the
company announce:: that the house
will be ready for occupancy by Oc
tober 1.
. A large amount of excavation work
Is TWcessary before the foundations
can be laid. Van Buren Bostick has
been awarded the contract of remov
ing the dirt and Mr. Bostick began
operations this morning. In order to
hasten the moving of the dirt tlie
steam shovel belonging to the Coxe
estate will be used, and it is expected
that the lot will be ready for the
foundation:, of the building to be
placed at an early date. The dirt re
moved will be used in finishing the
street which the Coxe estate has un
der construction from Patton avenue
to Southside avenue, and It Is stated
that this street will be completed
within about 60 days. A large number
of carts and drivers will be employ
ed in hauling away the dirt as fast
as it can be dug out by the steam
shovel.
Three StorlM; Six Apartments Each.
The apartment house will have
three stories with six apartments on
ach floor. The plans call for all the
most modern equipments and furn
iBhing. Standing on the knoll near the
head of North French Broad avenue
the house will command a fine view
of the mountains In all directions.
No an. juncemcnts hsve been made
as to the awarding of the contract for
the building; but it Is understood
that this work will begin Just as
soon as the excavation work is com
Dieted.
While there are already several
anartment houses In Asheville there
are by no means enough. It Is stated,
to supply the demand for such ac
commodations. The lot on which the
new building will stand is a large
one, and it Is stated that the building
will be of such dimensions that
roomy, comfortable apartments will
be provided. The lot was purchased
by the company from the Protestant
EDlscopal church, and its size na
been Increased by the purchase of
strip from the Christian property
adjoining the company's property,
r
CASE COMES SOON
Commission Meeting in Ra
leigh Tuesday to Consid
er Evidence.
BANK WILL CONTEND
TROUBLE IS PERSONAL!
Brandeis and Gregory ReporWj
ed to Have Thrown Cold
Water on Supporters .:
of Comptroller. 1
. By W. T. Bost.
Raleigh, April 24. Robt. S. Hutch
inson, representative from Meckl m
burg and one of the special Judlctul
committee sitting In the Carter-Absr-nethy
Investigation, , is here and today
and Sunday the remaining members
will be In Raleigh to resume their
work of going over the evidence and
submitting a report.
Chairman Doughton announced that
the committee would take up the evi
dence in typewritten form April 27,
submit ae report and end the hearl ig
within two or three days. Later a re
port of change In date. :ettlng April
26 as the period of rc .i-ening, went
out but Alfred Gosney, the stenogra
pher, upon whom the transcription of
evidence depended is notified that
April 27 will be the day of the resum
ed hearing. Chairman Doughton can
not leave his home on Sunday, it is
said, and his trip will be made- Mon
day. ,
The committee Is composed of
Chairman R. A. Doughton, of Alle
ghany, H. P. Grler, of Iredell county,
R. Dunning of Martin, R. 8. Hutch
inson of Mecklenburg, J. C. M. Vann
of Union, W. P. Stacy of New Hanover
and L. H. Allred of Johnston. '
William H. Pace, local attorney, has
taken charge of the Anderson-Gos-ney-Syme
campaign in opposition to
the city government, these three can
dldates having received the second
largest vot In th rcent preliminary
campaign.
Congressman James J. Brltt will
deliver an address tonight at I o'clock
to the students an& patrons of the
Swannanoa graded ' school. It Is ex
pected that Mr. Brltt will be heard
by a large number of the school pa
trons.
A feature of the closing exercises
of the Marshall graded school yesteiv
day was an addr- at 11 o'olock by
J.GW HURST DIED
AT
Washington. April 21. Today's
session of the Daughters of the Amtr-
Mr Itrllf Th lartfA htillrilnv nf that
elation, with Barnes and his Ideas I w,hool wnR naJequaU t0 aCeommo-
about campaign funds of millions of
dollars. He mentioned the famous
half million dollars which Thomas
Fortune Ryan contributed to the
dale the great crowd of patrons and
students of the publlo schools of
, Madlonn county who gathered at
Marnhall for the exercises.
I innlhr feature nf thtk llnln (tftv
her was occupied chiefly with er and swore, he never had sent a list of (n Mar(m(ill graded school- was
Revolution, In annual conven- presidential cayse of Alton B. Park-
lean
tlon
committed, reports, which Included
reports on genealogy, revision of sta
tistics, Philippine school , legislation
In addition to proposed amendments
to the by-laws.
At tonight's session there was to
bs a repsrt on Sin International pVac
movement snO a memorial to- Mrs.
Woodrow, Wilson submitted, an ad
dress by' Major General A.' W.
Oreely, another by John Temple
Oravos': and Miss Mabel Boardman
was alan to (unnk.
A concluding feature was
memorials to Mrs. T. J. Jackaon and t tha
News of Death Received Abo
of His Father 'Uncle Billy,'
Hurst, in Big Ivy.
- News reached the city today of the
recent death In Newport, Tenn,, of
C. (Cling) Hurst, aged 10, for many
n.mM of th. persons who helped ; ,.g commencement." students J . L ".h.v.T .n
of
sweii me .uu,u iunu u. from ,h, various public schools In
own campaign tor me prcamancy. ldifforPnt salons of ths ountJ tak
I .i r.iirt
WHO KUIVIICI ItJtlMllJ IU, IIIHI.U
being allied with the country's moat
powerful business and financial In.
tereate.
In speaking of the Ryan contribu
tion the wltneas nave tt as his opinion
that a leadnr of bl bualneaa who
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EGYPTIAN HANGS FOR
I BASEBALL PLAYERS
etni .1 THUS FIR
Bob Fisher of Chicago Na
tionals Leading With 13
Hits in 7 Games.
Chicago, April J4. Bob Fisher of
Chicago, with 12 hits In the first sevdn
games of the baseball season Is lead
ing the batters of the National league
with a percentage of .500, according
to averages compiled today. Other
good records In the National league
are: Zimmerman, Brooklyn, .E0T;
Qroh, Cincinnati, .40; Cravath,
adelphla, .419; Doyle. New York, .407.
In the American league Jacques
Fournler of Chicago leads with five
hits out of ten times up, and other re-
oords are: Cobb, Detroit, .480; Craw
ford, Detroit, .467; Veach, Detroit,
.464; Ctrunk, Philadelphia, .4:3.
In the Federal league Crooper of
Brooklyn and Rarlden of Newark lead
wrath wof art hatcrgartodnadaftardthdt
In bttlng with an average percentage
of .tOO each.
-, (By Parker R. Anderson.) " "
Washington, April 24. Develop'
ments of a startling nature are ex-!
pected in the suit filed by the Riggs ,
National bank of Washington against'
John Skelton Williams, Secretary of
the Treasury McAdoo and Unltedl
States Treasurer Burke. It can b
stated as coming from a highly re- .
liable source that President Wllsoni'
has begun a personal Investigation of i
all papers and correspondence on file,
with reference to the case. The result
or tnig aeiermmauon win aeiermine ,
the administration's future course tix
the matter.
It is equally true that Attorney
Brandies, easily one of the foremost!
altApnava AATintMr anil attncnair'
General Gregory have thrown cold wa-i
ter on the Williams supporters by ad.
vising the ' president to make this In- .
vestlgatlon before further steps are ;
taken. Brandies, It. is said, has told ,
the- administration' officials that ' h-
, t .n . .
uuri Htjk caic in (uisii 111c Bisvm iiiiicih a
side any further unless certain re
quirements are met by the, govern-,
ment. 1 One of these requirements Is
that the president first personally in- :
vestlgate the case. 1
Should the president find conditions
ti a Vti A act thav a tn nolnOrl t n him V.V
Brandies and Gregory and substan- '
tlated by many bankers In all sections
of the country, it Is VHeved that thu
whole controversy w'.ll be brought to;
an end by the president calling for the .
resignation of Comptroller Williams.
While there Is no doubt that the
Riggs National bank has had most
"friendly relations" with the treasury
department In previous administra
tions, relations far more friendly than '
were permitted by any other bankinf?
institutions In Washington, It is prob
ably true that Mr. Williams has over
stepped his authority In making de
mands upon banks, not only in Wash
ington but In other sections of the
country. It Is known that some of th
most Influential bankers In the finan
cial world have been summoned to ap- ,
pear here when the case Is brought to
trial. It Is stated, also, that many men i
high In banking circles, some of them!
good democrats, with the success of.
Mr. Wilson at heart, have advised th,
president that Williams has overstep-1
ped his authority time and again and;1
have urged the president to go slow,)
before he puts the administration be-;
hind Mr. Wllllas. . ;
If the case ever comes ot trial thj
Biggs people wll lendeavor to show
that the trouble with Mr. Williams is'
a personal one and dates back to the
time when the now comptroller was,
held of the Seaboard Air Line railroad.
It will be charged that In many cases
the banks who have felt the tnterfer-
ence of Mr. Williams with their busl
ness were In some way responsible for
Mr. Williams being separated from tha
Seaboard property.
The Klggs case is aouDiy interesting
to North Carolinians, because Charles
I C. Glover, president of th Institution. ,
i a North Carolina boy. Some 21
years ago Glover, then a young boy
scarcely out of his teens, left his horn
in Macon county and cam to Wash
ington to make his fortune. He Is
easily the most influential banking
head south of New York. He is also
one of the wealthiest men in the na
tional capital.
farmers of this county, having been
horn and raised in the Big Ivy sec
tion. The deoeased moved to Newport
several years ago and has sine made
his home In that city.
Just one week ago William "Tnole
nilly" Hurat, the father of the de-
attempt on sultan j at v..,ro;r.n"B.;"tvy:
11 ' ' j'Tncle Billy" as he was known to
Cairo, Kr.ypt, April 24. Tha your.g hundreds" of paopla throughout , the
RECEHEDJi TRIESTE
Rom. April IS, via Paris. April 14.
Alarming reports from Trieste are
still being received on the frontier.
Most ot the male population tt
Trieste are serving In the army and
th majority of the remainder are said
to have) been arrested for participating
In war demonstrations.
ronlrlliutea a half million dollars to
hnlu elect a candidate for president EnypUan rnerrhant mimed Kliafll. who nig Ivy section, was nno of the moat
to be 'of the I'nlled Ptats la prompted by made an
ami anlrlt which would caua aiiaalnate
unxio'flBHf ill attaint'! to aa- prominent and wealthiest fnrmersof
HuMain Kamel,'- aulta.n of, that section and numbered his frlenda
.ih.n r, ,!,!.. ..r. m h dpllvnred 1 htm to donate a similar sum to a I LKypl, at Cairo, April I, was Itaiicso by the srora throughout III northern
by Mrs. JoMi'hus lsnlels and others. church, and tha such a contributor toUay.
I by
I"'
ttioa of th county,
FINNISH STEAMSHIP
' SUNK BY SUBMARINE
NEGRO MAN AND WIFE
CHARGED WITH PERJURY
W. R. Gudger Charges Negroes
Committed Perjury in
Divorce Trial
Stockholm, April Ths Finnish
steamer Frack has been torpedoed
and sunk by a Oerman submarine. H
Is bellevad that tha member nf tha
crew wara saved. Ths Frank earrlod
a cargo of Iron or and was on her
way to Abo, Finland.
Lum Jones and wife, Je Jonen,
colored, war arrested last night on
warrants swern ut by W. H, nuiln
or, former maaiatrata, who chr-
th negroas with pwjury, !'' '
that during ths trial In, Buperi. i
court hurt week, In which Mr. I.r.
Omlger was granted a divorce ft- i
him, that th netroe. Who wer
neaae for Mra Uudgar, C6uiii' -parlury,
Th nagro man wa ralfw"! i
der a bond of UBS but tha wrvi
held In Jull, In dfKi!t ..f a I
pending imnxInH In the r,,
afternoon tf',re Ma'ruta , ,