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THE GAZETTE-NEWS Oil the Associated Frew Service. It hi In Every Respect Complete. Member Audit Bureau , Circulations. WEATHER FORECAST. Kt II WW GENERALLY FAIR. J" f VOL. XX. NO, 135. -ASHEVILLE N. 0., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 19, 1915, PRICE 2 CENTS More. mm m i president discusses u. s. reply to german note with Officials Returns From Cornish to Put Before Cabinet Tomorrow Draft of Answer to Berlin. NO OFFICIAL ADVICES ON ORDUNA INCIDENT Attack on Canard Liner bjr ; Submarine Increases Ten sion in U. S. Relations With Germany. ' : . Wasingtdn, July 19.- Presi dent Wilson returned this morning from Cornish, N. H. His train was on time and he drove at once to .the . white house to begin conferences with Secretary of State Lansing and other officiate in preparation for tomorrow's cabinet meeting which will take up the Ameri can reply to the latest German note on submarine warfare. '; A tentative draft ' of th9 'American answer to Germany's last note already have been prepared and after being re vised by; the cabinet will prob ably be cabled to Berlin before the end of the week. ' f In all probability the , new note will set forth the definite course of the United States in case of further violation of American rights... " Official advices are still lack ing concemir j the circum stances of the erman subma rine attack on the British liner ' Orduna, which was carrying a score of American passengers. ., There is little likelihood that there will be any further discussion of the principles involved. By the recent attempt to destroy the British liner Orduna, carrying; score of Americans on her voyage to the United States with no munitions or contraband, offlotals here feel that the position of the United States as stated In its previous notes has been materially strengthened. They declare It bears out the American contention that the character of a vessel, her 'destination and cargo can be safely 'determined only by visit and search. As yet official information is lack ing; to show whether the Orduna was attacked without warning; and what the circumstances were of her en counter with the German submarine ; In discussion of the case stress M laid upon the fact that the vessel was en route to the United States and carried no cargo of Importance, ' making the attack on a vessel carrying Americans seemingly wholly unwarranted. A statement of the circumstances probably will be made by American passengers aboard the Orduna to the '' stale department, although the Amer lean government might take cognis ance of newspaper stories. , A thorough Investigation of the ' farts will be made - and a request probably will be sent to the German rovernment for Its report of the af- rair. . . " -i : FIRE INSURANCE . GATHER FDR Members of the Southeastern Un derwrttera association, an organisa tion or fire Insurance men of the southeastern states, are In the city i for tne sessions of in. executive com mittee which will begin this after noon or tomorrow morning. Secretary J. 8. Ralne of Atlanta arrived yes terday and President Clarence F. Low of New Orleans to expected early this afternoon. - ' The Battery Park hotel Is head quarters for the convention. Many of the members are today enjoying golf, drives and other amusements offered by the chief city of the play ground region of the southern Appalachian SWISS TO PROHIBIT EXPORTS OF GOLD Paris, July 19. The Bwlse federal council has decided to prohibit the ex portation of gold In any form, say a jMYM dlBpatch from. Iittrne. General Strike Will he Called at Bridgeport Bridgeport, Conn., July 19.-The outcome of an eleventh hour effort to avert a general strike of machinists at the Remington , Anns company plant today was still In doubt. Labor leaders agreed to withhold the calling of the general strike for at least 24 hours to hear the result of the conference, when a man, said to have large interests In other In dustries In Bridgeport, said he , be lieved he could do something to com pose the situation. Bridgeport, Conn., July 19. J. J. Keppler, international vice president of the machinists union, who headed a committee which today went to the plant of the Remington Arms com pany to present demands of striking Body Found Is Supposed To Be That of L. W.Bates London, July 19. A body supposed to be that of LIndon W. Bates . of New York, who lost his life when the Lusltanla went down, has been wash ed ashore ort the Limerick coast. A telegram from Wesley Frost, Ameri can consul at Queenstown, to Newton B. Knox, an American mining en Daniels Plans Scale Naval Washington,, July 19. Secretary Daniels. ..has., announced ', that he would issue a statement today : dc veoplng the pans for the elvllan ad visory board, of which Thomas A. Edison is to be the head. While Mr. Daniels declined to say definitely in advance what his statement would contain, it Is believed It will lncludu the names of some of the noted in ventors and technical experts who will S.P. Railroad Douglas, Arizona, July 19. The Southern Pacific railroad; operating between Nogales and Guaymas, Son ora has been declared hostile to Car ranza's regime by a notice In Spanish posted at Agua Prleta by General Cal les, charging that the road had trans ported troops of the rebel governor, U.S. Submarine Has a 6000 Mile Cruising Radius Bridgeport, Conn., July 17. Simon Lake, Inventor and builder of sub marines for the United States govern ment, states that experiments with the new submarine G-3 have demon strated that It would crow the At lantic without stopping. It has a Figures Compiled Show Just How Big War Is Berlin, June It. On justification of the superlative adjectives that are ap plied to the presen war, William Michaels has compiled figures In Over Land and Sea, showing Just how big the war la . He estimates that 11,770,000 men stand opposed to each other 1 J,6I ). 000 on the side of the allies and (, (60,000 for Germany, -Auatrl and Tur key. On the naval side, bis eetlmuWs are M follows: ... . Allies Germany et a1 133 B6 T IT 131 t 704 353 17 40 Line ships .... 131 g cruisers . . Small cruisers Torpedo Boats Submarines (number new boats unknown.) Miscellaneous 331 13 The area of the countries ranged against Germany, exclusive of Italy, he fin da to be 47,000,000 square kilo meters, with an aggregate population of 100,000,000. Germany and her al lies on the other hand have a terri tory of 4,000,000 square kilometers, and a population of 160,000,000 per sons. -TUe dally coal oi tUK,W.Ui , ,, employes, announced that a general strike would be called today. He said that Major W. W.' Penfleld. general manager of the company, bad refused to deal with the committee. ., Will Arbitrate. Providence, R.I., July 17. Normal conditions were restored on the trol ley lines of the Rhode Island com pany throughout the state on which service was almost entirely suspend ed for two days because of the strike of 2.400 union employes. Under an agreement reached today. Mayor Joseph A. Gaynor will act as the chairman of a board of three arbitra tors to whom will be. referred the question of wages and working condi tions. The other members of the board will be named later. gineer and friend of Bates, said .that a watch and ; cigarette case with monograms corresponding to that of Bates were found on the bdoy. The measurements of the body also Indi cated fhat It was that of Bates. Mr. Knox will leave for Queenstown tonight. Large Experiments be invited to serve en the board with Mr. Edison. .' . .'- Secretary Daniels will ask congress at its coming session to approve plans for naval experiment work on a much more extensive scale- than has here tofore been done. The plans which will Include the establishment of a great. t laboratory for experiments probably will be prepared by the new board of advisors In conference with navy officers and officials. Declared Hostile to Carranza Maytorena. The notice Bays that all Southern Pacific relations will be con sidered hostile and passengers who ride on the trains do so at their own risk, as the trains are subject to at tack. The company. It Is understood, will take the matter up with the American state department. . cruising radius of (.000 miles. . "It Is perfectly practicable for the G-3 with her steam engines to cross the ocean, do what she went to do and return without dependence on. a base of supplies" Mr. Lake said. "It Is merely a question of economy In fuel." . ( ten nations now taking part he places at . 169,000,000 marks ($43,260,000) and he estimates that up to the first of April the total cost of the war was 40.000,000,000 marks (JIO.IUO.OOO, 000). Italy again excepted, he placed the annual cost of sueh a war at $16, 000,000,000. It would take 40,000,000 of the huge 1000 mark bank notes to pay this cost, and these notes, stacked up one on top of the other, would make a pile 30,000 feet, almost four miles, in height In gold this same sum would weigh 24,000,600 kilograms (62.212, 800 pounds) whereas the entire gold production of the entire world during the past 600 years has amounted to but 16,000.000 kilograms. The dally war coats for the German empire he places at 33,000,000 marks ($1,260,000) and only 40 days of this conflict cost as much as the whole Franco-Prussian war of 1370-71, 'The cost to England, exclusive of the colo nies, Is about the same, and three months of this wr cost Great Britain as much as the Boer war lasting two years and seven months. France ipanda a little mors dally, 1 .Vj S I mmn 1111 ship isiie n OF WAR SUNK Building Corner of Pack Squar and Patton Avenue Leased by United Cigar Stores Company. 15 YEAR LEASE AT v 0 . $5,000 PER YEAR To Take Effect March 1, 1919 Now Occupied by Long 'Shoe Company and Others. . By the terms of a lease filed Satur day In the office of the county regis trator of deeds, J. J; Mackey, Mrs. Laura W, Rutherford of Richmond has leased for 15 years at G,06a year, the building at the corner of Pack square and Patton avenue, now occupied by the Long) Shoe company, to the United Cigar Stores company of Chicago. The lease is to take ef fect March 1, 1919 and extend to February 1, 1934. . The lease calls for the entire build ing, three stories and basement, with 40 feet frontage on Pack square and 80 feet on Patton avenue. The com pany leasing the building states in the lease that they propose to open ana conduct a general retail cigar and tobacco business in . all its branches. The United Cigar Stores company, of which J. R.. Taylor of Mont Clair, N. J., Is president and George Watt- ley is secretary, is one of the largest retail concerns of its kind In the world and operates retail stores in cities throughout the United States. There is hardly a city of any size in the entire country but what has a United Clgai store in it, , The building just leased - by the cigar people is now occupied by the Long Shoe company and was leased by them only a few months ago. It being understood that their . lease runs for three years. The building is one of the most desirable business locations in the city, , being at the corner of Pack square' and Patton avenue. For many years It was oc cupied by Noland and Roland in the grocery business and later Pat Mcln tyre conducted a grocery store there. The building was sub-leased by him to the Long Shoo company It Is un derstood. Several improvements were made in the general appearance of the store and It Is now considered to be one f the mst modern buildings In the city. , . i Also located in the building is the gents furnishing store of I. R. Rob inson on the first poor and In the basement there Is a pool room and slide shining parlor. L DEFEAT TO TROOPS DF VILLA Gen. Calles Routs Acosta Sonora Villa Forces Scattered. In Douglas, Arli.. July 19. After a six-hour battle In Ana-vacach! pass, west of Agua Prleta, General Caries, Carranca commander In Sonorn, was reported yesterday to have decisively defeated Villa roops under General Jose Maria Acosta. The Calles force was said to number 8,000 while Acos ta's was reported as half that number. In a message received here by the Carranza consul from. General Calles at Lamorlta, twenty miles west of A gua Prleta, he says the Villa troops were reported aa fleeing in all direc tions. ; The message stated that the battle began at 4 o'clock In the 1 morning. The Villa forces were strongly en trenched In the pass an for Ave ho.irs held against cannon and rapid .Ire guns.. During the fighting 300 of Acotsa's men deserted to Calles, according to the report which estimated the Villa dead, wounded and csptured at 600. Calles did not report his own casual ty though officials at Agua Prleta o lain. -d they were, relatively small. According to the consul Cananea to General Calles objective. VII la representatives her. refused ot admit defeat, saying the battle utlil conti nued near Lamorlta and that a large contingent of - Yaqut Indians were making a flank attack. Famous Hots Breeder Dies. New "York, July 17.- Jacob IS. Her ring, famous 40 years ivgo as a horse breeder, Is dead at his home, Scotland jJtUUs Hanuett. W. TH aged 71 yeats. Austrian Submarine Torpe- does Armored Cruiser, Says Official Report Found- ',- . - ered in 15 Minutes. TWO SUBMARINES OF AUSTRIA LIKELY LOST ermans Are Making Giant Ef forts to Crush Russia Attacking Along the Whole Front. Berlin, (by wireless to Say ville, L. I.,) July 19. The fol lowing official statement, dated July 18, has been received from Vienna: . "An Austrian submarine this morning torpedoed and sunk at Ragusa, the Italian cruiser Guiseppe Garibaldi. The cruis er foundered within 15 min utes." . '. The Guiseppe Garibaldi was a narmored cruiser of 7234 tons and was 344 feet long. She was laid down m 1898. The vessel had a complement of 550 men She carried one 10-inch, two 8-inch, fourteen 6-inch and ten 3-inch guns. Ragns'a is a fortified Austrian seaport in Dalmatia on a pen insula in the Adriatic, 39 miles from Cattaro. Gigantic Movement. London, July 1 9. Attention Is now centered on the gigantic operations on the eastern front where the fighting Is In full swing on nearly every section of the Russian line, from the Baltic line, from the Baltic to the Dmelater General Von Buelow la pushing the German advance toward Rlsa on the north. This movement Is being con ducted by cavalry on a scale not hith erto attempted during the war. Ber lin claims a steady advance and Petro grad admits that the Russians are falling back after a stubborn contest. On Von Buelow's right General Von Eichhorn la being held up by the Ger man fortress of Ossowetz. On Von Elchhorn's right is General Von Ga1l- wltz, who captured Przasnvsz and Is now making an attack on the Narew river and tributaries of the famous Rawka and Bzuro. Comparative quiet is reported on the southwest side, of Warsaw but to the southwest the movement against Lublin, which was temporarily check-1 ed Is In full swing. The Russians must fight a defensive battle for their positions at Warsaw or abandon the whole of Poland, and military observ ers here believe that Grand Duke Nicholas Is likely to adopt the latter course while withdrawing his army Intact In the Baltic provinces General von Buelow, who Is using large forces of cavalry, hu crossed the Wlndau river and Is moving toward Riga. In the Przasnysz district Field Marshal von Hlndenburg, who Is making his fourth attempt to reach Warsaw, has twice broken the Russian lines and conA pefled the defenders to retire toward the Narew river. In Southern Poland, after a period of ' Inactivity, Field Marshal von Mackenzen Is again on the move, and claims to have captured some Russian advanced positions which stood be tween him and his objective, the Lub-lln-Cholm railway. Simultaneously with thes attaecks, which are the main ones, the Austro German armies are on the offensive west ot the Vistula river In Central Poland, and along the Dnelster river In Gallcla. As was the case In the drive through western Gallcla, the Russians are fighting stubbornly, and on occasions are turning and delivering vicious blows at thehf opponenta But wheth er they will be able to hold their pres ent lines 4s problematical. - The probability of the Russians having to evacuate Warsaw, which Is threatened by Von Hlnderburg Irwtha north and Von Mackenzen In the south. Is being seriously discussed. The possibility of a further retrial, however,' Is being calmly considered In Russia, where the old theory that the further the enemy Is drawn Into the country the worse It la for him, buoys up their hope, of final victory. With the enormous number of Ger man troops being used for the offen sive In the east the greatest move ment of the kind ever undertaken In the history ot the war the mlllta-y critics here do not look for any events of outstanding Importance In the wast for some time to come. The official reports Issued today thou that thus far, at any rate, no 1 1 - - CONDITION OF . FRANKWORSE important move has been undertaken by either side. There have been ar tillery engagements all along the front and a few infantry attacks, but tiiey were Infinitesimal in comparison with the operations in the east. Unofficial reports continue to refsi to the fighting on the Ga"iUpolt penin sula, but thes ereports are not con firmed by the headquarters concerned. News from that district is anxiously awaited as the effort to clear the pen insula of Turks is about due. :. Submarines Lost? Paris, July 19. A telegram from a Rome news agency says refugees who have reached Rome from Pola. an Austrian naval base, reported that two Austrian submarines which left there to reconnolter the Italian coast have not returned and are believed to have been lost. One had a crew of 20 and the other a crew of 40.. They had gasoline sufficient 'to last only four days. Salandra Satisfied. Rome, July ,19. Slgnor Barzllat, republican deputy who has been named a. member of the cabinet with out portfolio,, returned from the front today with ; Premier Salandra. He made a speech declaring the war would demonstrate the error of those who talked wildly of division in Italy. Premier Salandra expressed satis faction at what the army had ac complished since he had last visited the front and said there was good prospect that the Isonzo line of the Austrlans would soon be conquered, YESTERDftY IT L Well Known Resident Weaverville " Funeral v Services Tomorrow. of .Information reached Ashevllle last night of the death some time yester day, at her summer home near Lan drum. S. C, of Mrs. J. W. Vandlver, wife of the late Dr, J. W. Vandlver of JKeavervllle. Mra. VanrWver was at an advanced age and had been In fee ble health for some time. The body will anivo in Ashevllle tomorrow morning and the funeral services will be conducted at Weaverville by a minister from Spartanburg assisted by Rev. J. H. Wood, presiding elder of the Asheville district of the Meth odist Episcopal church, south, and Rev. Mr. Fox. Interment will follow at the cemetery near Weavervlll1!. 'The deceased Is survived by three sons. Walter W. Vandlver of Chlcajo, attorney for the department of Jus tice of the federal government; E. S. Vandiver of Spartanbury and John M. Vandiver of Rome, Ga., sheriff and tax collector there for many years; two daughters, Mrs. Ramage of Phil adelphia and rMs. McCann of Can d.t. The deceased had a large circle ot rel atives In Weaverville, Ashevllle and other parts of Buncombe county, and scores of friends who will learn ot lier death with sorrow. . Mrs. Vandlver was a daughter 3t Montravflle M. Weaver, one of the pioneer settlers of Weaverville nd one of the best known citizens of the county. Weaverville was the family home of the Vandlvers until a few years ago when Mrs. Vandiver mov-d to Spartanburg. IRON UNO STEEL WORKS Sydney, Australia. July 19 An Iron and steel works, representing an out lay of over 17,000,000 has Just been opened at Port Waratah. near New castle, New K-mth Wales, by means of which Australia hops eventually to become Independent of foreign coun tries In the matter of iron aiid steel. The opening of the new plant was regarded as an event of great Import ance In the Industrial history of the country and was made a formal occa sion at which speeches were made by a number of distinguished men. The works are located at tho outlet of the collieries which are probably the big gest In the southern hemisphere. Port waratah Is to become the en ter of other Industries allied to the manufacture of iron and steel prod uct The Iron ore for the mills will come from Iron Knob, half way across the Australian continent, where de posits carrying (8 per cent of metallic Iron are sufficient to lost for many generations. All the machinery In the works Is of American make and about 60 workmen from the United States are. engaged, chiefly for training the Au trallan workmen In modern methods of steel making. MANY MINERS HONOR DR. HOLMES' MEMORY Pittsburgh, July 17. Many mine In western Pennsylvania and West Virginia were closed today during the funeral In Washington of Dr. Jos eph A. Holmes, former director of the bureau ot mines of the United States. The operations of some of the mines were suspended for a tow hours, whtl others were dosed all day. Wound in Throat Inflicetd by Fellow Prisoner Much Swolen, His Physi cians Report. TEMPERATURE STOOD AT 102.4 AT 8 A. M. Attack Made by Man Also Serving Life Sentence While Frank Slept Inquiry Probable. Mllledgevllle, Ga.; July I9.s-Physi clans who examined Leo M. Frank at S o'clock this morning at the Geor gia state prison farm said soon af terward that his condition was mucn worse. The Jagged cut in ' Frank's throat which he received In an at tack made by a fellow prisoner was swollen and his temperature wal 102 2-6. . ... . , . , Dr. H. J. Rosenberg, Frank's family physician, last night believed Frank's condition warranted his leaving fot Atlanta, He and another : Atlanta doctor were summoned to the farm today. Early in the morning Frank began to show signs of nervousness, but this was not considered unusual. His temperature continued to rise and about dayllprht he was delirious at -n- ' tervals. His temperature reached Its highest shortly before S o'clock mi then dropped about 9 o'clock to a iracuon over 101. Dr. Guy Thomp son, the prison physician, was not so alarmed over this condition as wer the other physicians. He stated today that some tevtr was to be expected and the swollen necK was not necessarily of itself a dangerTms sign. Blood poison was tha moBt feared today as the ' stitohea seemed to be holding. ' ' This latest and most " anectnonlnt phase of the two-year finht - fm Frank's life may be thf rnihiAf nf. 1 Investigation by the Georgia nrlson commission, which refused to recom mend that Frank's death sentence for the murder of Mary Phagan be com muted to life imprisonment. Reports from Atlanta were that Governof Harris Intimated that he would start an Investigation to- ascertain if Creen acted entirely of his own volition. Creen said yesterday, when taken from solitary confinement long enough to be questioned, that ha planned and executed the attack alone. He was not commnnlcatlva and gave as his only excuse that "h thought it should be done." He said .uwcrr, mat ne regretted his act Frank was quartered in a dormitory with about 100 other prisoners and occupied a bunk about forty feet from one of the two doors to the largf room. Greens bunk was fourth from mm. rs'o prisoner Is allowed to leava his place without permission front one of the two gunrdt on duty. Short ly after 11 o'clock Creen called out for permission t oget up and it wai . granted . He started down the line of bunks toward the one 'occupied by Frank. As he reached It he quickly grabbed. Frank by the hair and delivered one blow with the knife ho hurt nn..i. ed. The attack was witnessed by the guard who rushed to the bunk and prevented creen from striking again. Creen was overpowered and among prisoners who rushed to Frank's aid were two physicians, on eof whom al , so was serving a life term for mur der. . u tuiivicv pnysicians gave first aid and treated the wound until Dr. Guy Compton, the prison physi cian, was summoned from his home half a mile away. The three men took twenty-flve stitches In Frank's neck. Dr. II. J. Rosenberg, the Frank family physician, arrived from At. lanta yesterday with nurses. He said that while Frank's condition Is pre carious, ho has a chance for life. Mrs. Frank waa In Mllledgevtlle at the home of J. M. Burns. She was not told of the attack until after the physicians had finished their work. She became hysterical, but later was calmed and was taken to the prison hospital. The cut extends from the front of the neck around the left aide to al most mo miaaie of the back of the neck. Neither the windpipe nor tha spinal cord Is hurt but the Jugular vein Is partly severed. The physician greatest fear tonight waa that soma of the stitches might slip, causing more loss ot blood. STUDENTS FEWER . AT OLD FREIBURG Freiburg, Germany, July 1. The famous old University of Freiburg this year has only 1,103 registered stu dents as against the 1,171 last year, and of this year's number 1730 are In the army and Red Crows service. Thii year there ars but JO foreigners en rolled at the University, Including three Americana The Institution honor roll Includes three pmfrwnn thre amilfitanta, and 117 student ' havt fallen for the Fatherland, i
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