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THE GAZETTE-NEWS Has Um Associated Press Service. It to In Every Respect Complete. Member Audit Bureau Circulations. WEATHER FORECAST. GEXERALLT FAIR. mm VOL. XX. NO. 137. ASHEVILLE N. 0., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 22, 1915. PRICE 2 CENTS p Mor To Germany Is Now on Bs W M m MwMi ! U.S. DEMANDS ARE REITERATED America Assumes That Ger many Admits 'Sinking of . Unresisting Ships Is Illegal. MORE DISCUSSIONS ON LUSITANIA CASE LIKELY f J. S. Cannot Allow Belligerents to Operate in a Way to Ab breviate the Rights of . Neutral States. I Washington, July 22. The aew American note to Germany ;,ls now on its way to Berlin. It i (ras cleared last night over the i telegraph wires from Washing ton and today is being flashed by cable to London, thence to Copenhagen, and from there it , will be sent over land wires to . the German foreign office. The note should reach - Berlin to night or early tomorrow, )'.. ' . Secretary Lansing announced that the" text of the note would be given out Friday afternoon For publication in the morning papers Saturday. Then will follow a period of waiting for Germany's reply. Concerning the future conduct of German "' submarine warfare, the note : does not necessarily call for an " answer as it is the announced itention of the United States to regard any further violation of International law which results In the loss of American lives as ; "unfriendly." , On the other hand the Ameri ' dan demand for the disavowal lot any intention to sink the I Lusitaia and request for reapr ation are renewed in the new note and very likely these and i other points such as the will ingness of the United States to act as an intermediary between - the belligerents in adjusting i questios of maritime warfare ;. will be the basis of further dis- f cussion with Germany. Washington, July 21. The United States government has decided to inform Germany "that further loss of American lives as the result "of German submarine warfare in contra vention of the principle of in ternational law will be regard ed as an unfriendly act" The discussion of principles has vir tually ended, and the American government now warns the im perial government that this in terpretation will be placed on further transgression of Ameri can rights. .. In the new note the United Btates assumes that Germany has already recognized the principle that passengers must bo removed before the destruc tion of unresisting merchant men as prizes. Taking the po lition that the ' two govern cents are agreed on principles, :he United States will view it is incumbent on Oormany to make her sulmarino practices conform with the accustomed principles of international law. Any deviation in actual prac tice which results in the loss of American lives, the note points out, will be viewed as "un friendly act." ' What action the United States might subsequently take is not indicated, but in diplo matic usage the phJase "un friendly act," always carries the implication of finality, lead ing often to severing of friend ly relations. . The Lusitanla Case... Officials generally were -secretive concerning the treatment of the Lus itanla case, In the new note, but It Is believed that request tor repara tion will be renewed an that the Is sue will . be kept constantly before the two governments as a subject of prime Importance In future relations. The note rejects Germany's pro posals that American vessels be giv en complete Immunity when not car rying contraband and for the trans fer to American registry of four bel ligerent vessels for trans-Atlantic traffic provided they do not carry contraband. , Again the American government reiterates Its willingness to act as in termedlary in adjusting the Interests of belligerents on the high seas; but the note makes it clear that so far as American fights are" concerned they must - not be confounded with the practice of reprisals of one beIITgr" ent against another. The note will probably be finished tonight and go forward to Berlin to morrow or Friday. Officials' believed It would be unnecessary to discuss the document i at another cabinet meeting and predicted that it would be sent to Berlin - by Friday at the latest. T BEING FED WITH CREAM Women of Stettin, Germany, Subject of Scathing Re marks by Magistrate. Stettin, Germany, July 22. The discovery that Stettin women have been feeding whipped cream to their pet dogs while mother have had a hard time procuring a sufficient quantity of unskimmed milk for their babies, has aroused a storm of protest. i Stettin recently attempted, unsuc cessfully, to have Its allowance from the government for the support of soldiers' families increased. In, op position it was declared that Stettin women were too" liberal purchasers of cakes and whipped cream, things that re not considered essential to the maintenance of life and health. Some idea of a magistrate's opin ion of the Stettin women and their dogs may be gleaned from the fol lowing notloe by him, recently pub lished in the local papers: "8lnce the present shortage of milk leaves much to be desired in the supply for wounded sick ana babies, every effort should be made to avoid diminishing the existing sup ply. While, on this account, persons actuated by feelings of Intelligence and duty, have Imposed upon them selves restrictions In their consump tion of cream and whipped cream, because an extraordinary amount of unskimmed milk la necessary for them, it has unfortunately been no tired in the publlo stores that Indi vidual female customers are order ing special portions of whipped cream to set before their dogs. "Such a contemptible proceeding, which makes of self-sacrifice and renunciation a mockery, is. It Is to be honed, the exoebtlon and not the rule, and therefore does not warrant official actloii. In the meantime those who have not suspected the existing state of affairs must be shocked and confounded that Stettin must thus be exposed to shame." ftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftft ft i ft MODIFIES EXTOKKS ORDER. ft ft Washington. July II. The In- ft I, terslnta commerce commission ft ft has derided that the revenues of ft ft the principal express companies ft ft of the United Bute are Inade- ft ft quste and has modified a former t order providing for additional ft Income. ft ft h ( it DEIS STR1K IS Cp OFF Executive of Machinists' Union Declares Bridgeport Strik ers Have Not Agreed to Resume Work, POINTS AND PICKETS ARE STILL ON DUTY Large Forces of Policemen Re main on Duty Before Rem ington and U. M. C. ; Company Plants. Bridgeport, Conn., July 22. Thos. J. Savage, member of the general ex ecutive board of the International As sociation 01 Machinists, denied em phatically today that the strike at the plants of the Remington Arms and Ammunition company and various sub-contractors had been called off. He pointed out that the pickets were still on duty In the streets before the different - plants and said that they had kept 23 more men from going to work at the new plant of the Reming ton company. ' .", , . v '"rtSr. Savage said he knfew nothing' -about the statement made by J. J. Kcpp'ler, vice president of the machin ists union, who said that the strikers would return to work Monday. Mr. Keppler also said that the pickets would be called off. Large forces of policemen remained on guard before the new plants of the Remington company and the Union Matallic Cartridge company today. Men and women with signs, "Don't be a Scab," pinned to their hats, walk ed the streets. Slight disorders marked the walk out yesterday. The most serious of these resulted from a demonstration at noon by strikers in front of the Union Metallic Cartridge plant of the Remington company, where thousands of men, women and girls are employ ed. Every available policeman and detective In Bridgeport was rushed to the plant to preserve order. There was a wide difference between the figures regarding the number of men on strike, as they were, given out by the labor leaders and by the Bridge port Manufacturers' association to night According to the estimates of the labor men at least 500 machinists and about 200 girls were on strike. The manufacturers' association, how ever, declared that in all Bridgeport there was just 127 machinists out. ITALY ALSO PROTESTS T Rome, July 22. The Roman press has. joined vigorously in the chorus of protest which is going up from every country in active war, against the difficulties of the censorship. Aside from the fact that the censors are .military men, and , unable to judge matter from a newspaper stand point, embarrassment is caused be cause there are several distinct bodies of censors, some of whom- allow cer tain news to pass while other sup press it An effect of the censorship on Ro man papers is thai the Milan journals are finding great favor in the capital The reason la, the Milan censor is very liberal, and the Roman eerisor severe, the consequence belng that the Milan papers are often fhe first to bring news to Rome. The latest and most notable example is that of che pope's Interview wlbh-ne corre spondent of the Paris LtlArtle. The Corrlere Delia Sera published It In full, while no Roman paper - was even allowed to mention It, but when the Milan paper arrived In Rome, the censorship on the interview v. as finally lifted here. . The Roman papers do not object to the suppression of military news, which might even Indirectly ,, belp Italy's enemies, but much is censored which Is not military news at all. The newspapers here are also con fronted with the mystery of the fact that some foreign !ountrles are allow ed to have Italian news two or three days earlier than Iho Italians theih slvw fpl it. 01 STRIKERS STILL RIOTING Two Men Shot When They At tack Guards In Front of Plant of Tidewater -Oil Company. FIRE BREAKS OUT IN STANDARD OIL YARDS Fighting Continued Despite Guards Efforts Reported State Troops Have Been Called Out. " New York, July 22. Two men were shot today during the rioting In front of the plant of the Tidewater Oil company in Bayonne, where several thousand oil workers are striking against the Standard Oil company. The wounded men are Tony Rednank and John Taginaski. They are said to have been shot by company guards when a large : crowd attacked the guards at the Tidewater company's plant. Hundreds of strikers and sym pathizers gathered in the streets early today and then ..moved toward the plaAVof'the'Standard" Oil "company." a small fire broke out - in , the watchman's house within the oil yards. It was quickly extinguished. The crowd then surrounded the plant or, the Tidewater company which had been closed yesterday to ovoid trou ble. They began to create disorder and the guards fired. The fighting continued, however, despite the ef forts of the guards to stop It, It is reported that state troops have been called out. Quiet prevailed lost night. The only excitement was the discovery of four small fires within the plant which broke out almost simultaneously, but were easily controlled. The strikers late yesterday rejected an ultimatum from the company that their proposals would be considered providing they returned to work to day. Sheriff Eugene Klnkead, who succeeded in pacifying the strikers, ar ranged a conference between a strik ers committee and company officials for today. Of the eleven special dep uties, whos presence led to the dis order, six were taken to the Hudson county jail In Jersey City. PETITION IN BANKRUPTCY Albany, N. T., July 22. It la an nounced that a friendly involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed at Utica, N. Y., against Former Governor John A. Dlz Individually and the Moose' River Lumber com pany 'of which he Is the principal stockholder. No statement as to as sets and liabilities la given. Business conditions are blamed for both ac tions. ELEVEN KY. FARMEBS r LOST IN THE FLOODS lima, O., July 2 J.fc-It ' Is report ed from Kenton, Ohio, that eleven Kentucky farm laborers In the flood ed onion -fields are believed to hare been drowned. They embarked In a canoe on account of the high water and attempted thus to escape. It was boat was later found 'capsized. The marshes are still under water, although the river Is now In channel. At Lima the conditions are nearly normal. , Fence) Talk. Geneva, -via Parts, July 22. Nedje mekden Eftendl, the Turkish minister of justice, and Faasum Effendl are ex pected here today from Vienna for the purpose, It Is reported, of opening sep. arats peace negotiations with the tri ple entente.' It Is stated that the delegates are Invested with official powers. BP t flttD Vx.iHOUT BOND Broguht Before Judge Gleen This Morning, Norman Walker, Mr. Turnbull's Assailant Sent to Jail MR. TURNBULL IS RESTING EASIER Negro In Interview Tells the Story of the Assault Says "Devil Had Me." ' " ftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftft ft . . ft ft MR. TURXBTJIilS CONDITION ft ft . - ft ft At 1:30 o'clock today it was ft ft reported that Mr. Turnbull's ft ft condition while still serious, was ft ft satisfactory. It is belieed that ft 5 He will survive the Wounds, If ft st no infection develops from the ft ft wounds. ft; ft - ft ftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftft ... Norman Walker, colored, who yes terday assaulted W. W. Turnbull of No., 186- Pearson's drive, with a razor r$8(TOdUy'"""rnornlng inflicting four wounds, captured yesterday afternoon about t o'clock hiding in the weeds on a vacant lot on Ann street, was brought into Police court this morn ing and Judge J. Frazler Glenn com mitted the defendant to Jail pending the ' outcome of Mr. Turnbull's wounds. . The appearance of the negro in court this morning was very brief, he being before the court only a few minutes and then was token back to the county jail. It is thought that by his admission of guilt he will waive a preliminary examination in his case and he will probably be tried before the next term of Superior court for criminal cases. A man mowing weeds on Ann street Just off Haywood street yes terday afternoon about 5 o clock came upon a negro hiding in the weeds and asked him what he was doing there and the negro told the man he was in trouble, then it de veloped that the negro was Walker. He admitted to the white man that he had, cut Mr. Turnbull and later tried to take his own life by cutting himself In the leg. The white man told the negro he was going after an officer and the negro said he would await his return. The man came to the postoffice and finding Patrolman W. W. Brltt on duty there told him of the discovery. The officer accom panied the man and found the negro in the weeda He was ordered to come out by the officer who had drawn a pistol and Walker was cap tured. A call was sent In for the pa trol wagon and Sergeant Dlgges came with it. The negro was placed In the wagon and brought to the city Jail. Crowd Gathers. Soon the news of the capture spread to all sections of the city and it was only a few minutes until a large crowd of about 300 people had gathered In front of the City Hail. Fearing that something might be done by members of the crowd, the officers kept the negro In the city jail but a few minutes and then slipped him out the front door of the City Hall to the county Jail Where he was kept during the - night. Bo anxious was the negro to get in the county Jail and away from the crowd that he pulled the officers along and Insisted that they hurry and get to the jail. Walker admitted his guilt to alt the officers who questioned him and gave as his only reason that "the devil had e. - ' In his own way Walker this morn ing, while In a cell at the nollce head nuerters told a Gaiette-News report er the story of the cutting of Mr. TurnbuTI yesterday1. - . nls Rtory. I left home early yesterday, after drinking some lemon extract te kind er holster me up," he said, "and went to the white man's house to get my wife, I look a razor along for I was determined to bring her back to me one way or the other. I dldnt want to eut her hut was going to do It If ? couldn't get her any other way, I begged the white man to let me have her and he said b didn't want to live with me any longer and I guess the devil Just got me then and I didn't know what I was doing for t cut the man. Jnt as soon as I rut htm I es caped to Riverside cemetery and It was while In the cemetery that I out (Continued on JPage Two). WARSAW STILL NEARER E T Occupies art of Naco Despite Agreement Not to Fight There. Washington, July 22 , Occupation of the Mexican side of the town of Naco, on the Mexican-Arizona border by Carranza forces was brought to the attention of the state department yesterday by Secretary of War Gar rison with the recommendation that the Carranza commander be requested to withdraw in accord with the agree ment made last winter that there should be' no fighting there. Secretary Lansing had before him the war department's recommenda tion, reports from consular agents on the border and protests against the taking of Naco from Enrique C. Llorente, , General Villa's agent here. The international boundary runs through Naco, and when the Mexican i factions were contending for its pos- session bullets and shells were con stantiy falling on the American side, Through Major General Scott chief of staff of the United States army. Governor Maytorena for Villa, and the Carranza leader, General Callee, agreed that all military forces should be withdrawn- and the town left an undefended neutral post. - Secretary Garrison regards the present occupa tion as a violation of the agreement, likely to lend to renewed fighting and ; endangering of American lives. In his protest to Secretary Lansing the Villa agent declared that only the absence of Maytorena troops from northern Sonora to protect Amerl cans In the Yaqul territory had made possible the taking of Naco and the killing of civilian guards and customs employes. The situation at Mexico City con tlnued to arouse apprehension in of ficial quarters here, no direct word having been received from the capital lnce Zapata's forces hod re-entered the city following its evacuation by Carranzn's army under General Gon zalez. There is no official lnforma tlon about General Gonzalez or the Villa "flying column" which he mfrched northward to meet. The navy department received the following dispatch last night from Commander McNamee, of the cruiser Sacramento, at Vera Cruz: "Communication with Mexico City Interrupted. Carranza forces moving toward Pachuca. Mexico City report ed occupied by convention forces." PREMIER BOTHA GETS OVATION AT CAPE TOWN Cape Town, Union of South Africa, via London, July 22. Premier Botha arrived here today from the campaign which ended July 9 with the surrend er of the forces of German Southwest Africa. General Botha received an ovation when he appeared. Business was suspended and the city was dec orated, while the people thronged the streets.- - . - . GARBANZA MOV BUT ttfMM)SSS;ej Have Confidence IJ? all the people stop buying everything, there will be no business no market for1 goods, crops or services. If half the people stop buying everything, business will be cut in half and everybody suffer. If all the people buy one half their customary pur chase,s, business slumps to half. If all the people postpone for thirty days buying half their needs the country's prosperity drops one half for that length of time. ' Buy now the things you wil need soon and youH help speed up the wheels of industry, commerce, fanning and labor. ' :kVttfiXK ' .1 BUY-IT-NOW BUY AT HOME This Is the time of aU times for the U. 8. A. to make vast strides. Ijet's all get busy. Let your dollars be home earned home spnt dollar. Aee business talk on page 4. CIRCLED The Teutons Are Pushing Thei, Drives Toward Polish Capi tal From the North, West and South. INVADERS DRAWING CLOSER TO RIGA ALSO Russians Are Fighting Most. Desperately to Save Lublin ' Railroad Defeat There ; Might Divide Armies. London July 22. The Ans- trians and Germans continue j their drives on Warsaw from the north, west and south and I are reachig further northward toward Riga on the Baltic. . The tone of Petrograd dis patches bespeaks plainly that the Russians are aware of the gravity of the situation, which ! involves not only the fate of' the Polish capital but 'ETmTl tegnty of the Russian armies' in Poland which might be cut! in twain by a decisive defeat ! on the Lublin-Chelm railway. ; In the latter sector the Rus sians are fighting most desper ately, for the railroad is the sole great artery of communi- cation with southern Russia.' The Teutons have several'times ; been reported within five miles of the railway and now, accord-' ing to Austrian claims, the in-' vaders have pierced the Rus- j sian lines, and they are now probably within rifle shot of the road. No claim is. made of ' having seied it. J Berlin, July 21. The Lokal An- zleger has a dispatch from Czernoi witz, capital of Bukowlna, which re ports heavy fighting on the Dnelster, ' near the Bukowina-Galaclan border. I The Russians brought up heavy rein-, forcements in a- determined attempt' to retake their old positions on thai left bank of the river. They were; supported by heavy artillery but the attack failed., On the Bessarabia frontier also that Russians made desperate attacks for, four nights. They broke Into the Aus-' trian positions at one place but later ' the attacking force was captured. i tMMtttttVtttt 1 1 1 ttztt: i ! S t J-
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