North Carolina Newspapers

THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN.' THE WEATHER: RAIN 7Qf C Sworn Daily uUATrair for Mav 9. t ASHEVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1911 VOL. XXVII.,0. 227 TRICE FIVE CENTS E NO EFFORT TO GIVE So Testifies Herman Rldder to Senate Committee as to Re ciprocity Measure RECITAL OF FACTS AS TO NEWS VALUE Associated Press Manager Said Reports Were Always Fair to Both Sides NEWSPAPER MAD PARTIAL REPORTS ; not "desira.ble socially as soldiers." land President Taft Immediately dl- WA8HINGTON, June 5. Public ! recte(j tne secretary of war to Inves hearlngs on the Canadian reciprocity j tlgnte the matter. The president bill were concluded by the senate fl- stamped the expressions as those of nance committee today, representa- race prejudice. He also said It was tlves of the American Newspaper j hard to deal with the matter "with Publishers' association and of the As- 'patience and without condemnatory sociated Press being the last to ap- j words that had better not be writ pear before the committees. ten." The war department pointed out Secretary of State Knox, at the re-'that there have been many Jews quest of Senator lialley. has been among the army officers, asked to explain to the committee i Notwithstanding the president's in tomorrow whether the Hoot amend- j autrv directed to the secretary of ment to the paper section of the bill, was as to what should be done to dls provlding that It shall not be In force clpline Colonel Gerrard, the Incident until the president Is satisfied and ; has .been practically closed with the found, except In few cases, fer corn has Issued a proclamation to the ef-; rebuke. The department decided that njjunlcatlons where Jews are received feet that paper and wood pulp are be- Ing admitted free into all the prov- inces of Canada, is in full accord I press his actual belief as to the avail wlth the agreement, as understood by lability of any candidate from the the commissioners from both coun-; ranks. It was concluded that the pree trles. who prepared the treaty. On j ident's purpose would be best served Wednesday the committee will take by the publication of the corre the bill In executive session to discuss spondence and with the delivery of a committee action. copy to Colonel Gerrard with a letter Publishers Testify. Doth Herman Illdder. until recently president of the American Newspaper Publishers' association and Melville K. Stone, general manager of the As sociated Press, testified today In an swer to queries from various senators that In their opinion no effort had j Wolfe, a prominent lawyer of been made by the newspapers of theirltv. Several years ago Vloom country to present only one side of 1 the reciprocity n-gument, to color i their reports on the question or to suppress any facts which were of news value. Bruce Haldeman, presl- dent of the Publishers' association, and Frank B. Noyes. president of the Associated Press, also appeared. The chief Interest which the news- papers of the country have In the. matter, Mr. Bidder told the commit - tee In'thelr-'tlcsfre to- free" themself es from the paper manufacturers' trust which now. be added, has the pub - lishers at Its mercy. The readers of the country would benefit by the j cheaper paper, as well as the publish- t ers. he declared, bcause the money J (Contlnned on Page Four) SENATOR MILE. GIVES HIS IDEA OE SETTLING SE1U5 RACE PROBLEM Addresses Large Gathering! of Confederate Veterans in Washington DEFENDS JEFF DAVIS WASHINGTON. J'lne 5. Senator Jos. W. Bailey, "f Texas, addressing a gathering of Cor. n-derate veterans tonight declared that if the two races are to live !n peace in this country. It must be with the black race in constant recognition of its In feriority. Speaking of Jefferson Davis. In ob servance of whose nirihday the gath ering wa. held' ccnator Bailey said be was less responsible for the con flict between the slutes then any other man and wes the last man in all the south to Hbmulon the 1, pe of a rer( rieiliat!i,n. "The truth of l'lsiory ia with the Confederate people." tail 'ne sena tor, "the fiihrs wrufd never have -firiivdhis tin!" n if they had not be llc.1 that it eri'.ld b, d stolved for 1 411 "If the southern people believed thv rou.li' nr.' itn.nm in the union w'tlt h nor and ae'ety trst had a right f secede.' There was applause when Senator fcailoy presented -in .jt! negro, Jas. A. Jones, who had served as Mr. Is' body servrrt. "He Is the only man living," said Senator Bailey, "ivho knows where the seal of the Confederate states Is. and he won't tell." Many shook hands with the old negro who had Jefferson Davis' cane with him. AVIATOR IIKS HAVANA, June 6. Marcel Bennot. the French aviator who foil from a height of BO feet while giving an ex htton at Pan Diego de los Bancs on June 1, died this afternoon at a hospital here. EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE RICHMOND, Va.. June 5. Louis L. Gregory, the absconding cashier of the Atlantic Coast Line railway, was formally Indicted In the Hustings court here today. He is -charged In thai Indictment with having embes iled about tlj.009 la threa week. PRESIDENT TAFT "CALLS" OFFICER QUITE SEVERELY Col Garrard - Refused to Promote Jew as Being "Undesirable Social ly asSo1dier"TaftRebukesArmy Officer as Snob WASHINGTON, June 5 President Taft today created something of a sensation when he rebuked Colonel 'Joseph Gerrard, commanding the cav alry post at Fort Myer. va.. for disap proving Private Frank Bloom's effort for promotion because of" Bloom's Jewish parentage. Colonel Garrard endorsement charactertzer Jews as j there was no ground for a court mar- t lca.1. an officer being at liberty to ex- from the secretary of war duly ad- monlshlng him not to repeat the en dorsement. The case of young Bloom, who Is a private In battery "F," Third Field Artillery, now on duty on tht Mexican border. was brought to President Taft's attention by Simon this was urged for appointment to West Point. President Roosevelt not being in a po- :sition at the time to make the ap- and principles of this country, I pointment suggested to Bloom that j Colonel Gerrard has been told that I he enlist and "like a true American": he had not the moral right to exert i fight his way up from the ranks. ! influence In his official position to ', Bloom took the advice, entered - the ' the disparagement of a courageous j army where he Is said to hnve made a and. efficient young man simply be- good record and recently took his first j cause that man was of Jewish race ' examination for promotion. It Is said that such proceedur Indicate not 'that Hloom failed In this examination. ; only prejudice that should not be t iut In view of the prejudice" broilgnrtTou'n'd In an officer of his position and about by Colonel Gorrard's endorse- ' experience, hut amounts to a failure 'ment. Bloom will be allowed a final , to consider the merits of the appll- examination In September. "I shall take steps to see that the examination to which Private Bloom is subjected is one In which he will be given a fair chance and not be ex- posed to any unjust prejudice." 3 ANOTHER AVIATOR MAY HAVE PERISHED AS 010 LAMENTED CECIL GRACE Lieut. Bague, Frenchman, ; Left Nice This Morning, Not Heard of Since OVERSEA RECORD NICE, June D. It appears more and more probable tonight that L,ieut. Bague. the French aviator, has met the fate of Cecil Grace, the Eng lishman who was lost In the North Sea while attempting a flight from Calais to Dover last December. I.leut. Bague who holds the oversea flight record left Nl In his eip)one this morning fer a trip to Corsica, The distance between the two points Is a little more than a hundred miles and when nothing was heard from the daring aviator, torpedo boat de stroyers were pent to seek him. The destroyer Arbalet returned here this evening from Corsica and reported that It could find no trace of Hague. Other naval vessels are continuing the search but It la feared that It will prove fruitless. The aviator took carrier pigeons with him and It Is supposed that the aeroplane capsized so suddenly that he was unable to set them loose. The Arbalet left again for Corsica at a late hour to make a further hi:nt for the mlrstng aviator, by means of searchlights. On March 5 last Lieut. Bague made a sensational and daring flight over the Medlteranean from Antlhes to the little island of Gorffma off the Italian coast. Ho covered the dis tance of more than 200 kilometers (124.5 miles), establishing a new record for oversea flight. 1 MOBILE ADOPTS COMMISSION FORM MOBILE, Ala.. June 5. By a ma jority of eight hundred and twenty nine out of a total of 3,012 the city of Mobile today adopted the com mission form of government. PISTOL DUKU RALEIGH. N. C. June S. After a pistol duel over an alleged Insult to his sinter. J. B. Robinson. Is dead at hi home near here from a bullet fired by H. W. Montague, who had escorted the young woman In com pany with Robertson, to a wedding. dared the president in a letter to Mr. Wolfe Colonel Garrard's endorsement on Bloom's papers, to which President Taft so etronslv ohiected. was as fol lows: The applicant is a son of Mr. Jo seph A. Bloom, of Jewish persuasion, who Is now, and hss teen for a num ber of years, a tailor at this post. His associates, as far as I know and that of his family have been with enlisted men and their families and have been respectable. The young man is un doubtedly honest and upright, ambi tious and probably deserving, but for the reasons stated I would not desire him In my command as an officer and a social and personal associate. The presence of the applicant's family at a military post would be subversive of discipline and their probable treatment a source of mortification to them and the cause of trouble to the commanding officers. From an experience of many years. I hava al desirable social associates. President Taft In his letter to the secretary of war directing him to ex amine Into the record In young Bloom's rase said: "The ste.tements made by Colonel Gerrard are not true with reference to the standing that Jews have In this country, and I resent, as commander-in-chief of the army and the navy, that any officer should permit himself in an official document to give evl- j denes of such unfounded and narrow race prejudice as that contained in this endorsement." The president's reprimand follows: "The president directs the secretary of war to Inform Colonel Gerrard that his attitude In this matter Is strongly disapproved as contrary to the Ideals cant as shown by the efficient service and excellent standing In the mental examination. I "Colonel Gernr .1 has been admon- j Ished to avoid a repetition of the ac- de-'tlon taken In this case." AGENCIFS WHETHER TREK BE OTHER CDRP0RAT1S OR PERSONS ARE GUILTY Construction of Anti-Trust; Law Decision by Federal Court Judge ILLEGAL COMPACT GRKENSBORo, N. C, June E. In the United States District court to iday James E. Boyd, while charging the grand Jury with reference to re i cent decisions of the Supreme court which declared the Standard Oil com ! pany Illegal combinations did not I mean amy iat the corporations ' as 'legal entitles were guilty of a criminal offense, but that the active agencies land mstrumenU'llties, whether they be other corporations or persons I would also be Kullty of a criminal vlo j lat Ion of the law. "That Is," said he "such agencies las were part and parcel of the ram I blnatlon which these corporations had formed and whi' h were a part j and parcel of the common design which these principal corporations 'proposed to carry out If such agen 'cies or instrumentalities, whether in 'the form of corporations or persons or associations being a part of the com bination or organization of the Stand ard Oil company or the American To bacco company such agencies In the opinion of the Hupreme court have violated the anti-trust act of con gress." He said the people and the courts have been waiting on this decision In being guided as to their actnona to ward Illegal compacts or combinations and that since the Supreme court had undertaken to describe the meaning of illegal restraint It now becomes the duty of the authorities to enforce the law and enforce It strenuously. He said that If agencies of these corpora tions are found In the territory of the court unlawfully enj.iged they are guilty. WIXf AND RAIX STORM BAXTER, Ga, une t. Six persons were Injured and considerable prop erty w damaged by a severe wind and rain storm which swept thi sec tion this afternoon. Mrs. H. J. Parker was shocked by a bolt of lightning. The other injured were young men, who were caught In a garage which wu demolished by th storm. , . . i.. I. i i n I. r i . (wiur-f re , ') r yv ""its ' a V Vv' l:. ALL HOBOS ' ) ysf '11 c u G H T m Th 1 s r pfe STATE. WILL BE ?SlW I a BATH j J. r" NEWS ITESjU-It is proposed to establish in New York State a tramp' farm colony to which vagrants can be sent arid where the products of their labor will be "used toward their maintenance. SOLDIERS WHOM MADERO WHIPPED TO GREET HIM ON ARRIVAL IN CAPITAL Only a Private Citizen and Guns of Garrison Vill Not Give Him Salute Nor Will Mexican National Hymn be Played -Many "Liberal" Executed Reopening of Road From Mexico City to Juarez MEXICO CITT, June 5. When Francisco I. Maderd, Jr., enters the! capital on Wednesday, thousands will lircet him at the station and soldiers of the army, wtilch he whipped, will ! line the streets. In lila honor military j band will play find the police, whose duty It once wa to arrest those who cried "Viva Maihro," will Join In the greeting. j Officially Msdero is a private citi zen, and therefore the guns of the garrison will gtvje him no salute, ;nd legally the Mexican national hymn may not be ployed, but all that may be done under the taw will be. dole to make him web ome. Hut there will be one of disappointment for thous ands of men who have borne lb ' hardships of wer. The revolutionises In Cuernavaer. are to have no purt In the celebration. This was decided to day but nelllxr they nor their rer sentatlves in the capital have ceased In their efforts to have o He; with drawn. Fearing that the presence of so many armed men, not accuxtomcd to i ! j th discipline of the regulur arm . , might result In trouble, government I officers deemed it wise to refuse their j plea for participation In the fcsthl- tics. I Madern's train will be met a short i distance out of the city by another In which will be committees representing' various political clubs. They will es cort him and those with him to the capital. It Is planned that Mudero will go directly to his home and from a balcony address the crowd. Doxens of elnhs, having as their motive the booming of Madero, have NSURGENTS LOSE OUT IN COTTON EXCHANGE FIGHT Faction Whose Platform Is! Reform in Cotton Trading Down and Out NEW VOKK. June 5. An Insur gent faction, made up mainly of members of the Sw, York cotton e- ' change whose platform is said to be 'reform In cotton trading along linen suggested by the federal goernrnent lost In the annual election of the ex change fodav. George W. Neville, the regular candidate for president, Won 'over Thomas F. Micks, insurgent, by '. 164 to Hi, and Kdward E. Cone, reg :ular candidate for vice president, won , by two votes over George I". Jones. Us. 8. Maurev was ere-elected treas urer without opposition, i In the election ot board of manaz j crs the Insurgents also lost, but gener ally In close conteets. 8HOWER& WASHINGTON, June I. Forecast for North Carolina: Local thunder storms Tuesday and Wednesday, light to variable wind. Why blot Try This? been organized since the close of the war, and all of these are active In planning the reception of the man they later will support for the presi dency. They have agreed that Ma dero shall rhle through the street of the city ut the cnJ oi a procession. It; Is expected that a military escort will j be provided. In addition to the va rious clubs there will be divisions made up of all alasties of commercial employes, of workmen from factories, Even athletic clubs have asked for plate to the line. Every whe. .the national colors are making their, ap pearnnce, and It Is expected that hun dreds of private houses and even Die public buildings will be decorated In honor of the erstwhile rebel chief. Throughout the city troops will be placed, partly In honor of Madero and partly to preserve order, should the celebration be threatened with trou ble by an over enthusiasm that might Mud expression In breaking windows. "OCTLAWK" KXHtTTKO. . Tl't-HoN, Ariz.. June 5. Twenty eight followers of .Magon, Mexican 'liberal," who were opposed to Ma dero, were summarily executed on Saturday and Sunday In the Altar dli-frtct near Companls and Altar, ac cording to refugets who arrived here. The district lias been cleared of fol lowers of Magon, who are classed by the provisional government as bsn dlts. The 2S executed were captured aftir a skirmish. In which there were a number of casualties on both side. It Is said that Madero troops have or ders to put all captured outlaw to death. REGISTERS FRIGHTENED HIT BT LI CONFLICT Situation Regarding Regis tration of Negroes Catch es Them Either Way A.VNAPOI.Ifl, Md.. June IS A unique situation exists here with re gard to the registration of negro vot ers for a municipal election next , month. The last legislature passed an elec tion law for this city containing the I so-called "grand father" and prop forty qualification clauses designed to ; disfranchise negroes In elections for ! local officials, and the heavy negro vote was practically eliminated at the Mast election. The negroes appealed to 'the ITnlted Hlates District court which 'decided that the law Is unconstitu tional and the registers are liable for damages. The case was taken to a higher court where It la pending.; Today was the first of three days for registration and the registers, who fsced an In fraction of the state law If they regis tered more than half a dozen ne groes who could comply with the law or a possible violation of the federal constitution If they refused to do so, ; neither qualified nor put In an ap pearance at the place of registration. JOHX IlIGKlyOW 1 1. 1. HIGHLAND FALL. N. T June S. The venerable John Blgelow, author and former minister to France, Is se riously 111 at hi hornet "The Squirrel," here. Dr. HoweH. of New York, who Is in attendance, declined tonight t express an opinion, but inttmat 1 that the aged patient might not recover. Dr. Blgelow la In hi Mth year, a .id returned only last month from a trio abroad. - . THREATENS MADERO. LOB ANGELES, Cel., June . "Gen," Cry Prye, commander of the liberal Inaurrecto In Lower Califor nia, who had been In Lo Angela for several day conferring with the Mex ican liberal Junta and arranging (or the transportation of supplies to Ti juana, Lower California, today de parted, announcing that hi wu re turning to assume command of the, Tijuana force,, :yt'-r( UV rryc rnlteraUd his Intention to at up a republic In the Lower California peninsula. "I have telegraphed to Madero ask ing for hi ucqulesenca and support," said he. "If h decide to oppose u It will mean a hard struggle, W may have to abandon Tijuana. How ever, there are other town In th peninsula that can be made Impreg nable, and It would require a large army lo drive u out." Jt'Uira TO MEXICO CITY. Jl'AHKS!, June 5. For the first time In three month"-a. train arrived In Juarez direct' direct frohatJUexlea City today by way of Chihuahua. The j reopening of the road will enable i federal troop to evactite Chihuahua I and Inaurrecto to take possession. Thirteen hundred federal troops, un I der Uen. I.uipie, entrained at Chl f huahua today for Lower California to co-operate there with Madero' force In suppressing the rebellion of so cialist. Abraham Gonzale will start f tomorrow or Wednesday for Chihu bna to assume hi duties a provision al governor. NEW UNO URGE LIST OF Columbus Man to Go Before Grand Jury and Tell "AH He Knows" COIt'M HCH. O., June . What Prosecuting Attorney Turner and At- lorney General liogan have been hop ing during several weeks, same about today when a member of the legisla ture Owen J. Knns, confessed In open i court that he had accepted a bribe and declared his willingness to go be fore the grand Jury and make a clean breast of nil his knowledge concern ling alleged glslatlve corruption. Fvans sfier h had been fined IS00. went In fore the grand Jury and iwlM be a witness tomorrow, A new I and large it of indictment I pre- dieted ss lesolt of Evan' action. He was Indicted three week ago for 'soliciting a hrlU and was Indicted twi'o today for rollaltlng and'aceept j Ing bribes. To one Indictment he ' ptoaded guilt'- and, at the suggestion tf I'i'osnutor Turner the court Im posed mily a fine. Inrtead of & prison reittence The :f er two Indictments wore laid away temporarily. UMS C'Al'KKD HIS SUICIDE. FAIRFA COUJT HOUSE, June" 5. Aggie Kern. 21 years old, a well linown carpenter here, ahot hlmelf, end making good hi statement that he would, commit suicide. Financial strait atte aatd by hi relative to have been the cause. Yesterday morjJt Ing ha ,jnade the remark that ha would ahoot himself .-hut It . was thought that he ws joking. After upper lsst night he put a, bullet through his temple a he atood almost In eight of relative in th home of hi parent. He died within a few minute. COMMITTEE NAMED TO PROBE LORIMER Ha! Democrats. Half Republi cans. Half for and Half ' Against Lorlmer INVESTIGATION TO BE COMPLETE AND FAIR Resolution to CloUic Sub-Corn - mlttee With , Powers of ; Special CcmmlUco WASHINGTON, June Senator Dlllnghsm, Gamble, Jane and Ken yon, republican, and Fletcher, John ton, Kern and la, democrats, wUI constitute the uo-e.ommltfeo that wilt conduct the new Investlfetlon Into' the bribery charge against Senator lorl mer. They were named for thi duty today by the committee on privileges arid election and are ll ready lo be gin service with alt th authority of a full committee as aoon na th ten ds approves. Of the eight member Messrs. Dillingham and Gamble, ru publicans, and Fletcher and Johnston, democrats, voted for Uirimer In th prov to us Investigation. Mr. Jones, re publican, voted against Mm, Mesrra. KenyVn, republican, and la nd KearnvZemocriits, wte not - then member irf -the- anat. They are known to be opposed to Mr. Lorlmer, Th committee o. Mr. Kenyon'i mo tion directed the investigation a a whole but after brief discussion 1tl waa rejected by vote I to Id, The. affirmative vote being hast by ften-j att Kenyon, Clepp and June. The resolution providing for the appotnt-j ment of sub.committee nf eight we proposed by Mr, Bailey, senior dsm-l oc ratio member of th committee, n1 it named Messrs, Dillingham, Osaihle1 Clapp and Sutherland, "republican and Meesr. Fletcher, Johnston, V.en. and I-e. This followed "the riffs pi seniority egcept where 8enater had refused to permit the Use of thli nam,' and In o far a Impartial!! eould be assumed. ! ; I Among those declining to aerve 0' th ground on other engagement wan Merer, rllalley and J'svnter. -rtnrm eatv id Hey-Mptiblli.-uiv Win the list wa read Mfsar. Clnpp n Sutherland - voluntarily : retired b favor of Meesra. KeAyon.and June Contending for th rule of enlor!u Mr. Bailey suggested that - Messrs Bradley and Oliver, should b desig nated. When, however, it we point out that both of thoe senator wer Ineligible because In th previous In! qulry they had voted for Lorlmer th j Texa senator plelded anil the low, and Washington senator were adde to the list. ,-"rX . , I The ub-(Mmmltt adopted a res olutlon for presentation .-to the sen j atfr"omorrow to cloth th,ubcom mlttee with all the power of a ape rial committee. J It I expected the, resolution wr' encounter very little opposition. Thj ub-commltte h Indicated a dlfi position to confine th s ittlng t Washington a closely possible bu' It Is understood that Illinois Will t vtalted. Th eommlttee will e" powered to sit during sessions of th senate, and there will be an effort t (Continued mi Page) Fonr.) MOBILE ACCIDENT GOMES NEAR KILLITK PlInMrjBIEMBE John Dillon, Irish Patrio Thought to Have Been Dying, Rallied LIES IN HOSPITAL DUBLIN, June (.John Plllof nationalist member of parliament fl East Mayo, waa dangerously Injur about the head and back In an tomoblle accident last night- n Dundalk. It wa at first thought t)i Mr. Dillon wa dying and a prle who wa summoned, administered, t last sacrament Th Injured m rallied, however, and waa' remov to Dudalk, where he now lies In hospital. . -". . ; The automobile' dashed Into a c vert and Mr. Dillon w throl through the glas screen." AHheu hla condition Is serious, Mr, Dlllnf own doctor who was summoned tr here, "hopes for hla complete recij ery, but will not permU the remo of the patient from Dundalk I several days. j . Mr. Dillon suffered a severe cf cuaslon of the spine which depri-j him temporarily of power over j limbs. He also received severe if In the forehead, which required era! stitches. .GOOD HAVt FOR THIKF. f WASHINGTON, June I. Enter room in a local noiei toaay wt It occupant, 'Louts P. Holladay, Staunton, Va.,' was out. a enesk t! obtained IMSD In $100. 150, 1 20 ; fit bill. No clue Is hell e to thief. EL ECU MUDDLE