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THE mSHEMGLE 1 CITIZEN. THE WEATHEB: . FAIR CITIZEN WANT XD3 BEING RESULTS ; ASHEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 20. 1941. VOL. XXVH..N0.273 PRICE FIVE CENTS Q SHARP EXCEPTION TO OF . BROOKLYN'S POST Condemning The Display of The Confederate Flag At Manassas Reunion MORE NATIONAL THAN CONFEDERATE BANNERS Action of Brooklyn Post Gen erally Regretted by Most 1 Union Veterans MANASSAS. Va., July 19 Taking harp exception! to the criticism of Lafayette post. Q. A. R., of Brooklyn. H, Y., Lieut. Qeo. C. Rounds of that city, chairman of the peace Jubilee committee today, denounced the attitude-of hl fellow Union veterans ai made public in resolutions sent to President Taft oondemnlng the dis play of the Confederate flag at the celebatlon. In a statement tonight lie said the -decorations of Manassas Include one thounsand feet of nation al colors to every ten square feet of the Confederate banner. The action of the Brooklyn Grand Army post Is generally regretted by Union veterans who the here. MAYOR GAYNOE'S STRONG LETTER CRITICISM NEW YORK. July Mayor Gay nor came out in a stralght-from-the-houlder letter tonight laying perhaps more violent hand on the subway sit uation than on any municipal ques tion since he' came into office. He declared that he would resign rather vthan have Ills name linked with the execution of such a plan aa was semi officially reported today to have been greed upon In the allotment of aub wi&ys, with a practical guarantee of 9 per cent interest to the Interborough Rapid Transit company. , , . . The mayor's letter - earn on the het)S at a conference between the PUbll Wrvlce commission and the 5 subway committee of the board of estimates today, at which the pro- Was recetved and rt wa semi-offlclally announced agreed "to. regret ex . teedlngy that this thing Is being done.' Vegan Mayor Oaynor In his let ter of denunciation; tonight.' "It Is a wrong and a humiliation to this city." E ARSON TRUST EXISTING Sirs ILLINOIS MARSHAL Making Business of Setting Fire to Big Buildings to Get Insurance EUROPEAN PLAN CHICAGO, July 19. That there exists a gigantic country-wide arson trust with headquarters In Kansas City and representatives In nearly all the large cities the members of which make a business of setting fire to buildings to enable the owners to colect large sums of insurance was the charge made today by C. J. Doyle, state fire marshal. In an address be fore the Chicago Association of Com merce. "The country is facing one of the most gigantic, organized arson con spiracies the world has ever known," said Mr. Doyle, "the state fire mar shall department of Illinois has united with the state fire marshals of Kentucky,- Tenneaaee and Ohio to wj,e out the band of fifteen men at ae head of this arson conspiracy. The home of the fire bug trust Is Kansas City from which city the operations of the entire gang Is directed. The tentacles of this octopus have ex tended, as the daring of those behind the plot has grown, into a dosen or more cities. Tbey have been found at work M Bloomlngton, Springfield. III., Pittsburg, .Cleveland. New York, Buffalo, St. Louis, Chicago and else- IJU'here. Two of the gang have been convicted and are now Imprisoned In a southern city. The others will be be hind ben before long If we are suc cessful In following the clues we now are working on. The ft re bug problem Is one of the most Important which confronts the rnuntrr. The fosses in this eountrviP'tes a number of five and ten Is something appalling amounting to about 1600 a minute. In Chicago the lose Is 15, 000.000 a year while in Ber lin the aVinual loss does not exceed 9200,000 We should adopt the fire protection plans of European cities. ( BnmAtMnv n w 1 1 ( n cr amniintinv ,i , TREATY RATIFIED. WASHINGTON. July 19. The S treaty between the United States and Great Britain providing- for the arbi tration of pecuniary claims "between the two countries In accordance with the general arbitration treaty was .ratified by the senate in executive) session today. SENA TQR ALDRICH READY TO TESTIFY IN LORIMER CASE Will Explain tiisA11eged Activities in Connection with Illinois Elec tionInteresting Disclosures Ex pected as to Hi'iW Testimony. WASHINGTON,,, July Whether the Taft administration wanted Lor imer elected to succeed Hopkins as Illinois' senator and whether former Senator Aldrlch, of Rhode Island, the republican senator leader, " was the means through which that wish was conveyed to Edward Hlnes, the lum berman probably will be developed tomorow. Mr. Aldrich arrived In Washington tonight and Is ready to appear before the Lortmer committee at once to explain his alleged actlvt ties In connection with the Illinois senatorial election. Hlnes has testified that he waited until midnight at the Washington home of Senator Aldrlch while the latter at the white house talked over the Illinois cenatejrlal deadlock -with President Taft. At the conclusion of the conference Hlnes said, he was told by Mr. Aldrlch that the president wanted Lorlmer elected. Mr. Hlnes has sought to prove that his own en ergies were directed toward the elec tion of Lorlmer aa the result of that alleged conference at the white house and declared that he believed he held the commission of the administra tion. Following Mr. Hlnes' estlmony a statement of the president's attitude toward the Illinois election, contrary to the Impression created by Hlnes, was Issued from the whtle house. The testimony of Mr. Aldrlch has been awaited with much Interest. . George M. Reynolds, president of the Continental-Commercial bank, of Chicago, who was reported to have declined the treasury portfolio In the Taft administration, today told the senate Lortmer committee what he knew of Edward Hlnes delivering an alleged message from the administra tion at Washington to Governor De neen to aid Lorimer's election. He re cited how Hlnes on the day. of Lori mer's election consulted with hint as to how to deliver ,the message to De neen. Hlnes came to me that morn ing (May 26) said' Reynolds, "and said he bore) a message that would have an Important bearing on Jllinol Senator Aldrlch and In reality from the administration or President Taft and was to Governor Deneen. "He told me In substance that there had been a conference of some lead WALL PAPER TRUST" WILL BE INVESTIGATED Oil CONSPIRACY GHARCE Indictments Returned Grand Jury Against Cleveland Concerns by RESTRAINT OF TRADE CLEVELAND. O., July 19. Four Indictments were returned this aft ernoon by the federal grand Jury which has been Investigating an al leged wall paper trust. The Indict ments charge a conspiracy In restraint of trade under the provisions of the Sherman anti-trust laAw The indicted parties are all officials of wall paper lobbing houses. They are J. B. Pearce, president of the J. B. Pearce Wall Paper company, ot Cleveland; Norton Newcomb, of St. Louis; Edward E. Maxwell, of Chi cago, and C. C. Aler, of Columbus, O. Bond was fixed at $6,000 in each case. The specific charge- against the in dicted men Is that they met In Cleveland on May (0. 110. and after a secret session notified wall paper manufacturers of the country that if they sold wall paper to Ave and ten cent stores the Jobbers would boycott the manufacturers. The significance of this action, the government alleges, Is that the four men constituted the executive com mittee of the National Association of Wall Paper Jobbers. According to federal officials over three hundred five and ten-cent stores throughout the country were affected by the alleged order of the Jobbers. Today's Indictments follow a grand Jury Investigation of several weeks duration. The government first took up the investigation six months ago on the charge of Frank C. Hall, who Ct?n t Wall paper stores In Pittsburg, that wall paper manufacturers and Jobbers had combined and refused to sell him wall paper. BREAK GROUND FOR EXPOSITION SAN DIEGO, Cal., July 1 Over 10.000 persons Joined in celebrating th ebreaklng the breaking of ground today for the Panama-California ex position to be held here in lilt In honor of the completion of the Paa- amr. ' ing senators In Washington and he had been commissioned to take a message which was In effect that the senators Including the president had expressed a desire to have a senator elected from Illinois and after con gressman Lorlmer could be united on situation of the local situation they better than any one else and that they preferred to have Lorlmer elect ed to having the legislature adjourn without asking an election. Reynolds said he suggested to Hlnes that he telephone Deneen. Hlnes replied Rey nelas -might have to identify him to Deneen but he did not call upon htm to' do so. Reynolds said Hlnes told him that a night or so before he had 'waited at 'Aldrlch's' home until lie re turned from the white house where he had gone to discuss Lorimer's candi dacy. According to Reynolds. Hlnes remarked once to him that he (Hlnes) probably was Instrumental In Lori mer's election, evtdently referring to his message to Deneen. The only time the use of money In the election was suggested Reynolds said was when McCormlok, then manager of the Chicago Tribune, oame to him with the statement that he had definite knowledge that soma one took 1128, 000 from Washington to Springfield. "McCormlck," he added, "said he knew I knew about the message to Deneen and asked If I knew anything about the money." Mr. Reynolds said he certainly never knew of the use of the money In the election of Lorl me . . G. F. Wlehe, secretary of the Ed ward Hlnes Lumber company, de clared that William Burgess, of Du luth. Minn., was an "absolute liar" If he testified to what was read Burgess' testimony. Burgees had said Wlehe told him on the Wlnni peg Flyer March 7. 1911, that he sub scribed 116,000 to a Lortmer election fund. Wlehe told, the committee that he, believed there was a "frame-up" between Burgess and W. H. Cook. The latter recently testified that' Ed ward Hlnes telephoned from his room -to- Ct.lcagtrihe day '"Tjorfmer was elected that he, (Htnea would be down to Springfield with the money necessary for Lorimer's election. Wlehe said that he believed Cook would perjure hlmee'f 1n1r gtlw. IN CUBA BY AMERICA ARE EOMPLETELYISPEILEO Secretary Knox Says Amer ica Hasn't Slightest Idea of Intervening FRIENDLY RELATION HAVANA, July 19. Rumors which have been current that the American government was considering interven tion in Cuba were dispelled today when the American minister, John B. Jackson, visited Senor Sangully, the Cuban secretary of state, and de livered a message from Mr. Knox, the American secretary ot state, In which the secretary declared that the Amer ican government had not the least Intention of Intervention. Senor Sangully expressed his warm est appreciation and said he was oon vlnoed that nothing would disturb the present friendly and Intimate rela tions between the- two countlres. no cause fob ANxronr. WASHINGTON, July 19. Annoyed by repeated rumors formented es pecially In Cuba,, that the visit to the Island of Secretary stlmson was preliminary to American Intervention, Secretary of State Knox today ad dressed a note to the Cuban govern ment through United States Minister Jackson- Declaring that Mr. Stlm son' visit Is partly to Inspect the work on the battleehlp Maine In Ha vana hartNr, Secretary Knox says: "The government of the United States has thought It not worth while to deny the false stories of possible Intervention which have been circu lated In certain sections of the press, the fact being that no such question has been the subject of consideration by that government whose sole con cern In relation to Cuban affairs In reoent year has been that the rapid development of the splendid resources of Cuba, which will be viewed In the United States with so much pleasure, the process of exploitation should be ever safeguarded by that wise and deliberate economic policy so essen tial to financial and political stabil ity" ,f I CHIEF RABBI DEAD. LOITDON, July II. Dr. Herman Addler, chief rabbi of the United He brew congregation of th British mptr'a, died today. He was bos at Hanover May II, lltl. v CggIltl! WANTED , .rpXj0 50.OOO v It is t-ati&ated that the been since 1907. - i LOSSES OF BULLS AND FRIENDS IN COTTON MARKET RUN INTO MILLIONS Emboldened by Successes of Past Two Years Maintained Position on Market Owing to Strong Statistical Position of Old CropOld Bull Y Brokers Continue to Sell And Rallies Wert limited NEW YORK. July 19. A renewal of the heavy selling m event ent In the cotton market today seemed calculat ed to remove whatever doubt may have existed following the big de dine of Tuesday,' that at last leading bull Interests. : Including Eugene Scales, Colonel .'Thompson,; the New Orleans operators and other who hav figured so prominently In the market reports of the fast two years as having taken fortunes out of cot ton, - had largely thrown ver their holdings. Various estimates were ven tured during the day, as to the proba ble losses of the . bulla and their friend all of wftWh ran liav into tb rtATha Imprwwleft a speWW ' W'm't the bulla, , nYMneo, by . the suc cess of the post two years, had main tained their position on the market owing to that 'strong statistical posi tion of the old crop, and an expec tation that drought In the southwest or the boll weevil in the central belt would cause! another partial failure ef the crop With trad reports unfav orable, the drought m Texas reliev ed, new cotton already beginning to move, and promiselng an unusually heavy addition to old orop supplies during the summer, It was supposed that the bulls found themselves prac- DETERMINED EFFORT TO BREAK UP TIMBER UNION Ten Large Mills of South west to Close Down for Indefinite Period NEW ORLEANS, La., July 19. A determined effort to break up the recently organised National Brother hood of Timber Worker waa decided upon here today at a meeting of lum ber operators from East Tennessee, Louisiana and South Mississippi. It waa decided at the meeting to close ten large mills In Calcasieu and Ver non parishes. Louisiana, next Monday for an Indefinite period. Already Ave large mills In these two parishes have been closed down and after Monday a total of several thou sand mill em ployes in Calsleu and Vernon will bo Idle. The National Hrntherhood of Tim ber Workers Is suld to be leas than a year old, havinic Its headquarters In Beaumont. Tex. The meeting today was the third held hy the mill within the past eight months to consider what steps to take In dealing with the timbers workers organisation. A formal organization, to be known as the Southern Lumber Operators' as sociation was affected. It wa stated today that th Brotherhood Is now confined to a few mills in East Texas, several parishes In Southern Louis iana and a few mill In Southern Mississippi. WASHINGTON, July 10. poreosst: North. Carolina, generally fair except scattered thunder shower Thursday and Friday; not much change In tem perature: light variable winds. - ipsbji i saw ,jMassMsMBjna M A Bumper Crop Kansas wheat crop will .be . tlcally the only support of the mar ket at a time when northern offer ings against prospective yield war likely to Increase sUadlly and that the heavy wiling of the several day past hag reflected ' practical aban donment of their holdings. , In. spit of a feeling that rallies were to be anticipated after such drastic liquidation as that of several days past logical t sentiment still seemed ot a very bearish average af ter the close of business her tonight ana there was talk In some quarters of eleven and even ten cent cotton- owing to the expectation of a - very favorable August condition report and tToarff1litlrtt,'!noweveK':)ftd been very heavy tourers of both old and new crop deliveries during the day and many traders who had sold be fore the big decline started appeared to be taking profits on their, short cotton possibly to wait further reports from the crop which, however, bril liantly Jt may promise is admittedly not yet assured, and for a better Idea of the attitude of the southern plant er with reference to marketing, his yield at the lower prices. After the 'early sensational bresk, a lull In. the liquidating movement toward midday permitted of rally Fl OF Attorney General Wicker shaw Takes More Ad vanced Stand Than Ever D17LUTH, Minn., July 19. Attor ney General Wickersham, before th Minnesota State Bar association here tonight, took an advanoa stand on the further federal regulation of cor porations, and declared that a gov ernment commission to regulate great Industrial organisations, In the same way that the Interstate commerce commissldn regulates railways, was certainly most desirable, and that It might be absolutely necessary. Mr. Wlcksrsham's speech wa lit tle short of sensational In many of Itt features. He declared that It wa a matter of serious consideration as to whether the proposed Interstate cor poration commission should not be given the power to fix price. To do this In theory would simply require an extension of the principle by which the Interstate commerce commission controls the rates on railroads. ' The law of supply and demand, Mr. Wickersham said, no longer controls prices In the United States. For years, he declared, the prices In all the great staple Industries have been fixed by an agreement between the principal producer an not by a nor mal play of free competition. An In terstate commlslson suoh as proposed, the attorney general added, would prevent violations of tbs '.anti-trust act and aid business men to maintain a continued statu of harmony with the requirements of law. , . Many of Mr. Wlckersham's declara tions were the most radical he ha made since his entrance Into official life. With the weight of an adminis tration officer behind . them, his re marks made a deep Impression. There was nothing In the speech, however, to Indlcste how far the at torney general reflected the views of President - Taft. On several occa sions In the past, however, be has been regarded as a spokesman for the administration. The attorney general discussed the general question of what further reg ulation of Interstate commerce la nec essary or desirable from a broad point of vUw. larger hisyear than it has of ( or T points, but the market won weakened - again ; under 1 selling that waa every bit as active and as urgent as any noted since the beginning of the bear movement and for the first time In nearly two years, January controcts broke below the 11 cent level. August waa relatively weak on this decline selling at 11.19, or 11.18 per bale under the dosing fig ures of yesterday, while new orop position showed r net loss of about 0 Oil points, Trade' Interest war again heavy buyers and In connection with covering shorts, ohecked the break but some of the bid bull brok er continued te selL and rail le were The final ton was steady, however, at the net decline of II CP ft pollnta, with 'August closing at 13.99, and January at 11.08, after that month had mid at 11.99. TAFT FREWS EH BUTTON. ' WA8HINOTON, July 19. President Taft tonight, .n th presence of the California congressional delegation In the east room of. the whit house, pressed, an electric button, which was the lgnl to start th ground-break ng exercises of the Panama-Calif or nla exposition at Ban Diego, Cal. PRESIDENT DE 11 Bit II Secretary of War Rascon and His Assistant, Duran, Step Down and Out MEXICO CITT, Jnly 19. President De la Barra today received .and ac cepted the resignations of 4h sec retary of war, Oeneral Eugenlo Ras con, and the assistant secretary of war, Oeneral Juan M. Duran. Oeneral Jos Ooncale Bala wa ap pointed assistant secretary. President De la Ilarra declined to make pub lic the reason for th withdrawal of the secretary and assistant sec retary Of war. No succession so far as Is known has been chosen to suc ceed Oeneral Itascon. The most plausible reason for th retlremnt of Oeaerat ttasoon la that given by men who have been advisers of Francisco I. Madero since the close of the war that he ws too closely Identified with the old regime. These men stated ' several days ago that Rascon would I "have to go" and that his place In the cablnte would toe filled by a man of Madero' choosing. Oeneral Bernardo Reyes has prom ised to be the minister of war under Madero In the event of his election to the presidency and In view of the somewhat doubtful character of peaco In the country a few newspapers have announced his immediate appoint mnt as minister of war. ' That Oenrr . Reyes wilt be the opponent of Francisco I. Madero at the presidential elootlon In October la the belief of. many of Madero' per sonal friends. El Hera! Jd this afternoon publish ed a messags . from Monterey saying something of a sensation ha been created In that section where Reyos was governor for so many year by y discovery that a "high federal einplovo' wa forming a club to launch the candidacy of th general. Tonight followers- of Madero declaro the news Is not surprising to them. TROOPS TO FROSTIER. , - LISBON, July Ifcr-The Sixth regi ment of Chasseurs was today ordered te th northern frontier te reinforce 'the garlton at Brag. THOMAS DECLARES HE KNEW NOTHING OP HISJELEGTIOn Saw In Government Repot t Where He Was Made Mem ber To Acquire Refineries rELLS OP FORMATION OF ORIGINAL "TRUST" Admits After Ouestlonlng r hat Company's Stock May Have Been Watered NEW YORK, July llAlthough th minute of th meeting of ' th board of director of th American Sugar Rtflnlng company hOw ' that Washington B. Thomas,4 th present chairman of th board, we etecttd a meber of a apotal commute with H. O. Havemeyer and Mr. Deneff to acquire heet sugar refineries, Mr. Thorns declared today to the special congressional eommlu Investigating th so-called "sugar trust" that h knew nothing about It untH he read of It n th government report at Wash Inton a few day ago, "Didn't Mr. Havemeyer notify you that yon were a member of th com mitt to. purchase- independent best ugar lnti s , V t hroughoqt th eoun try," Oidr9--SPvrlli asjtad him. " -Not that I remombsr"-:;' : A a tnmbr; of uob commute did you aver participate In th pur ones f uch Interests ?" ' ;i don't think o.M ' , ''But the record show. Hint rui. at a member of th commute. Joined In these of 115,000,900 of purclm.- i- of Independent,',' ' . "I hav no reoolUctlon of it. Mr. Havmyr alwaya attended to the matter alone and never consultcJ any- an.".:'.;-.-- -: . - Mr. Thoma told today of hi fi nancial Interests In ' th American Sugar Refining company, nis stock, h aid, amounted to about thre thousand (hares with a book vel -m t 1111,000 and fh holding of t members' or hi famiiv, luWii'iir.; i, own, ar between 16,000 and 120,000 hare with a vain of between II, 100,000 and 11,000,000. Mr. Have meyr, when he died, had only' about 111 share of stock, but for many yean had thoroughly dominated th company, The witness said, " Mr. Thomas declared that th ISO, 00,000 Mock of th company wa rep- Tr" 1- Tiv -,-1111-) i im.rnriri n fin.n iin.niijn (Continued on Pago Seren) UMPIRES' KP03TS KILl i BENECEHFlElt fM nun i i ii Another Conflict Believed to Be Impending But No- . -body Knows When., INVADERS WEAKEN : BLOCK ISLAND, R. U July 19 Although th theoretical smek of th morning' powderles battl at a had hardly cleared away tonight, an other conflict I believed to Im pending. Rven th man of th fleet do not yet know officially 'which wa th victor in th engagement early to-: day and will not know for torn month hence, when the navy depart ment has had an opportunity to eg amine th report of th umpires. All that th people on shor saw tht morning wa a aerleg ef maneuver by two fleet. At dawn today the submarines were apparently patrolling : the ocean between th easterly side of . Block Island and No Man' Land, with the destroyer along a secondary line between Gardiner's Bay and New port and the cruisers on guard at Newport, Point Judith and . Oardi ner'a Bay. '. .. Just as th sun "wa peeping over t. - kA.IMM .Mnftlt j Crt m rm ,tta. B. W. Eberle, of the defenders, the battleship fleet approached from sea. engaged the enemy and wa appar ently destroyed theoretically. At 10 a. m. three cruisers, the Washington, Sa lem and Cheater part of th attack ing fleet- came In from sea very rap Idly, passed th north end of Block Island slid then nded In th direc tion of Gardiner' Bay : Thl move ment waa designated a ten-mlnut sttack by Rear Admiral Ostsrhsus. in command of th Invaders, snd . he claimed to hav won victory by on nd on balf minute. -.'t- Tonight the Invading fleet will be weakened by the los of the Connect icut, Rear Admiral Osterhaus flag ship, for she is actually out of com mlslson for th tint being through the cracking of a crankshaft After a day of resting about Block Island th stacking fleet put to sea late today but left th Connecticut behind. She will remain her until the "war" la over and then proceed to New Tork for repair.. - .