tun
THE WKATHEft
FAIR
VOL. XXIX, NO. 211.
Naval Ensign Meets Instant
Death and Companion
-is Badly Hurt
MACHINE TARES A t
BAD TURN QUICKLY
Lieutenant Towers Made an
Effort to Balance the
Machine
WASHINGTON, June, 20. Ensign
W. D. Bllllngsley, of Mississippi, wa
killed and Lieutenant T. H. Towers,
of Georgia,, was seriously hurt by the
collapse of their hydro-aeroplane
While flying over Chesapeake bay near
Annapolis this morning. The hydro
aeroplane left Annapolis In company
with a flying boat manned by Lieu
tenant Dortoh and Ensign Chevalier.
Whan about four miles off Kent
Island a quarter of a milt above
Chesapeake bay. a midden gust of
wind struck the hydro-aeroplane,
throning Ensign Bllllngaley against
the steering gear and putting It eut
of order.
The machine began to tack rapidly,
but despite the precarious situation
It la thought Billlngsley would have
regained oontrol had ha not lost his
balance and fallen from the craft
Lieutenant Towers attempted to
balance the machine, but without
avail, and he, too, fell from his seat.
He was fortunate, however, to catch
one of the vertical uprights to which
he clung desperate until he was about
300 feet from the water. He came
down a few feet away from the wreck
and kept himself afloat until picked
up, although he was suffering Intense
Vain- ,
Experimental flights are always
watched by men from the Naval
Academy in motor boats, and as soon
as Towers' hydro-aeroplane went
wrong they pushed from the lee of
Kent island at top speed, reaching-the
machine a- few moments after It had
hit the water, , .;. . ......
- The death of lEbsign Blllinguley
makes a total of nine fatalities in the
government service since the . army
began experiments with heavler-thah-air
machines at Fort Myer In 1108.
!Hls death Is the tlrst in the aviation
corps of the navy, (
Billlngsley was born In 1887, grad
uated from the Naval academy In
109 and was attached to the aviation
corps in that year.
Lieutenant Towers was born In 1885,
graduated from the Naval academy In
1S0C and assigned to the aviation
eorpe last December.
$ig Section of Troops Fight
.Their Way Through
Battle Lines.
MANY ABE KILLED
CtAJEUQDO, Texas, June M. After
figlhttng Bhetr way through the state
of Nuveo Leon. Gen. Joaquin Telle
atrt LeOO federal troops arrived at
Kuevo Laredo, Mmdco. today from
Monterey to reinforce (he garrlaoa
there In anticipation of a rebel attack.
Enroote from Monterey, Which Is 176
miles south of the border, General
Telle.! .renorta having engaged eight
'IcoaetttuUonallst" bands In battle and
tihat at least 200 rebel were killed
and as many mere wounded. The
federal casualties, he said, were less
than ten Wiled.
It Is stat that a large body of
revolutionists are marohtng from
Matamoraa to Join the - rebel bands
about Nuero Laredo In an attack on
that city.
C. H. Rtppeteau and Henry CSnnnp
ter, the two Americans arrested by
constitutionalists near Colombia yes
terday "were taken today to Pledras
Negrae, the headquarters of Venua
ttano Carranna, the rebel chieftain,
for trial. It la charged that the men
are in the employ of the Huerta gov
inueirt. RACES AT BELMONT.
NEW YORK. June 20. Elfrht
liorsne are carded to start tomorrow
at Belmont Park in the first running
of the historic Brooklyn handicap,
since 1910 when the antl-bettlng laws
caused a temporary suspension of
racing In New Tork state. Time was
when the beet horses In the three
Tear old and upward class always
faced the barrier to strive for the
honor of winning the mile and a
quarter event and the nig purse that
came wHh rietorjr.-
In the race of tomorrow, are en
tered sons of notable sires. Heading
the list is Harry Payne Whitney's
Whisk Broom II, a son ., of Broom
stick, winner recently of the Metro
politan handicap. WhUk Broom n
Is asked to pick np 120 pounds. G.
'hlsk
Broom In the Metropolitan, will car
ry 101 pounds,
SOUTHERN MEN ARE
VIGTIMSWHENTHEY
ATTEMPT AIR TRIP
U RESELS ABE
PHD FOii HO
BATTLE iSIITH RECUUIRS
B"
MANY CHANGES ARE
SUGGESTED IN THE
NEW TARIFF LAWS
Reductions Have Been Order
ed on the New Under
wood Tariff Bill
PRESIDENT WILSON
HAS HIS OWN SAY
Plans for Physical Valuation
of the Country Are '
Made
WASHINGTON, June 10. Import
ant reductions In the Underwood
tariff bill rates on Iron, steel and other
metal products; the addition of cattle,
wheat PiC ron, angora wool and
many ether articles to the tree list,
and an me. ise on many ctasses ot
cotton goods and some silk products,
were the chief features of th revised
tariff bill as It was laid before sen-
ate democrats today by Chairman
Simmons, of the finance committee.
After weeks of work, In Which
every Item had undergone close scru
tiny by subcommittees of the major
ity membership of the finance com
mittee, the redrafted measure was
brought Into the democratic cauous
today. For two hours the important
changes were explained to democrats j
and the bill was then made public, j
Experts of the committee at once be
gan work on a comprehensive sum
mary of the changes.
Persident Wilson's dealreo M to
free sugar In Kit and free wool at
once prevailed in the redraft of tho
bill. To the list of "market basket"
reductions the Underwood bt.ll con
tained the senate committee . added
many Important Items. In the gen
eral level of its rates, the "Simmons
bill" represents a heavier out front
existing rates of the Payne-Aldrich
law than did the bill as it passed tho
house.
The senate caucus adjourned early
and members spent ' the afternoon
working out crlvate analysis Of the
measure. The caucus will reconvene
tomorrow. ; Senate leaders believe the
bill will reach the senate Itself late
next week
Valuations of Roads.
Plans for the physical valuation of
(Continued on Page Nine)
T
BISHOP MkES Al.
Ready to Go to the Founda
tion of the Carnegie
Fund.
DISPOSITION OF MONEY
NASHVILLE. Tenn., June 29 At
s called meeting of the bishops ef Great Britain by 41 points, the Unit
trie Methodist Episcopal Church, . ed States has won the international
South, attended by nine members ft !
the college of bishops, a veto message
mimm Aramn nn afttttnc forth tliA fol-
lowing objections to the action ol th. "" Tho ""le Public today
board of triut in accepting the reoent ; was:
gift from Andrew Carnegie to the: United States, 14.S51; Great Brtt
Vanderhilt Medical college: ! Jn- 24.SNK.
"That the action of the board of k year Great Britain took the
trust of VanderbUt In accepting the oup from the United States
gift Is a breach of trust ested In It, by "7 Polnt ,
under and by virtue of th. resolu-; Thls y8r' rule called for fifty
lions of the Memphis convention. ' mef n ,ld axit" calibre rifle,
which constnut. the foundation of h"f 76 feet, the size of
Vanderoilt university; that said ac- J1 "ch In
tlon is beyond the powers of the board '
and that It consUtutes a dlversl.B of ZLT, ,L ,Amer'c" ,tm.
. . ,l . I members of the Butte. Mont rifle
s large portion of the funds and , . .. ... .v.'-,?. ' ml
property ol the university from
tha
trust upoo which said property is
held, is contrary to the terms of other
gifts to th university, and is illegal,
null and void."
A copy of this action wfll be certl
ne and forwarded to the secretary
of the board of trust of the univer
sity. Those attending the meeting
werei
Bishop Conins Denny, E. R. Hen
drlx. W. It. Lambeth, E. D. Mouzon,
J. C. Kllgore, i. H. McCoy, E. H.
Hoss, H. C. Morrison and W. A. Cand
ler. In addition to a veto message the
bishops addressed a general message
to the church, stating their reasons
for oppolng the gift. Ther say, in
parti
' "It this gift had fceen offered with
out embarrassing conditions, as all
other gifts to the institution have
been made, we should have offered
no objection to Its acceptance. But
the conditions attached to this gift
and the letter accompanying It, which
must be taken as expository ef the
conditions, are such as lead us to he
Hove it cannot be aoceptcS without a
breach of trust and without dishonor
to the church. If conditions are ful
filled in good faith to the donor.
"Ws are as unwilling that Mr. Car
negie should bs deceived as that the
university should be dismembered and
the church of God dishonored."
-"'""nt( refn'"gj'e ll-tf-9..
aoo girt ey uarnegl were aoopteo
unaalmoualjr by the coUeg of fclabaya
ASH
ASttEVILLE, N. C, SATURDAY' MORNING, JUNE 21, 1913.
PUBLIC
SCHOOLS
OF NORTH STATE
T
Illiteracy Is Now Rapidly on
the Decrease In North
Carolina
INTERESTING REPORT ,
HAS BEEN FILED
Sunbaked Washington Is Still
the Mecca of North
Carolinians
(By George IT. Manning.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 20.
Illiteracy' is rapidly on the decrease
In North Carolina, owing chiefly to
the wide-awake leadership of men
and women of prominence, especially
women, who have set industriously to
work; to Improve the schools of the
state and secure a greatly Increased
attendance, according to Information
obtained today from the national
board of education.
Reports have been received from
different counties in the state from
time to time, showing the steady gen
eneral Improvement in school facili
ties, general attendance and - the
deeper Interest taken by parents In
the education of their children, but
the most notable Improvement Is that
reported from Wilkes county.
In discussing the report received
from Wilkes county, the educational
board had the following to say:
Wake Winning fight
"Thanks to the wide-awake lead
ership of men and women, especially
women, Interested In the schools, a
number of southern communities are
making In winning fight against Illit
eracy. Kllkes county, N. C, for In
stance, reports, together with other
notable indications of school better
ment, the fact that Illiteracy decreas
ed from IS per cent In 1900 to 2 per
cent In 1912."
Several other counties In the state
showed Improvement almost as mark
ed as that of Wilkes, and the predic
tion Is made that before lone; North
Carolina will be able to compare fa
vorably with any ot the other states
as far as educational facilities are
concerned.
E. D. Steele, of High Point has
(Continued on Page Nine.)
iUS HIVE USD
.TIE BIFLE
Uncle Sam's Team Wins
From Englishmen by
. Forty-one Points.
THE TOTAL SCORES
WASHINGTON, June 20. Beating
rifle shooting, small bore match, Just"
i completed, and recaptured the Dewar
. ""' mxirm
of COO.
WOMEN ARE BURNED,
6T. PETERSBURG, Jun 20
Eighty women were burned to death
today by villagers enraged at the Im
portation of cheap girl labor to work
on a sugar estate in the district of
Plrlatln In tho province of Poltava,
southern Kusuta, according to the
Kiev newspaper Liamln.
The excited villagori first securely
fastened all the means of exit from
af wooden barn In which the girl
were housed. They then set fire to
the'bulldlng while the Inmates were
asleep and all were burned to death
without a chance to escape.
ANOTHER SPANISH HUB,
MADRID, June 20. Queen Vic
toria of Spain gave birth te a son
tonight.
This to She Wxth ohnd born to
Qneen Victoria, the fourth being still
born. King Alfonso and Victoria
EwJ. Princess of Batten berg, were
married May 11. 1904.
CHARLOTTE MAX KILLKD.
CHARLOTTE. June 20. Crawford
A. Williams, agent for a local bottling
concern, was almost Instantly killed
when his automobile turned m turtle
down as embankment eight
mils
Muth of ber this Cternej,
MOVING TO FRON
EVIL
A STUD IN eXPMSilON
'a
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I Van LAST
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PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSONCALLS
PARTY LEADERS INTO CONSULT A TION
Chief Executive Commences
Democratic Party Leaders Publication of Currency Bill Has Had its
Effect-'Gosaip&f Pay hi Washington. :
WASHINGTON. 'June 20.-HPresl-
dent Wilson tonight began his con
ferences with the rank and file of the
currency committee ot both house ot
congress. It U understood hie pur
pose Is to learn Just what changes
are likely to be demanded In the new
Glase-Owen-McAdoo currency bill by
its critics and opponent In the senate
and house.. .
The publication of the bill by
Chairman. Glass was with President
Wilson's full . approval and te give
members the opporttirtKy to know th
detail of the-ilanlUfmonatAar.e4
forms. Tonight the president ef tne
United States talked t UncHh with
members of the house . committees,
next Wednesday 'he is to confer with
members of the senate committees and
later he will talk over the bill with
republican senators wno have been
closely Identified with previous effort
at currently reform.
Antagomiun Present
Antagonism to present action on the
currency and criticism of the new
bill as agreed upon the administration
leaders became well defined among
senators today. While there is no
organised effort to mold up action, i
prominent members of the eenatel
currency committee expressed the be
lief that the committee as a whole!
does not favor the immediate passage
of the bill and that PreMdent Wilson)
will be urged not to demand action ,
during this extra seewlon.
Comments on the measure by sena
tors were guarded, tut several ex-
pressed the belief that the provision
asked by Senato Owen for the retire-j
ment of national bank note and tho
refunding of 2 per cent, government
bonds now swurlng that currency
wKh a I per cent. Issue should have
been left In h bill.
. The most wt.rlkln criticism of the,
mxamire came from Senator Nelson, a
republican member of the senate cur
rency committer.
Republican Offew CritVittm.
"The bill mnde public by Mr. Glass
seems to me but a temporary make
shift," he i.ald, "and amounts to no
Many Little Issues Are to
Be Considered by the
Committee.
WASHINGTON, June 20. Vigor
ous opposition from the new depart
ment of labor to the proposed arbi
tration and mediation act, prepared
by the railroad and railroad broth
erhood for enartment by congress
was voiced tO'Uy when the measure
was presented to a Joint session of
the house anil senate Interstate com
merce committees.
Secretary Wlluon criticised the new
meanuro as going beyond the neces
sities at the hour. He suggeeted that
the only emergency n ltd was nn
amendment to Increase the lie of
the board of mediattons under the
Erdman act. He wee not In favor
ot creating a bureau of mediation.
' v Seth Low, prejwdent of th Nation
aJ Civic federation had informed the
committee that th railroads and
brotherhoods hart agreed upon a new
bill, which would create a lomrnls
sioner of mediation and. conciliation,
appointed by and responsible .inly to
the president This commissioner
wrth two designated government of
ficials would constitute a board of
mediation and conciliation, to whom
matters of dispute could be re'erre!.
Mr. Low Insisted that the bill
should be passed immediately. He
aded that he wee uncertain as to
whether the railroads and the broth -erhood
would agree to Secretary
WUson's .suggestion -
Consideration of t b&l ' wtU be
TOtlvV. . ""
LE CITIZEN
Sidelights On Yesterday $
WHAT DO YOU
THNK Of YOUR
LTTLE BALI
TEAM NOW.
WrAT?
yew saw
THE BMD OF TH
V -Si
L '
i
THAT QUY
PR 0t1 6KttNS
mamn is ssmI
fiOQTtlt, "BtUiVt Mint
a Scries of Conferences with
more than the Aldrloh-Vfeelend
emergency currency aw. ,
It Is simply a provision for emer
gency currency and Is more cum
bruous In its character than . th
Vreeland bill.
"While It professes tb decentralise
by creating - twelve . or more . reserve
associations, It leaves control . In the
hands f slngte board located hers
at the national capital, composed
largely of government, officials, , -'
- Wltst It Mesmsv . . . '
"tt isils utterly , to amend er lm-
pro oot present system of natkinal
banks and thsysum of bond-secured
currency appertaining to them. .
'At best, it an only b looked upon
a a temporary measure."
Democratic members ot tihe com
mittee expressed a desire to go over
the measure In detail with President
Wiloon and so far no committee meet
ing has been called.
The plan embodied In the measure
has never been passed upon or en
dorsed by the senate committee, but
it will furnish a basis upon which
they will attempt to meet the presi
dent in case he is Insistent upon lms
Union at this session.
Oppose the Plan.
"I am against ths plan of central
political control embodied In the bill,"
said Senator Hltohcock, a democratic
member of the committee, "Just as I
would be against a central business
control of the system. I believe the
reroiuu rwerve associations should
be lnduponilent as banks now are, and
that the government should limit Its
control to that of a supervision over
their actions.
"The bill also, in my opinion, Shows
a total failure to provide any reserve
for the payment of notes the govern
ment proposnc to Issue, and for whioh
it imn be required to pay out gold at
any time."
Views nf Committeemen.
Members of the finance committee
exnrewd the belief toniKht thai rhore
would not be murh revision In the
caucus. The chief Interest, of course,
renters on wool and sugar, but the
MEXICANS ARE HAVING
TROUBLES OF
Revolutionary Governor De
parts Suddenly from His
Important Post of Duty.
DOUGLAS, Aria., June 20, V. R1-
I vera, revolutionary governor of filn-
, aloa, left Agua Prieta tod.y after
'winning from'the constitutional con
ference there a promise that the
Honora lnsurrectors ewuld endeavor
to raise an army of forty thousand
men for a campaign In Blnaloa. Ri
vera is on his way to Ortlx, where the
Carranzlsta are facing a federal
commander OJeda, for a decisive bat-,
The Honors state government Is re
' ported to have Issued an order that j
th rebels shall collect and keep for;
j war purposes all rents accurlng from'
i property within the state. This or
der also affects property owned by
foreigners.
FIUE AT BtTLEIt, TENTf.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., June 20. Due
to an oil fire In th residence of Jo
seph Rhea, twelve buildings at Butler,
Tenn., were burned . today with a loss
of 1 25,00 and small Insurance, The
business part of the little lumber
town was practically wiped out
THE WEATHER,
' WAflHINOTON. June
(20. Tore -
cast for North Carolina:
tiif flaur4ajr a4 Jbw44
GeteralifT
Game.
I A A I t II
S M " t 1 II
J.y1'' " ' ' ' "'
3 THAT
CATCHER?
tfOOO'Q
the Rank and File of the
administration leaders believe that
there wUl bs no change In rhera and
that all but two, or perhaps three)
senators will tak th pledge binding
themselves to support th bill. Sena
tor 'Simmons, chairman of the com
mHxee, believes that the caucus will
dlecuss the bill not longer than
week and that after h bill ha then
been submitted to th full member
ship of ths finance commute It will
b reported to the aenstte.
"This la on of th few times," said
Senator .Oor tonight, "when a tariff
bill ha . onm from a senate com
mittee with lower ' rate than th
house bad prepared. : Ws have ' not
figured Just bow much the average
ad valoren of the bill will be but w
ttav materially reduced nearly every
schedule except cotton,"
Another Statement,
In statement of the rate exchange
prepared tonight for the committee,
Chairman Simmons said that "as a
result ot the change proposed In the
house hill by the democratic members
of ths finance committee, th revenues
j of the government would be increased
approximately five million dollars,
hand In hand wHh a reduction of the
I taxation following the reduction al-
.ready made In the bouse bill.".
j These Increases in revenues would
be mads up by a tariff on bananas
and restoration of ths full internal
revenue flirty nf $1.10 per gallon on
brandies used In fortifying wines. .
Concerning certain nf the chsnges,
the committee statement said: .
Chemical Schedule. V
"The chemical schedule remains
substantially as It came from the
I mmiHv wiiu tne excrti'iion diuii certain
'vat color, whioh enter largely Into
the mwnufacture'of roitnn, woolen ard
other textiles which the house put on
the dutiable list, have been trans
ferred to the free list. Creosote oil,
us5d principally for the preservation
of tlmW, wss taken from the duti
able and phtced on the free list, A
(Continneyl on Page Nine)
AUTCMDBiLE OrilVER IS
CQNVICTEO BY THIAL JURY
Supreme Court of New Jer
sey Finds Way to Stop
Joyriding.
TRENTON, N. J., June 20. The
supreme court today affirmed the
conviction of Daniel A Dug.tn, Jr.,
of manslaughter.
While driving his automobile on
Christmas day, 1911, Dugan ran
down and killed Leo M. McDermott,
a boy,
Dugan's sentence of Imprisonment
at hard labor for not more than 10
nor less than five years stands unless
there 1s an appeal to the court of
errors and appeals.
Dijffftn to a son of Judge Dansel A.
Dugan, of the Orange district court,
a personal friend of President Wil
son who appointed him to a Judge
ship about a year ago,
FIRST AIR VICTIM.
ANNAPOLIS. Md.. June 20. The
'naval academy added It first victim
to the death roll of the ah- today when
Ensign William V. Blllingsley was
hurled from a disabled biplane, 1,800
feet In the air, and fell straight as a'
plummet In the depth of Chesapeake
bay. Lieutenant John A. Towers,
chief of the navy aviators, clung to
th hurtling wreck that followed hi
1 comrad' course from ky to water
and oaf apeaflestnTrnoat wiracn
'i.
CITiZEN WANT ADS
BRING RESULTS
PRICE FIVE CENTfe
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81
II
Headlines In Eastern Papers
Move President to Mako
. a Statement
DEMOCRATS ARE AT
WORK TOGETHER
All Leaders Have Aareed
De Currency Plan for
Adoption
WASHINGTON, June 2 ,( Spe
cial.) "There is absolutely no foun
dation whatever tor th story that
friction has arisen ovor th banking
and currency bill," said President
Wilson today, . Th president . wag
moved to make this statement to tht
correspondent of th , newspaper!
after he had looked over ths head
lines, of numerous, eastern paper'
which announced that "Bryan
blocks Way of Currsnoy Bill," "Sen
ator Owen and Senator McAdoo Dl
agrs with Representative Olass
"Mean Trouble for th Party," "In
definite Delay in Presentation ot Cur
rency Biu," sta ,
Th president said that not only
was there not th (lightest disagree
ment, but that the men who hav
had charge of th preparation of th
bill ar in thorough accord. H al
said that tt was absolutely untru
that Secretary Bryen had butted In."
Ths secretary of tat, It was said,
Is not attempting to eompllcat tht
situation, but, on th other hand, la
thoroughly in sympathy with what
th ' president, th secretary ot th
treasury and th number ot tw
committees on banking ani currsr:f ,
r trying to do. .
How Htory Started. -
The report that ther had been
disagreement over th ourrenoy bill
grew out ot the, fact that last night
th conferee on ths bill decided not
to present It to th confess a
wool until nxt week. At the sug
(cation of th president It was 4cld4
ed to auhmit the bill to the , full!
membership of the banking and curJ
rency committees of the two house
before Introducing It Thta mean
that th republican on th commit
tees, as well as th democrats, will
hav an opportunity to look th bill
over before It la formally offend In
th house. j
' Th president suggested that this'
course be pursued in order that th
members of the two committees, re
gardless of political affiliations, might
feel comfortable about tb proposed
legislation, .
To put It another way, the presi
dent did not wish to hav it said that
th blir had been Introduced before
th member ot the two committee
knew what was In It: he desired to
create a situation which would make
It Impossible for any one to say four
or five-men wer responsible for th
text of th proposed legislation. .
Democrat Approve BUI.
As a matter of fact, a large nurn
ber of democratic senators hav ex
amlned the o-called administration
bill and hav unqualifiedly approved.
It, Likewise, nearly all the Influ-,
entlal democratic member of th
house hav, already had an 'opportu
nity to look the bill over, and hav
privately Indicated that It meets thslp
approval. The president la hopeful
"1
(Continued on Page Seven.)
ISSUE. IS WITHOUT: IS.
inice of ens
State Treasurer, However,
Is Going to Accept the
Bids Offered.
MEANING TO STATE
RALEIGH, June 2D, (pc!al-
State Treasurer B. R, Lacy who re
ceived bids for only $154,000 of the)
proposed 11,142,500 bond Issue bear-'
Ing Interest from July 1, has decided
to accept all bid opened Jun 11, and
i has received 160,000 additional bid
I that will be accepted since the pub
j lie opening. , All other . bids at not
les than par received up to July
will be accepted. :
! The state already borrowed mors
'than 1800,000 Involved In the big
bond Issn and will make long term
loan arrangements for the amount
for which th ponds ar not sold by
July 1, . . - ' ''
This course Insure all th perman
ent Improvements authorised for
state Institutions and state colleger
and university authorised by the r
cent legislature. ,
.KSOXVILLE BANKER DEAD.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.. June 20. B,
O. Oates, president ot the Mechanics
Bank and Trust company, and an ex- ,
president of the Tennessee Bankerv'
association, died at hie honr, ttrr
Jar ot feaaxt fllse-, t
WILSON
DENIES
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