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LE C THE WEATHER: LOCAL SHOWEHS. H CITIZEN WAXT AD3 BRING RESULTS VOL. XXX, NO. 38. ASHEVILLE, K C, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1913. PRICE 5 CENT Nearly 100,000 riEW YORK FILLED I fi On His Christmas Behavior M.L GONFEREuCE nn ASHEYIL GALLONS OF LIQUOR BlfliOIHTHS WITH VISITORS FOR HR1-II1G1E UTTHE FUHERALOF PBESIDEHT FIIILEK - . Everything on Southern Rail ways Lines Stopped Five Minutes PROMINENT MEN ARE TBAHSACTS r;,UG!I business in m ..- J ; i. : .. ' Sensational Developments at : Investigation Into Violations of froMMtlon Law JUDGE CARTER SAYS tlOO.000 GALLON YEARLY Metropolis Takes on Appear ance of College Town Night Before Battle Reports of Ministers and Other ; Routine Matters Occupy the Session,' v" ; - -i ? '-. ' K "Defendants and Witnesses O Were at the Preliminary Hearings Held Yesterday Sensation cam thick and fiat at yesterday's sessions of the Superior court, when Judge Frank Carter, Bit ting m a committing magistrate, con tinued "the invest! ation recently Waited .looking to tha mora rigid enforcement of the prohibition law. The main feature of tha day's pro ceedings included the announcement that during the last ten months mor than 90,000 gallons of Intoxicants have been received In this city, ac cording to the records of the South ern Railway company. Testerday afternoon was given over to the pre liminary hearing of J. L. Alexander, (barged with aiding and abetting flotations of the prohibition law, and of Pete Sevier, who was summoned as a witness to tell what he knew Qhout alleged violation The latter omitted on cath that he had con uoted an establishment in the base ment of the Battery Park hotel, and that he had sold whiskey and other Intoxicants during the past two year Mr. Alexander, acting on the advice f hie attorneys, refused to answer (he majority of questions put to him by the prosecution other than those bearing on his name, age and occu pation. Sensational Flgurv. -Dealing with the figures compiled by auditors and stenographers who Irave been checking railroad records, Judge Carter, at the morning session of the court stated that basing the v calculations on the ' amount of whiskey which has been received thus far, Ashevlle I" receiving and consuming 100,000 gallons of whiskey each year. Of this quantity, 0.000 gallons are sold by the larger dealers, an 'average ' of $1 per" gallon profit showing that they are making; 180,000 annually. Piling the 3,000 barrels of whiskey in a column, th judge stated the monument of barrels would be ISO times as high as the, Vance mon ument, twenty , times as high as the Washington monument, fifty times as high as the Bunker Hill monu ment and twelve times 'as hlh as (he highest tower In the world. In dealing with the findings of the Investigators of the drug stores hold lrg licenses to sell liquor on the pre Continued on nape els:ht KIIERIOAN POTITO HP ' FOR RISE. IS DECUREO 1 P. Gill Asks Removal of Embargo Now Existing on Irish Potatoes. HELPS RAISE PRICES WASHINGTON. Nov. 18. A new phase of the cost of living problem was brought to the attention of the department 1 of agriculture today, T. P. Gill, secretary of the Irish board of agriculture, told Secretary Hous . ton that speculators in the large pities of the United States were ac ih My buying up this year's short ynerlcan potato crop and planning n hold out for higher prices, count TT;r" on " the " existing quarantine scauist potatoes from many foreign , countries to aid them In their under taking. Mr. QUI Is here to urge th re moval of the embargo on potatoes from Ireland. He insists that the powdery scab found on potatoes tm ported from Ireland Is no cause for quarantine because a similar blemish already is common In the United Jftates, 'and declares that continuance of the embargo will contribute to the growing cost of living. Secretary . Houston and the federal horticultural board held a conference after Mr. Gill's statement Representative McKellar, of Ten neseee, author of the pending bill to prohibit the keeping of products In cold storage for more than ninety days, was in conference today with district attorney officials over th8 de partment'! Investigation of the storage of eggs, poultry and dairy products. It is a parliamentary In fluiry and has revealed that 85 per cent, of the present egg nupply held in storage is In the hands of the great meat packers of the country. a Letters and telegrams poured In Jay from all parts of th country. from individuals, associations of vari- 'ous kinds and from business men, vraistng toe department's effort to (break high food prices by proceed' tUg ssjatnf th. alleged corobiaaUe PRICES OF SEATS SOARING STEADILY Speculators Reaping Harvest. Getting S25 and Up for $3 Seats NEW TORK, .Nov. 18.- With the rival teams and the advance guard of spectators already in quarters for the Army-Navy football game here to morrow, this city tonight has taken on the unfamiliar aspect of a college town on the ve of a big athletic con- test'-- 1 The transformation began with the arrival of the naval and military aca-1 demy elevens, substitutes and coach es, the Middies reaching here last night and the West Point cadets this forenoon. Every succeeding train brought a 'fresh quota of brilliantly uniformed and gowned - humanity, and tonight even the most blase New Torker was aware that something unusual was about to happen. Although big college football con tests are not beyond the memory of old inhabitants, the annual ga,me be tween the two arms of , the United States service with Its distinguished and uniformed assemblage of specta tors is a novelty. While the sailors and soldiers have met Upon the grid iron seventeen times since 1890, New Tork has never been the scene of the game. Tables at Premium. Local hotels took on new plctur- esqueneas tonight because of , the presence of army and navy officers, squads of West Point cadets and An napolis Middles. Tables were at a premium In the leading restaurants and several of the more pretentious hotels reported their capacity accom modation booked until Sunday. President Wilson, who will witness the game with members of his family and cabinet, arrived this evening and spent the night at A .the borne of friends. During the game he wilLfllr. VTde"T3 time equally' between the array and navy sides. ; In addition to the chief executive there will be many prominent box holders. A partial list includes the fol lowing: Vice President Marshall, Sec retary of State Bryan, Secretary of War Garrison Secretary of tha Treasury McAdoo, Secretary of Com merce RedfleM, Attorney General (Continued on Page Eight) GEN. INTONE. G0FJFJ1TTEQ SUICIDE US BEBEIH1 VICTORIA Newspapers of Mexico City Withhold Publication of Victoria's Fall. TAMPICO MENACED MEXICO CITT, Nov. 88. Gen. Antonio Rabago, military governor ot th state of Tamaulipas, killed him self after losing Victoria, the capital. The suicide of General Rabago Is not admitted by the government, but the news Is contained In an authoritative private telexram to his relatives here. General Rabago, as military gov ernor, was responsible for the gar rison when Victoria was attacked by the rebels on November 17. It was not until this morning that the newapapers of the Mexican capi tal . published any Intimation that Victoria had been captured. Gen eral Rbago, It was stated, had evac uated the city. Among the Incidents connected with the capture of Victoria one Is related of the execution of "Capt. Thomas Jamez: He was told that hl life would be spar,ed If he fore swore the government, but refused and was marched to the place desig nated for his death. There he distributed among the firing squad all but one of a package of cigarettes. This he lighted him self and signalled to . the officer in commander to give the order to fire. That Tampfeo Is seriously menaced by the rebels is indicated by private advices, which say they are moving southward from Victoria and today cut the railroad forty miles north of Tamptoa, ' According to late dispatches the inanagers of the branches of the Lon don and Mexico and th National banks at Tampico have been Instruct ed to close their establishments and remove the archives to Progreso. The branch of the Bank of London and Mexico at Monterey has been closed for aeveral days. - . . r HEARJM1 AT GREEVSIIORO. WASHINGTON. Nov. Hearing on the protest ot the Virginia s against th North Carolina proposed aredga Wat -wU PRESENT AT BURIAL Letters and Telegrams Are i Received From Many Points In Country WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. Funeral services for the lat William Wltoon Finley, president of the Southern railway system, were helj here this morning in St Johns episcopal church, attended by many govern ment officials and his former asso ciates in the commercial and trans portation world. As the body was carried Into the church Just before 11 o'clock all 'ac tivities over the Southern railway's 7,000 miles of road ceased for Ova minutes. Employes everywhere laid down their work, trains everywhere came to a standstill and in shops machinery ceased to run. March to Church. Officials and employes at head quarters of the company assembled In front of the general offices on Pennsylvania avenue and inarched to the church In "a drlnllng rain. The body was borne by six negro porters. veterans in the employe of the rail road company. The honorary pall bearers were Col. A. B. Andrews, George . Baker, James J. Hill, Charles Steele, Fairfax Harrison, E. H. Gary, Adrian Izlin. Jr.. George F. Baker, Jr. Francis Lynde Stetson, Alexander P. Humphrey. Alfred P. Thorn. J. M. Culp T. C. Powell, Henry B. Spencer, . E. H. Coapman, R. T.! Lankford, I?. V. Tayloe, John B. Munson, H. T. Anslee, A. H. Plant, A. C. Downing and Leonard M. Levering. Expressions of sympathy for the family and sentiments of apprecia tion of Mr. Flnleys work in the present-day development of , the south, a movement In which he was a commanding figure, have come In larger, pujaber.-not onlx from Ws as- sedates In the transportation worm, but from commercial end trades or ganizations throughout the states the railroad system traverses. Telegrams Received. ' Among .them Were telegrams from organizations In Meridian, Miss., and Norfolk, Va., , the Greater Western North Carolina association, Winston. Salem board of trade; the chambers (Continued from Page Eight). SUFFRAGETTES BALLY TO "VOTES FDR WOMEII" mll iiiraira Representative Leaders Are on Ground Arranging , for Convention. LASTS A WEEK. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. To the call of "votes for women" suffragists from every state are flocking to the capital for a mammoth convention which opens tomorrow and continues a week. Visits to President Wilson, healings of the provisional committees on constitutional amendments to en franchise women, addresses by sen ators and representatives and sucn leaders of the cause as Miss Jane Ad dams, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Sen ator Helen Ring Robinson of Colorado, Mrs. Medill McCormack, and Mrs, Oarrie Chapman catt will feature a week of meetings. Such organizations as the National American Woman Suf frage association, the National College Woman's Suffrage association, he Congressional union, the Woman's. Po litical union of New Tork and the I Men's League for Suffrage will be represented. Although the formal meetings of the convention do not open until Monday, the College Wom en's association and the . National American Woman Suffrage association will have a Joint session tomorrow and plans for the opening of the suffrage convention under the auspices of the Congressional union, immediately at the close of the convention, will be perfected. Lectures morning, afternoon and evening will be given by the suffrage workers. The "art of lobbying" will be expounded - In six lectures by Mr. Sherman K. Booth, a foremost worker In winning votes for women in Illi nois. Automobile campaigns, street meetings, "how to reach the man voter," "suffrage as ft affects th home" and other subjects will be treated. Mrs. Robert LaFollett will lecture on ''how to reach the rural voter In a suffrage campaign." Pr.' Harvey W. Wiley, Senator Chamberlain, Representative Victor Murdock, progressive party leader of th house; Assistant Secretary Post of the department of labor and many ill M't OBSTACLES ENCOUNTERED BY THE DEMOCRATS IN CONFERENCE ON CURRENCY MAY EXTEND MEETING Practically no Amendment, Democrats on the Banking and Currency Committee : ' Tl Issues Statement, WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. Obstacles encountered by the senate democrats In their consideration of the admin istration currency, bill in conference today. thretened4o extend the meet- In? over , Into next wk. Work on tha bill today dragged, practioaur no material amendments were made In the draft as presented by the Ova administration democrats . on , the banking and currency committee. v .Several , senator' tonight thought the. conference would be unable to conclude lta consideration of the bill before Tuesday or Wednesday, not. withstanding th- ots to, flnlsh to morrow Itlght The Jewdars, Will- bope, however, to present-the bill to the senate on Monday. ; Regular efisslon. Arrangements were made today ! for the opening of the regular session of congress1 Monday. ' Acting House Majority Leader Johnson conferred with Senate Leader Kern and it was arranged to have the president read bis regular message to congress at a Joint session Tuesday afternoon it 1 o'clock. ' - ' Tit currency conference " referred back to the committee several para graphs to be redrawn with changes of phraseology or form. One of these was to provide that no member of the federal reserve board which will control the new "system should be allowed to accept a position with any member bank for a period of years after leaving the federal board. Referred Back. The paragraph allowing national banks to act as executor and admin- lstrators also was referred back to the committee to be drawn so that It would not conflict with the laws of various statea The question of the number of regional reserve banks to ba created has been left open and probably will be taken up tomorrow for settle ment. The Georgia senators Insist that If the south Is to have a regional HUERTA GALLS ON BANKS Explains Necessity of Their Financial Assistance to Meet Interest. MEXICO CITT. Nov. 2. Presi dent Huerta summoned th mana gers of the Bank of London and Max loo and the National bank before him this afternoon and explained to them the necessity of their financial assistance to meet, the obligations of the National Railways oa December 1. Interest payment of the railways, due December, aggregate 801,009 pe so gold. It was to raise this amount and the Interest payment maturing January 1 that E. N. Brown, presi dent of the National Railway went to New York recently, t Tbe gross earnings of th railway since December, 1812, show a de crease of practically H, 000, 000 pesos gold. Losses on Axed charges and on property, track and equipment ag gregate many mtiUons additional. Failure to meet the payment in December would, It is claimed, give the right of foreclosure, but as such action would have to be brought In a Mexican court, because the com pany 4s a Mexican corporation the difficulties to be encountered are ob vioua THE WEATHER. WASHINGTON, No, XI Forecast for North Carolina! Local rain Sat wdy and iitubsArr ffrrrdyftvijicy Offered to the BM at Drafted bank It should be located at Atlanta. , While progress was slow today, the, lMders were satisfied that the Owen ! draft ot the bill finally would ta adopted with but few changes. The question ot binding the democrats to support the conference bill ax a party measure has not yet been taken up, but It is expected that a binding resolution will be presented after the bill has been completed, , 1 McAdoo's Statement. . Secretary McAdoo Issued a state ment declaring that If banks through out, mo uwanuj ' em ..ivu. trtctlng credits to meet provision, ot. in mpeotea curnnur ia.wt rrtaklng a mistake. He announced that the resources of the treasury will be at the disposal of the banks to aid them In complying with the new law. The statement said in part: 'The secretary expressed the con viction that the new law will Impose no hardships on the banks and that; the transfers of capital and reserves ' to the proposed federal reserve bank will be accomplished with little or no Inconvenience to the bank and to general business. Th secretary said that the treasury department had large available resource at It com mand; that he should not hesitate to use them for the purpose of aiding. fc Tumulty M(1 pr, Cary T Gray the bank to compjly with the new'i0J v , N' law and that in his opinion the banks! '' i,,,it h could with perfect safety proceed wMh the granting of accommodation to their cufltomers in the normal and usual way. The secretary said he did not, ot course, aium to advise the banks he only wanted them and the business public to know that there is no ground for apprehension and that the atti tude of the trasury deparment is to be helpful He said that If any bank are laboring under the Impression that the new law will necessitate or oocaston a restriction of credits they are controlled by error. "The secretary tated that up to NO OFFICIAL HEPORT F Secretary Bryan Regards This as an Assurance of No Cause for Alarm. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. BecreCtry liryan said tonight that no official communication had been received here from Rear Admiral Fletcher or John land, the special American en voy to Mexico, relating to conditions In the oil fields near Taraplco. The fact that no report had been received was regarded as an assurance that there wa no Immediate cause for alarm. When President Wilson left Wash ington for New Tork 'at noon Secre tary Bryan remained to receive offi cial dispatches. The only develop ment concerned the activity of the rebel forces, reported to be advanc ing toward Tamplco from Victoria. Secretary Daniel today issued an order directing the fourth division of the Atlantic fleet, now In the Medlter raenan. to proceed to the east coast of Mexico , via Guantanomo. The ships to make tbe trip ar8 the Con necticut, Kanras and Ohio, ordered to replace the Louisiana, Michigan and New Hampshire, now In Mexi can waters. The division will leave the Mediterranean December 1 and should arrive off Vera Ous about two weeks later. Rear Admiral Badger, )mma8der-ttP0hif f fli Atlantic by the Five Adminittratim Secretary McAdoo date the banks had called upon the treasury for only iM.m.OOO for crop moving purposes r that these deposits were, under me arrangements, " returned In four installments begin ning December II and ending March 1. "The secretary said that tie would consider favorably and upon Its merit postponement of ' thirty day of the time for beginning repayment so that payment may commence on the lSUt of January, 1814, Instead of on the 1Kth , rWiMnfc.. HMt MM flflW Bra. ,7, C " r, h ot Vldad, 1 WTMfMr Ajuuvm NEW rOIUC, Nov. 21. President Wilson and his party, who left Wash ington today for this city, arrived shortly before T o'clock tonight' The president's visit her I In response to the Invitation to attend the Army- Navy .football game ' at Grounds, th Pol ' In the' presldenf party wer Mr. and. Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, the bridal couple, who wUl all tomorrow morn ing for . Europe: Secretary of the Navy Daniel, Secretary of th Treas ury McAdoo, Miss ' Eleanor Wilson, MIm Marjorle Brown, Secretary Jo ; trmlnal photographer dared prior threat of arrest and took flash light pictures. Beoret rv!o men took the camera men In custody. President Wilson went to the horn of a friend, Col. E. M. House, where he will be a guest While her. Tonight he attended the . theater. Mr. and Mrs. Sayre eluded newspaper reporters at the terminal by leaving through a gate other than that used by the president. They went to an uptown hotel. The democratlo conference tonight Con tinned on Page gvn.) GUESTS HS1GT0N Head of Canadian Govern ment and Wife Stop Over En Route Home. WASHINGTON, No J 8. Wash ington had as guests ot honor today Premier Robert L. Borden, of Can ada, and Mrs. Borden, who spent the day 'and evening In the capital on their way hom after a month's stay at Hot Springs, Va. The visitor went directly to the British embassy upon their arrival . and soon after ward Secretiry Bryan called to escort the premior to the whlte house to meet the president lAter Mr. Borden wa given a club lunchoon by Secretary of In terior Lane, an old personal friend. Tonight Secretary and Mrs, Bryan gave a dinner -at their home in honor of the Premier and Mm, Borden and Sir William Tyrrell, private secretary to the British foreign minister. The guest Included Lady . Bpring-Rloe, wife of the British ambassador, whose health would not permit him to b.e present; th French Ambassador and Madam Jusserand, the German Am- baasador and Countess Bernstorff, the Costa Rlcan Minister and Madam Cdlvo; the Norwegian Minister and Madame Bryn, the Chief Justice and Mrs. White, Justice Hughes and Mrs. Hughes, Senator Newland and Mrs. Newlands, Henator Sutherland and Mrs. Sutherland. . Representative Cooper and Mrs. Cooper.- , -"t -Tierrpewiler nt Mr," J?crfisI,.tolI SECOND YEAR CLASS CHARGED BY CISUOP Delegates to the General Cc . - , '( v - ferenco Named and Resold v tlons Passed (By IU. W. A. Xrwoll.) CHARLOTTE, Nov. Ono the best meeting of tbe , V, . North Carolina conference o i Methodist Episcopal, church, (u , which la being held at Trinity chm' this city, was held today. Kep " tit minister throughout the ruiir ence and other, matters of rut ? business were called and du p'''- J 4 In speedy order. Several lot al mm '.: ter were elected to deacons' oi fi- i j ftnd delegate to th gcner.il conf r, encs wer lcted. , Question II was called an 1 p' r of , th Aahevllle, t'l.;u-l. , Oreensboro, Morganton, Mwmt A f and a part of th North i district reported on their ork : tb year. " . ...... ;... Large Gain. These report show large truing ' all department of church work. . '. was i announced . that some ot ' preacher had not yet turned In t reports. Th bishop mad a r ratherwstrtngent remarks eon. uch negligence, land smld ba v advocat legislation creating a In business method to be ad ' l t th conference court Cf study, The following jesolution x ' adoptedi .,: . "Resolved, That all prearluji t i port shall b handed In on or ' for Thursday noon of tbe ci' one session and that no report l ;d In at a later dat sl'l m r I except by th unanimous ecu, . tbe secretaries," j . . The following local pre hers v elected to deacon orders; " "T. ' . Muggin. X U Webster, It F. ! and H Wlllman v . - A paper was presented tot ferenc asking for th bis, . i clalon In regard to a d ' i v th Mount Airy durtrict rj remuneration for tnorey .cont: to th Winston , di'Mtrlct.-p .it- f (Confirmed on fi1" iJAWJEiir::, OF IiilPGlliEEL .. ISNATIOT L. Afraid of Impeachment I ceedlngs If Anct Strike Occurred WALLACE NOW IIAYOr. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind Jfov. 8.-, Rather than face impeachment pro ceedlngs, Samuel Lewi fibank r n signed as mayor of Indianapolis tl.-s afternoon and wss automatically suo ceeded by Harry R. Wallace, eit controller. A commttee of huaine' t men had proposed to Instigate irn peachmeut proceeding . in case eft , further labor trouble In th city and; when th mayor wa told that : strike of teamster wa Imminent, b sent in hi resignation. "I feel that I did everything po sibl to be fair to both side durln4 the recent oar trlke," id Myoi Shank in announcing hi resignation, "but after th criticism that ha bee heaped on me by the safety board t4 tbe chamW of commerce, I fl that . j probably could not do my duty t the publlo on account of th bltte, feeling that ha grown out of th la ; bor controversy." k Mayor Wallace said the police nlK nation 1 so critical that ti will taka personal charge of th depart mn( for a time. The new mayor ha fretn prominent In republican politics and has served on term a county audi-' tor, ; - - V Shank probably is the roost novel figure that ever occupied the mayor offl: in Indianapolis. Hi handling ot the kaloon problem early In his ad; ministration, attracted much atten' tlon. Saloon keeper who violated th)' law were taken before the mayor an 1 In many Instances their licenses wer . suspended for period varying fro' t '; a few hours to 80 day. On saloon keeper' license wa suspended unl4 he could show the mayor a certlfk-at i signed by a minister that 1 had at' tended church. Shank also gained natlon-wMi fame in 1911 by his fight on the hU, cost of Irving He found that the cr market wa falling to bring the pro ducer and consumer together and lm ported sixteen carloads of p'otat ; which he retailed at 75 cents a buh'r et Pobatoe then were retailing t v $140 but price tumbled cvr r'r.t. Shank also sold fruits, Teget.-. ;:!, ir 0i (put Manx omvf fctrcj Dcvox Wy
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