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HHiLLE CITIZEN WEATHER: CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS LOCAL SHOWERS VOL. XXXII, NO. 219. ASHEViLLE, N. C., MOftBAY MORNING, llAY 29, 191G. PRICE ITVE CENTS JHJ BIG GQNVEKTfONS CAUSING EXODUS OP EN Many Republican Senators and Congressmen Leave Capital. DEMOCRATS LEAVE LATER IN THE WEEK Important Business to Come Before Congress During the Week. COHESN "WASHINGTON, May 28.- The pre Convention exodus of member of con gress, already haj begun, many mem ber of the house and nearly a score of senators 'having left Washington for. preliminary business pertaining to the republican convention in Chi cago next week. Democratic leaders i will begin to depart later In the' week on political missions connected with the St. Louis convention. For many days the halls of the capitol have buzzed with political discussions and administration lead ers have encountered trouble in keep ing a quorum present In either house. Realizing that this difficulty will In crease, extraordinary efforts are be ing made to hold members whose ab sence Is not Imperative until next Friday. Important Legislation. Important legislation that will re quire attendance of members during the week includes the $241,000,000 naval appropriation bill in the house and the long fought river- and har ibors appropriation bill in the senate. The house will end debate on the naval bill Friday and a vote before . adjournment. The bill will than go to the senate where naval affairs committee will take It up after the conventions end. Decisive action on the $43,000,000 rivers and harbors bill in the senate is expected by Thurs day or Friday at tne latest Tomor row the senate will vote on a motion to recommit with instructions that the bill be re-reported in the form of a blanket appropriation of $20,000, 000 to carry en ! existing , projects. Wbita senator. jrJMuay.iniatnay. fought the bill have made many con verts the were doubtful tonight that they could muster enough votes to send the bill back to committee. If they d the commerce committee will at once report the proposed sub stitute resolution, which could be passed Immediately. If recommit ment fails other efforts at compromise will be made but no one attempts to predict what the result will be. Action on Brandies. Another important event of the week will be action on the nomination of Louis D. Brandels to the Supreme court. The vote will be taken Thurs- (Continued on Page Two) GOVERNMENT TO COLLECT HALF BILLION DOLLARS IL REVENUE TAX Despite Prohibition's Spread Tax on Distilled Spirits Shows Increase. GAINS ALL AROUND. WASHINGTON, May 28. Half a billion dollars will be the govern ment's Internal revenue tax toll for liie fiscal year ending June 30 next according to a statement issued today by Secretary McAdoo. This sum, which Mr. McAdoo exceeds by many millions all previous estimates, will be made up, substantially as follows: Taxes on whiskey, beer, cigars. Cigarettes and tobacco, $803,000,000. Taxes on the incomes of individuals and corporations, $115,000,000. Emergency tax collections, $83,000, 000. The volume of money pouring into the treasury has steadily increased month by month since last fall until it is now greater than at any time since the effects of the war began to be felt, Mr. McAdoo accounts for the situation as follows: "The great boom In business Is largely responsible for the increase In receipts from ordinary internal revenue. The prosperity of the coun try with the attendant wider scope of employment and Increase In wages has In itself resulted In a larger con sumption of taxable articles, greatly augmenting the government's reve nue." Consumption of whiskey, cigars, cigarettes and tobacco has Increased, according to revenues received, while consumption of beer has decreased the fiscal year. For the first ten months of the fiscal year, receipts of taxes on cigars, cigarettes and to bacco Increased 15.505,111 over the corresponding period a year ago, due in large part, the statement says, to the great improvement In business conditions. The statement continues: "Notwithstanding the spread 6f pro hibition, collections on distilled spirits for the first ten months of the current, fiscal year increase $10,011,140 over the corresponding period of a year PROTECTION AS AMERICAN CITIZENS IS DEMANDED BY TAMPICO OIL OPERATORS On Eve of Receipt of Which Is Expected for Withdraw! of uation Develops. WASHINGTON, May General Carranza 's note, which officials believe will renew the demand for withdrawal of American troops from Mexico and with another and Mexican military commanders about' to begin, a pro test was received at the white house today reporting serious difficulties between Tampico and the Mexican authorities. The protest came in the to President Wilson by eighty-four American citizens re siding at Tampico. They declared the Mexican military officials were promulgating impossible for Americans to and said one of them had been arrested and imprisoned for( three hours because he refused to pay his employes wages fixed by the authorities in excess of terms previous ly agreed upon with the men. Ask Protection. The signers of the message asserted their right to protection from the American their determination not to comply with arbitrary and con fiscatory orders and decrees by the Mexicans. White house officials sent the protest to the state de partment for investigation. have been received regarding ranza government and it is probable that there will be representations on the subject just as soon as the con troversy over the presence of American troop3 in Mexico is adjusted. "It has become practically impossible for an Ameri can to do business of any. nature in this section of the country," the Tampico message said, "because of restric tions placed by the authorities that we believe to be di (CONTINUED TO DEAL ONLY WITH MOST VITAL PUBLIC, SUBJECTS Difference Among Party Leaders Over Suffrage, Says Hilles. TO HEAR WOMEN. CHICAGO, May 28. Chairman Charles D. Hilles, of the republican national committee, today expressed the opinion that the platform adopt ed by the national convention next month would deal only with the most vital public questions. From Informa tion obtained in talking with party leaders he believes the principal planks will include: A statement on Americanism. A statement on preparedness for adequate military and naval defense. A declaration In favor of a protec tive tariff to be prepared by a non partisan tariff commission created by congress, with special attention to the needs of the country's Industries after the European war ends. A declaration in favor of a merchant marine. A statement dealing with the alleg ed shortcomings of the democratic national administration. Chairman Hilles said there was a difference of opinion among the party leaders as to national woman suffrage and he did not know what action the convention would take. The national congressional union will urge the republicans to insert a plank for a suffrage amendment to the constitution and Chairman Hilles has promised the women a hearing before the committee on resolutions. The only other organization thus far to ask for a hearing is the Navy league of the United States, which will send a committee to plead for a plank for the enlargement of the navy. In speaking of the probable action of the progressive national convention, called for June 7 in Chicago, Chairman Hilles said: "I imagine everybody assumes that the progressives will nominate Roose velt for president. If the republican convention adopts a straightforward, sincere ringing declaration of the vital public questions now being discussed, and nominates a man clearly equal to the Important tasks which will con front the next president, Roosevelt might not think there would be any need of his entering the field. But if the republican nominate a man who Mr. Roosevelt thlnxs is a misfortune and adopts a platform which he re gards as 'bunk' he may feel so out raged as to run, and perhaps help re Note From Carranza, to Renew Demands Troops, Serious Sit 28. On the eve of receipt of conference between American American oil operators at form of a telegram addressed decrees designed to make it do business in the country government, and announced Other complaints already recent' decrees by the Car ON PAGE TWO.) CONDITION OF J. J; HILL MOST UNSATISFACTORY; UNCONSCIOUS AT TIMES Train Makes Record Run to Bring Desired Medicine From Chicago. HIGH TEMPERATURE. ST. PAUL. May 28. James J. Hill, critically ill at his residence here pass ed a restless unsatisfactory day. While the pioneer railroad builder's pulse was good his temperature was high and he suffered considerable pain. Intermittently the patient was unconscious. Shortly after 1 o'clock this after noon, waiting newspaper . men and others were aroused sharply when the Rev. Father Thomas J. Gibbons, vicar general of the St. Paul arch diocese and pastor of the St. Paul cathedral, hurried from the cathedral edifice, where he had been saying mass, to the Hill mansion. At this time it was thought Mr. Hill had suffered a sinking spell and that members of the family had been cal led to the sick room. At 4 o'clock It was said Mr. Hill had rallied some what. His pulse was reported better, but a hlgn temperature continued. At 8 o'clock tonight the patient's tem perature was reported unchanged. Throughout the day men of pr m Inence In railroad business and pro fessional circles called at the Hin home. All came away grave, uncom municative. One of the physicians In attend ance upon Mr. Hill Intimated that a certain infrequenitly-uned sedative might be of some possible slight benefit to the patient. Other doc tors present questioned the possible efficiency of .hese sedatives and as added argument against, the use, stated that none "of TT could be tb- talned at any point nearer than Chicago. i Louis W. Hill,- president of h Great Northern railroad and son of J. J. Hill, chanced to overhear this conversation of the surgeons. He had his secretary telephone a firm of pharmaceutical chemists in Chicago and upon learning that a supply of this sedative could, Oe obtained there. he ordered a special tram on the Chicago, Burlington and Qulncy railroad to bring the sedative te St. Paul. It arrived last night, having made the trip of 431 miles in eight hours and three minutes or at an average of fifty-four miles an hour. Railroad men stated that this shat tered all speed records between Chi ? "It Looks Like Teddy" m m mm mm BULGARIAN INVASION OF GREECE HAS RESULTED IN SURRENDER OF VARIOUS GREEK FORTS WITHOUT A STRUGGLE Greece Protests Against the Invasion, But it Is Not Believed That the Protest Will Be Backed by Arms of Greece Serbian Army Has Landed at SalonikaOnly Artillery Bombardments In Progress Along the Front at Verdun. t $ GREECE MOURNS. ' 4i ATHENS, May it (Via Lon- f don.) "Whoever dreamed to see 4- the Bulgarian flag supplant the 4- Greek flag in Macedonia! Just -t f for this we have maintained that 4- mobilisation atithft cost of the 4- economic ruin of the country." 4- KmUr.4hurfTh f Venirelist organ, Feeling runs high over the Bulgarian invasion of Greece. The Herald appeared today with f a black border as a token of na- tionaj mourning. 4- LONDON, May 28. The Bulgarian invasion . of Greek Macedonia has reached to Pemlr-Hissar and from that town forces of Bulgara are said to be making their way southeast ward toward the Aegean seaport of Kavalla, northeast of Salonlki. Unofficial estimates place the num ber of tho Invaders at 25,000. Along the Struma river the Greeks have evacuated the forts of Rupel, Drago tln, Spatovo and Kanevo to the Bui gars without offering resistance. Serbians at Salonikl. Coincidental with the Bulgarian In. vaston comes a report that, the re juvenated Serbian army the ancient enemy of the Bulgars has landed at Salonikl to reinforce the British and French troops already there. This force has been variously estimated at from 80,000 to 100,000 officers and men. It was re-organised on the Is land of Corfu. Only artillery bombardments have been in progress on the French front around Verdun. No Infantry attacks have been made. Around Le Mort Homme, northwest of Verdun, and In the sector west of the Thlaumont farm northeast of the fortress, the bombardments have been violent. In the Argonne Forest the French have captured craters caused by the ex plosion of German mines and In Al sace have put down an attempt of Five Hundred Men Take Place of Striking Long shoremen. NORFOLK, Va., May 28. Fivs hundred strike-breakers, composed of foreigners and negroes, imported by water fom Hopewell, Va, were to day landed at the wharves of the Old Dominion Steamship company to take the place of longshoremen, who have quit work to enforce a demand for an Increase in wages. The property of the company is being carefully guarded tonight by a squad of police men, while the strike-breakers are being housed and cared for on one of the company's river steamers, to pre vent the possibility of clash with strikers. The tension is said to be acute. The heavy shipments of truck by this line to New York have been sub ject to serious delays for several days owing to the shortage of labor due to the strike. THE WEATHER. WASHINGTON. May 28. Forecast for North Carolina: Local thunder showers Monday. Tuesday probably STRIKEBREAKERS FROM HOPEWELL CO TO NORFOLK the Germans to advance. In the fight ing Saturday night the Germans tn the Champagne region at several points penetrated the French line and took one hundred prisoners. . Offensive Stopped. Petrograd reports an attempt of the Germans in the Lake Drisvlaty region to start an offensive. The movement was stopped by concentrated artillery and rifle fire. , ; i The Austrian are still on the ot- gions southeast of Trent, but Rome reports that wherever infantry at tacks were started the Austrian met with repulse. On the Isonzo front at San Michele the Italians In min ing operations' destroyed Austrian trenches and took the defenders of them under their rifle fire as they lied. Turkish contingents which tried to advance against the Russians on the Caucus front in the region of Rivan-douza-Dergala were repulsed by the Russians, according to Petrograd. GREECE PROTESTS, ATHENS, May 27. Greece's pro test against the military operations undertaken by the central powers and by Bulgaria In 'Greek Macedonia was forwarded last night to the ministers of Greece at Berlin, Vienna and So fia. The Bulgarians entered Greek ter ritory' virtually unopposed and this has caused violent comment in the press and considerable agitation among the population. The Greek military authorities here claim they were unable to communi cate with their troops in eastern Macedonia. The belief is general here that it Is the Intention of the Greek government to confine lis action to a protest. BIG MEETING CALLED. 8ALONTKI (Via Paris.) As an outgrowth of the popular Indignation resulting from the violation of Greek territory a big meeting hag been call, ed here for tomorrow to protewt against the action of the German and Bulgarian troops. The position of Rupel Is an lm- DR. WAITE WISHES FOR NO APPEAL IN HIS BEHALF Convicted Murderer Says He is Satisfied With the Jury's Verdict. NEW YORK, May 28. A declara tion that he wishes no appeal In his ibehalf was contained In a statement issued from his cell in the Tombs to da(y by Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, convicted. .Saturday of the murder of his father-in-law, John E. Peck. "I am satisfied with the verdict,1' he said, "and don't want any appeal made. I am willing to take the pun ishment for my ill deeds and the quicker that punishment comes the better." Waite's demeanor underwent a change today and he lost much of the mask of Indifference which he has maintained since his removal to prison. He slept fitfully last night and appeared nervous when he arose. He expressed a desire to attend re ligious .services and was one of those who heard the Rev. 1. Callahan preach a sermon on "The Two Thieves" at the Protestant service conducted In the prison. In the afternoon Waite sent for a copy of the Bible and spent sev eral hours reading it The young dentist also read the Sunday newspa pers; especially the accounts of hi portant one. It dominates the defile leading to Demlr-Hlssar bridge, which Is the key to Seres and which also Is reported to have been occupied. An adversary thus controls the railroad from Salonikl to Kavalla. ' ' GIVEN TWO KOTOS. LONDON, May 28. The Exchange Telegraph company ' correspondent at Athens says he learns from Salonlki that the Bulgarians gave the Greeks two hours' to surrender Rupel fort, which Is six miles from the Demtr Hlssar bridge, recently blown tip by the French in anticipation of this at tack. "Athens newspapers say that the deputation of German and Bulgarian officers In demanding the surrender of Fort Rupel explained that Its oc cupation was necessary to secure the Bulgarian left wing against an eventual allied flank attack, The fort was surrendered at t o'clock Friday morning and the pro tocol signed by the German, Bulgarian and Greek officers. The Germans and Bulgarians, the newspapers say, un dertook to restore the fort to Greece so soon as the reasons for its occupa tion no longer existed. BULGARIANS CROSS FRONTIER. LONDON, May 28. A dispatch to Reuters Telegram company from Sa lonlki says: "Strong forces of Bulgarians, esti mated to number 25,000, crossed the Greek frontier at Rupel Pass and oc cupied the Greek fort and earthworks at the entrance to the Struma Gorge, near Demlr-Hlssar. The Greek gar rison retired without offering any re sistance. "The Bulgarian advance guard then pushed forward and occupied the sta tion and bridge at Demlr-Hlssar. Ac. tlvlty at other points .Indicates an Im portant movement upon Greek Mace donia." FRENCH CAPTURE CRATERS, PARIS, May 28. Occupation by tho French of portions of three crat ers formed by the xploslon of Ger- (Contlnued on Page Two) MEXICAN BANDITS ARE Cervantes and Beaucome Interred Without Priest Officiating. FIELD HEADQUARTERS, NEAR NAMIQUIPA, Mex., May 48. (Via wireless to Columbus, N. M.) Can delarla Cervantes and Juan Beaucome were buried today without religious ceremony. There were no flowered carts: no worts spoken over the graves of the two bandits, who had caused the expeditionary command almost as much trouble as has Villa himself. Even the village padre at Namlqulpa, where Cervantes had grown to man hood, declined to officiate at the ser vices. Two duty two-wheeled carts. drawn by dustier mules, bore the cof fins, through the huddled adobe huts of the town to a little cemetery on the outskirts. A few Mexicans wrap ped In dirty blankets, one of them Cervantes father, a toothless old wom an and a few dogs comprised the fu neral party. The quiet burial was ordered by the ctvil authorities of Namlqulpa. the majority of the citizens having insist ed that the body of Cervantes, brought her after he was killed in an at tack upon an American army, engineer- lng party last Thursday, be gotten out FIGHT ON KITCHIN IS BEING HANDLED IN QUIET MANNER 1 1 Mitchell Men Are Busy, However, Working Hard and Saying Nothing.' VOTERS ARE BEING CANVASSED TO MAN Automobile Loads of Litera ture Distributed Through out the District. (By T. W. Chambllss.) 1 WILSON, May1 28. If the lmpre slon has gone out that the contest in this county between Kltchln and Mitchell for .the congressional nomi nation Is a mere bit of play then the wrong idea is existent. The campaign started off with a bit of hi noise like the firing of heavy artillery. Then things quieted down. But the scout-. lng parties were busy. This is the last week and things are warming up. The local newspaper is busy night and day working the, force overtime trying to accommodate the demand for space and Jo work.) Automobiles loaded down with print ed matter are gone not going, buts gone, and every voter In the county is being, pestered Just now. Notwlth-, standing the Impression which has been made the fight against Claude, Kltchln here Is much , deeper and broader than any sour grapes, because, of a postofflce appointment. It was published abroad that the whole sum and substance of the opposition was, the Wilson postofflce and thereby . hangs a tale. Laugh at Bout. Mitchell men are laughing at Tom Bost of Raleigh. He came down her J to get something of the situation ' Raleigh being a bit dull He got-it' In the back room of one of the of flees It was a question Just how to1 ' get Bost to tell exactly what the f Mitchell men wanted told and want-' ed It told as Bost could tell It he be-' lng a Kltchln man. The trick worked: and Bost told how all of the former candidates for' the " Wilson poetofBce , . were for Mi": KltChtji" nowand it la so. ' Kltchln 'men are hard fighters and' they are working night and day. They 1 claim the county, but are shy of giv-' lng an estimate of the majority. They claim the district and say that It Is all over except the shouting ut they have not stopped working, Just the same j On the other hand the Mitchell forces and Kltchln will havs to ac knowledge that they are pretty smooth politicians he knows them (Continued on Page Two.) IS NATIDNALCDNllENTIi Will Be Kept Under Police Guard as Precaution Against Fire, EVERY PROVISION. CHICAGO, May 28. Work of pre paring the Chicago coliseum for the republican national convention June 7 has been completed. The big build ing, with Us 12,025 seats, is ready. It will be kept under police guard day and night as a precaution against Are. It cost Chicago about $95,000 to pro vide the republican party with a suit able meeting place for its 1918 na tional convention. The arrangements of the ban are declared to bo superior to those of any hall ever used by the party for a similar purpose, and credit Is given Colonel William E. Stone, of Balti more, sergeant-at-arms of the nation al committee, who had full charge of preparing the hall. He personally supervised the work .of arranging tho party's national convention halls in 1904, 1908 and 1912. In planning the press section which contains nearly seven hundred seats and desks for the use of newspaper men who will report the convention proceedings. Colonel Stone has made every possible provision for tho com fort and convenience for those em ployed In this important work. Thero are sufficient exits to give easy access to every part f the hall, and specral exits leading to the large telegraph and telephone room in the basement of the coliseum annex, where- hun dreds of special wires have been in stalled to connect the convention hall with the outside world. He has established a restaurant, an emergency hospital and a branch ' postofflce for the us of delegates and others. When James B Reynolds, secretary of the republican national committee, undertook the task of al- lotting tickets to the various news . associations and newspapers of the country, he found there were mor than five thousand applications for ' th seven hundred seats provided He is now preparing tho temporary roll -,. of delegates and - alternates for the convention and later will oomplla tha ' evidence hi the contest cases' to bo hnarrl h tli national commltte J tin ject Pxasidam Wilson." cago and Bt. Paul, tela, ,-. Conviction, it town, -
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