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THE WEATHER 4 FAIB: THE ASHEILLE CITIZEN CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS VOL. XXXIP, NO. 30. . ASHEVTLLE, N. 0., TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS ROUMAN AGAIN IfJIH IA ,t t . t - , - - E LIMELIGHT If! EUROPEAN WAR Success of . Franco-Serbian Campaign Turns Inter est To Roumania. TEUTONS PRESSING ON TOWARD CRAIOVA Complete Victory For Allies In Macedonia Is Record- - ed At Paris. RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS WILL AID, GOVERNMENT TO ENFORCE EIGHT-HOUR LAW He Doesn't Know It's Out When Government Attorneys Line Up Against Railroad Cases, They Will Be Flanked By Brotherhood Lawyers , Adamson Preparing Further Legislation. . LONDON. Nov. 20. -With the end of the first stage of the Franco Berblan campaign, which resulted In the capitulation of Monaatlr . by the Bu (gars and Germans and a diminu tion of hostilities In the Bomras re gion of France, except for bombard ments and isolated. Infantry actions, Roumanian ' has again become the center of Interest. Driving eastward through western Wallaohla, , the Austro-German forces now are reaching ont for Craiova, ly ing on' the railroad midway between the Danube town of Orsova, Hungary, ana Bucharest,, This maneuver ap parently places a menace in the rear to tne retreat or tne Roumanians fighting In the north on Hungarian oil and disputing with the Austro German the passages of the Transyl vanlan Alps leading to the plains of Wallaohla. In the Jull valley region the retire ment of the Roumanians continues, and in the Caropulung sector Petro grad reports that further Roumanian attacks "against the' Teutonic allies have been , unsuccessful. On . the Danube front In Dobrudja artillery en gagements are In . progress . from filllstrla to Oltlna. A ; , i Victory for Anie. The fighting In Macedonia from the Cerna river to Lake Presba has ended In a complete victory for the entente allied troops, says the Pari war office The Kerbs have not yet entered Mon aatlr, captured Sunday, the town hav ing been virtually destroyed accord lhg to unofficial accounts. The en tents' forces have 'occupied villages to the north of the town and are declared to be still- In pursuit of the Oermana and Bulgarians. , Berlin says, however, that the newly chosen positions select ed for their retirement- 'north of Monastlr have been entered by -the Germans; and . Bulgarians without . lirnnmirK from their- nntaa-nnllita. and. -aiso- tnat new uerman xorces nave reached the fightlngione, . , . The German artillery on the Somen' front' - Mar Bemumont-Hamsl - and Gueudeoourt and on the Verdun sec tor 'near ' Douaumont ' have heavily shelled British, and - French po sitions. Strong . forces of Austrian in an assault on the summit of Hill 126 on the Carso front of the Italian theatre have captured Italian entrenchments. Cold weather has set in on the Russian front and as a' consequence little fighting is going on there. El Federation Holds That La bor Is Not Property and Acts Accordmgly. COMMITTEE REPORTS WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. Heads of the railroad em- Eoyes brotherhoods, determined that the Adamson eight our law shall not be broken down, conferred here today with President Wilson, Attorney General Gregory and their legislative representatives; declared ther purpose to aid the government in every way in fighting injunction suits against the law and made further plan3 for perfect ing a working agreement with their allies, the railroad men of the American Federation of Labor, Brotherhoods To Help. When the government attorneys, G. Carroll Todd, as sistant to the attorney general, Assistant Attorney Gen eral Underwood, and Prank Hagennan, appear in the Fed eral court at Kansas City next Thursday to oppose the Union Pacific and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe suits against the Adamson law, they will be flanked by repre sentatives of the brotherhoods. It is probable that the four brotherhood chiefs themselves will be there. Messrs Todd and Underwood left tonight for Kansas City. Great significance is attacjhed to the announcement today that the brotherhood heads will address the Amer ican Federation of Labor convention in Baltimore tomor row. Never before in the history of the organization has any of their members met in joint session, but their meet ing at Baltimore will be the result of a carefully worked out agreement that the two forces shall join hands in orking for the general betterment of the organized rail way employes. Message Finished. After receiving the brotherhood heads and Chairman Adamson, author of the eight-hour law, President Wilson four pump authored at the last 1 year ad tnis year the depart- iri-Mollv ,-0Ti 1,4c. n , i ml,!V 1. m session of eoagress and approving ment. seek ii.suu.uu. tor ammun.- '"vuuu "um0 "6 luicM iu vyucii xte wui phuJg for M amB!an!t!on ship, the last , "on iowuuucuu wuiicuuu ui wc lauwaj legislative prugram, vessel designed jor tne in Duuaing ouxunea oy mm at ue iasi session, inese recommenda- p' in appropriation uu-w.-tions include provisions for the enlargement of the infer- ZJttZZFSl state commerce commission and for. compulsory invegti- heavit in American history., to gation of proposed strikes.' The latter is bitterly opposed aivr bytlrebrotheA fS.VtSixtt OnlT UlCOnSPicUOUSlv in todav's activities here. Thrir threeiyear program and show total . r . r-f w- ..iy,- At tT1M7ftt or .ox.Mv.-i-M. v.- J 1 J7 1.1.. A - ii .iiuivpuyi.. AcxouiauTo oj;piucu uciui c me DCliatC Xlivci Stale UOIIl- nerce .commitee and learned that their, spokesman would be heard Thursday. Brotherhood representatives may appear Derore tne committee later, but so far have not in dicated .formally their intention to do so. Members of a committee of the Evansville. Ind.. steei companies, each receiving 1 - . . .- , nan ot me wore, a nuemcni mi- chamber or commerce called during the day to tell Presi- i contracts says that despite the don Wilsnn f Tint, triors wnnl ha m miAAl - unprecedented European demand for " vv v kjj iujuuic oiaico uuiiicr-1 mate, tne nrtcas orrerea were aDoroxi- ence on the railroad situation in their city early in Decern- UfVhS'hV pywaniawaS being constructed. SECRETARY DANIELS AWARDS CONTRACTS FOR JEW BATTLESHIPS WHILE COMMITTEE WRESTLES WITH 1917 BUILDING PROGRAM Navy Department's Estimates for Next Year, Which Comprise Building of More Than One-Halt the Three-year Program Approved by Congress at the Last Session, Is Largest in History of the Country Armor Plate Contracts Let by Daniels to Private Bidders. WASHINGTON". Nov. 10. While ' chant steamers as naval auxiliaries In Secretary Daniel- was awarding con- . " or wan tracts today for armor plate for the , f th, nurD0B(, waB Dr0vlded or more than ,000, 000 in excess of the record total appropriated last summer. Armor Plata Contract. Contracts for the armor plate which will go on, the Colorado, Maryland. Washington .and West Virginia, were awarded to the Bethlehem and Car- (CONTINUED ON PAfJB TWO.) WARM PRAISE IS GIVEN MISS UW WHO MADE NEW U. S. FLYING HECORD BALTIMORE. Md., Nov. 20. The American Federation of Labor today recommended unanimously that any Injunction dealing with the relation ship of employer and employe, and based on the dictum that labor la property, should be disregarded, "let the consequences be what they may." The action was taken when the fed eration in annual session here, adopted a report of the executive council committee dealing with a de cision of the Massachusetts Supreme court classifying labor as property. The convention also adopted a reso lution urging organised labor to make the Injunction question ."the para mount issue In all of their future po litical activities." The committee ' report on the Massachusetts decision reads: "It seems to be a settled purpdse of Interests antagonistic to the freedom of men and women who labor, to persuade, and then use the Judlcary and misconstrue constitutional guar antees and thereby nullify legislative enactments, so as to leave but on remedy; and. we, therefore, recom mend that any injunctions dealing with the relationship of employer and employe . and based on the dictum, 'labor Is property,' be wholly and ab solutely regarded aa usurpation and disregarded,, let the- consequences be what they may. Such decisions as to the one rendered by the Supreme court of the state of Massachusetts has Its root in class Interests, it Is usurpation and tyranny. Freedom came to maa because he believed that resistance to tyranny la obedience to God. Aa It came, eo It must be main tained. King could be and were dis obeyed and sometimes depoeed. ' In cases of this kind, judges must be dis obeyed and should be Impeached." FEARS BLOND ESKIMOS. ' NEW TORK. Not. .Fear that Mood Eskimos may prove a menace to his exposition la expressed - by Vllhlalmur 8tefanon. the explorer, in a letter written from Cape Kellett, Banks Island, In the Arctic, and re ceived today by Dr. Herbert J. Spin-: den, assistant curator of anthropology; at the American museum of natural history In this city. Aero Club Issues Statement Commending Fair Aviatrix. IS RECORD PLIGHT NEW YORK, Nov. . 10. Warm ipralse for Miss Ruth Law, who today completed her aerial flight from Chi cago to New Tork during which she set two new records, is contained In a statement by the board of governors of the Aero Club of America. The statement announces that Miss Xjaw set a new American non-stop flight cross-country record, as well as a world record In that classification for women, and made the second best world record-for men or women. A special point was made of the fact that she frequently had to dip her machine In order to make the gasoline run from the fuel tanks to the carbureter. Miss Law is quoted as laying that aa she approached New Tork her gaso line supply waa getting so low that even "the feeding by dipping was get ting lesa effective" and she waa getting read to land In the streets if neces sary. Mlaa LaWa record flight waa from Chicago to Hornell, N. Y., a distance Of ! miles and about 100 miles bet ten than the previous record establish ed by Victor- Carlstrom early this month. The aviatrix continued from Hornell to Blnghamton - yes terday and this morning com pleted -the 112 miles from Blng hamton to .this city In two hours and twenty minutes. The entire Jonr- ner of Sit miles, air-line waa made in a flying time of about nine hours and one minute.' "The , airplane need to make-this record-breaking flight," the statement of the Aero club read, "waa the small tooD-the-tooo biplane with the -pro peller in the rear, which sha had built especially for herself on the old model last March for the ' looping-the-loop exhibitions she gave In number during the past season. She wanted this type, where the seat la In front without pro tection from the elements, she said. because it affords a wider range of vision while flying. The machine was equipped with lea-horsepower motor aad gasollna Aftr-taree caUona." JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE WILL SEEK Will Endeavor To Find Out What Is Matter With Various Lines. PLANS LEGISLATION The department estimates before the house sub-committee call for funds to begin construction or three battle ships, four fleet cruisers, three scout cruisers, sixteen destroyers, four fleet submarines, fourteen coast aubma rlnes, one submarine tender and one destroyer. It Is understood that the navy run eral board urged that the two battle cruisers remaining on the three year program and four or tne six battle, ships be placed in the 1918 estimates, The department decided, "however, to divide the new construction equally between the 1918 and 191 Ml 13. Strauss Before Committee. Rear Admiral Strauss, chief of ord nance, appeared before tne sub-corn mlttee. Explaining an Item in his es timates of l-u00,()00 for fleet ammu nltlon, he said the cost of projectiles and other ordnance material naa in creased that much since congress pro vided $11,000,000 for the purpose last year. Prices of smaller shells, he said, were going down, indicating a decreasing demand from Europe; but large shells of the 14-incn. sue usea by tne navy snowea a zu per cent in WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. -What Is I another point Admiral. Strauss the matter with the railroads and outlined the department's scheme for what kind at iftrisiaM.. t,. storlna In navy yards guns and am .. k.i.. ... I munition with which to. equip , mer- be pictured to the Joint .congressional committee Investigating transporta tion problems beginning Thursday by the executives of soma of ths greatest systems In the country- The Investigating committee held its first session today, heard an open ing statement by its chairman, Senator Newlands and received notice of ap pearance from nearly one hundred Damages InCUTTed Ll Sink public utility companies, state railway I commissions, 'commercial and Indus trial organizations and shippers and individuals. Few who noted appear ances seemed ready to Open the hear ings wihj testimony and in executive Hon tonight the committee decided to near the railroads first In the belief that their executives are better pre pared to state their case without I The department also has recom mended the installation of anti aircraft guns at naval stations, maga stnes and radla stations, the pending estlmtes providing 11,000,000 for this purpose, 'It will take more than 10 of the navy's three-Inch fifty-calibre saw. warposov j vi PMdactag Torpedoes. ' : v Admiral Strauss said the naval gun factory was now producing torpedoes,, the first deliveries; however, exceed ing In cost the price quoted by private manufacturers, it is expected mat the factory will get Its eosta con siderably below tha commercial rate with Its next delivery. , , Admiral Strauss will appear before the committee again tomorrow, and will ibe followed by other bureau chiefs and finally by Secretary Daniels and members of the general board. The ammunition ship for which the secretary approved plans Is the first craft of the kind ever designed for the navy. She will have a displace ment of 10,000 tons with cargo or powder and shells. Special facilities are provided for handling explosives aboard, and the holds will be equipped With cooling facilities to In sure the regulation temperattt-w. Large refrigeration spaces will make her easily convertible into a supply vessel. ' Propelling machinery Is designed for either coal or- fuel oil. A de fensive armament Includes four flve inch rapid-fire guns and two three Inch antl-atacraft guns. Bids are be ing asked fronv ahlp builders and the department hopes to bs able to open them by the first of the year. Secretary Daniels said today he had arranged to confer with representa tives of the Electric Boat company In an effort to seek modifications ot their pending submarine blda Vhls com pany offered to construct twenty-four or more submarines, deliveries to be gin within twenty-five months and proposed at much higher cost to have the deliveries begin within fifteen months. The department is . deter mined to place the submarine con struction on not more than a twenty- two months' basis. Representatives of the Seattle Con struction and Dry dock company also will confer with the department of ficials .Wednesday. This company sub mitted the only proposal that came within the law for the construction ot a scout cruiser. With the contract for one scout cruiser given to the Seattle company, the department still faces the problem of placing the con struction of the remaining three ves sels of this type and Secretary Daniels is planning to return to congress for an additional appropriation for the building of these ships.- , ' ' ' EJIflT, TEOTXMOjnr.' MANDAMUS CASE POSTPONED UNTIL THISJpOON J. J. Britt's Attorneys Given Time To Prepare Affidavits. CANVASSING BOARD ANSWERS COMPLAINT A. Hall Johnston Reads 4,000 Word Document In Court. v NASHVILLE. Tenn Nov. JO Ex pert testimony designed to show At what- distances" 'the discharge of a revolver would leave powder marks on the naman skin -waa introduced oy the defense today at the trial of Chas. A. Trabiie, ndw oh' trial for killing Harry S. Stokes, in this city last April. Five local surgeons, 1 In response to a 8,000 word hypothetical question asked by Attorney McConnlco, testified that In an experiment with a cadaver no subcutaneous powder marks re sulted when- shots were fired Into It from a distance of six inches. , '' ESCAPED FROM VILLA. DOUGLAS, Aria,, Nov. JO. Jorge Jattar, formerly - a prosperous mer chant, of Guerrero Chihuahua and a party of fourteen Syralans, including women and, children, arrived In Dou glas today' after riding horseback from Guerrero to Nacosari, Sonora, seventy-five miles south of hare. Jat tar said $500 waa all he and the other members had following a raid by Francisco Villa at the head of a band of 800 about thirty days ago. Villa cursed all foreigners, Jattar said. "TRUCE OOimNTJED. BROWNSVILLE, Texas. Nov. 20.-- A truce declared today between the defending "white" and Invading brown armies in tne maneuvers in this district over the capture of large "enemy forces,, the success of which Is claimed by both sides, tonight was continued until tomorrow when Brig adier uenerai James Parker, umpire. Is expected to render a decision. To night, the "whites" are encamped Just south of tbe San Benito and the "browns are said to be nearby. Both armies are expected to move toward Brownsville tomorrow, THE WEATHER, WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. Forecast for North Carolina: Fair Tuesdav and Wednesday, somewhat cooler Wednes day. . Judge W. J. Adams, of Superior court, opened the hearing yesterday! afternoon of the writ of mandamus Issued by Judge T. J.- Shaw lastThurs- flay in behalf of James J. Brltt against the canvassing board of Buncombe county, whidh was made returnable' yesterday before Judge Adams here. i After hearing the reading of the original complaint presented 1 last week to Judge Shaw,, the writ , or, mandamus and the lengthy answer of the canvassing board, Judge Adams adjourned the hearing until this after noon at 8 o'clock so. that the at torneys for the plaintiff, James J. Brltt, may (have an opportunity to prepare additional affidavits. Mr. Brltt la represented by Thomas Settle. , F. A. Bondle i and 'IT w . Thomas, while the canvassing board's attorneys are A. Hall Johnston,' Louis M. Bourne and General Theodore F.' Davidson. All the attorneys, the plaintiff and defendant named In the writ, were in court at 10 o'clock yes-, terday morning and Mr. SetUe . re quested Judge Adams to set an hour for the hearing. The court named I' o'clock yesterday afternoon and at the : appointed time the court room , waa crowded to capacity. , - The proceedings were: opened' by Hon. Thomas Settle, who after eb-t tainlng the permission of the Judga read tbe complaint, following with a reading of the writ of mandamus.. The next step In the order of th day was the reading of the answer ' pre-' pared by tbe attorneys of th canvass ing board. . !.,. i..-i'i f) Mr. Johnston read this document, a- lngty an containing more 'than 4,000; words. It set forth th eom- plete. proceedings of the board eince It first met, including the minute of the meeting of that bodyt - The an wer denied nearly al of the allega tions In Mr. Britt'e complaint and by way of further answer went Into minute detail asto all that transpired. " Substance of Answer, i- Concerning the' adjournment asked -bv th plaintiff and- granted on Thursday,- November II, when th writ of mandamus was served, the following was contained In Kh answer: ' ' ' -' "These . respondent nellv. ' on what they think to b good ground, that th application mad' by th plaintiff and hi counsel on Thursday, th 17th Instant, at tfhe closa of their lengthy arguments for a four-hour adjournment, for th pretended pur pose of securing , and presenting further authorities In support of their Sositlon. was not mad In good faith ut for th purpose, a It eeems to , these respondents, of enabling them to procure the issuance of the writ In this ease, and Its service upon Kh respondent with th view and in the ' hope that toy so doing they - would , either secure a certification of th rotes of Buncombe county that was , favorable to plaintiff, but not 'based upon 'th votes actually cast In said lsctton, or In order to prevent the votes actually cast In said county of Buncombe from being submitted to v and considered by th state hoard ot ' elections, ss by law required, thu (Continued on Pagu Two.) DEUTSGHLANO IS RUDY F( Ing Convoying Tug Have Been Repaired. NEW LONDON. Conn., Nov. 20. Freed from legal entanglements which further delay. The railroad executives I have accumulated since she sank one advisory committee composed ot more I f her convoying tugs In the ' Race than a dosen beads of Important sys- .... ,. ,,.., tern wasdvtaed and It is expected J?" "fL- w S that moetf Its members will testify !ubmaf, Deuthland was prepared before the railroad Is completely told, tonight to resume her ; Interrupted Th committee decided to hold 1 1?' '. ,5 "1 Ji ro'm nW .F W! "era aecreUv. a. usual concern ng "i ta kS.'rt.'ti" trong Indications Sri BrrTi m?h.mmlA that the submarine would steal out to ord op to date far tne committee and ... . ., LnM for witnesses. No decistoa was reach- w,tbin tn n"t twenty-four hours, ed ma. to what witnesses wiU be called From reliable sources It was learned when the. railroads conclude. Rep- that rtpairs were completed yester reaentaMves of the American Tele- dav afternoon and tsta today proved phone and Telegraph company. ne that the craft was rV. seriously dam Western Union Telegraph company aced In the collision. Iron bars have and several of the big express com- been riveted crosswise In her bow as panle were present and wilt be heard I a precaution against possible damage before the committee reports. I that does not appear on the surface. Thm railroad slim of the Investln. I Captain Koenlg discarded civilian tion la expected to tak most of the drees tonight and wore his naval anl eommlttee'e time but under the re- I form. Shore leave was denied to the eolutloa which created it its Invee'l- I Deutschlaad'a crew and sailors on the holding rations are to extend to all such pub I North German Lloyd ' liner Wlllehad its ntuiuea were not auowea to ieav u pier. EXPELIEDIM GREECE French Commander of Allied Fleet Orders Them To Leavp By .Wednesday. LONDON, Nov. 20. An Athens dis patch to the Exchange Telegraph com pany says the German, Austro-Hun- garian, Bulgarian and Turkish minis ters to Greece have been informed by Vice Admiral DuFournet, commander ot the silled fleet, that they must de part from Greece by .Wednesday. Renter's Athens correspondent un der date of November 20 says that Vice Admiral Du Fournet has notified the Austrian. German, Bulgarian and Turkish ministers to Greece that they must go- aboard a steamer which has been placed at their dlxposal; other wtoe they will be taken forcibly. .The American legation, the corres pondent adds, haa undertaken the pro tection Of the Austrians, Turks and Bulgers In Greece, while the Spanish legation will take charge of. German Interests.- The Dally Mall's Athena correspon dent says: "The Immediate cause of the expul sion "of the ministers wsa the discov ery that the German naval attache. Baron von Senarolena-Grancy, was engaged la espionage." , , LEGISLATURE OF WEST I Eight Bills . Dealing With Legislation : Desired By . Governor Are Introduced. CHARLESTON. W. Nov. 20. The West Virginia general assembly, called Into extra session by Governor Hatfield to amend election laws and Investigate charges of fraud growing out of the recent election, held two brief sessions today and eight bills were introduced in keeping with the program of the guvernor. - The first session waa field Jointly to hear the messags of the governor.' Soon after reconvening the organisa tion was perfected, the rules being amended to place complete control of business in the hands of tbe ma jority, t II FRANCE HAVE ACCOUNTED Lieutenant William Thaw, On Furlough To America. Tells Experiences. , BELONG TO FRANCE NEW TORK, Nov. 20. American aviators fighting with th French forces on the western front have brought down a total of twenty-one German airplanes, according to Lieu tenant William Thaw, a member of the Franco American aviation corps, who arrived here today on tbe steam ship ITouralne for a three weeks' visit among re la Uvea- Lieutenant Thaw was accompanied by C. C John eon, also an American aviator wtioso) home Is In New York. "Regulations of tne FTencn array forbid ue talking of our work." Lieu tenant Thaw said. "Mr oersonal part in the fighting has been told in the cable dispatches and one of the twenty-one German machines brought down la credited to me. We heard nothing before leaving France regard ing the request f the American gov ernment to drop tbe name 'American' from the Franco-American - soldiers. All of ua have sworn alllgianoa to th French government. Mr. Johnson said tnat ror aotne im , One of the bills Introduced .today would give the State Supreme Court , th. k of American- aviators haa of Anneals. Instead of a SDeoal Kn nnflnd to acoutina fllsbta. htribunal. th right to reraov state Both of the aviator talked with Nor- electlve officers against whom charges 1 man Prince )wtt prior ta his going oa have been filed. - Another would give j what proved to be hi last flight, appglntlve officers removed from i They said that he volplaned back ta their positions the right to appeal to the French line after aa air en the State Supreme court. Other bills gagement and in alighting hi ma would restore to minority parties their chine etroek some telegraph wires, former place on ballots and amend the turning over and Prince recevled ln-s present registration law.- . , juries tnat resuuea in aim ammia. ; ' -.v. . C. , ' - . -
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