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THE WEATHER FAIB THE AS SEVILLE CITIZEN CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS VOL. XXXIH, NO. 31. ASHEVILLE, N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1916. PRICE FIVE CENTS AUSTRO CAPTURE CRAIOVA DRIVING FORWARD Ferdinand's Men In Danger of Being Caught Between Two Forces. LITTLE FIGHTING ON OTHER FRONTS SENSATIONAL TWIST GIVEN ALTERNATIVE MANDAMUS HEARING AT COURT HOUSE Republican Attorneys Assert That Chair man Lyda Failed to Sign Abstract of Election Returns, and Claim This Invali dates Action Taken by the Board. Allied Troops Are Still Pressing Forward In Macedonia. LONDON, Nov. 11 Ausrtro-German forces pushing eastward' through southwest Roumanian have captured the town of Craiova,? and the Kou manlans who are retreating down the Jlul valley and at other, point from the Transylvania Alps region appar ently are In danger of being cut off, Roumanians In Danger. Troops of.. King1 Ferdinand in the Jlul Valley have reached FUliash, but here ther are outflanked by the Teu tonlo allies at" Craiova, and without the aid of a railroad to convey them eastward, seemingly must be caught oa the plains of Wallachia, In the vise of the Austro-Germans, which Is closing- In on them Dotn ireiu tne north and the south. Added peril to the Roumanians in this region is noted in the continued advance of the Teutonic allies on the Alt valley south of the Rothenthurm nana, where Fetrograd admits the Roumanians are retiring slowly south' ward. An advance eastward along the railway twenty-five miles to 61a tina would gie: tne Austro-Oermans this important raiiroaa town ana compel the retreating Roumanians in the Alt valley also, to take the high roads In an endeavor to escape In the direction of Bucharest. little Furhtiwr. Little fighting Is reported from any of the other fronts. In the Somme re I gion of France a heavy fog hung over the entire battlefield Tuesday ana nothing but artillery duels took place. Bombardments and minor infantry at tacks have occurred In the Italian theatre. In Macedonia, aocordlng to Paris, the entente allied troops to the north ot Monastir are still pressing the Ger mans and Bulgarsv West of Monastir, the Italians have - repulsed ootwter-4 attacks delivered by tne Teutonic ai lie. An unofficial dispatch from Salonlki says the Serbians have cap tured seven villages west and north west of ' Monastir, taken many pris oners and - field guns, machine guns and a quantity of war material. Berlin reports the sinking by a Ger man submarine In the English chan nel of a French guard vessel and seven merchantmen. The French ministry of marine denies that any Frenoh war vessel has been sunk there. Semi-official advices from Vienna by way of Berlin report that the con' (Continued on Page Two.) FIGHTING FOR THE FIRST T Naval Division Took Part In Breach of Original Ger man Line On Ancre. STORM A VILLAGE (Copyright. 1911, by The Associated Press.) WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Nov. 21. (Via London, Nov. 22) British naval troops are fighting for the first time on the western front. A naval division took part in the breaching of the original German main line north of the Ancre Novem ber It, and the capturing of . Beau court the following , morning after twenty-four hours of continuous fight ing. - . The advance of a portion of the naval troops Vas temporarily held np by 'a strong German redoubt joining the first and. second rows of trenches and containing many concreted ma chine guns, the fire from which pre vented the battalions on .the left im mediately south of the quarries ot Beaumont-Hamel . from securing the entry position. But the bluejackets nearer back of the Ancre pushed through to the out skirts of Beaucourt within an hour, where they remained all day under a heavy machine gun and snipers' fire. At nigntiati. tne position of tne aivl son was somewhat confused, but a battalion officer with a contingent, al though wounded fourteen hours be fore, determined to storm the village at dawn with what composite naval troops could be assembled In the darkness and among the craters and temporary shelters of tire ground newly won This officer managed to concen trate a striking force during the night with which he dashed into Beaucourt at dawn, bambing and bayonetting the Germans. For tan minutes the Germans fought and then surrendered en masse to- the officer, who had re ceived three additional wound dur ing the capture of the village. . The redoubt which held p the left of the naval troopa resisted through out the day of the Ills, and until daws of the 14th. Then many of the men advancing In No Man's Land at dawn halted 200 yards distant. The machine gunners la the redoubt saw some of a tank's crew emerging through - the hatchways with a g-ua which the men were mounting In the crater beside the tank. The Germans hoisted a dirty handkerchief on a long pole as a signal ox sorreaa . . A new and sensational twist was given to the Tenth district congressional contest in the alternative mandamu3 hearing belore Judge W. J. Adams, yesterday aiternoon when counsel for Congressman James J. Britt claimed that Chairmari Lyda of the canvassing board had failed to sign the abstract of election forwarded to Raleigh and that his signature to the copy on file here had been affixed at a later date than when the other members of the board had signed the abstract. This, it is stated by Mr. Britt 's coun sel, invalidates the findings of the canvassing board which declares Zebulon Weaver the next representative from thi3 district, elected by a majority of nine votes out of a total of more than 36,000 cast. Judge Adams adjourned court until 9 o'clock this morning to give counsel for the canvassing board an op portunity to present counter-affidavits. This entirely unexpected turn of affairs developed late in the afternoon of the second days' hearing by Judge Adams of the writ of alternative mandamus issued by Judge bhaw at Hendersonville. The session had been de voted almost entirely to; the hearing of many affidavits presented by counsel lor Mr. Britt, and by a few m re buttal offered by counsel for the canvassing: board. The effect of Mr. Britt 's affidavits were, to show that if un marked ballots for Mr. Weaver from five specified pre cincts should be counted, that a qounting of the unmarked ballots from a still larger number of precincts would give Congressman Britt the election and reverse the findings of the board 01 canvassers. Becoming Involved. The famous case is fast becoming an involved and tangled mass of technical law points, and some of the points of law now promise to be drawn exceedincrlv fine Dy tne atue counsel representing Congressman Britt and the Buncombe county canvassing board. For the fact was made distinctly elear by the opposition, counsel yesterday tnartiiey represented? not Congressman-elect weaver, but the "Buncombe county canvassing board, upon whom the writ ot alternative mandamus was served and whose tab illation of the vote of the county resulted in the proclaim ing of Zeb Weaver the successful nominee. To add to the clearness of the situation, the iurisdic- tion ot Judge Adams was yesterday questioned bv coun el tor the board, and one or two of the affidavits directlv contradicted each other in their statement's. Judge Adams has not indicated his position in the matter but yesterday afternoon expedited the case as much as possi-J ble. .No. oral arguments were made bv counsel, but the larger part of the afternoon was devoted to the reading of Make Us Thankful for That Which We Are About to Receive! (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.I IS EXPECTED TO FOLLOW American Officials Keeping Careful Watch On This Situation. REPORTS RECEIVED WASHINGTON. Nov. 21. The prospective European commercial war-efter-the-war, viewed with In creasing seriousness here. Is being watched carefully by American con sular officers abroad and reports are being received regularly at the de partment from many different sources. It became known today tnat ail avail able facts are being sent on to Wash ington, both as to the progress al ready made In planning this economic struggle a nde as to expected develop ments, omclals here think tne Amen can people do not fully realise the possible effects of such post-bellum strife 'on their huge foreign trade, which has passed the eight billion dollar mark annually. Uncertain as the. future is and varying 'as are all the reports, no doubt Is felt here that the country faces a grave eoonomlo danger unless It does all possible first to forestall such a struggle, and sec ond, to prepare against It In case present Indications are borne out. Legislation along this line will be sought In congress. The Webb bill, allowing American flrme to unite for foreign trade without violation of the anti-trust laws. Is to be urged again In the president's next address. The shipping board provided at the - last congress la expected to be named shortly and to submit a program de signed to free 'America's sea-borne trade . from dependence oa foreign bottoms- maxlmam and minimum tariff to automatically favor friends and panish these discriminating against American - goods la another proposed means of defense which will be, submitted for consideration by the new tariff commission. The state department le deeply In terested la the threatened trade com plexities and It Is largely for this rea son that as many consular-officers as happen to be In this country at the time will be sent to the fourth annual meeting of the National Foreign Trade Council at Pittsburgh. January 21. 21 and IT. , ' .. IMMENSE BATTLESHIPS ARE NOW BEING PUNNED BY THE NAVAL DESIGNERS Will Be Hundred Feet Long er Than Longest Now ' Provided For. POWERFUL NEW GUNS WASHINGTON, Nov. tl Naval de signers are planning battleships whrch nave a lengtn or 700 feet 100 feet longer than ships already provided for and ordnance experts are working on a slxteen-mcn fifty-calibre rifle for new battleships, which will be the most powerful naval gun In the world, according to statements made today at the hearing by the house naval sub committee on the new naval appro priation Mil. Rear Admiral Strauss, chief of ordnance, told the committee that It was the purpose to arm the ships contracted for this year with twelve of the new guns. That the department is proposing a far greater else In foture dreadnoughts developed during the testimony of Rear Admiral Frederick R. Harris, chief of the bureau of Tarda and docks His testimony dealt largely with the Increased eoet of equipping gov ernment yards for the building of cap ital ships and he expressed doubt that K would be possible to construct at the Philadelphia yard within the es timate the l.OpO foot . dry-dock for which congress has appropriated II, 000.000. A similar dock at Norfolk, he said, apparently could be finished at that prtee. Bids for building the Philadelphia dock will be asked next January. ... Explaining his estimates for the fto- eal year 1111, Admiral Harris eeid In creasing prices of material and labor were rendering the huge navy build ing program on which the country has embarked doubly expensive. Submitting an eetlmate of 12.000.- 00 for shore station maintenance mm against 11.100,000 last year, he warn ed the committee that the actual sum needed would be nearer $t. 000. 000 which would buy no more than II.- lOO.OOt did last year. He explained that structural steel had ' gone ID from lit to II0. and that last auo. Satlons on locomotive cranes ran as high as lie, too for machines that eoet 110,000 last rear GOVERNMENT AND RAILROAD OFFICIALS MAY JOIN FORCES IN EFFORT TO GET WICK DECISION ON THE ADAMS0N LAW Attorneys for Various Roads Confer With Attorney General Gregory at Washington, and Effort May Be Made to Have Supreme Court Pass on Constitutionality of Law Before January I, IVfcen Becomes Effective Would Use Test Case. WASHINGTON. Kov. 21. The de partment of justice and the railroads of the country, may Join in an effort to have the Constitutionality .of the Adamson eight-hour law determined by the Supreme' ''court before January 1, when it becomes effective- Attorneys for the Pennsylvania, New York Central and Burlington roada conferred tonlcht with Attorney General Gregory and Solicitor General uavia, and it was unaenwoa me Question was discussed of -making a test Case of one of the suits with a view to having the. entire question settled as soon as possible. It is be lieved further negotiation will be undertaken tomorrow and there is prospect of an agreement which would put the Issue In one case. Will Kxpeuite uaae. If this' course Is adopted, the de partment and railroads will make ev ery effort to expedite the case they select for the test Although the question arose first to day at .Kansas City in the case of the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf in junction suit, . the present intention here is to make the light on tne sun of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. set for hearing there Thursday. A decision by the Supreme court would not in law be binding on other litigants, but if the railroads and the department agreed that all- parties should abide by a decision In this case. no other suits would be begun, ana those already Instituted would be dropped. Both sides are represented as anxious that there be an early, de cision by the highest federal tribunal of the validity of the Adamson act, in view of the Importance of the Issues Involved and the unsettled condition which may result from failure to have a final Interpretation promptly- G. C. Todd and Marvin Hi. Under wood of the department are on their way to Kansas 'lty to appear in the Sante F case and the department's course probably will not be deter mined finally until they are com municated with and pass on the. ad visability of resting the issue on this case. Wilson Act. Because of the renewed seriousness of the dispute over the act, Presl- RESIDENTIAL VOTE TO BE CANVASSED TODAY State Board of Elections Will Meet At Raleigh To Receive Returns, r . dent Wilson has made recommenda tions for railroad legislation the prin cipal part of his next message to con gress, which he completed late today. These recommendations, it became known definitely tonight, will be prac tically the same as those made by 'him to congress lact August when .he Adamson bill, a part of his program was enacted to prevent the threaten ed strike. 'The question was dis cussed at today's cabinet meeting, and Attorney General Or;ory reported on ateDs ts-ken by his department It -was : learned. , today- that the president has been strongly but vainly urged to recommend to congress legis lation authorising the interstate com merce commission to tlx wages paid on railroads. In addition to the pro posals made last summer for enlarge ment of the commission, enforced In vestigation of disputes before strikes or lockouts and authorisation to, the commission to consider wages In Ax ing freight rates, the president is un derstood to have decided to again urge that congress make all arbitral awards in such disputes judgments by record of a court of law Extended Meeting. The railway executives now In Washington held an extended meet ing today to determine the order in which their testimony will be present ed Thursday to the joint congressional committee investigating railroad prob. lems. Their first spokesman will be A. P. Thorn, counsel to the railway Hui.tlv. an1 .ilvl.nrw Mtmmtltu i Frank Trumbull, chairman of the I ,,. tll. They will return here early next week and rejoin W, 8. Carter, head of the firemen, now New Tork. SUDDEN ISSUE. , KANSAS CITY, Nov. . 21. Legal skirmishing In the fight ot the rail road of the United States against the Adamson eight-hour law was brought to a sudden Issue today by a' motion filed by the government In the United States District court here, which it la expected will result In -a decision on the constitutionality of the law by the Supreme court of the United States before January 1, when the. taw ie to go Into effect "Prolonged, unnecessary and scat tered litigation should, if possible, be avoided, otherwise injury may result to the public and the railroads and their employes," the government says in Its motion for Its action WIS JOSEPH AUSTRIA!. RULER DIED LAST NIGHT . AT VIENNA PAUCE Had Been m For Many Years and Was Frequent ly Reported As Dying. KNOWN AS EUROPE'S "MAN OF SORROWS' Kindly Ruler But Private Life Was Marked With Tragic Incidents. f. The government's motion, .which was a.reoxea agaiiwi jyiexanaer jw reetalbllshed. . the , right and Henry C. Ferries, receivers for ! .i.ii Z-L i the Missouri. Oklahoma and Gulf , atic T ee ntraliaat on u 'S" r.iim.H .nhnii wn .M.Hr, . I: "" cenixaiisauon - was restored. LONDON, Nov. 22. Emperor Francis Joseph died last night at 9 -o'clock at Schoenbruan castle, aocord lng to a Reuter dispatch from Vienna, by way of Amsterdam. The death of the emperor, known as Europe's "Man of Sorrows" while not entirely unexpected, came as somewhat of shock, as reports received early yes terday were to the effect that Francis Joseph was giving audiences to at, least one or two of his ministers dally, and was not considered dangerously ill. First Serious News. The first news that the amnarn was seriously affected by his last ill ness came yesterday in the form of . a message from Vienna, which said: "The seat of the Inflammation la the right lung, established yesterday, has increased. The patient's tempera ture early this morntnr was l.l iteavmur, at f o'clock and this -evening J 8.6. Breathing had ac celerated to thirty respiration a' minute. Appetite small and vitality visibly lowered." , ( With the increases In temperature, and the sudden gravity of the bul letins, came the report that the se rament had been administered to the Austrian ruler and the news of hie' death followed shortly afterward, -" - AronauKo wnaries rranois, grand, nephew of the dead ruler, will' tin 1 ceed to the Austro-HungariaQ throne.' -He is now In Vienna,' , - '-.' crowned Jn IMS. """". Francis JoseDh. urn f ir.t. duke Fraud, succeeded hlS'-unoie, - eramana, to tne throne of Austria December J, IMS. His succession took place in the midst .ot revolu-' tlon, and war at once broke, out with Hungary. Havtnft with, the aid of, Russian, troops, , subdued ; Hungary, v and having simultaneously triumphed over the Insurgents in Italy,, the eta--peror carried out reactionary meas- ; ures. oiany ot tne old abuses were of na- bureau- railroad, embodied two distinct quests of the court, as follows: Two Requests. ' "1 The government ask an Imme diate decision on the injunatlon peti tion - filed by the receivers for the Missouri, Oklahoma, and Gulf in which Naither Italy nor Hungary; however, was permanently c ruined and the settlement of he rivalry of Austria and Prussia was rapidly becoming ot vital moment. OCarly in 1851 event in Italy approached a crisis, and in April Austria made war Inevitable by constitutional, therefore iMvlnv til. Mjl.n.il nn K I In mmil.w advisory committee, gave out a state- fop 1(Jl action . ment ajring the """J ",'2 "2-hould' the law be held uncon- help the joint committee In arriving , ttutlona, th, goytrnmtlTA Mka thtt at a conclusion which would make the th)S court dlreot th, r.celver. for the the Adamson law was attacked as un- ' calling upon Piedmont to disarm. constitutional, ana an order required Aided by the Frenoh, Italians wrested forbidding its enforcement. The gov- Lombardy from Austria, and though' ernment .contends that the Injunction j Napoleon basely deserted the Italians petition should be dismissed because .by the end of 1M0, they made the railroads more useful, but adding "The representatives of the rail roads had no completed plan or pro gram to submit at this time and did not wish to appear as the advocates or opponents of any special plan." Mr. Trumbull said the executives felt that many laws relating to rail ways, especially state laws, were pri marily punitive and restrictive. Three of the railroad brotherhood leaders, Messrs. Lee. Stone and Shep pard. left here tonight for Kansas City to be present when the Atchison, To peka and Santa Fs case is taken up- railroad to join the government in union of Italy a foregone conclusion.' In lt the question of the headship of Germany was decided on the field of Sad owe, and Austria was forced to cede VenetJa to Italy. The Austrian empire was no longer based upon the theory of Oerman ascendancy, and it to the Supreme court of. the United States for final decision." Judge William C. Hook, sitting In the case, took the motion under ad visement and announced that he will render a decision tomorrow. He stat ed from the bench that If the motion i were granted, ne wouia require tne re ceivers of ths Missouri, Oklahoma and ouir to invite the legal renresenta. tlyesof all the railroads in the United Austria and Hungary should be re arranged. By a famous compromise an Austro-Hunganan state was formed, and in June, 1167, the Em peror Francis Joseph was crowned at Pest with the crown of St. Stephen. (Continued on Pagu Two.) BISHOP WILSON DIES AT RALEIOH. Nov. II, The state board of elections will meet in Raleigh tomorrow to receive from the secre tary of state, the returns of the vote la this state for president and vlce nrmiirient of the United States, the meeting being unexpectedly early be cause of a feature of the general state election law heretofore overlooked. which If -not complied with, might raise some question about the legality of the eertlncatlon of the vote for electors on president and vtce-presl-dent. - - Heretofore, the board or canvassers has met Thanksgiving week and can vassed the presidential and the state returns at the same meeting. Close reading of the election taw reveals that the sections 4J7J and 4174 pre scribe the returns mutt be In the hands of the secretary of state within twenty days after the election and that three days thereafter they shall be delivered to the state board of elections. The state board of elections of which Colonel Wilson O. Lamb Is the chairman, will canvass the presidential returns and then take recess under the law to Thanksgiving week for the general canvass of the state election returns, ' . ' . - i THE .WEATHER. ; . WASHINGTON. Nov. M- Forecast for North Carolina: Probably fair Wednesday, follows by rain Wed erAay Right aad Thursday. HIS HOME IN BALTIMORE Had Returned JEYom a Month's Tour (of South, But Few Hours Before. BALTIMORE, Nov. Il-A few hours after he had returned from a month's tour of the south, Bishop Alpbeus W. Wilson, of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, died at his home here today. He was eighty-two years old and was appointed bishop in lStl. Accompanied only by a chauffeur, Bishop Wilson came from Richmond to Baltimore late yesterday. He was ill when he arrived and went to bed Immediately. Though he rested com fortably during the night he became unconscious early today and his death followed shortly. Bishop Wilson was educated at Co lumbian, now George Washington uni versity, and In 1857 married Susan B. Lipscomb, of Baltimore. He was re ceived on trial by the Baltimore con ference of the Methodist Bolsoopal church in 111. and later Joined the southern branch when the Baltimore conference. Methodist episcopal church south, was organised. He be came secretary of the board of mis sions In 1I7S and was elected In 1IJ. Bishop Wilson made Episcopal tours around the world in lltt, 1811 and 110, and visited Japan. Korea and China in mi. 100 and 107. He eras a delegate to the Ecumenical Methodist conferences at London In lStl and 101; Washington in 1811, aad Toronto in 111. Among his better known writings were "Witnesses to Christ' and the Cole lectures delivered at Vandsrbilt sniversity la lilt. . , URGE QUANTITIES OF BEANS ARE STORED AWAY Has Increased Prices By Large Amounts, t Federal Investigators Find. CHICAGO, Nov. 21. Large quanti ties of beans have been stored In Nor folk, Philadelphia and Saginaw, Mich., and their withdrawal from the market hae caused an Increase of sixty $er cent In prices for canned beans and forty per cent for dry beans in six months, according to reports which today reached federal authori ties here Investigating the high cost of foodstuff. The complaints said that beans, both canned and in bulk. were being Held in tne cities named. A farmer of Gary, Ind., told the Investigators that hs had sold his crops of seven acres of pumpkins for cash, and that thsy ware allowed to rot in the fields. He was unable to learn who the purchaser was, as the man had given a fictitious address. That similar conditions prevail else where and that speculators are buy ing fotatoes. cucumbers, cabbages. DUtrrpklna. apples and other fruits and vegetables and allowing them to rot unpicked, have been rumored la the federal investigation from to time. (Continued on Page Two.) - - DEMANDS THE REMOVAL ; OF L. AND N. EMBARGOES Road Promises To Remove Embargo On Northward -St'.. i Coal Movement. ... TO CONTINUE PROBE LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Nov. II A de- mand by Commissioner McChord. of the interstate commerce commission.' upon tne Louisville and Nashville railroad for the abandonment of em bargoes upon the movement of coal north of its rails in Its own ears, to which compliance was promised by counsel for the railroad, was the chief development today at the ear shortage) hearings In progress here. Commissioner McChord also took occasion to serve notice upon the representatives of carrtere present al the hearings that the end of the present hearings' did not mean the close of the Investigation by the com mission hi to the exchange aad return of freight cars (ry the rahroada In this, connection CommlssloneC McChord said: . . , "When we get through here JhlS case Is going to be adjourned to Washington and the commission is time goinr to endeavor to remedy all the At agent was sent to Peoria, i urouDiee m tn-.s oaaoi it, or course. III, to investigate a report that twenty-eight carloads of potatoes had been damped into the river there. WILIi LEAVE QUIETLY. expects the assistance of the execu tives' committee at Washington, for the Immediate correction of . the trouble in regard te the distribution of cars. We want these -railroads te do these things voluntarily. If It caa -be done, otherwise the commission ATHENS. Nov. 10. . fTla London, ! Nov. 11-) The Austrian minister has proposes te do It" decided to leave Oreeoe e.uleUr to- The hearings are expected eaf i tomorrow. w