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THE A SHEVILLE CITIZEN THE WEATHER' FAIR. CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS VOL.XXIIL NO. 207. ASIIKVILLE, N. (J, FRIDAYfMOHNINO, MAY 18, 1917. ' 1 TRICE FIVE CENTS FURTHER DRASTIC COMPLETE AS GERMANS DRIVEN .Crush 'Em!! mmMimMmMMM JAVA BAPTIST WOMEN DENIED RIGHT TO SIT ASDELEGATES Effort to Amend Constitu tion of Church In This Respect Fails. INCREASES MADE FOR HOUSING ALL FORCES FROM BULLECOURT TROOPS ARE MADE BY BRITISH mmmmmmsM III INCOME TAXES Extend Up to a JTax of Forty-Five Per Cent on a Million or More. SEVERAL SECTIONS STILL UNDER TIRE Construction Work Will Be Undertaken as Soon as Weather Permits. ENCAMPMENT WILL BE REGULAR TOWN Estimates Raise the Amount of Revenue Needed to $2,245,000,000. . WASHINGTON. May IT. FurthS draatlo Increase wer. written Into the income surtax schedules of the war , revenue bill by the house In the com mittee of the whole today, alter an nouncement by Democratic Leader Kltchln that Secretary McAdoo'a lat ent estimate of oner half -the cost of the first year of the war, which the bill Is Intended to cover, would be bout 13,246.000,000. r The Increases, twenty-five per cent on all the proposed surtaxes betwe.cn. (40,000 and 11,000,000 as reported by the committee and a fdrty-flve per cent, surtax on Incomes In excess of $1,000,000 aa proposed by Represent tlve I unroot, of Wisconsin, were In cluded by a vote of 146 to 107. Rep resentatlve Kltchln and others who were opposed to Increased Income taxes, voted formally against the pro posals, but previously Mr. Kltchln had declared on the floor that he did not see how any member of the ways lnd mean committee eould oppose them. Another Bill Possible. , No attempt will be made In the house, Mr. Kltchln announced to-night, to raise the total of the bill to '12.246.000,000. It is probable, how ever, he added, that the total will be larger than 21,800.000,000 contem plated In the' original measure; and 4f It Is found that tomorrow money Is needed, another bill will be drafted at the next session of congress. Many members believe further ef forts to make the bill total 22,245, 000,000 be made on the floor or In the committee. The committee meets to morrow and dally thereafter to con sider changes In the bill. Regardless of Secretary McAdoo'a estimate, Mr. Lenroot announced to night he wilt seek to have stricken from the bill the taxes on light and heat, Opponent of the second-class malt rates Increase also will continue their fight. .-- f:i. -j & A. statement prepared by a commit tee of experts tonight, said that the surtax Increase would add about 18,000,000 to the total of the bill during the coming year. Statements on the floor as to the amount they would raise ranged from $100,000,000 downward. The surtaxes, which would be added to the normal taxes orovided by the old law, under the ILenroot amendments would be as fol Millions of Feet of Lumber Will Be Used For Build ing Quarters. (Continued on Page Four.) FOR THE LIBERTY LOAN TO BE STARTED AT ONCE Imall Investor Must Come to Front if Issue is to Be Successful RESPONSES MADE. WASHINGTON, May 17. Repre sentatives of the federal reserve bank and treasury officials in direct charge of the task of floating the Liberty loan were virtually unanimous tonight in me opiniun iimi ihd vi ciiicuuuud I V, a ai.nn.nofiillir fl. ..ta on within the next twenty-seven days If the Liberty loan la to meet with the over-subscription wnicn omciais nope for. Predictions that the big Issue would be over-subscribed several hun dred ter cent, made on the face of the first returns of estimates of banks of the probable amount they and their customers wouia tatte, nave no? ma terialized thus far. There Is a crying need. In Vie opinion of officials, for the small investor in great numbers to make felt his power, and to bring the realization of this nome to tne coun try a vigorous campaign Is being nlfl.nned. Probably not one-half of the loan has been taken. Including allowance for approximately $450,000,0.00 of treasury certificates ' of Indebtedness already issued. A large over-subscription, officials a1 la hitrhlv desirable in that it would show that the United States Is In the war to stay until Germany la defeated. Secretary McAdot's trip through the midtfle wst is a part of the program to arouse the country, especially the small Investor, to the need of making a full and immediate response to the government's needs. How widespread the opinion is that the Issue already has been over subscribed is reflected in letters re ceived from some banks which state that in view of the fact that the writers understand the issue -i already has been taken, they regret ' that there would be no use in offering their aub scriptions. Directing heads of the loan sub scription campaign at each of the re serve banks, except Dallas and ' San Francisco, had the real situation Im pressed upon them in plain language by treasury and reserve board officials today at a conference. ' They were told that there was need of arousing the country to Immediate necessity of subscribing to the loan. that the "spirit of If- should be awakened t match, the ".spirit of 7t. WASHINGTON. May 17. Complete plans for housing 22,000 men ut each of thirty-two divisional cuntonment camps In which the war nriny Is to be trained, have been worked out by war department ofttrlals, and con struction work will be undertaken as soon aa commanders 0f military de partments have designated the sites. Twelve of the camps will go to the new southeastern department, com manded by Major General Leonard Wood, making 264,000 troops assign ed to -that department. Hlx camps will be established In the central de partment, six In the southern, three In the western, four In the eastern and one In the northeastern department. Building by Contract. The building will be done by con tract under supervision of army of ficers. Colonel I. W. Llttell of the quartermaster's corps, has been placed In general charge of construction by Secretary Baker, and has nearly completed the organisation of his forces. In effect the project is to build thlrty-two towns completes with all necessary equipment and facilities. It will require 6,000,000 feet of lumber which was adopted because the prico of canvass Is so high and the supply so short. If tents were used It wouid require two complete sets a year to keep the men under cover. There will be 2.000 buildings in each encampment. These will Include quarters for officers and men, stables, kitchen, mess halls, bath bouses and store rooms in addition to numerous structures for special purposes. While some of the barracks will be of two story construction, the majority will be long, low one-story affairs so ar ranged aa to suit the convenience of the regiments of larger units. I Each town will cover a little more than a square mile of ground, not in eluding the big tracts of land neces sary for drilling and military opera tiona during training. Modern plumb. Ingi and aiiHary. arrangements Tvlli be Installed and the war department ex pacts the cantonments to be the most up-to-date barracks of this type erect ed for any army. In addition to the cantonments, the quartermaster's department has laid plana for the erection of central groups of warehouses and storage buildings which will be situated con veniently as to transportation lines and will be the supply depots for the camps. Quartermaster officers already at work Inspecting sites for these de pots and a large number of reserve officers have been assigned to duty in the various military departments to cany on inspection work. After Days of Most Inten sive Fighting, Britons Hold the Village. GERMANS LINES ARE BEING RE ENFORCED Fresh Troops, However, Fail to Stop Onslaughts of the Allies. After duys of most Intensive futhU Ing, in which the position several times changed hand and men fell In hundreds, in attacks and. counter-at tacks, the British forces have at last driven the Germans out of the village of Iiullocourt, and once more are threatening the southern end of the Irocourt-yueont line, which Field Marshal von HlndenbUrg constructed to defend Cambrel from the eastward advance of Field Marshal Hulg's army. (ScmiaiM IlrtnforrM. Thousands of fresh German troops recently have been thrown Into the fray around Bullecourt, but their ef forts, according to official communi cations, have gone for naught In en deavoring to drive out the British front the entire vllluge. Although several times the line has been bent the preponderance of weight of the German formation, at no time have the British been forced to evacuate, holding here and there fringes of the outskirts and keening back the Teu tons until their element wero reform ed with sufficient strength to mnke effective counter-attacks and regain their1 lost territory. Likewise to the oast of Arras around tho vlllnge of Koeux. the bat tle has been waged with a vlclousness scarcely ever before seen, and here also the British have been successful against the Germans. In Wednesday night's fighting the Germans were forced to give ground before counter attacks Inside the village of Roeux and loosen their hold on the positions they previously had taken. Attack Renewed. Although the forces of the German crown prince have renewed with ex treme violence their attacks against the French northeast of Solssons in the sectors of the Moulin le Laffaux and Braye-En-Laonnols three of them against each position they were again repulsed by the French artillery and 'Infantry, suffering enormous iCasuaJiloa, .Ta, the. east. the Ftenclvl troops near Craonn delivered a suc cessful attack, capturing German trench elements. ' The Berlin war office reports that for the first sixteen days of May, the Germans made prisoners of 6,000 British and French soldiers on the French front 2.300 of them British and 2,700 French. From Tolmino to thp sea, the Italians are keeping up their strong offensive against the Aun(rlan or warding off violent counter-attacks against positions they have captured In their new push. All counter-attacks thus far have failed, says the Rome war office, and the Itallnns have been iilifl f ffl v ' Wif VW Ml wm. r 'tux rmwk &mZcpl $M$?m:m-. Mmw, I : zl J WAR: fl$MY BILL, WITH CONSCRIPTION CLAUSE, WILL PROBABLY BE A LAW BY TONIGHT, ACCORDING TO PRESENT PLANS Senate Adopte Conference Report Accepted by the House, and Vlce-Presldeet Marshall and SpeakefCtolrWm Slgnihi Bill Today Witt Be Snttdlhe While House 'and President 4 ' Will Sign It Roosevelt Siill Slotm Center. V - VIGOROUS FIGHT IS WAGED ON THE FLOOR Referred to Committee to Report at Next Year's Convention. NEW OIILKAN8, May 17. Wometl members of the Southern Baptist churches were denied the right,- for another year at least, to serve aa dele gates to the annual convention of the denomination, by action of the body here late today. With leas than too delegates In the hall, Robert H. Cole man, of Dallas, aroused those present to keen Interest by suddenly offering for adoption a proposed amendment to the body'a convention, making women eligible to the convention. Opposes Amendment. Dr. J. W. Porter, of Lexington. Kv.. immediately and vigorously opposed the amendment, declaring Mr. Cole man was proposing with only eleven minutes' time available for discussion, to overturn a provision of the consti tution which had stood for seventy two years. He moved to table the amendment Numerous advocates of women's rights to seats sprang up and) warm debate developed, on the ques tion. Veterans In the denomination said this was the first time the ques tion ever bad reached discussion on the floor. When put to a vote. Dr. Porter'a motion to table the amend ment was lost, 228 to 148, indicating strong aentlment for giving women equal privileges with men in the con vention. A parliamentary tangle aver interpretation of requirements for' amending the constitution, occupied an hours time, and finally the conven tion adopted a motion by N. W. . Baoon, j-arks. Alias., to . refer . th amendment to a committee of five with Instructions to report on It at next (Continued on Page Four) IS (Continued on Page Four.) T BUT BETTER BUSINESS" VANDERLIP PREDICTS Says Readjustment is Neces sary But , Will Benefit Whole Country. ECONOMY NECESSARY. NEW YORK May 17. Different business, but better business for America during the war, was predict ed toHnv hv Frank A. Vanderlln. banker and member of the labor com mittee of the Council of National De fense's advisory commission. 'The sooner the publio gets over the Idea that ' we want 'business as usual' or can have 'business as usual' during this great war the better for all." he said. -"We want to stop an unnecessary work and unnecessary expenditures short off and concen trate on the Immense volume of work which has to be done. The business men should get rid of any foolish fears that economy will bring on general paralysis of Industry or trade. There is no danger of not having work for everybody: the trouble Is that there Is more work In sight than can Dosslblv be done, and the ques tion is whether we shall cut off luxu ries or necessities. It is absurd under these conditions to talk of the danger of unemployment, and to urge tha the people shall go on buying what they do not actually need in 'order to keep labor from unemployment or to maintain business as usual. How is labor to be had to make uni forms 'unless It is released from mak ing, other clothes; how are looms to be had for blankets unless released from something else; how is steel to be had for ships, tin cans and agricultural Implements unless other consumption Is curtailed; how are women to be had for offices unless released else where? - And, finally,, how are we to put $7,000,000,000 or $8,000,000,000 of purchasing power at the disposal of the government unless we curtail our individual expenditures? ' - The country should immediately awake to the fact that it has a great task In hand, and that it can not carry on a war like this with one hand and continue to do all the business It did before with the other. Most oT - the argument against economy assumes that the people who ., economize will hoard their j money. That, of course, would IS ADJOURNED TO EVADE OF PEACE DISCUSSIONS No Progress Toward Accom plishment of Constitu tional Reroms Made. . CHANCELLOR QUIET. COPENHAGEN, (Via London, May 17.) The adjournment of the Ger man relchstag for two months with out obtaining from the cautious Im perial chancellor any satisfaction re garaing me aetans or the govern ments peace program and without having made any progress toward the desired constitutional reforms, beyond acceptance of the proposal for great' er representation ror a few over grown relchstag districts, confirms me Associated .tress predictions of nearly two weeks ago of the course events would' take. The chancellor was able to deal only with generali ties in respect to peace discussions, but he seemed also able to convince the great majority of the house, in cluding probably the Scheidemann socialists, of the wisdom of his policy of saying nothing which would tend to call the Russian people, superior to 'the party, struggles, to prosecute the war vigorously as a defensive pro gram, nor on the other hand, bar Germany from obtaining greater ad vantages - anouia the progressive weakening of Russia continue. The so-called "Bethmann blnn f the 'middle parties, between Herr Scheidemann and Count Wmtirn. as predicted, reconstituted despite the earlier announcement by the radicals that they would be satisfied with nothing leas than Internal reform and the statements of a section of the national liberals. in favor of a sweep ing program of annexations. , The adjournment of the reichstaa- Was not altogether voluntary. The government, which desires to have its hands res- from- the embarrassment from parliamentary debate "for the great moment" which It feels ma come In the course of the summer, in timated that the session of the relch stag might otherwise be closed by im perial order, a procedure which in volves the death of all unfinished business including in this case the or or. ui conautuuo&ai ammjttaa. WASHINGTON. May 17. Final action was taken by congress today on the war army bill, the second of tho major measures of the war. The senate, by n vote Of sixty-five to eight, adopted the conference re port accepted yesterday by the house. Vice-President Marshall and Speaker jClark will sign the bill tomorrow and send It to the white house for Presi dent Wilson's approval. It probably will be law before tomorrow night. Aa finally approved, the bill provid ed for raising by selective conscrip tion, a war army in Increments of BOO, 000 men from twenty-one to thirty years-of-age. It also authorised with out directing the president to raise volunteer forces which Colonel Roose velt desires to take to France, and greatly increases the pay of ail en listed men. For First Draft. Machinery to renter and draft the first 600,000 men already has been set up by the wur department. Im mediately after the president signs the bill, he will by proclamation des ignate the day for registration of the ten million or more of the prescribed age. Registration books will bo In the hands of state and local authori ties who are to co-operate in the work, and Brigadier General Crowder, the provost marshal general, expects to have his complete lists in wasn ington within five days after register ing begins. Then will come the task of selecting the first half million, exempting the physically unfit, those with depen dents and men who are needed on the farms and in industries. The pro cess of selection probably will be completed long before the men are wanted. Secretary Baker said today that because of lack of supplies, the new army would not be called to the colors for training before September, RooMCvclt's Position. Whether Colonel Roosevelt shall be permitted to ralne an expedition rests with President Wilson. His views have not been disclosed, but It Is believed that he probably will post pone decision while the draft system Is being put Into operation. As during the early stages of the long depute In congress, today's clos ing debate centered upon the so-called Roosevelt amendment. Colonel Roose. veH was vigorously attacked by Sena tor Stone, of Missouri and as ardent ly defended by his friend, Senator Johnson, of California. The senate's approval of the mea sure agreed upon by the conferees and adopted by the house came late In the day after attempts lo send it back to conference, and an earnest appeal by Senator Chamberlain,, chalrmnm of Iho military committee, for finul ac tion. The eight senators who cast the negative votes were; Democrats Gore, of Oklahoma; Hnrdwick, of Georgia; Kirby, of Arkansas; Stone, of Missouri; nnd Trammel, of Florida. Republicans haKollette, of Wisconsin; Gronna, of North Dakota, and Norris, of Ne braska. Tho bill, backed by the administra tion, was Introduced !n the senate April 19, was passed April 18 in the senate by a vote of eighty-one to eight and In the house, 887 to 24 end baa since been tied up in conference, re turned there twice by the house to Include the Roosevelt volunteer provl slon and further pay Increases for en listed men. its provisions are: Chief Provisions. Raising of armed forces ..by the selective draft system, imposed upon all males between the ages of twenty one and thirty years, Inclusive,' sub ject to registration and certain ex emotions from service- Increasing the regular army : to maximum war strength. Drafting Into the federal service of national guard units. Raising of an Initial force by con scription of BOO, 000 men, with addi tion of 500.000 If deemed necessary. Raising. If the president sees fit; of four division of volunteer Infantry. (The Roosevelt amendment.) Increasing the pay of all enlisted men as follows: $16 additional month ly for those now receiving less than $21, comprising the bulk of the army, graduated downward to additional monthly for those receiving $4S or more. Prohibiting sale of liquor at or near army training camps and otherwise protecting morals of the soldiers. The conscription age limits were agreed upon with much difficulty. The war department proposed a minimum of nineteen and a maximum of twenty-five. The house voted to fix them at twenty-one to forty and the senate at from twenty-one to twenty-seven, the compromise of twenty-one to thirty. Inclusive, resulting. .1 ELECTED AS MODERATOR General Assembly of Pres byterian Church Honors the Former Evangelist. DALLAS, Texas. May 17.-r-With the election of J. Wilbur Chapman, of Jamaica, N. Y.,' former evangelist, as moderator today, the one hundred and twenty-ninth general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America too:: a step which many of the delegates went a long way toward furthering prospects for union qf the two branches of the church the north and south. Two other candidates were nomi nated for the moderatorshlp Dr. Harlan C. Mendenhall, of New York, and Dr. John B. Rendall, president of Lincoln university, Lincoln, v. The vote was: Chapman, bbv; Kendall, 1S. and Mendenhall, izi. The elec tion was made unanimous by accla mation. "' ' Dr. Johnston, mentioned as a nom inee as moderator, eliminated himselt at the . outset by nominating Dr. Mendenhall. Dr. John McArson, or Brooklyn, nominated Dr. Chapman and appar ently struck a responsive chord when ha uM Dr. Chaoman waa the man who could do most toward bringing about a reunion or tne two enure li factions. (- Ths name of Dr. Kenaau was cre- nrona tented by Dr. WjnP. rinney. of Lia- auu Fw Will Aid Civilian Instructors in Giving Training to Re serve Officers. WASHINGTON, May 17. Army aviation officers from the First Aero squadron have been ordered to four of the six universities co-operating in development of the army air ser vice, and will aid the civilian instruc tors In giving a month of preliminary theoretical training to reserve officers for the score or more new squadrons to be created. The officers assigned are: Captain Chas. E. Benedict, to the University of Illinois; Captain Ralph P. Cousins, to Texas State university; Captairi Benjamin W. Mills, to the Massachu setts Institute of Technology, and First Lieutenant Howard C. Davidson, to Cornell university. Captain Melchoir McT3. Kberta, who was killed in an accident on the border a few daya ago, had been selected for assignment to Ohio State. Another officer will be named later for thla place and for California university. BARK TOWED IX " THREE-MASTED SKIP IS Of Nearly 150 Men Aboard the Vessel, Only Twenty Nine Saved. NEWPORT NEWS, Va.. May 17. Stripped of satis, rigging and super structure in a recent storm off the Atlantic coast, the Norwegian bark Fornjca was towed into an A V lean port this morninc by th Wench. SAN FRANCISCO. May I?. The three-masted ship Standard, ownod by Ltbby McNeil and Libby, is a total wreck off Cape Constantino in Bear ing sea, according to a message re ceived here today by the naval radio station. Of nearly 150 men aboard the vessel, only twenty-nine have been rescued, according to the report. The vessel, which carried a large crew and many men from the Alaska canneries, stranded May 14, and waa abandoned the next day when heavy seas began to pound her to pieces. Five lifeboats, each crowded to ca pacity, were launched. One was pick ed up a few hours later containing twenty-nine men. So. far, according to the message received today, none of the remaining boats have been sighted. ; - The Standard, a Ship of 1,41 tons, left San Francisco, April 1 for Bristol Bay, Alaska. The message received here was sent out by the naval radio station at St Paul, Priblloff Islands, in Behrlng sea. F Rev. John M. - Wells, D. D., of Wilmington,, Accorded This Honor. , ' ASSUMES OFFICE. BIRMINGHAM, 'Ala., May JT. Th outstanding 'feature of the fifty-seventh assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States, here to day wss the election of Rev. John Miller Wells, D. D., a commissioner from the presbytery of Wllmlna-ton. synod of North Carolina, as modera tor. e t - .- Four commissioners were placed In nomination for the position: Rev. Thornton Whaling, D. D.. president of . Columbia Theological seminary. . Co lumbia, . C; Rev A. B. Curry, of Memphis, Tenn.; Rev, W. R. Dobyns, D. D., of St. Joseph, Mo., and Rev. J. M. Wells. D. D.. of Wllmins-ton. N. C. ',; The name of Dr. T. M. Ha wee. at Louisville, Ky.. was not nominated. The mode of ' election was by tho standing vote, the last commissioner nominated being voted upon first, and the one receiving tha fewn.t vnta K. ' ing dropped after each ballot Dr. Dobyns was eliminated on the first ballot, Dr. Whaling on the second, and Dr. "Curry and Dr. Wells ran off tha. third, Dr. Curry getting ninety-nine ' votes and Dr. Wells 139, The eleo- tion of Dr. Wells then vas made. unanimous by a rising vote. Dr. Grafton, the retiring modera tor, immediately turned over the du ties of the office to his successor. - Rev. I. D. Sibley, D. D.. of Char lotte, N. C, and Rev. W. T. Galbralth, of Dallas, Texas, were named as tem porary clerks. On motion, the reports of the exec utlve committee of foreign missions, . the executive committee of home) ' missions, the executive committee of Christian education and ministerial relief and the executive committee of publication and iSabbath school work, were received in printed form and tha secretary of each committee address ed the assembly, showing the past year to have been of marked success in the work of each committee. The : secretaries who addressed the assem bly were Egbert W. Smith, D. D.. Rev. Henry M. Sweets, D. D and R, K. Magill. THE WEATHFJft WASHINGTON, May 17. Forecast for North Carolina:. Fair Friday art Saturday, ceati south, and southwest wind, : THE ASHEVILLE OIIZEK Circulation Yesterday City . Suburban Country . . 4.&10 4,539 . 1,739 Net paid .V . 10,9 19 ' Service . . v'. . 208 . Unpaid . 161 " Total ; 11,287' learner Mexico, . .
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