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THE ASHEILLE CITIZEN THE WEATHER SHOWERS CITIZEN WANT ADF BRING , RESULTS V, vol. xxxrn, no. 212. ASIIKYILLE, N. 0., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS Allison Dedicates $800,000 Red Cross Home E TO BE INCREASED TO F FOR SECOND-GLASS i L NATIONAL GUARD BRITISH ADOPT ZONE RATES REBUILDING LVORK IN SH TAKING ATLANTA LVIL BY NEW REGIMENTS HIND BUG MAIL INTRE HOUSE Scores of New Organizations Will Be Added to the Present Force. NORTH CAROLINA TO GET SEVERAL UNITS Existing Units Will Be Re cruited to Full War Strength. WASHDCOTON. MT 22. Organisa tion of scores of new regiments of nation guard artillery, engineers, signal oorps and cavalry will be undertaken aoon to supply the tactical formation neoesaary tor the estab lishment of tho sixteen divisions of the guard provided for la tho war de partment's plans. In addition to these troops, Im mediately after the existing state soldiers hare been drafted Into the federal service, there must be or ganist divisional headquarters de tachments, supply, ammunition and medlosi trains, hoary Held artillery and signal battalions, an aero service, two oaralry divisions and many new coast aatlUery units and reserves. Oosnparlnon of Tables. Comparison of ; the organisation tables for the sixteen Infantry di visions with the existing guard estab lishment shows that in the Infantry, the arm of the service In which the guard is strongest, thirty regiments and six companies must be created to provide the 144 regiments of the divisional structure. The principal shortage Is Held artillery. Each of the sixteen di visions S-equt res three full regiments of six batteries, each of a total of 2S8 batteries. There now exist In the guard 108 batteries. The shortage. In engineers is almost a great. There will be needed slx- six companies, whereas there" now are only thtrf scaTrtpanTeg. ' '" " Each .division will have an aero squadron or balloon company, making fourteen air -service units. .New Tors; has one squadron less one company. - First Efforts. The first feffort of the' department Is to bring up to full ' war strength all existing units of the guard. When that has been accomplished and the force has been drafted, the next step will be to create the new units neces sary to complete the sixteen Infantry divisions, and the adjutants general of the states have been . Instructed that they should prepare for these new organisations without delay States will be oalled upon to furnish in addition ths following: Vlrclnia, two batteries Held ar tillery; North Carolina, one cavalry machine gun troop, one regiment field artillery, one radio company, aia-nal corps: South Carolina, one ' regiment Infantry, three troops cavalry, one regiment field artillery, two companies engineers, one outpost company, signal corps; Tennessee, one realment Infantry, one troop cavalry, one regiment field artillery, one wire company, signal corps. PROTESTS TO GERMANY About 2,000 Yards Yet Re main In Possession of Germans. WILL PREPARE WAY FOR BIO OFFENSIVE Tired of Losses Experienced in Counter-Attacks, Ger mans Use Artillery. Sitting as Committee of Whole the House Finally Settles This Question. OTHER SECTIONS TO BE VOTED ON TODAY Consideration of the War Revenue 'Bill in House Virtually Completed. AJtnougn on both the British and WASHINGTON, May 22. Sitting French fronts the period of virtual ' until after midnight, the house to inaction continues, except for minor , trX"" L.n": trench raiding operations by the Brit- nue bill bv adoDtln. Ill to 71 a nsW lah and artillery duels of violence be- , proposal from the ways and - means tween the French and Germans, it is committee for increasing second-class , j .... mall rates under a zone system, not expected that these conditions will , " nnn..uhi HEI OF Pointed Out That Germans Are Permitted to Leave United States. MAY BE REPRISALS. .WafliUNVITON, May 2-2. Protest to Germany against the detention of American oltlsene was made by the state department today through the Spanish government. The department Teas reoelved positive Information that Americans are held in Germany and has asked for a full and definite state meat of the Imperial government's at titude concerning their departure. It is pointed out this government always has acted promptly on application of Oerman subjects to leave the United ' States. The department's protest ts based specifically upon the cases Of two Americans, employes of an electrical company at Antwerp. The names have been withheld. It Is hot be lieved that there are more than fifty or seventy-five Americans In all Ger-' many If there are that many. - All efforts to obtain any informa tion as to why the two men at Ant werp have not been allowed to de- part, have failed. v A department statement, an nouncing the protest directs attention to the fact that no obstacle has been placed In the way of -Germans wlsh- t..v. anrmrfna.. Thla rpti.pa 1 ! Was construed as an Intimation that seme measure of reprisal might be adopted in tne event mat uermany persists in Ignoring the right of Americans to leave her territory. It Is regarded as probable that Germany might plead difficulties pre sented by the conduct of military operations and promise that the right to leave would be granted as soon ss much movement does not In terfere with military operations. There Is nothing in the information 1 reaching the state department that Indicates mistreatment of Americans, conclusion. long prevail. . Bia; Fiffht Coming. The offensive of the British on the Arras , front cannot be ended until Field Marshal Kalg's" men once more have thrown their strength against the 2,000 yards of the Hlndenburg line still held by the Germane west of Bullecourt and straightened out their line for the heavy blows that are to come airalnst the Drocourt- Queant switch line, on which the Ger mans are placing dependence to ward off an advance by their enemies eastward. Last reports had the British busily engaged in consolidat ing the gains they had made alone the KJndenburg line, and with these completed the expectation Is that an other of the great battlea which' have marked the progress eastward of the British soon will be in full sway. Attacks too Costly. Probably finding their counter-attacks against the French In the- re gion around Moronvllliers. In which they were repulsed Monday night with heavy casualties, too cos'ly, t)i.) Germans on Tuesday did not renew their efforts to regain the lost grjuml. Instead, they engaged with the i French in violent -artillery duels In the regions of Vauclerc, tho Cali fornia plateau and east of O.bvreux, which lie between Solssons and Rheims, again throwing, numerous shells into , the .Mra.iy,. town of Rheims. A noticeable diminution In the in tensity of the fighting along Isonzo front on the Austro-It&lisn theatre has set in. Only one attack by the Italians is reported. Here, according to Vienna, the Austrian attempted to advance, but were stopped by the Austrlans. - On the Tretino front, far to the west, the Austrlans are keep ing up their heavy bombardments and infantry attacks which the military authorities in Rome consider attempts to divert the attention of the Italians from their offensive along the Isonzo. A few unfinished sections, Includ ing the proposed tax on advertising, win be voted on tomorrow before final passage of the bill. Redrafting of the bill In the senate is expected, and the measure as It ultimately goes to the president, will be perfected in con ference. The house then adjourned until noon tomorrow. Following Is the ways and means committee's schedule of second-class mail matter charges: Mail Charges. Effective July 1 Klrst cone, one and one-sixth cents per pound; second and third zones one and one-third cents; fourth and fifth zones, one and two-thirds cents; sixth zone, two cents; seventh zone, two and one third cents, and eighth zone two and two-third cents. i-flective November 1 first zone, one and one-third cents; second and third zones, one and two-thirds cents ! fourth and fifth zones, two and one ' third cents: sixth zone, three cents seventh zone, three and two-thirds cents, and eighth zone, four and one third cents. . Effective March 1 (and thereafter- First zone, one and one-haif cents second and third zones, two cents; fourth and fifth zones, three cents; sixth sone, four cents; seventh sone. five cents, and eighth sone, six cents. Representative Small, of North Carolina, opposed the sone system of i rates, as , dangerous, declaring It was d-vtl, Bot Properly applicable to newspapers devasucad , Beri6tffeAls. An amendment bv I Representative Moore, of Penneylva ' nia,, to put a flat rate of two cents a pound on all second-class matter was rejected 160 to 80, afesM-4w vb J f t. -v 131 & T 5 o J2HIH STABTJA WEEK Relief Work is Well Under Way and Streets Are Being Cleared. LITTLE SUFFERING RESULTS FROM FIRE President TVilson is here shown speaking at the dedication exercises and pageant of the new $800,000 Red Cross building in Washington. Transportation for Furni ture and Household Goods Given Free. (continued on Page Four.) SECOND SPEAKING TRIP. DENVER. Colo., May 22. William G. McAdoo, secretary of the trees ury, announced here today his Inten tion to make a second speaking trip on behalf of the liberty loan. Thl journey will carry him to New York, Boston, Detroit, Bt Louis. Clncln natl, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pa. He will leave Washington June 4, to make this tour. BY SECRETARY BALFOUH Talks of the Adhesion of ' United States to Cause of Allies. FORCED INTO WAR. WASHINGTON, May 12. American cotton manufacturers, gathered here today to appoint a war committee for co-operation with the government, were addressed by Foreign Secretary Balfour, head of the British mission. who told them that adhesion of ; the United States to the allied cause made It absolutely certain that mill tary autocracy would not he able to oast all nations of the earth Into the same mold. : . , Mr. Balfour, Introduced by Secre tary Daniels, was given an entnusi astie weloome. "None of us suspected when - this mat war. started." he said, "that the United States, thousands of miles awav. would be drawn Into It, and yet I think in looking back that the logic of events was Irresistible. From the beginning there has been but one choice Inevitable. The United States has not hesitated to take U and now that she has taken It, she will not withdraw. I am confident, until tne objects sought are obtained. ; ., , , n.rmanv. bv her insensate policies, has forced this country of unbounded resources' to throw all her power, all hr wealth, but more than that, all her moral strength,- Into the Issue. America seeks no vulgar ends," no territorial ' as-oTandlsement,' no mean gain- All -of us would feel, defeated nA Alahnnnred If we oo not leave the world free from the menacfc that is hanging over it, that nas oeen crowing every decade, yes, every month, more dangerous. The manufacturers, those from the south representing the American As sociation of Cotton Manufacturers, and those from the nortn. tne national Association of Cotton Manufacturers, appointed a committee which, co operating through the Council of Na tional Defense, will undertake to see that all- cotton . needs of tne govern ment are promptly nd economically supplied. : - . m, President jonn a. jw, vi opmrwi- burg, S. C, in his annual aaaresa, nmmtMd close co-operation between the officers and members of the as sociation and the Council of National Defense. Mr. Law was presented with m. presidential gold medal at its' WHAT EVERY SECTION OF COUNTRY IS EXPECTED TO DO ON LIBERTY LOAN Officials Want the Greatest Over-Subscription World Has Ever Known. PLANS FORMULATED. WASHINGTON. May II. What every section of the country is expect' ed to do In unloosing its purse strings for the liberty loan was officially an nounoed today by the treasury de partment The figures made publio are the minimum; the maximum, It la . hoped, win be such an over-sub' sorlptlon as has never before been re oorded In the history of any nation. In framing the schedule, of mint mum performances expected by the east, west, south and Pacific slope, treasury experts have built a structure of figures with the entire banking re. sources of the country as its founds, tlon. uoinajcient witn the announco ment of the tentative allotments which in reality are not allotments. out estimates or what each, section snouia taxe tne rederal reserve board announced tonight that it had avauea ' itseir or the extraordinary powers .vested in It by congress and virtually had plaoed at the disposal of every bank In the United States, member and non-member, the power- rui machinery or, tne reserve system to assist in making the loan an over whelming success. . ' - : In making publio Its tentative allot ments of bonds, ths treasury depart ment has adopted two bases of esti mating, a 12,000.000,000 Issue and one of $2,(00,000,000, the latter desig nated to meet the possibility 'of anv one section failing to take the amount estimated.' The tentative allotments. maximum and minimum, bv num districts, follows: ';. Boston $240,000,000 to tJOO.000.- 000; New Tork 1100,000.006 to I7S0. 000,000; Philadelphia $140,000,000 to 1175.000,000; Cleveland tl80.000.000 to $128,000,000; Richmond 180, 00,- 000 to $100,000,000; Atlanta $80,000, 000 to $75,000,000; Chicago, $20,. 000,000 to $125,000,000; St. Louis $10,000,000' to $100,000,000; Minne apolis $80,000,000 to $100,000,000: Kansas City $100,000,000 to $125,000. 000; Dallas $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 and San Francisco 1140,000.000 to 4175,000.000,. SECOUD ADMINISTRATION FOOD MEASURE GIVING WE PRESIDENT WIDE CONTROL OF FOODSTUFFS, INTRODUCED IN HOUSE i 1 Revised to Create an Emergency Agency to CobUoI, Under the President's Direction, Distribution and Sate of the Necessities of Life and Giving Him Power to Fix Prices it Necessary Consideration Will Be Hurried. WASHINGTON, May 22. The sec ond of the administration's food bills, revised to create an emergency agency to control under. the president's direc tion distribution snd sale of the neces saries of Uff, was introduced In the boiuatoey by ;heVITnaB vLrrer- of the agriculture:, committee. The first bill aims at stimulation of production and calls for m general. survey of the country's food' resources. . The regulatory measure was re drawn after President .Wilson had held a series of conferences with Herbert C. Hoover, who is to be food, administrator under the bill and with Secretary Houston and members of the agriculture committee of both houses. It places the widest powers of control over necessaries of all kinds. Including price-fixing in the hands of the executive. , Will be Hurried. Consideration of the food measures will be hurried as much as possible In congress. The senate will take up the first bill tomorrow, and the senate committee Is expected to re port out a .bill similar to the one in troduced today within a short time. The house will take up the food ques tion as soon as tho revenue bill is out of the way- The legislation as now proposed by the administration, Mr. Hoover, thinks will meet the food problem. He is sued this statement tonight regarding the second bill: "The bill covers very ably and intel ligently the powers necessary for the president to possess in order to set un a competent food administration. These powers combined with the pow er of emlbafrro nroposea in otner legislation should make It possible to eliminate hoarding, speculation and waste in distribution. They are more moderate than those possessed by ths various European food ministries, but with the rood will and the co-opera- tion of the distributing trades should make success possible without In any manner being burdensome upon legitu mate trade." v The NeoessMie The measifre classes specifically as necessaries, food, feeds, shoes, cloth' lng and fuel. In a statement outlin ing Its purposes, Mr. Lever said: 'whiia tha nawera are sweenlnar. they are flexible and to be used only when that specifically prescribed con ditions have arisen requiring their use. In every instance,.' in which the bill Itself does not specifically .define the requirements of effecting private edu6t,the president must prescribe these with precision and certainty. When property is authorised to be taken by the government, Just com pensatlon is provided for." Briefly the measure would do these things: Declare the production, manufac. ture, store, distribution and sale of necessaries to be affected with a pub lic Interest Make it unlawful to commit or permit preventable waste or deterior ation of necessaries; to restrict supply or distribution or to enhance prices to excessive levels. Authorize the president to establish standards and grades of foods to establish their quality and value. Authorise licensing of manufactur ing or inequitable distribution of foods to prevent uneconomical manufacture or Inequitable distribution; empower the president to direct the disposition of hoarded stocks. Authorise the president to prevent hoarding, monopolization or ths ex acting of excessive profits, by having the government either manufacture or deal In necessaries; authorise the taking over of factories or plants for government operation, - if necessary, to provide proper distribution at fair prices. Authorise the president to prescribe rules for the conduct of exchanges and boards of trade, or to prohibit entirely their operations If In the publio inter est Fixing of Prices. 'Authorize the fixing of minimum prices to the producer to stimulate production; authorize Import duties If importations threaten operation or guaranteed - minimum- prices; au thorize purchase by the American government at the prescribed min imum prices supplies for allies of the United States. Establishment by the president of maximum prices to break food corners or to prevent hoarding and specula tion. Authorize the changing of milling grades or the mixing - of grains In making flour. Authorize the president to prescribe restrictions on the use of foodstuffs in manufacture of alcoholic liquors. .. TJismesBjura . la. hasaiLaahe-jKSj powers ot congress ana --wporaisi throughout the ' country - irrespective Of stats lines.' .. ...,.. .-!-. ; Liquor prohibition legislature Im pends both in the senate and house in connection with the food bills and also, but only, in the senate, upon the war taxation mil. . senator uore, chairman of the senate agriculture committee, who will have charge of the food production bill to be pressed In the senate tomorrow said the com mittee will resist any effort to attach prohibition amendments, of which a score are pending, to that-bill. To expedite the legislation comprising steps only of increasing foodstuffs pro. duction, the senate committee hopes to exclude all extraneous amendments. especially those proposing to prohibit manufacture or grain . or looastuns into intoxicating beverages, or other prohibition proposals. Confinement of such amendments, and the protection debate they are certain to provoke, lo the house bill dealing with provi sions for regulating and conserving food supplies Is desired by the leaders Senator Gore is now writing a pro hibition amendment to bo offered to the war revenue bill after It passes the house. ' Apparent spread of sentiment In congress for soms degree ot prohibi tion legislation, effective during the war, both as a war-time measure and also, to conserve foodstuffs, is causing widespread belief In ultimate enact ment of "dry" laws, at least to a limit ed extent. CXSSOT HE DKrENDED. WASHINGTON, May 22.-High prices for fruits and vegetables can not be defended on the ground of a supply shortage, In the opinion of the agriculture department, which an nounced today that detailed shipment figures show a shortage only In old potatoes and-strawberries. Shipments of new potatoes, onions, tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce and celery ATLANTA, da.. May Jl.Wlth re lief work under way and $50,000 sub scribed for Immediate nld to he suf ferers from yesterday's $3,100,000 firs, predictions were made tonlgnt that work of rebuilding the burned section extending through the north eastern section of the city would lo gin In a week. With the clearing ot the streets which made good . prog ress In the outskirts of the burned area, relief organization were busy, Families brought Together. - ' All during the day families who had become separated . were brought together through the work of workers of the local Ked Cross, and their fur niture was hauled away from vacant lots and from sidewalks around the' Are lines. A hailstorm and heavy rain in the afternoon, caught much of the household effects still unshel tered and added to the loss. The flames destroyed MAS build ings, according to calculations of real estate and insurance men who went over the ground today. Mont of the structures were homes, ranging from the lowly negro cabins to substantial residences. Apartment houses, m- eral churches and a number ot re tail stores were burned. It wss Im possible to estimate the . number of people who had been burned out, as many did not apply for relief of Red, Cross headquarters, either providing for themselves or being cared for by. private individuals. . t , , 1 - " Free Trans porta tlon. Today the Red Cross established s (Continued on page Two.) IE (Continued on Page Two.) DEVICE MAKES VESSELS TO Hudson Maxim Says He Has Invented Apparatus That is Success. i .-, NEW TORK. May 22. iHudson Maxim announced today that he had invented and perfected a device which will make ships Immune from the dangers ot the submarine.. He said that tornedoes. even when fired at close range e-nd striking their targets would explode harmless against the hulls of the iptenaeo victims. The Inventor maae me announce ment at a luncheon given in btook lim. Ha asserted that the Invention soon will be demonstrated by the gov ernment, which sireaay naa oeen sa vlsed of the details. The Invention is practical ror ev ery type of vessel," he eald. - "It can be anplied within a vary few months . .TonmnaratiVely cheap price to the hulls of ships already constructed. t. Aniv rhanre necessary in vessels already built will be a slight enlarge ment in their beams. My device is of solid material and encircles the entire ship from the bow to mo stem, in jio sense ' or manner uw : imwun either a screen or net. ' 'v THE WEATHER. : WASHINGTON, Mayv 22 -forecast oe Nortn uarouna: oo""n daV probably thunderstorms. oooar; ffbursdajr fair. BICKETT ASKS RECRUITS i - L Copies of Proclamation Are Being Sent to All Parts of State. RALEIGH, May 22. Ten thousand copies of Governor Blckett's procla mation to the young men of the state to volunteer In connection with the recruiting of the units of the North Carolina guard to full war strength are being sent Into every section of the state, especially in the localities where there (are home stations of guard units. This work is being done by the adjutant general s department and it is being followed up by special letters to the officers of the various companies of the guard and to the mayors of the towns where home sta tions are jocated and to mayors of neighboring . towns. ' These contain special appeals to leave nothing un done that will quicken the recruiting eince the guard is at this time about 5,000 short of full war strength. The letter to the officers of the com panies convey the Information, that all the units of guard, together with reserve ' members will be drafted Into the federal service about July 26, and that after being held at company rendezvous for about two weeks will be sent to appropriate stations the letter declares that "evsry -officer should use every - legitimate effort to bring the national guard of tcis state to full war strength by. June i If fossibls , . . TO REACH CAPITAL TODAY "M IS Writes to Chairman Webb of Imperative Need for ' Such Power. TO DEAL WITH FEW Will Discuss With Ameri can Officials General Line of Co-Operation. WASHINGTON. May 22. Italy's war mission, including some of the kingdom's foremost political and commercial figures, will reach Wash ington tomorrow for discussions with American officials along the general lines of war co-operation already laid down In the conferences with the British and French envoys. Headed . by His Royal Highness Ferdlnando Dl Bavoja, prince of Udine, and a member of the Italian reigning house, the mission's personnel out ranks that of either Great Britain or France. Secretary Lansing and rank ing officials of the state department will meet the visitors at the railroad station, and they will be escorted to their headquarters by ' military and naval officers and' two . troops of cavalry. ' r.. J Besides Prince Udiner the mission Includes Enrico ' Arlotta, minister of transportation, and - Guglleimo Mar coni, the inventor - Slgnor Arlotta ts already Is Washington. The other members, who arrived 'on thla side of the '.Atlantic yesterday, will come on special train, accompanied by Breckinridge Long, an -assistant secre tary of state, who met them as a rep resentative of the American govern ment when they reached American WASHINGTON, May $$. otato of house republicans In caucus today to oppose any newspaper censorship; provision In the, pending espionage bill ' was followed by a- letter from President Wilson to Chairman Webb, of the Judiciary committee reiterating, that it was imperative that congress grant censorship powers to deal with the few persons who cannot be relied Upon to observe "a patriotic retteencav about everything whose publication. could be of Injury. "I have been very much ewprlsed,"' wrote the president, "to And several of the oubllo prints stating that the administration had abandoned tho proclamation which It so distinctly. took, and still holds, that authority to exercise censorship over the press to the extent that that censorship la em bodied in the recent action or the) house of representatives ts absolutely necessary to the publio safety. It, of . course, has not been abandoned, be cause the reasons still exist which -such authority Is necessary for the protection of the nation. - I "I have every confidence that the great majority of the country will ob serve a. patriotic reticence about everything whose publication could, be of Injury, but iQ every country, there are some persons In a . position -to do mischief in this field who can not be relied upon and whose Inter ests or desires will lead Into actions, on their part highly dangerous to the nation in the midst of a war. I want to say again that It seems to me im perative that powers of this sort should be granted. ' The house espionage bin carried a censorship provision, but the one by the senate did not, and this was one of the differences which sent the measure to conference, where It has been discussed for more than a. week Without an agreement. "' ' The president's letter caused some, surprise, because many members of congress and some - administration . leaders had understood for several; days that no further attempt was to be made at the present to put through v any such provision. THE ASniVlLLE C111ZEK Circulation Yesterday - City ..... . 4,827 Suburban . . . 4,612 Country ,. ... 1,716 - '. f' - ' ' v 'et paid . . .11,155 Service . . . . .: 212 .Unpaid . v.. . .. 5 140 Total . . .'11,507,
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