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THE ASHE CITIZEN CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS ' VOL. XXXIH, NO. 221. ASHEVILLE, N. G, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS 11 REVENUE BILL RAILROADS OPEN FIGHT AT RALEIGH The Field Marshal! E ON ALL BEING WIDE F 2 TTEE ILLE THE WEATHER PAIR. VIRTUAL INACTION RIGAIUS ABROAD PREVAILS FURTHER TRIMMED RED EUROPEAN S tTHECOHI FOR HIGHER HATES FDR REGISTRATION . x Whether Law Applies ta Them is Question Not ) Yet Settled. " GENERAL CHOWDER'S OPINION AWAITED Only Fighting of Note is Several New Sources of Declare War Conditions Necessitate Increase in Freight Bates. Counter-Attack by the French Forces. Revenue Introduced Into the Measure. ITALIANS AGAIN ACTIVE IN ALBANIA Emperor. Charles Refers to "Our Faithful German Ally" in Speech. POST AND EXPRESS PACKAGES TAXED Shipper Pays Tax Con f erence to Consider Taxes on Publications. A state of virtual Inaction prevails on all th war fronts. In only one theatre baa there been any fighting worthy of not. This waa In tha Champagne region of Franca, whera tha French, counter-attacking heavily against positions northeast of Mont Haut where Wednesday night the Germans in a violent offensive had captured trench elements, drove out the Teutons Thursday and . re-established their former front In its en' tlrety. Artillery Duels. To the west in the region lying- be tween Solssons and Rhelms, there has been a continuation of tha spirit ed artillery duels on various sectors. notably Vauxalllon and Laffaux, and south of Berry-Au-Bao tha. German for the first time In several months, carried out a sapping operation. This netted them portions - of trenches which were blown up. The Intensive fighting along the southern portion of the Austro-Ger-man front has apparently entirely ceased for tha moment, the Italians probably being engaged in consolidat ing positions won and In bringing up their guns for further operations In their campaign against Triest Along the Isonio line, only artillery duels have been In progress owing to bad weather conditions. There has been a renewal of activity by the Italians In Albania and several villages In the southern part of this theatre have been taken and held - successfully against counter-attacks of the Teu tonlo' allies. Eastward, on the entire "Macedonia front artillery duels are in progress. British Casualties. i,autodlsatio -of the heavy fighting during tha month of April is given In an oflWal British statement, of -casualties during this period, showing that 111.211 British , soldiers were killed, wounded or , made , prisoner. Included In the aggregate are 6,902 of ficers. . At the opening of the Austrian par liament. Emperor Charles In his ad dress from the throne, said.lt was his unalterable will to exercise his right as ruler In a truly constitutional spirit and to preserve. to the people their share in carrying out the will of' the state as provided for In the constitution. FOURTEEN ARE KILLED AND T WASHINGTON, May n. With fur ther trimming of the 1 1,100,000,000 war tax bill, the senate finance com mittees revision work today reached the stage' of .detailed, drafting, with completion of a measure aggregating about 11,500,000,000 next Wedneday or Thursday In prospect. Several new sources of revenue were drawn upon today; other house tare were reduced and further ' substitutions adopted. The principal changes affecting the general public . Included: A new tax on parcel post packages of one cent on each twenty -flVe cents or fraction paid. by. .shippers and adoption of. the same rati (or express packages as a substitute for the houio levy of six per cent upon express transportation, ' 'The ' shipper would pay the' tax. Reduction by one-half, or to five per cent, of taxes on amounts paid for land or water transportation, In cluding charges for berths or parlor car chairs, entailing a loss of revenue of 136,000,000. Adoption of excise, or consumption taxes, payable eventually by the con sumer, of one-half a cent a pouni on sugar, two cents on ooffee, five cents on tea and three cents on cocoa. Repeal of the existing law levying 12 per cent tax on war munitions, now bringing In 125,000,000 revenue, because of the substitute plan for In creasing manufacturer's excess profits taxes. With these and general minor changes. Chairman Simmons said the bill now virtually Is ready for tech nical re-araiting, to put in proper form the revisions agreed to and al ready announced. ' Treasury depart ment suggestions to this end and in dividual amendments of various sena tors will be considered tomorrow. Ia,a,effor.ito agree upon a "J -equitable tax upon newspapers, magazines and other publications now tranaport- ea tor one cent a pound, tha com mittee today arranged for a general conference Saturday night Chairman Simmons and other members will meet representatives of the publish ers and the postofflce department. The proposed general two per cent tax on all advertising and the Hard wick amendment, recommended by the department, to greatly Increase postage charges on portions of the publications devoted to advertising. will be discussed with a view of reach ing some fair compromise. Another change decided upon to day makes the three per cent tax on freight transportation, by railroad or water, apply also to freight carried by motor vehicle or other mechanical means of 'transportation which com- noia with Mll-AaHf At" atAmhlna Tn Imany sections of the country, auto mobile truck lines are said to be ac tive competitors of steam and electrla roads. COST OF EQUIPMENT IS MUCH INCREASED Action Deferred Pending Decision of Interstate Com merce Commission. Citizen's Bureau, Raleigh, N. C, May SI. (By W. J. Martin.) The case fpr railroad compani was presented to the corporation com mission today in tha petition the North Carolina carriers have filed for permission to make radical Increases in the basic schedule of rates, for Intrastate traffic in this state and use a new basic schedule of rates. The hearing opened at 10:10 o'clock with the audience rooms of the com mission well filled with railroad men and shippers and representatives of commercial organizations Including O. L. Forester, of Western Carolina iumoer ana Timber associaTIon. Open For Railroads. Vice-President C- R. Capps, of the Seaboard Air Lane, opened for the railroads with a comprohsnsive paper eiaooraung me position the railroad companies took In the petition and presenting the case from the view point of the operation of his own railroad, both as to the proposed bams rate scale and ti fifteen car cent. Increase over this on account of war Time conditions. Randall Clifton spoke for the Southern Rallwav. submitting lengthy statement of President Harri son to the Interstate commerce com mission in the petition for Intrastate increases. In concluding the hearing, It was agreed ty the railroad officials and tne shippers present that some m crease is necessary and that tha in clease In the . lnstrastate rates be on the same percentage basis that the in terstate commerce commission adopts for the Interstate petition- now pend ing. To this end;. It wss agreed that mere be a further hearins Juno 8. on this, percentage of increase,. It being eapecua mat toe- fnterctate jcommli slon wm hv acted tor thstttime. . There was a further-agreement that tne matter of adopting a new basso rate schedule such as tha proposed ueorgia scneauie submitted by the railroad companies be deferred and that the question be further thrashed out in a hearing-July B, before the corporation commisuon. '31?: Si ...ss Ar.uiuitfuu cori r. FEDERAL AGENTS ARE ACTIVE AGAINST ALLEGED CONSPIRACIES FOR DEFEAT OF SELECTIVE CONSCRIPTION REGISTRATION rireej bers iWMiny Leading Colleges, An Arrested It New York Other Attests tHade' " la Various Sections ot the United States, ' goes to j my. Various Towns Struck by Cyclone Which Leaves Trail of Wreckage. REPORTS MEAGRE. ST. LOUIS, Mo.. May II. Fourteen Persons were kilksi ejid scores injured In a tornado that devastated Wayne county Wednesday afternoon, accord ing to a telegram received from Pied mont, Mo tonight. Two women were killed In Granite Bend, five war killed In Chaonla and tha village, of . McGe reports six six deaths, -v-.. y? : Rumors that mora than a score of persona were killed In " Bollinger county, Mo., eould not be confirmed. It waa known that at least three per sons met death near Zalma, and ad vices from Cape Girardeau said that a family of seven was drowned when their home was blown Into the Castor river. The tornado evidently began near Salem, Mo., early Wednesday after noon. Some property damage wai done, but there was no loss of life until the storm reached Mineral Point, in Washington county, where four persons were killed and twenty- six injured. Relief haa been sent to strickan point from St. Louis. - A woman was reported dead at Dongala, and a boy waa killed-at Ad vance. . Diehlsadt also reported two deahs. ' A telegram from Cairo, Ills., stated that four negroes were klllfl in a storm In the southern part of Illinois last night Wires were down and communication waa cut off both from St. Louis and Cairo. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May II. At 5 o'clock this evening, the case of Rush Strong, charged with the mur der or . is. Luttren, Jr., In July, 1916, because of Luttrell's alleged Inti macies with the defendant's wife, was given to the Jury. PRESIDENT TO SPEAK. WASHINGTON, May 81. Presl. dent Wilson has accepted an Invita tion to address the United Confederate veterans during their reunion, which begins here Monday. He will speak Tuesday and will be escorted to the convention hall by A. P. Hill, camp, oi r-eiersourg, vs.. E FILED AGIST THREE AT COLUMBUS. 0. Held in , Connection , With Anti-Registration Plotting in Columbus. OTHERS ARRESTED. t t TWEVTY-FTVE KILLED, . 4- er. LOTOS, Mo., May II. -f Reports received by The Globe Democrat tonight from Its cor- V respondent at Marble Hill, were that at least twenty-five persons 4- were killed and mora -than one 4 hundred Injured at Zalma, Bol- 4 4- linger county, by ; the tornado 4 4 that struck there Wednesday. 4 4 The correspondent said he ob- 4 4 talned his -estimate from a doc- 4 COLUMBUS, O., May St. Charges of treason were filed by United States District Attorney Bolln tonight against three men, who, with several others, were arrested during the day. In con nection with anti-registration plotting in Columbus. Each pleaded not- guilty before United States Commissioner Johnson and were held under $25,000 bond to await preliminary hearing Saturday morning. ' A federal grand Jury will be assembled Tuesday to investigate the arrests. Those charged with treason are: Amnion A. Hennacy, a Junior last year at Ohio State university. ( Harry E. Townsley, a printer. ' Cecil W. Bailey, mechanic. ' Others under arrest for Investiga tion are: - Olb Wulnestro, East Columbus, a tinner, and John Lewis Hammond, a miner, arrested at- Marietta for dis tributing antl-registratlon literature. ' Townsley conducts a print shop. Hennacy has been a socialist worker in Madison and Milwaukee. A great stock of brilliant posters, some four feet wide and ten feet long, were confiscated from Hennacy resi dence. It was reported the posters were printed In Washington, D. C . LAW VIOLATED? WASHINGTON. May II. A resolu tion adopted today by -the house Immigration committee asks Secretary Wilson by what authority ha has au thorised . the entrance of Mexican farm laborers Into the United States. The committee holds the secretary's ADMINISTRATION'S PUN FOR WAR CENSORSHIP IS DEFEATEDJ8Y CONGRESS House Refuses to Accept Even modified Section of Conferees. NEW YORK, May rll. Federal agents today took action) here against an alleged conspiracy to (defeat selec tive draft registration In New York. Three students two youths from Columbia university- and a young woman who is a seniors at Barnard college, were arrested and held by a United States commissioner for ex amlnatlon tomorrow, j The Defendant!. The defendants are Owen Cattell, son of James McKeen Cattell. of Gar rison, N. .Y.. noted psychologist and Professor at Columbia: r"h v.. Phillips, of Columbia; and Miss Eleanor Wilson Parker.' who will be graduated In June from Barnard. The three are members of the Collegiate Anti-Mil ltarism league, in the rooms of which a meeting of college students was held here on May 8 when plans are alleged to have ' been made against the peace off the ' United States and their dignity." A pamph let of this organisation on file at the federal district attorneys office shows that it has members at Yale. Harvard. Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Oberlln, Amherst, Syracuse, Hobart, Pennsyl vania, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, Iowa, Nevada, Leland Stanford, Rutgers and other colleges, universities and theo logical Institutions throughout the country. Miss Parker is executive secretary. According to the' complaint, filed by Assistant United States Attorney Content, Cattell, Phillips and Miss Parker conspired to induce "divers persons whose names are unknown" ' to fall to register as required by the selective draft act and the proclama tion of President Wilson. "Those divers persons" are set forth as males between the ages of twenty-one and thirty years Inclusive. Member of Committee. The defendants, alleged to be a committee selected at the May I meetings, are accused of having en deavored, on May 24, to have the Graphic Press print pamphlets entitl ed "Will you be drafted V' The com plaint against them Is based partly upon an Interview which Mr. Content had with Moses Spiegel, president of the Graphlo Press, and partly upon Information obtatnsd through an in vestigation by agsnts of tha depart ment of justice. The complaint al leges tha three defendants signed their names to manuscript copy sent tq the Graphic Press to ha prepared In folder form. Cattell said after his arraignment that the meeting on May 8 was at tended by delegates representing col lege students' generally, including those subject to the selective draft. , Text of Document- . A copy of the text of the alleged antUconrfcrlptlon document made nubile by the federal authorities contains the assertion: ''We will ap prove the action of any one who re fuses to register for conscription." The pamphlet says a resolution was adopted at the May I meeting "of members of Collegiate Antl-Mllltarism league and other persons," setting forth "our reasons for condemning the draft measure Itself." It declares that the question of conscription with its lmol cations for the future," is more important than the question of defeat or victory In tha war" and that conscription as outlined in tha nsw law "la abhorrent to any true conception of democracy." . The . present administration and congress were "elected presumably because they were expected to keep us out of war," the document asserts, and when war was decided upon there was no referendum, nor waa there a referendum - as to - conscription, tha government, "remembering perhaps that tne referendum in Australia naa resulted In a two to ona vote against conscription." , The Damphlet oonevudes with a statement that "If we went to strike with the full strength of our num bers, we must refuse to register for conscription even if it puts ua in jail. We urge all conscientious ob jectors to resist registration ven to the extent of going to prison it necea- sarv." U Bail for the three In ths sum of $1,600 cash, was furnished by Dr. H. W. L. Dana, of Columbia university, and they were released. ARRESTS EC THE WEST. KANSAS. CITY, Mo May II. Fed eral authorities of western Missouri and Kansas began late today arrest ing persons suspected or being par ticipants In alleged antl-conscrlptlon plots. Four men and one woman were taken into custody nere ana tnree other men and a woman were arrested In Topeka. Two of those arrested here -Ray mond I. Moore and Thomas Sullivan earlier In the day had sought unsuc cessfully to obtain an Injunction to (Continued on Pag Two.) SENATE ON RECORD. WASHINGTON, May II. The ad mlnistration's fight for a war censor ship on newspapers was lost In con gress today, at least for the present, when the house refused by a vote of 114 to 144, to accent even tha mnrii. fled censorship section written into the Leading1 esnlonare bill in nonflrwnra Th. . I ws espionage bill in conference. Th on ate already is on record as opposed to a censorship, and the leaders in congress do not expect any further administration effort to enact one in the immediate future. The test in the house came on a mouon 10 recommit the espionage bill with instructions that the censorship .8UI.IIV1I in vuuiinaiea. JLJespite a I Canadians Sub scribe to Bonds Daniels Appeals to Men of Navy. WASHINGTON. May 81. Presi dent Wilson today Joined the ranks of determined attempt - of democratic i prt,c,pant" ln th Liberty loan by managers to line up the party strength "u"cumg iur a h,d nona. behind President Wilson's demand for Writing to Secretary McAdoo, the censorship, thirty-seven democratic Pr?,int id: representatives Joined the rem, hi in. n. Mar I not send you personally my voting for the motions. Eleven aubscrlption to the Llberty loan which GOVERNMENT CRITICIZED ALLEGE SPEAKER IS IN PAY AT. PACIFIST MEETING Speakers Say Government Has -Been Transformed Regardless of People. publicans, disregarding their party's caucus decision, voted, in the negative. Conferees fof the house will r.nnr their instructions back to the senate conferees . tomorrow, and the bill, shorn of the censorsh4n orovisinn. probably will be reported. to both sen. ate and house within a few day and finally accepted. . It carries Important modifications of the spy laws and au. thorlaatlon . for the president to lay embargoes In war time, but most cl tha controversy regarding It has cen tered about the censorship proposal. - No comment on th outcome In the house was forthcoming from the white house, v ' - THE WEATHER. ..Hah tn J!.ln . I. mA. T wr wnovnaa reiurneu irom me t mission, under prescribed regulations, I WASHINGTON Mav 11 Fnrc - .. vl axarcu iwr iwuur on i ror xorth carotins: r air mday nre. , " , . . " farm of the southwestern states im la ceded by showers In east bortlon- violation of th Immigration law, - Sy fcu-. . ruon. " ' - ' - I make with great satisfaction and with th wish that it might be a great deal. larger?" . . . .-. '.., Secretary McAdoo today announced th Itinerary for his second speaking tour in support of the loan. He will start In New York Monday, and be fore returning to Washington a week later will visit Boston, Detroit, St. Louis, New Orleans, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Louisville, . Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. . Leading Canadian railroad men and bankers were among those who noti fied th treasury formally today of Liberty loan subscriptions. ' i -i An appeal to the 1TI.BI4 enlisted men, officers and civil employes of th navy to buy Liberty bonds was is sued today by Secretary Daniels. , -"As the navy musi o nrai in of fense," he said, "let it be first also ln making Investment In bonds which NEW YORK, May 81, A report of its "committee on American liberties," which pledged support to all "con scientious objectors' to the conscrip tion law, and a telegram from former United States Senator John D. Works, of California, in which he said "we dishonored ourselves by declaring war without adequate or reasonable cause," were features of th afternoon session here - today of the so-called First American Conference on Democ racy and Terms of Peace. Several speaker severely criticised the government, on declaring that "within the last sixty days wa have completely transformed our govern ment and the people have had nothing to' say about It, so far have they boen removed from control of their gov ernment." - Th same speaker, Gil bert E. Roe, president of the Free Speech League of America, added that somewhere along th line the voters of this country must have a chance to express themselves." Norman L. Thomas, addressing the meeting en "conscription and the con scientious objector," charges! that attempt to force a man to right is OF GREEK GOVERNMENT Writer Who Speaks Against Venizelos and Followers is Denounced. NEW YORK. May $1. Allegation that one speaker, Paxton Hlbbens, a newspaper writer, was tn the pay of the Greek government as a propa gandist, and the Introduction of a resolution calling for a fresh state ment of the -ar aims of the entente allies, resuHed In spirited discussions among delegates attending today' ses sions of the national conference on the foreign relations of the United States at Long Beaoh. -Hlbben, who recently ' returned from Greece, told the conference he knew personally King Constantlns's sympathies were not with th Ger mans, and assailed the adherents of Venlselos as a "handful of , astute Dollttclans." Ninety per cent of the Graeka, he said, support th constitu tional government. "These politicians who have set up a self-styled republican form of gov ernment ln rebellion against th con stitutional government of Greece," he said, "represent no consent of the Greek people, , but they represent the interests . of several great powers. Therefore, they - are . protected, flnanoed, and it la possible may be area Evasion of Law by Leaving the Country Will Be Only Temporary. WASHINGTON, May - 11 Wailal ' the legal machinery of th govern ment was operating today to atamrJ out agitation against th army, draft, ' the war department took ,up another phase of th matter, dealing with th tatus of Americans bow ln foreign countries. . . Secretary Baker called noon Brtrm, dir General Crowdsr, Judge advocate; general, and provost marshal f th army, tor an opinion as to th affect of th nsw law upon Americans of military age rtdlng abroad. Depart- " ment officials generally hav preaum f that the privilege of ltunehjnt would carry with them" a . duty fo military service not affected 'by 'for. elgn residence, but no formal ruling will be mad until th 'opinion, ot General Crowder ha been received. Th question Involves to some degre th spectflo terms of the extradition; treaU between th United . fitat.. and other countries. !' ,r: t ' "-!' - Eager to KiuoIL ' Many Americans, of Ymiliur "a now abroad hav been eager to en roll. RegistraOon eard have been, lurnlaned to everr lm.Hr,n an,K..J legation or consulate, and diplomatic ; and consular officials have been au thorlsed to act as registration agents. ..uuun tn aepartment of Justice is proceedlne-'on th -thonra. .v.. departure from American soil of any cltlaen subject to the draft is an eva sion of th law. It was revealed to day that steps had-already been taken to prevent such departures and that tConUnued o Pag Four) .,'". OvlGlCmSTERAT:-: BERLIN SEEKS SEPfflTE ; PEACE OT: ROSSIS Maxim Gorky; Publishes Sensational Account of Efforts.; H -,.( -I .f TE,UT0N PROPOSALS. PETROGRA a w tas don. June 1.) Maxim - Gorky, th noted Russian author, publishes " a sensational account of an attempt LyJ o. Rlsow the Bulgarian minister at Berlin,, to Inveigle , him into claudoM tin negotiations for a Mmrt ,, The peace proposal, Gorky declares.' was delivered to him at Petrogred. in duplicate by two German agents, ast. Ing Individually. t . .,. , . x 1- In th Novaia Zhlzn. of wh'lnh finn. ky Is the editor, h prints Rianw's secret dispatch, occupying three col umns, with concrete seaee reni.l. and, although he himself Is an almost ranaticai advocate of . peace, . de nounces Rlsow. RIsow begins bv nraelalmfnV hn. already in January he had approach!! the Russian ministers at Stockholm and Chrlstlanla with 1 a '"proposal' tot conclude "an honorable peace" be tween Russia and her foes.' - He re ceived a rebuff. Immediately after the revolution Rlsow renewed his at tempt with th Russian minister at Chrlstlanla, who waa an old acquaint ance and obtained, through the min ister, a reply from Professor Paul Mtlukoff, then th foreign minister in the temporary government that there could be no question of a separate peace. :: 5. ' Notwithstanding ( his two repulses,1 Rlsow. -representing himself as RusV ala'a real friend, now approaches hi acquaintance Maxim Gorky. He at tempts to refute successively the argu ment customarily used by the Rus sians and th allfes against a separate peace.' He offers to guarantee that Germany and Austria will not again undertake an offensive against free Russia and adds that both powers are willing to evacuate the occupied terri tory without the expenditure ot an other drop of Russian blood. (t J will aid ln 'making the world saf lor worse than .the imposition l chattel officially- recognised by the grea eWtocracy "V 1 - lavory' (rowers- wbM interests tnx arYV THE ASHEVILLE CniZCN Circulation Yesterday aty . . . . . 4,629 Suburban 4,631 Country . . 1,723 v Net paid V ,10,983 Service vAx;' 190 Unp'aidf. . . . J41 Total. . .-. .11,314 a , -
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